"You guys should wash off the blood on your bodies" Liralei said as soon as we arrived

"Yeah, we were just about to head to the river we passed by earlier" I replied, I knew that the blood will attract monsters nearby

"Zeno, let me wash your body for you~" Fujo suddenly appeared behind me and placed his arms on my shoulders

"It's fine Fujo, you go ahead I insist" I felt threatened... much much more than the time I faced the Queen

"Too bad~" Fujo quickly took off his pants and dived in the river, it was a good thing I turned away

Fujo enjoyed his bath for 15 minutes before calling out to me, I took off the robe that I wore before taking off my pants. DK was now in full view, but I slowly took off the DK armor. I was now only wearing the tight suit that I always wore before equipping DK, I took it off and saw the pendant that dangled around my neck. The pendant was something that Vicereine gave me before she left, I didn't take it off and headed for the river

I soaked my body for 10 minutes before walking out of the river and re-equipping my equipment, I walked back to the group and continued our mission. We have to stay here for one more day.

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"Reporting, the Bandito Triad has failed their mission and died" A half-man half-reptile reported to a woman that had demonic horns and wings

"Don't worry about it, I gave them that mission with the intent to let them die, those idiots can't even compare with our main force" The woman laughed

"Here's the recording of the battle from the parasitic bug that you've implanted within that two-headed ogre" The reptile-man gave a small orb to the woman

"At least they can entertain me with their deaths, you may now leave" The reptile-man left after he heard the woman's words

"Let's see... were you utterly tortured like I hoped?" the woman sent her mana inside the orb, the orb glowed and showed Zeno

The orb showed everything that happened, from the appearance of the Bandito Triad till the time of their death. The woman replayed it and paused it when it showed Zeno

"This man, I want this man!" she breathed heavily as she stared at the orb

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Everyone was asleep as I played with the fire, Rick and Fujo did first watch while I took second. I kept wondering why would the demons attack and with such weak troops at that, are they testing the adventurer's strength? If so then, there will be a bigger war soon.

'Lilith, play track number 120'

'Request acknowledged, now playing: Pangarap lang kita by Parokya ni Edgar'

I passed the time by listening to music, Dawn soon came so I started making soup for everyone. They woke up to the smell of food so we all had breakfast together, I took a small nap as the others went on their business. Nothing happened the second day so we started heading back home.

We safely returned back to the city but the moment we entered the gates, the adventurers everywhere were injured. We went to city hall and took our reward before heading back to the guild, Lea was pacing back and forth on the entrance

"you guys are back!" she ran towards us, she was really worried

"Yeah, thankfully, we managed to finish the mission without losing any limbs" I laughed

"You should've seen Zeno, he killed the leader of the Bandito Triad all by himself~" Liralei also spoke

"What?" Lea was speechless

"Here's the reward!" Rick took out a small pouch and handed it to Lea

"I can't take this! you should split the reward amongst yourselves" Lea tried to refuse but

"It's fine Lea, we already have the reward from our mission" Fujo persuaded Lea

"Yeah, and this is something we all agreed upon" I also helped

"Thank you!" Lea hid the pouch and entered the Guild

We all followed her and went inside the guild, Marcus greeted us. We all returned his greetings before heading off to our own rooms to rest, we were tired from our journey.

Cynthia and I decided to take another mission so we looked at the mission board

{

Mission: A bandit has escaped from prison and is on the loose, the city guards aren't doing their best to hunt him down so I had no choice but to request for your help

Hunt down the bandit named 'One-eyed Jack'

Reward: 1000 silver coins

Quest Difficulty: D

}

Cynthia and I agreed on this mission and went on our way

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Deep inside a cave in an unknown land, insects moved here and there, they were as large as a 5-year old kid. The insects were carrying bodies of dead monsters, all of them entered this cave

"My Queen, please feast on these monsters that the workers have hunted down" An insect that had the shape of a human but the body of a herculean beetle respectfully kneeled in front of a bug that looked like a larva

"It has been weeks since we have arrived in this strange land, have you gathered information just as I ordered you to?" The larvae asked the beetle

"Yes my queen, apart from us, the other 9 Queen Larvae that the previous Queen nurtured have also crash landed here"

"Mother probably died at the hands of those humans! it's up to us to avenge her! we will begin with this world, then move on to the other!" The Larvae's voice so loud that all of the insects within the cave heard her

"LONG LIVE THE QUEEN!" All of the insects let out a deafening roar

"My queen, there is one more to report"

"Go ahead"

"A human spaceship was detected by one of our bugs before we crash landed here"

"What?! They're a potential threat! Where did they land?!"

"Our ship crash landed here in the south while the human ship we saw headed for north, we don't really know where but we can confirm that there was a human ship that crashed into this land along with us"

"Tch, wretched humans... I will avenge mother just you wait!"