Chapter 16: Adventurer Guild
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[You have slain a large quantity of powerful foes related to the Church of Light!]
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[Your Level has increased from Level 404 to Level 487!]
[All your Stats have increased. You gained Bonus Stat Points and Skill Points.]
[The Skill: [God Predator (SSS): Lv2] Skill effects have been activated. You have devoured the Divinity Fragments of the Avatars of the {The Brilliant Mother Of Light} have slain so far!]
[All your Stats have increased by +3.000]
[You gained +5.000 Divinity.]
[Despite being stored Skills, the Skills related to these Divinity Fragments have gained +5 Levels!]
[The Skill: [Divine Class Absorption: Lv1 (SSS)] Skill effects have been activated. You have devoured the Divine Classes of the Avatars of the {The Brilliant Mother Of Light} you have slain so far!]
[You devoured the [Radiant Light Divine Archbishop] Divine Class!]
[You devoured the [Brilliant Mother Of Light Holy Saintess] Divine Class!]
[You devoured the [Divine Radiant Templar Of Holy Light] Divine Class!]
[You have earned +3.000 Skill Points!]
[The Devoured Classes have been stored within the [Divine Class Absorption: Lv1 (SSS)] Skill, you may choose to either assimilate them to gain bonus stats according to each Divine Class, alongside some new random Skill, or to modify them and assign them to somebody else.]
[For having slain so many powerful Avatars of a Tower God, you gained +300.000 Credits.]
[The Class Skills: [God Predator (SSS): Lv2] [Divine Class Absorption: Lv1 (SSS)] have Leveled Up!]
[Their effects have been strengthened and intensified.]
Although I hated to admit it, this System thing was quite fun to see sometimes. How it all progresses and how I can easily see how much power I gain. I can tell why the mortals here have become so obsessed with the System and with leveling up and gaining skills. It is certainly quite addicting.
It reminded me of the rush of adrenaline I got in my first days as a cultivator, each time I grew a tiny bit stronger, or each time I acquired a special martial art, or every time I defeated a foe I never thought I could slay. A similar feeling, although it is more gamified? It reminds me of my younger years playing RPG games.
Perhaps I would have even more fun if they were actual challenges to me, but well, beggars can’t be choosers. I am already too strong, and I won’t be nerfing myself to “have fun” or something.
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[Divine Class Absorption: Lv2 (SSS)]
[Skill EXP]: [82.822/200.000]
A Class Skill that only belongs to the Divine Class: [God Eating Calamity: Ragnarök].
As you Devour the Divinity of your foes, it is now possible to further extract their powers and abilities. You can now absorb and assimilate the Divine Classes related to Gods of the foes you slay, including the possible Skills that can be learned and part of their own Skill Points. The Divine Classes you steal will be either assimilated into your current Class to upgrade your Stats and existing abilities, or they can be granted to another person after modification using your own Divinity.
The Devoured Classes will be stored within the Skill itself, and you may choose to either assimilate them to gain bonus stats according to each Divine Class, alongside some new random Skill, or to modify them and assign them to somebody else.
Stored Divine Classes: [Radiant Light Divine Archbishop] [Brilliant Mother Of Light Holy Saintess] [Divine Radiant Templar Of Holy Light]
Level Bonus (2): Has a 20% chance to steal more than 1 Skill out of assimilated Divine Classes. Increases Skill Points stealing quantity by +20%. When combining Classes to grant them to somebody else, there’s a 20% chance to further upgrade the resulting class.
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And this skill seems to work just as intended; I can store Divine Classes as easily as that! I could combine them or give them to somebody else. By assimilating them, I could probably gain more Mana and Divinity, which seem like the only two stats that I care about. But it wouldn’t be bad to combine them to create something very powerful and grant it to my mother or sister.
I’ll have to think about it for now.
Ding!
[You have slain all members of the Church of Light, and those that survived have been forced to desert their authority as members by you!]
[You have completely destroyed the Church of Light within the World of Eclipse, the authority of the Tower God: {The Brilliant Mother Of Light} has been greatly weakened due to the lack of constant Faith Points. Her Divinity is growing weaker.]
