Alfred

"Forget it then. We will deal with him after our mission is complete. But to be able to kill my demon in one shot, this guy must be very strong. We must find out who he is, I don't want things to be disrupted after so much preparation. It is of great importance for the Abel family."

"For the Abel family." Joseph said while bowing.

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Nicholas stood in front of the building of adventurers' association. Many people donned in armors and carrying various weapons were going in and out of it.

He walked to the receptionst to register himself as an adventurer.

"Welcome to the Adventurers' Association. How can I help you?" The blonde receptionist said with a smile.

"I want to register as an adventurer."

In the adventurers' association if a person wants to accepts quests from the association then he is needs to be a registered adventurer. Only registered perosns are able to take quests. During the registration the association will ask the adventurer some basic questions like his name, level, class etc. and will give him a Inone which is basically a bracelet which contain this information.

So when the adventurer wants to accept the quest, he has to show the Inone bracelet.

Other than quests the association also offers adventurers entry to special dungeons which are under the association's control. These dungeons mostly have rare monsters whose bodies can be exchanged for a lot of money.

The receptionist told a person next to her to fetch Robert while she told Nicholas to wait for some time

"Please wait a little. A person will soon take you to another room for registration."

After a few minutes a man named Robert led Nicholas to another room. He pressed an object on the table and a barrier covered the entire room.

"As you know that it is the task of the association to keep the personal information of an adventurer safe, so we set up a barrier during registration so no other person can hear our conversation in the room."

"As for the barrier's effectiveness, you can rest easy. Even people at the War Bringer level will have a hard time hearing anything."

After they sat on the chairs Robert took out a book and began to ask Nicholas about some questions whp are needed to be written on Inone bracelet.

"Your name."

"Nicholas."

"So Nicholas in which kingdom or empire were you born."

"Stardragon kingdom."

"Oh, Stardragon kingdom..."

"...."

"...what is your class and level."

"Lancer, Grade II Warlock."

"Lancer huh... which empire or kingdom you recently came from?"

"Emerald empire."

"Why do you come to the Storm empire"

"Well, I have heard a lot of things about the empire during my travel, saying it is a safe haven for adventurers due to its strict rules. I got curious so I decided to come here."

"And I have to say that this indeed seems to be true, as associations of other kingdoms and empires don't ask this much informatiom."

"These are the empire's rules, everybody has to follow them and even the adventurers' association is no exception unless the council of the association wants a War Bringer to knock on their door."

"From the rumors I have heard, the reason for the empire being so strict is becausen it was once a complete fedaration. But due to some unknown reasons it fell. Only the fedarations are said to have the same rules like the empire. So the empire may have been a fedaration before. But these are just rumors, nobody knows if it's true or not..."

After asking a few more questions and confirming his level with the help of awakening stone, Robert asked Nicholas to wait and left the room.

Other than to awaken a person, an awakening stone can also be used to check someone's level. If someone wants to register as an adventurer in the association then he is required to show his level.

Robert arrivied on the third floor and entered a room. Inside a man was sitting on a chair fiddling with some runic stones.

He was James, a Rune Master. A rune master is able to make runes giving them a special ability which can be used in time of need.

But his level is low so he works as an Inone Inscriptor in the association.

"Hello, Robert. Why are you here? Let me guess. Does a new adventurer came to register?"

"You are right, James and he is a Lancer." Robert put the book on the table in which he had written about Nicholas' information.

"Oh, Lancer class, that is rare." James said while picking a bracelet from the drawer which had a runic stone embedded in it.

He checked the book and began to inscript Nicholas' info on the stone. Robert sat on the chair waiting for his friend to finish.

While James was inscripting his eyes fell on the Stardragon kingdom.

"Oh, this guy is from Stardragon kingdom"

"Yes but he seems not to be interested in talking about it."

"Nobody would like to talk about his kingdom's destruction. But the incident that happened in capital city of Stardragon kingdom is really a mystery."

"Sigh, at first when I heard about it I thought that Stardragon's king must have received an ire of a high level person resulting in the destruction of the city. But after the empire sent people to check that dosen't seemed to be the case."

"I have heard that a weird destructive energy always remaines in the city. Even War Bringers can't stay there for long as that energy continuously destroys their body and they have no way to defend against it."

"So many years passed but people are still unable to find the cause. Morever I have heard that some monsters have seen in that place and they are able to use the destructive filling that place. The first time they attacked, a lot of people had died."

"May the Storm God protect us."

After getting the Inone bracelet Nicholas left the building, looking for an inn to stay.

He looked at a particular location and smiled before leaving.

A place not far away from the Adventurers' association.

Charles and Joseph were standing on a building. There bodies seemed to be shrouded in some type of energy, making others unable to see them.

"Young master, that human seems to have found that we are looking at him. But it looks like he dosen't cares."

"Hmm. To be able to see through your barrier Joseph, this guy should be atleast a War Engraver. Let's first check out his info from the association. We will meet with him after that."

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A man in black robe stood in front of the city. To other he may seem to be a normal perosn but he had a hidden identity. He is a member of the Unit 7 of Lightning Corps.

Lightning Corps are special forces of the Storm empire who deals with criminals.

"Finally I arrived at the Amberlight City. That b*stard Simon must be hiding here. This time I will not let him escape and will finally avenge for my brother's death."

He is Alfred, a Grade II Warlock. He has been chasing after Simom with his team for quite some time. Upon getting the news that Simon is seen going towards the Emerald empire the members of his team all heaved a sigh of relief.

They have chasing after Simon for a year, for the crimes he did. But Simon always managed to escape everytime due to the artifact he had. They have been scolded by their superiors many times. They had tried their best but they were unable to capture Simon.

Even though they had made a device that is able to counter the artifact Simon has, these devices have limited used and are very costly to make.

So when they heard that Simon they all were happy internally, all except one.

Alfred was a member of their team. He wasen't happy about Simon leaving the empire. Because he knew that after Simon left, the empire will not pay much attention to him.

Alfred had a deep hatred towards Simon because Simon had killed his brother. His brother was an adventurer and had became one of Simon' targets.

He had chasing after Simon for a year and isn't able to kill him. He knew that the higher-ups will soon order his team to stop searching for him so he decided to look for Simon himself.