Tick...
Tick...
Tick...
Two people can be seen walking inside the cave with their masks on as The sound of water droplets echoed in the gloomy passage.
step...
Step...
Step...
When the two reached the end of the cave, the person with a dragon mask took an artifact from his pocket that looks like a key to open the door.
The man in a dragon put the artifact to a certain spot to open the door.
After placing the artifact, the door made a cracking sound before opening.
Crack... Crack... Crack... Crack...
Behind the door is an open area where people met through a device.
The two immediately walk towards that area before injecting their mana into the device.
Soon, some people appeared from all directions through a hologram.
Each of these people has a mask and cloaks covering their body and face.
While waiting, one person spoke: "why did that man called us suddenly?"
At this time, everyone who wants to express their opinions starts talking with each other.
"Kekeke, someone probably failed to capture the dragon snake" the man with a mantis mask laughed after saying this.
The man in a dragon mask made a serious look upon hearing this.
"Hahaha, I like that look." He keeps on taunting him.
At this time, he ignored him, Taking the bait would only make you an idiot.
"But, what is the reason for failing to capture it? With your power, catching a monster who is not in his strongest form is simple" said the man in a crocodile mask.
"I bet they formed an alliance with their own kind" - mantis mask.
"Pfft... Hahaha" most of them laughed after hearing this, even the man in a crocodile mask. Even so, some of them didn't laugh and some tried to resist laughing.
At this time, the man they've been waiting for has arrived.
"Sorry, to keep you waiting" said the man.
this man looks is like 20 years old because of his height of 5.8 meters and like a teenager's face. his hair color is brown along with his yellow eyes that radiate in the dark that look like a cat because of his vertical eye pupil.
Unlike everyone, he doesn't wear any mask to prevent getting exposed.
Everyone went silent and made a serious look when this man arrived and starts listening to his words.
The man noticed that everyone are present and immediately starts the meeting.
"Some of you might not be involved in this meeting but there are still some things that you need to hear" he said with a calm voice, but, shortly it disappeared as he made a serious expression before turning his attention to the two people with a dragon mask and serpent mask. "Now, let me ask you a question. Why did you fail to capture a mere SsS-rank monster who didn't even reach it's full potential yet? Do you know the gravity of this mess? Because of your failure, the government sent their hunters and is now investigating everything in that place. If somehow our mission was leaked, the two of you will be the ones taking the responsibilities, Do you understand?" He said with an intimidating look, causing the two to tremble because of the pressure as if hundreds of whales are on top of their heads.
"We understand. We apologize for what we've done." the two apologized.
The man nodded before asking another question: "now, tell me, why did you fail to capture it? With your abilities, catching it is not even a hard thing to do yet the two of you failed. If you don't tell me a proper reason for this, I guess you two who's in a challenger rank have fallen."
"Yes, we will tell you everything we encountered" the two nodded and starts explaining everything they know.
After explaining everything, the man looked at the two thoughtfully before commenting. "So, you're saying that those two unknown people fought with you and won against you?"
"No, to be exact they didn't win, we just retreated to not gather attention from other people because we noticed that some of them have a camera and is taking a video of the fight if we didn't retreat, there might be some article about us now"
"So you didn't retreat because of those injuries?" He said after noticing their wounds using the abilities of his eyes.
The two immediately nodded and explains: "during the fight, we didn't use our real techniques and fighting style to prevent them from recognizing us, therefore the wounds we got from fighting them are already expected by us, also, we expected their fighting capabilities to be an Ss rank if not above."
The man thoughtfully organizes his thoughts about their explanation. after a few seconds, he nodded in understanding before commanding them: "since I already got what I want to hear, I want the mantis mask, spider mask, and Leya to join your mission."
At this time, the person in mantis mask spoke upon hearing his partners in this mission: "wait, I hate this bitches, can't you just assign me alone to catch that snake"
The man immediately replied after listening to him: "apparently, that's impossible, That barrier is most likely strong enough to block all your attacks"
"What!" He was surprised to hear this.
The man nodded and explains more: "that black barrier is not just an ordinary barrier, even I need to get serious just to break it, That's why I assigned Leya to join your group because of her space magic. As for the others, their main goal is to make sure that no one nearby can sneak again."
"Also, if you somehow encounter a capable monster inside, capture it even if it's not part of our plan. That's all, your dismissed." He added before leaving.
