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Chapter 8. A Mage and a Pokémon Trainer go Goblin slaying.

After thinking about it for a minute i decided to agreed to form a party with YunYun, she's a great adventurer and a very skilled magic user plus she's very responsible and reliable, so i know i can trust her to have my back.

I turned to look at YunYun who was fidgeting very hard right now *she must be fighting her instinct to run away very hard and she must be scared that i would say no*.

"Okay, I'll form a party with you YunYun".

YunYun suddenly sagged and began to turn around to leave "y-yeah... i knew you would say no- wait! did you just say yes!".

She turned around very quick when she realized that i had said yes to her, she seemed very surprised, so i nodded to confirm to her that i had agreed "yeah, i said yes".

Her red eyes began to glow, as she fist pumped in victory, the whole thing made me chuckle though i begin to think back what i know about her from the anime, if i remember correctly her eyes were a big part of the reason she couldn't find a party since most people got scared when they saw her red eyes glow like that.

*So her eyes really glow when she's happy or excited, i don't know why people think they're scary, they look very cool glowing like that, though i do wonder if mine glow like that too?..*.

[Yes they do and they look super cool! Serafall said so!.]

*Oh that's right she did tell me that on one of our dates*.

YunYun finished celebrating and turn towards me to speak "s-so should we go and take a quest? well if you want that is...".

I smiled at her causing her to blush "you don't have to be so nervous, we're partners now so feel free to ask me or talk to me about anything okay?".

She seemed relieved that i told her that she can speak her mind while i continued speaking "and i already have an ongoing quest, i have to finish it before i can take a new one but if you want you can come with me, we can split the reward in half, what do you say?".

YunYun vigorously nodded "yes! i want to go on a quest with you! err... yeah I'll go with you on your quest".

I chuckled and pat her head causing her to blush embarrassment "then lets go!".

She nodded and together we walked through town towards the town's gate to make our way towards the mine.

Since i decide to form a party with YunYun i chose to walk towards the mine instead of flying, she did ask me why i didn't fly leading me to ask her how she knew i could fly.

She admitted to having been following me the morning i left to take care of the wolves quest causing me to sweatdropped because i was completely clueless about being followed.

But in anycase i explained to her that i wanted to walk to the mines because it would be a great opportunity to get to know each other better.

She nodded and told me about her village, how weird everyone living there is, about her rival and how she's the next in line to be the village leader but she wasn't interested in that position and instead wanted to travel and make a lot of friends.

Then i told her about how i wanted to become strong so i could always be free, about my swordstyle, my Pokemon and the fact that i was a dragonoid.

Surprisingly she accepted everything i said to her and she didn't judge me about not being human, but i really should've have known better, she really is a good girl.

Soon after i introduced her to all of my Pokemon and she fell in love with them, in her words they were really cute and cool.

Umbreon seemed to take a liking to YunYun and even layed on her lap when we camped to eat and rest for a bit, of course YunYun responded with head scratches and back rubbing.

I could tell Umbreon was really enjoying himself, though the sight made me wonder if YunYun has an affinity to dark type Pokemon and if she does, why?.

Anyways i pushed that a side for now and cooked some food for us while i fed my Pokemon their food.

YunYun became an instant fan of my cooking and even asked for seconds, honestly i didn't think my cooking was that good but both Serafall, my sister and now YunYun seem to really like it, so maybe I'm that good and i just don't see it.

Along the way i let my Pokemon fight alongside YunYun so they could get use to fighting together, to my surprise YunYun was able to easily coordinate with my Pokemon in battle.

This comes to show how talented she really is, its a shame that the anime didn't show this often, she also let me copy her magic spells since she seemed curious how that worked.

She was impressed that i could learn any spell or skill with just a glance even though they're weak at first and i have to grind them for a while before i reach her level, but she was quite excited nonetheless about the fact that i could do this.

I also showed her my Healer skills, she liked Pow Hammer and Photon and we spent some time trying to see if she could replicate my spells, turns out that yes she can, however they didn't appeared in her adventurer's card so she couldn't spent any points on them to make them stronger.

