Couple days after I got my final check-up, the doctor says its seems everything's fine and was able to get released at the same day.
Me and my little sister Misumi went straight ahead to the guild building which is located right at the middle of the city. The hospital we were just in couple minutes ago was situated in the middle of the south entrance. Its about 10 minutes walk towards the guild and you could see people by the streets selling their wares.
The guild building looks more like a hotel with a modern look, at its front entrance one could see a logo of a shield with 2 swords on top of it. As soon as we entered people of all ages are eating in the pub peacefully some are drinking beers and other juices and milk. The atmosphere inside feels so surreal, the reception was signaling us to come forward and was finally able to register. We we're introduced to a management system in the guild where the guild master is the highest official in the guild followed by the Vice-guild master and then the receptionist.
Receptionist:
- So who is registering as hunters?
Zhen and Misumi:
- Both of us (said it at the same time)
Receptionist:
- Awe, that's so Cute!!!
We were handed in a sheet of paper to list our current level stats and skills as it was listed in our panels, and we handed it in as soon as we were finished
Receptionist:
- Woah I didn't expect that!
The receptionist showed a surprise look on her face, she didn't expect a couple rookies to have some surprising skills and stats
(Zhenn has Innate ability called "survival instinct" and "photographic reflexes". Photographic Reflexes is really good for learning different styles of combat from what I heard people who has this skill could do any human like movement possible, no matter if its parkour or combat skills)
(Misumi has Innate ability called abnormal effect resistance, and a passive skill fatigue regeneration at 1★ tier 1 peak with the health stat at 40 and only at level 8.)
(I have a feeling that these two will greatly benefit this city in the future)
After a while the receptionist introduced herself as "Margarette" and told us to come to her for submitting quest in the future, she also explained about the quest ranking, were the rank of each quest are based on their difficulty. Each hunters are divided by their ranks, the lowest is F - rank and as for the highest is SSS - rank, so far only 5 people are at S- rank and none so far has achieved the SS or even the SSS- rank.
Hunter Ranks:
SSS- Ranks
SS- Ranks
S- Ranks
A- Ranks
B- Ranks
C- Ranks
D- Ranks
E- Ranks
F- Ranks
Both F and E rankers can only accept their own rank quest and can't accept higher rank quest, as for the rest starting from D- Ranks, they could accept quest that is 1 rank higher of themselves but if a quest was submitted as failure for 3 consecutive times, they will be demoted to a lower rank until they could gather points to get back up to their original ranks. In order for one to rank up, one must complete a number of quest and able to accumulate certain amount of guild points and lastly complete a rank up quest, but if an hunter was able to submit a higher rank monster carcass or monster core, they won't need points and immediately able to accept a rank up quest instead, as for those who tried to fake their quest results their hunter license will be cancelled and will be banned in the guild.
As soon as Margarette finished explaining the how to, we were given our own hunter license and showed where to stay at the moment since we are new to the city. We were heading to the upper right quadrant of the city close to the city walls. The houses around the area are full of army barrack tents, but this one is made of hard plastic and rubber and the door separating the inside and out looks like a locker with its own digital locks. The whole place are being monitored by a multitude of people and in some areas has their own cameras watching their every movement, inside the barracks tent there are 2 beds, 2 huge lockers and 2 wardrobes, all tents has its own small kitchen space and a shower/toilet room like a small tiny apartment. We were told that we can only stay here for a maximum of 6 months and by that time we must move out and find a place to stay, since by that time we will be fully adjusted in the life inside the dungeon city.
Misumi told me that she wanted to accept some herb gathering quest, since its early afternoon and both of us are curious what outside of the city looks like. We went back to the guild building and headed to the bulletin board and took a paper for gathering herbs and monster cores. Both of us saw Margarette and handed the paper and told her that we would like to accept this gathering quest, she took our license and scanned it at her computer then a few seconds after we were told that we have until tomorrow to hand in the quest for completion.
Both of us immediately went to the west side entrance and finally saw the surrounding plain, what we saw is out of this world, the grass and trees are much more vibrant than what earth grassland has to offer and on it a few distance away one could see rabbits with horns jumping around solo and in groups. we were given a picture of the herb we need to collect and while Misumi was collecting her stuff I readied my weapon and shield and protect her from any creature that would comes at us.
It took about 2.5 hours for Misumi to gather the amount of herbs she needed to submit, it really went pretty smoothly for our first time gathering medicinal herbs and its very unusual for the creatures inside the dungeon not hostile against us. So I went and tried a little experiment of rabbit snatching to see how much strength does a rabbit hold,
(Most and foremost horned rabbits are about 2.5 feet tall about 3/4 the size of my little sister)
We found a lone rabbit and I tried sneaking at its back and when I got close enough I immediately lunged at it and held its neck tightly from behind with my left and pushed its entire body on the ground, the rabbit creature didn't react until i pushed its body, its currently trying break free but it seems like my 17.5 strength is enough to hold it down.
I immediately stab at its body from the back towards its throat with my short sword and the rabbit immediately died right after, its body only left a piece of meat after it disappeared.
Judging from that alone their Perception is pretty low but I'm not risking at battling it face to face since I'm coming to the field with my sister. The drop rates of certain items are pretty low as well since it only drop a slice of meat, it took us about 4 hours just to collect 15 small cores and killed about 60 or so horned rabbits and the experience it gives is not so much either since I'm only receiving 6 experience points per kill and with my sister joining in the fun of the hunt 3/4 of the time making the final blow, makes it half most of the time.
Overall from hunting 64 horned rabbits we got:
- 12 pieces of meat slice (about the size of burger king meat)
- 5 rabbit legs
- 6 horns
- 10 pelts
- 15 small cores
Our first quest is not so bad since we got 5 small silver coins and 5 big copper coins after we handed in our loots to Margarette.
The currency used in the dungeon city breakdown as explained by Margarette
1 Big copper coin(s) = 10 Small copper coin(s)
1 Small silver coin(s) = 10 Big copper coin(s)
1 Big silver coin(s) = 10 Small silver coin(s)
1 Small gold coin(s) = 10 Big silver coin(s)
1 Big gold coin(s) = 10 Small gold coin(s)
After 6 months and we still couldn't afford to purchase a permanent living quarters for us siblings, living in the inn is the second best option and it would cost us 1 small silver coin for 24 hours, which isn't bad.
We ate our fill at the pub inside the guild that cost us 5 big copper coins for the both of us and headed straight to our own army tent.
Little sister and I had a chat before sleeping and thought of the life we had outside in the ruined world compared to the one we have now, is a lot better than what we used to have, however we are still at the bottom of the food chain in the city and we both know that we need to get a-lot stronger to secure our simple life better. I tried to tucked Misumi into her own bed but she refuses and couldn't get used to be separated with me while sleeping, so we slept on the same bed like we used to ever since we're out in the world.
As the day went on peacefully inside the dungeon city, outside in the ruined world was not as peaceful what is used to be. Although many have been rescued toward the dungeon, countless are still roaming the ruined world, some made their own groups outside the city centre and others are currently in the doomsday shelter.
A group of hunters currently surveying the only doomsday shelter left inside the city centre and about to move out and rescue the people held inside, meanwhile a distance away from the group, a woman working as a high ranking scout saw an incoming herd of a variety of creatures heading to where all the dispatched hunter are and immediately went towards her team's location to warn them the incoming danger to postpone the rescue, a while after the scouts destination is in sight and a sudden sphere of darkness swallowed her up and her vision faded into darkness