I was standing infront of all the 5 elders of the village. All of them had a very strong pressure. I could feel it very clearly.
It was not scary, but it was also not peaceful. It was neutral.
The one with the most influence and power—Eryndor opened his eyes and looked at me. His gaze was so strong that I started sweating and my body out of reflex started shaking with fear for some reason.
He opened his mouth and questioned me without any change of expression on his face, "Are you the one who saved my granddaughter? "
I was too surprised to hear such thing. I didn't even realise that the girl I saved had such a influential family background.
Even though I spent some time inside their house, I couldn't even get a hint of it.
I replied with hesitating voice, "I.. I didn't know that she was your daughter. "
He asked instantly, "Then why did you save her? "
My body finally started to calm down a little and with a big exhale, I replied, "I don't need any reason to save anyone. No one should need any reason to help someone else. A help due to a reason is one of the biggest selfish one could do. A help without any reason is one of the biggest selfless act one could do. What I did was what my heart told me to do. "
He remained silent. He closed his eyes again and started scratching his beard more roughly.
He was in some uneasiness.
I looked at the face of Elwyn and he was totally relaxed. No feeling of distress on his face.
And then suddenly, all the elders including Eryndor looked at me.
I took a step back with a sweat on my face.
I felt like they were going to get hostile at me.
And then out of no where all 5 of them gave a big smile and started clapping.
I was caught off guard. I couldn't understand what they were doing and what was going on.
Eryndor spoke with a big smile on his face, "Thank you very much, kind player. We are really obliged to you. I heard from my son about your request and yes, we wouldn't mind teaching you our hidden cultivation magic but you see there's a problem. I understand that you saved my grand-daughter and I am in your debt but still, you have to complete the hidden quest to learn it. "
A hidden quest, it was in the original webnovel.
There was a character—Hwang Seok. He also took elf realm and did the hidden cultivation quest, but there was never info about the aspects of the hidden quest and what is it's requirements.
I was pretty nervous. I had only one life and if I died in the hidden quest, I will die in reality too.
But I needed the healing cultivation magic to remain alive.
I had to take the risk and so I spoke, "I am ready to accept the hidden quest. "
But there was an uneasiness on the face of Eryndor.
He was roughly scratching his beard for some reason.
He didn't ask the reason, I remained silent. Maybe it was my introvertness or my cowardness. I don't really know. But I choose to remain silent there.
He spoke, "You see, to accept the hidden quest, you must complete the first 10 main quests. And the information I have on you tells me that you haven't completed a single main quest yet, right? "
I nodded with nervousness. I didn't know such thing.
Hwang Seok discovered about this hidden cultivation magic on his journey to a different elf race and he had completed 25 quests by then.
And when he returned to this village again, he had completed 32 quests.
Elwyn spoke before I could, "Don't worry, I have full faith on him father. He can complete those first 10 quests in no time. "
He looked at me with a bright smile.
I looked at him with nervousness, hesitation, cowardness, fear. I was too scared to even think of doing a quest.
They were going to be life threatening.
I again took a deap breathe.
My mind came to relax and I spoke with a big smile, "Of course I can. "
Eryndor stood from his throne and said while scratching his throne, "Well then, come see me when all your first 10 quests are completed. "
I bowed to him and said, "Yes, and thank you for giving me an opportunity to learn the hidden cultivation magic. "
He bowed back and replied, "Oh no, please. You saved my grand daughter. This hidden cultivation magic is nothing infront of her life. "
We said our goodbyes and I walked out of that building. Elwyn was with me.
He patted my back suddenly and spoke, "Don't worry, these first 10 quests are not much difficult. "
I smiled and hid my nervousness. How could I explain to him that my life really depended on them. If I died while completing them then it's over for me.
Elwyn looked towards the sky and spoke, "You should prepare to set out for the first quest. It would be better if u complete them as soon as possible. "
I looked towards the sky too and replied, "Yeah, I could feel something strange in this realm. "
Elwyn remained silent for few seconds and spoke, "I can too. There's going to be some ugly thing soon. We must prepare for it. "
He then looked at my face and asked, "Right? "
I looked at his face back and replied, "Yeah."
He smiled and laughed.
I was confused. I found no reason for such laugh.
He started walking ahead and after walking few steps said to me, "Well, I have some buisness to attend. See you later. "
He waved at me and went to attend his buisness.
I opened my quest menu and there was it—the first quest.