Petrel

Chapter 18

The day has come when Elsa and I seriously decided to take on combat missions. I got up early out of habit to make us breakfast, and as soon as the pleasant smell reached my friend, she got up too. To be honest, lately it seems to me more and more that the role of the man in our relationship is gradually shifting to Elsa. Although nothing surprising, after all, she has a much stronger character. Well, in principle, this only makes me happy.

-Should we go to the guild first to look at the quests or to the forge? - I asked Elsa our next course of action.

- I think it would be better to go to the forge first, after all, we are going to go on a mission when I receive a set of armor, and so we will at least know whether we will have to wait or Freya already has something in mind, and in case of waiting, the mission we have our eye on may become irrelevant. - My friend expressed her opinion and continued to actively destroy flour pancakes with sour cream, which she mixed with strawberry jam. Honestly, it is nice to see when the food you prepared is swept away with such pleasure.

It didn't take long to finish breakfast and after 10 minutes we were ready to go to Freya. The forge greeted us with its usual heat, and our teacher, fortunately, hadn't yet started making a new blank.

- Oh, what brings you here, girls? We have a class after tomorrow, I think. - Freya asked, slightly surprised, although it was clear that she was very happy to see us. After all, we became friends during our studies, and we studied quickly and diligently.

- We wanted to talk about buying armor for me, to start doing combat missions little by little, because no matter how simple the mission is, precautions still won't be superfluous. - Elsa expressed the purpose of our visit.

- Excellent! - Freya said with a joyful smile and, walking towards the warehouse, added, - I just made some armor that suits you in my spare time.

-Seriously?! - we were surprised in unison, after all, although our relationship is good, it is far from what I have with Elsa, where we already live essentially as a married couple.

- Yeah, but it's only natural that it won't cost you free. This is lovely. The armor of the fire princess. - Freya pointed to a mannequin that had armor on it that resembled the armor of the fire queen from the anime, with the only difference being that the armor had a solid chest plate with shoulder pads and normal greaves, leaving no thighs or shoulders open, which caused me to nod approvingly, because armor should protect, not just seduce. - I put charms on this armor that will increase both resistance and control of fire magic, well, and also auto-adjustment. As my students, I will give it to you for 1,200,000 precious ones.

- We'll take it! - I immediately shouted, not even close to doubting the amount, because it was even 300,000 less than what we had put aside. - And is there a sword to go with this set?

- Yes, don't worry. - Freya waved away my excitement and picked up a red one-and-a-half blade from the shelf. - This one-and-a-half blade was made specifically for this armor and will most likely work fine only with it or in the hands of a fire mage. I'll give it to you for 165,000 precious stones.

- Excellent! Elsa, get the money and try on the armor, and I'll pay for now. - I said excitedly to my friend, who without keeping me waiting handed me our savings, and ran to the armor and sword.

-Here are exactly 1,365,000 precious ones. - Having finished counting out the required amount, she handed it to Freya.

- Well, good luck hunting, girls, - Freya said to us as we parted.

Inspired by such a successful start to the day, we ran towards the guild. In the mood, we literally flew into the guild so that the doors hit the walls and made a strange sound, as if they would fall off any minute. The first thing I noticed was the quest board and Nab, who was always standing there.

-Nab, have you seen any quests for hunting C-rank? - I pounced on my guildmate with questions. Because who else but he, who is always studying the quest board, would know what quests there are.

-Y-yes, there is a task to destroy a pack of wolves near a village, about 4 hours' walk from Magnolia.

- Thank you! - Having thanked her, I quickly tore off the necessary piece of paper with the task and handed it to Elsa, pulling her by the hand to the Exit of the city.

We calmed down only when we were already outside the city.

"The task seems somehow too easy," Elsa said doubtfully.

- For us it may be easy, but for a regular C-rank mage it may be difficult, after all, wolves are pack animals and you will have to fight with a large number at once. We can simply hit them hard over the area and scatter them all, but a weak C-rank mage will only take them out one by one and in the end they will simply crush him. Unless he is physically insufficiently trained.

- Well, in principle, yes, that's also true, but maybe we should take a more difficult task next? - My friend asked me.

- Let's first see how we can handle this task. Just don't forget that animals often evolve into monsters due to magic, and among the same wolves, the leader may well be dangerous. Remember that sleeping boar? The wolf will most likely be more dangerous. - I try to dampen Elsa's ardor a little, although to be honest, it's a little difficult for me to restrain my self-confidence. After all, I have attacks that can literally tear most enemies into small pieces.

The rest of the journey was a bit boring, after all, we had to spend 4 hours to get to the village, and there we were already met by the village elder, and although I didn't like how he doubted our strength, I couldn't do anything about the fact that we were seen as little girls first and foremost. Although a small demonstration and guild marks quickly put everything in its place.

As for the hunt, everything was pretty boring here too, we didn't even have to use magic properly, we were able to deal with the whole pack just using swords. After all, the pack was the most ordinary of 30 wolves. We were even able to kill them without damaging the skin, eventually getting it for sale.

Then everything was calm, we received a signature about the completion of the task and a reward, and then a return to the guild and a small celebration about the successful completion of the first combat mission, although to be honest, while we were going to Magnolia before joining the guild, we encountered much more dangers than on this task. And Elsa and I also decided together to definitely buy a manokat.