318 Quests Time Exhaustion (1/2)

Almost two months passed since the ship departed from Trade City, but the quest about leaving the continent was still uncompleted and the remaining time was just some more hours.

”Am I going to fail?”

Yale felt quite depressed those last days due to that quest.

At the start, he enjoyed the travel and the time he spent teaching Mercer, which felt really that should be teaching a disciple. There was a huge difference with the times he tried to teach Aizu because Yale knew that she had some second intentions towards him and since she looked like a grown-up girl it wasn't the same that teaching Mercer who was just a kid.

Mercer had improved a lot in the use of water element spells in that time, although he was still unable to turn the water into ice at will. However, Yale was very satisfied with Mercer's improvement.

Sadly, the Quest Menu didn't bother about how Yale felt about his disciples since the only condition was leaving the continent.

Yale didn't know the results of failing the quest, but he didn't think that would be anything good.

The ship was already at full speed, and it wasn't possible to increase it more. Furthermore, Yale didn't dare to put the whole ship on the Storage Space and fly at top speed despite that being a bit quicker.

After all, although the travel until that moment hadn't any problem, the ocean wasn't a safe place at all and the formations protecting the ship were far better than Yale's own defense. Although Absolute Protection was the best kind of defense its uses were limited, and it wasn't good against a sneak attack if Yale was unprepared.

”Master doesn't seem to be in a good mood today.”

Mercer said that while looking towards the depressed Yale on the deck.

”This has already lasted some days. Maybe I should go to hug him? I am sure that he would be happy about having a beautiful girl comforting him”

Aizu replied while she did the same than Mercer observing Yale from far.

”Big sister, our master would probably feel even worse if he is disturbed right now.”

Mercer had turned quite close to Yale since the ship departed, so he understood that Yale didn't want to be disturbed without a good reason and Mercer knew Aizu enough to understand that Aizu just wanted some physical contact with Yale and comforting him was just a cheap excuse.

”If you said so...”

Aizu felt quite depressed after hearing Mercer, but she knew in her heart that Yale wasn't someone who liked to be disturbed without reason.

Yale remained in that position for some more hours, but the system still didn't react.

”Five minutes until the time for the quest will end.”

It was impossible for Yale to avoid sighing at that moment because there wasn't anything in the ocean that seemed to be a barrier or something like that.

He had already thought that crossing the barrier mentioned by Revgen was the turning point for the quest, but he didn't see any barrier at all, which he interpreted as that he was still too far from there.

Quickly another four minutes passed, and Yale already assumed that the quest was a failure.

”This would be my first failure in a quest. I hope that the consequences won't be too big.”

Yale though that while he assumed the result of the quest since there was nothing that he could do at that moment.

However, at that moment the ship stopped as if there were an invisible wall in front of it.

”Maybe this is...”

Yale stopped thinking as there were only seconds left in the quest, and then he started to use his second level World's Authority to try to open that invisible wall as fast as he could.

Yale noticed that his efforts were working, and the ship slowly advanced as the wall was starting to disappear, but the remaining time was also disappearing.

Twenty seconds.

Ten seconds.

Five seconds.

Yale wasn't looking the countdown, but the system started to spoke the countdown in his mind automatically, which only added more pressure to Yale.