Starting from zero: growing up with knowledge from another world

Chapter 10

We quickly arrived back at the city, reducing our speed once we got within eyesight of the gate. One of their party members and I cast Haste on the whole party, keeping it active until we got close to the city, though usually, we would not use that outside of an intense battle. Passing through the gate by showing our guild cards, we made our way toward the guild as quickly as we could without letting it show in our actions that there was a problem.

When we entered the guild, we walked directly up to the counter, where the party leader began telling the receptionist why we had come, "I'm Sieg of the Spirit Wind Travelers, and I have something urgent to report to the Guildmaster," He said quietly but very seriously. This was the first time I had heard his name and the name of their party, previously they had been introduced to me as 'the usual party', and everyone called Sieg 'leader'.

"I'm sorry, the Guildmaster is busy in a meeting right now, and the Vice Guildmaster is taking part in it too, so you will have to wait. You can leave them a message or try back after lunch." The receptionist replied apologetically.

"I'm afraid it can't wait, even if they are in a meeting with the duke, I need you to..." Sieg was appealing the importance of the matter, but I could tell from the look on her face that she would not budge on the matter. So while he was busy trying to convince her, I gathered up a bunch of my mana and released it towards the strongest presence in the guild, lacing it with killing intent to make sure I got their attention.

My plan worked better than intended, as a group of four people, including the strong presence I detected, came racing towards the stairs leading to the second floor, weapons drawn, and the strong presence kneading mana to fire off a spell immediately, depending on the situation.

"WHO?!?!" Yelled the female elf who had the strongest presence here.

"Guildmaster?!" screamed the receptionist in surprise, seeing all of them prepared to attack and looking our way. The whole guild had gone quiet enough to hear a pin drop.

With a sheepish smile due to the more exaggerated response than I had imagined, I raised my hand toward the group, "Sorry, we had something urgent to report, but the receptionist wasn't budging on saying you were busy. I didn't think the reaction would be so intense. Haha," I laughed with awkward quietness while everyone in the guild turned to look at me, some of the people whispering to each other, wondering what I did.

After staring at me for a while, a strange look passed through her eyes before she finally said, "I'll hear your story upstairs, come with me." Then she turned and walked back in the direction she came from, the other three people following from behind her. The party and I looked at each other before racing after her.

When we got up the stairs, we were shown to a room with a table and chairs around it, there were enough chairs for all of us to sit, and there were two people already sitting down who had not shown up at the stairs. Once we had all sat down, the Spirit Wind Travelers party looking extremely nervous while I had a look of curiosity on my face, the Guildmaster began speaking.

"First off, there is no reason for you to be so surprised about our response. With that much mana and killing intent directed this way, it wouldn't have been surprising if we came out attacking before asking questions. It's hard to believe someone who looks so young was able to produce that level of killing intent. The next order of business is introductions, I'm the Guildmaster, Alisha." After this, she introduced the rest of her group, which included the Viscount, who was in charge of the city. I then understood the real reason for the response to my killing intent.

Noticing the nervousness of the adventurers, I decided to make introductions for our side, "It's a pleasure to meet everyone, and I apologize for my choice of methods used to get your attention." I started, giving a bow. "My name is Cero, I really am only as old as I look, eight years old, and this is the party 'Spirit Wind Travelers', with their party leader Sieg and scout Roy. I apologize again for the discourtesy, but I will immediately get to the issue at hand."