Knights P.O.V:-

That old man is really something. Huh.

Even though he is so old, but the aura he unleashes even while simply talking, made me cover.

Man, I can still feel something thick and round shaped covering me from head to toe, making my whole body numb with just a touch. It is still making it difficult for me to breathe.

Who would have thought that our guild master was not simply here because of his life experience, but because of his never-ending vitality!

He really is a monster, through and through.

If someday he got angry at me or something, then I don't think I'll even be able to do anything to him. My power is not enough to even touch his shadow.

His power, his ideas, his knowledge…

*Sigh*

If only I had the strength to not bend and choke right in front of him and had left some kind of an impression on him, then I might have had some chance to ask him to become my master, but now *Shee*

Well, Past is already behind me and now, I need to think about the future. Though my first meeting with him didn’t really go the way that I wanted it to, but I’ll get more chances in the future. I’ll use everything I have to prove, how worthy I am to be taught by him.

What happened to my cool guy attitude? Well, tell me, who said I am a calm and composed person?

It's not that I was acting undertone, but he gave me no leeway at all. He left me no room to bargain, no room to act, and kept on attacking me without stopping. The only thing that I could do, while standing in front of him, was to answer all of his questions like a child.

*Grinds teeth*

I need to achieve much-much more, to show my worth to him.

*Sigh!*

Well, it’s something to be done in the future. For now, let’s talk about my team.

This team…it’s not good at all.

Why do I think so? It’s easy, let me introduce everyone.

Firstly, there is our fire mage. It's a she, a species relatively different from normal humans, but still, looks the same. Well, who am I joking with; she is a human with a very high attitude towards fire affinity. Though she is just a human, but its best not to take her lightly, she is more like a creature devoid of any and almost all emotions. In most parts of the world, she also knows with a much darker and sinister name...'FLUFFY'.

Coming onto her looks, her face is very dreadful.

Her cheeks are covered in blood, her eyes are very deep, but inside they only contain a circle of blue and ghostly white stuff covering it. Her hairs so dark and long that even the branches of a thousand-year-old tree look nothing in front of them. Her voice is so crispy and sharp that even birds start gossiping about it with their chirps, and a height that is even taller than the shortest woman in the world.

Her figure is the most dreadful thing about her. It’s like a snake, curvy to the extreme. My whole body shudders, just thinking about it.

She is so poor that she could not even buy full clothes, and had to cover her meat and important parts with bundles of self-woven sparkling rags, which she must have found somewhere at the corner of some road. Even those rags look quite tight on her body, making her breast full and leaving her legs and belly uncovered.

*Sigh* life must have been hard on her, to make her look so undernourished and ghostly. (A princess)

Next one is even more ruthless, she is an earth mage. She is someone who shouldn't be present here at all, but here she is. A hunter famed for her bloody and notorious past. Once she killed an entire colony of black venomous rats. Though there was no job posted for rat extermination, but she acted deliberately and without mercy destroyed their entire colony. From what the guild reported, to calm her blood lust, she had killed nineteen hundred thousand of them without flinching. When she was asked about the reason for such cruel and ruthless behavior, her answer left everyone dumbfounded. She said, “I did what I had to do.” From guilds investigation of the crime scene, they found that all of the tunnels that rats used to move around in were first destroyed and when they had no way to run away she killed them all. All of them were spanked to death by her.

No one knows her real name, but she is unofficially called ‘Stermon’.

The assassin is the only one who seems like a nice person. He is very down to earth and shy, other than saying some words, he doesn’t talk much.

He keeps his self-covered from head to toe. Now some people might think he has done so to keep his identity covered, but I know the real reason. Well, it’s simple; he is a shy person with a bit of speech problem.

But these entities of darkness still didn't leave him alone. They torture and make fun of him because of his lacking ability. Whenever he talks someone interprets it according to their desire and objectively spurts nonsense to destroy his image.

But no matter how much they try to make his character seem bad, their magic will never work on me.

All these villains are nothing, the one I am going to talk about now is the really deal. He is the king of villains. From the job, he is a swordsman, but from work, he is the devil. He is no normal swordsman; he is the bringer of dawn, the killer of millions, one and only son of the devil. Well, for the sake of explaining his personality at least.

His Nickname? He doesn't have a Nickname, but a title and the title tells how grave a sin he must have committed to getting it.

