Lucy told them her stats and they were all impressed by her improvements. The reason her [Perception] was so high was most likely to the [Appraisal] skill, at least that's what the group thought, as it was the most logical explanation.
"Thank you, Lucy. Now don't make a mess at the Adventure's Guild. And for god's sake, don't be reckless!" Said Alexander and looked towards Vez to let him know he could cancel his Silence ability and to follow her and make sure she's safe.
Lucy said goodbye to her parents as she rushed towards the Adventure's Guild to finally register and become an adventurer. Adventurers were people who found beasts for a living, well mostly anyway. Many low leveled ones usually help out around town with security, odd jobs such as building, cleaning and many other jobs. But the ones who were confident in their fighting ability would do escort jobs, escorting merchants from town to town as monsters and bandits usually terrorized the highways.
Adventurers were split into 8 groups. From F - A and then the special ones S and Z. F-Rank were the lowest, and when you became a D-rank, you would officially an adventurer and when you reached C you'd be seen as a Semi-Pro. Most adventurers were C ranks as it became harder to rank up from there. B rank were Pros, you'd need several C-rank parties to go against a B-rank party, but the difference between B and A was almost as high as C to B. A-rank were at the top. This was most people's dream to reach. But there are still two ranks above it. S-Rank was short for Special Rank, S-Rank people were as the name suggest, special. They either had skills that would change the outcome of wars or even natural disasters, such as the skill [Morale], it was a skill that could boost anyone the caster sees as an ally within 1000 meters with up to 100% boost in all stats, even [Luck]. This was a [Unique] Skill and it would increase to 100% at level 5/10. A general had this skill and would dominate every battlefield because of it, even before he served a kingdom, he was an A-rank adventurer. So his skills, stats and levels were high and then a 100% boost on that would make him unstoppable against other A-Rank parties.
If Alexander Knightmoar were an adventurer, based on his stats and skill he would be a A-rank, but only because of his high [Swordsmanship Skill], as most A-ranks were basically monsters in human shapes. Vez on the other hand would be deemed an A-Rank, his skills, stats and level were monstrous.
But then we have the Z-Rank. This was reserved for heavenly-defying people. In the history of the Adventurer's Guild, there has only been 2 Z-Rank people. Both are rumored to have had Legendary Skills. This people were powerful enough to fight entire kingdoms and empires alone. But luckily they were only adventurers who wanted to see the world.
When Lucy got to the busy streets of Rimebell she smiled. She loved her home town, it was peaceful and everyone were always smiling. She ran towards one of her favorite stands, they sell bread, but the bread they make are even better than her mothers and she has the [Cooking Skill]. She waved and greeted almost everyone she ran by, they knew her and she knew them. She was always running around talking to everyone in town. She loved the people of Rimebell. She were standing and talking to the man who owned the Bread Stand and bought a small piece of bread and was just about to leave when her eyes met with a young man on the streets. He was pretty tall, almost 190 cm and black hair and blue eyes. Out of habit she used [Appraisal], and what she saw frightens her to the core. She had never seen anything like this. She needs to hurry up and let her father know!
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She was terrified, who was he? Why is he looking at her? She ran for the Adventurer's Guild because she knew she would be safe there if he was someone who were after her. She ran with all she had and basically smashed open the doors and then hurried to the counter.
She was known as Rimebell's Young Lady, everyone who had been in town for more than a few weeks knew her. There was a big line, but she got to use one of the exclusive reception desks, these were usually only for B-Rank and above. She walked towards the counter and saw a young brown haired woman in her mid twenties.
"Hey Lisa." Lucy as she walked towards the counter.
"Hello Lady Lucy, how can i help you today?" She said in a respectable manner.
"I'm finally allowed to register!" She was very exited to finally register!
Just as she was gonna go ahead with the registration a mans voice was heard from behind the receptionist.
"Ohh, so the little girl is gonna be an adventurer?" Said the deep voice.
"Shut up Donny! Dad said it was okey!" She stomped her feet and pouted as she looked towards the voice.
Donny was the Guild Master in Rimebell and he knew Lucy very well. She loved adventurers and would often come to the guild to listen to the adventurers stories. He was also a personal friend of her father, Alexander.
"Hahaha, I know, I know! I'm just teasing you. But don't go around overestimating yourself you hear me!" He laughed and said, but the last bit were said with a bit of concern.
