CH.58 First Rank-Up
Not Rank-Up-Magic
“Now that we have registered you, we need to adjust your rank.” The receptionist said to . “Please hand over your card.”
Oh yeah, I was F-rank at the mont. I guess after making a new card, anyone would be. I handed my card back over to her. She inserted it into a device that reminded of a card reader, like the ones you would see in a store. Mine was inserted from the bottom of it, she did sothing with it and slashed another card in so kind of reader on the side. Approval, I guess.
“Here you go. You are now officially C-rank.” The receptionist told as she handed my card back.
“C-rank? I didn’t think it was possible to get a rank that high imdiately.” I said.
“We got special permission from the headquarters.” She told . “But in return, they have requested that you visit either the headquarters or the capital guild.”
“I see. Well, I want to travel around anyway, so I could just visit both.” I answered. “But I don’t know where the ‘headquarters’ are.”
“Oh, they are located in the Hero’s city. Sa as the Sage’s Tower and the Head Church.” She inford . Not that I know where this Hero’s city is. I could ask, but I’ll find out. Eventually. Even Laura might know about it.
(Map information is not available at standard level, unless it’s taken in from an outside source.) Laura told . So she can learn a map, but can’t access the system maps. Now I want to level her up to advanced even more.
“So… Now that I’m a C-rank, what kind of jobs should I be doing?” I asked.
“Well, this town doesn’t have many C-rank guests to begin with. They are usually ergencies, like a stronger monster appearing. That’s why most high rankers leave this town.” The receptionist inford .
“You can co with .” Lucia said to . “I need to go do so blood draining.”
“Sure, I can do that. But I would like a al first. I’m hungry.” I answered.
“Makes sense after being out for two days.” Lucia said to . “Do we still have wyvern at?” She asked the receptionist.
“Of course. Zayaan made sure we would have so for Brian before he left.” The receptionist answered. Zayaan left? Where?
“Where did Zayaan go?” I asked.
“He went to Sawyer city with Lord Watchman to report the wyvern incident.” The receptionist answered.
“And once again, I’ve managed to steal the guild master.” I sighed.
“Actually, sir Lex ca back to act as the guild master temporarily. He was moved by the will of everyone to stand up to multiple wyverns like that, and said he could hold the seat for a few days.” The receptionist inford . Thank god soone is doing it. And he did seem to be good at it.
“I probably should apologize to him.” I said out loud.
“Did you do sothing to him?” The receptionist asked.
“You didn’t know? I was the reason he just disappeared.” I told her.
“What did you do?” She asked.
“Just told him about the dungeon. He didn’t take it very well. He has a dramatic past with dungeons.” I told her.
“I see… But I’m sure he wouldn't hold you accountable for that. It is the guild master’s job to act on new dungeons.” The receptionist said.
“Well, I still feel sorry for him.” I said. “Giving an old man panic attacks isn’t exactly nice.”
“I’ll tell him you are sorry.” The receptionist promised.
“Brian, let’s get going, or we'll be late!” Lucia called . But my food.
“But I didn’t get my food yet.” I answered.
“I got you three wyvern steak sandwiches. You can eat them on the way, or when we get there.” Lucia said, showing a cloth wrapped package.
“Sure, let just fill up my water skin.” I said. Actually, where can I even fill it up?
“Then get over here already.” Lucia said, making her way to so sort of machine. A water fountain?
I walk up next to her and pull my water skin out of my fanny pack. She grabs it from my hand and shows how the water fountain works.
“You put the mouth of your water skin here, and pull this lever down. Then it will fill your container with water.” She inford . “Be careful not to over-fill.”
The water fountain worked in a similar way to the water coolers looked back on earth, except it didn’t have a large water tank attached to it. It probably used magic to make water.
After filling up my water skin, Lucia handed it to .
“Thanks.”
“Of course. Because of you, we are all fine. I even got two levels from the wyvern fight.” She told .
I guess she would only get two, because she was at a higher rank to begin with.
“Now, let’s go.” She said and pulled along.
You could have given a few more seconds so I could have placed my water skin and the sandwitches into my fanny pack with a little more care.
