5 Chapter 4: The runaway Witcher and the fallen Maiden (2/2)
”I don't give a rats hairy asshole.” Rogon snarls as he pulls out a knife made of up ruby colored mana crystals. An elemental dagger.
Sira ignores both idiots with an eye-roll and walks over to the guild's mission board. A tiny simulation made up of bluish mana particles showed all the quest available.
”Let's see here.” Her eyes scanned the simulation.
[ Quest:02- slay or capture wild kobold: Taken]
Rank: Silver
[ Quest: 03- Explore sky dungeon and slay Thunder Dragon and it's dragonlings who have destroyed villages in the south. ]
Rank: Steel- Taken
[ Quest: 04- Slay goblins in the outer farm of Mistral: Taken by our best Goblin Slayer.]
Rank: Silver
”Damn every mission is taken! Wait there is one,” Sira zooms on the last quest, by clicking on the manna simulation.
[ Quest: 05- Please kill my wife. She is a raging bitch and controls my life.- Not taken]
Rank: Bronze.
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”This is hopeless. Might as well go back to Renzen.” She sighed.
”Um-ah…um… Everyone can I please have your attention!” A maiden with flawless shinning golden blonde hair stands up onto a podium and almost trips on her way up.
”Bahaha!” A sea of manly laughter fills the guild's golden halls.
”My friends went on a quest to explore a dungeon that was said to have a Legendary Beast Core. But none of them have come back!” She sniffles as rubs her rosy cheeks.
A blonde haired handsome looking man fitted with golden battle armor and wearing a golden metal headband, powerfully slammed his cup down smashing a steel-framed table into bits, ”Why don't you go there yourself. You pitiful foolish mongrel. You think anyone cares about your irrelevant and worthless friends, I came here only for the highest and most Legendary and Godly quest, not to listen to your simpleminded and ludicrous squanders.” Says Gildon, the most powerful Slayer of all Zareth.Gildon's fiery gold and red eyes twitch in anger of the pitfuil Maiden request.
”Please listen! I swear I will pay heavily! I don't have much, but I can repay anyone who takes my mission.” Healer Maiden begs as she swipes her fingers in the air and pulls out her inventory, ”See I am not lying.” She shows everyone her mission request.
[Quest: 020- Help find Healer Maidens, lost squad. Two girls and two boys missing. Classes: Fighter, priestess, mage, and knight. ]
[ 10,000 XP credits awarded, and an amount of 10,000 mana shards.]
”How dare you speak again! That amount could only buy me a week's meal! And one mortal weapon! You mongrel!” Gildon stood up and slammed Healer Maiden against the marble walls of the guild.
”Stop! I will take the quest!” Bravely said Sira as she pounded her chest with a witcher's salute.
Gildon dropped the maiden, ”GaHaha!Funny how the world works. When people as worthless as you exist. Nobody cares about your lives. No one ever well.” He pointed over at Healer Maiden and Sira.
”Bah. Not everyone can slay God Dragons, Titan Beast, gods, and demons. But you make out to seem like that matters. Not everyone wants to be a powerful twat. Heroes, Slayers, and gods are all so full of shit.” Landus chugged a barrel full of ale. Gildon ignored him and walked away.
”T-thank you! For accepting my quest!” exclaimed Healer Maiden as she brushed off Gildon's crude remarks from before, and runs over to Sira to give her a tight hug.
”Um- Can ya stop?” Sira pushes away the maiden and blushes. She became flustered. No other girl has been this kind to her.
”So who else wants to join us? We need six more people!” Sira raises both her hands out with a shrug and waits for a reply. Most of the adventures start to leave without saying a word. They had 'Real' quest to do.
”Great. That is zero.” She sighed as she takes a seat on a metal chair.
”I believe I can help.” Says Landus as he shows his steel dog-tag rank.
[ Rank: Gold- Sponsor for house Vulcan. ]
”Yippee! An Imp! Just what we need to fight off whatever dangerous and powerful beast that lurks in the dungeons of Zareth.” Sarcastically says Sira in a Scottish accent as she rolls her eyes.
Lanus gulps down more beer, ”You misinterpreted my offer. Tiny tits. I have a group that can fill out your squad. I have the other 6. But you have to follow my rules.
”Nope. Not from you.” Sira blew up her silver hair.
”Of course we accept!” Healer Maiden shakes the imps hands.
”See tiny tits. Take notes.” Landus grinned as he saw Healer Maidens massive mountains bounce about.
”Piss off.”
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Sira and Healer Maiden sat down near a wood-pit. The three half-moons of Zareth, now changed from an emerald color to a dark orange. A gust of snow swirls across their pale faces. It always snows in Mistral, even in the summers. The cold is fearsome and usually brings out more beast who like to hunt at night.
Sira shoots out a blackish chaos flame spark from her finger-tips into the pit of wood-chunks. Her chaos magic did a fine job lighting up the fire-wood with shadow black sparking flames. Both girls were waiting for Lanus to show up with his group.
”So what's your name? And how old are you?” gently asked Healer Maiden.
”The names Sira and I am 14 years old in Witcher years I am 18 years old. How about you?” The witcher girl tied her long silver hair into a pony-tail.
”Healer Maiden I am 17 years old in human years.” She mutters with a slight smile.
”Is that your real name?” Sira chewed on beef jerky and talked with her mouth open.
”No. My name was taken from me…” Healer Maiden sighs with gloom as she looks at the scars around her arms.
”How did you get those?” Sira glanced at her dried cut marks.
”It's nothing.” She snapped with a quick change of demeanor.
”Come on. Ya can tell me.”
”It's just…My healing and miracle powers haven't fully awakened yet. When you are born from a holy maiden the world expects you to be the strongest healer worthy of healing the most legendary Witchers, Hunters, Slayers, and Hero knights. I was worthless in my father's eyes, but my mother took pity on me, she told me to run as away from the castle. One day, my father wanted to hurt me, he wanted to take away my pureness and use it for himself. All female maidens are virgins until they bear a child with a cleric or any healing mage. The pureness of a maiden's power comes from her virginity soul. I was born, under unique circumstances, I still don't know of. Thus my purity is unbalanced.
Sira's mouth opened wide, ”Wait. Don't tell me your father… Ra-”
”No, I ran before he could do anything. I ran as far as I could. I felt worthless and abandoned from my own people. Nobody wanted me. My powers are a curse. That's why... When I joined the Mistral Guild and made up my first squad, I promised that I would be worthy of enough to be their Healer Maiden! And now they are gone! I failed them! My only friends, I left behind, because I was so careless and stupid!” Healer Maiden sobs uncontrollably.
”I am sorry. I guess you me and are tha same. But I am sure we will find your friends and get them safely out of that dungeon. Ya can count on me, Sira the worlds greatest witcher.” She gave a wide smile and raises her rapier pridefully into the air.
”I really hope so. May the gods of Zareth bless us.” She smiled and prayed, she then closed her eyes.
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Healer Maiden opens her eyes, she had been reminiscing about everything from her past until now. She was now in a dangerous dungeon and her friends, Sira and her new squad had all left her behind to fight against the tentacle beast that stood before her. The one that had saved her very life was now taking it away from her.
”GAwwwwaaagahhh! What are you doing?! Tentacle monster?!” Saliva drips down Healer Madiens plump chest as she was being chocked by a large slimly and veiny tentacle.
A titan sized- eyeball coldly stared directly into her soul. It looked strangely like the three half-moons of Zareth. Healer Maiden screamed to the gods. But there were none to hear her cries.