Chapter 107 - Experimental

"Hmm? What is it now?"

"I-I haven't said anything but why do you look at me like that?"

"Well, you make that face when you're asking for help, even a dumb person can tell it by reading your expression right now. So?"

When the two returned home after the school ends, Sheila silently sneaked a peek at Ria who was studying the materials seated near the bed. Even though Ria tried her best not to mind the stare and focused on studying in preparation for the final exam which was three months away, but the continuous silently staring from Sheila started to get in the way of her focus. Heaved a helpless sigh, Ria put the pencil aside before turning her back with the chair and asked the girl who immediately looked away when she turned. 

Sheila had wanted to call her out to talk about the quest after taking a quick bath, but when she comeback and saw Ria focusing on her studies, the word she was about to say was stuck in her mouth and, in the end, she ended up sitting on the bed with her eyes locked onto Ria. It was only when she was called out that she response back, albeit awkwardly. While scratching her head, Sheila slowly explained the details regarding her new quest. Ria just nodded her head in response to everything she said and after Sheila had finished her explanation, Ria just stood there with an expression of deep in thought. 

"Let me see, you want to use my brain to help you, is that it?"

"Yes, that's right! I knew I could depend on you, Ria!"

When Sheila enthusiastically response back, Ria heaved another helpless sigh. yet another happiness has gone away as simply as that. Lately, didn't she sigh a lot whenever it comes to the problem regarding Sheila? If this continues on, there might not be any more happiness left in her. Joking aside, this is quite a problem. Why did the system want Sheila to investigate something that doesn't have any connection with her? Sheila is by any means are not a detective, how is she going to investigate something without any clue whatsoever? Though it was obvious to think that the quest somehow had a connection to someone in the classroom but yet, wouldn't that be too easy for a quest that rewards handsomely?

Maybe there something here that we missed as Sheila explain previously, something that we didn't know about is happening. Perhaps, something like that Earth Dragon, when Ria reached this thought, she couldn't help but opened her mouth to ask a question.

"Is it possible that the government finally took notice of the existence of Earth Dragon? It would make a lot of sense for the detail to said that the 'world's power' meaning the government, after all, they do have some 'power' in authority."

"Mhm, wait- Isn't that bad then? I didn't have enough strength yet to kill it!"

"That's what you focused on?! Sigh, anyway, Why don't you just check the place first? See if there are people standing guard in the mountain or something. Is this all?"

"Yea, I'll be grinding a bit and if it's not too late, I might give a quick visit there just to check out. ...are you seriously going back to study?"

Looking at Ria who immediately went back to studying after hearing her words, Sheila was speechless. The final exam was still three months away yet, the girl seated in front of her is already preparing for it. But this is exactly who she is, even while Ria was studying, a part of her mind were split, one of them was wondering about the quest while the other half was focused on the material on the table. Sheila is not worried about the exam is simply because she has Photographic Memory, a passive skill that she learned in the past, something that would make any person go bald in envious. Without wasting any more time and also not wanting to disturb Ria, the figure of Sheila suddenly disappeared from the bedroom before reappearing in the Trial Tower.

"Oh right! I do have those in my inventory, let's see, here it is."

Suddenly a large-caliber semi-automatic pistol, Desert Eagle, appeared in her hands. It was one of the guns she had stolen from Rodrick's subordinates, instead of leaving it behind only to be taken away by the police, she would rather take it for herself as a present from them. The police won't know about it anyway and, the reason why she bought it out of the inventory is that she wanted to test something. Closing her eyes, Sheila spread her awareness to the surroundings and when she opened her eyes, she immediately sprints toward the East side of the Forest. 

With her speed, it didn't take her that much time before she came across two hobgoblins bickering with each other for reasons she couldn't understand. If Sheila had not interrupted, the two might have a fistfight to the death. The moment the two hobgoblins noticed a female human running towards them with a strange item in hands, their face turned ugly before rushing ahead, wanting to be the first one to land a hit on her. When they had thought Sheila would continue running straight at them, she suddenly stopped a certain distance away before firing the pistol in her hands toward one of the hobgoblins.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

A three continuously gunshots resounds in the whole forest, but only one of them actually land a hit on the hobgoblin. That's strange, I was pretty sure my aim was precise but I missed two times, huh? But even so... Looking at the hobgoblin groaning in pain while holding onto its bleeding arm, the other hobgoblin looked surprised as it didn't expect such a tiny object to be able to leave such a deep wound to its kin. Seeing the chance when the human stopped firing the dangerous object in her hands, the uninjured hobgoblin madly rushed toward her in an attempt to send her flying by crashing into her, but it missed when Sheila jumped into the shadow, completely dodging the incoming attacks. 

"It's good to know that a hobgoblin around level 15+ still could get hurt from a pistol. Well with that done, time to let the two hobgoblins free from their suffering."

Finishing her word, Sheila suddenly appeared behind the injured hobgoblin and easily beheaded it before throwing a powerful fireball toward the second hobgoblin to distract it as she jumped back into the shadow. When the smoke dispersed, the hobgoblin becomes angry and smash everything around it as it couldn't sense the female human presence anywhere around it. While it was focusing on releasing its anger onto the poor earth, it didn't notice Sheila sneakily appeared behind its back with the sword sweeping toward its neck.