Myles was struggling to get back up as the four hobgoblins came roaring at him.Two people appeared out of nowhere and attacked the hobgoblins from behind and comfortably destroyed them with their powerful mage attacks.And then their gazes fully weighed down on Myles.“Are you from the Whiteblade guild?”“Are you from the Crescent Knight guild?”Both the B-ranked venerers asked at the same time. Because of the darkness, it took them a couple of seconds to see the guild badge on his chest. It didn’t belong to any of the two guilds just mentioned.“Bird badge? What guild are you part of?” they asked in a stern voice. “It’s not from this district, is it?”The guild badge on Myles’ chest was that of a bluebird, which was the symbol of the Dawn guild.Myles didn’t like their gazes, so he said, “I’m sorry. Can you take me outside? I will be really grateful.”The expressions of the B-rankers changed. They were no longer hostile.Normally, people from one district hated it when those from ot
The green goblin dungeon break in the subway was taken care of in the afternoon period, and much of the credit went to both the Whiteblade guild and the Crescent Knight guild, especially the two B-rankers that led everyone from the front, or so the television reported.Naturally, the B-rankers were called for an interview, and some kids that the guild members saved were also called, and the ratings for the show hit the roof as the children described what the goblins did and how the guild members then took care of the goblins.The fame of both the Whiteblade guild and the Crescent Knight guild got a boost because of the overwhelmingly positive coverage given on them. Even the mayor had announced that badges of excellence will be given to the two B-rankers for leading a successful rescue operation where not even a single child was killed.The two B-rankers got together and celebrated in secret that night and perhaps felt a little bad for Myles, but they thought that it was his bad luck.
Myles felt a prickling sensation on his back.“Mm?” he turned around, and a coral shell opened. “A C-rank dungeon? Wonderful,” he got up to his feet, quickly finished his meal, and then rushed into the dungeon.He ended up in a rugged scrubland with tall grass competing with taller shrubs. Right before him was a medium-sized lake. On the other side of the lake, a humanoid red-haired cat with a little bit of white hair mixed in was drinking from the lake.Myles took a step forward. The grass crunched underfoot.The cat’s ear immediately jerked; it looked in his direction straight away and hissed.Myles grabbed the bone staff that was on his back. “This fellow reminds me of a pet I used to own in my previous life.”The cat started running on all fours and came circling the lake. It was fast. From about fifty feet away, it leaped at him with a fully stretched body.Myles turned the bone staff into a sword and pierced at it. The cat tapped the blade down and clawed at him with another lim
The whistle wasn't loud because the cat couldn’t put enough strength into blowing the whistle.“Was it trying to send a warning signal?” Myles grew just a little anxious. He picked up the whistle which was made out of leaves. He crushed it in his hand and tossed it away.His shoulder wound was mostly healed by now.“This healing speed isn’t enough,” Myles stealthily walked by covering his feet with vaporous vera, so that even though he was stepping on the grass, it didn’t make any noise.“I’m getting more and more used to this thing they call ‘vera,’” he mumbled. “I could hear it exciting the cells in my body, making sounds that can be felt through the vibrations inside my body. Every breath is activating the life energy of the blood, so it can be used against all things, physical, mental, and spiritual. If I keep developing it, I’m sure I’ll be able to heal myself with vera instead of depending on the nano healing bots.“I don’t know how far this will take me, but if I want to defeat
The Boss Cat howled with vehemence.Naturally, Myles also heard the howl. “Dammit. Did they catch up on the scent already? I shouldn’t have cut them when I wasn’t far from the boss monster, but there was no other choice. I couldn’t have strangled all four of them. Perhaps, I could have avoided fighting them, but the star crystals didn’t let me walk away.”Suddenly, the top half of the hut was sliced away by the sword strike of the Boss Cat.“Human!” The Boss Cat landed on the wall and sprang at Myles with all the hatred in its eyes and voice. “Feline Fury… Scorching Sword!” It thrust a short sword at Myles with such speed, the sword screamed through the air and generated flames.Myles dodged initially, but the opponent kept thrusting the sword with increasing speed. At some point, it was too fast for Myles to continue to dodge, and so he had to block it with his sword. Flames erupted and blocked his view.The Boss Cat used the flames as cover to swing the second sword and thought it w
All the cat monsters heard the Boss Cat’s order and rushed forth.“Everything in creation vibrates at a certain frequency,” Myles said, “and so when you bring metal and blood into resonance, this happens.” His sword made a buzzing noise. “Harmonic Sword…” Myles gyrated on his foot and created a spinning force, releasing spinning top like energy utterly sliced through all the cat monsters along with their weapons. The only one that managed to withstand the attack was the Boss Cat, but its short swords also suffered cracks. And its arms were still trembling against its will.“You…” the Boss Cat was stepping forward, but then his internal organs had turned into a mess, and so he ended up collapsing to his knees. “What’s going on?” he bled from the eyes, nose, ears, and mouth. “I’m sure I blocked the attack…”“You didn’t block it the way you should,” Myles was also breathing hard because his stamina was still not good enough for him to effortlessly pull off such an attack. “The vibrations
The treasure room was behind the throne. The door didn’t open no matter how much Myles pushed it. He saw a hole in the dole. Instinctively, he placed the Boss Cat’s star crystal in that because it fit there.The rock door then opened by itself, he was shocked because it was an empty room.“The heck? Is there some sort of an illusion?” he hesitantly entered the room. Only after he took a few steps forward, he was able to see the two tiny translucent discs floating in the middle of the room. Because of the way light was arranged, he wasn’t able to see them before. “What are these?" he hesitantly touched them. They got sucked into his body and appeared as lenses covering his eyes, almost becoming one with the eyes.He didn’t feel like anything had changed.Not minding too much, he walked away. The remnant cat monsters, more than thirty of them, had gathered in the village by then and came rushing at him. They were fast, as usual, but to Myles’ great surprise, he saw them move in slow mot
A few minutes earlier.In the flower district’s dungeon bureau department building.“Sir, there’s a signal of a new dungeon,” one of the workers said. “It’s a C-rank dungeon, currently forming on building number 232, Block C of Sector 12.”“Sector 12?” the bureau’s manager slightly smiled. “That’s the public sector where no guild is located. This is great. Let’s put the dungeon to auction immediately.”“Yes, sir.”The bureau held an online auction for the newly formed c-rank dungeon’s rights, and many guilds from not just the flower district but other districts also competed.In the end, it was bought by the Greed guild for a whooping price of 2500 gold coins, which was worth more than 400 years salary of Sercy as her monthly salary was below 1 gold coin.The Greed guild dispatched a full-fledged C-rank team that was already in the flower district. This was a team of five members, all of whom were C-rank venerers.The leader of the team was Yamira, a Master C-ranker who used a sword a