《Tales of Idiots.》6. Emergency
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"The bird is flying."
"Correct Lester," Drake said, he then turns and faces Basil. "Basil, what does this sentence read?"
"The sunset is beautiful to watch." Basil answer.
"Correct," Drake said.
For the past three months, Drake has been teaching Lester and Basil how to read and write. The two had at first been unable to read or write but now the two can read and write with some difficulties with harder words like photosynthesis. The adventurers also had gathered enough coins to take a break from questing and managed to get promoted to the iron rank. They brought better equipments with money and some parts for Lupin to use to upgrade Betty and saved the rest, they right now have 250 bronze coins and 150 silver coins which they stored in a bank.
*Growl* Basil's stomach growled. He rubs his stomach and said, "Brick, can I get a meat stew?"
"Sure." Brick said as he went to the kitchen.
Lester look up on the stairs that lead to the second floor and said, "What the hell is Lupin doing up there? He has been up in his room for a few days now."
"He said that he's upgrading Betty with the parts he brought from the gunsmith," Drake answers his eyes on the TV. "Hey, the news' on."
The news anchor on the screen said, "Breaking news, in the Bronach Kingdom a bombing had happened on the Royal Ceremony for the second prince, the casualties include Duke Hawks, and Count Draft The second prince himself Luke Valentine who was protected from most of the damage with a family heirloom and is now in the Royal Infirmary. The Bronach Kingdom is blaming the Solstice Empire for the bombing. The Solstice Empire had not responded to the accu—"
"HELLO, PEOPLE!" Yell Lupin as he ran down the stairs. Crickets could be heard as everyone in the room stared at Lupin. "What?" Lupin asks. Drake just points at the TV, and Lupin looks at the TV and went, "Oh".
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"—believed that bombing is connected to another bombing incident that happens three months ago on March 23, 2010." The news anchor said. Hearing that Lester looks away, Lupin just whistles while looking at the window, Basil stays silent and Drake just so happens to find his nails very interesting.
"Another bombing huh?" Said Brick said as he set down a meat stew in front of Basil and then crossing his arms together. "Guess you could say that it's a booming day for Bronach. Get it? Booming, bomb, and glooming?" The adventurers just groan.
"Your jokes are terrible." Said Lester scowling.
"Oh come on, they're great!" Brick complained.
"Oh yeah, your jokes are just amazing," Lupin said, his tone filled with sarcasm. Three months had not made him used to Brick's puns.
"See! He gets it!"
Lupin rolled his eyes. "Anyways I have to show you the new and improved BETTY!." Said Lupin. He held Betty for everyone to graze on her beauty. She is now clean, upgraded with parts that Lupin commission from a gunsmith, and now has a working scope, a Recoil Reducer-E2 build into to help reduce recoil, and is just better looking and better functioning than her old self. If you haven't noticed, Lupin had gotten attached to Betty. "Isn't she just beautiful?" Said Lupin admiring Betty. "Now I didn't just upgrade Betty for I have also created Chad!" Lupin held up his right arm showing that it had a gauntlet on it, the gauntlet was 2 times bigger than a normal-sized hand and look like it was heavy. "This bad boy is powered by a magic core located on the back the gauntlet can lift ten times the weight of a cow and give me enchanted strength. It's also enchanted with Blessing of Light Weight which is very light so I can use it without worrying about the weight." Lupin said grinning.
"Ummm, why did you named it Chad?" Basil ask.
"Because it sounds fitting," Lupin said.
The whole room was then filled with laugher. Then all of a sudden an alarm went off, the adventurers pull out their phone and a voice came from it. "All adventurers are to head to the Adventurer's Guild for an emergency had happened and it will be explained when you arrived at the Adventurer's Guild."
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The four adventurers look at themselves. "Guess you should get going." Brick said with a serious face.
"Yeah, let's go to the Adventurer's Guild," Lupin said.
"It better not be fucking goblins," Lester growls. "Those little fuckers keep on chasing me."
"Oh come on, they're so easy to rid of," Basil said.
"You try being chased by a horde of goblins!"
"Hahahahaha!
The adventurers went to the Adventurer's Guild and entering it they saw that the guild was packed with people, the Adventurer's Guild was always filled with people but now all the chairs were taken and the rest of the adventurers were standing around or were sitting on the wooden floor. The four adventurers found a spot to wait, Lupin lay onto the ground and laze around, Basil sat on the floor, Lupin and Lester stand around with Lupin inspecting Betty and Lester just scowling looking around. The guildhall was noisy with adventurers talking among themselves.
"...Heard it was a horde of demons."
"No, it was a group of dozen and dozen of water crabs being spotted near River Mu."
"It was a group of ogres!"
"Ahem!"
Silence filled the room. An old human man stands in front of the crowd. He was buff, had white hair and a beard with a stern look on his face. He scans the hall and then said, "Welcome adventurers. Now you all know that you were called here due to an emergency and what is the emergency you may ask. Well, the emergency is that there had been a sudden influx of water crabs appearing near River Mu, and cave trolls appearing in threatening farmers and miners. So, as a way to cull the population of trolls and water crabs we're issuing a bounty of 5 gold coins for every trolls and water crabs that had been eliminated, provided with proofs of course." The man let the adventurers register the information. "You may all leave." After that, some of the adventurers left with most adventurers staying behind with parties preparing themselves.
"So who was the old man?" Basil asked.
"That was guild master Leonardo Jet, former gold rank," Drake said.
"Trolls huh?" Lupin said. "What the hell are trolls doing in caves? Weren't they suppose to found in the forest?"
"That was forest troll, the guy said cave troll which likes to be underground and is often spotted where miners mine," Drake answer lazing on the floor putting his finger chin thinking. "I do wonder why there was a sudden influx of trolls and water spiders. Mating seasons for water crab are during the early springs to the late and this is July, summer. Trolls like to alone and will kill you if you step into its territory so there aren't many trolls in the same area."
"Don't know about you but that 5 gold coins bounties like quite inviting," Lester said grinning. "So are we're going after crabs or trolls?"
"Water crabs since they're easier to kill and cave trolls have sharp hearing and are quite dangerous compare to their forest cousins. Parties that specialize in dungeoning have a better time against them." Drake said getting up and stretching his limbs. "Water crabs are weak to blunt attack so we can kill them easily with Lupin's gauntlet.
"Why does it feel like you're the leader? Lupin mutter.
"I'm not. You're the leader since you lead us into battle and I just provide the information." Drake said.
"Don't be yourself slow ya lazy bastard," Lupin said. "Time to kill some crabs ya bastards!"
"How annoying..."
"Crabs is now on the menu!" Basil joked.
"Hahahahha, gold coins here I come!" Lester laughed."
"You got greedy Lester."
"Shut up."
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