03 – Advisor from the Guild

To be honest, it kind of feels weird to see someone like that. I don't know if the dream I see is true or not. In my dream, I feel like someone who reads or watches something from a black box. From those boxes, I see the stories of Danmachi, with Bell as the main protagonist, that someday will destroy my familia, the Ishtar Familia.

But seeing him run away with bloodstains all over his body, which is happening in my dream. Make me feel that those dreams may be true. He most likely gets attacked by Minotaurus and saved by Ais. So he may like her, which gives him a cheat like skill.

Of course, I'm curious, but, well, I can't ask him since he is already gone. Also, it's fine since I can ask about guild employees when I'm going to guild.

Anyway, it will be better to hunt monsters again.

I want to take as many monsters as I can and increase my attributes. Also, I just need eight monsters to increase my strength rank to H.

When I meet another group of Kobold, I don't need to think much either. I swing my sword with all I can, sidestepping and ducking to dodge their attack. It isn't a problem to do.

After killing eight monsters, I arrive on the second floor. The monster on this floor is still the same as on the first floor. And I don't think it's any different from the floor itself. But I feel kind of different after my strength increased from I to H, and the increase of 20 points is massive.

It feels like my weak-as-shit-attack already improved when I was slashing and slicing monsters around me. The movement of my sword to slash the meat of those monsters became easier and faster.

It makes me wonder, if agility is just all about the speed of my movement? In the game that usually agility increases speed attack, but I feel like my attack became faster by increasing my strength. Maybe because I became stronger and my sword became lighter.

That's kind of reasonable.

Anyway, I put my four points toward endurance to increase the rank for I to H100. I don't have any magic skills, so I don't need to think about increasing them. It feels like I have to increase DEX and AGI to make it a good number to look at. Before I added another ten points to my STR.

At the same time, I finally arrived on the third floor. Even though I think Ais killed the last Minotaurus, since I'm still unsure if my dream is real or not. Maybe it will be good for me to stop on the fourth floor. Those Bell events happened on the fifth floor after all.

"Haa—Haa—Haa—" I take a deep breath and wipe the sweat that has fallen from my face. This is maybe the first time I'm killing this many monsters. The desire to increase my attributes is so overwhelming in my mind that I'm kind of reckless and diving to the fourth floor at such a fast pace.

"I wonder if my stamina will increase if I put my point into endurance." I mumble while thinking it's time to go back to the guild. Since I think I'm already at my limit, acting rashly can be very dangerous. We don't know what will happen in this dungeon after all and I need to go through the dungeon to get back to the surface.

It's not that many monsters when I'm going back, and I spent another time searching for monsters on the first floor to make an even number in my status.

I take a look at my status before leaving the dungeon and going to guild.

Lv 01

Strength: H120

Endurance: H100

Dexterity: I70

Agility : I70

Magic : I5

"Oh, I think I killed more than 50 monsters in one day… that's quite an achievement for me."

Feeling satisfied with my progress, I entered the guild. The place is full of adventure, as is their interaction with the guild employee. It has been two weeks since I joined Ishtar Familia, while one week has been intensive training by Tammuz. Before, only for a week, I went in and out of the dungeon.

So you may say, I'm more of a rookie than Bell himself.

But there is a plus coming from a big Familia. If I'm not wrong, actually, Bell was rejected by the guild employee when she asked to become his advisor. While I'm getting one of the older or experienced guild employees that became my advisor.

She had long, wavy, red hair with animal ears, which showed her race as beast-race. Too bad, I can't see her tail since I gave her my loot today at the receptionist table. She had such fierce-golden eyes while looking at the loot that I brought here today.

"This is…" My advisor named Rose Fannet looks at the loot I give to her and she can't help but sigh.

"Are you perhaps going too far?"

It looks like she immediately catches what I'm doing by looking at my loot.

"Yes, I actually went all the way to the fourth floor." I immediately replied to her question.

"Ha—" She let out a sigh, before telling me her advice. "You may be eager to adventure, but you need to be careful, especially when you go into the dungeon solo."

"Ahaha… I know, I am feeling really good today."

"Still going to the bottom floor rashly is a no—no. A sudden confidence may lead to recklessness. So please remember about it."

In the end, Rose still gave me a stern reprimand. But she still praised me with her next word.

"Since you may have a good talent. I mean… in one week, you already killed this much monster in one day. There are more than 50 monsters, right?"

"Yes…"

"Un… It's such a good haul." Rose said it while giving me a lot of gold, which is called valis in this world.

It's 25.200 worth of valis or it can be one day worth working with a party of five level 1 adventurers.

"Oh! That's great." I take the valis with a smile. It may be the biggest payment I have, and it will increase in the future.

"Ah, btw… I see someone with blood stains all over his body on the first floor? Is something happening?" I ask Rose to find out if my dream and what happened to Bell will be the same.

"Ah… I think that's what happened to one of Eina's adventurers. I think he is going too far too deep into the dungeon… like you…" Rose replied to my question while at the same time picking on me for a moment, before she continued her answer.

"He met with minotaurs but was saved by Ais from Loki Familia, he's really lucky there, or he may have already died. That's why you need to be more careful." For the last time, Rose advised me again.

While I nodded my head to show my agreement to her, my heart couldn't help beating fast. Since this means that my dream may be true, the story from the black box is true. Which can be one thing…

Ishtar Familia will be destroyed in the near future.