Sitting down on a couch in the branch masters office Marcus was filling out the relevant paperwork while Joras did the same.
"Are you really twenty-eight Marcus, I thought you were only around twenty, twenty-two at the most. And your status is really impressive, you must have worked incredibly hard from a young age to get this many powerful skills. How did you ever convince your family to let you become and adventure, normally only weak kids that have no chance of inheriting join our association."
Coming up with a quick lie off the top of his head Marcus said, "Yeah, I was the runt of my family and ran away when I was young and survived in the woods. I got really lucky and got my hand on some natural treasures which boosted my stats."
With his answer, the branch master could tell Marcus was lying and realized he was not going to get a straight answer and went back to his paperwork not asking Marcus anymore question he did not want to answer.
When the two of them were finished with the paperwork, Joras had his secretary come in and take it away and when she came back, she was holding a silver card in her hand.
She then handed it to Joras who in turn handed it over to Marcus.
"Here you go you are now technically a silver rank adventure, which is the highest I can award without approval from my superiors. However, to make it truly official you are going to need to complete a silver request within the month or I will have to nock you down to steel rank. Silver rank adventurers and higher are considered representatives of the guild so they need to be vetted properly. There should be a few silver rank requests downstairs so go pick one out and once you have completed it, we can make your rank official."
Nodding his head Marcus exited the office and went back to the first floor and looked over the silver rank requests.
Most of them were for the bodies of powerful monsters or rare materials on the second level of the dungeon and even a few on the third.
However, one request caught Marcus' eye since it did not pertain to the dungeon.
'Hm, I thought that ever request in this branch had to do with The Ocean Bluff Temple but this one is for the Church of Aigean. The request is also really weird since it does not give any details, just to meet the head priest at the church. But since I am tired of the dungeon I might as well give it a try.'
Taking the tag off the request board, Marcus made his way to the receptionist booths to register for the request.
When he made it to the front of the line and handed his new adventures card and the tag over to be registered the man working there looked at him like he was crazy.
"Sir are you sure that you want to take this request, I heard that the other parties of adventures that accepted it ended up missing. I know that this church has a lot of pull and the reward of a magic item is alluring but I think you should reconsider."
'So, I am not the first one to take this request, but I am not so easily killed and have plenty of ways to escape where most people would end up dead.'
"Adventures risk their lives all the time and I am confident in my abilities, so I still want this request."
"Very well, you are registered for this request, good luck."
With his new request in hand Marcus headed out of the guild and found the nearest air taxi.
Asking them to take him as close to the Church of Aigean as possible Marcus handed the man twenty-one silver coins and hopped on the back of a bird that looked like a massive seagull.
'I am starting to run low on money, I only have around sixty silver left now, once I am done with this request, I will grab as many magic core collection requests as I can and hand in some of the cores I have for a huge payday.'
After about an hour of flying Marcus could once again see the impressive building that was the Church of Aigean's headquarters and a few moments later the air taxi began to descend.
Landing back onto the ground Marcus got off the large magical beast seagull and thanked the driver for taking him to his destination.
'Now, the church is due south from hear so I should not have any trouble finding it like last time.'
Trying to head directly towards the church contrary to what he believed Marcus ended up walking around the church multiple times never quite being able to reach it.
After going on like this for thirty minutes, he became a bit frustrated and decided that he would simply approach from the air in his ghost form.
'I know I am not this directionally challenged, I may get lost every now and then but not to a comical level as this. Now that I am above the buildings, I can see it is only around a thousand feet away from me, how the hell do I keep missing it.'
With nothing to impede his sight of the church Marcus floated directly for it having no problems until he was within a hundred feet of the building. At that point he ran into some type of barrier that repelled him. Not willing to give up Marcus pushed himself against the barrier and slowly started to force his way through.
However, after just a few second, he suddenly felt a massive pressure on his spiritual body as if he was suddenly supporting the weight of the entire ocean, and then he heard a voice say, "I got you now, did you really think that you could attack while I was present."
Marcus could feel the crushing sensation getting stronger by the moment and nothing he could do could stop it. And right when he was about to activate his soul burst in a desperate attempt to escape, he felt the pressure recede and was no longer crushing him.
In the next moment, a large blue ball of light appeared in front of Marcus and said, "Sorry about that I thought that you were my enemy. While it is faint you must have come in contact with one his followers at some point since I can slightly sense his presence on you. Now what are you doing here, it is rare to see one of you transfers from another world."
Dumbfounded by what was going on Marcus stared at the large blue mass of light for dozens of seconds as his brain racked what was going on. Finally, getting the torrent of thoughts in his head under control Marcus was ready to speak.
"I am here because I accepted the request that the church posted with the adventures guild, and I was having trouble getting here for some reason, so I tried floating in and ran into some kind of barrier. Also, how did you know I am not from this world."
"Ah, so accepted that request, good with someone like you there should be no problems this time. As for how I know that you are not originally from this world, it is because you are not the first transfer I have met, and only transfers have the unique skill called personal status. Now this is no place to talk so let us head inside and we can discuss the details of your mission."
The large mass of blue light then started floating towards the church and going with the flow of his situation Marcus followed behind, his head filling with more and more questions.