The Author's POV

"Woahhh."

Taking a step out of the portal, Emma looked at the scene presented before her with amazement.

Wearing a white baseball hat along with a simple shirt and shorts, Emma's curiosity piqued as she looked around the place with an excited gaze.

"Curb your excitement."

Exiting the portal after her was Melissa. Squinting her eyes and taking out her glasses, she glared in the direction of the sun.

"If only that damned bastard didn't force me to come here…"

She muttered out loud, obviously not hiding the displeasure in her voice.

Overhearing Melissa's comments, Emma turned around and asked, "What's wrong about coming here?"

"I would've much rather spent my time finishing my project.

"And what's fun about that? You never go out. Just look at you, you remind me of a vampire."

Pausing, Emma pointed at the sun.

"The first thing you did as soon as you got out was glare at the sun!"

"Shut up."

Rolling her eyes, Melissa put her glasses back on.

As the two of them were bickering, not far from them, the other group members were slowly coming out of the portal.

It wasn't long before eight more people exited the portal. Once the last person came out, an elf came to greet them and led them to an area outside of the portal where there were others waiting.

As they were headed towards the larger group, Emma was instantly able to spot Amanda.

"Amanda, you're already here."

This part wasn't hard since she stood out quite a bit.

The fact that most of the males' gazes were directed at her also didn't help since it only made it easier for Emma to spot her.

Walking up to her, Emma tried to hug her, but Amanda swiftly dodged, prompting Emma to pout.

"Hey!"

"Save that stuff for Kevin."

"Hey!"

Emma shouted even louder as her cheeks turned rosy.

"How long have you been waiting here?" Emma asked, in hopes of trying to switch the topic.

Fortunately for her, Amanda had tact. Pretending to have not seen anything, she casually answered, "It's been about three hours since we arrived."

Lifting her head and staring into the distance, toward the direction of where Emma came from, Amanda continued.

"Besides you, we should be waiting for one more group before they will bring us to the city."

"Another group?"

Emma turned her head and stared in the same direction as Amanda.

"Any idea who it is?"

"They are from another city."

"Oh? Which one?"

not too

the distance where another group

youngest of the group, but his demeanour was unmatched as it contained this

"Aaron… so it's him."

on everyone's faces

he was. After all, it was hard for them to not have heard of him when he had been a thorn on their side during their first year. Second and third year for Emma and

and a surprised look flashed across his face. It wasn't

been a while since I've seen

Aaron's eyes soon stopped on Amanda. His brows knit for a second before they

think we maybe briefly met during your first year. It was unfortunate that you left after and

a short and

smile froze

isn't too keen on talking to

at Amanda, Aaron

behind, Emma turned to look in Amanda's

want to treat him like that? His guild is pretty

"No."

shook her head as she stared at

the most powerful guild in Lutwig city, one of the four great cities in the

hers, but in terms of influence, it was very powerful. They were not someone that the current Amanda could deal with if

her head and staring at Emma, Amanda softly said, "The reason I'm doing this is because he is already working with another diamond-graded guild in Ashton

"He is?"

flashed in Emma's eyes at this

out

"Because they are greedy."

her voice taking

wide, and not just the guilds in Ashton city, but even the other guilds from outside wanted to have

was obviously enraged by this, but she was also helpless at the same

you for coming all of the

of her thoughts was a crisp

Amanda's eyes paused on an elf standing far ahead of the

he seemed

that everyone has gathered, I will escort you to the main city. So, if you

walked along a

one, the other people present slowly started to

"Let's go."

out of the three girls was Emma who quickly lined up and followed the others into the

flashed across

"Here, take this."

about to follow Emma, grabbing her

you will be displaying your talent to everyone, you might as well be useful and advertise this as well. The better the

Melissa also lined

stared at

a couple of times, her

***

Clank—!

room as a

from the point of contact between the

the individual holding onto the broadsword lowered it and complimented

"You've improved a lot."

"You too."

individuals were none other than Kevin and

arriving early to the elven domain and meeting up together, they decided to spend most of their time

of them were quite familiar with the way the other fought, hence why

ever since leaving the Lock, the both of them were still quite familiar with each other's styles.

it was that Jin was now a

Jin had been training harder than ever. The

focused on improving his dagger art, the time he spent on

that he lagged

on his forehead,

for today, the others

"Okay."