"Five years ago, there was a demon that was sealed to keep the world safe. One day, the seal had broken down and the demon woke up. He created an army and sent them to this world to destroy them. People in there were struggling to fight against him while he sat in the background and laughed evilly," All the kids are scared while the woman flips into another page, "But four heroes, a swordsman, a gunner, and two mages rose to fight against the demon. Through all the danger, they have finally come to the demon and challenged him to end the chaos. The battle was going hard and finally, they have slain him and the world is at peace." All the kids admire the heroes and want to be one of them.
One of the kids raises his hand, "Teacher, do you know their name?"
The teacher pats the kid's head, she takes out the heroes’ figures, "This is Matt, the swordsman," then she points to the red dress girl, "This is Natalie, the mage," then she points at the soldier figure, "Lance, the gunner." Then she points at the black coat figure, "And this is the Black Mage."
The kid asks, "Why did you call him the Black Mage? Doesn't he have a name?"
The teacher smiles at the kid, "The Black Mage is the girl. A very mysterious and powerful mage," she flips the page, "When our king, Leo asks her to see her appearance, she denies and says "Heroes don't need fame"." The kid jumps up and the teacher pats his head, "Not only you, everyone in this country is curious about her appearance though."
"Teacher, when will I become a hero? I can't wait to be one of them,"
The teacher laughs at the kid, "You will, in the future." then she stands up, "Okay class, breaks time, remember to come back here at 2 pm, ok?"
"OK," then all the kids run out of the class.
-----At the castle----
Leo is currently sitting on a chair and doing paperwork on the table. There are mountains of paper waiting for him to finish. When Leo sees it, he just puts his face on the paper and is crying inside. He hears someone knock on the door, "Come in,"
A guard is coming inside and bows to him, "Your majesty, the ex-captain Eldaro is here,"
Leo raises his hand, "Good, now send him in. You go outside and close the door. Don't let anyone here near this door. Got it?"
"Yes, sir." The guard goes outside and guards the door.
After a moment, an old white-haired man opens the door and goes inside the room. Leo sees him and stands up immediately.
"Eldaro, please help me do this paperwork?" Leo lies on the sofa. "I can't handle it alone,"
"Leo, on the topic, now." Eldaro is stomping his feet, " I am quite angry when you summon me here. I told you that you do not summon me except that is an emergency,"
Leo stands up and raises his hands, "Okay okay, I will be on the topic." He goes near the map and points to a zone called Maple Jungle, "This is the zone that has a village that isn't on the map. According to our guard, they want their village to appear on the map but don't have enough conditions." Then Leo turns to Eldaro, "I want you to go there and create an adventure guild in there."
Eldaro tilts his head, "Okay, why did you send me there? I don't think they need an adventure guild there."
Leo raises his hands to stop him, "You should go there because I am worried about the lonely living of yours in years since you are retired," Leo turns his body to the window and looks at the sky.
"I see," Eldaro is walking out of the door, "Then I will go. You have a tool?" Leo smiles at his response.
------Maple Jungle, three days later------
The Maple Jungle is spotted in the West of Lavita city. It is quite far from the capital city. The jungle has that name because most of the jungle is covered with maple trees. Inside the jungle, there is the town I just found one year ago. The chief of the village wants this village to have a name on the country map. Inside the town, there are many houses inside, which have a tavern. There is also a market, a luxury villa, a school, etc... enough to be a town.
Not far from the village, there is a small house lying on a hill. People from there usually come there. A lavender-haired woman goes to that house with her kid. When she comes close to the house, she knocks on the door.
"Hey Sunny, it's me. Karen," Karen keeps knocking on the door, "I'm here to announce you one thing,"
The door is unlocked and there appeared an orange dragon with two horns on her head. Her horns point to the back. She also has a symbol like a western dragon is shaping "S", it also has a staff in front of the dragon on her forehead. She also has a light orange belly and red claws. The dragon stretches her body. Karen sees her friend yawn and shakes her head.
"You wake up late again?" Karen pats Sunset's back and continues, "You know it's not good for you to wake up late like that."
"I'm fine," Sunset waves her claw, "Anyway what's new?"