Besides all of that we spent the entire trip which took about three days, getting to know each other better, getting used to fighting and overall it was a fun trip and YunYun seem to very happy.

But after those three day we finally arrived into the mines and as soon as we reached the entrance we immediately felt that something was very worng here.

YunYun and I stood in front of the entrance staring into the darkness, Charizard and Umbreon where with us today "hey YunYun, do you feel that too?".

YunYun nodded "yes... there's a lot of dark mana inside of that mine, it must be filled with monsters".

Suddenly Charizard growled and I turned towards him "no we can't just set the whole thing on fire, there might be gasses in there and we might accidentally blow up the entire mine".

Charizard huff and then growled again "well yes it would look cool and all but we can't destroy the mine, people are still relying on its resources".

Charizard growled once more "yeah i get you buddy, this is definitely going to be a pain on our tails".

Suddenly a giggle caught our attention and Charizard and i turned towards YunYun who was trying to hide her giggleling behind her hand "sorry! it's just very funny how you're having a whole conversation with Mr Charizard like that".

My and Charizard grinned at each other, since in have learned Aura sense i have been able to somewhat understand what my Pokemon are saying of course it looks silly to someone looking from an outside perspective but thats was fine wity me.

But either way Charizard decided to poke YunYun on her side causing her jump and eep, both Charizard and Umbreon grinned YunYun.

YunYun blushed "oh~ don't tease me guys! that's mean!"

I just chuckled while my Pokemon continued to grin at her but then I turned around and looked into the mine "this might take us a few hour YunYun so let's becareful okay?".

YunYun nodded and her red eyes began to glow with determination and so we began to plan how to deal with this.

YunYun and i stay outside of the mine for at least an hour, i had already used Aura sense to scan the entire mine and i was shocked to see how big it is but that wasn't the bad part, no the entire mine was filled with monsters which i tagged so they can show in my Mini map.

So we we're planning how to do this "sigh... i don't think the guild knew just how bad the situation really is or just how many monsters are in this mine, if these monsters decide to march up to Axel chances are that the town will be destroyed...".

YunYun frown but nodded in agreement "yes we can't leave it like this, we don't know when the monsters might attack but can we handle it by ourselves?".

I nodded "I think so but we're going to have be smart about this, we'll sneak in and take down as many as we can stealthily, cut their numbers as fast as we can so aim for instant kills, we'll also have some of my Pokemon who can work great in the darkness and in closed places, that means you'll have to stay behind Charizard, we can't risk your tail flame igniting some gas in there".

Charizard frown but nodded in understanding, i smiled at my first Pokemon and patted his belly "sorry buddy but i promise, in the next quest we take, you'll be the first one i summon and you and i will have some fun!".

Charizard grinned and nodded, YunYun smiled our interaction while Umbreon was just sitting on his hunches and scratching his chin with his hind leg.

[Rean, you should add YunYun into your party so she can use the telepathic chat and Mini Map.]

*Good idea, I'm going to have to explain it to her but i know she won't talk to anyone about my abilities*.

"YunYun, I'm going to do something so don't get surprised and don't worry I'll explain it".

YunYun looked perplexed but nodded, i grinned at her "add YunYun to the Party!".

[Sending party request to individual known as YunYun!.]

YunYun slightly jumped when a notification window opened right in front of her and she stared at it in confusion for a few seconds before turning to look at Rean.

"It's a special ability of mine, this will add you to my party officially and it will give some great perks too, so if you want to, just poke the yes button there".

YunYun eyes widen in shock and she turned to look at the notification, her eyes teared up at the fact that I was trusting her so muchbbut she quickly clicked on the yes.

As soon as she clicked it, she got another notification.

[Welcome to Rean's party! as a member of his party, you now have access to the Mini Map and Telepathic Chat.]

*Pretty neat no? if you take a look to the top right corner of your vision, you should see a Mini Map, there you can see how many enemies were dealing with and my location just in case we get separated*.

YunYun smiled and looked at the Mini Map in excitement "how do i mentality speak with you?".

