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

from the side, gazing into the distance where another group was

with black hair and blue eyes. He may have been the youngest of the group, but his

"Aaron… so it's him."

appeared on everyone's faces as

was. After all, it was hard for them to not have heard of him when he had been

strides, Aaron's eyes soon paused on their group, and a surprised look flashed across his face. It wasn't long before a smirk followed after as

been a while since I've seen

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

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

short and indifferent

smile froze for a

too keen on talking to me, so I will

Amanda, Aaron turned

behind, Emma turned

you want to treat him like that? His guild is pretty powerful. You sure you won't regret

"No."

her head as she stared

of background Aaron had. He was the heir of the most

it was very powerful. They were not someone that the current Amanda could deal with if

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

"He is?"

in Emma's eyes

would they reach out for

"Because they are greedy."

her voice

in Ashton city,

she

of the way here

her thoughts was a crisp and melodious voice that came from the

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

them, he seemed to

will escort you to the main city. So, if you would please

to walked along

he left, one by one, the other people present

"Let's go."

to move out of the three girls was Emma who quickly lined up

flashed across her

"Here, take this."

Emma, grabbing her shoulder, Melissa handed her

talent to everyone, you might as well be useful and advertise this

Melissa

Melissa in confusion, lowering her head, Amanda stared at her hand where several different cards

of times, her

***

Clank—!

room as a broadsword crossed

from the point of contact between the blades as the two individuals distanced themselves

from the distance, the individual holding onto the broadsword lowered

"You've improved a lot."

"You too."

individuals were none

early to the elven domain and meeting up together, they decided

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

were still quite familiar with each other's styles.

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

had been training harder than ever. The reason for his current rank was that he

on improving his dagger art, the

he lagged behind Kevin, in

the sweat that had accumulated on

enough for today, the others will be coming here

"Okay."