188 Vengeance [1] "Boss. Do you think those kids are okay? They should have been back by now, right?" A man asked the 'guard' that Syra had talked to before.
He had posed as a guard in order not to intimidate the students. He liked doing it since it showed him what kind of people they were. If they tried to abuse him as a guard, he would send them back to their schools without a hesitation, no matter what noble family they happened to come from.
Since the academies themselves weren't biased toward any of the families, they would punish the students accordingly. However, they could not be said for the families that the students came from.
Most families didn't have people stronger than the a peak platinum toki warrior. Those were had to come by if the family itself didn't specialize in war or battle, so, it hadn't been much of a problem so far.
"I'm sure they're fine." The boss sighed.
He stood outside the adventurer's hall, leaning on the wall behind him.
"Shouldn't their mission have only taken a few hours? What if they are in danger? I heard the wolf-spider population had been increasing recently." The man said with a worried expression.
He was a warrior himself and was quite used to death, but after having a kid of his own, he grew to have a soft spot for the students who came to their town to complete missions.
"Daddy... What's wrong." A little girl, no older than 4 or 5, could be seen on the man's shoulders swaying left and right.
"Daddy's just a little worried for those kids, nothing more." The father said with a smile that was supposed to calm her down.
"The students? You mean those people with colorful hair?" The little girl asked.
"Yeah." The man sighed.
"Hmm. Maybe I should send a few people over." The boss said with narrowed eyes.
"I'm willing to go if you want, boss." The man said while placing his daughter on the ground.
She looked a little dejected when her father didn't allow her to sit on his shoulders, but she was quickly distracted by something else.
"But sir. What gives us a better chance if those kids can't do whatever is in the forest straight on? With all due respect, even you can barely taken on a newly broken through monster with a dull-sapphire core." The man explained.
"Hmm. That's true. But, if they are truly in danger, they should have called for the academy-"
"Daddy! What's that?" The girl suddenly pointed toward the sky, cutting the boss off and causing them both to look in the direction she was pointing at.
When they saw something approaching their town, they both got on guard and took out their weapons.
"Attackers?" The man asked.
"I don't know. Call everyone and take her inside." The boss said.
"What if it's the academy?" The man asked.
"Better safe than sorry." He said while stepping into the middle of the road.
Without holding anything back, the boss flared his aura to its maximum, sending out a blanket of toki that reached so far that it almost covered the town.
Everyone in the town got alert and entered their houses.
Swiftly, everyone left the adventurer's hall and looked up into the sky.
Flaring their toki auras as well, they waited; however, when the person got within a certain distance, even the ones in the silver rank could see the person clearly with their toki-enhanced visions.
"Is that?" One of them said in awe, but their awe quickly turned into terror.
In his arms, they could see a golden-haired girl.
"It's our liberator." Another said with joy.
"D-Did one of you do something wrong? What would he want to do with a backwater town like ours..." Another said in worry.
"Oh fuck! We're dead... We're fucking dead. He's going to wipe us out like the red boars." Another shouted while getting onto his knees and covering his face.
Everyone could hear sobs coming from him, but they didn't care. Everyone was thinking about themselves and their family, so while some looked joyous, others were cautious, and some were terrified.
When the figure was close enough, the boss finally opened his mouth and asked the question all of them wanted to ask.
"Lord Judgement... Why have you come?" He asked with a shudder in his voice.
Even now, that powerful aura that made him feel like he was at the peak of all life made him shudder.
"Lord?" Silas asked with a raised brow.
He was now floating above them, and without skipping a beat, he deactivated his flight and dropped to the ground with the grace of a feather.
"I-I... I meant General Judgement." The boss bowed slightly while shivering all over.
"Why have you come to our small town." He asked.
"What... Am I not allowed here?" Silas' eyes narrowed almost threateningly, making the men and women before him feel like their souls had left their bodies.
"N-No! That's not what I-"
"I'm kidding." Silas laughed while reeling his head back. The joyous expression on his face made almost all of them let go of a breath they didn't even know they were holding.
"Though, I'd like to ask you guys for a favor if you don't mind."
And once again, they were holding their breaths.
"W-What is it?" The boss asked.
"This girl." Silas showed them the unconscious Syra.
"I need you to take care of her until she's recovered. Okay?" Silas asked.
"S-Sure." The boss bowed one more time.
"Oh. Also, take care of them if you want to. I don't really care about them. It's your choice, really." Silas pointed behind him, but they saw no one there when they looked at where he was pointing.
"Uhm. Sir. You're not-"
In the next instant, they saw a meteor shoot from just outside the forest, piercing through the skies and smashing onto the ground
Another blur came through the town's gates, while the last blur simply appeared in front of the other two, as if the person had teleported there.
The boss looked at the pink-haired girl that had seemingly teleported there and widened his eyes.
He was the only one who could see her move, yet even to him, she was a blur.
'She could probably taken on a weaker sapphire core monster.' He thought with a frown.
His eyes quickly moved down, and saw two people being held by her. They were both boys that had come with the golden-haired girl from before, and right now, they were both unconscious.
After Eclipse, Nymira, and Alex arrived next to Silas with all the students except David, everything was quickly explained to the old man that his people called 'Boss.'
Silas explained how one of them died, and that the monster they had fought had recently broken through to the sapphire core. Silas didn't really explain the rest, while Eclipse and Nymira simply remained to themselves for a while since they didn't want to talk to people they didn't really know.
After a few more minutes, Silas was in a motel room, looking at his sleeping sister. She was fully healed, but she hadn't woken up yet.
"Do you think she'll be fine?" Nymira was right next to him, and was the only one in the room except for Syra and Silas himself.
"She's gone through much worse. She's probably only mentally fatigued. That's why she isn't waking up." Silas explained before sighing.
After a few seconds, he turned around and opened the door to the motel to leave.
"Hm? Where are you going?" Nymira asked.
"I have something to do. You guys should probably leave too." Silas said while giving Nymira a side-long glance.
"Aren't you going to talk to her? To tell her not to spill the fact that she had met you? She might be in danger." Nymira tried to argue.
"You underestimate her intelligence. I doubt she would be stupid enough to tell anyone something like that unless she truly trusted them." Silas said.
"But your family. What if they brainwashed her." Nymira argued once more.
"Don't worry about it." Silas sighed and looked at Nymira in the eyes.
"Everything's going to be fine." He gave a genuine smile and patted her on the head before leaving.
"We're going to have to talk about what happened back there when I return." We're Silas' final words before his presence disappeared.
Nymira sighed and looked at the unconcious girl on the bed once more and frowned before opening her mouth and muttering a few words under her breath.
"Bitch..."
------------------
{If you have enjoyed this chapter and would like to support the author, please vote using your power stones or golden tickets. Also, you can join my discord server today to see illustrations or converse about the latest chapters.}
This chapter is updat𝓮d by fre(e)webnov(l).com