The group arrived at the city at night, where the looked over at James' map.

  "That's a pretty cheap tavern there, should we go there?" James asked the group.

  "Aren't we like really rich?" Janica asked.

  "Yea but the rich taverns are probably a scam, like remember that trip to Vegas? Our grandma paid for one of those fancy rich hotels, and it didn't even have a tv that I could connect my phone to!"

  The group paid for a decently priced tavern and James flopped down on a chair. Jamal was in the bathroom, making his hair different then James so they weren't the exact same. James got up and leaned over the balcony, looking over the huge city. The city was beautiful at night, with lights everywhere and stars showing better than they would on Earth. The cool breeze blew on James' face, and he enjoyed every second of it.

  "Finally a chance to slow down a bit." James said to himself. "Ever since we came here, we were always doing something. I think tomorrow I'm just gonna chill instead of doing the bigger assignments. I should probably tell the group that, eh never mind, I'll tell them tomorrow."

  Corin joined James at the balcony, looking over the city in silence. Janica and the rest of the group watched them weirdly since they were all cold and bundled up in blankets.

  "They're crazy I tell you," Janica said to Wade and Zewei. "It's freezing cold and there they are, just leaning on the balcony acting like they don't mind it."

  "I know Corin is used to wind," Zewei said. "So she probably doesn't mind it being cold, but how the hell is James not minding it? Was it always cold back at where you came from?"

  "Nope, it was quite hot actually. California doesn't even get snow anymore, and in the summer, heat blasts everywhere."

  "Maybe he likes the cold better because he spent most of his life in a hot ass place?"

  "Maybe, maybe not."

  Corin and James eventually came back inside, and the group went to sleep.

  "So we lost track of them." The head of the Adventurers Guild said to Derek. "How the hell did we lose them? That Jasper kid is no longer useful, so how the hell are we going to find them now?"

  "We could wait for our spies to find them." Derek suggested. "Surely with enough time, the spies will find them, right?"

  "IT'S ALREADY BEEN ENOUGH TIME! They should've died back at the first town they were in, and now we can't even find them! Let's go with your plan for now, wait until the spies find them, and then send our powerful groups after them."

  "Uh sir, we lost the majority of our groups when we attacked the Sky Guild, and we only have a few in reserve."

  "I don't care, send them. Send them once they are found."

  James was off exploring the city, while the group decided to follow James' idea of just chilling today. The city was quite lively that day, with merchants out and about, and lots of people walking around. The group didn't know where James went since he ran off without them, but they trusted he wouldn't get himself into trouble. James got himself into trouble.

  James was exploring the city, when a bunch of cloaked figures jumped him when he passed an alleyway. They gagged him and tied him up before putting him in a bag and dragging him off somewhere he didn't know. It took a while, but eventually he was taken out of the bag, and he found himself inside some enclosed wooden room with no windows. Cloaked figures took off the gag and strapped him to a chair.

  "You're going to tell us where your sister is." One of them said.

  "Why do I suspect you're black for some reason." James said randomly. "I ain't racist, just saying that I feel like you're black."

  The cloaked figure pulled out a knife and pointed it at James' throat.

  "Tell us where your sister is now, or we'll spill your blood all over."

  "Jesus, fine. They're off exploring."

  "Where?"

  "Your mom's house. HAHA, got em- SON OF A BITCH!" A knife was stabbed straight into James' thigh.

  "Tell us now, or it won't just be your thigh that's getting stabbed."

  "Jokes on you, I'm into this shit. Stab me daddy!" James pretended to be horny and gay for some reason. He didn't think of a better reaction at the time.

  The cloaked figure grabbed a second knife and stabbed it into James' other thigh. "TELL US NOW!"

  James forgot he could summoned a pistol with a bayonet, so he summoned one and quickly cut his bindings while the man's hand was on the knife in his thigh, before summoning a flamethrower and shooting flames all over the man and the wooden room. The room quickly burnt down, revealing that the room was in some random tavern, and James pulled the knives out of his thighs with a grunt, and stabbed the man before looting his body and making a run for it. James shot a few bullets from his pistol at the men chasing him. The men dropped dead and they dissolved into blood. People on the streets watched in confusion as the blood stained the road. James kept running, checking his map to see where his group was, and headed straight there.

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  "I still can't believe he fell for the mom joke!" James told himself, still bleeding on the thighs.

  Janica looked at her map and saw James approaching.

  "Oh there he is, wonder why he's running at us so fast." Janica said.

  They looked up and saw James with blood stains on his pants.

  "Oh hey guys," James greeted. "Janica, do you mind healing my legs real quick, I got stabbed a few times."

  "WHAT."

  "Yea those kidnappers weren't that big of a threat to be honest, they even fell for a mom joke! Anyway, I should probably not run off alone again."

  The group went back to their tavern room, where Janica cast a healing spell on his legs, making the stab wounds disappear entirely, but the blood stain remained.

  "How did you get kidnapped?" Janica asked after healing him.

  "I got jumped by people who I suspect are black for some reason, and then I got strapped to a chair, where I got knives stuck in me. They tried to use me to find you, but they fell for the most obvious mum joke ever! What idiots am I right?"