[The Title [Enemy Of The Church Of The Brilliant Mother Of Light] has been upgraded to [Destroyer of the Church Of The Brilliant Mother Of Light]!]
Ok? I don’t really care.
“S-So you resolved the problem?” My mother asked me curiously as I sat at their side once I arrived inside the Adventurer’s Guild.
A bunch of people had approached me at first, asking me if I wanted to join their parties after they saw I could practically teleport inside. But I rejected them. They kept insisting, though, so I had to release some of my Immortal Intent to quickly intimidate them and force them to leave us alone.
Mortals nowadays really believe they can get away with asking some Primordial to join their parties by simply insisting endlessly and being overly annoying. But to save face in front of my family, I decided to simply intimidate them and let them go away.
“Ah, yes, I did! The Church of Light will never, ever annoy us again!” I smiled. “In fact, it might never annoy anybody ever again, forever.”
“I don’t even want to think about what you did to those people now…” Ruby sighed, drinking the last amount of tea she had.
“Yeah, let’s just not address that…” My mother sighed. “I guess as long as you’re okay. Also, I haven’t heard any big explosions either, so I assume things resolved fine enough. Now, shall we get started? You two need to get your ten missions done. The first step, however, is to register. Come with me.”
“Welcome to the Adventurer’s Guild! My name is Peperina, I am still an inexperienced guild assistant, but I hope I can be of help! Do you need anything?”
A cute beast girl with long rabbit ears on top of her fluffy clear brown hair greeted us. She was smaller than Ruby and was wearing a cute guild assistant dress of blue and red color. Honestly, she was such a cutie that I was barely resisting petting her head.
“Hi Peperina! I brought here my two daughters to register them in the Adventurer’s Guild, they need to get their ten missions done, after all.” My mother said, showing her license.
“Oh, it is a C Rank Adventurer! Alright, very well! If they have a connection like this, we can register them right away without going through a special test.” The rabbit girl nodded after seeing my mother’s license. “Now, please let me know your personal information. You can write it here. Just the simplest of things. You don’t even need to specify your class, but just what it can do within the categories, like Warrior, Tanks, Healers, Magicians, Technicians, Alchemists, and so on!”
“Sure! Sounds easy enough.” Ruby nodded.
“Very well~” I giggled.
I wrote down the information on the paper; it asked for my age, sex, basic special abilities, what my talents were, and the class category. Alongside a little introduction of myself, which was slightly funny, I’ve never seen such a simple registration process for a sect before. Usually, they would make you go through a life-or-death trial.
“Thank you so much! Please wait a tiny bit here; also, there’s a few of ten golds per registration!” Peperina said.
“I’ll pay for them.” Mother gave the girl a bag of twenty gold coins.
“Thanks a lot! I’ll be back in like ten minutes; we need to make the license cards.” The girl said this, quickly leaping away.
While we waited, I couldn’t help but feel the strong gaze of almost every person there. Since I rejected them all, they have gotten very annoying. They were not saying a single word, but they weren’t really approaching either. I had not conjured any barriers, yet it felt like there was one separating me and my family from them.
Honestly, it was quite hilarious!
“Big sis, you sure have a bad reputation now." My sister sighed. “Will we ever recover?”
“What are you talking about, Ruby? This is a good reputation! People need to know that you’re strong and capable. Those that approach you carelessly are disrespecting you; it means you have a bad reputation and you’re prone to getting bullied and abused by others.” I explained it to her.
“I-Is that also some sort of Murim thing?” My mother wondered. “I guess she’s not completely wrong.”
“I… Eeeh, I guess!” Ruby crossed her arms, checking her phone. “Hmm, Juan went to the Mine Dungeon again. He’s coming late today…”
“Does he work mining inside dungeons all the time? What a dull job. You should find yourself a better man, Ruby.” I told her directly. “Someone as weak and pathetic as him does not have the right to become my beloved sister’s lover.”
