April 16, Thursday.
The day starts rather normal, almost as if nothing happened yesterday… It’s normal, she has been an adventurer in the past and even currently, these types of stressful and deadly situations are unfortunately common, they happen far too many times. Anyway, just like they planned yesterday, the first thing that Kiana does when she enters the Academy is actually going to the student council room and from there, she will be discussing with Alice, Taniah and even Anya, what happened yesterday. It seems that Anya ended up getting dragged for such since she was also present at that time even though she only got there maybe, around halfway through it I would say. This went for hours or, it’s better to say that, time did its thing and, when we are doing something important, he has the tendency to pass far quicker than what normal would; however, they never ended up finding anything at all. They did their best to find a theory that could support the “summons” but, they were unable to do so, after that, they crafted another theory, one that could explain why and how the monsters were able to get inside of the Academy but once again, saying that someone allowed for such a thing is beyond unbelievable as not only those monsters could be noticed from far away, whoever did this, needed to be at least B+ in terms of strength. In other words, they never reached a believable conclusion for the culprit behind it, making all of them leave this meeting with more questions than before.
April 17, 18 and 19.
We can basically skip these days, they all were just a normal day in Kiana life or in other words, boring days in her life where literally nothing happened. Hey, not every day needs to be packed with action and or drama, it’s normal that there will be slower days just like these three.
April 20, Saturday.
This day was a little more eventful than the previous ones but, still nothing out of this world either. The morning was normal, normal waking up, normal shower, normal breakfast, normal exploding a mountain with a powerful spell, yep everything normal as you can clearly hear from my excellent and top-notch narration. Seriously, I’m getting quite good at this if I say it myself, once again, I should be getting a raise anytime now.
Although I do have to talk to Miranda about it.
In the afternoon she decided to do some quests but unfortunately to the two of us, there were only available for her gather quests and without much of a choice really, she did them. In this case, she did three of them, here’s the report;
The first one was quite the “order”, making her gather 30 herbs, specific ones of course, but by the sheer amount that she had to pick up, I would say that the client was probably a small store. This quest has earned her a whooping 250 coins and the normal 10 points. The second one was more down to earth, just a few herbs for a healing potion, earning her 75 coins and another 10 points. The last one was more of the same but this time it was for medicine rather than a potion but either way, she earned 55 coins and another 10 points. A total of 380 coins and 30 points, increasing her budget to 2135 coins and her adventurer points to 170, a little past halfway for the “big” rank up.
April 21, Sunday.
Today was supposed to be a similar day as yesterday and to some extent it was, however, this time around, she decides to do quests as soon as she could, the idea behind this is for her to rank up as soon as possible, she’s getting rather tired of these boring quests, and I more than understand it, while they are necessary for society, that does not make them fun at all. Today though, it seems the goddess of luck is mad at her as luck does not seem to be on her side as she unfortunately has accepted a rather peculiar quest, one that was supposed to be a simple find quest where the objective is to find a specific target.
She won’t be hunting down criminals for example, in these cases she might look for lost animals, maybe it’s an urgent quest where she might have to find a lost child and so on, these are the types of find quests that she can accept to be accurate. The one that she accepted was in fact the quest “Help me find my cat!”, a supposedly boring generic quest and yet, what unfolded from there was everything but boring.
First the client itself, a rather fat-above the weight-chubby-uh, yeah, like, something like that. Anyway! A rich woman, at around 45 years old I would assume, however her face fat-uh makeup? Yeah that, it makes it hard to judge her age from how she looks, although her body is a different story... This woman asked Kiana for help to find her lost cat, Jornauy. They went everywhere, literally everywhere you can think of, to look for the damn cat. Not only that, the woman wouldn’t shut up at all, just yapping random nonsense while they looked around, in fact, the woman seemed to be enjoying tormenting Kiana!
You damn fat witch!
