Chapter 18: Impossible!

After waiting for a while, Bay exited the cave, which caught the attention of Lorthic and the two gossiping girls. Anabel was about to greet her with a friendly smile but her face suddenly went stiff when she saw the person that followed Bay out.

Unconsciously taking a few steps back Anabel immediately turned her head towards Lorthic, when she saw his unperturbed face she felt herself calming down. Something suddenly occurred to her at that moment, 'Just seeing him makes me feel safe?'.

"Hoth!", Iphy yelled with a happy smile as she skipped towards the giant Half-Orc and patted him on the stomach with her hand while speaking. "What ya doing here big guy?", She asked without a hint of concern.

"Iphy stops bothering Hoth", Bay said before turning to Lorthic and said with an authoritative tone." Lord Lorthic, you have been granted entrance please follow me".

After speaking she turned around and headed back into the cave, Hothe following her without a word and Iphy behind them while complainingHoth, "Why won't you talk to me!"

Lorthic glanced at Anabel, who came to his side after she saw Hoth and then followed Bay into the cave.

Walking through the tunnels Lorthic silently followed the trio in front while studying the cave walls and floor. The cave was naturally formed, but the floor had obviously been artificially flattened to make traveling through the tunnels easier. While walking, they passed many caverns filled with stalagmites rising from the ground and stalactites hanging from the ceiling, these caverns in turn had many openings leading to other places. Lorthic could easily conclude that this was no mere cave but many tunnels and caverns interconnected, which could have many entrances and might even go deeper into the earth than one might think.

They eventually came upon a spot where the tunnel widened for a short distance before returning to its original size, here they saw a woman listlessly sitting by a campfire cooking some kind of meat. What stood out to Lorthic about this woman were the cat-like ears that sprouted from her head and the tail that was lazily lying behind her.

"Hi Rei!", Iphy while waving to the woman. Rei just lazily raises her head towards Iphy with half-closed eyes before ignoring her and looking at Lorthic and Annabel, she then turned her head towards Bay and spoke with a slow dull voice, "Who are they?"

"They're guests", Bay replied, Rei nodded her head before turning her attention back to the fire, putting her chin on one of her hands, having the elbow rest on her knee, and giving a big yawn. Bay didn't bother Rei anymore and just motioned the group to follow her. Iphy still wanted to say something but decided to stay silent after seeing the group leaving. Hoth on the other hand left the group and found himself a seat next to the fire taking a small book from his back pocket and started reading.

After walking for a few minutes the group came upon the cavern where Xaszix was being treated. When Lorthic entered the Cave he saw three people looking towards them or more precisely him, One was the Girtablilu that had attack the tribe, the other was a noble-looking man with brown hair and golden eyes, the last person was another Girtablilu, but this one's scorpion body was about fifty percent bigger than the other one and while Xaszix the male Girtablilu had a pure black scorpion body she had a sand brown one, she also had a kind of light green hair while the other's was black.

Xaszix looked somewhat reserved when he looked at Lorthic, the golden-eyed man had a serious expression but what puzzled Lorthic was that the female Girtablilu was that she was currently making an expression as if she was terrified as she looked at him.

<Sytem>

<Name: Xaszix>

<Race: Girtablilu>

<Class: Mage>

<Level: 100>

<Rank: Warrior>

<Tier: Gold>

<Difficulty: Effortless>

...

<Sytem>

<Name: Unknown>

<Race: Half-Celestial>

<Class: Healer>

<Level: 01>

<Rank: Warrior>

<Tier: Bronse>

<Difficulty: Effortless>

...

<Sytem>

<Name: Unknown>

<Race: Girtablilu>

<Class: Sand Stalker>

<Level: 13>

<Rank: Champion>

<Tier: Gold>

<Difficulty: Effortless>

...

'I know I might not be handsome but what's with that face', Lorthic thought when he saw her frightened appearance

Zazi was at her wit's end, when the group entered the cave, she immediately tried to see what they were capable of.

<Sytem>

<Name: Unknown>

<Race: Human>

<Class: Mage>

<Level: 87>

<Rank: Mortal>

<Tier: Gold>

<Difficulty: Effortless>

...

Zazi could immediately conclude that the little girl was no threat, but the problem Akured when she looked towards the spooky-looking guy in a torn robe.

<Sytem>

<Name: ???>

<Race: ???>

<Class: ???>

<Level: ???>

<Rank: ???>

<Tier: ???>

<Difficulty: Impossible>

...

When she saw the stats of her opponent her entire being froze over. This was to date the most terrifying thing she had ever seen, not seeing his stats could still have been understood since there are some ways for people to hide them from prying eyes, but the difficulty that was shown would also have been question-marks, but this person wasn't which meant that it was real, a Difficulty given by the system could not be falsified.

Even when she faced her mistress the difficulty she saw was 'Hard', but this was the first time she had ever seen an 'Impossible' rating. There were only two possibilities, one was that this person was a peak level Champion, which was very frightening. She wanted to stop with one since the second option gave her goosebumps, this person had already surpassed Champion rank and has stepped into the rank of legends and become a Lord!

'No Impossible!', Zazi thought, ' He must only be a peak level Champion, his tier is also probably higher than mine that's why I can't see his status', Zazi tried to console herself. Even so, she knew she would have to be very respectful towards this Champion.

Peak level Champions were rare beings, not as rare as the legendary Lords, but still rare like one in ten thousand Champions rare. Considering that the entire country they were in had only probably around ten to twenty champions, it could be seen how rare peak-level champions were.

...

"This is the guest, Lord Lorthic and his friend Miss, Anabel", Bay introduced the two with a smile, ignorant of the waves that were crashing around in Zazi's heart.