[ Kirito ]

The monster let out a scream of pain if I hadn't been in so many life and death fights before, I would have felt pity for it and its friends.

There were men and women amongst them, some shared some similarities with those we had inside the castle, this made it even more important that we exterminate them before the two could encounter one another.

Underneath their masks, they were disturbingly human.

The rest of the adventurers and the knights from the various kingdoms from the castle had already stopped fighting and had begun to take anything that seemed useful, things like tablets or technology, went to us adventurers, while everything else was meant to be split between the kingdoms and the adventurers.

That included the bodies.

"Hey, did you notice something odd about these ones" Klein asked me as he picked up a sword that laid next to its previous owner.

"Yeah, they had some sort of shield around them and they could soothings the rest couldn't. Maybe they were some kind of field boss or something similar to them.

"We need to start exploring the caves, from there we set up our defenses, what are the ones in charge saying?"

Klein looked at his help screen before he began to scratch the back of his head.

"Apparently if we're not already inside the caves we have to keep watch out here in case something happens"

We both began to walk around, but nothing interesting is happening, nothing except for the sound of gunfire coming from the inside of the caves.

Hours passed and finally, the cleanup crew began to walk out carrying the bodies of the enemies.

Defenses are easy to build because we can teleport the materials directly from the castle, and most of them are already marked to we can just put them together.

The caves are going to be surrounded by two sets of walls one separating the caves from the outside and another one separating the caves from the place where the settlers are going to be living.

The agreement is simple, the town or village is to concentrate on keeping itself alive, all knights and settlers are to keep it secured while guarding the caves.

Like it or not, for now, the settlers are to be the main security around the caves and collecting of the crystals is a secondary task, we simply don't have enough people here.

Regardless our job here is done and our payment is all the crystals we can carry, along with the monster's weapons so I'm okay with it.

Its time to go home.

Two weeks later

[ Jaune]

I watch Riza leave with the Third, her father she had been my partner my firend, she taught me a lot but I failed to beat her dad and now its time to go home, the various airships from different kingdoms are landing in front of me.

Kirito, my handler places his hand on my head as he tries to give me some comfort, I learned a lot here, two weeks living in the castle taught me more about being an adventurer than what I've learned about being a huntsman, back home.

The man never showed up, to help me do anything, he would just send me weapons or say that I was slow in my movements, while at the same time sending me videos of what I had done wrong.

It was because of this, that I knew he was always watching keeping me safe.

I don't know what deals were made or why no one seemed to like each other, but I'm going home, Grandpa is waving at me, he's signaling to me, to get on the airship.

I felt grandpa touch my head and as I look at him he's smile.

"I'll sign the papers you can take the test for Beacon," he says to me, his voice is somehow comforting.