Today was horrible, I knew it was gonna be bad when that group of humans was already in the guild when I entered. Maybe it could have gone differently if I didn't say anything to the adventures, maybe, but just maybe. I could tell that the worst of them all is the swordsman, the others didn't have the distain in their eyes that he had. It became obvious that he wanted the fight to break out when one payd attention to his actions. But what would he get out of it? The only thing following would be a furious.....guildmaster. Fuck, he wants to fight the guildmaster. Only their sorceress is on the same stage as the guildmaster but that doesn't mean the others will be dead weight.
That being said I have to get out of here! I'm not sure who will come out as the victor even though the guildmaster has the elemental advantage but he's outnumbered.
I was making my way to the exit in the back of the building. But then in the corner of my sight I saw something. I curiously looked down to my left and saw a beautiful platin ring with a fine ruby that seems to glisten. I was enthralled by its beauty but then a crushing aura brought me back to reality. I looked around nervously but no one payd attention so I made my leave with the ring.
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If I'm capable of selling it for a good price, then I can finally leave this cursed mountain and go to the city east from here. There I can finally work as a librarian and get away from all these crazy hooligans!
Now all I need is a buyer, wait I could sell it as an enchanted ring. How do I only realise now that this thing has mana regeneration?
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Huh, passing as a enchanted piece of gear is easier than I expected. I was able to catch the attention of the passing by receptionist with the help of some light magic. And just as I hoped she sold me to someone who is more likely to die.
I act as if I'm enchanted with (lesser)mana regeneration by gathering and leading mana into my host's body. I was sold to a rookie wind mage for s quite high price, if the rouge of my prior party wasn't constantly talking about prices then I wouldn't have noticed that he was scammed.
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His blood isn't as good as my hostesses but what do you expect when comparing a inferno mage with a wind rookie?
But I wonder how strong the one who the crushing aura belonged to was.
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Dam, didn't expect the guildhead to have the earth element. I expected it to be a more versatile element like water or wind but earth? Its extremely annoying and unrational to go against an earth element simply because of its ridiculous defensive potential, or atleast that's what I have been told. Usually the sorceress would have great troubles with this caster but now that I'm geared up in my heavy armor I can be much more reckless.
I charged towards the enemy mage, taking the role of the vanguard, whilst both the swordsman and ranger attempt to flank him.
A wall was raised between us and him, blocking a fireball that I failed to notice. I charged through the wall creating an opening. Multiple rocks of impressive size rose into the air and then charged towards us. The other two fell back and moved behind me, I know what to do. Without losing speed I kept on charging through the rocks, this, this is every earth elements weaknes.
An enemy with equall resilience.
The rocks stopped since he now has to focus on defence again, he has not only to worry about fire but also arrows and throwing knifes. I kept charging, not once slowing down. The earth trembled under me, with each step the ground shook. Until I noticed that the trembling didn't come from me.
The ground split and for the first time my charge was stopped. I can't reach him like this, but I can make the others. I turned around and with a swift motion threw a baffled swordsman, the healer followed next. The sorceress stopped me from throwing the ranger and without words I understood.
It was up to the two.
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I did not expect been thrown today but who am I to predict the future. I landed with a roll since I'm not foreign to the concept of falling, but the swordsman had a worse time. I didn't let the guild head prepare and dashed forward. In response a boulder that wouldn't fly far hit my left shoulder, turning my arm useless. But after years of battling and self healing that wound only needed three seconds to heal. And as expected my limb arm regained strength whilst I kept running.
I came into arms reach of the guild head, he was still mainly focused on keeping earth shields up. But then what I feared happened and he was cladded in armor made of rocks. I am most effective against unarmoured beasts but an armored opponent is my weakness.
But the swordsman, for whom if been buying time, could hit between the cracks easily.
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This is your group? I didn't think my host would be the one to souround himself with women.