I decided to do some missions before I headed home. I looked through a boring list of missions when I found something interesting.


    Oh, restraining a group of wyverns. That sounds cool. It seemed to prefer the Silver Torrent role. Well, aren''t they lucky?


    I took the mission and read the details. It was not too far from here as it was on the other side of the lake. Some wyverns were attacking people but the eccentric person wants to tame one.


    Let’s turn those wyverns into ice cubes Nilah!


    I headed toward the location and I saw 4 people talking to who I assumed to be the one wanting to tame a wyvern. “I’m telling you! You need to restrain them! Not kill them or severely wound them!”


    “And how are we supposed to do that, they can kill us if we’re not careful!”


    “Yeah, you can just tame the one that got lucky and knocked out without major injuries!”


    I could understand both sides here. But asking to restrain wyverns for such a silly reason is stupid. I encountered a real wolf beast kin, a lizardman, a human and something that looks like a human but I’m sure he isn''t a human; he is a bit tall for a human. The human was the only female and she seemed to be a Golden Angel. I actually wanted to test something that took inspiration from my fight with Inyr. I might be able to complete my other ultimate skill with that but the mission is to restrain so I can''t use that.


    Good morning can I help?  The adventurers looked at me. It seems they were thinking: ''here comes another one''. The unreasonable guy seemed to be excited,


    “Hey, aren''t you supposed to be in magic university?” The human chick asked. She seemed to be in her late 20’s


    “What’s that? Something wild you humans have going?” The beast kin asked.


    “It is a school where young humans go to master magic.” The human responded.


    “Sounds wildly boring hahaha!” I agreed with the wolfguy.  School or university is for people who lead boring normal lives, the best teacher is experience, I can drop the wyvern faster than any university guy but since we’re restraining them that shouldn''t matter.


    “That’s him! That’s him! The guy I need! I didn''t know you were here in Aquini! Thank you for taking my request!” The requestgiver said excitedly. He was holding a leash for a dog. I surely hope he knows that that won''t work on wyverns.


    “Wait is this the Silver Torrent? He is just a kid!” the human seemed shocked.


    Hey, I turned 18 last December!


    “Well, he must be well known for a reason, right? You humans and your wild rules, if he knows his stuff, his age shouldn''t matter.”  I’m Silver Torrent, this is Nilah, who might you be?


    “Wild Fang! Nice to meet you! I have never heard about you but the humans seem to know who you are!” Wild Fang said while wildly shaking my hand.


    “I’m Alicia Dwarf, nice to meet you.”


    I looked at the short human. Is it because you’re so short?


    “Noo that''s my real name! I don''t have an adventurer''s name yet...”


    “Wahahaha I like you Silver Torrent also this wild guy’s name is Gilbert, he’s not much of a talker.” Wild Fang pointed at the big guy.


    “I am Dragon Warrior! Nice to meet you!” The lizardman did some weird movements with his swords as if he was fighting something and sheathed them.”  But you’re not a dragon…


    “Not Yet!”  Lizardmen can turn into dragons?


    “I will become the first one to succeed!”  So that''s a no then…


    “Uhm, It is nice to meet you Silver Torrent but can you do something about those?” The short chick pointed at the wyverns that were wreaking havoc on some humans.  And why hasn''t everyone evacuated?


    “They''re stubborn…”  And dead if they don''t get out of here!


    I counted all the foolish humans running around, threw an equal amount of frost marbles into the lake behind me and swapped the humans with them one by one. They all fell into the water. I connected to the air leyline currents and [Flushed] them all to the other side of the lake, where Nelfim was located.  Good riddance.


    “Ooh that was cool! Your role had something to do with control right, this seems quite useful for control. Hey hey, can you keep a wyvern still so I can use my [Wild Claw] on them?” I shot out daggers and wires and bound a wyvern and it dropped to the floor. “Whoah! That’s wild! Take this!” Wild Fang was going to town on this wyvern. We were lucky that there were still more. I bound another wyvern with wires and dropped it in front of the idiot who wants to tame a wyvern.


    There you go.  The wyvern tried to struggle but he couldn''t move much. These guys are lucky that these wyverns are just infants. Teenage or adult wyverns would have levelled this city in no time.


    “That''s it?”  That’s it. Now take your wyvern home, we need to deal with the rest here.


    I could send Nilah after them but these adventurers were here for some action too so I decided to be considerate and team up with them to dispatch the wyverns.


    “Whoah that felt great! Hey, where did that wild request guy go?”


