The Cardboard Explorer

Since they did not know what was the real nature of the connection and feeling, it was better to be safe. In the end, they did not come to a decision.

They did however, kept their eyes on Cade especially his safety as they were worried that it will affect Rico too.

When Rico found out that Cade was inside the world dungeon, he was shocked and uneasy. He thought that Cade will not enter the dungeon because Cade was known to him as a weakling but he was wrong.

After he saw what Cade was capable of doing, he knew that he did not need to worry about his safety. His feeling was calm too and that meant Cade was fine in the world dungeon.

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"The feeling is getting stronger. Cade! Hold on! I will come and save you," said Rico but then, he stopped when he saw a huge rock floating in the air above the camp location.

"What… is that?" Looking with his eyes, the huge rock looked ordinary but he knew it from the energy it emitted that the rock was extremely dangerous.

The rock suddenly moved and fall to the camp site, "CADE!!!" screamed Rico and his heart was beating fast. Rico continued running towards the campsite but he stopped again when he realized that the huge rock fell but there were no tremors.

"What happened?" thought Rico and when he looked at that direction back, he saw a huge toad holding the huge rock. "Another monster in this world dungeon?" thought Rico as he was sure that there were no other monsters beside the boarman in the world dungeon.

However, that huge toad suddenly disappeared but before the rock fall more, another toad appeared and held the rock. After that, that second toad disappeared again but another one appeared and held the rock.
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"What the-" Rico was shocked to see what had happened there and suddenly, he saw a blue light flew upwards towards the huge rock and slammed on it.

The impact between the blue light and the huge rock cause a lot of winds and to Rico"s surprised, the huge rock shattered and exploded to pieces.

After that, a few more explosions happened and then, it went quiet. "What? My heart…" Rico touched his chest and his heart was beating normally. The anxious and immediate feeling he had earlier had gone.

"Cade!" he thought of Cade and continued running towards the campsite. He was not sure what actually happened and it was too quiet there.

Rico ran and ran and he arrived at the campsite. Upon arriving there, he saw that the camp was a mess and boarman"s dead body was littered everywhere on the campsite.

He saw that some of the explorers were fine but some of them had died. There were explorers he did not recognize in the camp.

"Rico?! Why are you here? What happen to the mission?" asked one of the explorers there that recognized Rico.

"Everything is fine with the mission. I come here because I feel that something wrong had happened and I was right," said Rico while he looked at all the explorers around him. There were too many new faces.

"What happened here?" asked Rico to that explorer and he continued, "Where is Cade?" as he was worried about Cade wellbeing. The feeling had disappeared and it can only mean that Cade was fine or maybe he had died.

"If you are looking for Cade, he is there," that explorer pointed at a tent. Rico immediately went to that tent with that explorer following behind him.

Upon entering the tent, Rico saw Cade. Cade was slightly injured and he was currently being healed by a girl he had never seen before. The girl had short cyan hair and she looked a bit timid.

Sat nearby them were two man. One with a full body blue armor and another one was tending to his camera. And then, Rico saw a familiar face. A red-haired girl, Sera was there too quietly sat on a corner of the tent with her eyes closed.

Looking around the tent was a tanned skin muscular man with a light green haired beautiful woman. Cade saw someone entering the tent and he was surprised to see that it was actually Rico.

"Rico? Why are you here? Is the mission going fine?" asked Cade. Everyone in that tent immediately looked at the direction of Rico.

"Oh~ he looks fine so the mission must be going pretty well," said the man with the camera. He stood from ground and took Rico picture.

"There is no notification from the system, so I guess the mission is still ongoing but seeing that he is here, is it possible that the mission fail?" asked the man in the blue armor.

"Heh~~ What took you guys that long to destroy the D grade accompanying core? My group destroyed the C grade accompanying core in less than five minutes," said the light green hair woman.

"C grade accompanying core?... She does not look that strong," thought Rico and then he said, "The mission is doing fine. It is still ongoing. I came here because I felt like something wrong had happened."

"Cade, what happened?" asked Rico while looking at Cade.

"You must be blind to ask something that obvious. If you look outside, you will know immediately that they were attacked by the boarman. I thought you were a smart guy," Sera suddenly started talking.

"How can you guys be that stupid and left the camp with only a few people that can fight?" Sera continued.

"Says an arrogant girl like you," Rico stared at Sera and he seriously disliked her especially when she suddenly attacked Cade before. However, he was surprised to see that Sera did not get angry at him when he said that.

"I am just saying the truth," said Sera with calm voice.

"You guys know each other? Ex-girlfriend?" asked the guy with the camera to Rico. He was smiling dirtily at them as though they really in that kind of relationship.

"We are cla.s.smate… Cade too in the same cla.s.s as us," said Rico trying to explain the relationship between them. "Looking at you staying by Cade"s side, you guys must be friends. Sera once attack Cade without any reason," said Rico.

"Cade, you got hit by a girl?" said the camera guy playfully. "Be careful, you might fall in love with her."

Annoyed with the camera guy, Cade decided to left that tent and talked to Rico about what happened. "Wait Cade. I have not fully healed your injuries," said the healer girl.

"It is fine Viola. I will talk to Rico first. Shihoon is disturbing us too much," said Cade while looking at Viola, the healer girl and then to Shihoon, the camera guy.

"You guys should rest. Thank you for helping us," said Cade while bowing to them as thanks. Everyone inside the tent said that they were helping their fellow comrade so there was no need for thanks.

After that, Cade led Rico outside and he started explaining to Rico what happened after they left.

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"I should go scouting the area until they all comes back," thought Cade after the group left to the boarman"s base.

After that, Cade prepared himself and went into the forest to make sure there will be no unwanted enemy lurking around. He did find one or two boarman lying around in hiding.

After that, all those boarman hiding were killed by Cade. It was not an easy fight but not that hard either. He can handle it well by himself.

As he was going around in the forest, he also found a few herbs, trees, fruits, vegetables and animals that the system listed in the mission. Because he had nothing better to do, he gathered all of them for the system.

He completed quite a lot of the missions. Though there were no rewards, he did it with open heart. The system did help everyone a lot and doing something menial like gathering materials was nothing to him.

He had a feeling that the system was planning something with all the things they were collecting. Though he had no idea what, he somehow had a feeling that it will be good for humanity.

"Okay~ I get another one. This is for you, system," said Cade while he was holding the herb that he had just dug from the ground. He put the herb in his storage and a red line appeared on the slot.

That red line indicated that the material was the system belonging. Once it was put there, it cannot be taken out without the system permission. It was possible to take it out if they asked the system first.

Though the system did not give any answer "yes" or "no" but when asked, the red line will disappear. Everyone knew instantly that the system was letting them to use the material.

As Cade was busy searching for materials in the forest, he suddenly saw a light appeared at the camp.

"What is that?"