Chapter 22: Chapter 22 – Adventurer Arc

After a while, we arrive at the farming areas, pretty vast plains with different fields extending through them, a few houses before them, and after what looks like an inclined hill with some trees on top, hard to climb but doable.

Upon going through the main road we eventually lead to a small house where I knock at its door being the closest one.

I hear a rough voice from inside, "I'm coming."

I wait patiently with my hands holding each other on my back.

The door opens and an old man appears around his 60's perhaps more.

He looks at us and says, "Good morning young children, how can I help you?"

I smile and with a very kind tone I reply," good morning, I'm here on behalf of the adventurer's guild."

"You are? Take no offense child but you truly do look way too young to be part of the guild."

He stares at me and further says, "could I please see some proof?"

I show him my guild card, "does this work?"

"Let's see," the man puts the card really close to his eyes and reads out loud.

"Name Iris, age 8... I'm sorry for doubting you." He bowed slightly as he apologized realizing that it was a guild card and that it really did match a young girl such as herself.

His back makes a little crack sound making me surprised and worried about the old man so I ask," are you okay?"

The old man laughs while rubbing his back and says, "don't worry child, this back has had better days, it is but the aging cycle we humans must go through at some point in life."

"I hope it gets better fast."

He points at the fields and says, "thank you, and I won't waste more of your time young Iris, the slimes tend to appear around there, but be very careful they are strong and you don't seem particularly strong."

I see him pointing towards some trees close by to the fields, "we'll defeat those slimes for you, don't worry."

"Please do if you can, if don't overpush it, this age has been taking a toll on me, when I was younger, I used to defeat them myself with my hoe and my fire element turning those little monsters into grilled gelatin."

We laugh upon hearing that.

"Say what things do you plant on these fields?" I asked curiously like some of the things I haven't tried myself.

"From the left side to the right side we have barley, oats, rye, wheat, apples, cherries, cabbage, and onions," he says as he waves his arm in the direction of the fields so that we could understand better.

"Interesting... thank you for the description," as we start walking together towards the fields the man says," past the yellow wheat and the green apples, is where you'll find most of the slimes, they seem to like apples the most out of all the crops we have."

"Alright, thank you," I wave at him happily as we move towards the Apple trees zone close by to the planted wheat.

"These are certainly a lot of fields, I guess the grandfather worked a lot when he was younger," I say while remembering myself of when I farmed for a year for the titles.

"Yes, most peasants through countless generations do cereal farming, some territories are even owned by noble families and have animals caring so that they can have all types of meat, vegetables, and cereals available."

"That sounds very noble-like," Aurora says with a hateful tone.

Elise shrugs her shoulder upon hearing her reply agreeing with her to some extent.

I look at Aurora, 'I guess she doesn't like nobles? Neither the people from the church and also the hero who apparently sealed her in our past life.'

'Was the church involved and the nobles as well in the sealing during our past life?'

'Talking about heroes, how are they chosen? I've heard from mother that sometimes it's way more than one, but generally only one has the unique class hero.'

'The others are rewarded in some ways with unique and blessed skills or other things.'

'Father said that everyone that is born in this world is blessed in a unique way as well.'

'I wonder what's the difference from someone normally reincarnated, to someone reincarnated or summoned from a different world.'

'Wait... I received 2 skills from my reincarnated title, and my mother said people don't usually start with skills, and summoned get unique or blessed skills.'

'Since the system starts with the skills at level 1 then I who have a unique skill from an early age should be able to level it up a lot more than someone who got summoned already at x years.'

'I don't know how good appraisal skill is, but I'll make sure to invest my mana in it, hopefully, it'll be good.'

'Do heroes start at level 1, since the system works the same for everyone?'

'If it does then I'd be stronger than them in the beginning, I get the feeling Aurora has thought about that as well.'

'In the case, that the same hero who sealed her appears, she'll most likely want to kill him.'

'I wonder why she killed the king from the old kingdom from our old world...'

'I didn't tell this fact to mother otherwise she'd be always worried, and concerned about her being with me.'

