CHAPTER 2: TURNING IN THE QUEST AND WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED

“Come on guys we’re almost there.” Puvi said as he looked towards their destination.

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Yellow Wood Town was a small sized town with a population of slightly over 13,000 people.

The city was named so not only because of the town being surrounded on three sides by the ‘Yellow Wood Forest’ which was filled with Yellow wood trees but also because the town walls to the houses of the residents were made of yellow wood, which made the whole town look yellow.

At the entrance of Yellow wood town, two slightly robust looking guards wearing light plate armour were standing guard.

“Hey, I heard that would probably be back today.”

The first guards said, turning lazily towards his companion.

“They? Oh, right. I wonder if those kids succeeded. I hope they did not encounter any big trouble.” The second one replied.

“Well you’d usually only find low levelled beast types in the outer parts of the forest so I doubt they had gotten into trouble.” The first guard replied.

The first guard was a middle aged man that had been a guard for over 10 years while the other one was a recently appointed guard. He was in his mid twenties.

“You are probably right.”

With that, the second guard looked turned away and started looking around to observe and abnormalities again.

“Hmm? Speak of the devils, I think I see them… and it looks like they succeeded too.” The guard looked over and smiled faintly as he saw three young men walking in their direction. One of them was even carrying a wolf bigger than himself on his back.

“Hey Uncle Tom, brother Bin, how is duty today, anything interesting happened while we were gone?” The lean young man wearing leather armour and full body tights underneath shouted out.

“Nothing unusual has happened lately, other than you boys appearing of course.” Uncle Tom said. “We shall go to the guild and turn in your quests then. Good luck you two!” Yimso smiled and said to them as they walked into the town.

“Well then.” Both guards nodded at them.

__In the guild hall__

Note: I hope you know what a guild is. It would save me the trouble of explaining it.

The guild hall was circular with a diameter of 100 meters. Of which, over half of the room was filled with tables and chairs, and armed men and women almost taking up all the seats, and a reception table in the middle with 2 young women and a young man seated behind it, talking with the people coming to them to pick or submit their tasks. And there was a big board with tasks put up on it while people would pick a task from them and take it to the receptionists.

These people who complete tasks from the guild and receive rewards were called ‘Adventurers’ in this world. They had also registered themselves as adventurers and taken several quests in the past few weeks.

At this moment, Yimso and his party entered the guild with the wolf they had hunted. It had been slightly over a month after they had found themselves here and they had taken in several quests from the guild.

The latest quest they had chosen was a ‘monster subjugation’ type. It was the type where they needed to hunt a certain monster or group of monsters.

[CURRENT QUEST]

Type- Monster Subjugation

Description- There have been several Elite Rank monsters seen in the outer perimeters of the Yellow woods which are rare to see and has disturbed the balance in the forest. Slay at least two [Elite] Rank monsters to help bring back balance.

Task Reward—

Coins- Depends on the level of monster killed

[Wind Blade] x1 Skill Book

Status: Completed. Go and turn in your quest to receive your reward.

Yimso walked over to a free receptionist and placed the wolf carcass on the table while Titus pulled out a 1 meter rat like monster they had hunted before the wolf out from a sac.

“Hi Miss Tess, we want to turn in our quests.” As he was saying so, Yimso fished out the quest paper and handed it over to her.

“The reward for completing the quests has been totalled to 470 silver coins for the wolf and rat monsters, 280 silver coins for the normal monsters, 20 silvers for the herbs and the skill book for [Wind Blade], Mr. Yimso.” The receptionist with long braided hair smiled as she handed over the reward.

After giving the receptionist a slight nod, they made their way into an inn close to the guild.

The inn had four floors and had a big sign board that had ‘Iron Inn’ written on it. It may sound like a weird name, but there was a reason for it. The owner of the inn had a blacksmith friend who had helped build this inn and most of the inn was built with iron, making it very sturdy.

In exchange, the inn owner had built a shop for his friend to as a part of the inn itself. The adventurers and travellers liked to stop here most of the times and it was the best inn in town.

The three of them booked a storage unit from the inn counter to keep the wolf carcass in and headed to room no. 94 on the fourth floor, which is where the biggest rooms are located.

After entering the room Yimso immediately collapsed on one of the beds and closed his eyes, not even bothering to remove his chainmail armour. Even he was exhausted after carrying the wolf all the way to the inn. Not to mentioned he had even tanked the wolf on his own. His consciousness slowly drifting away, he thought about the first time they had fought a monster.

They had been so nervous, yet strangely excited at that time, as their bodies kept trembling.

Thinking a little farther back, he thought of the time before they found themselves in this unfamiliar world.

