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?"

too

into the distance where another group was slowly headed in

forefront of the group was a young man with black hair and blue eyes. He may have been the youngest of the group, but

"Aaron… so it's him."

appeared on everyone's faces as their eyes paused on

all, it was hard for them to not have heard of him when

eyes soon paused on their group, and a surprised look flashed across his

a while since I've seen

soon stopped on Amanda. His brows knit for a second

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

Amanda replied with a short and indifferent acceptance of his

Amanda, Aaron's smile froze for a very short second before he regained his

on talking to me, so I will take

at Amanda, Aaron turned around and

back from behind, Emma turned to

guild is pretty powerful. You sure you won't regret this in

"No."

her head as she stared at Aaron's

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

power, his guild was not as great as hers, but in terms of influence, it was very powerful. They were not someone that the current Amanda could deal with if they truly decided to

and staring at Emma, Amanda softly said, "The reason I'm doing this is because he is already working with another

"He is?"

in Emma's eyes at

would they reach out for the other

"Because they are greedy."

coldly replied, her voice taking

her father's dissapearance had now spread wide, and not just the guilds in Ashton city, but even the other

but she was

all of

of her thoughts was a crisp and melodious voice

on an elf standing far ahead of the

them, he seemed

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

the elf started to walked along

by one, the other people present slowly started to follow

"Let's go."

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

flashed across

"Here, take this."

follow Emma, grabbing her shoulder, Melissa

everyone, you might as well be useful and advertise this as well. The better the performance, the

Melissa also lined

head, Amanda stared at her hand

times, her lips tugged

***

Clank—!

throughout a small room as a broadsword crossed against

the point of contact between the blades as

other from the distance, the individual holding

"You've improved a lot."

"You too."

two individuals were none other

together, they decided to spend most of their time sparring

the Lock, both of them were quite familiar with the way the other fought, hence why they were able

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

different about the two, it was that Jin was now a rank lower

to a lack of training, however. Jin had been training harder than ever. The reason

he was now more focused on improving his dagger art, the

it was because of this that he lagged behind Kevin,

that had accumulated on his forehead, Kevin put

enough for today, the others will

"Okay."