    “Our friend Silver Torrent here bound a wyvern and completed the mission, but there are still wyverns left so I can show off my dragon powers!”


    “Oh, that''s Wild! I have a question though for the dwarf.”


    “I’m not a dwarf!”


    “Won''t you be useless with that guy here?” Wild Fang pointed at me.


    “Huh? Why is that?”


    “Well, when his role got announced there were some speculations going around that it might be a good alternative to having a Golden Angel, both are rare but you don''t need a Golden Angel if you don''t get hit.”


    Hmm, this guy makes the same point I made to my buddies years ago. The wyverns noticed us and came for us. I shifted stance and used [Howling Updraft] to send them flying into the air and then used [Pressure] to slam them down. Wild Fang went ham on the wyverns that were grounded.


    “See! They can''t even do anything to us and we get to do wild damage!”


    “Don’t forget me! [Dragon Claw]!” is what Dragonboy said that but he was just slicing at the wyverns with his swords.


    The silent guy stretched his hands out and shot [Dark Bolts] at the wyverns. Another wave of wyverns approached and I used [Counter Spin] and all the wyverns got stuck in fast-spinning air balls that dropped to the floor. I didn''t use [Blender] because that becomes messy and gives these adventurers less to do.


    “More free damage!” Wild Fang was loving it, and so was the wannabe dragon. The chick didn''t seem like she could do anything. All the wyverns were dealt with after an hour.


    “Whoa, that was wildly easy and effortless, I now understand why they made such a big deal of it. I guess the only downside is that it deals no damage.” I decided to leave them in this delusion.


    “Hey, I have a mission tomorrow to fight a lich and a skeleton army in some cave nearby, can I ask you to help out?”  Uhh sure but wouldn''t that leave you with not much to do?


    “Well, a bored Golden Angel is the best-case scenario, how much we dislike to be bored.”  I''ve heard that line before, sure, I can help out.


    “Heyhey! I want to help out too! I like free damage!” Wild Fang seemed more interested in doing free damage than the quest.


    “You guys could use the assistance of a dragon.” Dragonboy did the thing again with flailing his swords and trying to act cool.


    The silent guy walked away.


    “Great then we have a party!” Both Wild Fang and Dragonboy seemed to be Unstoppable Beasts but that''s fine, I am quite flexible. As long as the dwarf stays alive, she can fix us up. We can get as reckless as we want. Wild Fang and I made the same face, it seems we had the same thought. We fist-bumped each other and returned to Nelfim.


    We collected our reward and a bonus for wiping out the wyverns. I got asked about Nilah and gave them the usual warning. Nilah was quite good at collecting mana. We ate together at a restaurant and would meet up at the east gate.


    During the night I practiced parts of the ultimate skill I came up with during my ocean training. I couldn''t do everything because that certainly would draw attention, the part where Inyr coiled around me and gave me no escape was what inspired me. Just like [Silver Torrent], this skill will be near impossible to escape from. My opponents will have fucked up if they allow me to use this. I made Nilah act as my opponent and she tried to find ways to get out. It allowed me to fine-tune it. Nilah was small so if she can''t slip out nobody can. The sun started to rise so I took a short nap in a tree outside the city.


    We’re going into a cave so shit will go down. I don''t know how but life will find a way.


    Nilah woke me up and it was time. I quickly freshened myself up in the nearby lake and waited at the entrance. The dwarf was already waiting there. I was on time. Dragonboy was cutting it close and Wild Fang was 10 minutes late.


    “You’re late!”


    “Meh, I wildly overslept sorry!”


    We fist bumped and the dwarf rolled her eyes. “Let’s go! This mission might take long.”


    “They will fall to my mighty [Dragonbreath]!”


    “Ugh, Bro did you brush your teeth? You smell wild! And not in the good sense!”  The liches don''t have any noses so you might want to use another attack to kill them.


    I held my nose and took peppermints out of my dimensional pocket and threw them to Dragonboy. He caught 2 and dropped the other 3.  … A dragon that can’t catch? That’s a new one.


    “It was too sudden even for my dragon reflexes!”


    We went west and entered the cave. “My dragon eyes can''t see a thing!” Wild Fang and I seemed to be see just fine. The dwarf made a small [Fireball].


    “Ohh how wild, you can use fire, dwarf?”


    “I’m not a dwarf! I’m a human! And anyone can use [Fireball] even if they don’t have a fire affinity”


    “That is wild! Is that so?” I nodded and made the weakest [Fireball] I could make.


