Magic academy

Chapter 49

Nandini: The keys I have with me presently are Leon, Aquarius, Scorpio, Arius, and Taurus.

Lucy: You still have so many to find.

Manik: We will as we go slowly.

Elexar: The keys are so your mother's soul, so you should learn how to trace them.

Ice dragon: Thanks to me, you got another one.

Ajeel: ----

The group was always weird and Ajeel always know that.

Lucy: So where are we going next?" Lucy asked...

Elexar" Maybe here... He said, handing a quest paper to her.

Elexar: I picked it up in the previous village. Apparently, the village called Irced' which solely depends on hunters was attacked by a string demon a few months back. We don't know what happened, but the village was taken over by that demon and the Irced village people are asking for help from wizards. The bounty is good and there is a book as a reward which I need.

Meanwhile, he spoke all that all the others are checking the paper.

Lucy: What is a string demon?

Elexar: Well, we will know after we see it. It is an A-class quest. I am an A-class agent, so it is not such big of a case. Let's go finish it soon.

Nandini: Where is this Village?

Lucy looked at the paper, which also have a route map to that village at the back.

Lucy: It is around 25 km to the east here. It takes around 6 hours to walk for us, but it's already night so let's rest here and start tomorrow morning.

Manik: We can't find food if we stay here...it is deserted. We have to walk some more to reach a forest or village, so we can find something to eat. Here, this ice dragon eats a little too much for us to just stay where we are if it gets late.

Ice dragon: Compared to your pathetic humans. I have a large appetite.

Manik: That's what I said.

Ice dragon: You didn't say it like that.

Manik: The meaning was the same.

Ice dragon: No, it was not.

Lucy: Stop it, you both. Alright. There must be a small forest 4 km away from here in the same east direction according to this map, so let's walk there and hunt for something.

Everyone agreed with her and started walking to the nearby forest.

It took them around 40 minutes to reach a forest. It is so dark that Manik used his firepower to light a small light on their torch.

They walked inside and found a place to rest for the night. They lit a campfire and all went to bring something to eat, while the ice dragon stayed far away from that fire because it is sensitive to heat.

Elexar found a rabbit in the woods, which he caught and brought it back. While Manik and Ajeel found a large deer. It was large enough to satisfy everyone, but they needed more for Ice dragon so went further. While Nandini and Lucy found water near the river bank and brought it back.

After some more time passed Ajeel and Manik returned with one more deer, small but enough for the Ice dragon to eat it as a whole.

Elexar, Manik, and Ajeel cleaned and cut the meat out to cook. They went to the river bank to clean themselves after that while Nandini and Lucy cooked them.