Quest Catalog [C48]

At the entrance to the Capital of Arsia.

"We are finally back. Look Phylia, this is the entrance of the City."

Both Shu Himo and Phylia's eyes were sparkling looking at the size of the walls, why did it feel so satisfactory to watch?

They then jumped the queue and went toward the same guard Shu Himo met each time.

"Hi! We see again sir guard!"

The guard seeing Shu Himo was startled, he still remembers me?

Waking up from his previous stupor, he then looked worriedly toward Shu Himo.

"What's the problem?" Being gazed like that made Shu Himo have a bad feeling.

"It's better if you don't come back here. The Valhanna family threw all your family in cells, and in three days from now there will be a public execution."

Shu Himo was startled, I left a couple days and they already acted?

As if the reason they could not act before was due to himself, Shu Himo somehow thought they waited for when he was outside the Capital.

"Do you know their cultivation levels?"

"Eh?" The guard was startled, did Shu Himo want to fight them? Still, he leaned closer and started to whisper in his ear. "I heard that the strongest of them is at Dantian Core Formation of the 6th String, and the reason they managed to beat your family is due to the sheer number."

"I see..." Shu Himo hearing this information started to consider his options. "I will return in two days. Thanks for the information."

While walking away, Shu Himo suddenly heard a *Ding* from the system, followed by a quest.

[Abrupt Quest: Save your Family!]

[The Valhanna family and the Arasura sect conquered the Kingdom and now they want to make a public execution to show their strength. Save your family and show them that you cannot be bullied!]

[Quest Difficulty: S]

[Quest Reward: 100 BS points.]

[Quest Failure Penitence: Unknown.]

The guard was startled, return in two days? He did not manage to react before Shu Himo and Phylia suddenly vanished from his view.

"Thinking about it, what were those clothes?" Thinking of the Battle Suits of Shu Himo and Phylia, the guard felt strange.

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Shu Himo and Phylia, now are a couple kilometers from the gate of the Capital.

"There is only one way to be sure. System... I never thought I would do it... but 'Quests!'

[Welcome to the Quest Catalog. What are you searching?]

"I need a quest that can be completed in less than 2 days and that it gives at least 87 BS points so that I can buy the Dantian Core Formation 1st string fragment for 100 BS points."

[Searching for the Perfect Quest...]

[Quest Found!]

[Survival Quest: Survive against 1000 Headgators!]

[You will be transported to a special realm where you will fight 1000 Rank 4 Headgators. If you manage to survive 2 days or kill all of them, you will have completed the quest.]

[Quest Difficulty: A+]

[Quest Reward: 0.15 BS points every killed Headgator.]

[Quest Failure Penitence: Death.]

[Will you accept? Y/N]

Reading through the quest information, Shu Himo noticed that it was a hard quest, but he would not give up just because of that. "System, information about the Headgators?"

[Not allowed.]

"I see... but I will still accept!"

The exact moment after he accepted, Shu Himo found himself in another area.

[As you have tamed a Slime, it will follow you in the realm for the Quest. Good Luck!]

Around himself, he could only see the grey of the room and Phylia, giving a heavy feeling.

Only after a couple seconds, the sides of the room suddenly opened, revealing the surrounding area.

It seems to be in a swamp, Shu Himo thought. "Where are the Headgators?" While taking out the Scythe of Doom, Shu Himo got ready to fight.

As if answering his question, suddenly 5 Headgators came out of the swamp, jumping toward Shu Himo.

They seemed to be heads of an alligator, but they did not have the rest of the body, how is that possible?

Seeing how fast they were, Shu Himo started rotating with his scythe, seemingly in a dance.

*Cling*

The Headgators got thrown out of their trajectory and fell again in the swamp, but one of them was not so lucky: Phylia, morphing her arm into a huge blade split in two a Headgator who already lost his momentum due to Shu Himo.

Seeing their comrade dying like that, they all got alarmed but still felt the rage inside, and the instinct of revenge suddenly entered inside making them all jump toward Shu Himo and Phylia.

Shu Himo, seeing that this time more than 20 Headgators jumped toward him increased the speed of his scythe, while he did not mastered the scythe completely is still better than before, so he could still be fine with that speed.

Deviating the Headgators from their trajectory every time, and even slicing in half some, Shu Himo stopped all of them from hitting him while Phylia seemed to be having fun, jumping in the middle of them and morphing all her body in many tentacles holding sharp blades, killing off every Headgator that dare get closer by slicing it in two.

The Headgators, feeling a true threat from Phylia suddenly changed their movement pattern, and started flying. Now they all stood far from her, while they tried to kill Shu Himo.

"They can fly?!?"

Seeing them flying Shu Himo was startled, how can they fly just by having a head! Not having a way to gain information about them, he started getting pushed back, completely in defensive.

This created a situation where the fight is in a stalled phase.

Shu Himo pondered of how to break this situation and came up with an idea.

Retreating, jumping in front of Phylia, he then said, "Phylia, morph into a collar, attach yourself to my neck and form blades to attack the monsters!"

Phylia was taken aback by this strategy, but she felt it would be fun to try and jumped on Shu Himo's back, morphing into a collar.

Suddenly, the situation completely changed: Shu Himo was not in the defensive anymore, and actually charged straight toward the Headgators!

Shu Himo started using the scythe in a way to make the Headgators lose momentum and speed by deviating their attacks, while Phylia continued to morph herself making seems as if Shu Himo's neck is full of long blades that keep split in half every Headgator the moment it comes close.

Right now, Shu Himo and Phylia seemed the incarnation of a Headgator butcher itself.