3 Chapter 3: An encounter

Before morning came, I got up and went to the campfire, it seemed that nobody else was awake so I decided to test how strong I actually am. Thinking so, I picked up a nearby rock the size of my fist and tried to break it, it easily turned into dust between my hands, I didn't even feel any resistance. Now that I confirmed my physical strength, it's time to try out some magic. And so I casted the first magic to come to mind:

[Light]

When I chanted so, a small flash of light appeared on my hands and the surroundings grew brighter. I'm surprised it was this easy to cast magic even though it was my first time. Thus this confirms that I can probably use all the magic it stated in my status, but just to confirm I casted some other magic in the other attributes to test if I can really use them.

[Mizuki?]

While I was trying out some of my other magic, I heard a man's voice from one of the tents behind me. I looked back to see who it was and I saw Jack looking at me with surprise and tired eyes.

[Good morning Jack.]

[...Yeah, Good morning.]

[What's wrong?]

[No, it's just that I didn't expect you to be the first to wake up.]

[Maybe it's because of my race?]

[Oh yeah, I forgot you were a mix of vampire and dragon.]

[It's ok.]

I already hid my vampiric traits as Grey had suggested last night, so I look like a silver haired little girl with dragon wings and tail in a blood-red dress, I also changed my eye color to light blue like my dragon wings and tail. Jack started preparing breakfast and once again talked to me.

[So? What will be your plan once we get to town?]

[I'm not sure.]

[How old are you anyway?]

[It said 15 in my status, so I guess I'm 15?]

[That's perfect then.]

[Perfect?]

[Joining the guild only has a requirement of having the minimum age of 15, which is the age where you become an adult, and paying 20 bronze.]

[Bronze?]

[Oh. It's the currency of the continent. The smallest coin is 1 bronze coin, 100 bronze coins is 1 silver coin, 100 silver coins is 1 gold coin, and 100 gold coins is 1 platinum coin. A platinum coin is pretty expensive so you don't often see them in the open and usually stays at the royal families hands.]

[Ohh, I see. But I don't have any money?]

[Don't worry, If you wanna join the guild, then you can just ask us. I'm sure we'll be able to spare some coins for your registration and your livelihood as well.]

[Thank you. I'll be sure to ask.]

When we finished talking, Jack finished cooking and the others have woken up as well. We all quickly finish eating and start packing up the camping materials. I didn't want to just sit around idly, so I helped them pack up.

Once we've finished packing up, Grey once again talked to me.

[So Mizuki, What will be your plan after this?]

[I think I'll join the guild.]

[Really?]

[Yeah, it's not like I have anything I wanna do, I guess I just wanna travel around?]

[That's fine then, We might need your help in some cases as well with your type of status.]

We continued talking about other things while we headed towards the direction of what they said was the town nearest here. We had went the way from where they came and when I passed through a thin film, they said it was some sort of barrier, it suddenly broke down. They were also surprised but they had expected that it was there because of me and maybe because I left it, it was no longer needed so we just kept going.

They said that because this forest is really big, it'll take us at least 2 days to get to town. In the forest it's probably hard to camp out but it seems the Mercenaries in Rudimiria are used to it, since they have lots of forests and mountains, especially those in the high ranks like Silver wolves.

We were walking for awhile, when I suddenly started to smell some blood in front of us, so I warned the Silver wolves.

Mizuki [I smell blood in front of us.]

Max [Blood? How'd you smell it from here?]

Max had a manly voice and looked to be around 30 years old and he is also the front of our formation.

Mizuki [I think it's because of my heightened senses or my vampire blood, but I can smell some blood in front of us.]

Grey [Do you think you can tell how many there are over there?]

Mizuki [The blood is just recent but I can hear shouts and growls.]

Grey [So somebody is fighting a monster over there? Why would they be this deep in the forest though?]

Jack [Want to just ignore them and head back? Or do you want to see what's happening over there?]

Grey [Let's go see what's happening stealthily, If we don't have to fight, then we can just ignore them and head back to town. We are escorting someone after all.]

Mizuki [Me? But I have a high status?]

Grey [Even with that type of status, You're still a little kid.]

It appears that even with my status being higher than them and being 15 years old, I'm still being treated as a kid.

We headed towards the smell of blood and sound of fighting until we can see them. What we saw was a Slaughter bear, And 5 people with 1 of them on the ground, all bloodied up.

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