His title is 'the virgin killer.'

Yes, you heard right, ‘the virgin killer’. Who knows how many fresh and young flowers were plucked from the roots by him? Who knows how many beauties he has killed, and how many families he has destroyed?

Though his face is average, a bit masculine with strong jaw line, smooth skin and with no visible wrinkles or the like; he looks like a common man. Even if his attire and composure is not normal and a bit gaudy, but his smile and squinted eyes give away his intentions very easily. His visage is much crueler than a boar or a pig. His shiny red hair feels like they are ready to burn the whole world.

He is ‘The apocalypse’ itself walking in human skin. An Owl bringing news of destruction and waiting for the right time to rain it's terror on us humans. His name I don’t know its meaning, for me it is nothing more than a coalition of alphabets designed to give meaning to meaningless jumble, but people call him ‘ THEH - ERO’.

What this word signifies? I don’t know, but I think that they have the power to hypnotize common people.

*sigh!*

But no matter how cruel or vicious they sound it doesn't matter, cause I don't care. No matter how powerful or extravagant skills they possess, it had nothing to do with me, so I never cared; until now that is.

What is really going to happen, now that we are together in a team is something that only time can tell. If they don’t show their cruel nature to me and also don’t try to give me any kind of pain, then it’ll be okay, but otherwise… I can only run.

There is no way in hell that I can face such monsters, moreover alone. Going against them will only lead to tragedy for me, and nothing more.

But now that I am the leader of this expedition team, I think I should at least introduce myself to them. I still don’t understand how they let me become the leader? Maybe they don’t want to get recognized or something, but it’ll be news to them if they knew that I already know who they are.

So let’s do this.

*Gulp*

*Ahem*

“Pleased to meet you all, I am ‘D’sue’ and I am a ‘White knight’. I usually work alone, but it's my utmost pleasure that I am getting an opportunity to work with all of you. I think none of you mind if I become the leader of this team well, for the time being at least.

Now my introductions are over we will talk about more integrating things afterward, but why don’t all of you also introduce yourselves. That way, we’ll at least have an idea of how to arrange our strategy and minding everyone’s skills.”

I’m sweating bullets here please somebody says something. Don’t tell me are they angry or something?

But I only asked them to introduce themselves.

Ah! Idiot, I’m such an idiot! Even though I know what kind of personalities and abilities they have, how could I not understand their mutual feelings to stay as a side character?

I just hope they don’t tr…

“Hello, every one! My name is Martha I am a fire mage, though my rank or level might not be as high as every one of you, but I can assure you all that my control and skills are first class.” She said with a smiling.

“Thank you for telling us about yourself Miss Martha. Well, now anyone else who would like to grace us by introducing themselves.”

“Name - Dust. Affinity – earth, I am a Rank 2, level 89, Mage. I specialize in Earth attack and defense skills. Most of my skills are at master lv-3. So, if you think I can be of any usage to you all then don’t be shy and do tell me. Thank you.”

*Twitch* what kind of an introduction was that though she really is powerful, moreover she seems quite skilled. If what she said is really true then she is a strong comrade to have. Well, I’ll also have to be careful of him, who knows when she might get impulsive and try to poke me with a spike or something.

“Anyone else?”

“Kill- KILL, KILL KILLLL KILL.

KIL LIKK KILL…LLL!

Kill, killll kill lick?”

“Ah! Okay, that will do. So what about you Mr. swordsman?”

“What?”

“HUH?”

Don’t tell me he is goi…

“Don’t tell me! Don't you know who I am? How could it be? I’m famous you know. How could a lowly knight not know who I am? It's already a hassle giving you the position of the leader, but what the hell yo? Do you live in a cave or something? How the actual fuck could you ask me who I am! I am…”

“Sir!! It's not that I don’t know who you are, but I thought that there might be some who don’t. So, I trie…”

“Shuuu!

Don’t talk when I am talking.

I thought you had some balls to not ask me to become the leader, but looks like you are an eunuch too.”

“whaaa!”

“Shut up and listen. I was going to let you play house for this time, but with such an attitude you can’t be the leader of this team. So, I am going to lead now and YOU ALL WILL FOLLOW.

Hey You! You are a Master Archer right?”

“how do you…”

“No need for such useless questions, we are already late. Everyone go on and start your preparations and meet me at the front gate in one hour.

