Chapter 145 - 144 Celebration

Marcus was caught off guard by Baron Jasper who had just asked him and the Eternal Queens to stay a bit longer than they wanted in order to attend a celebration.

However, Marcus had no intention of wasting anymore time in the town of Klopot since he wanted to get to the platinum mine as soon as everyone had enough time to rest.

Unfortunately, as Marcus was about to tell the baron that they were going to be unable to attend and had to leave, Jesnay shouted loudly, "Woo, a celebration for us, let's go. Will there be fun games and delicious food?"

Hearing this Marcus looked over to Jesnay who looked incredibly hyped for the coming celebration and was infectiously spreading her attitude to the others.

Marcus seeing things spiral out of control said, "Wait we have a mission to get t- oof."

Marcus while mid-sentence was jumped on by Jesnay who was hugging him around the waist and looking up at him with pouting eyes using her halfling proportions to try and look cute.

"Can we please stay Irene. It is not often that you get to have the hero experience, and anyway if we leave now it will ruin the mood for the whole town."

Looking down at Jesnay who was trying her best to look pitiful, Marcus still wanted to say no but as he cast his gaze towards Bridget, he saw her giving him the why not look.

Begrudgingly, Marcus sighed and said, "Fine we can stay until after the celebration, but I am not a fan of being the center of attention so please try to limit my exposer in the limelight."

Jesnay hearing this shouted out, "Yay! Now we need to find some new clothes to wear to the celebration."

Jesnay detaching herself from Marcus went over to the other members of Eternal Queens and stated planning how they were going to get ready.

Marcus seeing how everyone was getting excited and looked happy, no longer had the heart to try and force everyone to leave before the celebration.

'I guess I am pretty much immortal so what is a few extra days to have a little fun.'

Finally, having given into the idea of staying for the celebration, Marcus joined the jovial conversations that the Eternal Queens and the baron were having.

In a flash three days had passed by and the day of the celebration for Marcus and the Eternal Queens having defeated the ice troll onslaught had arrived.

Waking up and putting on a specially prepared blouse and pants Marcus left his room to meet up with the members of the Eternal Queens.

Walking into the front entry way, Marcus saw the Eternal Queens had assembled each of them wearing new and stylish outfits.

With a happy expression, Jesnay came up to Marcus and said, "Good morning Irene are you ready to have some fun."

Nodding his head Marcus looked down at Jesnay and said, "Yeah it had been a while since I participated in any type of celebration." 'In fact, this will be the first time since coming to this world.'

Marcus with a nostalgic expression looked off out into space as he remembered christmas parties and new year's festivals that seemed to have been far in the past.

However, his reembrace did not last long before the baron and his two knights Xander and Vincent appeared dressed up in their own formal wear.

Jasper looking at the Eternal Queens and Marcus with a gentle smile said, "Thank you all again for staying with us for the festival, I hope that all of you have fun, since without all of you this town may very well have fallen to ruin."

He then personally shock everyone's hand thanking them each one more time before leading the way to the festival venue.

Walking out of Jasper's mansion, Marcus could already see a number of people lined up at the estate's gate waiting for the festivities to start.

Exiting the estate, the crowd parted allowing the baron, Marcus, and the others to pass as they began the short walk to the town square.

Once they arrived, Marcus could see that a small stage had been put together in these three days and the baron led him and the Eternal Queens to a group of seats that had been prepared for them.

Sitting down on the middle of the stage looking out over a crowd of around three thousand people, Marcus was beginning to get a bit nervous.

Luckily the baron soon took center stage and after a brief moment of allowing the mass of people to quiet down began speaking.

"Ladies and gentlemen of the town of Klopot, I am glad to see so many of you here today. Just a few days ago this town was in the middle of a crisis, being attacked by a group of ice trolls that seemed to be unkillable. However, through some form of great fortune the gold ranked adventuring party Eternal Queens and their friend Baronetess Irene Geist came to our town during our time of need. With their great strength they defeated the trolls that besieged our great town, they are truly heroes to all of us."

At this the crowd of people began clapping and cheering, calling out the names of their favorite Eternal Queen.

After giving the people around a minute to cheer, Jasper began his speech again starting off by saying.

"However, while the Eternal Queens and Lady Geist were pivotal in the defeat of the ice trolls it would still not have been possible without my guardian Knights Xander and Vincent as well as all of the brave guards who fought night after night to protect this city.

Another round of cheers then echoed through the town and many of the guards who were enjoying the festival as members of the crowd were patted on their backs and thanked by those around them.

After that Jasper continued to give a riveting speech, capturing the hearts of the people and raising their spirts.

"Now then, my boring opening speech is over, and to start off the festivities we will have a rousing display of magic from the members of Eternal Queens and Lady Geist."

Standing up alongside, Branna and Rekia, Marcus walked to the front of the stage steeling himself for the performance he had promised to be apart of after a decent amount of peer pressuring.

With Marcus and Branna on either side of Rekia, they both raised their hands into the air, and started the same chant.

'You know I have never casted this spell, but in a way, it was important for my journey and had I not seen that day in the park I may not be where I am today.'

While remembering the first time he saw this spell near the beginning of his journey on Mirrion, Marcus finished the chant and shooting out from his hands was the tier one fire magic spell exploding fire shot.

"Boom."

The fireworks like explosion of Marcus' spell lit up the sky and dazzled the crowds, and just a few moments later Branna released her own and the two chained exploding fire shots.

After around a minute of shooting off their fireworks like display, both Marcus and Branna ceased casting as Rekia let loose he own spell casting the tier thee nature magic spell flower storm.

Thousands of flower of all colors flew into he sky giving a beautiful display causing many in the crowd to gasp since they had never seen something so beautiful.

However, as the flowers reached their zenith Marcus and Branna shot out more exploding fire shots causing the flowers to burst into flames before Marcus used his control flames spell to form the burning flowers into the baron's crest.

Many people began cheering at this finale some even breaking out into tears as they stared at this magnificent display.

With their performance completed the baron announced the start of the celebration and the people of the town began going to the multiple attractions that had been set up and prepared.

Being dragged along with Jesnay and Yrsa, Marcus was going around to the various games and other activities that were around.

They first stopped by a man who was giving out fortunes although they were vague and could almost apply to everything.

Next, they went came to a man who was shuffling around cups with a pebble under one of them with people betting a few copper to see if they could guess correctly.

Unfortunately, after Marcus had guessed correctly ten times in a row using his high stats to keep track of the pebble the man politely asked them to leave.

After that hey found a little game where you were given what amounted to a toy crossbow and had to shoot a blunted wooden bolt at a few stacked wooden cups and knock them down.

However, the game was obviously rigged, and it seemed that no one would be able to win the little stuffed toys that had been sewed together, that was until Jesnay came up and used her expert level crossbow proficiency to hit right at the weak point of the stacked cups and topple them all over.

Cheers resound as she took shot after shot, knocking over the cups each time and then giving the stuffed toys out to the surrounding kids.

Nevertheless, they did not want to clean out the poor person manning this game, so after winning about half of the man's toys Jesnay called it a quits, and Marcus' group continued along the with the festivities.