30 How not to start an adventure
‘Hey, Helpy, is that normal?’
[Slimes are a very large and divided species. There are slimes of all kinds of elements, grades and dangers. Each of them has a completely different affinity and abilities. The only thing they share is their inability to evolve and their level cap below 20. Blue Slimes are the lowest of this family. Their level cap is 15 and they have no affinity for anything.
These slimes are only used as meat walls to slow people down. That's why creating an elite blue slime is the biggest stupidity a dungeon master could do. Only someone with a stone brain would. The best option would be to get rid of such a useless monster.]
'I'm not throwing away Limy! Damn it, Helpy… Anyway, the class thing will be for the same thing I guess.'
[Monsters are not normally able to acquire classes. Although it is possible that there are exceptions and some monsters may have one for their kind, the useless blue slimes...]
'I get it! I get it! It's enough!'
"This is all. Since you are still a trainee we cannot give you an official ID. You will have to work with Aeldrya for a while until you earn the opportunity to promote to rank 1 adventurer."
“Understood.”
"Oh yeah, the ranks go from 1 to 5. It's more or less like monster grades. It basically serves to show your strength. Being rank 1 means that you are strong enough to fight with grade 1 monsters without help. Rank 2 that you can fight with grade 2 monsters and so on. Reaching rank two is not that difficult, but from there the difficulty gets up quite a bit. Those that reach rank 4 are pure monsters and rank 5 can be considered living weapons. The number of people in the world who reached that rank can be counted with fingers and none of them are human. Well... one... but I'm not sure if he could be considered fully human..."
‘Does that mean I can consider myself rank 3?’
[Your strength is far away from a grade 3 monster. You've just been lucky and fought like a coward.]
‘Thank you... Although... it's true…’
"Well, it's done..." Aeldrya let out a short sigh. "Let's find you something to start with. It is still early, so we have time for a little initial training. Let's go for some quick and easy mission."
We left the counter and went to the panel that contained the missions. They were divided by rank into different panel sections, and each of them had three more sections with different colors: green, yellow, and red.
"Do you see the papers on the left side? Go there and take one of the green ones."
Limy approached and took the first one that she found in front of her, without even stopping to look at what it had written on or even its color...
—Limy, she said green.
“That's red, don't try to start with difficult missions just after starting. By the way, we are only going to spend a few hours. We don't have enough time to waste on a rank 1 red mission. What's more, did you even stop to read what it says?”
“I can not.”
“Ah, you can not read?”
“I can not.”
“Say it before. I will pick one for you… I’ll have to teach you how to read.”
Aeldrya went ahead and started to carefully read the missions, until she found one that she liked.
"Hunt some grasshopper rabbits… Those can be a bit difficult to catch, but they are not dangerous and they live near the city… Wait… why did you pick a red one if I told you green? And when you said that you did not know the color of my eyes... Maybe you..."
Aeldrya ran back to Limy and bent until her head was at the same level as Limy's and stared into her eyes from just a foot away...
"Those eyes... Don't tell me you can't see..." Aeldrya moved her hand in front of Limy’s face a couple of times.
“No.”
‘What? Helpy…’
[Blue slimes have no senses. They can unleash their own mana and detect obstacles around them and their shapes, but their range is limited to 40 meters.
At least they can sense the mana of other creatures within that range and, at levels above 10, follow mana trails up to 500 meters or more.]
I had completely forgotten the description of the slimes...
—Do you really have no senses at all? No sight, no touch, no taste, no smell, no… wait, you can hear, right?
—The mimic skill allows me to mimic a bit the capabilities of what I become. At the current level I can listen and speak, but nothing more.
—I see...
“How do you pretend to be an adventurer if you can’t see? We are going to refuse right now.”
“No problem, I can easily know what is around me. Not seeing is not an inconvenience.”
Aeldrya looked at her with narrowed eyes. She hesitated a bit before speaking again.
"I need to check if it is true before accepting it. We leave the missions for tomorrow. Today we are going to see if you are capable or not."
She dropped the mission back to its place and began to drag Limy toward the exit.
“Hey, Aeldrya!”
However, before leaving, we were stopped by two girls, probably friends of Aeldrya. One was slim and wore a white robe. Her hair, like her eyes, was brown and was cut to shoulder length. Her bust didn't stand out much and he looked to be about 16 years old.
Status:
Name: Casniel
Kind: Human | Race: Brifvian
Level: 8
HP: 85/85 | MP: 73/73
Classes:
- White priest: 4
Stats:
Vitality: 17 | Strength: 3 | Agility: 5
Intellect: 20 | Magic power: 27
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She apparently was a priestess. Her appearance already made it clear just by looking at her. The other girl wore a set of light armor, or better said, clothes with glued iron plates that covered her chest, the outer parts of her upper extremities, and her legs. She would certainly be a warrior. Her hair was short and black. She looked like 20.
Status:
Name: Ninbra
Kind: Human | Race: Brifvian
Level: 9
HP: 95/95 | MP: 27/27
Classes:
- Light warrior: 6
Stats:
Vitality: 26 | Strength: 28 | Agility: 22
Intellect: 6 | Magic power: 3
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They both stopped in front of Aeldrya and glanced at Limy with disbelief.