'Even I don't know how I should react towards her sometimes, but I like and trust Aurora.'

'She gives me the vibe that no matter what sister will be there for me despite the creepy moods.'

'Perhaps because of her being ominous that I feel assured of that?'

"Slimes ahead Iris!" Elise shouted.

"That's a slime? They're clear balls! They look adorable!"

"There's a blue one in the middle of them," Aurora mentions.

The blue slime starts channeling mana around him.

"Iris, Elise fall back!"

We split and head some steps backward to gain some safety range from whatever it's about to do.

The slime shoots a stream of water in the middle of us, then starts sliding on it fast to catch up to us.

"Iris!" Aurora yells.

"Ice bind," I freeze the water freezing the slime on top of it.

Notice: 100 mana has been deducted.

 

"The rare ice element?" Elise makes a surprised face.

Aurora runs closer while mana coating her hands mixing with the element darkness.

"The unique dark element? My opposite element!" Elise says even more surprised.

The slime a creature that can perceive its surroundings in a 360º matches Aurora's approach by stretching part of him towards her hands to melt them.

Aurora without caring grabs the slimy tentacle and starts melting it with the darkness around her hands.

Suffering from the damage, the slime shakes his body, and the slimes behind him charge at us.

I ready my sword and stay in front of Elise protecting her.

As they start getting closer to us, I mana coat my sword.

Notice: 50 mana has been deducted.

 

I slash at the upcoming tentacles cutting them and injuring the different slimes.

One of the tentacles grabs my leg damaging it," ah!" the moment it touches me I let out a moan of pain, and then without wasting a moment I freeze the wound.

Notice: 10 health and 50 mana have been deducted.

 

I extend the freeze to the tentacle to avoid further damage and then slice it with my sword.

Notice: 50 mana has been deducted.

 

After my scream, a light surrounds my leg and I feel the warmth in it.

Notice: 5 health has been recovered.

 

I look around us and there're 6 clear slimes and a blue slime that is fighting Aurora.

'That water path earlier made it easier for them to move, I should've frozen it before it reached this far, I still have a long way to go.'

"Iris at your left!" Elise shouted in panic.

Notice: 5 health has been recovered.

 

I turn to the side and a tentacle hits my arm around the elbow hurting it.

Notice: 10 health has been deducted.

 

"Freeze it!" I shout in pain.

Notice: 50 mana and 10 health have been deducted.

 

I slice the tentacle injuring the slime in return.

My sword stops shining, 'my mana coat ended, this is becoming tough and painful.'

'If I was alone against this many slimes I'd be dead or perhaps worse.'

'I didn't expect them to be this strong,' I smile excitedly with a mix of nervousness and will to surpass myself.

I mana coat my sword with a large amount of it.

Notice: 300 mana has been deducted.

 

I then ice bind the two slimes closest to me and head toward the one at the right.

Notice: 200 mana has been deducted.

 

As soon as I get in the range I take a step forward and with all my might I slice it in half mercilessly.

System: The title Monster Slayer has been received.

System: The title Slime Slayer has been received.

Notice: 10 experience has been rewarded from a Slime.

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'They're softer than I expected it seems like the mana coating really does make a difference.'

"Behind you Iris!" Elise shouts as she's behind me observing the enemies.

Notice: 5 health has been recovered.

 

With the warning I quickly turn around as fast as I possibly can and slash at the incoming tentacle rushing at the other slime, getting closer to him, and thrusting the sword through him in the middle of it, then I put more strength and cleave the sword to the side leaving a large clean-cut killing it.

Notice: 10 experience has been rewarded from a Slime.

 

On the other side, the blue slime is shooting water balls at Aurora while she defends herself with a darkness barrier.

A battle of who has the most mana.

The leftover 4 clear slimes all attack at once.

"I'll protect your right side, Iris!"

I slash at two of their tentacles that are coming from the left side.

The other two tentacles approach from the right side which ends up going against a light wall made from Elise skill.

I realize the light of the sword diminishing so I rush at the ones at the left while Elise's skill keeps the other two busy while I receive some healing too.

Notice: 5 health has been recovered.

