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 sure

already here." Melissa said from the side, gazing into the distance where another group was slowly headed

and blue eyes. He may have been the youngest of the group,

"Aaron… so it's him."

rare of solemnity appeared on everyone's

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

look flashed across his face. It

been a while since

soon stopped on Amanda. His brows knit for a second before they

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

Amanda replied with a short and

smile froze for a very short second before

isn't too keen on

Aaron

behind, Emma

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

"No."

her head as

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

his guild was not as great as hers, but in terms of influence, it was very powerful. They were not someone that the current

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

reach out for the

"Because they are greedy."

her voice taking a

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

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

all of the way

of her thoughts was a crisp

head, Amanda's eyes paused on an elf standing

addressed them, he

I will escort you to

elf started to walked along

one by one, the other people present slowly started to follow

"Let's go."

Emma who quickly lined up and followed the others into the

across

"Here, take this."

grabbing her shoulder, Melissa handed her a couple of

be useful and advertise this as well. The better

Melissa also lined

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

her

***

Clank—!

sounded throughout a small room as a broadsword crossed

contact between the blades as the two individuals

each other from the distance, the individual holding onto the broadsword

"You've improved a lot."

"You too."

individuals were none other than

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

both of them were quite familiar with the way the other fought,

both of them were still quite familiar with each other's styles. Hence,

two, it was that Jin was now a rank lower than

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

more focused on improving his dagger art, the

this that he lagged behind Kevin, in terms of

on his

should be enough for today, the others will be

"Okay."