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[Diana, Gizzere and Ram at the merchant guild office]

With Ram himself having just arrived, his son pours him some coffee into a large cup, a strange choice considering that it's 2 minutes away from noon, but considering that he was working nonstop from last night, a coffee is what he need right now

"Sorry Princess Diana, I'm late" [Ram]

"It's fine, really, must be due to yesterday incident" [Diana]

"Sure does" [Ram]

"Is Alice fine?" [Diana]

"She's fine, but I force her to get some rest for now, as she's quite reluctant to do so" [Ram]

"I see, hope she will not be traumatized after this experience" [Diana]

"Same here" [Ram]

"Well, shall we move on to our agenda for today" [Gizzere]

The two nodded in unison, they're currently discussing the endemic disease that keeps on happening each year. With no identifiable causes, all they can do now is to take measures to treat the increasingly infected victim

"This must have been the worst endemic thus far, it just started one week ago and yet, look at the number of people affected" [Ram]

"Agree, and with how the merchant and the neighbouring countries taking opportunities to raise the medication prices, the number of infected will continue to rise" [Gizzere]

"To make matter worse, the highest healer who is an old follower purposely ignore the country request to help us this year, honestly..." [Diana]

Diana releases a breath of sigh, since she and her father decided to make a statement to support the new saint and saintess, the old follower of the church decided to withdraw their support towards Estel, this causes some uneasiness among citizen, plus the merchants, nobles and some of the royals decided to use this opportunity to gain the old follower trust and support. They pour their resources to gain trust, and in return the old follower will convince the masses to follow or trust their sponsor. This, couple with the fact that the church purposely made the treatment inaccessible to the masses by increasing the cost of treatment (and thus blaming Diana for it) causes more and more problem to those who support the new saint and saintess

"How about the new young healer from the new follower? Are they reliable?" [Gizzere]

"Sadly, not yer. The endemic spread like wildfire and couple with their inexperienced, I don't think we can rely on them yet" [Diana]

"That's discouraging" [Ram]

And thus, they continue to discuss measures to limit the number of people becoming infected this year

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Last time, Rean and the other only get to experience the first floor, so let us descend further downward, third floor should be fine.

With me using the bus golem to get around between the floors, only storing it when necessary, we arrive on the third floor quite fast. Liyana, as expected become excited when she get the chance to ride a "strange transportation" (according to her), she sits just beside Elise while her guards are forced by me to sit at the back most at first, of course they're reluctant to do so

"If you guys wanted to seat close next to your lady, you better not disturb any one of them, or else..." [Ash]

They're annoyed alright, guess Diana method of threatening smile only works wonder for her, but they're not a total idiot, they do know what I'm capable of, so they just sit there nicely, not bothering a soul

On the third floor, I park back the bus golem inside the item box magic, and now, is time to look for an easy monster to practice their magic, and it sure doesn't take us long to do that

"Rean, show me the result of your training!" [Ash]

"Right!" [Rean]

With seven normal goblins and three lesser goblins in sight, Rean unsheathed his weapon and imbued it with his fire mana. His stand is now proper as compared to last time, I have to thank Jacks for that. I wonder if I can hire Jacks to further teach Rean.

Rean, without making any noise, dash toward those goblins. The goblins react by swinging their club but

"Too slow!" [Rean]

Rean simply sliced each one of them, not even giving them a chance to fight back

"Excellent!" [Ash]

"Thanks" [Rean]

I guess his training started to bore fruit, maybe he is on par with G rank adventure. With some more training, I'm sure he can fulfill the requirement that I set. Now, onto the next one

"Elise, Liyana, how about both of you go next" [Ash]

""Yes!!"' [Elise, Liyana]

I have explained to Liyana how to properly use her magic to her. As it turns out, one of the reason she is reluctant to join us in the first place is because of her improper control over her own mana pool. Her mana pool is large for her age and thus causing her to lose control over it, and with her family not supporting her properly, Liyana confidence in magic goes down. Poor girl. Still, explaining alone isn't enough, so I have to gave her some of my control mana for now, this will help her to access her own power more safely and better control it. If she plan to come and train with us next time, I'll slowly decrease the amount of control mana I gave her so that she wouldn't become reliance on it

