27 Condescending (1/2)

On our way back to the Azure Deer base, we took many breaks. Eventually it became night so Fragil and I decided that we should set up camp and sleep through it instead of flying and risking hitting something.

As I was unpacking, I realized something I could do to get to base instantly. I have space magic and since I've already been to base, I can just teleport us back.

I decided to not do this as it would ruin the adventure itself of seeing everything on the way back.

Finishing setting up the the tents, Fragil and I had something to eat, and then went off to bed.

At some point in the middle of the night, I heard a lot of movement. Getting out of my cocoon of blankets I made with magic I went to go check up on Fragil. Exiting my tent showed that almost everything of ours was raided and a bit of a distance away was Fragil being dragged into a portal somewhere by someone.

Before I could even teleport over and help, they already went through the portal and disappeared.

[Quest Alert:

Quest- Rescue Fragil within a week

Reward- Fragil Survives

Faliure- Fragil Dies]

Even without this new quest, I would've already did everything in my power to try and help Fragil.

And since it hasn't even been around a minute since, I've woken up, I created a thing of 5 hour energy and chugged it down before getting to work. I threw everything that was mine into my inventory and started searching for clues.

What I discovered was that they specifically went searching through Fragil's stuff. None of our food, water, and money was tampered or taken so they aren't just regular bandits.

Besides this there wasn't that many leads to show who or what could've done this. The person I saw taking away Fragil was a man with a mask was my only lead but there could've been more people as he had space magic able to teleport everyone away.

Seeing as there wasn't anything else after around a half hour of searching I decided to put everything into my inventory and to finally use space magic to quickly get back to base. Opening the portal and walking through it brought me back to the center area of the base where a lot of the Azure Deer where.

The Azure Deer popped up from their seats and jumped into a battle stance seeing me exit out of the portal. I just raised my hands and simply said, ”Whats up guys?”

For some reason this seemed to put them even more on edge and they all got into a even more defensive stand.

”Stand down everyone.” someone yelled from the back

Everyone turned to see who did it and left me a gap big enough to see as well. The person who yelled was Rill who had a couple of scratches on him that appeared to be freshly made.

Rill walked up to me slowly and with a hobble. When he got to me he put his arm on my shoulder and said welcome back before starting to hobble off to somewhere and telling me to follow him.

Seeing as I had nothing else to do I just awkwardly followed behind him as he was walking at what seemed to be around a singular mile per hour. I walked up to him and put my hand on hill shoulder and used a combination of buffing magic and healing magic to fix everything up. Rill didn't even look surprised at my new magic and wasn't excited as he usually was.

Finally going a good speed, we got to a door within about five minutes and when he opened it up showed a wall right behind it. Rill pulled out his Grimoire and painted a door onto it before pulling that new door open. Now behind this door was a room with a conference table on it that had some other magic knight captains at it.

Rill nodded to me to go forwards through the door first so I just listened and did it. Rill then followed after closing both of the doors and then started talking.

”As Fragil isn't here I assume something went wrong on the way back to the mission I presume?”

I just nodded and said, ”Yes but I don't know that many details at about what happened. We went to bed and I woke up hearing some movment but by the time I got out of my bed, Fragil was being dragged off into a portal by one person.”

”And around how long ago was this?”

”Roughly around 30 minutes or so I think.”

Rill just nodded and said, ”That lines up around the time a portal appeared for us and a bunch of people came through to my room. Luckily I was awake painting a bit so I was entirely prepared for it. I was able to push them into a retreat but I noticed one person was carrying Fragil. They also alerted everyone else to the indecent by waking them up.”