I grin at her excitement *you just have to think of me and think what you want to say to me, this is a very useful means of communication especially since we'll be starting this quest in stealth*.

YunYun nodded *like this? can you hear me?*.

*That's perfect, we can communicate no matter how far we are as long as were in the party so you don't have to worry about distance*.

YunYun smiled *amazing! what a great ability!*.

I chuckled *it is but do keep it a secret okay? i rather not be pestered about it, I'm not one much for attention*.

YunYun lifted her hands and then curled them into fists *don't worry Rean! I'll keep this a secret with my life!*.

I smiled "thank you YunYun, your the best but let's get going, we can't waste anymore time".

YunYun blushed but nodded, meanwhile i turned towards Charizard "okay you stay here and guard the entrance, anything tries to escape incinerate it!".

Charizard maliciously grinned and gave my a thumbs up, i nodded with my own grin on my face "come! Scizor, Greninja, Sceptile and Lucario!".

The four Pokemon i called out appeared in flashes of white light, as soon as they finished materializing they grinned at me to let me know they're ready for action making chuckle.

Suddenly the Pokemon turned towards YunYun and they'll wave at her, she returned their wave with one of their own, Greninja being a dark type immediately went to stand besides her like Umbreon.

"Well looks like Greninja chose who's he's sticking to, Scizor you go with YunYun too, Sceptile and Lucario you're with me!".

Scizor nodded and went to stand with YunYun while Lucario and Sceptile went to stand with me "okay guys, we're cleaning this mine out, you know the drill watch each other's back, stay together and becareful in the mine, we all know how difficult fighting in an enclosed area is and let's start this with stealth, take as many as you can without being seen and as fast as you can".

The Pokemon and YunYun nodded and i noticed how excited they seem to be about fighting as a party, especially YunYun who's eyes were glowing brightly.

"Alright! this is going to take us a couple of hours but i know we can do it! lets go!".

The Pokemon and YunYun roared in excitement and then we all stepped into the mine ready for anything.

It's been a few hours since my Pokemon, YunYun and i began to clear out the mine, the Mini Map was a great help and it allows us to quickly move about and take as many of the monsters living here as we can.

However the number of Goblins and and other type of small monsters that we have found in the mine has beginning to become a real concern, YunYun told me that this wasn't normal at all and that she was quite perplexed about how this has happened without anyone noticing.

Right now i was using Lurk to sneak up on a group of Goblins, Lucario and Sceptile followed me close behind, then i teleported behind a Goblin and grab him by the sides of his head, with a quick twist i snapped his neck.

My Pokemon took that as the signal to attack and so Lucario used Extreme Speed to get right in front of a couple of Goblins and smashed their heads in with Bone rush meanwhile Sceptile ran up the ceiling and then drop right behind a shocked Goblin which was then swiftly beheaded by a quick Leaf Blade from Sceptile.

I nodded at my Pokemon and checked the Mini Map once i confirmed that that there were no more enemies close by i signaled at my Pokemon to lay low for a minute.

Then i used the telepathic chat to communicate with YunYun, Sometime ago we separated and have been taking down as many enemies as we could *How are you doing YunYun?*.

I didn't take long for my teammate to answer back* were doing good so far, Umbreon's Hypnosis and Confuse Ray are very useful plus Greninja and Scizor are really fast!*.

I chuckled at the cheer excitement in YunYun's voice, she seems to be having a lot of fun and that has made her open up a lot *yeah they do have some very impressive abilities, were close to main chamber and something tells me that we won't like what we find there, I'm going to teleport us to your location and we can continue to the main chamber together from there*.

*okay! we'll wait here for you*.

I cut the telepathic chat and turned towards my Pokemon "okay guys gather around, I'm going to teleport us to YunYun's group".

Both Lucario and Sceptile nodded and approached me, as soon as they got close to me i grinned at them which they return with one of their own "Teleport!".

YunYun was petting Umbreon when we teleport in front of her, she smiled at us the moment she saw us appeared, i then decided to check on them "hey guy's, is anybody hurt?".

