Commoners' Borough, Dewsummit City.
Thirty Minutes later,
A carriage with a winged sun symbol arrived in front of a three-storied building with a sword and shield symbol.
A second later, Helena walked out of the carriage and headed towards the building while showing a crystal-like card to the security guard. At that moment, she wore a long red coat over her thin white shirt, black pants, and brown leather shoes.
Once Helena entered the Adventurers' Guild, she attracted the attention of all adventurers.
But she didn't halt her footsteps and directly went to the second floor through circular stairs.
Once she arrived on the second floor, she turned towards her right and moved towards the large head-sized white crystal at the right-side corridor's end.
She arrived in front of the crystal within a minute and placed her guild card on it.
The next instant, a row of information appeared on the white guild card.
But she didn't even glance at that information and said while injecting a bit of spiritual power into the white crystal.
''Re-check my body and update the information on the guild card.''
After a minute, another row of information appeared on her guild card.
...
[Name: Helena Frost
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Nationality: Hudo Empire
Occupation: D-Rank Adventurer
Class: Third-Tier Warrior→ Official Druid
Swordsmanship: Beginner→ Intermediate Level
Affinities:
Affinity for Darkness- High
Affinity for Nature- upgraded from Average → High →Good.]
A smile crept on her face as she saw the changes on the guild card. After she updated her status, she walked out of the adventurers' guild and returned to the Cerise Villa along with Orson.
Then, she returned to the study room and sat on the wooden chair.
'Hmm, my work here in the capital is almost over. Aliza also said that she is expecting to go to Alastall woodlands quickly and see the changes for herself. She seems to have no ill intention towards our territory, so I don't think Abium will get angry. Moreover, Aliza staying in our territory is also a good thing for us. Now, I'm more concerned about the unknown organization.' She frowned deeply and shifted her eyes toward the unsealed letter.
'Seekers of Nature, huh? I never heard of such an organization before. But it appears powerful.' Helena shook her head and pondered deeply.
...
On 2nd September, Dewsummit City.
It was around 8. A.M.
A luxurious carriage with a symbol of winged sun exited from the northern gate and moved towards the east. Meanwhile, Helena and Aliza sat inside the carriage and looked outside through the curtain holes.
Suddenly, Aliza looked in a particular direction and soon said with an anxious tone.
"Twenty men are following us. 10 has the strength of second-tier warriors, seven has the strength of third-tier warriors, two has the strength of fourth-tier warriors, and the leader seems to be a fifth-tier warrior."
Upon hearing those words, Helena's face turned gloomy.
'Both of us are not strong enough to hold off against these many peoples. It seems Count Tibal is planning to kill me with everything he has. Hmm, Abi's disappearance must be the reason for his bold action.' she nodded in understanding and muttered slowly.
"Eye of Nature."
The next moment, her azure blue eye turned green and radiated like some treasure. Simultaneously, an eye-like pattern appeared on all the plant's leaves outside, and they started monitoring the well-armored knights. After studying the enemy group carefully through her Eye of Nature spell, Helena turned her head towards Aliza and said with a cold smile.
"I'm going to assassinate the leader after nightfall. So, find a way to distract other warriors' attention. Once we take care of these small fries, we can go to Count Tibal's territory and eliminate the root problem."
In truth, she had been holding back her anger all this time and reminded herself not to cause any trouble for Abium. But after ranking up to an Official Druid, Helena decided to take things into her own hands.
Meanwhile, Aliza suddenly felt a surge of killing intent from Helena and nodded slowly.
...
On 2nd September, Somewhere near Silverland City.
It was around 11 A.M.
A humanoid figure with red wings slowly landed a few miles away from Silverland City and scanned the surroundings.
After that, that figure quickly removed his black academic robe and changed his clothes into a grey shirt and black pants. He also wore the golden bracelet on his ring hand, which had a unique jade-colored trinket embedded in it, and looked more like a mage expert.
He was none other than Abium.
Once he confirmed that no one was nearby, he quietly took out the 'Upgraded Faceless Glass' Mask and inspected it.
...
[Name: Faceless Glass
Type: Supportive Artifact
Rank: Legendary-Tier (Magic Artifact Ranks: Low Tier → Mid Tier → High Tier → Pseudo-Legendary Tier → Legendary Tier →?????)
Description: Faceless Glass is an artifact made by a Grandmaster Level Rune Mage and has the power of Dream Divine Power. As long as the user wears this artifact, you can change your face, voice, hair color, and body size into a completely different one. Not only that, but you can also alter your strength willingly. Unless a Demi-God Tier Expert personally appears in front of you and inspects your body, no one can see through your real strength.
Weakness: You can't use magic spells when wearing this artifact! Once you cast a Magic Spell, this artifact's effect will go null.
Time Limit: Once/Day.]
'I can't use this artifact after casting a magic spell, huh? It indeed has a powerful weakness. Although I can alter my strength to bluff the opponents as a Legendary Tier Mage, I won't be able to cast any spells.' He thought for a moment and put it back in his space ring.
After that, he quietly took out a black hat and put it on his head to hide his elongated ears and blonde hair.
Then, he turned his gaze in the northern direction and started walking toward Silverland City.
But as soon as Abium walked near the city gate, he couldn't help but frown deeply.
At that moment, he saw hundreds of Holy Knights, who wore white mantles with red nabla symbols, standing outside the Silverland city entrance gate. Most wore silver-helmet armor and had a long iron sword hanging on their waist. He even saw more than eighty camping tents set a few hundred meters away from the entrance and got puzzled.
'Why there is a large number of Holy Knights gathered here?'
Furrowing, he turned his head towards the entrance and soon saw a small group of Holy knights standing near the entrance. And in front of that group was a Red robed young man looking coldly at the tightly closed gate.
He had Frizzy chestnut-colored hair, hooded jade eyes, a pale face, pale skin, and ordinary eyebrows. But what made Abium squint his eyes sharper was that he saw the same nabla Light church symbol embroidered on the young man's red robe. As he saw that robe, Abium knew this man was a Bishop of Light Church and raised his eyebrows.
'Why are they here?'
'Wait...This Bishop must be the one who is stealthily monitoring Keris Royal family members all these time. But why did he reveal his presence now? In the past, he revealed his identity only after that Taiga Sloth Woods incident, right? What was his name again?... Reas? No...I think his name is Piers. Yes, now, I remember. His name is Piers Hoster.' Abium eyes became icy cold as he finally remembered this Bishop Piers and started to recall information about him.