Chapter 148 - Slip up (1/2)

After hearing the adventures voice, Candy and Tuffy were wondering how on earth he was able to see them. The two of them were very confident in their stealth skills and they had approached the area when Ray was busy fighting the intermediate beasts.

Ray didn't have time to worry or look around in the swampy area to notice them. Of course, the reason why Ray had spotted them was because of his dragon eyes. It allowed him to see right through the tree they were hiding behind. Ray didn't worry about them as their auras weren't strong.

Suddenly, Tuffy decided to come out from behind the tree and immediately bowed down to Ray.

”I'm sorry we didn't mean to spy on you, we were going to help if you got into any kind of trouble sir.”

Ray looked at Tuffy standing in front of him. At most the kid looked about 12. Ray was surprised that kids this young were out hunting in an area like this.

”What are you two doing out here?” Ray asked

Candy's heart started to beat faster as she was still hidden behind the tree. She was wondering if Ray knew she was there, and now it was quite obvious he did. Candy also then quickly came out and bowed down.

”We were out here hunting some basic tier beasts; we were completing a quest for our guild.” Candy said. ”Suddenly, the beast we were hunting ran away and we heard a loud roar come from this direction.”

Ray didn't know much about how guilds or the human world worked. He had taken a different path than most, going straight from his home town to being schooled in an isolated town, to finally ending up at Avrion.

This wasn't the typical route for most kids. Candy and Tuffy's parents were incredibly sick. They had no choice but to join a guild to complete some quest in exchange for some coin but their skills weren't great and at best all they could do was be careful and hunt basic tier beasts.

Ray then looked at his status screen. From battling the intermediate beast Ray managed to obtain around 10 intermediate crystals and he had defeated around 20 beasts. Meaning that 10 crystals still remained inside the beasts he had slain.

Ray then looked at the two kids in front of him. They weren't well dressed and their weapons and armour looked like they had been taken from a junkyard. Without realising it, Ray started to stare at Candy for a while.

Candy quickly hid behind her brother thinking that the adventurer was planning to do something to her. Ray then snapped out of it and opened up his endless void.

A space portal opened up next to Ray and he reached in to grab some equipment for the kids.

”Here take this.” Ray then gave Tuffy a sword while also handing Candy a dagger. The two of them without hesitation accepted the items. This made Ray worry a little as they were too trusting even though they had just met him.

The equipment Ray had given them was from the martial arts hall. Ray had obtained many different weapons from there during the fight with the Dark guild, he had originally planned to sell most of it but it wouldn't be a big deal for Ray to give away a couple of basic tier weapons.

Tuffy was busy swinging about the new weapon. It was lighter and a lot sharper than the sword he was using before. While Candy immediately went to thank Ray.

”Thank you, sir.”

”Don't worry about it, Amy.”

”Amy… but my name's Candy.”