-Beginning

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- Creatures that have lived for billions of years, learning different things each day, each month, each year...

By creating different tools and gaining from it, A whole cycle of producing and extinguishing, as they increase their population each time.

While it all continued.

Man kind have also evolved into powerful rulers of land, Commanding a whole army with the usage of words and their charisma.

Humans have gone to war fighting only for once's land and belief...

Bodies, Bloodshed, and Tears of those who have lost their loved ones...

And so, it all continued to the cycle of humanity...

Their fate resumed...

While these pitiful humans have already been fed up by the fact that only few creatures, such as them and animals live in this cruel world.

Some have gone insane, having to kill hundreds of their own. Beliefs that have started religions, and countries. Creations that are invented to save humanity...

But, how long will this continue? A world with no end...? A place where only these earthlings could live..?

These thoughts have entered these creature's mind...

And that is how everthing started...

They have all suffered torture and pain, wanting something new... something that could make them feel free.

A new world...

A new earth where they could trully feel at home...

...

These creatures called upon the gods that haven't given them even one response.

Three gods that may grant their wish...

Hoping that their prayers reached them.

...

After several months of praying with different casualities happening along with it, these gods have now made a choice to go down to earth and grant their wish.

The three gods who have always stood up silent, made their way.

The god of heaven and earth, along with the god of water and the god of air, arose above the humans that were bowing down to them

"Us, who lives above the heavens have now made our choices, But granting your wish will surely have some conscequences"

"We, have initiated disasters, trial of thy will to survive such mortality"

"Yearning for freedom of living without bloodshed is a wish of a fool"

"These choices are chosen by thee, thou are needn't to wish for such greatness"

"Those who live will soon perish, those who're young will soon grow, ye are lucky for the existing"

"Us, will now live on this world"

"Our human like structure are now in thy care..."

These three gods have now set foot on land, changing their apperances of being part of the almighty.

They looked more human like, while the humans prepared offerings to give to the three gods.

Be that as it may, different creatures that hid inside the darkness have emerged from the land.

Such as dragons, beast men, and other creatures, that had yearned to be more powerful.

Due to the appearance of these creatures, something new was expected to commence.

...

After years of living on earth...

It was time to flee.

The three gods that went down to grant the creature's wishes have disappeared, and only a written message to apprise them.

'The almighty is now calling for us dear creatures.'

'We, are thankful for thy kindness and gratitude of accepting the almighty despite the severe trial that we've given thee'

'Produce a greater place for the new offsprings to live and survive'

'We'll visit once again, in a different human vessel'

'A farewell gift is given to each of thee, A new blood line that will tell thee thy fate...'

'A new world where all of those who are living will be at peace.'

'Goodbye, dear friends...'

Therefore, everyone that sought for a new world worked together for the greatness of our new reality.

But, heaven wasn't the only thing that creates such things...

The underworld, known as hell and the place where the so called unfortunate souls have settled.

A place filled with evil desires...

Or are they..?

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Fortunately, time passed without encountering any tragic disasters...

Humans and creatures cultivated their abilities, learning how to use magic. Developing their world into something more free and adventurous.

A place that they desired to create together. -

~Close~

"And here we are now..."

"The place, where the three gods have first stayed"

"I'm Kogane Tengoku! And I'll be the most strongest wielder that you'll ever see in the whole history!"

-To be Continued...

(Credits to the owner of the Art/Picture)

-Beginning

A young lad with brown hair was sitting on top of a tower, he was an adventurer from a different town...

He stood up to see the whole kingdom.

"This place is utterly amazing!"

He looked left and right checking out the beautiful view from the center tower.

"Kingdom of Asgaronia, the sacred place where the three gods have settled... This place is indeed very beautiful despite the busy crowd"

He jumped down the tower landing peacefully, he was not an ordinary adventurer. He was a wielder.

...‐--...

This young man's name is Kogane Tengoku, a weilder from a small town. He's currently staying at the kingdom to participate on a ceratin event.

The event that may grant your wish to become a more capable weilder.

The Theo of Weilders, an event where the higher ups will select independent people that could help increase the fame of the kingdoms.

It was a competition for the influential kingdoms to see who was the most almighty of them all. Yet, they all gave the small cities and towns a chance to recommend a participant for the up coming event.

Lucky enough for him, he was selected to become the participant for the event, along with two people to work as a group.

A group where three people will work as a team to create a poweful teamwork that'll provide collective strength and staying power to shoulder each other when in need.

