Chapter 31: The way to the adventurers

Rae's POV

Recently there has been a spike in monster activity around our region. Neighbouring towns are constantly complaining about raids and skirmishes from high-class monsters. Fear has gripped many people's hearts.

The adventurers, people who are supposed to fight off these monsters are all in a panic. Many of them say they are not qualified to face such powerful monsters. The adventurers guild that is responsible for this area is located in Carmine village. My dad who is the Baron has been called to a meeting since most of the attacks are occurring in his territory. Refugees from some undeveloped regions which are still under My dad's Barony are coming in floods looking for help.

If this continues we will die of hunger before we even have the chance to die a glorious death where we die defending our home from these high-class monsters. The current population having doubled or maybe tripled forced the current amount of food available to be rationed. Many of the original residents complained it is not fair that they worked so hard to get good food that now they have to share with strangers who they have never met before. 

Tensions between the Original residents and the refugees just kept growing and growing. First, it was about the food being rationed then it become that this kingdom is for our race so why do you who are not of this kingdom complain of our presence here then the Final straw that made my dad to take a drastic decision was the rampant crimes happening to the non-human races.

With this, my dad decided to divide the city in half. This was so that the friction between the original residents and the refugees could subside. Seeing this solution work for a while, my dad raced to get rid of the monster problem before anything unwarranted such as brutality occurred between the two hostile groups.

The guild arranged for a large scale party raid where a large party would be formed from the smaller parties that already existed. 

It also called in other branches to assist with the current predicament. An impending war between the monsters of the Forest of Monsters and The adventurers of the Bermone Kingdom plus other few residents of the Bermone Kingdom who volunteered was fast approaching. Before any action was taken, training had to be done. The training of the adventures was done hurriedly but meticulously. Seeing this many people band together to fight of these monsters made me feel inspired.

Usually when people talk to each other about monsters, fear always strikes their hearts every time but for me, my curiosity was piqued. I wanted to see what type of beings can garner such fear among this many people.

Instead of being filled with fear, I was excited since I would get to see new types of beings that I had never seen before. Although I was excited I still had a little bit of worry inside of me since if the adventures lost the war then all the people I knew would have to face the wrath of the monsters and many of them including my mom may not survive.

" Dad I wish to become an adventure and fight alongside you against these so-called monsters."

" What!! What do you mean you wish to become an adventure. Do you know how dangerous this job can be? Many die day after day fighting off this evil. I cannot just allow a nine-year-old girl let alone a princess stroll into a battlefield where the next breath is an uncertainty just because she requested. "

" What if I can prove I can handle the monsters."

" How are you going to do that?"

" By challenging you to a duel. If I can defeat you I will get to become an adventurer and fight the monsters alongside you."

" Oh you have become cocky, haven't you. Just because you have some combat lessons from Steve and some magic lessons from Merle does not mean that you can defeat me. I may look like this but I was one of the best Knight captains when I was still in service. "

" If that is what you believe then you won't mind having a duel with me."

" Fine. I agree to the terms. If you can defeat me in this duel I will let you become an adventurer and have your way into the monster subjugation army but if you lose you will remain in the mansion where you are well guarded and be trained until the time comes for you to enrol to the royal academy."

The place and time for the duel were set. I was to battle Mr Harold in an open area. He was worried if we used the mansions Training grounds we would both be limited since we did not want to destroy the grounds. The open field we used is where the adventures use it for their training. The number of spectators was about ten. Steve, Merle, Trina and Mom being among them.

Steve was the one who was to initiate the duel and declare the winner of the duel. 

Mr Harold took a well-guarded stance. I could not see any openings in his form. Truly you could tell he was an expert just from how he wielded his weapon. His main weapon was a long sword. I myself had a decent stance but it was pretty clear that I would be at a disadvantage with my main weapon being twin daggers and my height being half that of Mr Harold. 

He signal me to attack him, immediately after Steve initiated the duel to begin. It was as if he was taunting me telling me I would not be able to defeat him even if I think I can. Well, that may seem true at first but he forgot I had an advantage over him. That was my speed and agility.

I gripped my twin daggers and bolted towards him hoping to close the distance. Charging towards him with a frontal attack was the most foolish thing I could do but that was not the only thing I was doing. As soon as my dagger made contact with his sword I activated a wind air magic circle for the spell wind blast. This propelled his hands away from his body creating an opening near his face. With help of the force from the wind blast spell, I had achieved aerial lift. I was now making a spin midair changing the direction of the energy flow and delivering straight to his face as a kick but his reaction time was so fast that he was able to dodge my kick. The tables had now shifted he was returning the favour with a spin kick. Luckily I was able to block it but the force of the kick sent me across the field. Using wind magic, I was able to do an aerial jump and prevent myself from landing on my face.

Looking now more serious and a little bit impressed. He tightly gripped his sword.

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" It seems I had underestimated you. You are good. That mistake won't happen again." 

