"Three monster rooms in a day?!
Even I didn't pull that kind of stunt when I was around your level. I only entered two and people were calling me crazy."
The woman hung her head down as she spoke with a mock depressed tone, however, her hands were still moving as she flipped through the quest papers Evan had given her, occasionally taking glances at the civilians before using her thumb to place a stamp on the papers with her magic power.
"Your card, please? And what about your party members?"
"I'm with mine, as for the rest of them…"
Evan turned around to see if he could somehow spot his companions, just in time to see Pride and Greed jump up onto the city walls above the gate.
"I think the people who built this wall, made stairs for a reason, you know?"
Eliza's exasperated voice rang out as she walked up the stairs with Kuro in her arms, greeting the Count and the guild master before removing her guild card that was hanging on her neck and passing it to the guild master.
"Oh, yeah.
There's this too.
She has met the requirements for B rank also. You can have someone with an appraisal check if it's true. I know guilds usually have at least one official with the skill."
The boy passed the letter they received from Kasteblum's vice guild master while Greed was busy familiarizing himself with the friends of his arm wrestling buddies.
As for Pride, she was busy 'interrogating' one of the B-rank adventurers based in the city about where the best bookshops were.
While all this was happening, the Count was just standing around idly, as the events of the past few days were being reported to him by the knights who joined to help the evacuation process.
The guild master then sent her assistant to the guild building to prepare Eliza's B-rank card while updating the information about Evan, Pride and Greed's cards.
"Hey, Liz.
Remember that wide area healing spell we found a scroll of? Think you could test it out now?"
"Hmm…Okay."
She passed the cat in her arms over to Evan who let him jump into his shadow, an action that caused heads to turn with Evan paying it no mind as usual.
Eliza then went down to the ground and unstrapped the folded Memoria from her waist, before unfurling the staff and returning it to full length.
She then stabbed the spear tip into the ground and passed her magic power through it, pulling out the Radiant Codex right after and activating her skill unique skills simultaneously.
The guild master's eyes widened in surprise as she sensed the simultaneous skill activation, which was followed by a wave of magic power that rushed out of Eliza's body and spread forward.
The Count watched with narrowed eyes as he held up a hand to signify for the knights who reacted to the sudden wave of magic to stand down.
A large three-ringed magic circle appeared, centred under Eliza's feet, with lines of green light and a misty white haze with a few gold-lamé sparkles hanging in the air within the circumference of the magic circle.
For the few seconds it lasted, it was a wondrous sight, just like a scene out of a fantasy story, finally fading out with Eliza looking up to see if what she had intended to do had worked.
"Wow, that's comparable to some of the higher levelled priests of the church."
The words of the guild master beside Evan confirmed that Eliza's spell had worked, as among the thousands of civilians, the injured ones let out surprised voices upon discovering that the green light had healed their wounds.
Even the ones that were uninjured but were tired from the hours of movement felt rejuvenated; as if all their exhaustion had been blown away.
"Nice.
You should be getting close to being able to deploy 'that' now."
Evan high-fived Eliza as she walked back to where he was, passing her a magic potion right after.
"Nahh. I want to recover naturally.
Besides, I still have a ton of magic power left. You should know how much magic power the B- rank energy stat gives as you have it too."
Deciding to go along with her decision, Evan tossed the potion back into his inventory, turning his gaze to the vice knight captain that they travelled with who posed a question.
"Um…is there a reason why you didn't do this earlier?"
"I just got the hang of the spell this morning. And it is still not perfect as I had to use my skills to enhance its effect."
Eliza replied to him as she tapped the floor beside Evan's feet, with Kuro jumping out of his shadow and into her arms.
"…. Why does it look like you're closer to Kuro than I am these days?"
"It's just your imagination."
The girl replied as she rubbed the cat's chin, before turning out to wave at the civilians who had seen her use her magic and identified her as the one responsible for healing their wounds.
"I'm sure it clearly isn't."
Eliza and Kuro only silently avoided meeting Evan's narrowed gaze, with the young hero heaving a sigh before turning back to the Count who was done with his briefing.
The two nobles chatted with each other a bit while Greed ended up scamming some adventurers of their valuables and Eliza offered to help the guild officials with a few matters concerning the admission of the civilians they had escorted to the city.
Soon, the guild official carrying their adventurer cards returned, with Pride trailing right behind him as if matching his timing.
After collecting their cards and finalizing all adventurers guild related matters, Evan turned to the Count and spoke while gazing at the civilians who were slowly trooping into the County's capital city.
"I guess it's time for us to finally make our way to Bultom. Honestly, it's a miracle that things haven't blown over these past few weeks."
"Bultom Dungeon City?"
"Yeah. That was our original destination, however, we ended up digressing when we saw the situation here with our own eyes."
This 𝓬ontent is taken from fre𝒆webnove(l).𝐜𝐨𝗺