And this young lad is now currently trying to find his teammates, But will he be able find them?

...

"I'M LOSSSTTTT!!!"

As expected...

*sigh* "What am I gonna do now? The twins will kill me if I come late!"

He looked around the place where he was, there were a lot of creatures and people around the area. It wouldn't be easy to find two people on the whole crowd.

"I should start finding a bar or a restaurant around here..."

The young lad ran around the area to find the nearest shop on the northern boundary of the kingdom.

Fortunately, he found a bar that had a number of people inside, he thought that his other teammates might also be there.

He went infront of the bar not knowing anything.

The door was wide open for anyone to go in, he looked inside and saw other people. They were also wielders, and were the one's that they'll soon be competing with.

They looked frightening, as he stood at the front door frozen from shock.

He knew that they had abilities that are definitely strong.

Standing there frozen, two people were about to enter while they noticed the man standing on the front door.

"Huh..? Ko? Why are you just standing there?"

"Eh? That's odd... Ko have never showed up early on a meeting place, plus how did he find his way?"

The brown-haired lad looked at the people behind him.

"Wilson? Alison? What are you guys doing here?"

Both of them sighed, this boy would be completely helpless without the twins.

"Idiot this is the meeting place that captain told us!"

The lass scolded the young brunet, not noticing the people who're about to enter.

"Oi kiddos, Move aside, You're blocking the way"

"Eh? Oh! Sorry..."

The young wielders bowed for forgiveness and entered the place.

The tall man who had a masculine body, noticed that the three entered the bar where the wielder's meeting will be held.

"Huh? Oi why are you entering? Aren't you guys too young to be wielders? Pfft..."

The three ignored the comment of the bald man and continued to talk with each other, making their way to an empty seat.

"Tsk, these brats!"

The man went to their seat smacking his hand on the table.

"Oi oi! Didn't you hear me? Your too young to be wielders"

The woman from their group faced the taller man.

"We're not young, or are you implying that we are too weak to become wielders just because we live on a small town unlike the most of you?"

She looked at him with contempt.

"Tsk, what else? You're just some weaklings who just got picked by your 'elders', HAHAHA!"

The man laughed aloud making everyone take notice of them.

"You talk like a kid for an old man, you know?"

The man got pissed by the statement of the girl, he bent down to look closely at the young lass.

"Why not take a look at you little girl? You want dolls? Ice cream?"

The girl had enough, she was about to beat the man that stood infront of her. Even so, her brother stood up and held her sister's shoulder.

"Alison, don't bother anymore"

The lass looked at the person beside her, Realizing what her brother was trying to tell her.

He shook his head telling her to refrain herself from creating more drama. The young lass knew that she's incapable of doing anything right now.

They both moved away from the man and sat back on their seat.

"Huh? Are you backing down little girl?"

Although, Alison was quite pissed. She only looked back at him with a bright smile and answered.

"I won't back down mister! And Yes, I do want ice cream..."

She changed her expression.

"...though we should both be prepared to meet again on the selections... and see who among the two of us is going to lose..."

"Hmph!... Sure 'brave' little girl, just wait and see...."

The man walked away with a smirk on his face, along with two people.

Everyone saw what happened and started chatting about it. It was some juicy drama that they saw, and who wouldn't talk about some good tea?

...---...

The three masculine men sat on an empty table.

"Ye Boss, those are tha wielders from the small town of Ravaryn'. The one that ye had a chat with is one of the twins, that lass name's Alison Primavera and tha other' was her brotha Wilson Primavera"

"Heh... I see, they even dared to make me look like a fool infront of other people, just wait and see what kind of revenge we'll do to make 'em suffer"

...---...

"Tsk! Hmphhhhh! What an old man! You shouldn't have stopped me Wilson, I was about to destroy that bastard's face!!"

A young lass was heating up because of her anger towards someone, she was very furious.

Both of the young men looked at each other while her brother patted her head.

"Calm down sis, and if I didn't you could've destroyed us too..."

The other lad shrugged his shoulders.

"I agree with Wil, but umm... are we, not gonna talk about how everyone feels like their staring at us?"

The brunet said to them in an awkward way, he felt uneasy with people staring.

"And where are the advisors?! Its already past noon and we haven't even started the meeting yet!"

A man sat beside them and placed his hands around the brown-haired boy's shoulder who was feeling uneasy.

"Yeah right? Its like they're so late!"