He seems to have gotten faster. It must be strengthening magic being applied to his legs and feet. He then threw a flurry of attacks combining slashing and thrusting techniques. I was having a hard time just keeping up with all of the attacks

 It seemed like I was only able to see the attacks once they were close enough to do damage.

This was not good. I was on the defensive. How were his attacks so fast? How was he so good? How can I  defeat him if I can not see what he is doing and the only thing I can do is defend? I then remembered I have a secret weapon. That is Liza. I asked Liza if she could analyze the attacks Mr Harold was throwing at me. Somehow it's as if she knew I would need her help. She has been analyzing Mr Harold's fighting since we began our duel. Liza still needed a little more time to analyze the data and come up with a way to predict his fighting pattern. The best thing I could do as Liza did her thing was create some distance between Mr Harold and me. This was not going as I planned. No matter what I did Mr Harold closed the distance in seconds. It was as if he was a homing missile locked on to me as a target. When it seemed that Mr Harold was about to win, Liza announced that she had figured out his pattern. 

"The only way for you to be able to predict his pattern with optimum precision is by increasing the speed of your thought process. I will now do so. Thought process has been successfully increased by thirty percent. "

After Liza finished this I could feel that my brain was working faster than it usually does. 

I could now see what Mr Harold's attacks looked like and how he was performing them. I could even see the movement he was going to perform next this was all well and good but there was one problem yes my brain was faster but my body wasn't, so even though I could see Mr Harold's attacks I still could not do anything about it.

I was now down to the last option. I had planned to win against Mr Harold through the use of the sword and only use magic as support but it seems that wasn't going to happen. He is too well trained for that. Magic was the only way I could get away with a win.

It was time to show him how good I am with my magic abilities.

I created an air magic circle for the wind magic whirlwind. This was a type of wind magic that created a sort of tornado. The whirlwind had me at its centre so I was not affected in any way. Now that I was not constantly defending from Mr Harold's attack I could lay down some traps as he still recovers. I created several magic circles making pitfall and eruption traps.

 The whirlwind was quickly dying down. It seems my whirlwind attack had managed to catch Mr Harold off guard since he had taken some damage. Mr Harold then seemed to disappear and reappear at different positions. This must be his famed skill flash step.

Seeing his movement I decided to use wide-area magic that I created myself. I named it seismic eruption. It's a type of spell that erupts molten lava in a ripple like style with powerful force able to send one flying for quite a distance. 

The beautiful green grass was no longer anywhere to be seen, all of it was replaced with red glowing charred rocks. It seems I had overdone it. Mr Harold had received quite a powerful blow from my spell that it seems he was left unconscious. Seeing how powerful the spell was, I decided to use the spell only in the most extreme of circumstances. Steve then declared me the winner of the duel. Everyone not even caring about the results ran straight toward him. It seems that I had really overdone it. His body was covered with bruises. Feeling guilty about how badly I had hurt him I asked how I can help.

" Sorry princess, this can only be healed by someone who can perform recovery magic."

Mom then ran to him saying she could perform recovery magic. When she tried performing the spell regenerate to heal Mr Harold's wounds it didn't work.  It seems her mana capacity wasn't enough to heal the wounds or maybe the spell wasn't strong enough.

Merle then came up saying

" I have an Idea. I think the one who is able to heal Mr Harold is princess Rae herself since she has light magic. Although nobody has ever seen it, it is said that light magic has the ability to heal almost any wound. The difference between healing a wound with recovery magic and healing a wound with light magic is that in the latter there is the presence of spirits. But this may be a problem for her since she is a vampire now. Vampires are extremely weak to light magic thus she may end up hurting herself while she tries to perform the spell."

" No, I cannot allow her to perform such a spell if it will hurt her in the process."

"It's Okay mum. I am the reason dad is this way so I should try and help heal him as much as I can."

" Are you ready Rae?"

" Yes I am"

" Then imagine the light spirits healing Mr Harold's wounds."

Closing my eyes I imagined the light spirits surrounding Mr Harold's wounds and then prepared a new type of circuit in my head. I then come up with symbols to convey my intentions. I came up with a symbol for purity to purify the wounds so that they may not be infected, a symbol to energize the rejuvenating cells so that they may heal quicker and lastly I came up with the symbol for restoration to restore the body how it was before it got as displayed by the memories of the actual body cells. When I open my eyes several magical circles Identical to what I imagined appeared all over Mr Harold's wounds. When the spell activated I felt a slight twinge on my skin and a little bit lightheaded but then everything was back to normal in a matter of seconds.

Mr Harold was now healed and conscious again.

" I am so sorry. I really did not mean to hurt you in such a manner. The next time I will try to think before I act."

" Please don't be. That was quite a duel. I have not had such a thrilling match in a long time. Congratulations on your win by the way. You can now be an adventure just try to show restraint next time. Too much power can be poisonous "

" I will thank you."

I was now able to become an adventurer officially.

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