hotmtlnovel Book 3: Chapter 4
Book 3: Chapter 4
Book 3: Chapter 4
Approaching Threat
Cyclone
I unleashed the level 3 Battle Skill of Short Sword Skill, Cyclone at the adventurer guilds training ground. The surface of the log that became the target was carved apart.
The Battle Skill itself was a non-elemental magic, but this Cyclone was filed with wind element, making it a wide range attack that carved apart the radius of one meter at the direction it was unleashed using wind blades.
To be honest its power and ease of use were inferior than level 1 Battle Skill Thrust, but this Battle Skill could be used to disperse flame or wind attribute attack sorcery instantly, and it was very effective against a swarm of small monsters.
I only saw this Battle Skill once when the leader of Mercenary of Dawn Dagget used it.
It was a pain to become able to use it based on seeing it just once, even so I unexpectedly managed it somehow after burning that sight into my eyes and experiencing the skill with my own body.
I swung the black dagger once to brush off the magic powers heat before sheathing it on my back waist, then there was clapping sound and the receptionist lady approached me the same like before.
Splendid. Your body seems to have grown from magic power, but for you to reach rank 3 in that age, did you perhaps have someone very famous as your teacher?
I guess
It seemed that the memory of me coming together with Viro here had been erased from inside the womans mind.
I received training from master who was a famous sorcerer in the underworld, but I learned the basic of short sword skill from Feld, learned Battle Skill from Viro, and then got corrected by Sera, but it was mostly from being self-taught in actual battle by scraping off the useless parts in my pursuit for efficiency.
When I tried recalling the short sword skill of Viro and Sera, I noticed that there were diverse forms from various martial art schools.
I wouldnt say that they were unnecessary, but I who didnt have the time or experience to become proficient in all of them instead chose to train only in the basic forms to heighten the precision and power of a single attack.
Any living creature would die if they were stabbed with a blade, regardless of what kind of technique was used. It was my pet theory that if a vital spot was stabbed from the perfect angle without even a millimeter of measurement error, the result wouldnt be inferior to thousands of technique.
Besides the tactic of combining illusion and poison became my basic way of fighting.
Then please accept this. Its the rank 3 tag of adventurer guild.
Thank you.
The common tag of adventurer guild was made from a copper sheet the size of a thumb attached to a thin chain like a pendant. This newly made tag didnt only show rank 3, it also had magic iron that wouldnt rust mixed in, so the color was slightly darker.
If I just wanted to become rank 3, I had considered of showing my light magic.
Level 3 light sorcery had two spells. One of them was Remove. Something cursed was required for the spell to be used. The other spell High Heal consumed a lot of magic power to use, but it was a sorcery that could heal and recover in short time with great effect. Just being able to use that would gather a lot of attentions from various places, so I gave up that idea in the end.
I paid three silver coins as the cost for registration updates fee and returned to the lobby that was still filled with awkward atmosphere. There the siblings from the slum Gil and Shuri were waiting for me.
Ari
Shuri was about to call out to me, so I shook my head to shut her up.
This wasnt really good. The adventurers who looked like they might be connected with the underworld had left outside before this so it was alright right now, but although the thief guild of this town said that they werent opposing me, it wasnt something that could be fully trusted.
That was why it was possible that someone could be dragged into trouble later on just because they were my acquaintance.
Should I crush them now while I could? But that would be no different from Grave who tried to kill me just in case. It rubbed me the wrong was a little. In the first place the difference between Grave and me was in what we were protecting, but perhaps his way of thinking and mine werent that different from each other. But, we got into a murderous relationship just from that single difference.
Anyway, that was something for later.
I signaled them with only my gaze, then I left the adventurer guild while ignoring them. Once outside, I entered a nearby alley and then Gil and Shuri came following me after a while.
.
Is it alright with this? AAria?
The big brother Gil called my name while acting suspiciously. He considered me as a rival previously but, the competitiveness had left him the moment he learned that I was a woman.
As expected he must be unable to consider a woman as a rival. Even though he would avert his gaze when his eyes met mine, he kept sending glances at me. He might be angry at me for hiding my gender.
Yes. Itll be better if you dont get involved with me. Itll bring you a lot of troubles.
What do you mean by that
Youre so stupid, Nii-chan. Aria is rank 3 you know? Surely shes doing an important work, so she cant tam up with beginners like us. Thats what shes saying.
It looked like they wanted to talk to me because they wanted to team up.
I know that. More importantly, are you alright already Shuri? Even though you looked really down like that-
A lot of things happened, like Aria suddenly getting this big or that shes actually a woman but, even if shes a girl, if shes this pretty and cool than that too might be finefufufufufufufu
No, thats not fine you know-!?
Shuris laugh seemed unhealthy somehow, but she glared back angrily at Gil for his words.
Right now that town was still holding by using logs to reinforce the fence that had been there from the start to repel monster, but it was assumed that they wouldnt be able to hold for long if the orcs got serious.
That town isour hometown.
Gil said that while biting his lip. Shuris face grimaced beside him.
It doesnt matter what happen to that town. The woman who abandoned us is in that town.
Even so, our little brother is also there, and we also have friends there-
I dont remember any friend there anymore. Besides someone like that womans sonisnt my little brother-
Shuri-!
Gil scolded Shuri. But he was at a loss for words, perhaps because he could also understand her feeling. Then he turned toward me.
Ariaits fine if its just me. Can you bring me to that town?
Nii-chan-, dont-! Nii-chan might die there-!
Even though he had no good memory and had bitter experience there, Gil wanted to help his acquaintances.
Although at the inside Shuri loathed to let her stepbrother die, she was more scared of Gil dying.
You mentioned acquaintances, what about that adventurer who came from that town?
It looks like those people are going there. I tried asking them to take me along but, they refused because itll be dangerous
Obviously!
Well of course.
I also wont. I wont take you two there.
Aria-
Gil took a step forward, but I lightly swept his leg to make him fell. Then I pressed a knife on his neck.
You two will just die even if you go.
gu
Gil groaned from being made to realize how powerless he was, to be so easily swept off his feet by a younger woman.
Besides
I threw my pendulum to there without even looking. The man who was lurking there jumped out.
I quickly controlled the first pendulum I threw to wrap around the ankle of the man who tried to run away. The second pendulum I threw wrapped around the mans neck and I pulled him to fall on the ground.
Thief? Or assassin?
N-no-! I was just checking the situation, Im not going against the guilds decision-! I also didnt saw them-, thats why
Say your excuse at the other side.
W-wait
*Snap!*
Using the string wrapped around the mans neck as lever, I twisted and broke the mans neck to the side.
Im being targeted by thief guild and assassin guild. Thats why I wont take burdens who cant protect themselves with me.
I tossed the corpse of the thief who learned about Gil and Shuris existences to a corner that couldnt be seen from the main street like it was a trash. The twos complexions worsened seeing that.
Even if we were at the same place, the world that the two and me were living in were too different.
This was most likely the best way.
It was so that the two who didnt have sufficient strength to fight would survive.
That was why
Ill go check that towns situation. Ill at least help if anyone want to escape from there, so you two, stay in this town.
Aria
Gil muttered in a daze. Shuri rubbed her eyes with her sleeve.
I walked not toward the main street but toward the dark back alley. Shuris small Please voice reached toward my back as I walked away.