-Mjolnir POV-

It took a while but I managed to recover enough from a night of sleep. We set off to go to the city as soon as we finished packing our supplies. There wasn’t anything worth mentioning as we traversed the forest to reach back to the city in which the academy was based in. Most of the military higher ups and the A rank were based at the academy so it was naturally our destination.

It wasn’t until we reached the border of the forest where some adventures venture into for their quest did we stumble onto a peculiar sight. There was a huge patch of medicinal herbs used to make medicine in the middle of the forest. Even some of the Iron rank adventures were looking at the patch with some confusion in their eyes. Though common the herbs were known to never grow in large groups, hence the reason why it was left to Iron rank adventurers to help collect it. It was certainly a sight to see iron rank adventures gathered there plucking out the medicinal herbs.

It was simply too bizarre to simply ignore. Was it a natural phenomena or the work of a nature mage. I couldn’t think of a reason such a high ranking mage would bother to make a patch of low grade herbs in the middle of a forest. More importantly our country lacks any powerful nature mages. Most of the more powerful ones belong to the fairy country.

Eventually we left the area since we had a urgent report for the higher ups. Reaching back to the city we walked straight for the academy in the heart of the city avoiding any detours. The citizens naturally made way since the military was well known. As soon as we entered the academy we happen to encounter Clarisse. She was better known by her title Astra. The element she had affinity with was darkness. Her weapon was famous as the most unusual even among the A ranks. She rarely used her weapon true form so even I wasn’t that well aware of its abilities since any she had used it on seemed to have died. The battle location where she used her weapon normally looked as if it had melted in various locations and the daema she kills are normally bones by the time she was done with it. She worked solo so we naturally wouldn’t know what her weapon looks like other than the fact it could melt daema down to their bone.

A ranks titles are based on the weapon in which we acquire upon reaching A rank. The weapon changes forms based on our own capability and mine was a hammer hence my title mjolnir. The weapon we acquire are custom made to suite us and uses a A rank monster core that we have to acquire by ourself. My weapon core came from a thunder lizard monster, Clarisse seemed to obtain hers from some kind of skeleton monster.

Clarisse herself was quite a looker if I do say so myself. She had brown hair at shoulder length. She was very tall for a girl around 170cm and her skin was slightly tan. Well the dragon girl was prettier but beauty will not cloud my judgment. Clarisse was a dangerous entity, anyone with a affinity with darkness tend to be dangerous. After all element affinity normally affects ones personality. A lightning affinity like me tend to be rather overconfident and make quick judgment of situations. Elemental affinity affect mages more than a weapon user type anyways. Most dark mages are wanted criminal after all.

As usual she ignored us and carried on walking past us as if we didn’t exist. She was famous for being cold and ruthless. Its better if I don’t mess around with such a dangerous person. After having reached the academy I dismissed the squad and went directly to the principal office to report my findings.

-Ria POV-

Waking up on a nice comfy bed was truly the best feeling ever. After waking up I would wash up in the bathroom provided. It took trial and error but I finally discovered all the functions a bathroom provided. Much better than cleaning up in a river as I had done as a dragon.

After having finished everything I left the inn to take a better look around the city. With my new cloak on I attracted less attraction. After exploring the city I happened to notice Derek and his group going in the adventurer guild. Just like before I decided to follow them in. It has been awhile and they could probably provide some information I would like to know.

“Excuse me.”

Derek looked at me who was tugging at his sleeve due to the difference in our height.

“Ah, nice to see you again.” He said smiling at me with the same creepy smile the man at the armor shop gave me.

“Hey it’s the cloak girl” The warrior known as chris smiled as he walked towards us.

Removing the hood revealing my face I did a small bow as I greeted him. I thanked him for helping me last time we met. The male and female mage however seemed to be busy as the three of us went to one of the empty table to sit.

“Thank you very much for all you’re help. I had managed to become a iron rank adventurer thanks to the information you provided.”

“Aren’t you a kid why did they allow you to take the test.”