“Ugh, shut up! Juan is a good guy! I’ve known him since I entered the university.” Sighed Ruby. “He’s already graduated as well! But he’s working part-time in mining dungeons because it actually pays better for a F Rank hunter to do that.”
“Is he really a good guy? The only thing I remember about him was him being pathetically weak and trembling at my voice.” I laughed.
“You’re so out of touch…” Ruby groaned. “He’s fine, and I love him, okay? And he’s good at bed too; that’s a big plus! He got a big one, you know?”
“Big one…? Oh my, I never thought my little sister would talk so vulgarly about such things… You’ve surely lost your innocence now, my poor little Ruby.” I sighed. “Maybe I should truly just get rid of that Juan, huh?”
“Ruby! Did you have to talk about that like that?!” My mother reprimanded her as I nodded. “And Katherine! Stop saying such threatening things. At least treat Juan as a member of our family as well, okay? He’s a nice kid.”
“Hah… I suppose there’s no helping it.” I shrugged. “Sorry, Ruby.”
“It’s fine, I guess…” Ruby sighed. “You’ve gone through a lot, so maybe your brain’s not really well, big sis.”
“Hahaha! I cannot deny that!” I laughed. “It is thanks to you two that I can behave better within this society that I now see as completely alien. I’m sorry for my words; they come so naturally out of me sometimes… I am trying to adapt better.”
“It’s fine, dear.” My mother smiled gently, caressing my hands. “We’ll help you get through this.”
“Y-Yeah, don’t worry, okay?” My sister nodded, both of them giving me empathic glances. “You got us, and we got you.”
“Aww…” I couldn’t help but hug them both and kiss their cheeks. “I love you two so much; you’re my everything, my dear family! I dreamed for so many years—thousands of years—to meet you. Even now, this feels like a faint dream. But it’s reality, isn’t it?”
“It is…” My mother smiled, kissing my cheek and hugging me back as well. “Now, the girl’s coming back. Enough corny stuff for now, Katherine.”
“A-Ah, alright!” I nodded as the girl quickly brought us the licenses.
“There you go, ma’am! You’re so tall for a human!” The little Peperina gave me a bronze-colored license. The same is true for Ruby. “Your name is Bing Xue, isn’t it? And this is for Ruby.”
[You have finally registered as an Adventurer inside of Nexus City, congratulations!]
[Your current Adventurer Rank is F. To further increase your Rank, please gain Guild Renown by completing all kinds of missions and requests.]
[The higher your Rank, the more benefits you will gain within the first floor of the Tower, such as shop discounts, the ability to build connections with important people, the privilege of accessing VIP areas, and more.]
[You gained the Title: [Beginner Adventurer]!]
“Thank you, dearie.” I smiled, giving her a gentle head pat; she didn’t seem to mind, perhaps quite used to getting them. “Here, a little gift because you’re so lovely.” I gave her a little box with candy and chocolate.
“Oooh! I am not really a child anymore, but I really appreciate it, ma’am! Thank you!” She smiled happily. “Hehe, look guys, she gifted me candies and chocolates! I’m going to have a feast for lunch!” She ran to brag with her coworkers.
“A-Anyways, now that we’re done with that, I suppose little Peperina decided to let me explain to you how to do this.” My mother said, guiding us to the quest table. Many papers were stuck there. With small words and pictures of creatures or places. “This is the Quest Board, pick a paper, bring it to the receptionist, and you’ll be registered to do that quest. The quests and Adventurer Ranks vary from F to S Rank.”
“I see, so let’s just pick the S Rank Missions, no? We can do them to get the best rewards for Ruby.” I said. “And I guess myself too; I don’t care much about that.”
“A-Are you sure we can do that though? S Rank…?” My sister was a bit afraid. “Even if this is the first floor, there are high-level areas far away. Some of them are only visited by Rankers that are already experienced, some over Level 300!”
“I see, that doesn’t really matter though.” I shrugged. “I’ll carry you; the experience points will help you level up quickly to 300 too, maybe. How about that, mother?”
