Strena Quester Part One

 The Quest Board 

Strena had just finished writing about all of Bash’s bounty hunts when she was approached by Chashathrophogh. She felt her stomach drop slightly yet she could strangely feel her heat increase as she tried not to look directly at him. Nor did she want to focus upon his handsome features. No, she had to focus on the fact that he would have killed her under any other circumstances and keeping as calm as she could.

“That’s very neat handwriting.” He commented.

“Thank you Master Chashathrophogh.” She said, trying to keep her voice as calm and emotionless as possible.

“Alright! As I can sense that our dear Dark Lord and Dark Lady are somewhere behind us, probably near Animéga, I need all of you to sit down!”

“Why?”

“Who put you in charge?”

“Do you want a punch my dear Prince Captain?”

Cerpheres licked his lips and raised his eyebrow.

“Don’t tease me!”

He rolled his eyes. Bash and Zaryb pulled him down as Leonardo, an artist who they had picked up from Bash’s bounty hunts, sat next to them. He looked at Cerpheres for a moment before looking back at Chashathrophogh.

“Right, we will be crossing the border and I do know a quick way to get there, however all of you will need a Quester’s license. And as this place are filled with tombs and temples to raid, although I do hope we find something that can kill those two for good.”

“But that’s not the only reason you want us to have a Quester’s license, is it?”

“Wolfox, bring Zaryb out now!”

“Oh! But he is always out! It’s boring in there. Seriously, there isn’t anything interesting that I can do! The only interesting thing is to torment -”

“I don’t care!”

“Then no, I will not.”

“Fine!”

He let out a sigh.

“Let’s start by saying that the first Quester was none other than Phorap The Mad.”

“Wait, that’s the guy that made my swords and those things called the Reality Spheres and the Philosopher’s Stone!”

“The same. Now, he spent most of his youth and teens exploring all the temples and tombs of old. He took things from them,which he used in his research into the times before The Black. Which it was said, shortly after all of that, he found a tomb that led him to a time portal that led him to that time period. When he returned, he set out a modist guild for others to do the same as he did. Which is the basic history of the foundation. Apart from the license, which is easy to obtain and introduced by Philostiria and Isrlillia of the Third Age Of Legends, there have been many such changes on record. Did you get all that down Strena?”

“Yes, sir!”

“Good girl.”

So they all left onwards. Bash and Chashathrophogh took sips of their sun protection potion as they did. Strena looked up as they matched on and noticed that the sun was getting hotter and hotter by the day! She looked back at them, worried that the potions would not work as time wore on. Yet they did not stop until they had arrived in the next town.

“Alright, time for you all to know the rules; rule one, you must respect all of the objects that you seek to retrieve and the history behind each and every one of them. Two, the higher the price, the harder the job, with the highest almost guaranteeing death. Three, always enjoy yourself on each quest!”

Toon they arrived at a turquoise tavern with red painted rims of the door and where the windows were. At the side were purple vines that Strena noticed that the leaves were arranged in a way that looked like musical notes. She quickly played the notes and they walked in.

“Good deductions, Strena.”

“Thank you Master Chashathrophogh.”

He smiled as she could tell both him and Bash were grateful to be out of the sun.

Inside, Strena noticed the same emptiness of the Slayer’s Guild. Yet, there was less oppression in the atmosphere. In fact, she could see that everyone was hearty and there was hardly anyone that was gloomy.

“And I was confused when the old crone told me to speak to the crows, but when I found out that they could talk! Well, I couldn’t help but laugh!” Boasted a man with scarlet skin and a face that could belong to any nation.

The man opposite bellowed out a laugh as she walked up to the board.

Obtain The Pharaoh Collection 

Reward 

100,000 Diamonds

Sounds interesting. She thought as she took it. She walked back and gave it to Chashathrophogh and he looked at it and smiled proudly.

“Good eye! And yes, this is exactly a good choice.”

“Thank you Master Chashathrophogh!”