“I’m sorry for failing to mention it before, but I’m actually 15 so I was qualified to take the test. I just looked younger than most people my age.”

“Oh you are just 4 years younger than Derek.”

As I revealed my fake age I made up Derek suddenly seemed happy as if he had heard good news or something. Well putting that aside I think its about time I asked them about the reason I had decided to approach them to begin with.

“Is the man in the military who wields a hammer and uses the lightning element famous by any chance. If so who is he exactly?”

“Oh you must mean mjolnir. We don’t know his real name but yeah he is famous in the military. He is after all one of the few people in this country who could legitimately say he is a A rank after all.” It seems zappy is known as mjolnir.

“Ah thank you for answering my question I will be off then.”

“Ah wait whats you’re name?” Derek seemed flustered as he asked me.

“I’m Ria” I said with a smile on my face to not appear rude, they have after all helped me immensely. Derek started to blush for some reason. Maybe there was a girl he liked behind me or something. Turning around I saw the female mage from their group. Perhaps he liked her or something. Well with my question answered I had no reason to stay. Actually come to think of it I do have one more thing I’m curious about.

"I meant your full name you already told me your name the last time we met."

“Oh i'm sorry i don't have a full name. Also before I leave may I know how many people there are who are as strong as mjolnir.”

“Around 9 or so in the military and we the adventurer association have a grand total of 12 people who are in diamond rank. There are five other people stronger than that though.” Chris replied as Derek seemed somewhat depressed. So little people with that strength. What are the odds of having an encounter with one of them. My luck must have been really bad. At least it wasn’t one of the stronger people.

Thanking them again I left after greeting the female mage. I wouldn’t want to disturb Derek if he had a chance with his crush after all. I don’t particularly understand this so call love and such. All my knowledge on the subject came from eavesdropping other people conversations.

After having left the guild I wondered where I should go to next. Maybe I should just go back and rest since my injuries hadn’t fully recovered yet. Its injuries after injuries with me. I should probably be more careful if I meet one of these A or S rank people.

-Principal POV-

-After receiving mjolnir report-

What a demibeast is the dragon. How… it couldn’t be. I quickly checked the students record from back than. The victim of the dragon having entered the school. The list consisted of only about 30 or so people so it didn’t take long to find the only one with demibeast as her race. After finding the race I quickly went to the records and found the file on the demibeast called sera who was assumed to be dead due to the dragon incident. I quickly showed the picture of her to mjolnir.

“Is this how she looks like.”

“Ah yes she looked like that. She looked a little older but at most only 3 or 4 years older than the picture. Her hair wasn’t blonde its the same silver colour as that streak of silver on her current hair. Also both her eyes are golden she doesn’t have a blue in coloured eye.”

That demibeast was the dragon we were looking for. How is she only 3 or 4 years older it happened over a decade ago. A decade of fruitless searching when we had the information on you right under our very noses.

“MJOLNIR!! Go investigate this man At ONCE!”

“Who is he sir.”

“He is the man who provided the demibeast to our academy all those years back. Find out where he found that girl. A dragon in the guise of a demibeast is unheard of. Place top priority on the mission and make sure no one finds out. Especially the adventurer guild. You are permitted to bring you’re daema along for extra support. Other than you’re daema you are to go alone.”

“Yes sir.”

(Author Note) : Surprise a extra chapter today :D . Not any chapter its chapter 20 a second milestone for me. I'm not sure if its shameless for me to ask but since i have seen some author on this site do it, if its not too much trouble can you leave a rating? so that i know how much you guys are enjoying it. I really didn't want to ask but there aren't many people who are leaving me a rating. It could help me to improve if you guys leave some constructive critism for me. If you don't not want to its fine i'm just glad you guys are still enjoying my story :) . If you guys think i need to write more chapters before you guys will leave a rating feel free to tell me that at the comments of this chapter. Thats pretty much all i wanted to say. Thank You my dear readers who gave me the willpower i needed to go on writing up to this point :D

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