Romulus : The Rise Of The Demon

Chapter 18: Home Sweet Home

"It's so good to be back!" I say as I stay planted on my bed back in my dorms. This morning, we returned back to Asaria. I had woken up early so that I could help Axel clean up the cabin before heading back, but as if by miracle, the cabin had been spotless. Not even a speck of dust could be seen and all the furniture had been covered with white sheets. It turned out that Axel had never slept the previous night, but was cleaning the place so that we could leave as early as possible. He had taken my bags, like the last time, along with one month worth of trash and had dumped it in his shadow. We had walked​ out of the cabin, with him locking the door behind me. He had patted the wolves who were sad we would be leaving. We had walked​ through the same cave we had used to enter Krysl and when we had reached the dead end, Axel had said, "Zoki" and like last time the dead end had opened upwards with the shuddering of the cave and as soon as we had crossed​ it, it had closed behind us. We then had a trek down to the village and somehow, through another miracle, we had found Jonah and ButterCup ready with their carriage. We had got on the carriage and I had spent most of the time talking to her whereas Axel had been catching up on his sleep in the back and by mid-afternoon we had​ reached Asaria.

"Well, we can meet others tomorrow. How about you take some rest and in the evening, you can drop by my dorm and we can go out for dinner?" Axel offers while entering my room to give me my bags.

"Sounds like a plan", I say with thumbs up, my voice muffled because I had buried my face in my pillow. He chuckles as he heads out. I get up reluctantly, have a quick shower and lay down on my bed for a power nap. I wake up at 6 P.M. and get dressed in my white shirt and blue jeans and head out of my dorm. I walk right up to Axel's door and knock on it. He quickly opens the door and comes out, wearing his signature black trench coat, which is still unbuttoned, and by some miracle, he is wearing the same colours as I am underneath the coat. Talk about miracles!

"Shall we?" he asks and I nod in reply. We head out and enter a restaurant in the main plaza near the Dragon's Eye Lake Walk and after we order our food, I decide to initiate a conversation.

"So, what are we going to do tomorrow?" I ask.

"If the stars are in our favour, we won't be going on a quest tomorrow", he replies back.

"Well, I don't mind going as soon as possible".

"I do. I heard Mariana and Storm are back from their honeymoon, as well as the others, so I would like to catch up with them".

"Yeah! It's been a while", I reply, remembering all the fun we had had during their wedding.

"But if you want to go so badly, then I suggest you start with either high difficulty B-class quest or low difficulty A-class".

"What is the difference between them?"

"I thought I had explained it to you. The major difference is the minimum time required to complete the quest and their payments. Otherwise, they give the same experience". Then on the mark, the waiter comes in with our food and we continue to talk about irrelevant things through dinner. We finish our dinner in two hours and Axel pays our bill because, not to lie, I am technically broke now. We then head to our dorms and I jump, or rather, crash land on my bed.

The next day, I wake up early to get a head start. Apparently Axel and I have to report our presence in Asaria to Gramps, who is the guild master of our guild. I quickly get ready, have a light breakfast and open the door to head out of my dorms, only to find Axel with his fist raised as if he was about to knock on my door.

"Thank God! I thought you were sleeping", he says sarcastically. I scowl in response and we head out to the guild. It's 8 A.M. in the morning and the guild is already full of members. Freya sees us and yells, "Llamas! Cassie and Pyro are back!"