I entered the guildhall and noticed a considerable decrease in people compared to earlier. I saw that Saria was talking to another guild staff mber next to the reception, so I did sothing cheeky and walked up to her instead of getting in a queue at the reception.
“Excuse , Saria,” I called out, waving casually. “I’m done with that little errand you gave .”
She turned around and stared at without saying a word. I tilted my head, waved again, and glanced at the other staff mber. “I hope I didn’t interrupt sothing important.”
“Oh, nothing important,” She replied before nudging Saria with her shoulder. “Hey, what are you doing?”
Saria regained her composure and cleared her throat. “Ahem, did I hear that correctly? Are you already done?”
“That’s right.”
Saria, looking like she just gave up thinking about it, sighed. “Please follow to the guildmaster’s office.”
“Shouldn’t you check if he has ti first?”
"He's probably slacking off anyway," She muttered.
I thought about this earlier, but isn’t Saria rude to what should be her boss?
Saria led back up the stairs to the guildmaster’s office and let herself in without knocking. I followed, taking a seat on the couch.
“Back again? Did you need sothing else before you go?” He asked.
“I just ca back, so I thought I should report.”
“But… How… Didn’t you leave earlier today? Am I finally going senile?” The guildmaster scratched his head.
“I work fast,” I said and smiled. “Anyway, here’s the dungeon core.” I pulled out the core and put it on the table in front of .
He walked over, picked it up, and turned it around a few tis. “It’s actually a dungeon core…”
“Speaking of cores, what are they used for? My friend said they are extrely valuable.”
“They are used in making the magitech devices we use to make guild cards.”
Oh? Now THAT is interesting. If they are used for a device that lets you display soone's status it should technically be possible to study it to perfect the [Inspect] spell or, at the very least, make a portable device that can do it. I will have to find another dungeon core to snatch.
“I see. Then I can understand that they are valuable, especially considering the limited supply.”
“Now, back to the dungeon. What did you find down there?”
“There were only five floors and they were pretty small. The fifth one only had a boss.”
“That sounds small for a dungeon. How strong were the monsters you encountered?”
I don’t know, weak? I should have tried to find a monster encyclopedia and looked up the ranks of monsters.
“There were a few stronger ones, I guess? There was a frost wyrm.”
“The boss was a frost wyrm?”
“Ah, no. The frost wyrm was on the fourth floor. The boss was a prismatic hydra.”
Grahl raised an eyebrow. “A what hydra?”
“A prismatic hydra.”
“Can I see your guild card?”
I gave him my guild card and the sa explanation about prismatic hydras as I gave Liz. I then pulled out all eight magic stones and put them on the table in front of . “These are the magic stones from the hydra, so you can see it was quite big.”
Both the guildmaster and Saria stared at the magic stones in amazent. “How did you even defeat sothing that big?”
“Ripped out the magic stones and cut off the heads,” I shrugged.
He looked at doubtfully. “… Aren’t you a mage?”
“I am, but I didn’t want to destroy the magic stones or cause the cave to collapse down on , so I had to do it that way.”
He walked over to his desk and sat down, exhaling deeply as he leaned back. “Saria, that will be all.”
“Certainly,” She said and left the room.
He didn’t tell her to wait outside this ti.
The guildmaster looked back down on the dungeon core and sighed. ”Who are you?”
I looked at him and tilted my head. ”... I’m Luna?”
He glanced at my guild card and then back at with a stern expression. “You aren’t human, are you?”
I pretty much expected that after I told him about the prismatic hydra. I doubt there has ever been a human that could kill a prismatic hydra of that size alone. Guess I should tell him the truth? Chloe did say that he was trustworthy, and the guildmaster of the guild in the capital is probably a good guy to be on friendly terms with.
“Would that be a problem?”
“Not by itself. We have non-human adventurers. The problem is your card says that you are human.”
“Chloe changed it for .”
Grahl looked at like he was studying my expression. “And why did she do that?”
“Because it would be troubleso to have a guild card that said I was a dragon,” I said while giving him an innocent smile.
“I see,” He said calmly as he relaxed his gaze.
I see? That’s it? I built up this whole reveal, and this is what you give ? I feel robbed.
“I expected a bigger reaction,” I pouted.
“I don’t think it has sunk in yet, or maybe I just don’t believe it.”
“Chloe was the one that said it was okay to tell you. If you want to bla soone that you now have to deal with a dangerous dragon, you know who,” I said and grinned.
Grahl looked at with a hint of reluctance. “How dangerous are you?”
“I wouldn’t say I’m that dangerous as long as I’m left to my own business. As for how strong I am… Very.”
He closed his eyes and sighed. “So, how can a dragon look like a human?”
“I created a spell so I could walk among humans and see what you were up to,” I said, holding up my shifted arm. “I usually travel around from ti to ti.”
