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Death’s Daughter Chapter 122

Author: “FoodLovingPanda”

CHAPTER 122: I TRIED

I tried, I tried really hard and I have failed miserably. I wanted to stop my advancement at the guild but I couldn’t. For a week I didn’t take on any task at the guild and then one day I went out for a walk when I realized that the area I can traverse had shrunk almost 3km.

The next day I also didn’t do anything and then it became even smaller. I panicked because I didn’t know why this was happening, but I developed an urge to do something at the guild. One day I did several D-rank requests and the boundary returned to its original size.

I realized immediately what was going on. The magic that pig put on me seemed to be connected to the contributions I do for the guild. I thought at first he placed curse magic but this was something different. I don’t know how he can cast magic as complicated as this but I felt annoyed that I was impressed with him. And it didn’t help that upon realizing this, I lost the only straw that held me hoping I would be able to break away from this curse.

That is why I resolved myself to live quietly in Orzak for the rest of my life. I decided to buy a nice house with some terrain and plant vegetables until I grow old and maybe teach kids for some extra income and that way keep the contributions in the guild. Sadly fate was wearing black clothes and had different plans for me.

The first incident happened while I was teaching Archery in my spare time. I decided to help Ronda-chan and her friends to grow a bit stronger. Since they were often in the woods I was worried something might happen to them, so I decided to teach them some basic combat. Even some local kids joined in saying they wanted to learn as well.
Since they were being nice and had their parents’ permission, I decided to do so.

I bought all of them small bows which they would be able to use and made them practice with dummy arrows so they don’t accidentally hurt themselves or others. As we were all on the plains just outside the town all of a sudden the bell for alarm rang from the watchtower. I was startled because this was not rung unless there was real danger approaching the town. I looked up in the distance and saw a Goblin King rushing out of the forest and heading straight towards us.

The kids and the rest of the commoners were all panicking and rushing to get behind the walls. I looked at the terrified kids behind me. No matter how cold hearted I may be and was not willing to show my power in front of others, I couldn’t let them get injured. So without hesitation, I took my Epic-ranked bow and using a single magic powered arrow I struck the Goblin King between the eyebrows killing him on the spot before he could come anywhere close to the town.

Since I already killed one before I didn’t think much of this achievement, however those that have witnessed me do this thought otherwise and because of that I was one step closer to promotion. Taking out a Goblin King was indeed a C-rank request, but that included a party play and a hard battle. What I did earlier was already deemed to be fit for an A-rank, but after a long discussion it went down to being counted as two B-rank requests.

The second incident was two weeks later. This time it was a whole army of orcs. Luckily for me this time around I was alone in the forest and since there was nobody around I felt like I could really go all out with my battle. However, I might have gone a bit overboard considering all the frustration I had pent up recently so my battle caused quite a bit of commotion and attracted all the adventurers nearby.

Needless to say they all witnessed my battle crazy self fighting the orcs and beating them senseless. Sadly among the group of people that were attracted were also the higher-ups of the adventurer guild including the guild master. I was so preoccupied with fighting that I didn’t notice any of them until everything was over, but then it was too late.

To make everything worse, while I was beating them up, they kept on talking about wanting something and needing to get it. Let’s just say I was not thrilled to hear that knowing what my title did to those that couldn’t resist it. Thinking about it the Goblin King was probably also lured by my title.

Once again, I found myself negotiation with the guild master who wanted to promote me directly to settle without promotion. After some healthy threatening it was lowered so that I will only need one more B-rank request after which I will receive direct promotion without the test needed.

As soon as we settled on that, the alarm in the town sounded. This meant something terrible was happening. The guild master ran out leaving me behind. I slowly left his office and walked outside. I firmly decided unless it was something threatening me directly I would not move a single muscle. There are others that will deal with whatever this was.

The moment I took a look outside, I was shocked. The alarm sounded just a moment ago and already there were holes torn in the city walls that looked like it was about to collapse. I could see the guild master running to help with defenses, but as soon as he arrived, the walls collapsed and a creature double the size of Yoru, my summoned wolf, knocked down everyone and came rushing towards the guild building.

I knew what it was aiming for. At this moment I really want to kill my mysterious man for making me deal with all this. And also, couldn’t have this thing waited until I was out of sight of everyone and then attack. That way I wouldn’t have to deal with being promoted. Seriously nothing ever goes my way.

The monster that looked like a white tiger kept running towards me. I stimulated all my physical power and focused it on my hand. The moment he was about to reach me I threw out a punch and sent him flying into the city wall.

“You stupid, idiot thing! I just barely got out of being promoted and then you came and ruined everything. Couldn’t you have waited like an hour before I left the town? Do you have any idea how hard I am working to not get promoted. You’re an idiot. This close, I was this close from escaping…”

I climbed atop the tiger and kept on preaching him. The scene was hilarious when looking from the outside but I made sure that the tiger would be unable to move using dark magic as well as pressure from my titles of monster slaughterer and Deathgod which created a certain aura of pressure to those around me, and my own bloodlust. I shouted curses and insults at it. And in the meantime those that were knocked out regained their senses and were preparing to defend once again only to be greeted with the sight the tiger being subdued. Everyone was still on edge but then something happened that none of us imagined.

[SKILL: Taming LV6]

I stopped mid motion which only made everyone tense up. I was definitely not expecting this outcome when I started beating it up, but even when I stopped there was no sign of struggling. I undid my magic and allowed him to move and it still remained calm just standing in front of me. I couldn’t resist and told it to sit down and it sat down. Then the paw, lie down, roll over. It fulfilled all my commands.

“If master wills it I will comply for master is my desire and wish.”

That was definitely a male voice. I could not believe this, this way I would rank up for certain. This is not fair; I just want to live a calm life. I collapsed on the floor and began wailing from the top of my lungs.

“UWAAAH! Why is life so cruel and unfair? Why must I suffer so much? UWWAAAH!”

“Master what is wrong. How can I help? Tell me what can I do?”

“UWAAH! It’s over, just do whatever, this is all your fault. Go and keep guard at the hole in the wall or something I just want to be alone.”

“Since my master wishes it I will do it.”

I kept on wailing and crying until I could cry no more tears. Thankfully nobody came to bother me while I was having my breakdown in fear I might do something to them. This let me cry in peace and calm down on my own.

I tried, I really tried to stop my advancement and failed. I could see my doom approaching faster than ever. It is really not fair.