Freedom's Heart

Chapter 7

Hey there, Angelina Lamonia here, and I am now sixteen years old. Unlike most noble ladies, I am running through the woods to chase down a group of orcs. It may seem strange, but this is actually a secret job I have taken without my families knowledge. Well, Noah does now, as he caught me when I teleported back home one day, but I am sure no one else knows about this. When I was twelve, I signed up at the local adventures guild under a false and while wearing a black wig and green coloured contact lenses. No one should recognise me, and I turned down joining other parties just in case something like my wig falling off happens.

This job has plenty of advantages for me. I have been saving up money and learning plenty of valuable skills. I could easily live in the wild now if anything goes wrong. I locked myself in the guild library, studying plants, monsters, and survival skills when I first started, so my knowledge is pretty good when it comes to living in the wild.

The guild is simple in how it runs. Every adventure is given a rank ranging from F-S with F class adventures only gather herbs. In contrast, S class adventures fight monsters capable of whipping out entire countries. Like everyone else, I started off with an F rank, but now I am on the verge of becoming a B rank. If I was to give a reason why I would put it down to my magic which has been getting stronger as I continue to take out powerful monsters.

"You won't get away from me!"

I finally catch up to a trio of orcs trying to flee from me, and I get in front of them with a quick use of my teleportation spell. There were initially seven of them, but the other four are currently dead inside my storage spell. Oh, that storage spell was something I learned when I was ten and is more common in this world than you think. Still, thanks to god boosting my magical power, I have unlimited storage space, unlike most people, anyway back to the orcs.

The orcs skid to a halt in front of me, looking at me with eyes wide with fear. I am sorry, but I have to do this. I hate killing them when they are this scared, but these orcs have been raiding villages. I raise my hand and end things quickly with a lightning spell that takes out all three orcs at once. I quickly put their bodies in storage and teleport myself to a clearing near the town's forest. My teleportation is a rare skill, so I do not want to give away the fact I could use it. I do not waste time at the guild and quickly turn in the orcs and collect the reward money.

In this world, they use gold coins as currency, and with the one thousand gold coins, I have earned today a total of three million coins over the last four years. I have a nice little nest egg stored away for a rainy day. Leaving the guild, I look up and see that the sun is not even close to midday, and I usually would just take another request when I have finished early, but I cannot today. Today I need to return home and get ready for my debut. It sounds like a hassle, but it is not something I can avoid. I quickly store away my money and head back to the clearing to teleport back to my room.

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"Where have you been?" I jump as Noah ambushes me the second I return to my room. "Everyone is looking for you, panicking that you won't be ready in time if you don't start getting ready soon. You promised me you wouldn't sneak out today."

"But orcs are worth a lot of money this time of year," I tell him as I take off the wig and my contacts.

"I don't get you sometimes," Noah shakes his head. "I will give you ten minutes to get changed before I send the maids in."

We bid our goodbyes, and Noah leaves me to change. The rest of my disguise will definitely get me in trouble if my mother catches me wearing it. They are simply pants and a tunic that an average commoner would wear, so I know mother would kill me if she ever found out I was wearing them. It was bad enough when I cut my hair that was once long to shoulder length. At first, I only cut it to hide the fact that a monster called a two-headed deer bit a chunk of my hair off, but I liked it when I saw my reflection in the mirror and kept it.