" What..... to become adventure..... you must be joking right ."
" No ! " Mark refuted him blatantly, which had startled the audience.
{ Had any one suggested, making mess you l
could become an adventurer } guild master bellowed out angrily over a telepathic message.
{ Okay... there are many spectators here, why don't you enter my office, you can say what you want to discuss over there }
" So this guild master could also use that skill ah. No wonder that even old man Kaiser was able to use it ." mark had exclaimed in his heart.
After hearing the words from guild masters, Mark felt the possibility of two events that were most likely to occur. This guild master either comply to my request or try something foolish against me.
{ So you want to dispose me, secretly in your office, bad plan old man }
{ The hell with disposing you concept, how could I dispose you with these many people present and do you think Kaiser would be calm down after hearing out that his grandson was wronged by me. }
" Guild master, just so you know, my time is expensive and don't try something foolish, there are many witnesses present here. "
Mark's words had clearly shocked him again, this little kid, he made his insurance even before entering my guild's mansion, truly terrifying !
Inside guild's master office
The guild master was starting at mark, waiting for him to respond, as the first one to start the conversation would be the one that had lower hand against other, he knows that and doesn't want to be at loss.
Unable to further keep his calm, guild master started to exclaim out in anger " Say, what's your plan, making a plot against senior kain, is to gain something from my guild, exploiting my guild rules, third generation dependant of storm family, I am asking you are you deaf ?. "
side note : [ Guild branches and Nobel's operate separately, made a stable balance for humans in this chaotic world, unless they kill a influencial figure they won't get involved in matters of others, but Mark had indirectly made a plan against kain, even tough he lost his strength he was still admired as a great adventurer by many juniors a influential figure... , voluntarily attack Mark. So noble faction of Mark's family requires an explanation if the rumor spreads out for his sudden assault on a kid or a compensation him for grievance, unless the headquarters of the adventures guild in capital city acts the above statement holds true. ]
* laughs *
" So, you had founded out ah... it's simple, I am short on time, talking entrance exam and increasing my ranks among adventurers takes time, I needed to find a shortcut. Never did I imagined that, my shortcut would come right before me and finding troubles with myself, and will prevent me from undergoing a hassle from your guild procedures. "
It was a known fact that the results of the entrance exam would be arriving late, usually a week from the date of examination. Promotion to upper rank did not had any quick tactics, average adventurer usually takes years to promote himself, exemptions being the ones who had promoted themselves in a short period of a month time.
Did Mark had the luxury waiting a long time ? undergo various quests designated by them, outside the city threatened by beast horde, which was impossible at present. The time mark was going to stay in this city was about two weeks or three at best, problem being that only Rank-E adventurers and above were allowed into the dungeon, since cases of f-rankers losing their lifes, unable to protect themselves well in dungeon was a serious problem and hence leaded to their ban, but given his time even reaching half-way to the target rank-e was not possible, limited his time Mark had to employ some tricks to reach his current goal.
Guild master has some special privileges, he can directly promote a person to a high rank, provided that the person had sufficient power to carry the burden of that title, as the adventurer have to work off their asses, on cases where the guild headquarters presents them a yearly quest depending on his / her capabilities.
Since the headquarters were not familiar with each adventurers personally, they access their capabilities and measure their potential by means of the rank, which an adventurer carry on their guild license card, so promoting a weak person to a high ranker may necessarily do more harm than good to him.
" So you want to abuse my authority, and become a adventurer.... it's possible but still.... I can somehow manage it, I suppose with this we no longer owe you any further. "
The guild masters had exclaimed in a manner which was telling as if, it was what he can promise him the most to let him become a ordinary f-ranker.
Mark had became angry, without a moment delay mark refuted him blatantly with a " no ."
"Do you still take me for a kid after what had happened previously, do you think I don't know what you're aiming right now. Who want to become an ordinary f-ranker adventurer, do you think i am weak, should I remind you that, i was strong enough to defeat that muscle brainy in a hit, wasn't he the strongest c-ranker here. I am not asking much, so how about you make me a rank-c adventurer and we call it a day. "
Mark's words had quite troubled him " if not for me to use the blades hilt but the blades sharp edge, Kain would had remained a corpse, a rank-c adventurers corpse. So wasn't i stronger than him, then why don't you give me a rank-c isnt that fair enough. " Even this guild master knew of that fact. It's not that he did not want to give Mark the title of rank-c adventurer, but he could not, as rules stated that the branch manager of rank-B can only promote the adventurer to the ranks of a rank-D adventurer any further that adventurer would need to go to the guild's headquarters for promotion test or an order from the guild master at headquarters had to be sended to the respective branch for their promotion.