    “Whoa so hot!” The dwarf looked at me and turned off her [Fireball], I guess I’m the lantern now. We kept walking through the tunnel but nothing seemed to be off, just some strange clattering.  This cave seems to be empty...


    “Don’t you hear that clattering?!” Dragonboy said looking around paranoid. “But he is right, sound is air and air is nothing! That is what my dragon senses tell me!”  I think you need to take your dragon senses back to school.  We hit a dead end not too long after.


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    Is anyone proficient in earth magic? This cave might be empty but there must be something behind this.


    “I can''t use earth magic but I got something better!” Wild Fang started to glow and grow bigger. We cautiously went to stand behind him. “[Wild Charge]!” He crashed into the wall. It started to crack, he took a leap back and did it again. The wall broke down after the third attempt. His head was bleeding and the dwarf healed him.


    “So reckless!” Wild Fang gave a thumbs-up as he returned back to normal. He blasted the hole, making it bigger and revealed a huge underground room. A lich was holding a speech to an army of skeletons and we seemed to have interrupted. They turned around and stared at us.  Right, sorry to disturb you, I think we got the wrong address, please continue!


    “What the fuck? We didn''t order anything! Guys, they are intruders! Get them!” The lich ordered after pointing at us. The skeleton army started to clatter even more and ran at us.  Right, it’s time to go.


    Wires shot out of my dimensional pocket, I gently wrapped them in wires and pulled them along as I dashed out of the cave.


    “Where are you going?! Our targets are right there!” Dragonboy said while pointing his sword at the skeleton army that was following us.


    “Ohh, I get it lure them into the sun so they become ash! That''s a wild idea!”  Dude, they''re skeletons, not vampires, the sun does fuckall to them!


    “Oh… aren’t we wildly screwed then?”  I assume that skeletons make for poor swimmers.


    “Ooh, I can show off my water dragon powers!”


    “Are you a water user Dragon Warrior?” Dwarf asked.


    “No, I am not.”


    “...”  … You are worse than an actual dragon.  The skeletons were quite slow and I had to stop from time to time to lure them and get them to the lake. These guys had a short attention span so they wanted to chase whatever living beings they saw.


    Hey, assholes! Over here! Please focus! We were the ones that got your address wrong remember?!  The skeletons remembered why they were mad again and chased after us. The lich was nowhere to be seen. It took a while but we finally got the skeleton army to the lake when I saw 2 skeleton giants and a bone dragon burst out of the cave with the lich riding the bone dragon.


    You see that’s a real dragon! And the reason I dislike caves!


    “Hey there brother mind sharing some dragon tricks with me?”


    I jumped on the lake to evade a bone [Dragonbreath].  Who of you can walk or water or swim?


    “I can [Float].” I dropped the dwarf.


    “I can swim!”  How good?


    “I’m the best!” I dropped Wild Fang.  And you?


    “Uhm I can’t swim…”  The “Dragon’ can’t swim, of course… Nilah, stay with him and create ice for him to walk on and be nice to his mana reserves…  Nilah jumped on Dragonboy and I dropped him. He stood on the ice platform Nilah made. The skeletons ran into the water but they couldn''t swim, obviously. The lich used some magic to make them walk over water.


    Oh, come on that’s cheating!  Wild Fang was doing the butterfly. He had excellent form, he mowed down skeletons with his claws while doing the butterfly.


    I… I have never seen anything like this… Hey Wild Fang! Can you surf?


    “Of course, I can!” I made a board made out of ice, threw it at Wild Fang, shifted stance, and started using [Churning Waves]. The skeletons had a hard time and Wild Fang caught a wave and surfed past a horde of skeletons and clawed them down. “This is wild!”


    Wild Fang seemed to be having the time of his life. Dwarf was spamming [Holy] on the undead and poofing them out of existence. Dragonboy was…  Are you seasick?


    “Ugh, give me a moment... blegh...”  Just so you know, Nilah is going to kick your ass if you vomit on her.


    I kept giving the skeletons a hard time. Now it doesn''t matter if they can walk on the water. The skeleton giants and the bone dragon with the lich are the real problems. The skeleton giants pulled their arm out and threw them like enormous boomerangs. Their arms grew back because of the Lich.


    “Wahoo! how do you like my [Wild Surf]?!”


    I guess I can leave the skeletons to the dwarf and Wild Fang. [Surface Flip] submerge some skeletons that tried to jump through a wave and catch Wild Fang.