 

Once I get close I slash one of the slimes in half consuming the rest of the mana.

Notice: 10 experience has been rewarded from a Slime.

 

'Damn, I'm out of mana, if I take too long the other ones will attack Elise or Aurora, I'll have to compensate it with health.'

I mana coat my sword and head towards the closest slime.

Notice: 70 health and 30 mana have been deducted.

 

He attacks me with another tentacle filled with acid and I slash it in half all the way to its body killing it.

Notice: 10 experience has been rewarded from a Slime.

 

The acid in his tentacle sprays around hitting my belly, making me scream due to the pain.

Notice: 20 health has been deducted.

 

Elise starts running towards me, "the protective barrier is breaking!" she shouts as she casts healing on me.

Notice: 10 health has been recovered.

 

Once she gets close to me I ask while in pain, "Your healing increased?

"I took the healer class to be of better help to you, and my skill leveled up too,' she smiled worriedly looking at my wounds.

Notice: 20 health has been deducted.

 

"Thank you for the heals," I reply with a painful expression while trying to smile.

"If I knew I would've spent all my points in wisdom to be able to heal more times."

Notice: 10 health has been recovered.

 

"That's what I did to be able to use more magic," I laugh.

Notice: 20 health has been deducted.

Notice: The Skill Acid Resistance has been acquired.

System: The title Skill Mastery has been received.

 

The protection breaks, "Here they come Iris!" Elise declares while casting heal on me.

Notice: 10 health has been recovered.

 

I mana coat the sword and rush at them.

Notice: 120 mana has been deducted.

Notice: 20 experience has been rewarded from a Slime.

Notice: Slight Mana Recovery skill has leveled up to 2.

Notice: Slight Wisdom Boost skill has leveled up to 2.

 

As I run at them, two dark hands appear below them binding them to the ground.

"I'll take the left one," I say loudly so that my sister can coordinate with me properly.

Notice: 10 health has been recovered.

 

Aurora hearing my voice heads towards the other one.

Notice: Acid Resistance skill has leveled up to 2.

Notice: 8 health has been deducted.

 

'The healing is making the acid disappear gradually and the acid resistance is negating a bit of the damage.'

I slice the tentacles that head toward me while Aurora pierces the right one with her dark piercing skill.

Notice: 10 experience has been rewarded from a Slime.

 

I avoid the splash this time around by jumping to the side rolling around through the ground.

Notice: 10 health has been recovered.

 

I then watch the darkness making a hole in the slime from one side to the other consuming everything in its path.

I throw my sword at the left slime cutting it partially.

Aurora approaches it and pierces it with darkness dealing the final blow.

Notice: 10 experience has been rewarded from a Slime.

Notice: 8 health has been deducted.

 

She then runs at me and uses the dark element to suck the leftover acid out of my body.

Notice: A skill has been used against Iris.

Notice: 20 health has been deducted.

 

I check the ground, seeing as there's no acid I lay down on it.

Notice: 10 health has been recovered.

 

"You're very reckless little sister taking out 6 slimes on your own," Aurora says in a cold voice.

"You took too long on that one," I smile at her.

"It was a pretty annoying one shooting from far away with his water magic making the ground all muddy and slippery while moving around dodging my skills and attacks."

Elise runs at us tripping halfway, getting up, and approaching me worriedly.

"How are you, Iris?"

"I'm alright I'm actually pretty tough still have a bit more than 100 health left," I smile at her relieving her from being worried.

"Just how tough are you?" She asks surprised.

"I farmed, I fished, I exhausted my mana many times and did a lot of things gaining a lot of titles."

"Oh, so that's how you got so much health?"

"Yes, Elise."

"I think I'll become an adventurer and join your party sometimes if you two would like me to," she smiles.

'She picked the healer class to help us, so her resolution isn't lacking,' I look at Aurora who looks expressionlessly.

"I don't really care either way," Aurora said even though she found Elise useful.

I look back at Elise who's waiting for approval, "If you get a card by passing the guild exam, you're more than welcome."

She tears up and smiles, "thank you both."

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