-Liz's POV-
So the tasks for today are: Getting to know The Cuties Guild Quests, going off to explore a dungeon for the first time (obviously in this world because who knows if it will be different from the dungeons on Elanoir), Earning myself some money. After that my plans would get a kickstart.
I had nearly forgotten about looking at my Adventurer ID. I took out the card from my dimensional space I had put in right after talking with Reinard last night.
I look at the Card which has an Emerald Green color on the front side and black at the back side. At the front side of the card is my photo, which I don't even know when they took it, with my name, Lily written in black with gold highlights, and my association, The Cuties Guild and lastly my Rank, which happens to be A Rank. 'Not a surprise there huh, it was going to be either B Rank or A Rank and Luna did mention about me becoming a capable A Ranker'. The backside of the card was plain but with a chip attached to it, most likely for transaction purposes as one of the benefits of joining The Cuties was having a private vault and a private bank account providing unlimited transactions and free of tax. 'A beneficial guild indeed'. I think while nodding to myself and pressing the button for the 7th floor, as I was already in the elevator.
The elevator door opened and I was impressed by the look this floor gave me, pure white furniture, a clean white marble floor and emerald color walls.
I looked around to find the quest registration desk at the end of the room from where I was standing with a few people walking here and there, carrying sheets of paper. I saw large boards placed on the walls with the quests attached to them. There were quite a lot of adventures here despite it being a floor only for A Rankers.
I walked up to one of the boards with the sign 'Dungeon Clearing Quests'. There were lots of signs like this one but all had different types of Quests ranging from transportation of goods to killing of monsters in the wild.
Why transportation, you might ask because when there are still airplanes flying through the skies, what's the need for transportation quests? The thing is, there are only limited flights per day and the dangers in the skies are not much above the cities. But if you go beyond a certain point, the skies are also one of your enemies, filled with cyclones, tornadoes in the middle of sky, flying monsters. Although it's dangerous to take a flight, there are people still willing for a short duration of journey rather than the gruesome land journey, and here comes the transportation quests for those who cannot afford the flights and have to travel beyond the walls for days or months just so that they can reach their destination.
I look at the list of quests on 'Dungeon Clearing Quests', most of them are outside the city within seven miles of distance, rather close to the city. The paths beyond the walls were all filled with monsters who happen to be there because of frequent dungeon breaks, although on a small scale but still, dangerous. There were various dungeon quests, like the Insect Dungeon, filled with insects the size of a two story building. The Wild Dungeon, filled with pure monsters, abomination and horrors. The Drakes Dungeon, filled with drakes who vary in size and the type of elements they can use. There were more dungeon quests than I had thought but I decided to go with the Drakes Dungeon because why not?
I went up to the quest registration desk and waited for my turn as there were only three desks but all of them were already packed, so obviously I took the least packed of the three desks. While waiting in the line, a group of three women approached me, they were wearing normal clothes and not the usual type of armor you may find adventurers wearing all the time in those fantasy worlds. One of them was a tall beauty with red hair, black eyes, another one was short but cute, with brown hair and hazel eyes and the last one was average in height, had black hair and black eyes.
"Hey there!! I am Jenifer" said the tall beauty while putting her hand out, as a form of greeting.
"I am Lily" I said while looking her in the eyes as her hand was left to catch air. She withdrew her hand and scratched the back of her head while laughing it off. 'Always the head scratches for not shaking hands and trying to laugh it off' I thought to myself. The other two also introduced themselves but did not stick their hands out. The short one was named Anna and the other one was Rose.
"What do you guys want?" I asked them as. 'All three of them were around the age of 20 and what would women so young want from a 35 year old like myself' I thought to myself while mentally shrugging the thought.
"Well we were going to clear a dungeon to the south of the city, and we were a person short on the team, so…. we thought that asking someone to come with us would be a good idea and here we are now, asking you to join us." Jenifer said while the other two nodded their heads at her answer.
I looked at the three of them one by one. "Why should I join you three? Won't that be a problem, like you'll have to split the rewards and you will be doing a dungeon exploration with a stranger, who might or might not just kill you and take the rewards.". Saying those things right to their faces made them realize that it might become true if they didn't select a good teammate, whom they have known for a while. 'These girls are going to be hopeless in the dungeon if they take a random stranger as their teammate, they might be even taken advantage of'. They also appeared to be newbies, like why would you even ask someone to join you if you were an A Ranker and could handle most of the things by yourself. These three were truly the epitome of newbies, although Jennifer appeared to be somewhat experienced among them as I could see her face becoming dark at the mention of killing teammates for rewards. She might have experienced something like that but still wanted to go along with asking for a stranger, probably on the insistence of her two teammates.
'There is still the thing of the dungeons in this world being different than they were on Elanoir, it might be a good idea to join them and give them a lesson too.'
"Well, what you're saying is true but we have to take that risk! Otherwise we won't be able to enter a dungeon" says Rose while looking at me a bit warily. I had put a bit of fear in them by saying that statement, but it was for their own good.
"Fine, I'll go with you three but keep this in mind if any of you try to even so much as betray me, I'll have your heads separated and put them in my collection room." I reply while grinning a bit creepily while saying the last part, which obviously scares them. I might be underestimating them or even overestimating them but, as the saying goes 'Precaution is Better than Cure' .
The three of them smile a bit wryly and go on to explain which dungeon they were going to.
After a bit of rambling on and on about the dungeon and the strategies they will be using, we finally go to the quest registration desks after having me taken out of the line by these three women for the discussion.
"How may I help you all?" says the worker at the desk.
"We would like to register for 'The Drakes Dungeon' as a party of four people" says the shortie, Anna, whom I had thought to be the shy type, but she knows when she has to speak and when not to speak. She was also the youngest of the three, 21 years old, Rose was 22 and Jennifer was 24, an odd group, but I could see that they had a bond between them. Which I was surely going to test in the dungeon. We had chosen this particular dungeon because I wouldn't be going with them if they had chosen any other dungeon than this.
"Okay, please give me all your ID's " the worker said while we all took out the ID's and handed it to her. I saw that two of their ID's were sapphire blue and one was emerald green, the same as mine.
"It's done, a party of 2 A Rankers and 2 B Rankers, your ID's are registered for The Drakes Dungeon, have a safe journey." the worker said, having registered our names in the system. 'So the sapphire blue is for B Rankers, and the emerald green is for A Rankers, I wonder what's for S Rankers?'
I don't have any idea how 2 B Rankers could come to a quest involving A Ranker with a medium level threat according to the quest I read on the board. The internet couldn't give the specifics for quests, so asking my teammates was the only option.
"Can someone please tell me, why can 2 B Rankers come to an A Ranked quest with a threat level of medium?" I formed the sentence in such a way that it would not be suspicious to them, like why does an A Ranker not know basic rules for the dungeons 'Cuz I have not fucking read em at all and I am new here.' It was a stupid question but I had to ask them.
"It's because there are 2 A Rankers taking the quest" says Anna, while shaking her head like I shouldn't have asked such a dumb question. This brings a frown on my face which Jenifer notices and immediately replies.
"It's because B Rankers are allowed to take A Ranked quests, if and only if they have 2 A Rankers in their party." My frown disappears at that sentence and I nod towards Jenifer, although she might have already guessed the meaning behind my words as her reply was what I needed to hear.
Having done everything we needed, we moved out and headed towards 'The Drakes Dungeon'.