  "You seem oddly calm for someone who just got kidnapped and stabbed."

  "They failed to interrogate me remember? They failed, so uh yea, I win."

  "You're an idiot, you know that?"

  "I forgot that disguise spells wear off." Derek said to himself in his ability house. "Now the spies know what city they're in. I got to inform them somehow. Idea, I find where they're staying at, break into their room, and inform them that way. No, that would be too invasive. What about..." Derek rambled on to himself, coming up with increasingly worse ideas to inform the siblings, until he settled on breaking into their room and transporting them to his house.

  "Now how to find out where they live..."

  The group watched videos on James' phone to chill instead of exploring the city like they originally intended. They were interrupted by knocking on their door as the owner of the tavern talked on the other side.

  "Someone wants to see you lot, and they're paying quite the amount of money to do so."

  "Ah shit, is it the guild you think? James asked Janica.

  "If it is, you're doing the talking. By talking I mean shooting by the way."

  They heard another knock on the door, and they found a dark skinned man with a t-shirt that says, "My old t-shirt dirty af, so this is mine now" walked in.

  "DEREK LET'S GOOO!" James and Jamal both shouted.

  "Hello James," Derek greeted, receiving weird glances from the other group members. "I'm Derek, I hope James told you guys about me, anyway straight to the point, there are like a lot of assassins in this city, and they all know that you're in the city now because of James. I'm gonna teleport you guys into my magic ability house(don't question it) and teleport you guys even farther from this place."

  "I'm down immediately, you saved my life." James said.

  "James, you barely explained who Derek was." Janica said. "We can't just trust him instantly, especially since we only met him once before. Can we ask a few questions to see if you're tru-" She was cut off by them being teleported through a black circle in the ground, leading the whole group to throw up on Derek's cave floor.

  "My bad yall," Derek apologized. "I'll answer any questions you guys have now that we're somewhere safe."

  The group looked around the room and saw they were in a cave with a torch hanging from a wall.

  "Follow me and I'll get you guys answers in the lounge area." Derek said as he walked through a wall.

  The group hesitantly followed him through the wall, where the found a room that looked like a living room from Earth. There were two couches facing each other, with a chair next to the couches facing inwards. Derek sat on the chair while the group sat on the couches.

  "Who are you?" Wade asked when he took his seat. "James is horrible at explaining who you were, so all we know about you is that you saved his life and blasted a spell on us previously."

  "You already know my name, so I'll just tell you other things about me. I secretly work for the Adventurers Guild but I'm a universe-hopper. That spell I cast on you was a temporary disguise spell to throw off spies who were tracking your location. Your mate Jasper snitched on James and Janica's locations, asking that you guys wouldn't get hurt. Obviously his request for you guys to not get hurt was not followed, and now the head of the guild thinks he's a liar, and he is currently locked up in a prison cell deep down underneath the Adventurers Guild."

  "So that's where he went," James said. "Fucking prick, hope he rots down there."

  "Why are you helping James and Janica?" Wade asked.

  "Because the Adventurers Guild is fucked up!" Derek replied. "I secretly throw off some of their plans to kill universe-hoppers, which I do stop some of them. James and Janica are now being hunted down because it took the head of the guild longer than he liked to kill them initially. The guild is now mad that it's taking so long to kill two universe-hoppers, and now they're trying to kill you guys even harder."

  "Any chance of fighting back?" James asked.

  "The guild is extremely crippled at the moment after the Sky Guild attack, so if you guys really want to fight back instead of me just sending you far away, you'll have to be more powerful than that. Not to undermine you're previous feats of pushing back against the guild, but you will have to become stronger to fight back alone."

  "I have a question," James said. "Will our leveling ability help with getting stronger? Like we can level up and stuff like a video game, and currently we have this quest system thing too." James pulled up the quest pop up to find out that there is a big yellow claim button underneath the quest.

  Evil Ass Guild

  You have found out why the guild wants to assassinate you, and now know how to stop them. Claim reward below.

  There was another quest below the claim button.

  Get stronger

  Derek has told you how to stop the guild. Reach level 10 first before pushing back the guild.

  Rewards: Powerful Spell Staff, Magic Controller

  James clicked the claim button, which gave Janica and James pop ups.

  New spell unlocked, power level 2.

  James: Improved gun summoning, replaces old gun summoning spell with a better version. Improved Gun Summoning spell costs less energy and is more powerful.

  Janica: Improved shield summoning, replaces old shield summoning spell with a better version. Improved Shield Summoning spell costs less energy and has spikes.

  "Well would you look at that," James said. "Hey Derek, do you have any suggestions on where to kill a ton of things? Oh yea, what's your phone number."

  After their conversation with Derek ended, the group got teleported to an even farther city where the Adventurers Guild haven't touched it yet. Derek said that the city had a reputation of having nearby bandit camps, and he recommended they cleared those out.

  "If it took us like how long to reach level 3," James said to Janica. "How long will it take to get us level 10?"

  "Let's worry about that tomorrow, I need a day where we're not getting chased left and right."