Chapter: 187

“Sure.” Anya quickly replied, an unofficial representative of the association. She didn’t let the others see it but she was feeling a little tense as she still hadn’t told her father about Kel having to go with Mark’s escort; she made a promise she wasn’t sure if she could keep or not – though she didn’t see the harm in Kel going too anyway.

“Me and Jay can take her. You guys can go home and rest, it’s been a long journey. I’ll update you about the escort when I find out the details.”

“Oh… ok. Well, thanks for the quest it was nice grouping with you two” Kel said, before giving a warm smile and a hug to Naria. “I’ll see you soon, take care of Jay and Anya for me”

Naria smiled back and nodded, hugging her back.

Mark smiled at Naria but didn’t say anything, this was his way of saying goodbye.

“It was good, thanks for the opportunity Anya. Maybe we’ll see you at the snakeraven sometime.”

The two walked off into Losla, but from the direction they were going, it was clear they were heading to the snakeraven inn to get lunch – and for Mark, probably a few beers.

Anya grabbed Naria’s hand as they made their way to the association, Jay walked up the hill alongside the two girls.

“So, you said the reward would be good.” Jay remembered as they passed the spot where he accepted the quest.

“You know, this ‘good reward’ will determine if I help the next time. If it’s mediocre, perhaps I won’t take any more quests.”

Anya gave him a look which seemed to say he was being petty, but she did make a promise after all.

“It will be good. I will make sure of it.” She tried to sound confident.

Jay could see right through her fake confidence, but he didn’t let her see his face as he regretfully smiled to himself.

Walking under the floating stone gate, Naria hesitated a little but kept going in, holding Anya’s hand. The guard gave them a strange look, wondering why they were bringing a little girl here, but it wasn’t his business so he let them through without saying a word.

A few various adventurers were still training on the courtyard dummies while others were going in and out of the association building for a dungeon or a quest.

Most of them were melee based classes, many carrying swords and shields as their weapons.

The mana and ranged based classes would have all been recruited into parties by now, raiding dungeons and making money. Since there were less of them around, they were in demand.

At the archery range, a few of the melee based classes were practising using a bow and arrows – they looked awkward, but with enough diligence it would pay off.

After enough training they could get a subclass and merge their melee class with a ranged one.

For instance, a tank class could practice with a whip and become a [Stone Snare]; using a whip, sword and shield, combined with aggression-pulling skills, they could keep a monster pinned down and fighting with them while their party members focus on doing damage.

Naria got distracted looking at the people training in the courtyard. The whole environment was a little overwhelming for her. The adventurer association was as large as her hamlet after all.

“Come on Naria, let’s go in” Anya smiled, patting behind her shoulder.


“So we ended up killing the leech queen Rosa, but we didn’t tell the others about it.”

Anya was in her fathers office, going over the quest details with her father after she left Jay and Naria downstairs in the care of Margaret at reception.