Chapter 869 - 869 Taking a Job Request After a Long Time
869 Taking a Job Request After a Long Time
After another month of relaxing and cultivating hard so I can hopefully reached master level in my air element as well, it’s time for another meeting.
And as expected, my air element didn’t increase much. But for Sara, she almost reached master level in her air element. For her earth element, it will be soon as well.
The others also improved a lot. But it was only mainly those who have air element, earth element, or wind element because we have spirits with each of those element to help us improve faster.
But it means that those with other elements couldn’t improve as much as them. So for this meeting, I want to suggest to Albert and the others to let me explore the continent in hope to look for another elemental spirit to help us. Though I have been waiting until Sara reached master level in her air element.
“Sure. It’s not like you have anything to do anyway. And if it’s you, I think I can tell what will happen. You will probably not only find another elemental spirit, but you will also hopefully find another tribe of monsters that you will invite to the village. Making your army stronger and stronger. Aren’t you the one with the strongest army in this alliance?” Albert asked in the end.
That’s right. Except for the centaurs who are mostly followed the Summoner who is accompanying the Tamer to find sea monsters. Those centaurs are more loyal to that Summoner instead of me.
By the way, the tamer managed to make a contract with one of the Crab People. So he can travel to the sea easier. And the chance of him making a contract with sea monsters will be higher.
Though it’s through violence.
While I mostly make a contract with my familiars through mutual understanding. Mostly. Like, if you don’t want to die, be my familiar. That’s what happened with Graham, right? Though he understood that he didn’t want to die so he became my familiar.
.....
As for the Tamer, other than some when he asked the monsters to be his familiar, he would beat them to near death before he make a contract with them. While the monsters were unable to move, he would forcefully make a contract with them. That’s not my way.
Well, it’s not like I will make anymore contract with another monster. Though I still ate the Pear-y Fruit just in case my summoning level can reach the stage beyond master level.
Anyway, Albert is right that my army is the strongest among the alliance here. With various races in one village, I think it has become too big to be called a village though, and they have their own specialty, we won’t lose to anyone.
If I could add more monsters tribe into the village, that would be great. But I’m not looking for one. That will only happen with luck.
“I’ll just focus on searching on clues about the cult and the location of the spirits. As for adding more monsters, that will be up to luck,” I said.
And just like usual, the meeting is over without anything important about the cult. Just another discussion between countries.
The meeting is over and I returned everyone back. The next day, I move together with Victoria and Ray in search for spirits. Airy was not with me because Sara will soon reach master level. She’s with Sara.
And for me to be able to find spirits, the help of a spirit is important. So I asked Breezy to accompany me since our wind mages have all reached master level. Though the normal soldiers and agents were mostly still expert level, it’s best to not get Breezy bored. So I brought him with me instead of having him stay for who knows how long.
“Okay, I’ll go with you! Kron said he’s going to take a break anyway,” Breezy said.
“Good. At least until Sara reached master level so I can have Airy with me back. Though if you two want to come with me, that’s fine as well,” I said.
The next day, we move together. I asked the others, but they said that it’s a critical time for them so they wanted to train more. They want to get their other element to master level as well. But if they have free time, they will ask to join.
As for Angela, she’s calmly improving herself. Even now, she’s still stronger than most of our master level mages. I can’t wait until she reached master level.
“Oh! It’s faster than Kron!”
Breezy shouted happily as he’s sitting on Ray’s head while holding on Ray’s hair. We’re moving at full speed to look for a place we have never been to.
“So, is there any direction we should go?” I asked.
“Just like back when you were looking for a good place to train in Monsters World. For fire, a volcano. For ice, the coldest place. Do you have any idea where to look now?” Victoria asked.
“Nope. Not at all,” I replied.
“Sigh... Well, how about we climb the highest mountain in the continent first. Back when I was a human, I always heard that the highest peak in the world is in Arturo. How about we go there?” Victoria suggested.
“Okay. That’s good. But we will go there riding on Ray instead of using portal. Just in case we found something that we missed during our circus tour,” I said.
Then, we turned our direction toward Arturo. We will go to the highest peak and hopefully, we can find spirits. Or any clues about the cult.
Since we have nothing else to do, whenever we see a village or a city, we would stop. Eat some of their local dishes, and to make Breezy not bored, we entered the guild and took a job request.
When was the last time I took a quest from the guild? I would usually let Penny take care of clan-related matter. And if there’s some quests that needed to be taken care of, she would give them to someone and it will be done soon after. While I, the leader of the clan, didn’t really do anything. She’s more of a leader than me.
She even took requests for cleaning the sewer or something. Some easy stuffs. Then let the orphans took care of it so they can slowly gain some experience. I’m ashamed as the real leader of the clan.
Though she said that it’s fine because she knows that I’m always busy. But I still told her that I will do a job that might be difficult or dangerous for the others to do. Especially jobs that needed some strength.
...Though many of us have reached master level now. And the job that needed some muscles won’t have to be done by me.
Anyway, this time, I took a request as an individual instead of a clan. And I will do it by myself. Or with Breezy’s help if I don’t want him to get bored.
Anyway, what’s my rank again? I stopped caring about it for a while already.
When I asked the receptionist, she said that since it has been so long since I took a job because I let others do it, I got demoted to D-rank. It’s because the guild think that I can’t do anything and only let other Hunters in the clan do it. Maybe I should take some job occasionally after this.
“A D-rank hunter? Hah! This city only accept high rank Hunters! Just leave this city!”
Suddenly one person inside the guild picked a fight against me. It’s really been a while since this happened to me.
And seeing Breezy’s reaction, I can guess that even Kron received this treatment during his journey. Breezy is too excited.
“Oh, look! An idiot! Please don’t talk to me. There’s no scientific evidence that stupidity is contagious. But I don’t want to take risk,” I said.
“You! Let’s fight right now!” the man shouted.
I ignored him and asked the receptionist instead.
“Is this often happened in this guild?” I asked.
“...Only when he and the people from his clan are here,” she replied.
I see. So he’s a famous troublemaker in this city. I bet he’s not that strong.
Then she explained how there are only few low-ranked Hunters here. It’s because of him and his clan. Newbies who didn’t join their clan will be harassed. That’s why they gave up or left the city.
“What an annoying bunch,” I said.
“You! I haven’t done talking with you yet!”
This might turn into a battle between clans. Though we are obviously stronger than them.
Wait! Clans also have their own privilege. Especially those with high-ranked Hunters, right? Then it’s possible that the cult is hiding within some famous clan! Why have I never thought about it? I’m so stupid.
Since I kept ignoring the annoying guy, he started to get physical. He punched me right at the back of my head.
That’s bad. If it’s anyone else. But not me. So I kept ignoring him.
“Then I’ll take that goblin subjugation request. I’ll be back in the afternoon. Or maybe earlier. Then, see you later!”
The receptionist seems to be a professional in handling trouble like that guy. And seems like the Guild Master is strong enough to protect the staffs. That’s why they never caused trouble directly to the staffs. Though the receptionist was still shocked to see how I didn’t react at all after being hit on the back of my head.
While everyone is shocked at how hard my head was and how I didn’t even flinch from that annoying guy’s punch, I left the guild.