"Yeah..! Wait-"

The brunet got shocked and moved away from the person making him lean on the wall.

"Excuse me, but who are you?" The brunet asked feeling uncomfortable because of the odd man that randomly sat beside him.

"Yeah, who are you? Why did you suddenly sit on our table...?"

The whole group looked at the odd man who sat with them out of no where.

"Hmm? Oh sorry! I forgot to introduce my self, I'm Lucas and I'm from the seat on the third row! My teammates were kinda boring so I sat on different tables, Heh"

He scratched his head and smiled at them brightly, he was definitely an energetic person.

"And..? Why did you seat with us?"

The twins asked at the same time.

"Its because your team looks interesting to chat with, and I'd like to get to know you guys" He again placed his hands around the brunet who was leaning beside the wall, trying to avoid the odd lad.

"Well, My name's Wilson and this person beside me is Alison, were twins" The other lad introduced them selves waiting for the brown-haired man to introduce himself.

The man got a little impatient, so he looked at the brunet and asked.

"Would you mind introducing yourself to me little acorn?"

The three looked at him with wide eyes, as they turned their heads at each other.

"Who did you just call little acorn?" The young lass asked with a curious face.

"Oh! I was pointing at this person beside me, cause you guys have already introduced yourselves"

The twins looked at each other, as they both close their eyes preparing to burst out.

"Pfft... HAHAHAHA!!" They both laughed with tears of joy.

"Haha! Pfft... That's not what we meant but ok, Ahaha!"

Suddenly an aura around the table felt cold as if they were inside an ice, Someone was giving the twins a death stare, while the innocent young man that sat beside them was a bit confused.

"Umm..."

The man awkwardly looked at the three while the brunet looked at the other man.

"Haha, Nevermind these idiots, Well my name's Kogane Tori, Nice to meet you"

He offered his hand for a handshake, while the other accepted the offer with a smile on his face.

The three looked at the odd person with awkward eyes, the young lad was still holding the brunet's hand.

"Haha, uhh... Lucas-san... umm.. can you let go of my hand now..?"

The young man got surprised and quickly released the brunet's hand.

"Oh! Sorry I kinda got carried away"

"Yes, now you little idiot will come back to our seat" A man that had pitch black hair with a deep voice interfered with their conversation, as he held the other lad's neckline ready to drag him to their table.

"Eh!? Kaze?! I thought you wouldn't interfere with me chatting with other people?" The lad looked at the person who was gripping tightly on his neckline.

"The advisors are about the come knucklehead, or do you expect me to leave you behind?"

"Oh! Haha... " The lad scratched his head in an awkward way.

"If you wouldn't mind us, we'll be going now, And forgive us for bothering you" The long-haired man bowed at the three.

"Oh no, it's fine... Well, see you guys again!" The young lass playfully waved them goodbye along with the two young men.

He stood straight feeling relieved, he looked at the brunet for a second as he started dragging the blond haired boy.

"Kogane-san! Let's meet next time!" The lad spoke while waving goodbye as he was getting dragged by the other man.

...

"Hmm, everyone seem's lively today..."

Someone appeared on the stage of the bar holding something on his hands.

"Good afternoon weilders, Can I get everyone's attention?"

A voice of a man was heard on everyone's mind, They were Sound vibrations though telepathy.

"We'll now conduct the meeting, The preparations for the event are already done, and I'll now explain the rules which are do's and don'ts and what's allowed and what's not..."

"Everyone already knew this but I'll explain it again..." The man said as he looked at the papers he was holding onto.

"Just as you all know, there are four boarders on this kingdom, and those are the North, East, West, and South"

"You guys are the Northern team, All of you will be going against the other three teams on this first round, meaning that you are not allowed to attack your teammate no matter how much you hate them or both of you will be will be disqualified..."

"Being the Northern team also means that you guys will be the first to enter the battle place"

"I'll have you know that you will have to find your own food once you feel hunger"

"Traps and etc. Are planted and the goal to succeed this round is to reach the center tower of the Lithoris forest, It basically looks the same as the tower that we have here at the kingdom, blabla... bla... bla... and yeah more or less no killing, weapons are allowed, familiars are also allowed, but there will be a time limit for them to be summoned"

"And yes this also means that you'll have to bring things to the tower, such as herbs or weapons that you're instructed with..."

The man folded the papers and placed it on his pocket. It wasn't the list of instructions but a paper filled with informations about the Northern weilders.

