A white world again, Flame realized that he's in that dream again. On the front of him, there's a path, a grey path. If he wants to end his dream, he doesn't have any choice but to tread carefully. The path on the ground is getting darker and darker as it turns completely black. But the world around him is still white.
A shadow appears as it stares at him from the distance, unable to do anything as he proceeds forward. Another shadow but its red, watching him in the distance. Two more, Green and purple, then three more; blue, yellow and white. White almost blends into the white background. The eyes are present as the body shimmers in the air. They're all watching him. Flame doesn't sense any hostility, but he does sense something in front of him.
As the thing came into the view, the first thing to notice there a black shadow dragon-like creature right in front of him. As it shows a intimidate sinister aura but the dragon struggles. On the floor, there is a gigantic purple magic circle with some sort of seal.
When Flame blinked, a black shadow appears right on his face and smiles. Flame couldn't move at all, as it devours him.
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Flame woke up from a dream. "Again," he thought to himself. Because of his repeated dream, he tries to find an answer but there's no answer to what is going on in his dream. Since there's no answer, he doesn't have any choice but to suffer with it.
Flame looked around, but he wasn't the first one that woke up. Kashi isn't here, but all of his stuff is all there. It means that he went somewhere. Since his senses are sharper, he can slightly feel that Kashi is still nearby. The only option is the rooftop, or near Chip. But that's impossible for the second choice since he left his key in this room.
Upon arriving on the rooftop as he sees Kashi just staring at the view of this city and a Castle right in the middle of it. Kashi was thinking of something and he looked depressed.
Kashi waves his hand after noticing me. "You know, I've been thinking for a long time." His sign is still sluggish as he fingerspells most words. After a decent amount of pause, he continues, and he repeats, "After I've lost my job I've been thinking."
"You got fired?" Flame interrupted, acting like he didn't read his letter.
"No! I mean yeah technically." Kashi pauses again, trying to figure out how to say. "I've decided that I want to travel and to build Chip. So I am joining Guild not as Collector, but as Adventures."
Flame said nothing. But he smiles, knowing he has a goal to do. While Flame's only goal is to kill that man. That's the reason he travels just to look for this man.
"Hey... Since you completed the mission, there's no need to take me back to the old man. What you're going to do now?."
Flame shrugs. "Dunno. Kill some monster, I guess." Well considering the conversation with Lucky, there are no leads for now.
"Then will you be my bodyguard?"
"Only for the right price," Flame suggests, knowing he needed some money so he doesn't have to stay outside in the wild.
"What if I give you a weapon upgrade?"
Flame eyes light up "That's what I'm talking about." He offers a hand for a handshake as Kashi agrees.
"Wanna hit on the guild? As Adventure?" Kashi asked, considering what they going to do next. It'll be nice if we have something to do. Flame agrees if only he can find a lead about Nightmare. My work here is done.
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Do you know what people say in this city? This is the biggest guild in the world. Although there are multiple regions such as the Mage Kingdom have a guild like that, but this is way bigger. It is filled with people bursting in and out of the guild. They never going to take a break from that.
As they struggled to get in. They had to wait in line. Kashi is taller so he can see what's going on. He can tell Flame how close is the desk is. After 10 minutes of waiting, a scream echoes across the room. It was on the front desk.
"What do you mean I need to have a party of four and above!?" One girl shouted.
"sincere apologies," the guild worker trying to calm her down. "Due to the recent commission, people have gone mission if they went alone or two. But if a group of four people and above they come back fine. So we issue that every mission that requires leaving this city will have a party of four until further notice. Apologies for any inconvenience." She tries to explain, knowing she can't bend any rules of this organization.
"Grrrrr" She begins to flare but then stopped by Pink hair girl... Wait Flame met them before? Yeah, the same weird people from yesterday.
"Liana, it is no use, we might have to find someone for this task." Grabbing Liana's arm to stop her rampage from hitting the worker with her umbrella.
"But I don't want to meet smelly men who know nothing. Look at them!" The room eyeing on her, not because of her personality but more to that.
"You never know, you'll find a suitable lady to join your team!" Shannon smiles
Liana calms herself down as she tidies herself. "Fine."
"Great" The guild recipient was a thrill. Then she handed them a paper. "Just sign in and you'll find someone."
Kashi taps onto my shoulder and does a sign that said "Crazy"
After a moment, it is our turn to sign the paper for the mission.
"Great! Just sit in the lobby and we'll find people who have the same quest. Oh- seems like we found one." She handed us a brown paper with an owl symbol. "Please look for a party with this same symbol and come to me. Thank you for your cooperation."
Kashi "So we just need to find people with the same symbol. But there's many people."
Looking around, there are many people. And after the discussion, they decided to split up. This is going to take a while.
After talking to several people, no one matches with this paper.
"Any luck?" Kashi asked, feeling exhausted. Flame shakes his head. "Not you too." In the corner of his eye, He sees two people sitting at the table but nobody can approach them. "One more time and we'll have to talk to the lady at the desk."
Flame looks in the direction where Kashi is looking "Oh no." he said in his mind, feeling disappointed.
Kashi approach two girls. "Do you guys have this?" Showing them a brown card.
"Yes!" Shannon showed him the same card.
"Nooo! Men. Ughh" Liana complained as she showed them a brown card "Hopefully the last person got what we wanted." Then Liana saw Flame. She was astounded as she pointed her finger towards me. "Y-you"
Flame rolled his eyes, knowing there's a troublesome matter in the future.
Kashi was bewildered. "You guys know each other?"