Serena was interrupted by the door in front of them which was suddenly slammed open, a party of 4 emerged.
The one who came out was a tall and muscular man, with a big frame, he wore light armour with shorts and magically enchanted gauntlets on his hand. Spiky long scruffy brown hair with a small scar on his eyes.
"I-I didn't have enough time to cast..." Said the girl mage
She was around john's height but looked older around 18, john himself was 5 ft 4 now. With short red hair and a fragile air around her, the girl seemed the be shivering in fear as the man shouted at her
"Cut her some slack, she was too busy healing and protecting our asses." Said another guy
Short clean dark orange hair with light armour and daggers on his waist, his frame was balanced and he gave off a calm and relaxing vibe, he looked to be in his 20s
"That's right, she's had the most assists so far, don't take it out on her. Don't forget that it's temporary, just because we joined your party, doesn't give you the write to force your job upon us." Said the last girl
long, yellow hair, tied up into a ball on her head and dark blue eyes with a piercing gaze to them, like the other girl, she carried a staff and wore a robe, another magician. She also looked to be as old as the red haired girl.
"Yeah, I'm the one who's in the wrong, gang up on me, why don't you? I'm doing you all favour, Tsk, we're going in again."
"Huh? Are you crazy? It's wounds have healed since we left, we're in no condition to fight."
"Then don't come, I'll kick you off the party and keep the reward for myself when I'm done," Said the guy
Hearing this the girl angrily gripped her staff and hung her head
"I-It's fine, it'll be better if we just do as he says..." Said the red haired girl
[Zestari, Can't she just take her part of the reward and head back?]
[since he's the leader, he's probably holding all the magic stones they've gathered so far. If he were to head back and say they didn't do anything to help, if they don't have any evidence to support that they did, he'll end up with the reward all to himself. So, in cases like these it's better to obey.]
[Huh, so things like these can happen...]
[It's quite common.]
"You heard the man, let's go." Said the dark orange haired man as he placed his hands on the door
"Fine..." said the yellow haired girl
"Good, open the do-"
"Wait." Said John as he grabbed on to the guy's shirt
"Huh? Where did this little punk come from?" The man asked
"You've had your turn, get in line." Said John
The man made an intimidating, angry expression but without flinching John stared straight at it
"Haha... I see..."
Suddenly the man placed his hands and rubbed john's hair for a while as he said
"It's just another person trying to get on my nerves..."
The man pulled back his fist, before sending it straight towards john at a high speed.
But the fist stopped right before it reached him
"Tch, lucky kid, fine."
The moment the man had shown hostility to John. Serena and Ariel had formed 10 combined upgraded fire and wind arrows all formed around the man, pointing straight at him.
Master Sylvia simply watched
"Try it, we dare you." Said Serena with an angered look
[John was prepared to fight the guy himself, but it seems like he didn't need to] John thought to himself
He was rather happy to see his friends get angry for him.
"We'll wait here, don't come crying to me later." Said the guy
"Good." Said master sylvia as she moved her dagger away from his neck