"Well, there is an adventure guild just opened out there," Karen points at the blue building, "Well, I think you should join them because they are recruiting members,"
"I'll pass," Sunset is going to close the door but Karen puts her feet to stop her from closing the door.
Karen looks at Sunset with a glare, "You made me climb the tree last time, now you will come with me." Then Karen grabs Sunset's tail and drags her.
Sunset sighs, "Fine," Sunset gets up and walks with Karen to the adventure guild. "So how many members are in there?"
"Well, there's only an old man in there. Because the villager is hesitant to join them," Karen is walking with Sunset, "Well, people ask that old man to do some work so it's fine, Sunny."
"Okay, let's see that old man,"
After a moment, Karen and Sunset are standing before the guild. It's a small blue building, and has a flag with a coat and staff symbol. Sunset steps back when she sees the guild symbol.
"What's wrong?" Karen knocks on the door while turning her head back to Sunset and smirks, "You don't scare this symbol, do you?"
The door opens and Eldaro is standing there. Sunset's eyes widened to see Eldaro again. The white-haired man sees the girls and sighs.
"So, what are you two doing here?" Eldaro rubs his forehead, "if you want to come inside, go ahead because no one is in there."
"Oh... I see, I will come inside," Sunset steps inside the building, as Karen just standing there. Sunset turns her head back to Karen, "Eh, you come, Karen?"
"No, thanks. I forgot that I have to bring my child to go to school," Karen runs out the door. "See you again, Sunny,"
Eldaro and Sunset go inside the building. There is a bar inside to serve the wine, many round tables and chairs are just put there. There is also a board to take the mission from the people who ask them for help. Sunset looks around and sees it also has two floors. The second floor has three rooms on it. But there is nobody except Eldaro and Sunset inside.
" EH... You haven't recruited anyone yet?" Sunset rubs her head, "Well, I should join this guild anyway."
Eldaro gives Sunset a paper and a pen, "Here, fill this form and we will discuss,"
Sunset starts filling the paper with her basic information. After five minutes, she gives Eldaro back the paper with full information about her, mostly not true information.
Eldaro sees this paper for a while then puts the paper down and stares at her. "So you are Sunny, a dragon robot right?" Sunset nods. Eldaro takes the pen and writes something on paper, then he gives Sunset back that paper. "Here, read it."
Sunset takes the paper and reads out loud, "Name: Sunset Shimmer, Species: Organic dragon, Title: The Black Mage," Sunset puts the paper down and stares at Eldaro, "Hey, I am not a legend you know?"
Eldaro glares at her, making Sunset feel uncomfortable. The ex-captain accuses the dragon, "You think you can trick me, Sunset?" Eldaro points at Sunset's eyes, "Maybe your body changes, but your eyes did not change at all. Should I poke your eyes to check, my little dragon?"
Sunset gives up, "Fine, you got me." then she taps her finger to the table, "Then which rank am I in, Eldaro?"
"Well... honestly this is a hard question because.... your skills are not an "F" rank, but giving you an "S" rank is not right. So... I don't really know."
Sunset points at the "F" rank on the paper, "Well, just give me the "F" rank already. I want to be free as I can."
Eldaro smirks, "Then you will be lazy at hell in this guild? Sorry, but I won't let you at "F" rank." Eldaro puts Sunset's picture at "C" rank, "There, you will start at "C" rank."
"Fine," Sunset drinks some of the wine, "I hate you so much, Eldaro." Then she puts the cup down, "Anyway, I don't know what the guild name is?"
"Is this obvious?" Eldaro points at the guild symbol, making Sunset gulp, "This guild name is Fantasy," Sunset faceclaws at the name, Eldaro rubs his head, "Sorry, I am not good at the name. But anyway... Welcome to the guild."
"Thanks," Sunset points at the empty board, "And you don't have any mission, huh?" then she pours the cup of wine, "I guess I have to play some music, continue the study and training magic here to wait for the mission."
Eldaro nods as he takes out a newspaper to wait while Sunset draws a magic circle upstairs. Then she goes back to her home and draws another one. She steps on the circles and it teleports her inside the guild. Eldaro thumbs up and continues to read the newspaper. Sunset rolls her eyes and knows that her life will not be the same anymore.