365 Days Journey

Day Zero

*This is another project I'm working on alongside this one: https://www.wattpad.com/story/205441775-reincarnated-back-to-bring-back-the-balance-in-his 
*I won't be focusing too much on this so the update rate will be slow, but I do hope you like this one.
**There will be a lot of graphic scenes, as well as curse words.

"Did you find him!?"

"No! He has to come through this way! We sealed the other passages!"

"Damn it! Lucky son of a bitch! Anyway, we have to find him no matter what! Otherwise...!"

"I know! We don't have much time either! That fucker had the pendant with him!"

The first man wields a pair of daggers, wearing a dark cape and a full suit of leather armor. His step was so light that he barely made any sound when running. Vein was popping up on his face, his bloodshot eyes were scanning the narrow passageway as he was yelling at the other man he met at the conjunction.

The other man, with his loud step and rough breathing, came from another passage. He has a Warhammer on his back while he wields a shortsword considering the narrow passage. He wears a steel chest-plate and boots, with a leather armguard and kneecap.

"Fuck! And this one leads to the boss room! If he died in there, we won't be able to get the pendant back! Hurry!"

"Yeah!"

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Earlier that day.

"Good morning, Reis! Here for another collection request?"

"Haha! Yes! I need some pocket change for the New Year's festival. So, is there any? I prefer the close one, Antra."

This conversation is taken inside the Adventurer Guild building. What is Adventurer Guild, you say? It's a place where people who cannot find ordinary jobs inside the city apply to become adventurers, in other words, a freelancer multi-function job.

Adventurer Guild is the place where requesters or clients put their various requests from Temporary Helper, Collection Request, and even slaying monsters.

One of the receptionists, a woman, greets an adventurer who seems to be a regular in the Adventurer Guild from the way she greets him. Her brown ponytail sways as she moves around, looking for the requests list.

Not long after, she spreads out 7 request papers on the table.

"Let me explain each one, okay? This first one..."

She lifts the request paper on her left. The paper was made from a cheap material. it has several holes here and there. The writing is also messy and some parts of it lack ink as if it was written in a hurry.

"You only need to get 30 Dragon's Tongue. Since the required area wasn't mentioned, you can collect them anywhere you want."

Dragon's Tongue is a type of flower. It has yellow petals and is shaped like a hanging tongue.

She puts it down and onto the next one.

"Next is the Crimson Root. The requester prefers the root around the Geser Foot, it is relatively close but the monsters are the problem."

The requester kindly includes the illustration of the Crimson Root. It was just a drawing of a cluster root but has a distinguishing feature where a small pod latches on the biggest part of the root.

"Oh, we also have a lucky coincidence where three requesters requested the same plants in the same area. They are these three. From the first to the third requester, each requested to get 40, 50, and 10 Deathbells. And one of them put a nice illustration too."