Everyone's Troubles

"Damn. That really hurts." Jay told himself as he tried getting up. When he did, he realized that he was not in front of the Rising Eagle restaurant anymore, but instead, he was in a small cage. he also saw Heda and Nuggets with him.

Just as he was wondering what's up with this mess he was in, an elderly voice interrupted his thoughts.

"Feel better now? Or do you still want to continue sleeping."

Jay thought that the voice was a bit familiar so he tried checking his surroundings. He found out that he was in a mage tower right now.

"Oh sh*t! I did not even use any kind of spells before..." While Jay was thinking of a reason why he was teleported here, he looked at the elderly mage in front of him.

The elderly mage had a pink robe, pink hair, pink hat... Everything he had on him was pink colored.

Sensing the unfriendly gaze of Jay, the mage spoke up again.

"If you are wondering why you are here, you should ask those friends of yours beside you."

Jay's 'bad luck senses' began tingling when he heard the mage and looked at Nuggets and Heda. Seeing that Jay was acting a bit strange, Heda told Jay what actually happened back then, after he got punched in the face.

A few minutes back in time...

"You! How dare you punch my master! You will pay for that." Heda shouted at Fang after she checked on Jay's condition.

She started casting spells to try teaching the three people from Soaring Skies a lesson. But the moment she did, she felt a restrictive force binding her. And due to her being too close to Nuggets and Jay, when she got teleported to the mage tower, Jay and Nuggets also got dragged with her.

Back to the present...

"I see." Jay had some things he wanted to say to Heda but he knew it was not the time since they were still locked up in a cage. So he spoke to the elderly mage in pink.

"Good sir, please forgive my sister for doing such a thing. Please let us go. Me and my friends are still busy with certain things."

Hearing Jay's request, the elderly mage opened up his palm in front of Jay and said, "Bribe me. Normally I cannot let you go until the next day, but if you can give me a good bargain, then I might let you leave early."

Jay sighed since he already saw this coming. He just took out a gold coin since he had more than 800 gold coins on him right now.

The elderly mage became so excited when he saw the gold coin. Not hesitating any further, he teleported Jay and the rest out of his mage tower and sent them back in front of the Rising Eagle restaurant.

...

The moment Jay, Heda, and Nuggets were teleported, Heda immediately tried to apologize for her previous mistake. Jay just told her to be careful next time and told them to follow him to their next destination. As for meeting Fang and the rest from the Soaring Skies guild, Jay decided to avoid them for now since he did not want to cause any more trouble.

After walking around the city for some time, the three arrived in front of Blackiron's Goods, the place where Abyssal Angel and Yale was working at the moment.

"Did I actually pass on my bad luck to everyone in the guild? Whew..." Jay sighed as he saw the shop in front of them. The reason why he thought of this was because Blackiron, the owner of the shop, can be described in one word. Evil.

The reason he is described as such is because Blackiron drives almost all of his workers insane due to the impossible amount of work he is requesting. Just like what happened to Yale and Abyssal Angel.

What's even more worse is that after his so called 'test', he triples the work that he gives.

The only good thing about working for Blackiron was that he gives payments in advance.

"Well, I guess there is no saving them now. Good luck to the both of you." Jay said softly as he bowed his head in front of the shop and left together with Nuggets and Heda.

...

The next place the three of them went was the location of Roasted Boar, Hot Buns, Annie and Abby. These group was the one he asked to buy construction materials for the guild hall.

After another round of walking for some time, they arrived in front of a trading center that probably had around 10 floors based on how it looked on the outside. There, they saw Roasted Boar's group waiting for them.

"Oh, Guild Master, you're finally here." Roasted Boar greeted Jay and the rest.

Jay did not know what kind of trouble they were in so he asked. He then realized one major problem he had caused for everyone buying the supplies. He did not give them any coins to buy the stuff.

"Oh right... I kind of forgot about that. Hehehe..." Jay scratched his head and handed over 300 Gold Coins to Roasted Boar.

"Ha! See that! I told you he forgot. Come on, pay up!" Hot Buns suddenly said this the moment they heard Jay. Not knowing what was happening, Roasted Boar's group actually had a bet whether Jay forgot to give them the coins or if he actually wanted them to earn the coins for themselves.

After one of the clerics, Annie, told Jay what was up with Hot Buns getting excited since he was the only one who put a bet on him that he forgot, he did not know whether he should laugh or cry.

"Well, since that's done, I will see you guys later." Jay told the group as he led Nuggets and Heda away.

...

The trio then went towards the location of Bloody Harvest's group. The group assigned to gather information about various guilds in the city.

When they arrived at the location, Jay and the rest were surprised.

"What happened here? Just what did they do?" Jay almost wanted to curse and shout loudly when he saw the situation.

Bloody Harvest, Boras, and Roselia was currently being encircled by a lot of people. What's even worse was that these people obviously came from a guild. He also saw some spectators on the nearby buildings that were probably people from various guilds too.

Just as Jay thought the situation could not get any worse...

"Guild Master! You're here! Come and help us teach these f**ckers a lesson!" Boras shouted and waved at Jay.

"WHAT THE F**!!!" Jay could not hold it in anymore and cursed loudly that everyone's attention got drawn towards him.