Chapter 42 New Quest

"What am I doing here?" Ethan frowned. "Of course, I have come to bring you back home. You are late for dinner."

Hannah sighed. She looked pretty tired, and the last thing she needed to hear was one joke coming from her little brother. Despite saying that, Hannah smiled a little. A tired smile, but it was a smile nonetheless.

"Father and mother are worried sick since you disappeared and didn't message any of us," Ethan said. "Well, I can see now that you have been busy for a good reason."

"No shit, Sherlock," Hannah crossed her arms and then said it. "Now, give me the details as to how you came here. I can feel that you became a bit stronger way too fast, but even so, you don't have enough mana to connect this world and Earth."

"You worry too much," Ethan said. "I just used my awesome social skills and made your boss give me a hand."

Hannah facepalmed as if social skills had been enough to convince John of anything. She could clearly imagine Ethan threatening him without a care in the world about the problems that might cause. Still, that was a small problem given the whole situation of Meizibio.

"You look really beat," Hannah said while watching Ethan on the ground, the cart, and the strange unknown figure. "Did you come here pulling that with a person in it? Ah… even if you managed to use the portal, you must have landed somewhere far away. Can you two take this idiot brother of mine to an infirmary? He needs medical attention."

"This can wait, Hannah," Ethan said. "Besides, I'm not that beat. I just need a few minutes of rest, and then I will be back to normal. In the meantime, you can fill me in on the situation here. Ah… but your friends should escort her to her home. Thanks for your help, Lili. You are free to go to your home."

"Ah, yes… thank you," Lili said and then lowered her head.

Now that Hannah paid more attention to the hooded figure, she could see that she had some amazing curves. Thanks to that to it, Hannah couldn't help but frown and then look at Ethan, showing her dubious eyes.

"Kids… they think size is everything," Hannah sighed. "Still, you are pretty fast. In all senses…"

"You fantasize too much, Hannah," Ethan sighed. "She is just someone the commander of the first fortress I found lent to me. Although I am recovering my power, I don't have nearly enough to fight for long periods of time. She used her mana to recover my energy… Anyway, enough with the pointless talk."

Hannah started her explanation from the very beginning. As expected, she had come to this world for some diplomacy work when that tremor happened. In the blink of an eye, the most important cities, towns, and fortresses began to be attacked by a horde of monsters. Hannah quickly noticed the danger of the situation, so she decided to stay in and give the people of Meizibio a hand. However, she didn't expect things would last that long.

"Apparently, a certain someone obtained the treasure of a demon king of the past," Hannah said. "That treasure granted their user absurd necromancing powers. That is why we have been fighting for two weeks, but the size of the monster's armies didn't decrease."

"So, the monsters around here are all undead?" Ethan frowned. "I didn't face a single one while I was coming."

"That is probably because the people fighting in other places didn't have the chance to kill a large amount of the monsters," Hannah explained. "It seems you helped quite a lot of people, but by killing so many monsters, you only bought them some time. Anyway, the necromancer is working with some monsters… a certain species of monsters that could control others like puppets. Most of those creatures died when the hero was here, but some managed to hide, and only this troublesome individual found them and probably made a deal with them."

"I can more or less understand things based on that," Ethan said. "Still, I can't understand how come you can't defeat the necromancer."

"You are so simple-minded, indeed a typical warrior," Hannah shrugged. "The relic that man possesses is just that useful. He can reanimate all the corpses under his control without having to be nearby. As if that isn't enough, the more victims the undead make, the more mana he will have at his disposal. The monsters can absorb the mana from our fallen comrades and can send it directly to the necromancer."

That was one hell of a useful relic. Even among the items he could buy in his shop, Ethan could count with his fingers the items that were that awesome. Hannah and everyone else in that world were in a bind. Their hands were full of fighting the monsters, so they couldn't spare a single soldier to look for the necromancer.

pαndα`noνɐ1--сoМ "You must be quite stressed," Ethan said. "You aren't exactly the patient type, after all."

"You said it. I'm about to pull all the hairs off my head if I have to fight for one more week while feeling the smell of so many zombies," Hannah nodded, a bit annoyed. "Unfortunately, I can't just ignore the whole problem just because of minor nuisances. I have some good friends here, and I don't intend to abandon them."

"I imagined that," Ethan said. "Still, it must be around 02:00 AM on Wednesday in our world. I have to be at school in six hours, so we have only sixty hours to solve this. I assume you have already tried the old tricks. Fire, holy water, purification magic."

"We are using all that, but even so, it isn't enough," Hannah said.

It looked like the only way to solve the situation was by finding the necromancer. Ethan had to deal with similar situations in the past, and he relied on Mana Tracking for it. However, the level of the skill was low, and even if he used all the skill points he had and trained that skill like a madman, it wouldn't be enough to solve the problem. In fact, with all the things he could think of, Hannah probably could do much more efficiently. In fact, she probably did all that but failed anyway.

You received a new quest!

Find and defeat the necromancer who is causing a havoc on Meizibio!

Reward: 100.000 coins.

It looks like even Ethan's power recognized that…