    “Whoa, thanks! I will pay more attention; you go deal with those boners up there!”  Don''t call them boners… it has a strange meaning under humans… Dragonboy, do you like flying?


    “I’m not good with heights… give me a second… bleghhh”


    I guess I’m on my own. Nilah looked at me and her eyes were pleading for me to take her with me.  Get him on dry land Nilah and I will take you with me.


    Nilah jumped on the water and created a frozen path for Dragonboy. He was slowly walking toward dry land which made Nilah impatient.


    How big of a mess will I make if I make a leyline version of [Tsunami]? I guess I will catch my allies, maybe I shouldn''t.


    People from the city were looking by at a distance. I tried to lock [Churning Waves] to the leyline flow so that I could keep it going while doing something else. I managed to succeed when Nilah returned. Dragonboy was fighting some skeletons on dry land. Nilah hopped on my head and I used [Waterspout] and launched myself in the air. I made a bow out of ice and shot [Ice Arrows] at the lich. It didn''t seem to pack enough of a punch. I used [Pressure] to make it appear that I fall normally and kept using [Waterspout] and [Pressure] to find a good angle to snipe the lich down. I also sent some arrows to the skeleton giants and froze their joints.


    “Hey! Silver Torrent! Can you send me flying too?! I want to use my special summer edition skill [Wild Dive]!"  Uhhm, sure, why not?


    I launched both of us in the air and Wild Fang started spinning and shot down. He landed in the water shredding anything he hit and created a whirlpool that started shredding the skeletons that got caught up in it.


    What kind of summers does this guy have that this is a summer special… Anyways he got back to surfing the whirlpool. He seemed uselessly experienced in this but it worked out for us. I canceled some magic the Lich was casting. It was some stupid instant death magic. I need to watch out for this guy, he has overpowered skills. I shot myself near the bone dragon and used [Blender]. It didn''t shred anything unfortunately but at least they seemed to be occupied. Dragonboy was being useless, the dwarf had defeated way more skeletons than he had and Wild Fang basically is having a blast and is using this lake as his playground.  Wild Fang I’m going to make the water wilder!


    “Yes yes!"


    [Churning Waves] turned into [Stormy Tides]. [Churning waves] creates waves of 5-9 meters tall, [Stormy tides] creates waves of 9-15m tall. I guess the next step is [Tsunami].


    “Hey, isn''t this a bit insane? Are water users really this strong?!” Dwarf seemed to be complaining that I turned the lake into a death trap for the skeletons. The skeleton giants finally reached the water.


    Let’s get them Nilah!  I used [Waterfall] and simultaneously started using [Oceans Wrath] I dashed and climbed the skeleton giants with [Waterfall] while blocking attacks with [Ocean’s Wrath] and sending the water currents that were swirling around me out to attack the joints. Its hip got dislocated after I sent a current through it and this giant started to fall over. I jumped over to the other and knocked out some vertebrae.


    They tried to reform but they were too slow. I kept destroying more and more joints. Some skeleton mages were blasting me with magic but my [Ocean’s Wrath] was absorbing them to become stronger. These mages were weak but there were many. I [Flushed] them toward Wild Fang and kept destroying the giant''s bone for bone.  Dwarf, they will take forever to reform, blast them with [Holy]!


    “Don’t call me dwarf!” She blasted the area with [Holy] and I took some to feed my [Ocean’s Wrath] I needed more to charge this. The Lich started to shoot lightning magic at Wild Fang but Wild Fang had an easy time surfing around, shredding skeletons, and evading the lightning.


    Wild Fang! Heads up!  A large [Thunderbolt] was heading toward him and I swapped myself with him and absorbed it with [Ocean’s Wrath]


    Is that all you got? You’re the weakest Lich I’ve ever fought!  Since this is the first and only lich, I''ve encountered this is technically correct. He is both the strongest and weakest lich I’ve ever fought.


    “Oh, how about this then! I have a special delivery for you! Say Hello to the [Thunder Mage]!” The lich created something out of thunder. It reminded me of an attack I saw in my C-rank assessment. These things are strong. Perfect. I kept provoking them and they kept feeding attacks into my [Ocean’s Wrath]. Technically I had a kill count of 0 because I had only helped the others get kills. [Ocean’s Wrath] is almost done and its electrified with very strong lightning attacks, this is surely going to hurt. I created a ramp made of ice and sped up with [Waterfall] and landed on the bone dragon and caught more attacks.


