In the past two days, Bargan and Souta's classmates visited him in his house when they heard that he woke up. Souta didn't forget to thank them for visiting him.
What surprised him was that Randolf visited him. Randolf just looked at his condition and said some mysterious words before leaving.
He couldn't understand what Randolf was trying to say. He tried his best to recall if he heard Randolf's name in the game but unfortunately, nothing comes to his mind.
That attitude and personality of Randolf were familiar to him, and that smug look was familiar to him. He just couldn't remember anything person that has the same name and looks as Randolf in the game.
After that, a middle-aged man visited him yesterday noon. He didn't know the middle-aged man but when the man introduced himself he easily understood it. The middle-aged man was none other than the Guildmaster of the Adventurers Guild branch in the Ibish village.
Since the Ibish village was destroyed, the Guildmaster couldn't stay there anymore and remained as Guildmaster of the Adventurers Guild.
Ninety percent of the citizen of Ibish village died in that incident so there's no point in staying there. He visited Souta to thanked him for holding back two six-circle officers alone. He was thankful at Souta.
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He didn't have any news in the institute but when he heard what happened there while he was gone he was surprised. His party members, no, his classmates' power was skyrocketing as they dominated the ranking battles.
The fact that their class took the first and second rank was satisfactory but the other students of the Mage class 1-B were catching up to the top rankers. Their class was becoming the strongest class in the whole first year without a doubt.
After experiencing the life and death situation in the Ibish village, somehow the students of the Mage class 1-B changed. Their skills were refined to a higher level and it caused their battle power to rose to the next level. Their worldview widened as they understood what it means to stand beside death. They matured at different angles, except for Bryan who was used to trouble.
In these past two days, Souta tried to recover his mana by drinking mana potions but unfortunately, he couldn't. Two days weren't enough for him but Souta wasn't bothered by this fact. Because he could promote his class anytime he wanted using the skill points and skill-level up a card that he got from the quest.
At the very least he wanted to save his skill-level up card. He just didn't use his skill points now as it wouldn't make a difference in his fighting power because he couldn't use his mana.
Just one escort quest was enough for him to complete it. The escort quest towards the Forest of Eternal Light.
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Souta was having a coffee when Lumilia came to his house with Cluster.
"How is it?" Souta asked Lumilia before he took a sip of coffee.
"I've finished what you ask me to do," Lumilia replied and she placed a piece of paper on Souta's table.
Souta placed down his coffee and looked at the paper. This paper was the escort quest that he needed. He doesn't want to travel towards the Eternal Empire without having a quest. It's better if he got a quest to maximize the benefits that he will receive.
"Lumilia take Bryan and the rest with you. You will complete this quest while I'll take another escort quest with the members of the Lanny corp." Souta said to her after he finished reading the contents of the quest. He then added, "Well, it's to maximize the benefits that we will receive."
He knew what's in her mind so before she could ask him, Souta answered the question in her mind.
Lumilia didn't have a choice but to agree to him after she heard his words.
Souta emptied his cup of coffee before he stood up and said, "Let's go, I have to meet the people of the Lanny corp."
"I understand." Lumilia nodded at him while looking at his face. She was trying to guess what's in his mind.
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Souta and Lumilia parted ways. Souta brought Yuko with him towards the Lanny corp while Lumilia brought Cluster to meet with Bryan and the rest.
Souta arrived in the Lanny corp with Yuko. The receptionist quickly guided him to the space behind the building.
Jimmy and the six people that he chose were already waiting for him.
"You're here. I already explained what you're going to do to them." Jimmy said when he saw Souta. He greeted him and looked at the six people.
"Good." Souta nodded with a satisfied expression. He turned his head to the six and observed them with his eyes. It seems that he wasn't wrong in picking them. The aura they gave off this time was different than the first time that he met them.
They grew stronger. There's no doubt about it. They were going to become a B-rank soon if they keep improving their strength.
"Good morning, captain." A man with a huge physique greeted Souta. His skin was brown and he had two antennas sticking out of his forehead. His name was Jagret.
"Good." Souta nodded and he swept his eyes across the six people in front of him. After a while, he opened his mouth and said, "Jimmy said to me that he already informed you about our quest this time. Am I right?"
"Yes, captain!" The five people replied to him at the same time.
"I know, I know." A man with a bored look said. He was tall and he didn't have a huge body like Jared. One of his ears was pointed and one wasn't. His pointed ear was full of earrings. His greenish eyes were slanted and looked fierce. His hair was mohawk and its color was green. He was called Ginvi.
This man was the one who fought Souta before.
These six people were shocked when they first heard from Jimmy that they were going to the Forest of Eternal Light. That forest was extremely dangerous for their current power level. They thought that Souta was out of his mind for picking that place as their first quest but when they heard from Jimmy that Souta was serious, they could only accept this fact.
In fact, until now they were against in going to that place but it was Jimmy's decision. Jimmy told them to follow Souta's order and he was their first priority.
"You know what to do. Have you prepared your things? We're leaving today." Souta said to them with a serious tone. Despite lacking mana, he was emitting heavy pressure in the surrounding area.
"Yes, captain!" They said at the same time.
"Hmm... The members of my party will join our expedition." Souta said to them before he turned around.
"Captain, the members of your party are students am I right?" Ginvi opened his mouth and asked Souta.
Souta paused and he slightly turned his head. He looked at Ginvi in the eyes. "Yeah, they are students like me. Why?"
"I'm not sure if they are as strong as you or not. I want to know if they were going to become a burden or not." Ginvi raised a question with a grin on his face.
"You don't have to worry about them. Besides, I trust my party members than you. I don't even know if you're going to use your mouth in battle or not." Souta responded with a cold look on his face. He then waved his hand and turned around.
"You!!" Ginvi hissed as veins pop up on his forehead. He was about to leap towards Souta but Jagret and a dwarf named Finsi stopped him.
Souta ignored those people. He doesn't have a problem with his subordinates except for that Ginvi. No, that's not a problem to begin with. He could control that type of person through force but Souta decided to take it easy.
Jimmy walked beside Souta and asked, "Did you read the news?"
"News?" Souta looked at Jimmy with question marks in his head. He had no idea what's in the news because of what happened to him.
"Here. Read this." Jimmy pushed the newspaper on his side.
Souta looked at it as he took a bottle of potion in his pocket. He removed the cap and drunk it in one go. After that, he swept his eyes on the front page of the newspaper.
"The student who used two monster potions to stop the member of the Deadly Sins...!?"
His mind went blank when he read the front page of the news. His picture was also printed at the corner of the newspaper.
'Who the hell would release this information?' Souta knitted his eyebrows before he looked at Jimmy.
"I've sent some people to investigate who release this information but we couldn't find anything. All the leads disappeared from a certain noble family. That noble family is a powerful family across the whole kingdom. They have a lot of connections and the Lanny corp is like a small mouse in front of them. But I personally think that family don't know about this. Someone just used their name." Jimmy said with a serious expression.
"What's the family name?" Souta asked.
"The Freis Family," Jimmy said.
"If it's that family then they wouldn't do it," Souta said as he looked at the newspaper.
If the public learned about the incident in the Ibish village, then a lot of problems will occur. Especially for him... The fact that he woke up in just two weeks from drinking monster potions was a huge topic.
"Ehe~ some people are targeting me behind my back. I wonder who did I offend this time." A grin formed on Souta face.
