anwhile, as the golden rays of the early morning sun shone upon the world, a scream of defiance echoed inside the Magna Death Zone, followed by a thud that generated small dust clouds.
"Haah…Haah…" Kiin panted in exhaustion.
On the other hand, Shye was more or less fine.
His stamina as a warrior was naturally higher than that of Kiin, who was an archer.
In front of them was the twitching corpse of a two-ter-tall monstrous creature with the upper body of a human and a spider's lower body.
Its entire upper half writhed in death throes about a ter away from its lower half, which now lay upside down, its eight legs curling inward—rigid as iron bars and nearly as cold as ice.
The Void Arachne was undoubtedly dead.
"Hah…Hahaha! We did it, Crowley! It was hard, but in the end, we won! Hahahaha!" Kiin celebrated, turning his head to look at Shye, who was happy but not as much as he was.
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"Well, it was easy for because you were there. If I had been alone, things would have been much dicier, and I probably wouldn't be as unscathed as I am now." Shye consoled Kiin.
Realizing that his friend at least made an effort to console his slightly insecure heart, Kiin couldn't help but smile.
'Co to think of it, this guy had always been too kind and attentive, no? Well, towards us, his friends, at least.'
"Kiin, help loot this creature's body."
"Oh, right."
After about half an hour, the duo finished harvesting the Void Arachne's essential body parts and the necessary quest items, enabling them to finally begin their return journey to Valenzia City.
Kiin was impressed after witnessing Shye's overwhelming combat power.
Thus, on the way back, he couldn't resist asking many questions about Shye's new abilities, how he managed to increase his attributes in such a short ti, and where he acquired his new skills.
Shye naturally answered him.
With a bunch of bullshit, that is.
There was no way he could reveal the existence of the system to his friends, especially not to Kiin, who was one of the people he suspected of being the agent called Fifteenth Hawkling.
It was around three days later that they arrived at the guild headquarters.
Naturally, since he had been doing it for quite a while, most of his guildmates already knew that he had been taking newcors along on an (S-) ranked quest
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Therefore, every ti he and the newcor he brought with him returned and successfully completed a quest, he would receive bonus points.
After all, it was considered a miracle for newcors to return safely from such a high-ranked quest.
On the other hand, the guildsn couldn't help but regard the newcors with mixed emotions.
While it was impressive that they managed to survive such a dangerous quest, the guildsn viewed them unfavorably, thinking that they were rely using their connections to advance their careers.
It was partially true, though.
Hence, after going on two more quests together…
"Sigh…Hey, Crowley…"
"What? You wanna go your own way?"
"H-Hahaha! Well, you see…"
"Go then. I understand that it would be hard for you guys to be acknowledged by our guildsn without doing stuff yourselves. Moreover, I need to start attempting (S) ranked quests soon."
"Y-You're going to attempt (S) ranked quests, huh? I guess I'm already a bit too far behind…a-anyway, thanks for understanding."
After completing their last quest together as a duo, Shye and Kiin decided to stop embarking on quests together.
Kiin chose to take on an (A) ranked quest for the ti being while waiting for another mber from their Colzen Squad to arrive at the main headquarters.
He would then take on (S-) ranked quests once a reliable ally arrives.
As for Shye, he had to complete the WAA's mandatory quest soon and had to leave the region for a few weeks, possibly even months.
Nutter, the WAA representative who was also his handler, inford him to prepare for an (S) ranked Mana Dungeon, as it would be his mandatory quest for this quadristre.
Apparently, he would be heading inside one along with six others who were also champions of their respective regions.
The WAA aims to achieve three things in this operation:
The first, naturally, was to reduce the number of (S) ranked mana dungeons siphoning trendous amounts of mana from the world.
The Second was to strengthen bonds and camaraderie between regions, while the third was to gauge the true strength of the young Valenzia Champion, Shye Crowley.
Recently, his na was making waves not only in Valenzia but also in other regions.
This was because of the fact that he managed to summon a King-class familiar despite his age.
Another reason was his rapidly growing broadcasting channel, which provided high-ranked adventurers from all regions with valuable insights on how to boost their fa.
Lastly, his incredible strength and skills at such a young age, which allowed him to complete high-ranked quests solo, had finally spread worldwide, making him one of the hottest topics among adventurers from all regions.
This prompted the WAA to finally take notice of the Valenzia Departnt Head Belford's request to engrave a hero's crest on Shye's body and officially appoint him as a hero despite his age.
However, it doesn't an that they would imdiately approve of it.
They had to observe the young man nad Shye Crowley first.
Only then would they determine if he was worthy of a hero's crest and if his body could withstand it.
Thus, Shye was unaware that the mandatory quest he was preparing for was actually a trial, one that would determine if he would receive a crucially significant boost to his overall strength.
He was in dire need of such power-ups.
After all, the stronger he was on the day of the final battle, the higher their chances of winning and restoring order to the world were.
...Parting ways with Kiin and leaving the guild headquarters, Shye returned ho.
'System.'
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