Few months passed.
"Congratulations. You officially became F rank adventure. Here is your updated guild licenses." – said the guild worker while handing Uri his adventure likens
(Finaly. It took some time but I finally got the F rank. I can finally take F rank quest and stop with those G rank ones.)
(On top of that, I can finally hunt F rank monsters. My leveling up been quite slow for some time. I barely leveled up few times after all this trouble.)
(Well, didn't had any good chances to use my summoning or anything else.)
(Maybe now I will be able to at least make use of them.)
"Anyway, is there anything like subjection requests I can take on right now miss? I really want to fight something for real this time." – asked Uri.
"Subjection quests…. Let me see…... There is few, but do you know how to fight?" – asked the female guild worker.
"Well, yes. I was a lot even before my mana vessel matured. Honestly, I'm really stiff right now because I couldn't do anything that could be called a fighting. Anyway, I already possess a combat related occupation."
"Oh! You already have occupation? Hm... Well then, there are few quests that are related to combat, however I would recommend theses 3. They are relatively easy and could help you get used to the combat."
[Forest Slimes Subjection] –[Rank: F]
[Forest Ant Subjection] –[Rank: F]
[Walking Stick Subjection] –[Rank: F]
"Hmm…."
(I don't think that ever heard of this monsters in the novel or in the game. Forest slimes seems to be obviously a slime monster based on the name and the forest ants are obviously an ant monster, but what the hell is walking stick? Is it something like a stick with par of legs or something?)
"…."
"I will take forest ant quest."
"Understand. Here is the copy of the quest information." – said the guild worker while handing Uri a piece of paper.
"Thank you."
Uri left the adventure guild and headed towards the forest area. After some time Uri entered the forest and after bit more time, he manage passed the area where he used to hunt before G rank monsters before and headed towards deeper into the forest.
(Huh. I thought that this part of the forest would look different or something? But it exactly the same as the previous part I explored before.)
(I don't think I'm in the wrong area. If anything, the appearance of the bite beetles have decreased a lot. Maybe if I walk…?!)
Uri quickly hid behind the tree as soon as he heard unfamiliar sound coming somewhere in the area in front of him.
(What was that?)
Uri looked around and saw a giant green ant.
(The big green ant? This must be a forest ant. I think it's around the half of meter tall. It matches the picture and the descriptions written here.) – though Uri while looking at the quest information.
"Fuuuu… Okay. This is my first REAL fight. Don't panic."
Uri made a spell circle appeared before jumping aiming at the ant monster.
([Earth Shot].)
Uri shot his spell at the ant monster. The spell projectile hit the monster, however it didn't seem to leave too much damage. The ant monster then immediately turned around towards the direction where the attack came from, only to see nobody.
"…."
While ant monster was looking, Uri jumped from his hiding spot and shot [Stone Bullet] at the ant from a side. The stone flew at the monster and hit it, damaging it severally.
([Stone Bullet]!)
Uri shot another projectile at the ant monster and hit the monster in its torso. The ant fallen on the ground upon receiving the attack before stopping moving.
"…"
Uri approached slowly the ant monster while holding his axe. After getting near the monster, he checked and confirmed that the monster was dead.
"Okay. Its dead."
(This is first time monster manage to survive [Earth Shot]. Those slimes and bite beetles were always killed by it.)
([Earth Shot] didn't seems to leave much damage on it, but the [Stone Bullet] had very noticeable effect. It took 2 shots to kill it. If I were to add more power to the [Stone Bullet] it would probably one shot it.)
(Anyway, by the looks of things I should be able to take care of them, even if a group of them appears.) – though Uri while cutting something off from the ant monster and then putting it into his bag.
"Well then, it's time to test that out."
Uri beginned exploring the forest again and after sometime he ended up spotting a group of 3 forest ants.
(Okay. Time to see what you can do. [Summon Earth Servant].)
The magic circle appear on the ground and the earth servant appear. The ant monsters instantly noticed the stone creature that just emergent near them.