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On the way to the gates, Lucia turned to .
“Here, I should give this back.” She said as she handed my Slot Machine back to . I guess I did give it to her.
I received it from her and put it back into my collection. I also quickly check on my sleeve and toploader monsters. Red-Eyes, Overdrive and Slot machine are there, but Dark Magician Girl and Dark Magician are missing. Mana should be with Alice, but where did Dark Magician go? I think I still had him summoned when I passed out. My DiaDhank wasn’t active when I woke up, so it shouldn’t be on it. To make sure I pulled up my sleeve and checked my DiaDhank. It was empty. No cards anywhere.
I’m sure the Chorus and the Legendary sword I had activated had vanished after their two hours were up, but Dark Magician shouldn’t. Perhaps Alice took it.
“Is sothing wrong?” Lucia asked as she noticed I had my DiaDhank open. “Is there another ergency?”
“Nothing like that.” I told her. “I’m just missing a card.”
“That magician one?” She confird.
“Yes. Do you know who has it?”
“It’s still outside, near where we fought the wyverns.” She told .
“Why would it be there?” I asked.
“It’s too hot for anyone to touch.” Lucia told .
Hot? As in burning hot? Why?
“But why would it be hot?” I wondered out loud. They’ve never been hot before.
“I don’t know. And it’s not even normal hot, like fire. Jack tried touching it as well, and it burned him, even though he has the fire resistance skill.” Lucia told . So it’s not normal ‘hot’ but a phenonon that makes it seem hot to the touch.
“I want to go take a look at it, at so point.” I said to Lucia.
“We can do that after I get the blood drained.” She answered.
“Sure, let’s do that.”
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On our way to the gate, a few guards stopped to thank for saving them. It feels strange to be thanked like this. Am I a celebrity now? Well, at least it seems like only the guards know of it, for now. Thank god Brandon is out of town or he might do sothing stupid again.
At the gate, a familiar guard waved at us as he noticed us approaching. He’s from the first ti I got into town. I think he was Rico’s dad or sothing. I don’t recall him being there when we fought the wyverns, but perhaps he was a part of that secondary force that ca out just before I passed out.
“Hey Brian.” He called out to . “Thanks for what you did.”
Well, that was quick and simple. I guess Rico takes sothing from him.
“Yeah, sure…” I don’t really know how to respond to that.
“Heading outside already?” He asked.
“Well, I’m just going with Lucia. Hopefully no fighting today.” I answered.
“Yes, let’s hope for the best. I don’t know if your arrival to this town was lucky or unlucky. It was lucky for us, but I think you might consider it unlucky.” He said to .
Well, I guess facing a wyvern attack would be unlucky. But we dealt with it. And I’m not sure if having system support breeds bad situations like that.
(Master, I don’t bring bad luck.) Laura told .
(I know you don’t. I more so an, it’s common in different novels from my world to have transported people run into one problem after another. I’m just thinking that Brandon might be right in the assessnt, that being here is a confirmation that the lesser behemoth will appear again.) I explained to Laura.
(Even if one does appear, I’m sure Master can deal with it.) Laura put her faith in . I’m not a God you know.
Well, let’s hope for the best.
“If you do run into any trouble, be sure to inform the guard. The ones that got to take part in the battle have leveled up and so of the others are now jealous.” He said to .
“I think it’s better not to have a giant hole in your stomach.” I responded, thinking back to the man who was stabbed by the wyvern tail. What happened to him anyway?
I think Lucia read my expression as she said to , “He is fine. Your potion kept him alive, and we had an antivenom made for his paralysis.” She told . That’s good to hear.
“Well, feel free to call us, if you need help.” The guard told . “By the way, my na is Mario.”
“Nice to et you Mario. My na is Brian.” I returned his introduction.
“You do realize I already knew that.” Mario said back.
“Yeah, I guess you did. I just felt like I had to say sothing.” I responded.
“Brian, let’s go. I’ll be late.” Lucia said, pulling by the hand.
“Yes, let’s.”
We made our way out to the fields.
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