Chapter 52: No more missions?

Sprinting toward the city, Felix remembered the mission that he had accepted from the guild.

"I almost forgot about that....."

He scratched his head and took out the mission scroll to look at the small monster drawn on it. Glancing at the drawing of a small white rabbit with a red horn, he kept it back and eyed his surroundings while moving on.

Sometime later as he reached the vicinity of the city, he finally found a bunch of those rabbits.

Bringing out his sword, it didn't take him much effort to take their lives and hang them all together with a rope he had brought.

He carried the few monsters and rushed to the city as the horizon slowly darkened, with three moons rising out in the sky.

Twenty minutes later, he could finally see the city walls. Jumping out of the bushes, he joined the other travelers on the main path and followed them toward the city gates.

His appearance was a lot different than when he had come out of the gates. Blood was scattered on various parts of his clothes making the other pedestrians twitch in fear.

But some of the people in the crowd raised their brow and nodded having thought that the boy must have gone for hunting monsters.

Felix didn't mind them all and continued walking, entering the gates by showing his ID card.

*****

In the Twilight Chaos Guild building.

Elsa was walking around in the same line repeatedly. Her steps hurried with her face deep in worry.

"Where is that boy Felix? I told him to come back before it gets dark.", her voice was laced with concern.

The sky outside had darkened with three moons reflecting their moonlight.

She glanced at the clock in the reception hall and saw that it was already past eight. If he was just going near the city gates and hunting the small animals, then he would have already arrived by now.

"Should I send a team to search for him or should I go there myself?"

Her eyes looked around the hall as she glanced at the other members who were leisurely sitting on the lounge, but suddenly a voice came through.

"Hey Sis, what's troubling you?"

Roven walked down the stairs along with his teammates and asked Elsa curiously.

She turned to look at him and his two troublesome teammates before saying in worry.

"It's about Felix, he had taken a mission to catch some small animals out of the city but he's not back yet."

Steve who heard that interjected quickly.

"Oh, so it's about Felix. I suppose he's taking his time hunting those monsters.", he said somewhat proudly.

There was a sudden decrease in temperature as Elsa released her pressure directly on him and asked with a cold voice.

"Did you just say monsters?"

The three of them jerked up and backed away a few steps as Steve raised his hands and spoke with a pale face.

"Also, listen. This time I may have let it go, but you won't be able to go out of the city again unless you break through to Rank 1."

Elsa said as she glared at him who could only helplessly nod with a dejected face.

'I won't be able to gather more skill points now...'

Later, she let him go as she had work to do so he could only walk upstairs back to his room dejectedly while thinking about what to do now.

'Should I spend the remaining days meditating and training? But I won't be getting any more experiences before the war which will make me weak.'

He pondered about it and entered his room. Keeping the sword and money in the closet, he took off his clothes and went into the bathroom to take a nice bath and remove all the blood from his body.

After coming out, he felt his hunger rise to the peak as he didn't have lunch today so he hurriedly wore his clothes and went out to the dining hall.

Coming inside, he took a plate full of dinner and searched for a seat when a dark green-haired boy came into his vision who was deliberately dropping his head to look discreet.

Felix walked toward the table and sat nonchalantly, calling out to him.

"Hey Steve, I think we need to extend our training session."

The boy who was trying to hide twitched in surprise at the sudden approach and hurriedly apologized.

"I'm sorry Felix, I didn't mean to say that but it just came out of my mouth when Miss Elsa asked about you.....she must have beaten you right? I'm really sorry"

"Huh? Well, I kind of suspected you would do that but she didn't beat me or anything, just reprimanded me a little."

Steve's mouth opened wide at the preferential treatment, as he remembered how she had beaten the three of his team when they made any trouble. He shook his head and sighed in envy.

"Is this what you get for being handsome? There's no justice in this world at all, we ugly boys can only hope women don't hate us for being who we are."

"In fact, I could get many ladies to fall for me. The trick for that is to....."

The chatterbox seamlessly started his rambling without showing a bit of delay, but Felix wasn't in the mood to listen to his crap so he interrupted.

"Wait Steve, like I said earlier. We should do more training."

He raised his brow and asked.

"Are you worried about the war?", he had guessed it right.

"I mean I've never taken part in it and I don't know anything about it, so I wanted to train and get stronger as much as I could before taking part in it."

Steve nodded hearing the reason for his unease and suddenly his eyes lit up thinking about a way to get stronger quickly.

"I suddenly got a nice idea to grow strong quickly but it'll be a bit dangerous. What do you think?"

Felix frowned at his answer and thought for a second.

'The war takes place in about 18 days and I'll be able to participate only if I reach Rank 1. The usual meditation and training are not proving to be able to do that either, then whatever idea he is saying may be the only way for me to get stronger now.'

With a determined gaze, his serious eyes met with Steve's excited eyes.

"And what's that idea of yours?......"