The stone creature rushed towards the nearest ant monster and wacked it with its club arm several times, smashing it over and over again until the ant died.
The other two ants monster didn't stood still. One of the ants bite into the earth servant leg while other one tried attacking the earth creature. However, the stone creature pushed away the incoming ant with its club arm and then proceeded to bash to the death the ant that was holding its leg.
After killing the second ant, the earth creature then killed the last ant in the same way as the other two.
"Its over huh?" – said Uri while leaving his hiding spot.
(The battle was very one sided. It didn't took many hits or anything for the earth servant to kill a single ant. One of the ants manage to leave some damage to the earth servant when it bit into its leg, but besides it there is really nothing else.)
"Anyway, it really did smashed those ants. Well, at least their antennas weren't completely destroyed, I need them as the proof."
"….?"
While Uri was taking some parts from the ant monster, he noticed something inside one of the ant corpse.
"…. Huh." – Uri searched the corpse of the ant and found inside of it an unknown transparent gem.
"I think…..Its mana crystal?"
[Mana Crystal]
[Mana crystal are something that usually monsters possess. Mana crystal are something like a special organ for a monster, they are usually located near the vital point or for example inside of the hearth of the creature.]
[Monsters usually grew up way faster than others and unlike humans, they are born with already fully matured mana vessel. Because of that they body experience a unique mutation of the mana growing inside of their body and materializing into a physical form that fuses with their body.]
[The mana crystal possess some of the monster characteristics, meaning the value and function of those mana crystal for the monster may variant by a lot.]
[However not all monsters posses mana crystals. For example, G rank monsters posses way too weak mana vessel to manifest the crystals, for example the bite beetles or lil blue slimes, even though they were monsters they did not posses a mana crystal. By the way, the slime core wasn't a mana crystal.]
[The main function of the mana crystal for monster is for their body to handle mana way better. The mana crystal are very useful and sought after materials by many, so even a G rank mana crystal can sell for few coins.]
"Its very transparent and small. Its probably G rank mana crystal, but mana crystal is a mana crystal."
"The others don't seem to possess it. I guess only this one had it, shame."
"Hm…"
(Selling it will probably give me some money, but I think I shouldn't sell it. I can use it when making the golem cores probably.) – though Uri while putting the crystal into his bag.
Uri continue exploring and hunting any ant monster he encounter using his spells or summons.
"Hm…. Only 2 out of 10 huh…."
(I have already enough proof for the quest. Should I look for some more ants? No. I don't really know how high are the chance of those ants to have the mana crystals in the first place. Maybe those two stones I manage to get in the first place were just very lucky.)
(I should just head back and get another quest and hope that I will get a quest with higher chance of getting mana crystal?)
(Anyway, there isn't anything left to do here, so I should just go back and report in.) – though Uri while walking through the forest.
(For my next quest, what should I pick? Maybe I should pick the walking stick quest? I'm really freaking curious on what the heck those are.)
While Uri was walking back towards the city, he heard something nearby, he then quickly hid behind the tree.
(That sounded like the forest ant. I think there are several of them. Hm… Well, they came on their own to me, so it may be worth killing them. Who knows, maybe they will mana crystal?)
(Let's take a peek...Hm?) – While Uri was peeking behind the tree, he saw group of forest ant with one forest ant that was twice as big as the regular one and with much darker shade of the green color.
(…...What? Who the fuck is that?)
While Uri was looking at the giant ant, the ant suddenly turned around and looked directly at the Uri and spotted him.
"!?"
The ants monster beginned running towards Uri.
"Shit!"
([Quick Summon: Earth Servant] times 4!)
4 magic circles appeared on the ground in the instant and 4 earth servants were instantly summoned as the ants approached.
"Get them!" – shouted Uri.
Earth servant fallowed Uri command and confronted the ant monster. It didn't took long for the for the ants and the earth servants to begin fighting with each other.
3 of the earth servants were fighting the forests ants while one of the earth servants confronted the giant ant.