    “Wait, something is off with this skill!” The lich used [Shadow grasp]. I jumped up and threw a fish at it. It grasped the fish and crushed its heart. Don''t get me wrong, this skill is very strong, I’m just making it look like a weak skill because I have a dimensional pocket full of things that have hearts.


    I was now above the lich and the bone dragon and I combined all the currents swirling around me and bundled them and shot them down at the lich, [Thunder Mage] and the bone dragon. Wild Fang saw this skill descending and surfed to the shore and started running. This guy has a lot of experience with water. The Dwarf saw Wild Fang''s reaction and did the same. The attack punched through the bone dragon and one-shot it. The water pushed the [Thunder Mage] and lich into the water and electrified the whole lake. All the remaining skeletons poofed out of exitance a lot of native fish too apparently. Dragonboy was too close to the water and got zapped. I swapped him with a rock further inland. The Lich was still alive, well he is an undead so that was debatable.


    Your turn Nilah!  She jumped down and covered herself in frost and dove down into the water instantly freezing it. She dug herself out of the frost and tapped it with her tail. The frost shattered and turned into a near infinite amount of shards that shot up and fell down back as streams of water and refilled the lake although only for about 80%. The rest fell next to the lake.


    8/10 style points, Nilah, you have to work on the aftermath a bit.  I landed on the water and moved the water back into the lake. The lich was nowhere to be found. This attack of Nilah was actually quite brutal. There were only a handful of skeletons left but Wild Fang and Dwarf were on it. I guess I didn''t have to use my ultimate technique. The last skeleton got blasted by [Holy] and the skeleton army and their lich overlord were no more.


    “That was wild! Never has fighting an army been so fun and easy! I hope that more people will take up the Silver Torrent role!”


    “I have to say. I never imagined that water users could do all that, you didn''t use magic though which confuses me more…”


    “Are... are there more skeletons?” Dragonboy joined us. he was still being paranoid.


    “They are all gone Dragon Warrior, you can relax, whoo That was wild! It seems my beach holidays paid off bigtime whoo!” Wild Fang was extremely excited.  Yeah, I was seriously impressed with how you handled all this water.


    “Yeah! I think I might study some more water magic now. I have an affinity but never bothered. I’m missing out on so much fun! Thanks for the fun! I need to train!” He ran away in the direction of the forest. I guess he’s heading toward the river, but there is a lake here…. Not my business anyways.


    “Doesn''t he want to collect his reward?”  Leave him be, he will probably be too excited to focus on anything, let''s go get our reward.  We didn''t seem to need to put in a report because most of the people in the city were watching how we were having fu… destroying the skeleton army. Wild Fang would be compensated whenever he would return.


    adventurers gathered around us. “Whoa, that was cool! So, this is how the Silver Torrent fights?”


    “So strong!”


    “Heh, you guys don’t understand how impressive it was what he did.” we all looked at some guy that was acting all cool. “Let''s ignore that using water to this extent is already hard and rare. Has any of you noticed that he has the least kills out of the group?”


    “Uh, what about him?” Someone pointed at Dragonboy.


    “Second least kills then, you guys probably didn''t notice but he did but was this because he couldn''t or that he had a different goal? Fighting an army isn''t easy, he created an environment that didn''t stress the Golden Angel out and where his allies could deal damage quite easily and without worrying. I’ve said this before but he’s the alternative to Golden Angels, it’s no coincidence that Golden Angels, have ‘Gold’ in their name and he has ‘Silver’ in his name! You don’t need a healer if you don’t take damage! Moreover…”  Right, nobody cares dude, I appreciate it but you’re wasting your time.


    “I’m interested!”


    “I want to hear it too!”  Guys, it was nothing special, all I did was sell rubies…


    “What?”


    “Haha, this guy is funny!” The fanboy kept talking about how I would compete with Golden Angels and other bullshit and I just left. I hope he’s not going to form some sort of cult. I guess 3 versus an army is on my resume now.


    I left the adventurers association so it would look weird if I went back to spend the night so I tugged on my [Dimensional Anchor] and returned home. Nilah seemed to be happy to be home. I just went to get some flowers and all this stuff happened. Let''s summarize to see how crazy this was. I went to get flowers, had to sneak past the border with a disguise, and had to go to an elven village to get the flowers but they wanted me to help them procreate so I dropped them into a reality-bending situation and created probably the biggest elven orgy ever which probably has gotten me banned from that village, then I fought an army of skeletons on a lake. Maybe it is better if nobody knows about this story. I encased the flowers in frost and could store them indefinitely now.


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