Umbreon, Scizor and Greninja shook their heads, YunYun just sighed a bit "just a bit tired and low on mana, the amount of monsters in this mine is insane!".

I nodded and took out two Melange gels and hand them to her, she had alredy seen these healing items and she was throughly impressed by them, sp she pop them i to her mouth and ate them "mmm~ theyre so sweet! i can't believe they're medicine".

I smile at her "i know right? but you're correct about the amount of enemies in here being insane, i already took a look at the main chamber, that place is full of even more enemies, i think stealth is not going to work here anymore".

YunYun took a moment to take a look at the Mini Map and frowned "you're right... luckily there's only one entrance to the main chamber and we already cleaned out the corridors leading there".

I nodded in agreement to her assessment " that still leaves the main problem, the main chamber is fill to the brim with monsters, i only found Goblins in the corridors, i haven't seen a single Troll yet so i bet we're going to find them in there".

YunYun continued to frown but nodded "yeah you're right, we didn't find any Trolls either, sigh... the Trolls are going to be a bit of a problem since they have a healing factor, usually you would have use fire or lightning but like you told Charizard we can't risk accidentally igniting a pocket of gas".

I frowned, the place and the situation make this whole thing extremely difficult "do Trolls have any other weekness?".

YunYun closed her eyes to think for a bit"besides fire and lightning? well light elemental damage or beheading them usually works too but against this many? i can use the spell Light of Saber but at best i can hit at least 20 enemies per cast".

"hmm i have Photon and Hollowed Slash but those are a single target skills... though i do have a weapon which has a high affinity to light".

I could instantly feel Excalibur shake in excitement inside my soul, YunYun tilted her head "oh? a weapon with an affinity to light? those are rare and are usually weapons of divine nature".

I nodded to YunYun, Excalibur is definitely a very rare and divine weapon, when I show it to Serafall a few months back she was shocked about it, both because of its beauty and power, she asked how i had an Excalibur in my position but i had to explained to her that this Excalibur was different from the ones she knew, i told her that it was a divine version of Excalibur that was born from my soul which is technically true.

She belived me but was still intrigued and confused at to why the light leaking out of my Excalibur wasn't hurting her, i smiled at her and told her that this Excalibur was sentient and that it would never hurt anyone i care about, this made Serafall blush deeply red.

I then handed it to her and she immediately grabbed it completely trusting me, she was still surprised when Excalibur didn't just not hurt her but allowed her to hold it, Serafall couldn't help but to cry a little at the proof that i really do care about her.

I smiled towards YunYun "yes in fact my sword's name is Excalibur and it is indeed a divine blade and it's sentient, i just don't tend to use it because i don't want to grow dependent on it, i want to grow strong on my own".

YunYun smiled and nodded at me "i see, that's very admirable Rean!".

I nodded "but in this situation I think it would best to use it plus it seems very excited to come out and play".

YunYun looked a bit confused "but where is it? your speaking as if you were holding it right now".

I chuckled "Excalibur is bound to my soul so its resting in me right now, i can call it to me at anytime so it's always with me".

YunYun awed "that sounds amazing! maybe with Excalibur's help we'll be able to deal with all the monsters fast!".

"Yes that's the plan but let's rest and eat something, before we jump into the main chamber, we've been in here for hours so let's make sure we're ready okay?".

YunYun and my Pokemon nodded, i then began to take out some sandwiches i had made prior to entering the mines and we began to eat in peace while we kept an eye on the Mini Map to make sure we wouldn't get ambushed.

An hour later we had rested and eaten and so we began to prepare for the upcoming battle, i called Excalibur into my hand and YunYun awed "it's so beautiful...".

I nodded in agreement, even in it's Tachi form, Excalibur was a very beautiful blade, i reach out Excalibur to YunYun so she could hold it, she looked surprised that i would allow her to touch my Tachi but i just smiled at her.

She then shakely reached out a hand and grabbed Excalibur by it's hilt, then i let go of it and YunYun was left with it in her hand as she awed at it "wow, it's like just holding gives me this feeling of being able to do anything, it's incredible".

