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[Personal Quest]

: Viscount Andrew Ethan Cromwell has taken a keen interest in your achievements in Moongold town and wants to Thank you for your support in the town.

He has decided to take you on a hunting operation.

(Accept this quest to go on the hunting operation in the underworld of Kalp.)

Objective: Show your skills to the Viscount.

Rewards: Achievement: Viscount’s recognition (Rare), A new quest, Access to the unique trade shop of Viscount, additional rewards based on performance in the hunt.

Failure conditions: 1) Death during hunt, 2) Failing to get viscount’s recognition, 3) If it is revealed that the Slime (Az) possesses elementalism affinity to the viscount, the quest would be deemed a failure.

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It was a simple quest, however, the last listed unique failure condition caught their eye.

[{ “Seems like it was the right call to not tell him, Elio.” }]

Alex was smiling at him, which definitely indicated how she already knew how revealing the unique power of the little slime could be a bad idea.

[{ “If you put these little one’s life in danger, Alex, I won’t forgive you.” }]

That was his warning, though he was still not showing any sign of negative emotions on his face.

He was a great actor, that was the only reason she didn’t hesitate to play pranks like these.

[{ “Hehe. Didn’t I tell you about Eve? Andrew’s daughter? Apparently she’s an elementalist with a special condition where she couldn’t use Mana even though she can perceive it and store it inside her body.

She can communicate with the spirits, but it has been proven impossible for her to actually make any contract with these spirits… and apparently, she also has affinity for water attribute.” }]

[{ “And you’re telling me that right now?” }]

For a moment, he forgot all about acting and looked at her with a glare. Then he shook his head and accepted the quest.

“It would be our honor to assist you, Lord viscount.”

She knew about all this, she knew that Az was the perfect Medium for his daughter.

‘It is well known just how much he loves his daughter yet she was doing this?’

He couldn’t believe it. She was practically putting the little slime’s life in danger.

[{ “It’s alright even if Eve comes in contact with Az, right? I’m pretty sure we aren’t going back without meeting her today.” }]

She was a crazy woman, but he knew she loved him too much to mess with the ones around him.

She wouldn’t put the little creature’s life in danger here. He didn’t want to separate from the first ever friend that he had made in this world.

And this quest aside, he sure as hell was not going to let a viscount or any kind of noble take his precious friend away from him.

[{ “Don’t worry, haha. She can perceive the spirits but she won’t be able to tell the spirits that she is feeling are following Az specifically.

And even if she does perceive it, she’s just a nine year old. Az will have to be with her for hours for her to confirm the spirits are, in fact, following the slime.” }]

And that wasn’t going to happen, as she knew.

“Well then, I’ll be looking forward to seeing you two tomorrow morning as well.”

He was a noble that had all the power to forcefully take Az away from them. And, he would do it as well since his daughter was struggling every day just because she cannot do magical things even while being the child of two exceptional mages.

If he needed to deal with two low level foreigners, he wouldn’t really care about it as long as he could see the bright smile on his daughter’s face.

And, she wanted to meet these two creatures everyone was talking about anyway. How would a child have any understanding of the situation they were in?

“Oh. Now that you are done with the talk, would you two like some tea? Or are you a Coffee person like him?”

Tea was the prominent refreshment among the noble ladies of the empire, while coffee was famous among the men.

“I’ll have coffee.”

“I’d like some tea, thank you.”

But the opposite was true between the two of them.

“Oh?”

If they were given the option like this, Elio would always prefer tea since he had always been a tea person, while coffee was somewhat a lifeline for Alex.

“Alright then~. Please wait here just a minute.”

Instead of telling the servants, the viscountess stood up, and almost ran to the back. There was no need for her to do it herself when there were almost three people present just in this hallroom, ready to serve them, but she was doing it herself, which was also a show of admiration of a sort.

“My daughter has been looking forward to meeting you as well as these two little ones for a while now… will it be alright to ask you to wait here until she wakes up?”

“Oh, yes.”

“We don’t mind at all. In fact, it would be nice to make acquaintance with the famous Lily of Cromwell.”

They already knew about the little one and were looking forward to meeting her as well, but since they also had to go shopping for the new quest that would start tomorrow, they had to get back soon so that they could finish some work they had in the city.

They also had to go to the bird sanctuary of Kalp to find a partner for Misha… but it didn’t seem to be possible for now.

“Seems like my little lily is famous.” He had a smile on his face that was typical of fathers.

His well maintained light blue hair and the long yellowish hair of his partner had resulted in a dull fresh green in their daughter. While instead of his crimson eyes that he got from his mother or his wife’s midnight black eyes, his daughter had received the previous viscount’s, his father’s deep eyes.

She was a little child that was famous all throughout the southwest region of the kingdom thanks to the many things that her father had done for her, and because of her.

“Oh, speaking of little Lily, it seems like she’s finally awake.”

They couldn’t tell, but his highly developed senses picked up a presence walking down from the third floor of their house.

“It seems you two won’t have to wait as long as you thought…”

It wasn’t her waking time since it was still early morning for them, but it seems like she woke up early.

It was good for them anyway, but from a father’s perspective… this wasn’t good behavior.

She needed sleep. Proper sleep of at least nine hours every single night.

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