“Way ahead of you. Knowing how strong you are, I already knew you would choose the S Rank Missions nobody takes, so here it is. I took these for you.” She handled the papers.
“Oh?” I read through them in detail. “Red Giant Ogre King Lair Expedition, Fetch Me an Elixir, Frost Wyvern Mountain Expedition, Spirit Queen Bee Hunt, Forest of Eclipsing Light Exploration… I see, they all sound quite lovely for small little adventures! Shall we go then?”
"First, we must report this back to the guild, Katherine. And if we can’t do it within the time limit, we’ll need to pay a fee for it.” My mother said, “But I am sure we can do this all within a week.”
“I think a day is enough, but sure, a week can do too.” I nodded.
“Y-You’re taking so many S-Rank Missions?!” Peperina panicked. “Are you alright with that?! They’re super-dangerous! Ma’am, your candies are really lovely; I don’t want you to die!”
“It’s fine; I am very strong, dear.” I giggled. “Don’t worry about me.” I winked at her.
“A-Ah, well…” She blushed a bit. “T-Then, sure… I guess… Please, if it gets too dangerous, run, okay? There’s nothing wrong with surviving for another day!”
“It’s fine; thank you for caring so much.” I smiled as we left the adventurer guild. “Once we’re done, we’ll come back to show you what we meant! Wait for us, Peperina.”
“E-Eh? O-Okay!” She gulped saliva as she only grew redder; she was so cute. “I’ll be waiting for you, Miss Bing Xue; please be well!”
Once we walked outside of the Adventurer’s Guild, our next stop was the nearby Forest of Eclipsing Light, which was a few kilometers away. There, we’ll solve three S-rank missions in a single sitting. Those are the Spirit Queen Bee Hunt, the Greater Emperor Bear King Hunt, and the Gathering of Eclipsing Sun Rafflesia, a material an alchemist wants, which is apparently guarded by a powerful Plant Monster.
Along the way, we tried some of the street food, such as skewered monster meat, cheeseburgers, fresh fruit juice, and even ice cream. They had a lot of delicious meals for a few gold coins my mother bought for us. She was spoiling me a lot; she wanted to really make me happy.
“Alright, here we are... It took no time at all with your teleportation magic, dear.” My mother was surprised we arrived in front of the forest in a whiff.
“It’s technically just moving really fast, not teleportation. I use the Immortal Essence and Photon Essence gathered on my foot to pierce through space and move through the boundaries of time and space.” I explained it to her. “It is a basic technique among Immortals to quickly move across the vastness of Murim with ease.”
“Okaaay… I didn’t understand any of that, but yeah, let’s go!” Ruby was eager to hunt.
“Yeah, let’s…” I sighed as I noticed people were coming. “No, wait a bit. It seems someone is chasing us. They just came with us. Apparently, they can also teleport using magic.”
“Wait, what?” My mother gasped as three figures appeared around us in a flash.
He was an incredibly bulky man, with short red hair and scars, wearing animal pelts around his body, and holding a gigantic golden axe. He resembled some sort of barbarian.
There was also a magician wearing gold and blue robes and holding a staff decorated with a jewel imbued with time and space essence. His face was hidden beneath his hoodie.
And lastly, a slender leopard beast woman, wearing tight black robes around her body and holding a pair of long and sharp, venomous daggers.
With a mere glance, I noticed they were all over Level 1000.
“So these are the little noobs that the goddess is so desperate about?”
“They’re not even Level 200! And that woman is not even Level 500? Hahaha!”
“This will be an easy hunt~”
My mother and my sister quickly panicked, stepping back as they felt the strong pressure of their Auras.
“You must be the Rankers that the goddess sent for my bounty, are you?” I wondered, greeting them with a calm smile. “You’ll have one chance; leave this instant, and I will spare your lives. Give another step, and you’re dead.”
“What? Bitch, are you scared? Then just shut the fuck up and die.” The bulky man rushed towards me; his giant axe pushed through space somehow, a split second before it was to hack through my entire body.
CRASH!
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