Your childhood best friend, you've known Lia for all your life. The both of you grew up in the same orphanage, and decided to join the same adventurer guild. However, once you complete your initiations, you realise that you won't see each other until after training. A few years pass, and you finally get to see her again. You're now a fully fledged Swordfighter, while she's still in training to be a Sage. For her final test, her job is to venture forth and find an Albino Pheonix, who's feathers can be used to create the OmniStaff, a Sage's primary source of spellcasting. And with pure luck, you are appointed as her escort.
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This is my entry for "The Beginning". Let's see how this goes, eh? Also this is based on a story I never ended up publishing. There's no proof, just take my word for it. Also not going to lie, I made a chat like 3 days ago which I said was my biggest yet, but this is taking the cake now.