Not Rank-Up-Magic

  “Now that we have registered you, we o adjust your rank.” The receptionist said to me. “Please hand over your card.”

  Oh yeah, I was F-rank at the moment. I guess after making a new card, anyone would be. I handed my card back over to her. She ied it into a device that reminded me of a card reader, like the ones you would see in a store. Mine was ied from the bottom of it, she did something with it and sshed another card in some kind of reader on the side. Approval, I guess.

  “Here you go. You are now officially k.” The receptionist told me as she handed me my card back.

  “k? I didn’t think it ossible to get a rank that high immediately.” I said.

  “We got special permission from the headquarters.” She told me. “But iurn, 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. Same as the Sage’s Tower and the Head Church.” She informed me. 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 avaible at standard level, unless it’s taken in from an outside source.) Laura told me. So she learn a map, but ’t access the system maps. Now I want to level her up to advanced even more.

  “So… Now that I’m a k, what kind of jobs should I be doing?” I asked.

  “Well, this tow have many k guests to begin with. They are usually emergencies, like a stronger monster appearing. That’s why most high rankers leave this town.” The receptionist informed me.

  “You e with me.” Lucia said to me. “I o go do some blood draining.”

  “Sure, I do that. But I would like a meal first. I’m hungry.” I answered.

  “Makes seer being out for two days.” Lucia said to me. “Do we still have wyver?” She asked the receptionist.

  “Of course. Zayaan made sure we would have some for Brian before he left.” The receptionist answered. Zayaa? Where?

  “Where did Zayaan go?” I asked.

  “He went to Sawyer city with Lord Wat to report the wyvern i.” The receptionist answered.

  “And once again, I’ve mao steal the guild master.” I sighed.

  “Actually, sir Lex came back to act as the guild master temporarily. He was moved by the will of everyoo stand up to multiple wyverns like that, and said he could hold the seat for a few days.” The receptionist informed me. Thank god someone 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 something 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 atable for that. It is the guild master’s job to a new dungeons.” The receptionist said.

  “Well, I still feel sorry for him.” I said. “Giving an old man panic attacks isly nice.”

  “I’ll tell him you are sorry.” The receptionist promised.

  “Bria’s get going, or we'll be te!” Lucia called me. But my food.

  “But I didn’t get my food yet.” I answered.

  “I got you three wyvern steak sandwiches. You eat them on the way, or whe there.” Lucia said, showing me a cloth ed package.

  “Sure, let me just fill up my water skin.” I said. Actually, where I even fill it up?

  “The over here already.” Lucia said, making her way to some sort of mae. A water fountain?

  I walk up o her and pull my water skin out of my fanny pack. She grabs it from my hand and shows me how the water fountain works.

  “You put the mouth of your water skin here, and pull this lever down. Then it will fill your tainer with water.” She informed me. “Be careful not to over-fill.”

  The water fountain worked in a simir way to the water coolers looked ba earth, except it didn’t have a rge water tank attached to it. It probably used magiake water.

  After filling up my water skin, Lucia ha to me.

  “Thanks.”

  “Of course. Because of you, we are all fine. I even got two levels from the wyvern fight.” She told me.

  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 me along.

  You could have given me a few more seds so I could have pced my water skin and the sandwitches into my fanny pack with a little more care.

  —

  On the way to the gates, Lucia turo me.

  “Here, I should give this back.” She said as she handed my Slot Mae bae. I guess I did give it to her.

  I received it from her and put it bato my colle. I also quickly chey sleeve and toploader monsters. Red-Eyes, Overdrive and Slot mae are there, but Dark Magi Girl and Dark Magi are missing. Mana should be with Alice, but where did Dark Magi 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 Magi shouldn’t. Perhaps Alice took it.

  “Is something wrong?” Lucia asked me as she noticed I had my DiaDhank open. “Is there another emergency?”

  “Nothing like that.” I told her. “I’m just missing a card.”

  “That magi one?” She firmed.

  “Yes. Do you know who has it?”

  “It’s still outside, near where we fought the wyverns.” She told me.

  “Why would it be there?” I asked.

  “It’s too hot for ao touch.” Lucia told me.

  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 toug it as well, and it burned him, even though he has the fire resistance skill.” Lucia told me. So it’s not normal ‘hot’ but a phenomenon that makes it seem hot to the touch.

  “I want to go take a look at it, at some point.” I said to Lucia.

  “We do that after I get the blood drained.” She answered.

  “Sure, let’s do that.”

  —

  On our way to the gate, a few guards stopped to thank me for saving them. It feels strao 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 something stupid again.

  At the gate, a familiar guard waved at us as he noticed us approag. He’s from the first time I got into town. I think he was Rico’s dad or something. I don’t recall him being there when we fought the wyverns, but perhaps he art of that sedary force that came out just before I passed out.

  “Hey Brian.” He called out to me. “Thanks for what you did.”

  Well, that was quid simple. I guess Rico takes something 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 sider it unlucky.” He said to me.

  Well, I guess fag 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 me.

  (I know you don’t. I more so mean, it’s on 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 assessment, that me being here is a firmation that the lesser behemoth will appear again.) I expio Laura.

  (Even if one does appear, I’m sure Master deal with it.) Laura put her faith in me. 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 ohat got to take part itle have leveled up and some of the others are now jealous.” He said to me.

  “I think it’s better not to have a giant hole in your stomach.” I respohinking back to the man who was stabbed by the wyvern tail. What happeo him anyway?

  I think Lucia read my expression as she said to me, “He is fine. Your potio him alive, and we had an antivenom made for his paralysis.” She told me. That’s good to hear.

  “Well, feel free to call us, if you need help.” The guard told me. “By the way, my name is Mario.”

  “o meet you Mario. My name is Brian.” I returned his introdu.

  “You do realize I already khat.” Mario said back.

  “Yeah, I guess you did. I just felt like I had to say something.” I responded.

  “Bria’s go. I’ll be te.” Lucia said, pulling me by the hand.

  “Yes, let’s.”

  We made our way out to the fields.