“Fascinating,” He said, looking at my arm. “So your true form is a dragon?”
“Yeah, I could show it if you want to remodel the guild building afterward,” I said with a smirk and canceled my shift.
“I think I will pass on that,” He laughed. “But why work as an adventurer?”
“Restaurants and bars don't accept smiles as paynt. Since I’m most suited for slaying monsters, I usually register, earn so money, travel the world for a while, and then go back to sleep.”
“Any reason why you want to get max rank?”
“Mostly because it can be convenient.”
“Convenient?”
“Yeah, I don’t know about now, but in the past, so areas and dungeons were off-limits unless you were a certain rank. I don’t want to be refused entry if I go out to gather materials, for example,” I grinned. “Also, because an orichalcum card sounds cool.”
“Sounds cool…” He muttered. “This will probably lead to so trouble, but I will promote you to SSS. Soone who kills that kind of monster with their bare hands has no business being anything lower. In truth, you could probably use a few more S’s.”
“Trouble?”
“Do you think the other adventurers, especially the S ranks, will stay silent when so rookie strolls in and gets SSS rank in a few days? It’s not like I can tell them the truth.”
“I guess I can understand that. You did say it was difficult to even get to SS rank. How long did it take for you?”
“For ?”
“Aren’t you SS rank?”
“What makes you think that?”
“Just a guess. A friend said this country had an SS rank unless he retired. Also, because you tried that intimidation on earlier. Not just anyone could exude that much bloodlust.”
“How perceptive,” He grinned. “Should I take that as a complint?”
“Coming from ? I think so,” I smirked.
Grahl let out a small laugh. “I spent over a decade as an S rank before I got promoted. I retired a few years ago.”
“It takes that long? Might experience so backlash then. I can punch anyone that tries to give trouble, right?” I said with an innocent smile as I batted my eyelashes.
Grahl rubbed his forehead. “I would appreciate it if you didn’t go and kill our S ranks. This country doesn’t have that many of them.”
“They wouldn’t die… Probably. But it sounds like it would be in both our interests if you didn’t make a big deal out of the promotion.”
“It’s the first ti soone gets promoted to SSS rank, and you don’t want it to be a big deal?”
“It will co out eventually, so I would prefer a few days of peace and quiet. Countries tend to be ever so quick to try and bind you down with a title, and nobles co running trying to gain favor or, God forbid, offer engagents. You will also face less trouble in the imdiate future, at least.”
“I understand. Usually, a promotion of this magnitude would probably be given a parade through town and a festival. I guess you aren’t interested in that?”
“I’m happy just getting the card. Did you also get a parade? From the sounds of it, SS rank is already an insane achievent.”
“They tried,” He grinned. “You aren’t the only one who likes to be free. Long before my promotion, I had already been given the nickna The Elusive since I had a habit of skipping town whenever sothing botherso arose. I can only imagine what they will call you.”
“Call ?”
“Adventurers will usually get a nickna when they are S rank. The more pretentious ones even introduce themselves with it.”
“And who cos up with the nicknas?”
“There is nothing official if that’s what you are asking. The other adventurers usually coin sothing fitting over ti.”
Considering I ca out of nowhere and got promoted, people might start calling The Fraud. They better not co up with sothing that involves a jab at being short unless they want to burn down the guild. Maybe they will call The Otherworldly Beauty after seeing walk by? Otherworldly, get it? Damn, I’m hilarious.
“I guess I have sothing to look forward to then,” I pondered. “Still, isn’t this an odd job for soone called The Elusive?”
“Ti catches up to everyone,” He shrugged. “I guess it was ti to stop running around the world.”
I would prefer not to be reminded of that.
“Speaking of ti, I need to get going.”
“Well, let’s get your promotion handled then,” He said and stood up to leave.
“You’re doing it yourself?”.
“Of course, I have never seen an orichalcum card before,” He said with a grin.
“Sure you aren’t just skipping out on work?”
“Pssh, don’t listen to Saria, I take my work seriously… Most of the ti. But you need my card to promote soone above A. That's why I have to co along.”
“Oh right, Chloe did ntion it could only be done here. So that’s why.”
We walked back down to the main area, and after a few minutes, he gave my brand-new card. A shining deep red with speckles of black, the black text had changed to white.
“This looks amazing,” I said as I studied my card with a huge grin.
“Truly,“ He whistled. “I doubt I will ever see another one in my lifeti.”
“Anyway, thanks for this. I have so business to take care of so I might be gone for a day or two. I will be back for the business with the materials soti after that. If you have any quests you have trouble with, I can do them as thanks unless it involves sothing tedious. I can slay anything, just don’t expect to escort a noble.”
“I don’t think we have anything for now, but I will have a look.”
After saying my goodbyes, I left the guild and flew back to our camp to check up on Liz.
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