Jasper was sent to another reflection room, this time the room was smaller than the last, but still looked about the same. The room had spells in place all over in order to ensure that the occupant stays put. The Justice Guild didn't make the mistake of giving him a knife again, and he was stuck with using a fork or spoon to eat his rations.
"I'LL GET OUT OF HERE EVENTUALLY, AND I WILL FIND MY GROUP!" Jasper yelled at the walls. The walls were soundproof though, and none of his yells reached outside.
Jasper was forming a plan to escape, and he was determined to find his group. The thing about his plans though, is that when he sleeps, guild members are sent to check up on him, and they made sure that any plan he comes up with doesn't work.
The group arrived at the previous city faster than it took to arrive at the town because they wanted to be hasty. They didn't want to risk spies catching them again, so they made it their goal to arrive way faster than they did previously. The group was exhausted, and went to a tavern almost immediately after turning in their assignment.
"Do you think any guild members spotted us?" James asked Wade. James has been asking mainly Wade questions because Wade was the smartest of the group.
"There is a likely chance of that," Wade said. "But we should be fine, our group can defend itself pretty well."
"I can't believe we're level 8 now." Janica said. "We're so close to becoming powerful enough to defeat the Adventurers Guild. I find it kind of funny though, in most fantasy stories, the Adventurers Guild is supposed to be the main guild the protagonists join. But when we were transported to what is basically a fantasy world, the Adventurers Guild is plain evil!"
"And that's why we're gonna kick their ass!" James replied.
"Has anyone seen Zewei?" Corin asked as she walked over to the side of the room they were talking in. "He said he wanted to get some fresh air, but I haven't seen him in a while, and I'm starting to get worried."
"Let's go look for him." James stated.
The group went from their room to the lobby, where the tavern keep was tied to a chair with rope, and Zewei next to him also tied up. There were cloaked men all around them, and each one held a dagger and an ice spike. The cloaked men didn't say a word as one of them wielding a flame spell lit Zewei and the tavern keep ablaze, their flesh melting as the fire consumed them and the surrounding floor, slowing spreading to the rest of the building. The group immediately pulled out their weapons and started blasting at the cloaked men, and they went down with ease.
"SHIT, SAVE ZEWEI AND THE TAVERN KEEP!" James shouted as Corin put out the flames with her wind control spell.
Zewei and the tavern keep's bodies were extremely burnt, their flesh black and hot to the touch, but they still clung to life. Janica quickly healed them both with multiple healing spells, and their injuries healed quickly.
"I don't think they know that Janica can heal literally any injury." James said while the group watched over Zewei and the tavern keep recovering. "Why do you think they attacked us here even though we absolutely destroyed them previously?"
"Maybe they wanted to send a message?" Wade suggested. "They might've tried to burn them in front of us to show that we should fear them, but they seemed to have not realized that Janica's healing spells exist. We should probably not stay here anymore though, I don't think it's safe to stay in this city now that they know where we are."
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The group looted the men, left the tavern keep some money, and the group left the city holding Zewei. They made sure that there were no spies chasing them, and they walked a while, staying alert just in case.
The head of the Adventurers Guild looked through the spies reports with anger. The reports from the spies were sent one after another as spy after spy died following the group, and news of the tavern being attacked also was a part of the reports.
"They're traveling like that group member of theirs didn't nearly die from my men! How does that group member look like he was never affected by my people?! There's no way they healed that quickly, not even the most powerful healing spells and potions can heal that fast! How the hell are they healing like that? I need to send more spies after them."
"Why don't you just leave them be?" Derek asked. "They only harm the guild when they attack them, so why not just let them go, and they'll probably just go off and be harmless to us? We're expending too many men just for a pair of universe-hoppers, let alone teenagers. I know your daughter was killed by universe-hoppers, but they did nothing to you."
The head looked at Derek with a furious expression, summoning an ice spike in his hand and sending it through Derek's stomach.
"DON'T YOU DARE SPEAK OF MY DAUGHTER! Don't you dare talk to me about my daughter, and don't even try to change my view of universe-hoppers. They're the reason behind her death, and any one of them could lead to another one!"
Derek clutched the ice spike in his stomach, blood flowing rapidly from the wound as he pulled the spike out. He didn't say a word as he teleported into his house and used a multitude of healing rituals and potions on himself.
"I really hope those kids get powerful enough to defeat that bastard." Derek said. "He legit used a stereotypical villain habit of harming their own henchmen! I honestly couldn't care less about his degenerate daughter dying to the hands of universe-hoppers, we didn't do shit to her! I really hope he gets what's coming to him. What a shame I can't kill him myself because I have no spells that do any damage."
Derek rested in his house for hours, waiting for the wound from the ice spike to heal up.
The group kept traveling, until they stopped their travels at the end of the floating island they're on. It was nighttime, and the endless sky was black with night. They decided to stop here to plan out their next moves.
"I think we should follow the edge to a town." Wade said. "There is a likely chance that if we travel long enough along the edge of the island, we'll find a port town that has floating ships we can use, or maybe a teleport tower."
"How long do you think that'll take?" Zewei asked.
"Probably a few hours if we're lucky, I don't see a port town anywhere near us at the moment, so let's get moving."
The group traveled along the edge of the floating island, and eventually hit a town when it turned day. The town they arrived at was a small town with many piers and ports attached to it. There was no teleport tower, but there was a building for trips on floating ships. The group purchased a ride on one of the ships where they could sleep in the cabins. They were all tired after the long trip, so they fell asleep fast. The ship headed for an extremely far away island, and other people on the ship were wealthy enough to afford such a far trip. While the wealthy people enjoyed the luxuries of the ship, the group was fast asleep in their cabin.
While the group was traveling, Jasper had been slowly breaking the spoon he had to shape it into a knife so he could use his spell on it and escape. He hadn't written down that plan, so the Justice Guild didn't know of his actions. When he finally made it, he carved a hole in the wall and this time he checked for paralysis spells, where he found out that the spell was being cast from an object nearby. He threw the flaming makeshift knife at a box outside and the paralysis spell went down. Jasper rushed out of the room and guild, and he ran away from the town.
Later on when a guild member came to check on Jasper, he saw the hole carved in the wall, along with the ashes of the box that caused the paralysis spell on Jasper's room. The member rushed to inform the head of the guild.
"Why was a kid like him locked up?" The head asked.
"He threatened Tabatha, and also worked with the Adventurers Guild previously, sir."
"Very well, send a search group after him and make sure he gets captured again. We don't need more of that guild's scum running around freely, do we?"
