Chapter 191: Letters and assignments (1/2)

Although he should have been shocked by Sarah's response, Aiden only smiled with a strange, satisfactory, contentious grin stretching on his face. He was glad, he felt happy as this was a chance for him to test his full power, and maybe, just maybe gain new insights to himself as well. The last time he had the chance to go full power was quite a long time ago, he felt increasingly bored with this human city.

If the dangers of the main quest wouldn't be looming over his head, he would have long returned to his family or maybe he would have gone much deeper into the seemingly endless forest and uncovered more of its mysteries. Or he could have decided to go beyond the borders of this Kingdom, and just explore new heights and also increase his repertoire of life forms. After all, as he matured, he felt this need, this thirst for more power, for more life essences. Going stale and just living the life of a lowly human went against his very basic instincts. Not just his dominant Ancient Dragon genes, but even his usually silent Primal ones.

So, when Sarah revealed that the newest mission that she was assigned to and was asking, no, begging for his help was rated to at least being a 4-star difficulty or maybe bordering the 5-stars… He was happy.

Nodding his head, he tried his hardest to hide his wide and expectant grin, without much success.

”I see.” Looking at the paper one last time, he managed to calm his nerves and return his expression to his usual calm and collected outlook. He looked at the girl, who obviously noticed his excitement that was visible on his face for just a moment as she was also grinning at him knowingly and he asked. ”So, when do we have to set out? How long will this quest be expected to take? You do know that we will need to be present for the big event happening in a week's time, and I also want to explore the Grotto, as that was my primary goal for even coming to this city in the first place.”

”Tomorrow, early morning.” Sarah replied with a smile on her face. ”Go and support your friend for now, and just tell him you will be gone for a few days, starting tomorrow on a Special Assignment from the guild. Get to the eastern exit by sunrise tomorrow, I will be waiting for you there. Will that work?”

”Okay, see you in the morning then, Sarah.” Aiden spoke as he turned around and walked out of her office. As soon as he closed the door, he heard the familiar sound of a notification popping up in his system.

Bringing the note up, in front of his view, he smiled as what he expected had happened. The system automatically created a mission for him.

[New Optional Quest: Thwart the Invasion - Part 1

Difficulty: B-D

Objective: - Find proof about a possible invasion of the hordes (0/1)

Optional: ???

Rewards: ???]

Although slightly surprised by the return of the question marks and the hidden details of the quest, he wasn't too surprised. After all, the quest was rated to being a possible B difficulty, and from the name, it seemed that the system already planned at least one follow-up after completing this stage.

However, as he kept thinking, a scary thought crossed his mind; how does the system know about this? Does it have some sort of divine power and have information about the future? Or maybe even more than one possible outcome? Where does its information come from? Previously, he thought that it was Enya that supplied most of the data to the system, but with her still being out of commission and would be for the foreseeable future, Aiden didn't know what to think anymore.

'Maybe the reason I received the Main Quest to investigate that strange place is related to the system's mystery?' Thinking about it more, this theory seemed to be more and more plausible. Bringing it up, he checked on its timer, as he took more than he expected to finally find out more about the place in question.

As the quest details appeared in front of him, Aiden heaved a sigh in relief seeing that he still had more than enough time to complete this 'Special Assignment' from the Lady with the mask and participate in the idiotic, pointless play to decide the outcome for the City Lord's elections before he would embark on this dangerous journey.

'Alright, let's go back, Cole must be on the verge of tears by now.' He thought, smiling at himself, as he began to cross through the office halls and get back to his friends.