I nodded "it is, Excalibur is a very special blade honestly sometimes i don't feel worthy of it but it seems to be happy to be wielded by me and so I decided to learned how to wield a sword so I could at least be worth it to use it in battle".

Excalibur then glowed and vanished from YunYun's hand and reappeared in mine causing me to chuckle when i felt the emotions coming out if it, telling me she likes me as it's wielder and that i was worthy "thank you Excalibur".

YunYun smiled and Pokemon grinned, soon after were finally ready and began to walk towards the main chamber while i started to tell everyone the plan "okay, as soon as we go in i want everyone to hit the monsters in there with everything you have hard and fast, use your strongest attacks, meanwhile I'll seal the entrance so no monsters escape, then I'll start attacking with all of you, also keep an eye out for the leader in there, I'm not sure what we'll be facing but i know that whatever it is, I'll be very powerful".

YunYun and the Pokemon nodded, a few moments later we reached the main chamber, we all took a look inside to see what we're dealing with, however YunYun's gasp told me that what she saw in there wasn't good.

I turned towards YunYun and I pulled her back "what is it YunYun?".

YunYun narrowed her eyes and then stared directly into my eyes "I think a saw the leader.. it's a Black Goblin, those are a sub species of Hobgoblins and extremely powerful, that one looked like it was wearing armor and a two handed sword... he most be part to the Demonlord's army".

I frowned but nodded in understanding "so that Black Goblin is the one who's been organizing the monsters in here, we definitely can't let them escape or continue with whatever they were preparing for".

YunYun nodded but she seemed a bit nervous, I patted her head "don't worry, I'll handle the Black Goblin while you and the Pokemon take care of the rest".

YunYun blushed but nodded, i nodded back at her and then turned to my Pokémon "use as many buff and debuffs as you can guys, this turned out to be a bigger challenge than what we expected so better be ready for anything okay?".

The Pokemon nodded and then we got ready, i nodded and everyone jumped in at the same time, Sceptile jumped up and then slammed his fist onto the ground and used Frenzy Plant, giant roots shot off the ground and began to crush many of the Goblins and Trolls while Greninja began to ran on top of the roots and used Night Slash while using the roots as foot holds to kill as many monster as he could.

Scizor used Razor Wind while dashing about the monsters, any enemies that got to close to him were immediately torn apart by the sharp wind of his attack, Umbreon was using Swift and Dark Pulse to take out far away enemies before they could rushed them.

YunYun was using Light of Saber while dancing around her targets and taking down multiple monsters with her spell.

As soon as i saw everyone start attacking i used Ancient Power to cover the entrance with rocks, the moment i finished with that i rushed forward and began to kill any enemy in my way to the Black Goblin.

The Black Goblin glared towards me the moment it saw me start to get close, he immediately took his sword and launched itself to me, i stopped his downward slash with Excalibur and then push it off.

I then charged Excalibur with holy light and then swung at the Black Goblin "Hollowed Slash".

But the monster dodged by leaning to the side and then swung his sword towards me unleashing and a dark wave of energy but i jumped over it and then rushed forward, i swung left but the Black Goblin blocked my strike and pushed me off but i twirled around him and then used High Jump Kick right on his back making him grunt.

The Black Goblin then turned around and tried to slash at my while i was on the air but i spread my wings and used Steel wing to block its attack by covering my body with my now steel like wings.

A loud clang echoed throughout the chamber when the Black Goblin's sword struck my wings, however the force behind the strike did sent me flying but as soon as i landed i put away my wings and then point a finger at the Black Goblin "Ice Beam!".

The Black Goblin tried to dodge my attack but it still hit him on the shoulder, instantly freezing its shoulder but then it slammed the hilt of its sword against the ice and shattered it.

But i was already on the move i sheathed Excalibur into my other Tachi's sheath and then got into position "Sixth Form: Arc Slash!".

I drew Excalibur out of the sheath so fast that the Black Goblin didn't notice anything until he was suddenly struck with a fast moving energy wave that shattered its armor and sent him flying.