Note: Time for a flashback.😊

**Over a month ago**

**In a restaurant on earth**

Four young men were talking and joking and laughing together with a table filled with various foods and drinks between them(No alcohol included by the way). They were in the 1nd and 2rd years of high school.

“Hey I heard three of our seniors got married this year. Damn, time sure does move fast.” A thin young man among them said with a smile. They were talking about their seniors who graduated a few years ago from their school.

“You sound like an old man right now, you know that? But I agree, and I also think it’s too early for them to settle down and start families though, tsk.” Titus said as he clicked his tongue to agree with the thin man.

“Heh, you are just saying that because you haven’t found a girlfriend yet.” Puvi shot out at Titus at this moment.

“Chock, cough, cough… You… .” Titus chocked on his drink upon hearing Puvi say that but couldn’t find the words to refute him so he just looked at him begrudgingly.

“Hahahaha!” Everyone burst out in laughter at this point.

In the midst of their laughter, they didn’t notice the tiny tear in space that had appeared right above them, slowly growing bigger.

Suddenly, they were all sucked into the special tear which spat them out outside this town. The guards said they found the four of them unconscious outside the town without any signs of injuries. They also didn’t look like bad people either, so they had carried them back inside.

**Back at the inn**

“Oi, get up you bastards, time for dinner!”

At around 7 pm, they were woken up by a familiar voice.” The three of them groggily got up and looked towards the thin man that was yelling from the dining room.

“You… cooked?”

Puvi looked at him doubtfully. The corners of his mouth twitched as he looked at man wearing an apron. “Of course I did, why?” The man questioned. “…” Puvi didn’t reply but instead looked towards Yimso who was taking off his armour as he broke out in cold sweat “Uh… nothing, let’s eat.” Puvi said.

At the dinner table, the three of them were inspecting the plate of food in front of them with questioning eyes. It was curry and rice, according to what the man said.

It looked and smelled exactly like normal curry but recalling all the other times he had cooked something, even before coming to this world, they were unsure of whether to eat it.

“Well, looks ‘normal’ enough.” Yimso was the first to speak. He took a spoonful and put it in his mouth and froze. Just then, Puvi and Titus too put a spoonful in their mouth and froze.

WHOOSH

Suddenly, all three of them rushed to different directions. Titus ran to the kitchen sink, Yimso ran to the bathroom and Puvi jumped straight out of the window.

Blerg

Sounds of gagging and puking could be heard.

“Oh come on guys, it can’t be that bad can it?”

The thin man wearing the apron rolled his eyes as he put one spoonful of the ‘food’ in his mouth. “…” He immediately froze too.

WHOOSH

The next moment, he too jumped up from his chair and rushed towards the sink. He pushed aside Titus who had just finished puking and started puking too.

“Dimmit Hikivi, what the heck did you put in it this time?”

Yimso shouted as he came out of the bathroom. “Ugh… it can’t be helped can it? I’m a dark mage and work with poison and curses so ‘maybe’ something got mixed in the food, hehe.” Hikivi said as he smiled bitterly.

“You were asleep so I thought I’d try cooking today.”

They ended up having dinner at the inn’s diner that night.

__After dinner__

After they had their dinner the four of them returned to their room.

They had only rented the room a few days ago after collecting enough money and were staying in a cheaper inn earlier. The bedroom was 10 meters long and 4 meters wide with 4 beds and 4 wardrobes. The bedroom connected to the dining room which was attached to the kitchen, to the living room and had two bathrooms.

They then decided to check their earnings from today. “We got 7 gold coins and 70 silver coins from the quests we turned in today. That’s the most we have ever gotten in a single trip.” Yimso said. He was quite happy with their gains.

“Let’s give the [Wind Blade] to Titus then. It’s faster than the [Fire Ball] spell and he is the only one suited for it among us.”

Yimso then took out two intricately decorated books with ‘Wind Blade’ and ‘Binding chain’ written on them and handed the green one to Titus.

The first one was the reward for completing the quest and the second one was bought from a travelling merchant they encountered in the forest by chance. They had gotten the book for a cheap price n decided to buy it.

“Thanks.”

Titus thanked him and immediately started tracing the edges of the book, observing it carefully. Immediately after, a blue box with ‘Do you want to learn [Wind Blade] skill now?’ appeared in front of him. He ignored it and continued checking the book out.

“And this one is for Hiki.” Yimso handed out the purple book with ‘Binding Chains’ written on it to Hikivi. “Thanks.” He smiled and accepted the book.

After checking the covers of the skill books, they both clicked the ‘Yes’ button that had appeared in front of them and the skill books flickered for a few moments before stopping.

Then they both immediately spoke out at the same time. “Status.”

__End of chapter 2: Turning in the quest and what actually happened__