Left...
Now that their leader left the conference, some people started leaving one by one, and once they left, the remaining people in the conference:
"Pft... Hahaha, what the fuck! You two lost?"- mantis mask.
Now that they are free, everyone began laughing.
"Lol"-crocodile mask.
"Everyone don't laugh, you know that these two are working hard you know, I bet their bed is filled with milk and soon gonna form into a dragon snake in a human form"- mosquito mask said this jokingly without knowing what's gonna happen next.
*dragon mask and serpent mask left the conference*
" lolololololol"- mantis mask.
"Lol"- dog mask.
" what the actual fuck"- crocodile mask.
"Seeing that they left, it seems reasonable enough to be true"- cat mask.
" Lmao"- bat mask.
After some more talking and insulting about the two, everyone started leaving.
Mantis mask left... Dog mask left... Cat mask left... Bat mask left... Crocodile mask left...
Everyone left, leaving the mosquito mask and lion mask behind.
"Why is everyone so cold? They left me behind again" said the man with a mosquito mask acting like a person who just broke up with an idiot as tears starts falling from his eyes.
"Let's talk about our deal vampire." Said the man with a lion masks ignoring about his meaningless tears.
"Oh, you're still here?" he said as he was startled upon hearing this. the tears disappeared from his eyes.
"Yeah"
"Well then, I hope you can capture that woman along with other targets that I told you. I like the blood of a beauty you know." He said as he licks his hands.
"Don't tell me what to do, there's no prey that has been able to escape within my grasp before, Just give me that thing once our deal is completed." He said with confidence.
The mosquito mask nodded indifferently: "yeah sure"
After some more talking and agreement, the two decided to leave the conference once they agreed on something.
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"What the heck is this?" Said Phil in surprise after seeing all the golds, swords, and books on the floor that almost filled the interior of their house. If it weren't for lux warning to fly to the highest part of their house, they would have been drowned under these golds.
The two immediately explained to Phil all the details during their dungeon exploration.
Phil was shocked after hearing their explanation and was about to ask a question but he got ignored after the two started discussing their deals.
Having no choice, Phil decided to change his clothes to prepare for their meeting since he's still wearing farmer's clothing.
"Is this all?" Said David after seeing them.
Lux immediately showed the number of golds inside the ring through the hologram and spoke: "yes, my dimensional ring has a function that tells you the number of things that you put inside, and this is the half of it, if you look at the hologram that appeared on top of the ring, it says that the number inside is a little bit more than the things that I released here, that's because there are some personal items that I put inside."
"It's not a scam right?" He said jokingly as he already knows that there are hundreds of clothes inside and some items he doesn't know.
"Of course not" lux replied.
"Well, since all the items I picked before are all here, I will take it now" said David as he wears his dimensional ring before it started sucking the golds on the floor like a vacuum.
Lux wasn't surprised anymore seeing the dimensional ring on his finger after seeing the space magic inside their house.
After sucking the golds inside the dimensional ring, everything went back to normal except for some shattered because of the sudden surge of gold.
Seeing the scene in front after changing clothes, Phil muttered "I guess we need to clean this later."
Meanwhile, David is having a mental damage after seeing the shattered items before he screamed in pain "Noooooo! Those pots are limited edition."
While crying over them, he looked in another direction only to see a torn of his favorite painting of an unknown monster with three heads and some limited edition that can only be bought every 5 years causing David to faint.
Seeing the dramatic scene, lux spoke awkwardly: "Is this normal?"
"Yup, he will recover soon" Phil replied indifferently.
Lux looked at the shattered and torn items thoughtfully and said: "isn't these items can be bought from a neighboring country?"
Hearing that, David came back to life and appeared in front of lux before asking questions. "Really? What country?"
Lux was surprised by this but he immediately replied. "I think the country is called china"
"China? Then what are we waiting for let's go!" He said excitedly.
"What are you talking about? We still have many things to do and china is a thousand miles away from our country" said Phil as he pulls David from behind like a cat.
"Let me go! We need to go there now! Just forget the meeting" said David while resisting Phil like what a cat would do.
Phil immediately declined it while walking towards the house door. "No!"
And looked at lux: "what are you waiting for? We need to go now."
Lux was startled for a bit, nonetheless, he followed him without second thoughts and whispered. "What about those items?"
Phil immediately replied: "we will clean it later when we get back home"