"And that's all for my explanation, so are there any questions that you'd like to ask?" The man asked the young wielders, as he stood there waiting for someone to speak.

Someone from the back raised their hand.

"Uhh... I have a question sir, how wide is the forest?"

"Lets say... about three thousand or two thousand square kilometer, I'm not sure my self" the instructor shrugged his shoulders.

"That's... pretty wide..."

Some of the weilders looked at each other in disbelief.

The advisor sighed.

"Well this year, there are a lot of participants who wants to join, so the higher ups wanted to give you a place to battle for the first round"

"That aside we'll give you four days to prepare your selves, so make sure to spend your time... and is that all? Well if it is then I'll be heading out now." The instructor sighed and entered the other room as he finished his sentence, leaving the young wielders inside the bar.

"W-wait-... Only Four DAYS?! That's too short!" A person complained.

"Yeah!" Someone agreed while a person interupted as she raised her hand to say something.

"In my opinion four days is enough, if we waited for a long time we'll forget about the event and We'll probably waste our time on random things..." she stated.

"Miss Hailey does have a point, if we wasted our time we wouldn't be able to train or practice" someone agreed as she also defended the statement.

Alison heard them as she sighed "Man, these guys are really serious about this"

She pointed at the people who were talking.

"They are wielders with reputation on different kingdoms, they need to be serious or their kingdom's popularity will fall down like a bridge that got hit by a storm, unlike us who are only adventurers who lives in a peaceful village outside the kingdom" Wilson said as he also sighed, crosing his arms.

"You guys... well if we do win this event we'll be able to help our town, ya know?" He insisted, trying to make the two feel a little determined to battle against other people.

"But can we beat them though?" The other lad pressumed.

"That's a problem..." the lass once again sighed feeling gloomy.

"It may be a problem, but I've got an idea! Hehe" the brunet grinned at them playfully giggling with a wicked scheme that he had thought of.

'Looks like our idiotic comrade already thought of something crazy' the twins looked at each other and giggled, they felt that they had the same feeling.

....

-To be Continued...

(Credits to the owner of the Picture/Art)

-Beginning

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*tak tak tak*

A huge person sitting on a chair was tapping the table multiple times.

"Uggghhh!! So? Who are we going to pick among the wielders that we have in this village?" The man asked in a frustrated tone, starring down the people who are standing infront of him.

An awkward silence was only heard. Everyone in the room looked at each other, feeling both guilty and uneasy.

"Uh... well we.. we were planning on it Bear-sama b-but.."

"But what?! Don't tell me that you haven't planned on this and waited for me to come back? Tsk!" The man threw the papers at them, he was becoming furious.

The men that stood infront of him picked the papers that contained information about the wielders that are going to participate on a certain event.

"Forgive us Bear-sama...It's our fault for not being able to do this task..." an old man bowed asking for forgiveness.

He sighed...

"Alright alright...! I'll check them out, So gather all the young wielders we have here while I'm going to prepare"

He massaged his temple while his other hand gave them a sign, telling them to get out of the room.

"Seriouslly..." he uttered.

A reflection of a man appeared from the shadows.

"Bear, I think you should go easy on them..." An old man said entering the messy room.

"Master...!"

The masculine man stood up and bowed down to the person.

"Enough with the formalities, You've been my student since you were small, shoudn't you be more comfortable around me?" The man said standing infront of the other man.

The man raised his head.

"Hm... but Master, I thought you're resting outside?" He asked.

"I wanted to check on you since your the only student that I get to talk with..." The man walked towards the window side, checking out the village children playing together.

"Oh.... I..." The man looked down feeling guilty for asking the question.

The older man sighed and looked back at the masculine man.

"Just remember that its not your fault that they died, they sacrificed themselves for the greater good... So don't blame yourself Bear, you're the only one we have now and there is still a promise that you have to accomplish for the two of them"

After he ended his sentence, The old man walked towards the man as he patted his shoulder. He then vanished out of his sight

"Yeah... The promise"

He looked up outside the window as the clouds uncovered the sun rays, giving out a bright shine.

"What a beautiful sunny day..."

...---...

"Line up everyone! The village head will choose twelve people among all of you, so be good alright?" A person instructed the young wielders as he was standing on a wooden stage.

"Yes sir!!" The young wielders bellow the stage replied.

*tud tud tud*

The sound of a huge person walking towards them was heard.

