Arc recieve the report from Arielle, while Arc was watching the video feed he was sure that these two are the boss of the two he killed. Meaning they are on the same level as Graff...
Arc then inform Arielle that he and the rest would be returning to deal with it when Arielle ask him if he can let her deal with it.
At first Arc was surprised but as Arielle explained he finnaly understood. So he agreed of course Eve would be returning as back up. Of course it didn't mean she need to travel back all she needs to do is move her consciousness to a backup body in Specter Of course Arc could have order Specter to do it, but he didn't want to reveal Specter yet.
Acording to Arielle the celeste need experience as they can't always act in the background in order for them to be more useful they need to gain experience as much as possible.
In that regard Arc have no reason to refuse Arielle, Ruby and the rest also agreed with Arielle. Celeste are warrior race albeit a peaceful race regardless they are all combat specialists. As their home planet are full of dangerous creatures.
Gideon was summoned back to lead the Celeste Arc's royal guard as the call themselves to deal with Marius and Darius of course this time they have a hometown advantage. Unlike when Arc's deal with Graff.
So in preparation Arielle set up a battlefield.
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Arc and his team arrives in Gromas Adventurers Guild. A few hours later... After reporting the quest completion as Arc have predicted their ranks have increase by a few levels from rank G to rank D well infact with the quest they completed the receptionist knows they are as strong as AA rank or even AAA rank adventurer but since ranking are base on points and every quest have a corresponding points the amount of points Arc manage to gather after completing several B and A rank quest is only equivalent to Rank D.. Despite Arc dissatisfaction He cannot do anything about it.
Unfortunately rank D is still considered bottom rank so there's barely any changes in the information available. Arc then decided to change his approach grinding points for increasing his ranks takes time, so he decided to do something else. And besides registering as adventurer is not a bad thing as they got an identification as adventurer that will make it a lot easier to move in this world.
When Arc and the rest was about to leave they notice a commotion on the first floor.
Arc tried to see what's going on, so he asks one of the adventurer apparently an identified creature were spoted in swamp area. There was a description posted on the board Arc tried to squeeze in to see what it was. Arc looks at the description and saw what looks like a western dragon. Of course this is just his guess as its only a shadow like drawing but what gets his attention is not the creatures but what the creatures are supose to be guarding.
A metallic device that emits sounds that can cause hallucinations and paralysis.
"Could it be a tool?"
According to description a rank B adventurer team who was hunting in the swamps suddenly gets caught in a trap that sent them into underground part of the swamp in there they discovered ruins of an old city. Its really not uncommon as this world is full of ancient ruins from ages past.
The adventurer notice that the ruins doesn't have any skeletons or indication that a lot of people died in it. Meaning the city was abandoned, and for adventurer abandon ancient ruins are nothing but useless ruin as there are hardly any treasures in it. Despite that they continue to explore the ruins and in the center of the ruins inside a dome like structures they saw huge creatures unfortunately before they can get close they heard a strange melody and one by one they fell down unable to move. Luckily one of the adventurers manage to take out an emergency device that transported them to a designated safe zone.
Arc without thinking much about it decided to accept the mission.
And as soon as he registered he notices that he wasn't the only one who accepted it. He then noticed that the quest is called open quest meaning there's no limitation on the number of adventurer who can take it there's also no quest fee and the rewards is base on how much information he can provide.
"This is an investigation quest" the receptionist explains when he saw the confusion on Arc face.
Arc nodded thank the receptionist and left the guild.
Outside Arc and the rest is on one of the famous restaurant in Groma. In the private room Arc and the rest began to plan on what to to in this quest.
It would have been a easy quest but with many adventurers doing the same quest it gets complicated.
First Arc didn't want any conflict with other adventurer as much as possible.
Second there are things he can't reveal to others yet like his warbots and such as well as drones and droids..
But according to Jem and Ruby it's not a problem to show droids or drones as many people are using it. The warbots are different story as the warbots are very powerful and attention grabber.
Arc nodded. After planing they decided to go immediately as soon as they are done eating.
If they can get there early and grab the tool and leave without being notice that would be for the best, but if worst comes to worse they will do anything to get their hands on the tool. Even if they have to kill for it. Of course he wants to avoid it as much as possible.
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Back in the haze jungle Marius and Darius found themselves trapped in some sort of formation.
Darius blames himself for being careless. In fact there's little he can do about it the one who created the formation is a device design to trap anyone the device creates a force field 1 mile radius trapping anyone inside it.. It's actually made for buying time to escape. But Arielle use it to trap marius and Darius and to force them to fight as the Celeste are not using warbots but a full fledged mech. Arc didn't want to reveal this yet and so in order hide it Arielle used an energy prison to trap Marius and Darius and force them to engage the Celeste soldiers.
Arielle has no doubt that both Darius and Marius would immediately escape the moments they saw the celeste mech for one there's about 50 mech and there's only two of them even if they summon a bunch of creatures mech is powerful enough to fight space beast how much more for a land beast which is several times weaker than space beast modified or not.
And true enough the moment Darius and Marius saw the mech they almost despaired.. Just the aura being release by a single mech is far more than a combination of his beast and there 50 of them.. In Marius and Darius mind this is overkill.
What they didn't know is that hundreds more mech are waiting in reserved as the energy prison can only hold so much if arielle put everyone inside it theres no room to maneuver. So she decided to only put 50 of them for now. As this is the first solo mission given to her by Arc. She wants to do it flawlessly. So she overdid it.
Eve notice it but decided not to say anything she does have a slight smile on her face though, and only she knows what's she is thinking...