Yeah, you heard that, or read it! You don’t understand, she was basically “bullying” Kiana, she comments about how she talked, how “village girl” she seemed, how cheap her clothes looked, how childish she looked on then, how petite a fragile she looked, how her soft platinum pink hair looked like a damn unicorn throw up on it! How the hell do you even think of that!? And yet, Kiana kept on dealing with her, ignoring her insults, no retaliation at all...
Amazing, for someone to be this patient is something that I can admire.
Seriously, I would’ve lost my mind, and maybe even her? She’s always commenting about her short temperament but she sure is doing a fantastic job keeping it at bay. Maybe her goal to rank up as soon as possible is making her swallow her pride, keep her temperament in check and just deal with it? Or maybe she was afraid to do something stupid as she has mentioned before. After all, it’s more than possible she would do something like that if she didn’t keep her temperament at bay… Either way, she did a fantastic job and although that woman was making fun of her all day, the reward was actually good. Can you guess how much she got?
Since I said that the reward was good then, it must be somewhat comparable to a gather quest from a store, in other words, around 300 coins.
That’s a good amount but, nope.
Uhm, more than that then… How about 500 coins? That’s in the realm of C rank I would believe.
No and, not there yet, C rank quests give out a little more.
Alright, I quit, just tell me and stop wasting our time on this bit!
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Ahem! Drums please!
More drums because I like them!
Even more drums because I can’t stop this bittttt!
Kiana got 1300 coins and said 10 points of course, increasing her budget to 3455 coins and her adventurer points to 180. It seems she has as much money on her pockets as much fat on her body. There, I said it! Anyway, the rest of the day of our rather tired Kiana went on just like always. Although she does look unwell, did the unnecessary bullying from that fat woman make her feel this way? Hmm, I don’t think so, something else has happened. Either way, she went home at around 19:23 pm, quite late but since the damn quest took that long it’s normal though, however, she did start the quest at around 10 pm, it really did take the entire day.
Also, have I mentioned that she does not look good at all?
I mean, she still looks gorgeous, don’t get that confused or don’t even forget about it however, she somehow seems paler than normal and, with a rather tired look on her mesmerizing golden eyes. Now that I’m looking at her, her soft platinum-pink hair seems to be losing colour? I really can’t explain it however, it seems to have lost “contrast” on it, having a slight grey shade to it. Nothing that a hot shower won’t fix, I guess? I actually don’t believe that but, that’s exactly what she does once she gets home. Maybe she’s cleaning all the perfectly normal insults she got from that fat woman? Once done, dinner is next as she prepares a bowl of instant noodles… That’s it, nothing more nothing else, from someone that claimed to have no clue what they were, she sure bought a few packages a few days ago. After she had finished eating, she went and took care of her oral hygiene and went to bed before 21 pm.
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“It’s so cold...”
Her cold voice echoes throughout the darkness. From where she is, nothing can be seen in the darkness that consumes this place for what seems to be for an eternity. However, the same cannot be said about our lovely Kiana and her pyjamas as for some inexplicable reason, her body is slightly glowing with a bright white colour, just enough to light up her immediate surroundings… Not really, only darkness can be seen in this case but hey, at least we can see Kiana and her beauty although she still has the same “look” as when she went to bed.
“I don’t remember this place being this cold... Is there something wrong with me?”
This place is familiar to her, one that she has been to multiple times before and yet, something is missing, someone in this case. To make this even more confusing to her is the fact that it's extremely cold and this is something that she never felt before to this degree, quite the opposite in fact. Behind the slight coldness from the darkness, there always was a soft warm sensation in it. As she expressed herself, she indeed notices that the cold is close to unbearable, we can easily see her breath even though it’s complete darkness. Not only that, she’s also embracing herself as she tries to warm herself up although, I don’t think she will be able to do so.
“This is weird, the orb is nowhere to be seen and I cannot sense it all. Does this mean that I'm not in my subconscious right now?”
There is a little bit of worry on her face as she lets out her thoughts to the world but unfortunately and as expected, she got no answer for her simple question. I do believe she might be in her subconscious but I more can understand her uncertainty as the orb really is nowhere to be seen however, last time the orb did appear out of nowhere and scared Kiana in the process so, maybe she’s doing the same thing? Anyway, since there’s not much to do and since she’s quite cold, she decides to get moving, either to find something or at the very least, warm herself with a walk.
