Phantasia: The Princess Knight

It was not long before an older man around fifty years old walked into the meeting room. He had a slight limp in his left leg as he walked and two scars over his left eye that seemed to be permanently closed. "Sorry for the wait ladies. This old injury of mine has been acting up the past few days. My name is Ray Sullan, the guild master here. Which one of you is Alicia?" 

Alicia stood up and said: "My name is Alicia..." 

"Mmm good. That old bastard really knows how to pick a disciple. I looked over your guild test results and I have to say little girl for your age you can outclass many of those old men out there. Hell even in my prime I do not think I would be able to be your match. Haha! Listen to me ramble. Let me get to the point. The mission you ladies took on before was originally and F rank correct?" Ray asked.

"Yes sir. It was an F rank mission to stop earth wolves from attacking Brown Village." Alicia replied. She had found this man who looked scary at first to be rather easy going and friendly.

"Alright so first let me explain a few things here that are not told to anyone when taking the guild test. When you accept a mission, in this case, an F rank mission. There are sometimes variables that will raise the rank of a mission during the course of the mission. In this case, you girls only needed to stop the earth wolves from attacking the village. But unfortunately, you ended up stumbling upon an ever greater threat and if I am correct, Alicia you even fought head to head with a devil yes?" Ray really could not see how such a young lady could fight against a devil. Such a small little girl but yet held so much power. 

"Yes, that is correct. But in the end, I still ended up needing to be saved by someone." Alicia clenched her fist together. She really wished she was stronger. 

"Whether you had to be saved or not does not matter. What matters is that you were able to keep the casualties to a bare minimum by your self sacrifice. On this I thank you. My sister was among the residents of Brown Village. Thanks to you she is still alive." Ray said as he lowered his head to Alicia. He was truly grateful towards Alicia for the courage she showed in luring the devil away from the people of Brown Village. His sister was the last remaining relative he had alive. Thanks to Alicia he now only needed to send a housewarming gift instead of needing to hold a funeral. 

"Mr. Sullan, my goal in life is to become a knight. Someone the people can look up to. Someone the people can trust to help them in their time of need. What I did was only natural. If it was not me, then it might have been Starla or even someone else. So there is no need to thank me. I was only doing what a knight should do." Alicia said seriously. She put her life on the line so that she could save the rest. Luckily this time panned out in her favor otherwise even if she did lure the devil away, if she had died, the devil would have gone back and killed everyone else. Thinking of this made Alicia realize that such actions will be for not if she does not have the ability to stay alive herself. 

"Just Ray is fine. I have to say, young lady, I like that attitude of yours. But I have one question that has been bothering me since I entered the room. Why are you all sweating so much?" Ray had noticed that since he entered the room the four girls seemed to have been sweating quite a bit. But now it was to the point that their hair was almost drenched in sweat.

Alicia laughed dryly as she said: "Master Berlin has put us on a strict training routine and right now we are wearing full body weights…."

"That old bastard is still doing that hellish training? No wonder! I bet right now as you sit here those weights feel like they are getting heavier and heavier right?" Ray asked. His expression was a little grim as if he was remembering a traumatic experience.

"Now that you mention it… They do seem to be getting heavier." Alicia would not have noticed if no one said anything but Ray was right the weights did seem to be getting heavier with each passing minute.

"Quickly all four of you stand up and start jogging in place. The weights will slowly lighten back to their original weight. That old bastard is still playing these damn tricks! Those weights are created in a way that if the wearer is not constantly moving they will start to get heavier and heavier very slowly. Just remembering my days' training as a guard sends shivers down my spine. At least I did not try to enter knighthood. I think I would have died from the training before I even got the chance to become a knight." Ray shook his head and looked at Alicia and the other girls with an expression of pity. He gave up a small prayer for the girls for having to undergo training under that freak!

"I will need to have a little talk with, Master when I get back..." Alicia muttered under her breath. Starla, Rose, and Claire who were standing next to her all heard her and nodded their heads in agreement.

It was actually an easily misunderstood sight to behold if someone were to walk into the room at this time. With four young girls all jogging in place with sweat drenched hair and with Ray sitting comfortably in a chair watching them. They would think he was some kind of demon who made young girls run in place until they were in such a horrible state. 

"Okay since things have turned out like this I will not keep you girls, too much longer. I wanted to meet you all about your guild ranks..."

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