"Stupid...! I know, I've gotten Vez to train me fighting a few monsters to test my strength, I know i'm very weak, but my level and stats are almost on par with a C-Rank!" She said proudly and smiled.
"Stupid girl, what did I say about overestimating yourself! Always go ahead thinking the enemy is stronger than you, that way you will never underestimate people or monsters!" He said. He of course had no idea she could see peoples stats and skills, which would help in any fight. But just as she thought about that, she thought of the man she saw on the street and got a bit scared again.
As the registration was complete she had to hurry back home to tell her father of what she saw. She made her way towards the exit and just as she opened the door she met the man again, his stats still had those weird symbols, she quickly ran away to avoid him. She hurried back home and looked back every now and then to see if he followed her.
When she got to the house she called for her dad and ran into the house looking for him. Gilbert, her mother and father quickly found her as she yelled for them loudly.
"What are you yelling for?" Said Lilliana in worry as she could see the fear in her eyes.
"Lucy, tell us what's going on!" Alexander quickly said as he could also see the look in her eyes.
"I met.... We need Vez for this." She stopped herself and remembered she was gonna talk about her skill.
"Vez!" Alexander called for him, he was tasked to follow and protect Lucy so he had to be close by.
When no answer came, they all got a bit worried as they quickly looked towards Lucy for possible answers.
"I... Met someone who I... could not.... see." She said carefully to not reveal to much if anyone was listening in.
They all knew what she meant, which in turn made them even more worried for Vez. They all sat down by the dining table and sat there in silence for a few minutes hoping for Vez to show up any second. After 10 minutes Alexander stood up.
"Everyone get ready for the worse, pack your...." He was cut off by the sound of the front door opening and they heard the steps coming towards the dining room. The door opened and showed Vez, a happy Vez. Vez almost never showed any emotions, but now he was smiling like Lucy had never seen before.
"Vez! Where were you? You were suppose to be with Lucy! What if something happen to her!" Alexander yelled in anger but quickly calmed down, he too could see the smile on his face and knew something must be up.
"I'm sorry my lord, but I met someone I thought I would never meet again!" He said and smiled even wider and looked towards the group.
"Met.... Don't tell me...!" Lilliana quickly understood as she had only seen him smile like this once before.
"Yes, that is correct, my lady!" He said and looked towards Lilliana who had her hands covering her mouth and had tears in her eyes. Alexander and Gilbert quickly realized who this person must be and were both smiling and looking towards Vez for more information.
"Lord, Lady. He is standing outside waiting." He said and looked to them, he was also enjoying the extremely confused look on Lucy's face. She had no idea what was going on. Who was this person?
"Why is he outside!?" Both Alexander and Lilliana both almost screamed as they said that, but Gilbert and Vez both laughed.
"Stop laughing! Invite him in at once!" Alexander said and could not remove the smile on his face.
"Ahh!" Lilliana said as she realized something.
"I need to cook something! Do we still have that wine you got from the king on your birthday last year?" She said and looked towards Alexander.
Lucy was just sitting there with a question mark above her head and suddenly stood up
"What is going on, why are you like this!? What about what i mentioned just now!?" She screamed which shup them all up as they looked at her.
"Honey, calm down. Lets first meet this person before we talk about what happen to you." Alexander said and he was pretty sure he was the person who Lucy 'could not see'."
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It was finally Colt's turn in the Adventurer's Guild, it only took a few minutes, a lot better than the line outside the town.
"Hello sir, how can we help you today?" A young blond lady said as he saw Colt by her desk.
"I have a Temporary ID and was told I could come here for a permanent one." Colt simply answered and showed her the scroll he got from the guard.
"Alright." She said and took the scroll from his hands and started reading through it and then started filling a paper of her own before she looked towards Colt again.
"To register it costs 1 silver and you will become an F-rank adventurer." She said and waited for him to pay.
"Eh, I don't have...." He was cut off by someone behind him
"I'll pay for him!" Someone said, he looked around and saw someone he recognized.
"Vez!" He said and smiled towards him.
Everyone in the guild knew him. He was the only A-Rank in town and also the Lord of Rimbell's knight and friend. When this man came in and payed for someone unknown and he was smiling as well, everyone grew curious of who this man was.
