“Put me down.”
“No.”
“..Put me down.”
“No.”
Michael was currently suspended in the air via Kevin’s shadow, he could not move for at least a couple more minutes, that is until he enough of his mana.
‘This guy..’ He was speechless, he was being treated like some sort of baggage.
Turning to the side, he saw Elizabeth wearing a massive smirk, it seemed her mood had become better the moment Michael became incapacitated.
‘She really likes seeing me suffer huh..’
“So where exactly are we?” Michael asked as he looked around, they were pretty high up the mountain, just a bit above the clouds.
Kevin noticed him regaining enough mana to break his shadow control and released him, dropping him onto the snowy ground.
“Far.. The driver was in on it so he floored it, too bad that van was military grade, else we would have noticed something was before it was too late.”
Michael sighed and stood up off of the ground, tripping Kevin with a Shield of Light at his feet.
“Far or not, we technically failed our assignment, let’s get back so I am not assumed dead again.”
“Stop it you two, who cares about the assignment anyway” Elizbeth butted in between the both of them before they started fighting.
They grumbled and made their way back to the van, hopeful that it still worked, however, upon arriving they all had blank expressions.
The one most confused was Michael “Why.. Where did it go?”
Trail marks were visible, they appeared to be heading towards the right side, where a steep drop down the mountain awaited.
‘God damn it..’
“So our ride is gone, anyone have any ideas?” He asked turning to the others, however, just like him, they seemed to not know what to do.
That was until Chloe finally spoke up after being silent all this time “I can take us down the mountain with my abilities..”
Everyone immediately turned towards her with widened eyes “You can teleport multiple people!?”
“Yes.. though it consumes almost all of my mana to do so, I can at the very least speed up our journey” She replied in a shy voice.
Due to her being a space mage, her detection skills stretch further than yours, too bad she was half asleep or else you would have noticed that something was wrong earlier.
‘Yeah..’
“That’s great, when can you teleport us down?”
“I can do it now, you guys just need to be closer to me.” Chloe explained and summoned some kind of a spatial barrier that had a radius of a few meters around her.
‘Is that it?’ He walked up into it and felt a strange energy engulf him, the gravity felt distorted as well, some parts of his body were heavy while the others, not so much.
The rest of the party approached her too, getting within range.
And the moment they did, their surroundings suddenly shifted, they all found themselves in an area that barely had any snow, even a bit of grass.
Chloe’s knees buckled and she almost collapsed, however, Michael caught her just in time.
“Thanks..” She stood back up and straightened her back, looking at the sight before them.
‘Damn.. how high up were we?’ Michael looked at the mountain in front of him, he could not even see the top as it was above the clouds.
It seemed pretty steep, he could not imagine how the armored van even managed to get all the way up there.
Even then, the impressive one was Chloe as she managed to take all of them down the mountain, saving a couple hours of travel.
It would have been more annoying than difficult to get down, the terrain was not favorable in the slightest.
Michael looked down where the grassy plains began and saw a city in the distance.
However, from its size, he guessed it was most likely a village instead.
They all walked towards the village together and upon arriving, were stopped by frail looking guards.
“S-Stop!” One of them shouted, clearly startled by the appearance of the 4 people in front of him.
Elizabeth stepped up first as she looked the least disheveled out of the bunch, with Michael practically looking like a hobo now.
“Hello, could you please let us pass? We are lost” She asked with a never before seen kind expression that sent shivers down Michael’s spine.
However, to the guards, she looked like an angel “O-Of course” They immediately stepped aside.
‘Are they naive?’ Michael wondered as they didn’t even check for IDs or anything of the like.
They did check, just not with any ordinary method.
But contrary to his beliefs, they were in fact monitoring the 4 of them with something he could not quite feel.
Michael and the rest passed by them and headed to a building that had a sign with ‘Association’ written on it.
It seemed that was how they were getting these kinds of assignments, he just hadn’t paid much attention to the inner workings before.
However, the others seemed aware of it, that’s all that counted.
‘It does seem familiar..’ He noticed the similarities between the Association and the Adventurer’s Guild as the inside looked eerily similar.
But instead of pieces of paper being stuck to the wall, there was some kind of a holographic interface that displayed all of the requests people had given out.
They were not here to take a request though, instead, they headed straight for what appeared to be some kind of a receptionist, even if they were not dressed as one.
Upon noticing the group approaching they put on a small smile “How could I help you?”
“Send a pickup request to Vivum Academy, they will understand why” Elizabeth said nonchalantly and sat down on one of the comfy seats by the reception.
“Pardon? Uh- Okay..” The receptionist seemed a little confused but listened nonetheless, they had badges indicating that they were indeed from that Academy.
The rest of the party sat down as well, Michael finally getting a bit of rest, his mana had recovered by nearly 20% now.
‘This day was something else..’ He sighed and closed his eyes, however, a sudden scream interrupted his attempt at sleep.
“Please! Is anyone a healer!? My daughter is injured!” A woman ran through the entrance of the association with a young girl in her arms.
She seemed to be bleeding out of her nose and ears, definitely no simple injury.
‘Well, there goes my sleep..’ Michael stood up and walked up to the mother and daughter duo, casting Shield of Nourishment 5 times in total to get her back to full health.
After he comes back, he will finally combine his skills and also figure out how to cast a heal with just his mana alone, he thought it would be more efficient that way.
The mother cried in happiness upon seeing her daughter visibly getting better, thanking Michael from the bottom of her heart.
He simply waved with a smile, going back to his comfortable seat and lying down.
“I guess you can still be a Saint when you want to huh?” Kevin’s voice rang out with a chuckle.
Michael scoffed and sarcastically remarked “You think?”
He did not want to deal with Kevin’s bullshit right now, he was too tired and he just used up another 10% of his mana, making the last hour of progress completely disappear.
At least you did a good deed.
‘I suppose..’
