Chapter 101 - Requesting after Moving (2/2)

The ones above them were what Shayna had just told Loren, called Elders.

They couldn’t really be considered being born, but instead, it was said that they were beings that just came into existence for some reason.

They had mana and life energy that enormous couldn’t even fully describe, and they couldn’t be wounded by mediocre magic swords or spells, had a lifespan that could be described as infinite, had almost complete resistance to things such as holy water, sunlight, and silver that were weaknesses of normal undead.

Whether they could be called undead or not was still a popular discussion among scholars, and they haven’t reached a conclusion.

“So, this is an elder?”

“What do you mean this? Well, I messed up my wording earlier, so I guess it’s fine.”

As the girl puffed out her cheeks slightly with a complaining look, Loren looked at Lapis with a troubled face.

If what Shayna said was correct, the girl sitting in front of him had the power to destroy a whole nation by herself.

To be honest, Loren felt like this was out of his hands.

“For starters, can you tell us your name miss Elder?”

When she noticed Loren’s gaze, she easily took the role of being the negotiator.

From her personality, Loren thought that she would be reluctant or tease him about it but seeing that she instantly came in to help him, he realized that they were talking with a dangerous individual.

“I can’t tell you my family name for a reason. Call me Dia.”

The girl who called herself Dia nodded slightly.

Lapis nodded back and continued her question.

“About the job you told us you want to request. What kind of job is it, and would it be something that humans like us could do?”

When thought about calmly, if the girl named Dia was indeed what Shayna said she was, there shouldn’t be a reason for her to come to humans, who were way weaker than her.

That was why Lapis said ‘humans like us’, but after hearing that, a troubled smile appeared on Dia’s face.

“I was thinking of asking that young one as well…”

A hint of annoyance missed in her voice.

Everyone who was there when Dia appeared should have been there as well, but Klaus and Ivy were not.

Now that Loren recalled what had happened, he realized that it was a frightening thing that happened.

When Dia stopped their battle and told them she wanted to request a job, Klaus had said that he didn’t have any business with a child, and to come back after a few years.

As a result, Klaus was spun around on the spot two and a half times and landed on the ground face first and lost consciousness, so Ivy had to take him to the hospital.

Loren couldn’t see what she did to him, but he did know that she wasn’t a magician.

Loren thought then that maybe even a young girl could spin Klaus around vertically, but now that he found out what she was, he was surprised at Klaus’ luck that it only ended with getting spun.

“Well, no use talking about those who aren’t here. To the question of do I think you two are up for the job, the answer is I have no idea.”

If you could know whether the person could successfully get the job done just by looking at them, you could just request it to those who could.

But if that were possible, the word called failure should disappear, and the number of adventurers would increase, but it seemed that reality wasn’t so, and no one had that ability.

“Next, for the question of am I fine with the two of you, I can answer that with confidence. If I’m going to request a job, I’d like to request it to you.”

“Can I ask why that is so?”

“It’s easy. I’m interested in you two. So much that I want to request this job.”

Dia put her elbows on the table and leaned forward, putting her chin on top of her folded hands.

“Interest, you say?”

“Yes, interest. I was also a bit interested in the boy with the gift that I patted a bit…”

She stopped talking and looked at Loren with a meaningful gaze.

Not knowing why she would do so, Loren looked away feeling troubled, and seeing that, Dia smiled.

“You two are more than interesting enough to pique my interest. A swordsman with a strange air about him, and a priestess with a strange air about her as well.”

At Dia’s words, Loren’s heart started beating a tempo faster.

It seemed that this vampire girl not only notice the presence of Shayna within him but was close to finding out that Lapis was a demon.

“The greatest reason was the gesture that the swordsman made.”

“Me?”

Loren cocked his head, not knowing what she was talking about.

Seeing him confused, Dia’s smile became even wider.

“If you don’t know, I can tell you about it, but doing it for free won’t be exciting. How about I make it one of the payments for accepting my job?”

“So, what would the job be?”

As Loren almost responded without thinking, Lapis stopped him with her hand and asked Dia about the job.

“It’s nothing difficult. Two days south from this city is a ruin. I want you to escort me there.”

Dia said again that it wasn’t difficult.

Hearing that, Loren and Lapis looked at each other, trying to find out what their client’s intentions were.