Chapter 32

...For now"

"For now? It would be a better decision to take another other quest!"

"No, because of the number of rats, it's a perfect training ground, where else you would find so many practice targets, we'll gonna grind them to death and level up you"

" At least let us make a break for today, I think 14 rats is enough for us on the first day of work and what means Level up?"

Ludger interjects "I agree with her, because my right eye starts to swell, so it would be hard to hit anything with a bow"

"level is a simplified term for how strong you are, at the moment it looks like you both are level 10 "

A girl looks at him with curious eyes "It's good?"

"For average human? Yes, but for our future adversaries, you're worse than an ant or even an amoeba"

she gets pissed off by that statement "If I'm level 10 then ten of me working in perfect harmony should beat hypothetical level 100 right?"

"big fat No. the higher lvl for short, you have the stronger you are let's say two guys with 25lvl attacked a person with 40lvl, if added they have 10lvl more than the other guy so in theory, they should win right?"

both of them nod

"You got tricked, that guy with a 40lvl would trash them, because he has better stats, equipment and more experience in fighting, if he is a heteromorph, I'm sure that they wouldn't be able to scratch him, as heteromorphs have huge stats increase from their race, don't mention persons with high lvl begun to gain many immunities to attacks below a certain point. So even an Endless amount of Sara's wouldn't be able to do anything against that guy with 100lvl else he dies from boredom or old age"

"Yeah sure" She doesn't believe him while Ludger is sceptical "Anyway I'm tired and stained with blood, give me another set of clothing" He opens the inventory and gives her black attire, then she goes to behind bushes to change clothes

"Lex, what are we gonna do? Go back to the same inn as before?"

"It's too expensive and I don't think it's a good idea, after an accident"

"Oh, so where we'll sleep? When buying a sword blacksmith told me that there is a quite cheap inn for adventurers, what do you think?"

"why not"

After a moment of talk girl comes back now in a black airy suit composed of a black shirt with a long slews leather brown vest and a grey skirt long to the knees

"So where are we gonna stay? In that inn, Merchants Call? After you embarrassed us there I don't want to go back. Lex I know that you're a special..." 'In a wrong way' "...person in future don't do such wild stuff when people are looking"

"No it is too expensive we'll stay in an inn recommended by the blacksmith" 'I wonder if it's an inn where Ainz and Nabe stayed?'

"So why are we still here? Let's go!" She says while leading a group

"Before that, we need to take to the guild that 14 tails, I wonder how much money they would go "

In the Adventurers guild, Lex comes like always to his favourite receptionist Winia, opening an inventory and taking rat tails. People's eyes almost poop up at the sight of a scarlet portal

Winia is shocked as Lex is taking out rat tails "This red thing is a talent?"

"Yes it allows me to store things in it" he finally ends while putting the last tail on the counter

"Minus of it is that I can't take multiple things in one go" then he lies "and space is limited to Three cubic meters".

She with great interest looks at the portal and tries to touch it. Lex grabs her hand that goes in its direction, she blushes a bit from the sudden action "Don't touch it or else you would lose fingers. Your parents don't tell you to don't grab dangerous stuff?"

after hearing this woman takes her hand back in in a slow manner

"I was just curious"

"Yeah, and it killed the cat. How much is for these rat tails? There are 14"

Winia looks at them and takes measures doing precise work while being somewhat slow like if she is taking exact proportions to build a complex machine and every small detail omitted would result in an explosion. He gets pissed off because of this

"C'mon babe there are only 14 tails, with similar lengths, what are you thinking? a string theory"

she tells with a bit of irritation in her voice, but still keeps her professionalism as a clerk

"Because for a long time, no one took a rat extermination quest I need to take exact measures and evaluate their health as it would tell the guild how important is this quest. Then the guild will take that information to the city council and its possible to increase the quest reward, as killing rats is rewarded from the taxes"

"Ehh no matter how long you would flee, taxes and bureaucracy will never stop chasing you"

"hehehe" she giggles "Welcome to society" After taking measures she asks While scribing a report "So how many rats do you meet there? Only ones that you killed?"

Lex is amused that finally, he meets a person that has a similar sense of humour

"In like an hour we killed four parties of rats close to the entrance of sewers"

She with fervour writes in a weird language that is based on one of the writing forms in Japan

he looks at it dumbfounded, after a moment all of the letters written on the paper hurt his eyes, shifting gaze at one of the adventurers that are registering at another post handled by some guy

That adventurer is somewhat similar his short blonde hair is reminding Lex of something. He looks at Winia as she is still writing, it probably will take her some time so he goes to him

At the other post, the clerk tells to man

"Welcome to the guild" and gives a copper metal plate's four to be exact "I wish you luck in the adventures"

"Thank you, sir" a Young man leaves the clerk with a smile on his face while murmuring under his nose

"It's a first step in realising my dream of going in steps of Black Knight"

As he goes out of the guild, a tall man in extravagant armour comes to his side and asks

"Are you a Peter from Swords of Darkness?"

Before he replies, the adventurers start to talk

"Isn't that a crazy daemon?"

One of them starts to prey she must be a cleric "God of Wind please, have mercy upon this poor soul"

Peter looks at a man and sees a mithril plate, recognizing that this man is his senior. He speaks with an honorific

"Yes mister I'm a Peter Mauk and you?"

"I'm Lex Diethard"

"So mister Diehard how do you know the name of our team, when I created it a moment ago?" he stares at the tall man, whose brows are consorting feeling a bit of cold coming from him, something in his speech irritated man

when a man speaks with a light smile weird cold recedes "I know few things that I should not, Peter did your team have four members?"

He looks at a man While thinking 'Did he a moment ago overhear the process of registration?'

"Yes it is true"

Man looks at Peter with eyes that seem to view all of his past and future

"Do you want to become stronger?"

The sweet word comes from the mouth of a mysterious person, sweet and simple enough to ease his mind

"Who wouldn't want it? But what do you mean by that Mister D.." Before he can end handsome man interrupts

"Call me Lex, and there is no need for honorifics, as I'm not noble enough"

"Alright Lex, 'become stronger' could you explain?"

"It is simple, I would train your team a bit"

Peter looks another time at men who is giving off a feeling of confidence in himself, 'There must be a cath it sounds too good ' Then his focus shifts to a green plate then at a muscular build of an armoured man

"In our team is a very talented magic caster and druid, as I see you're a fighter, how you would train them? In your team is another sorcerer?"

He enthusiastically looks at the huge man

"Oh... you're such a good leader for caring about your teammates. No, there is no mage in my team if you don't count me"

Dumbfounded Peter looks at the man another time, don't believing his words

"You can't be serious, how a person wearing full plate mail could cast magic"

"Peter you don't know anything about this world, tomorrow I'll come here with my teammates there are noobs with a copper rank" Man leaves when some woman is requesting him

Now in his mind is going conflict on the scale of annual war too many questions poop up

Why is that guy in Mithril plate with a copper rank adventurers? Why did he come to me?

Why from his eyes I felt pity? Could I believe in him? He leaves the guild and goes to his comrades to discuss what do to.