"Okey, thank you Vez, Mr Colt here is your ID. You are now officially an F-Rank adventurer." She smiled and said as she gave a small hard, almost plastic like card to him, It had his name and where he was from.
"F-Rank?" He asked the girl. But just as she was about to explain about the ranks she got interrupted.
"It's okey miss, i'll tell him." Vez said and gestured for Colt to follow him and went outside.
The both of them went outside and started talking, Vez explained about the ranks and how the Adventurer's Guild worked as they walked towards the Lord's Mansion. They quickly arrived before they even got to talk about what they had been up to.
"Well, we are here Lord Colt." Vez said and stopped in front of the door.
"Vez... I told you to not call me 'Lord'!" Colt said and looked at him.
"sigh, I know, but it feels like i'm disrespecting you by just calling you by your name."
"It's more disrespectful to ignore what a person wants to be called, is it not?" Colt said and smiled towards Vez.
"Yeah, yeah... Anyway! Wait here and i'll get the others!" Vez said and walked inside leaving Colt standing there alone for a few minutes.
'Isen't it disrespectful to also just leave me like this?' he thought to himself and let out a small laugh and wondered what Vez would say if he told him that.
After a few minutes the door opened and showed his new friends, but something had changed.
'Why do they look so much older?' Colt thought to himself as he saw them but quickly ignored it and walked towards them
"Alex, Lily, Gilbert!" He said as he greeted them.
"Colt!!" they all said and was very happy to finally see him again, they thought they would never see him again. The time they spent with him was only 2 weeks, but to them it was the best two weeks of their lives.
"Come in! Welcome to our humble home, I hope it is to your liking!" Alexander said as he bowed towards him and led him inside. Lucy was standing on the side lines and could not see the man at first but was very confused as to why they were so respectful towards this man and wondered if he was some kind of royalty or a high leveled noble. But she soon saw his face as he walked inside the house.
'It's him!?!?' She screamed in her mind, her fear started coming back and she feared for her parents as they had no idea!
"It's him! Dad, it's him!" She yelled and pointed towards the man hoping that the group would know what she meant.
Colt looked towards the woman and recognized her right away.
"Ahh, it's you. I wanted to ask you why you look at me like that. You look at me as if I've done something terrible to you for no reason and before i got to ask, you simply ran away." He said and looked towards Lucy.
"Colt, this is Lucy, our daughter!" Lilliana said and smiled towards Colt and giggled a bit at Lucy's reaction.
"Lucy!?" He yelled in confusion.
"Why is she so old?" He said and looked towards the girl.
Steam was coming out of Lucy's head. She stomped her feet and yelled back at Colt.
"Old!? Who are you calling old!? I'm only 16!" She yelled at him as the others just laughed at the sight.
"What? 16? I was not working for 16 years, im 100% sure of that." He said and started wondering why it had been 16 years already, it should not have taken more than 5 years. But he quickly thought of the reason.
'Maybe time moves faster in The God's Realm.' He thought, during his time in the woods he visited the other gods at one point to say hi. He was there for a few hours and when he came back he did notice a few changes in the environment but chose to ignore it at the time.
"Ah, never mind I know why it's been 16 years for me." He said and shook his head.
"Do you want something to eat Colt?" Lilliana asked as she had not cooked for him in years and Colt got excited to taste her cooking once again!
"Yes,please! I haven't had good food in years!" He said and quickly imagined what he would get to eat. Alexander showed him around the house a bit and ended up at the dining table and told Colt to sit down, Alexander gave his own seat to him as it was the 'master' seat. basically where he always sat.
Lucy was still wondering who he was and just as she was about to ask.
"Lucy, you remember the stories we told you about when you were born?" Alexander said and looked towards Lucy.
"Yeah! Of course I do, I love those stories! Why?" Lucy asked in confusion.
"This is the man." Alexander simply said and watched her reaction.
"Wa-wa-what!?" She quickly understood. This man was a God, so it was no wonder she could not see his stats, she quickly got up and kneeled in front of him.
"Get up!" Said Gilbert and laughed at her reaction.
"He doesn't like that." Alexander said and also laughed.
"I-I-I.... I'm sorry for my earlier behavior." She said and bowed towards the god.
"It's okey. So you've heard of me?" Colt simply said and looked towards Lucy, the little girl he once held in his hands.