40 Chapter 40: Salvor Family

For the next five days, the team trained in groups while they waited for the association to check on them, during that period Kira and Gin urged Derik to forgo his magic power for now and focus on his archery and melee fighting skills. The reason for this they kept to themselves. Meanwhile, Daemon and Donald trained together, while Donald worked on his speed, Daemon worked on her strength each supporting themselves. This continued for days until several carriages bearing the adventurers association banner appeared on the seventh day. These people came along with oracles from the association, sorcerers and guardian knights but to their greatest surprise, these kids were unscathed.

"Did they really complete the mission?" The guardian knight in charge of the team asked with signs of disbelief written all over her face. He briefly glanced at every face in the room and gasped in shock. The first mission the adventurer team gives out to recruit teams is usually one that they are unable to complete, after assessing their strength through the data gotten from the inter-class competition, they can determine the perfect task which they will not be able to complete but they will at least be able to escape. The aim of the first task was just to help these recruits understand that not all battles can be won, when faced with a far stronger enemy one is meant to retreat, regroup and wait for more capable adventurers to arrive and aid them. Its sole aim was to bring these kids at the doorstep of death and give them a choice, life or death. The greedy and dumb recruits will choose death and try to complete the mission at all costs while the smart ones will acknowledge their weakness and give up. For six days now, they have been waiting for Kira's team to contact them through the use of messenger doves but for to their greatest surprise nothing happened, it got to the point where they feared that all seven recruits were killed in battle that's why they mobilized such a large team to investigate but when they arrived at the gates of castle black, they saw all seven recruits in perfects conditions training. This is close to impossible, it would have been more reasonable if they completed the mission but incurred fatal injuries in the process but that was not the case.

"It seems so… according to the oracles, the bodies of those level twelve stones trolls were already in the process of decaying when they found it… all three were decapitated about a kilometer northwest of here" An assassin class adventurer replied honestly, even he was also shocked by the report he received. The next moment his eyes narrowed and his cold gaze fell on Derik

"According to the oracles… very power traces of evil magic were found all over the corpses of these beasts… even the vegetation around the battlefield slowly withers as we speak… at the moment they are trying their best to purge the affected areas of this sinister energy" The assassin said. Finally, realization dawned on the guardian knight, her eyes narrowed and fell on Derik. Amongst all the physical class recruits present the only one who had undergone earth-shattering change was Derik, the fourteen-year-old archery class recruit during the inter-class competition had short brown hair and brown iris. Even now the boy's hair was greasy black and his iris was black as well. The boy who always wore a determined expression throughout the inter-class competition was now indifferent, his facial expression and eyes were void of emotions, it almost felt like he felt nothing. If not for the human skin the archer wore the guardian knight probably would have mistaken this young man for a monster.

"It's possible he awakened his magic and kept it a secret, it's possible a high ranking member of the association is aware of this and decided to keep it a secret, we are not sure yet…" The guardian knight smiled bitterly as she spoke. Even if she wants to apprehend Derik it won't be so easy, right now this branch was stationed at Briton town. This archer is the family knight of the number one noble family in the town. Also, for this archer to procure magic enhancement potion shows that his background is not as simple as they thought, its worth over a hundred gold coins!! Such an amount is enough to sustain a man and his family for the rest of their lives without the worry of working. And finally, If she guesses correctly concerning a high ranking member of the association keeping Derik's magical class test a secret, then it will be unwise for her to annoy such a member by harassing this archer. Suddenly Derik shifted his attention from Kira and Gin to the guardian knight and assassin who stood about thirty meters away. His cold and hostile gaze pierced so deep into their souls that they shuddered involuntarily, even now they wondered if the boy heard their conversation. They moved around the room in hopes of shaking off Derik's gaze but it remained fixed on them, this made them feel like there were in the room all alone with Derik. Suddenly the temperature of the room dropped and faint black aura escaped Derik's body, he got on his feet and casually walked towards the guardian knight and assassin who in turn instinctively took a few steps back. This is the first time they have ever felt such evil aura, at this point they refused to believe that this young archer was a recruit, his aura is no way inferior that of high ranking bronze level adventurers.

"What is this kid?" The assassin famed for being logical and fearless shuddered in fear and quickly unsheathed his weapons, with his hands all sweaty, he couldn't get a firm grip on his weapon and the dagger in his hands fell off, drawing the attention of the others in the room. The guardian knight remained firm and reduced to back off, her pride was on the line here. Even though she looked calm, beads of sweat rolling down her forehead were visible and her right hand rested on the hilt of her sheathed blade

"Is there a problem?" Derik spoke first when he arrived. His gaze was cold and it felt as if he was begging the guardian knight to make a mistake.

"Well… traces of dark magic energy were found on the corpses of stone trolls… we were just…"

"Yes… I'm responsible… now I ask again… is there a problem?" Derik interrupted the guardian knight. His tone was stern, this time it sounded like a warning

"No… there is none for now…" The guardian knight quickly answered

"Ok..." Derik muttered and thought for a while "After each mission we're entitled to two weeks vacation… am I correct?" Derik asked

"Yes…" The guardian knight answered

"Then when can I leave?" He asked, "Can I return with you guys?"

"Is it that urgent?" she asked

"Yes… it has to do with the Lockwood family… I won't ask if it wasn't that urgent" Derik said with a serious look on his face. The guardian knight sighed and nodded in agreement after thinking about it for a while

"we leave in an hour… be ready" She said

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… Archery Class room…

Packing didn't take much time, the only things he needed were a few clothes and his grimoire. He shoved his hand into his pocket and pulled out the talisman and looked at it for a second and then shoved it back into his pocket.

Thud!

Thud!

Thud!

His gaze shifted to the only door in the room the moment he heard footsteps and he waited for them to arrive. Just a few seconds later Kira and Gin appeared, they both wore confused expression on their faces.

"Derik… what are you doing?" Kira asked

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"Nothing much… I just have some important business to take care of with the Lockwood family" Derik responded

"I hope its nothing illegal" Gin joked. Derik smiled in response and chatted for a while with both of them. After which he left the room and joined the team from the adventurers association

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… Lockwood Castle …

The carriage bearing the adventurers association banner finally stopped in front of the gate. He quickly alighted from the carriage and walked towards to castle. The main reason Derik left so early was solely due to the salvor issue, in the past, he has been afraid to help the Lockwood family with their vampire issues but now everything is different. With this new power of his, taking down a few bloodsuckers shouldn't be a problem… At least that's what he thinks….