True King's Ecstasy



Even though nobody was in the mood of having food, Daphnia forcefully fed everyone, because even to cry, someone should have enough energy.

"Are we proceeding with our journey, Veli?" Daphnia asked from Velian looking at Kyla, who was still grumpy.

Daphnia couldn't even blame her for that, because who wouldn't be gloomy when their teammate died a useless death?

"Of course we do! The whole reason Amos died is because these vile things keep spreading in this land, we have to put an end to this,"

Ellena nodded her head like she was approving of him. They didn't know anything about these things before, but after witnessing the horrors they can bring, neither Kyla nor the sibling duo wanted to leave these things alone.

"We have to avenge Amos' death, and we have to prevent something like this from happening to someone else,"

Hearing Ellena's words, Daphnia smiled.

She couldn't help but see the development of this girl. It only took one special moment in her life to teach her about responsibility and how cruel the world is.

While they were talking they manage to reach the gate, but things were too hectic as the investigations were still going on.

"We will stay hidden, and once we get our adventure cards, we will leave this kingdom," Entering from the main gate and walking along the road with their eyes or body not showing any suspicious movements, Velian muttered.

Velian and his team stepped into the crowded adventure guild, hoping to quickly grab their beginner cards and start their quest. But as they entered, they were bombarded by the chatter of the guild members and adventurers who were discussing the previous night's attack.

"I heard it was a real monster that attacked the city! It might be the one that is responsible for all the unknown deaths in this kingdom," said one guild member.

"Yeah, I saw it myself! It was huge and ferocious, and few guards kept fighting with it, it was something you can't see every day," exclaimed another with his eyes showing the excitement.

Velian and his team exchanged worried glances, realizing that their actions may have caused this chaos. They quickly pulled up their hoods to conceal their identities and hurried towards the guild reception.

"Excuse me, miss," said Velian, addressing the receptionist. "We need to get our beginner cards as soon as possible."

She looked at them with wary eyes and took the quest log, they completed and carefully checked it. Finding no errors, the receptionist hesitated for a moment before finally relenting and handing over the cards.

"Good work. But be careful. The kingdom is on high alert after what happened. We were asked to let everyone know that,"

Velian nodded in agreement before turning to his team. "Let's go. We've got work to do."

As they walked away from the reception, Kyla looked up at Velian with concern.

"Do you think the kingdom is still searching for us? I don't think they will give up that easily when we killed the threat that kept haunting this kingdom,"

Velian placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "Even if they do, they are no match for me, We can't waste our time anymore, we need to finish things as soon as possible,"

Daphnia and Ellena nodded in agreement, and together they set out to leave the kingdom and complete their goal of reaching Union within a few days.

But before they could do that, suddenly their group got surrounded by the guards that kept looking at them with fear.

"Remove your hoods and reveal your face, right now," One of them shouted.

They wanted to find the people who fought with this giant monster and take them to the commander of the army.

Because all of them felt like they were in huge trouble if they couldn't find anything about these monsters. They were scared that another attack will come if they kept these monsters roam freely within the kingdom.

Velian's group hesitated, unsure of what to do. They had been travelling incognito precisely to avoid this kind of situation, but now it seemed like they had been caught. After a moment of silence, Kyla stepped forward slowly and pulled back her hood, revealing her young face with a wild look, short hair and a determined expression.

"I am no monster," she said firmly. "I will complain about this to the main guild if you keep calling us monsters,"

The guards looked sceptical, but they lowered their weapons slightly. "Prove it," one of them said gruffly.

The woman nodded and gestured to the others to do the same. Slowly, one by one, they all removed their hoods and revealed their faces.

Velian, Daphnia, Ellena and her brother looked at them with a natural look, without knowing any signs of fear or doubt. They let Kyla handle them because she was the most adventurer-looking one out of all of them.

"We have been travelling for weeks to complete our quest, we have no time to do what you want," the woman explained.

Even though they were just adventurers, they had some kind of power against other kingdoms and their army because most of them knew the guild had a lot of powers to control the economy of a country, unless it is something like Velian's kingdom which is an abnormality.

The guards were about to let them leave because they didn't see anything suspicious about them after they removed their hoods, but suddenly they heard the voice of a young man approaching them.

"Now! Now! Kyla, you don't have to be so aggressive, I would also like to know about your new team, so why don't we talk for a minute?" Kyla saw a middle-aged man approaching them and she knew things were about to get annoying.

"I would like to respectfully decline, Commander Jason, I'm no longer under your orders, so excuse us," Kyla said and tried to leave but, Jason suddenly pulled out a drawing which looked exactly like Velian and Daphnia.

"Is that so? But I have many things, I want to talk about, so please follow us without making this anymore harder," Jason said and looked at Velian with a smile, which caused Velian to click his tongue.

"I guess, the lodge owner remembered us," He said and tried to attack the commander, but Daphnia asked him to calm down.

"Let's go and see what they are up to, maybe they have something we can use for our own purpose,"