"Bear-sama!!" The children cheered as they all saw the huge masculine man climb towards the stage, he was indeed the most powerful wielder that they've ever met.

The man smiled as he saw the children cheering with bright smiles on their face.

'How nostalgic..' he whispered through the air.

"Hello kiddos! How's your day today?" The man asked the young wielders.

"It's great!" Someone said.

"It was good bear-sama" Another person said.

As everyone else asnwered.

"Alright! I'll be picking some of you to enter on an event, so are you ready?" He crouched down near the edge of the stage to look at them.

"We're ready!!" They shouted.

"That's the spirit! However, we still have to test you little youngsters so we would be able to pick one of you at a time to present your ability"

The man patted a child's head as he stood up. An old man gave him the papers that contained the village wielders information.

His eyes widened, the first six children caught his interest. He smirked, knowing that he wanted to test them first.

"I demand for... Wilson Primavera, Alison Primavera, Noxiel Sparrow, Raziel Afomia, Kogane Tengoku, and Aaron Ordellion to ascend here on the stage" He said as he looked at the young wielders.

The village head crossed his arms, while waiting for the six people to make their way on the stage.

The men behind him were shocked, confused of why the man picked the child who became the vessel of a certain creature.

A man walked towards the village head and was about to ask something.

"Bear-sama yo-..." He was interrupted by the man.

"I already know what you're going to ask..." he whispered.

The man looked down and went back to the place where he was standing.

The six people he picked have come to the side of the stage, all of them stared at the masculine man.

"Oh! I'll be testing one of you at a time, and the first one will be you, Wilson Primavera" The man pointed at the young weilder, looking at him with a serious face.

The lad didn't twitch nor did he get nervous. He looked quite.... lazy, undetermined with no intention of joining.

'Interesting...' The man thought.

"I have a question for you, young man" The village head said as he walked near the younger boy.

"What's your desire, or wish for something?" He asked.

The young man yawned before he asnwered.

"Hmm... To live a carefree life with my friend and family" he said as he scratched his head while looking at the masculine man.

"But, Is that what you trully desire?" The taller man asked.

"Yeah" The lad said without having second thoughts about it. He looked serious, even if his wish seemed to be easy to say.

"Great! Now show me what kind of abilities you wield" The man smiled at the boy, he knew that this boy is a calm person and wouldn't react to rashly. Although he may look lazy he's a great teammate to work with.

...

The lad faced the side of the stage, There was a wooden target to aim at. The taller man will control these dummys to move mimicking a human fighter.

The lad analyzed the movement of the dummys. He was excellent on finding  paterns that could increase the probability of winning against the opponent.

He was aiming his hand on the middle, as if there was an imaginary bow on his hands. the dummys were moving left and right creating a delusion, trying to fool the young man.

A bright light formed showing a glowing bow. A bow made out of pure magic, solidifying it to create the desired weapon to use. A weapon made out of natural energy is indeed a great ability to have, though it takes a lot of time to forge one.

He released the arrow, while it went directlly at the middle. On the same time, the dummys had positioned on the right spot where the arrow will hit.

TUD!

The sound of the dummys that fell on the wooden stage. Each of them had a hole, where the bow shot.

The bow on his hand disappeared on thin air. He looked back at the masculine man, while his friend and sister cheered for him.

"YEAH! THAT'S MY BROTHER!" His twin sister shouted, while she raised her fist at the air.

"WOH!!" Everyone also cheered. This was the first time the young man had showed his abilities to other people, due to the fact that only his friend and sister go on a mission with him, and no one else.

The masculine man touched the lad's head, patting it while he smirked.

"You and your sister will both work together on team no. 1, wait for your other teammate to be picked" The man said.

...

The twins known as Wilson and Alison, they follow the bloodline of Elves, the Primavera Clan. A clan where you'll give birth to twins that are blessed with a good combination of forging and enchantment skills.

...

"Heh, I knew you could do it" A brown-haired boy said to the other lad.

"It was easy" the young man said as he touched the brunet's shoulder.

As time passed, the village head now picked the next person and so on, while some have been given a group and some are still waiting.

The two groups that contained three persons each are now full while the group where the twins are in is still vacant. No one could fit with their abilities of forging and enchanting.

There were now two people who are still not called.

The village head now looked at the paper.

"Alright, The next person is Kogane Tengoku" The man said, while he looked at the young man that had brown hair with a lower ponytale.

"Its your turn dude" the other lad said.

The young man walked towards the masculine man.