This cunning fellow.... " Not possible, Rank-C do you think I am guild master of the headquarters, I do not own such privileges choose another demand, weren't you aiming to go to dungeon, it's highly enough for you, how about Rank-E, it's already what I can offer you the most at present. "
His tone was carried out nonchalantly, he was clearly trying to keep his calm and prevent mark from further exploiting him, little did he knew that, by the time he had decided to bring this conversation to a bargain he had lost this fight, Mark only wanted to bring this conversation to a bargain, he knew the weakness of this stubborn guild master, making his guild's branch reach top ranks among other branches.
The rankings are based, depending on the cumulative amount of contribution points the adventurers earn by completing their quests, for a branch guild at Maxim city higher the rank of an adventurer more will be the contribution points they are likely to earn, kain a rank-c adventurer and a good trainer to the juniors was already considered a top contributor in this guild branch, since points were valuable, the headquarters placed a limitation for earning, the persons who are not free of any criminal records are ineligible to earn the points as they could not be trusted. So Mark had a bargaining chip in his hands from the start, if he applied a petition to the headquarters they would investigate and the license of kain was likely to be suspended by few months, a terrible loss ti this branch that would take years recovering it.
The branch that had contributed more will receive special privileges, top ten branches could increase their adventurer, staffs, guards, increase of their capital money in the treasury, better protective array, defensive structures and resources, and chance to become a branch headquarters which had jurisdiction of several hundreds of cities.
Comming back to present " Rank-E, fair enough, crap ! no deal below Rank-D, that's final, and it's non arguable, you should know what's better thing to do right now. "
Unwillingly, the guild master has to agree accordingly to marks demand, tough mark was going to earn points for the guild, he was not likely to stay at this place later, so he would definitely transfer to an another branch becoming a adventurer of his competitor branches.
" Okay, I will prepare your guild's license, come after few minutes, I still have many words to do. "
After 30 minutes.
The guild master gave a small piece of silver token, which had been encrypted by his information ( guild's license ) a small storage space within it to let the adventurers store their supplies as they may some times takes weeks to complete their quest.
" So I mark white had became an adventurer in this new life, all started with my dying, system, trails, my rebirth every thing seems imaginary as if it had just been yesterday. "
Before he was about to leave the guild mansion he registered himself at the counter, accordingly with the rules of the guild and had left for dungeon to adventure and raise his levels.
A beautiful and matured lady at the counter, whose features were no less than a beauty, made soul cards for him, which was used to record the name and count of monsters slain by that particular adventurer, who was the owner of the card. Also breaks in case a adventure dies or present in severe adverse condition, along with his marked coordinates.
He went to market which was present on his way to dungeon, he brought few healing potions, food and water, supplies enough for him to last at least a month time, stored them in his system's personal space, as it was much safer than the guild's card which was bound and never to be separated apart from him, unlike the guild card which could be stolen or lost, as he himself could not guarantee it's safety.
The dungeon appeared to be a large tower piercing the sky, as it tip was not clearly visible covered by dense greyish clouds that remained close to it through out the day, it covers an area that is approximately ten percent of the entire city's core lying area.
Mark had read various facts about dungeons and it's mysteries, the space a dungeon occupies on outer world is far less than what it was actually present inside, a dungeon had few secrets that was yet to be decoded and this was one among those many, but a postulate stated that it acted in a same way as a storage ring which is tough smaller in size yet stores an amount far greater than what it's body's original volume had been shown to outer world.
Tough the dungeon at it's outer appearance looks pretty much same as a cylindrical tower with each floor carrying about same parameters as that of others, but it's not as simple as it seems to be, the dungeon tower had three parts, constant, funnel, open
constant part, as it states the volume and parameters of each floor would he same as in first ten floors of the dungeon in Maxim city,
The funnel part, just like its name suggest, the higher floor is much wider than the preceeding floor, and so on making a funnel like growth on inside, it is believed that till floor thirty follows this pattern from eleventh floor.
Last the open part, where the dungeon master is waiting, defeating the master of the dungeon, the ownership would be transferred to that particular adventurer, he can decide the fate of anyone within his new domain.
" Dungeon, ah... I am comming, I hope you are pretty fun as the stories describes about you. " Exclaiming to himself mark started to walk towards the entrance, after which his first adventure in dungeon would begin.