But it recovered mid air and landed on its feet, i however didn't give him anytime to breath and i teleported behind him and the used Night Slash right on it's back earning me a howl of pain from the Black Goblin.

Then the Black Goblin rolled forward and then used his sword to catapult itself onto his feet he then tried to slash at me but Umbreon used Quick attack and appeared in front of me and used Reflect to stopped it's attack and then Umbreon hit him with a point blank Screech.

The super loud attack forced the Black Goblin to let go of its sword to cover his ears, suddenly Greninja used Shadow Sneak and kicked the distracted Black Goblin away while i grabbed it's two handed sword and immediately put it in my inventory.

YunYun appeared somehow riding Sceptile on his shoulders and threw her Light of saber to the still deaf and downednBlack Goblin stabbing him on the leg causing it to scream in pain while Sceptile continued rushing towards it at high speed and then hit him with X-Scissor destroying it's armor and causing blood to gush out.

Seeing the Black Goblin's defenses open to finish it off i dissappeared in a silent Sonido and appeared right in front of the Black Goblin while holding Excalibur above my head "Third Form: Light Dragon Impact!".

A golden colored eastern dragon made of light materialized wrapped around Excalibur which then i brought down onto the Black Goblin cutting him in half, the dragon made of light then detonated and then engulfed the Black Goblin in a pillar of golden light".

After the attack subsided i could see that there was nothing left of the black Goblin and the fact that i got a notification soon after let me know that the quest was completed.

I took a look around and noticed that the main chamber was now cleared of monsters, it seems that while i was busy with the boss YunYun and my Pokemon were able to defeat them all.

I'm not surprised, there might have been a lot of monsters but they were still just Goblins and Trolls and while the Trolls might have been a problem my Pokemon knew how to take them down easily thanks to YunYun.

I sighed, and stared at Excalibur, it seems to be very content right now and that made me chuckle a bit, i then i turned to look at YunYun, she was a little dusty and dirty but fine nonetheless, the moment she saw me looking at her she gave me a big bright smile which i returned with a grin of my own and the reach out an open palm towards her.

She seemed confused for a second but then realization hit her and she got very excited as she gave me a high five back, after that she seemed to be so content and happy that i couldn't help but to smile.

I took a look at my Pokemon but they were fine, which makes sense since I've been constantly using the O-Powers to help them grow, needless to say that they were above my level.

I smiled "lets get out here and then make camp outside, we deserve a good old dinner and sleep after all of this, we'll leave to head back to Axel Town tomorrow".

YunYun smiled "that sounds great! all of that fighting and the amount of mana i used made me very hungry!".

My Pokemon nodded in agreement while i just smiled at the "then I'll cook something extra tasty tonight".

The Pokemon and YunYun loudly cheered while a teleported everyone outside of the mine where Charizard was waiting on us to come back.

That night i made a big dinner and let all of my Pokemon eat with us, afterwards we washed up with some water i created with magic and heated up so we wouldn't go to sleep dirty, then YunYun spent sometime playing with my Pokemon she seemed to be having a lot of fun with them so I let them have their fun for a few hours.

I smiled, i was really glad that she seemed more happy and confident, all she really needed was some friends after all, i looked up towards the night sky and watched the stars shine brightly as i thought about our return to Axel tomorrow.

By the time we return to Axel town, canon should start and a lot of crazy people and events will begin to show up in town.

But with my Pokemon and YunYun i should be ready for anything, i can't wait to get stronger and see more of this crazy world.

Meanwhile night had fallen in Axel town and in Wiz's shop, the owner Wiz was dancing around her store as she was starting to close up for the day, today was a big day for her.

Somehow she was finally able to sell some of the things in her shop earning her some very needed money, now all she had to do is go to the cemetery to help the lost souls there pass on again, she been doing that for a while after all.

As she closed her shop she couldn't help but to be glad to have met Rean, hopefully he'll come around more often and buy more things, maybe she should ask Luna what she knows about him too, he seems like a good guy so maybe he can help her sell more of her wares.

Either way this was a great day and nothing was going to ruin it for her, so with a skip on her step she left towards the cemetery to do what she always does, help people.