Everyone who are still inside didn't look excited, as if they knew that he wasn't as talented as everyone.

Even though his sister died on an 'accident', Everyone looked down at him, as if he was the reason that his older sister died. He doesn't practice with other people, and only reads children books.

The twins were the only ones who knew his abilities. He only practices with them, because of being the only people he's close with.

"Hm..." the man looked at him. He noticed that he looked a bit feminine, though he was more taller than the others.

"Alright, show us your ability" He said, He took the paper that contained information about the brunet.

The village head noticed something on the young man's personal information. His magic represented a familiar earth element, a combination of earth natural  energy and pure nature energy...

The brunet took the metal bar that he carried on his back and slammed it on the ground.

"Earth wall, golden defence" after he finished his sentence, A wall made of mud and other particles surrounded him. It solidified it's self, before the magical bullets hit him.

Even the magical bullets didn't stand a chance against his earth defence. There were no scratches to be found.

The village head saw something shining on the earth defence. He brushed some of the dirt and saw the solid particles on it.

He blew off all of the solid mud as they all saw the solidified golden defence that the mud covered.

The particles that the mud bought up were pure gold that could solidify once its collided together. The brunet's ability was manipulating earth particles that could be found underground.

Both of the twins smirked, crossing their arms, they knew all along that their friend wasn't actually talentless but was a bookworm ever since they became wielders. He was a closet genius

"Interesting, I've never seen a defence like this before... Where did you learn it?" The masculine man asked the brunet's who's still inside the golden defence.

The brunet punched the defence from the inside as it collapsed into pieces.

"Hmmm....I probably learned it yesterday when me and Wilson were training, wait no... I learned it last friday... or no- wait was it before yesterday?"

He stood there scratching his chin, Even he himself forgot when he learned it.

"Haha! Alright kiddo, You'll be grouped with your friend" The man laughed as he smiled back at the brunet.

"Wait really? I just created an earth defence barrier that could only save people from sudden danger" the brunet insisted.

"Yes, The forging and enchanting skills that the twins have takes a lot of time. So if any sudden attack were to happen, your earth defence barrier would protect them while they create the weapon. Plus I heard that you three were already friends, and you might understand their abilities better than the others"

The man smiled at the brunet who was a bit dumbfounded, he was an idiot but is good at understanding basic skills of wielding magic.

Wilson and Alison walked towards the brunet.

"Well please take care of us! Kogane-san~ Hehe" The twins both playfully said to the brunet.

"I won't, You guys are too troublesome" He said without hessitation.

Both of the twins smacked his head.

"Idiot" they both said, as if they're about to beat the hell out of him.

"Hahahah!" The masculine man that was behind them laughed.

'They'll surely pass...'

...---...

...---...

"Uwahh! What a tiring dayyy!" Alison wined, as if she was indirectly telling the two young men to go out and have some fun around the kingdom.

Though, the two were strong and would never give up so easily. So they both ignored the young lass who looked at them with an 'Oi Idiots, Notice me' face and continued to train.

Because of their strong will, they were able to ignore the young lass the whole day.

But things won't last forever...

"Good Morning!" The lass was bubbly today.

"Oh, Good morning Alison" They both replied as they also smiled at her in an odd way.

They went to the training court, The two men noticed that it was oddly quiet.

Nothing suspicious happened after it, so the two let their guard down for now.

...

It was now break time and the three were walking towards the central border to buy groceries.

The two men were never good at buying groceries and made the young lass do all the work.

"Hehe..." the young woman smirked on an evil way, she had planned this all along.

And that's how the two ended up following the young woman all around the area because of them letting down their cautiousness.

*sigh* The two young men sighed in helplessness, though both still smiled with a pleased expression. 

Although, it was a troublesome group, they were happy with being together whenever they needed each other.

...

They finished buying the groceries in no time, it was an easy task for an independent woman to do.

She dragged the two towards a small bargain shop.

"What are we gonna do here Alison?" The brother of the lass asked with a confused face.

She smirked.

"We're gonna buy some goods!!" She brightened up.

"For what though?" The brunet asked.

"Potions and enchanted books of course!"  She winked at the two as she gave them a tumbs up.

"But where are you gonna use them?" They both asked.

"I wanted to ask the two of you yesterday to help me learn more enchantments, hehe" she flustered. The lad still had her pride in her.

"You could've told us yesterday!" Her brother said, having a surprised expression.