GO! MOVE! WHAT ARE YOU ALL WAITING FOR?

And you; archer, it's your duty to scout ahead with your Eagle eyes. Our objective is very far, so might have to move without any break to get there.”

“But..”

“No buts and also no ifs. Listen to me and my every order. You lot do what I say and I’ll protect you all from any and all danger, otherwise, you’ll be on your own. Let's finish this mission as soon as we can, cause I have people waiting for me. Understood?”

“…….”

“*Twitch* I SAID ‘UNDERSTOOD’?”

“Yes, sir” they all shouted at the same time.

“Then go for now and come back to the front gate in one hour. MOVE, MOVE, MOVE.”

“Yes sir.”

Just like I thought; he Is selfish, unrestrained, control freak and don’t forget, he is also a MASS MURDERER. People don’t just call him the ‘THAT’ for nothing.

*sigh*

And here I thought that I would get to lead a team of my own, but there is nothing that can be done about ‘HIM’. So, let’s just complete the mission and come back after killing him… or not.

Then after we packed all the stuff necessary to travel the distance without any disturbance, we started our long journey to an easy quest, at least I think that it’ll be easy. Well, how difficult can a bunch of ants be, for us?

Even though our leader is a bad character, but there is no one who can say anything about his choices and decisions. They were all perfect.

He made earth mage Dust to create a fortress… yeah, a fortress to sleep during the night, fire mage was given the duty to get the fire burning, I was made the cook and the assassin had to go catch animals to eat.

What did he do?

Nothing he just ordered us around, but on the premises to act as a security guard while we all slept.

The road was unusually long and winding.

Town ‘Ragnarok’ is at one day distance from the Mountain range. Tough I said one day, but one day is for those who use beasts or something like them to travel and not us who had to walk and run to there.

Arrow really is a great archer. All the bandits and monsters that we met on the road were nicely spotted by him and were cleanly and peacefully executed by our assassin. He really is a great guy, though he doesn’t speak much, but he also doesn’t need to be given any order.

He always acted first and killed all and everything that came our way.

There is a road that leads straight to ‘Devils beard’, which is a forest just before the ‘Devil Pass’ mountain range.

The numbers of monsters that we had to face while traveling in the forest were a lot, but all of them were still simply and effectively manhandled by the assassin alone. He is very powerful and trust able. I tried to talk to him, but he always ran away or tried to pick me with his dagger. I think he is just a bit shy.

The forest was really scary. Even I got scared of the pitch black darkness that surrounded everyone at night. Because of big and wide trees, with very dense canopies, almost no light reached the ground after sundown. Our leader wanted to continue moving even during the night, but his intentions were broken by the attack from night wolves.

Night wolves are not very dangerous monsters, individually that is, but the thing is they move in a group. They are pack monsters and their hunting party always contains thirty to fifty wolves at a time. Because of their affinity with the dark element, they can become a pain to fight with during the night.It gets very difficult to spot them in the darkness of this forest because of their jet black hide and non-luminescent eyes. They are like shadows at night.

So we had to come to the decision to stop traveling at night and to camp over the trees.

The night passed without any difficulty because of our tree fortresses and we started our journey again during the day to the ant hill.

We encountered no wolves during the daytime, but were attacked by a group of golden snakes.

A golden snake is a rank 1 monster, not especially high leveled, but their evolved forms are much more dangerous than they are and we were very fortunate enough to not encounter them.

About the snakes, they were killed without mercy, again by our one and only assassin. We arrived at our destination at around 1: 30 pm, but because we were a bit tired from the journey, we decided to rest a bit before opening our treasure chest.

Because we were already resting I decided to create some snake soup from the snakes that our assassin killed.

The soup I made was very delicious. Everyone was looking towards me like I was some kind of a deity.

The leader even advised me to not sell the recipe to any store or inn to keep it authentic.

Everyone laughed a bit before leader stood up…

“So are you all ready?” (Leader)

“Yes” (Everyone)

“Then let’s go.” (Leader)

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Authors note:-

Now, this might be the last chapter of this month, but to everyone who is enduring my work; I’ll be back.

I’ll be back with a bang, and we’ll continue the story with a hardcore fight.

So, until then…Goodbye and don’t forget me.

P.S – Please keep on enduring, cause it hasn’t even started yet.