There's five normal goblins hunting a rabbit, looking at the five goblins, Elise and Liyana begin to fire their magic. Elise manages to hit 3 goblins right into their face, and as for Liyana, her ice arrow magic miss the target, you think she would become sad but

"I did it, I manage to fire my ice magic!" [Liyana]

"!" [Guards]

"Great job!" [Ash]

The guards who don't even bother hearing to my explanation just now are surprised, still they look genuinely happy 

"How about you try to shoot the last goblin" [Ash]

"I will!" [Liyana]

Elise already killed the fourth goblin, as for the remaining goblin, it tries to escape, running in a straight line, making things easier for Liyana

"I did it!" [Liyana]

"Great job" [Elise]

"Thanks" [Liyana]

And now, we move on to the next group, Kara, Mara, and Zerolith. Seeing a group of 7 zombies, they quickly went into position, with Mara dashing ahead while the other two support her. Two of the zombies are runner zombies, known for it speed, and they charge straight to Mara, but

"Take this!" [Mara]

Mara quickly uses her knives and cut the legs of the runner zombies, letting Kara and Zerolith finish them off afterward. The remaining five zombies were quickly dealt with 

"I believe this is the first time you deal with runner zombies, you guys did great" [Ash]

"""Yes!""" [Kara, Mara, Zerolith]

Next, a group of five goblins, Karon and Farhah volunteer to take care of it. Karon and Farhah combine their magic, making large boulders with multiple small sharp thorn in between, the goblins get squeeze in between the boulders. Even I can feel the pain just by watching, it's a good show but

"Karon, Farhah, don't do that. I know that both of you are trying to improve your mana pool as well as your magic proficiency, but doing so in real life will drain you quickly, leaving you susceptible to attack afterward" [Ash]

""Yes..."" [Karon, Farhah]

They look down, I should praise them 

"But your combine magic just now is excellent, good job!" [Ash]

""Yes!!!"" [Karon, Farhah]

Haha, kids sure are easy 

"Alright Singa, Savel and Charlotte, the three of you are next. See that three goblins there?" [Ash]

"""Right!!!""" [Singa, Savel, Charlotte]

And that's their target, still I just realized one of it is a lesser hobgoblin, you think that will be difficult for them but no

"Bye bye Mr Goblin" [Charlotte]

She just straight away drown the hobgoblin by water sphere magic, and 

"Huh?" [Ash]

Are you kidding me, I'm sure Claude and I still haven't taught her ice magic, but she instantly freezes the sphere and lift it above the ground to quite a height before releasing the now ice sphere, shattering the sphere and killing the hobgoblin. Such talent, does she learn just by observing Liyana just now? No, that still doesn't fully explain it, or she could be gifted in magic. 

As for Singa and Savel, they follow their favourite technique, with Savel making an illusion of herd of fatty rabbit, the goblins chased them down while they make a sneak attack from behind, killing the goblins

"Nicely done the three of you! Charlotte, great job on that Ice magic just now" [Ash]

"""Yes!!!""" [Singa, Savel, Charlotte]

Owww, here I thought Singa and Savel will become jealous, but they felt happy for Charlotte as well. Even Liyana is clapping, impressed by Charlotte's ice magic

"Alright then, there's still some time left before 600pm, so let us..." [Ash]

"MEOW!" [Behe]

"Yeah, I sense it as well Behe, Rean, protect the other" [Ash]

"!" [Rean]

Direction, around 4 o clock, and there! Four children being hunted down by an orc. The orc looks happy, treating the kids as play things, plus

(Those four, aren't they!) [Ash]

No time to think

By using my fire magic, I make a fire wall and surround the orc

"Ray, Mile, Kat and Blanc, go there first and wait for me" [Ash]

I pointed out towards Rean direction, they can see Rean's group, just as they started running

"Meow!" [Behe]

Behe quickly shot a beam of light magic and

"Head shot! Nice job Behe!" [Ash]

"Meow!" [Behe]

And now Behe is wagging his tail, how cute. Better put out the fire first before treating him some nice orc meat.

Now then,

"Ray, just what are you doing here?" [Ash]