"W-well you two ignored me when I tried to ask you, hmph!" She pouted.

"So...Is saying 'Uwaahhhh! what a tiring day' a new way of asking?" The brunet said it in confused way, he's too innocent to say such sarcastic questions to people he's close to.

"Nevermind..." *sigh* the lass sighed.

"Well, we should enter the shop now or we'll just stand here like statues..." the other lad insisted.

The three opened the wooden door.

*jingle jingle jingle* the sound of door bells ringing.

"Oh~ why hello there young adventurers~ what brings you here..?" A man wearing a long robe welcomed them as he spoke with a husky tone.

The three expected an old person to help them but instead there was only an odd man who greeted them.

This was a disappointment for the three, due to the fact that they're idiots who likes to get along with elderly people, and personaly took it as a daily basis.

"Oh~ what's up with the faces?~" The man looked at them with a confused look. No wonder, they had a gloomy aura surrounding them.

"Oh Nothing Sir, we went on the wrong store. Forgive us" The grey-haired lad said as he held the arms of the two people beside him.

"W-wait, Wilson... It'd take a lot of time to go find another bargain store around here, shouldn't we just buy here since it has a better selling price than the other ones?"

The lass insisted on buying. Its true that it would take time to find a new one, the whole kingdom was filled with travellers and wielders from all around the country.

Especially, there'll be a special occasion happening, where the weilders will compete here in the name of the kingdom only to rank up.

"Oh~! So the three of you are going to participate on the event..?~" The man leaned on the wall as he looked at the three. He was quite curious.

"Uhh... yes" they replied.

The other lad released his grip on the two. 

"Mmm~ so which village do you serve?" The man knew that they aren't from any kingdom, just by looking at how they wore their clothes and how they act.

"Uhhh.." they went awkwardly silent.

"Its fine if you don't want to tell me~" He smiled at them.

"Since you're going to participate that event, why not check out the tools that I have here?~" He opened up to them, the room was loaded up with shelves that contained a lot of books and potions along with weapons and other stuffs.

"Woh!!" The lass brightened up as she immidiately ran towards the shelf that was filled with enchanted books.

"Wait... isn't that-!!" the brunet also saw something that caught his interest.

He walked towards it.

"Wil! Look at this, the brunet showed a hand sign telling the other lad to come near.

"That's the physical combat book" His eyes widened. It was a book that he was longing to get, but there were only few merchants that sells them on their village. 

"Hmm~ have you found the things you wanted?" The man asked.

"Yeah!! This is awsome, Everything I needed was here!" The girl said in a greatefull way as she was holding the things she needed on her arms.

"Oh~ I'm glad that you found the things you needed" the man walked towards the table to check the tools they got.

The lass placed the books on the table.

After the man checked the tools the lass gave hey payment to the odd man.

The other two also bought tools, Wilson bought two different books that contained forging skills, while the brunet bought nunchucks and a pocket knife.

The grey-haired lad payed for the two books, while the brunet placed the tools he got on the table.

"I'd like to have a trade with you" the young lad said as he took out the golden rod behind him.

"Oh?~ You'll trade a golden rod for nunchucks and a pocket knife?" The man asked, the golden rod is worth a lot of money.

"Wait, Ko are you seriously going to trade that for nunchucks and a pocket knife?"

"Yeah, why?" He asked.

*sigh* the three sighed, he was definitelly an idiot.

"That wouldn't be a fair trade~" the man shrugged.

"Eh?" He tilted his head, he was also confused.

"Seriously..." The two knew that the lad woudn't understand such things so easily when explained in detail.

The brunet noticed their expressions and got a gist of what they were trying to show.

The brunet held the golden rod as it disappeared.

He opened his palm and turned it into small pieces of gold nuggets

The man leaned to look.

"Oh~"

"Is this uh... enough?" The brunet asked.

"Yes~ yes~... Oh and by the way, you could call me Hillard from now on~... I do hope that we'll be acquaintances in the near future~"

"Well nice to meet you Mister Hillard, My name is Wilson, This beside me is my twin sister Alison, and this is My friend Kogane" The young man introduced them to the odd man.

The man wasn't a bad person after all, but was an ordinary merchant who sells and trades for goods... or is he?

...

"Thanks for helping us Mister Hillard!" The three bowed down to show gratitude.

Then walked towards the door and left, as the odd man waved them goodbye.

"What an interesting team~" he uttered...

-To be Continued...

(Credits to the owners of the concept art/picture)