11 Mentality

We arrive to a city built around an island in the middle of a lake, another place famous for its positioning and appearance, inside it were a guild called 'The Iron Throne' a guild not as famous as the enclave or as powerful, they needed help from the enclave "We're from the emerald enclave" Cherry and I say at the same time towards the contractor that sent the paper, "Ah, I see well we recently discovered a dungeon and we need people to fill out the spots to make it an official expedition also because we are at a lack of mages" said the contractor, "Alright then well lead us the way" the contractor nodded and called for everyone participating in the expedition, and after that we sat back down at new caravans in order to get to the area, thankfully it were so much closer than the distance we needed to cross before, our little party turned to three people and thankfully it were a balanced team, two mages: Me and Cherry, and an elite fighter they called 'Aron Claudius' he stood at probably 6'1 feet and has white hair on the bottom while there is black hair on the rest, we walked deeper into the labyrinth and encountered a few troubles, from inside I found centaurs and the likes and from the looks of it they attempted claiming the area for their survival, if there's gonna be an issue it would be the arrow launching towards us but Aron kept on deflecting theses arrows and even felt like he could do better, and that was when we were separated from Aron when a strong rumbling caused the pillars between us to collapse, at that point me and Cherry could hear guards moving in an organized way to chase after us, we wind up getting cornered by the guards "Weapons down! You are under arrest for suspected kidnapping of an official's child!"

Cherry then spoke up to correct the guard "No I was not kidnapped! rather he were protecting me this entire time" the guards then lowered their stances "I see, then I suppose there's no need for violence, because if that's the truth then there should be no reason for resistance to bring you back to you're father's home" Cherry bit her lip as they were cornered, I had to intervene "Can't you guys tell that she doesn't want to return? I mean look at her" the guards laughed it all up "Sorry kid but wrong time to play hero, we're just doing our jobs" that is exactly how this world works, in this blood streaming world where children like us going to jobs like this and the sight for life's value is lost.

"There's no reasoning with you guys" I pull out a ball and threw it below them, the ball explodes and releases a smoke screen, at that point I used a runic spell meant for transportation where me and Cherry teleport directly above where we were. the entire private military participated in the man-hunt for Cherry Heventue, "Its time for us to go Cherry" cherry hesitated on what to do "But the others" I valued Cherry much more than the other strangers so the action was obvious "I'm not letting you go for them, you're much more important" she pauses and remained silent after that, and we go back to our caravan to make our retreat, I drove the horses away from the city a good 10 minutes of horse galloping later a person topples the caravan over, I fall over hitting my head over a rock and falling unconscious, I opened my eyes to see Cherry getting strangled and thrown to the side, the figure looked old and blood thirsty and that was when my mom appeared to battle him alongside Aron Claudius, my mom fell down as well but at the end Aron took the man down, my vision blurs again I find myself unconscious once again.