Step!
Her barefoot gently steps on the cold darkness, one that feels like stone tile from how hard and cold it feels to her tender feet. Even though she’s surrounded by this immense and deep darkness, she’s still able to casually walk around, easily telling her and me that, there is indeed a floor beneath her just as I described however, this was not something that she noticed the previous times since she stood basically in the same place while conversing with the orb.
Step!
Her footsteps somehow are echoing inside of the darkness. The sound has a characteristic sound to it, one that is only possible since her feet are well, naked, as they gently step on what seems to be stone tiles.
Step!
However, this stone floor seems a little too smooth for it to be made of normal stone, maybe it’s polished stone? Hmm, from how cold it feels to her slender feet, I would say that it seems to be more of marble tiles rather than stone tiles. Either way, after walking for what seems to be for a few minutes, she has still to see anything at all, just darkness, after darkness and to make it even worse, the temperature seems to be dropping slightly as she keeps on moving forward.
“Huff! Huff!”
Said few minutes ago her breath was visible and while that still is the case, it’s much more noticeable not only that, it even stays visible for brief seconds before disappearing completely. This cold really is unbearable and for someone that has “soft” pyjamas on her, it’s even more noticeable and harsh. Her pyjamas are ones specific for the current time, for the spring, they are not cold but not hot either, while she has a simple dress that leaves most of her limbs uncovered, the fabric of it is for the hot side, the perfect attire for spring.
“This is way too cold... I’m freezing here! Maybe I should warm myself with a Pyro spell? Yeah, that seems like a good idea.”
If it’s too cold, just warm yourself up by either putting on more clothes or of course, by creating or finding a source of heat. Not a bad idea at all however, will it work? This is not the real world, as far I’m concerned, her very own Pyro spell might as well not do anything at all. Well, standing here thinking about it won’t accomplish anything so, with all of her might she extends her arm forward as much as she can, since she’s that cold, she can only extend the arm forward a little bit. She then faces the palm of her hand upwards and from it, a red magic circle appears, one that has close to 25 centimetres of diameter.
“Fireball.”
A simple Pyro spell, one where the caster creates a ball made of fire just like the name of the spell. It was supposed to be something this simple, especially for someone of her calibre and yet, the moment she said this simple word-
“Gasp!”
Bed noises!
Without any warning at all, she abruptly wakes up, getting up at the same time.
What just happened? Where am I?
Wait, is this my room? How did this happen...
Was I dreaming?
Question after question after question, they fill her confused head and to make it even worse, this is not the only thing that is happening to her.
“Huff... Huff...”
She’s breathing heavily and slowly. She’s also sweating profusely too, the first thing that crosses her mind is to put her hand on her forehead, her wet and hot forehead. Yep, not to anyone's surprise, she seems to have a fever although it might be a slight one. Her curvy back is completely wet and the same can be said about the sheets underneath it and of course, her pyjamas. Sweat descends down her slender but well-defined arms, sweat caresses her thighs as it drops down to the bed and the same can be said about her not so pale cheeks, ones that have a shade of red to them however, just as I commented a little bit ago, she’s even paler than normal somehow. And yet, even though she’s sweating profusely, she still brings both of her hands to her sides, embracing herself with them, showing off that she's cold.
“Ah, was I having that weird dream because of a fever? Was I freezing in there because I’m actually feeling cold?”
That seems the most sensitive explanation, your mind has the tendency to do odd things when you are sick, not only that, sometimes it also can create some rather bizarre illusions. So yeah, what she said is not that improbable at all.
“I’m so wet, I probably should take a shower and change my clothes... While at it, I should also take some medicine before this gets worse.”
A good plan, nothing that I can say about that and since it’s not that late per say, 23:12 pm to be precise, she can afford to take her time while she does this. After all, tomorrow she will need to wake up earlier so that she can attend classes at the Academy. This might be the best course of action for now.
