VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?

Chapter 106 Stories of past adventures (2)

"Then, granny, tell us a few things about yourself as well."

Now that Alex and Elio had told them about themselves and a short bit about how Miss Rin's life had been in Moongold, they wanted to know more about the adventures of this old couple.

"You were adventurers… How much have you traveled? How many towns, cities, dungeons have you been to?

The Grandpa seems to be a greatsword user and granny must have been at least a (tier-4) master, right?"

Alex could tell the two of them were quite strong despite their old age. Their levels were not too high, but they were still higher than the guards of the Moongold.

Levels don't drop with age, but the strength of the human body is finite. And old age for the normal humans is an eternal truth that brings them down from their former glorious peaks.

Still, the experience that one gains through the growing age is priceless.

Even if they might not have the kind of strength that they might have used to, they undoubtedly had much more experience than any of them did.

"I wasn't a master, missy. But yes, I know a little bit of magic."

The grandma called up her Mana and made a few strings out of it, weaved them together into something new, and made a thread that then vanished into thin air.

"Wow…"

Her control over Mana was amazing.

Elio had seen some mages in the town while they were still there after the library event, but he had not seen them do something like this directly with Mana so this surprised him quite a bit.

"Oh you will be able to do this as well, pretty boy. This is just the basics."

To create original spells, one needed to have an understanding of magic and the elemental properties. And he was studying that already.

But the mastery of Mana manipulation and the kind of precision that she had just shown just now were something pretty complicated.

One needed experience. As well as a lot of practice to handle Mana the way she just did.

"But you know what? I was quite surprised to see a Slime with a wand. It's not every day you see creatures who cast magic, and ones that have a wand of their own are even more rare."

"Hmmm?"

The way she phrased it implied that this was not a one of a kind case.

"Have you met other creatures who had wands, granny?"

Not just Elio but even Alex was confused right now.

As the granny said, the creatures that could cast magic were rare already, but the ones who also had a wand of their own?

"How did you know it was a magic wand though? That's the bigger question."

A wand was a special object that surely contained Mana but it was not something that one could distinguish from the normal objects unless they check it with an appraisal skill and find something peculiar within the information that they obtain.

"Oh, right. I didn't tell you, right? Granny has {Eyes of Vas} the skill that-."

"The special skill that (Blue great apes) possess?"

Alex suddenly looked at the granny with a surprised expression.

"Why is someone possessing such a skill here? You could very well be a royal subject or have a noble title if you want."

She did not know how she had it, but the skill that they were talking about was one of the high ranking skills in the Appraisal skill category.

The (Blue great apes) are on average (Level-150) creatures that are found on the eastern continent's high mountain peaks.

Their famous skill is something so special that not many people in the world possess something like that, and they don't drop the Skill essence with this particular skill that often either.

To see this skill in the Kingdom and not in the empire was pretty surprising to her, but for a granny of some village to possess a skill that only rankers have… this was quite unusual. Read exclusive adventures at empire

"Well…"

Granny did not have an answer for her.

Why wasn't she a noble and just an innkeeper in some village? Well, she wanted this. Not some life of luxury.

"I like being here. That kind of life… it's not for me."

She smiled warmly at Rein. But, Rein could only shake her head at this absurd revelation.

"Haha, there are some unique things in this world, as well as some unique people.

I'm a simple old woman that likes working with her husband in this small village… but we used to be part of a fun group of people as well."

Granny caressed the little slime, and looked at the funny gecko with a warm expression.

"We used to travel together, throughout the world, see places, live in some, go around helping others, fighting, playing… those were fun times."

She told them how they were part of a big adventurers group that used to be famous back in their times.

"Yes, we had met a creature who possessed a wand as well."

But unlike this little slime, that being was an old Ent. Something that was much older than the combined age of the people of their group back in the days.

"I can tell this slime is special through my eyes, I can tell that little gecko is special through my experience, and one does not need experience or a skill to tell this adorable looking bird is, in fact, something unfathomable."

She started her story with them going into a deep forest and stumbling upon an old looking tree.

There, one of their group members suddenly vanished so they started searching for them and they found the entrance to a hidden dungeon hidden under the roots of the giant tree.

They went in, and there, they encountered a single creature guarding doors to a great treasure chest.

"We were young back then, so we challenged the creature."

"However…"

A bitter look clouded their faces and tears almost slid out on the granny's eyes.

"It was a foolish decision… but thankfully… all of us survived."

She lost her own magic wand that day, the grandpa suffered a great injury as well.

They all could have died, but thanks to their leader, they managed to come out of that place alive.

"We reported that dungeon, but it took the sacrifice of Thirty knights, twenty mages, and ten archers to subjugate that creature.

Its magic was beyond human. And… it was fulfilling a duty."

"It was quite a famous incident back in the days, but with time, people forgot about it.

Our friends went their own way, and we settled down in this peaceful place."

Both of them could tell neither of them regret settling down here. They could even tell the two of them were happy here.

So, Alex just nodded with a helpless smile, shook her head while looking at Elio expressing her understanding, and then, seeing how Misha was sleepy once again, Alex suggested something that would cheer up their mood as well.

"How about you tell us more about your time together with grandma?"

The question was directed to grandpa, but they knew it was for both of them.

And from the inappropriate smile on her pretty face illuminated by the orange warmth of the fire, the adults knew what kind of 'time together' she was talking about…