The earth servant raised its club hand and swinged it down at the giant ant monster, the attack hit the ant monster right in the head, however the moments later after being landed, the ant bit into the earth creature arm and before long, it snapped and crushed.
(Fuck! It just crushed the earth servant arm?! This thing is made out of the solid stones! I got to hurry the fuck up!) – though Uri while observing the situation from afar.
After destroying the earth servant arm, the giant ant tried to attack the earth creature, however the earth creature smacked the ant monster, this stopped temporally the ant, but not for very long because moments later it pounced on the earth servant and beginned crushing it with its jaws until the creature body got completely shattered.
After the earth servant was killed, its body beginned slowly disappearing and the ant monster turned its attention to the Uri.
"Fuck."
The ant monster beginned running straight towards Uri, however before it get close enough to him, a magic circle appeared right in front of the Uri.
"[Summon Earth Beast – Wolf]!"
From the magic circle, a wolf made out of the stone emergent and as soon as it appeared, it launched it self at the ant monster and swiped the ant monster in the face with its claws, leaving a lot of damage.
The ant monster tried to retaliate by biting the stone made wolf, but the wolf backed away, dodging the attack before then headbutting the ant monster.
"Bite him!" – shouted Uri, giving the command to the wolf.
The wolf creature jaw opened and bit into the ant monster head. The Ant monster tried getting rid off the wolf, but before it could do that the wolf monster bit off a chunk of the monster head, making the ant scream in agony while it bleed.
The giant ant monster would moments later fallen on the ground lifeless.
"Fuck me in the ass! Wolf! Go help with the finishing off the others ants now!"
The wolf monster fallowed the orders and assisted the remaining earth servants, after some time the last ant monster was killed by the Uri summon.
"Fuck…. Its finally over." – said Uri while looking relived.
"[Cancel Summon]."
Uri made the stone made wolf as well as two remaining damaged earth servants disappeared before moments later sitting on the ground.
"…Fu…."
"I almost shitted myself." – said Uri.
(When that ant looked straight directly at me, I was so fuking scared.)
"Anyway, what the fuck was that thing?! And ow did it spotted me? Does it have a skill or something? It catched me completely by the surprise." – said Uri while holding head, trying to calm down.
(Bloody hell. What was that monster? It looked similar to the forest ant, but it was bigger and its color was different. Was it something like an evolved version of the normal forest ant?)
(The earth servant did some damage to it, but not big one.)
(If I didn't used the quick summon to make earth servants appear instantly or panicked too much, I wouldn't be able to summon earth beast in time.)
"…. I could have died." – said Uri.
"…."
"Fuck. I need to get out of here before something else jumps on me."
(The quick summon has a side effect of making the summon cost bigger and I used it four times. On top of that, I used bit of my mana to summon earth beast. The two earth servants that survived was quiet hurt and I don't think I could keep the earth beast summoned for the long. Right now I don't have a lot of mana left after all that just happened.)
(I need to quickly get out of here while I still can.)
"…."
"But first."
Uri took out the knife and the axe and beginned cutting of the ants antennas and checking if any of them had mana crystals inside of their bodies.
(4 crystals. Well, at least I manage to get something out of this.)
"Next, this guy." – said Uri while turning towards the giant ant monster.
(What do I do with this guy corpse? This guy could easily take earth servants attack, so it must be bit thought. Most of its body is fine beside the head that had part of it bit off. I don't want to leave it behind. I really want to take the materials from this guy.)
Uri approached the ant monster and tried lifting it.
"…. Fuck. Its heavier than expected." – said Uri while dropping the ant corpse on the ground.
"Fuck me. It would be nice if I had something like a dimensional storage or an item bag thing that protagonists in the novels uses to store many things with ease."
(….)
Uri took out a bottle with a blue liquid and drinked it. After drinking it Uri beginned coughing.
"Fuck me. It taste disgusting. Hurb! Fuck me don't puke."
[Lesser Mana Potion]
[Restore small amount of mana however it taste very bad.] – "It's one of the things I made while improving my alchemy, it's quite good at restoring small amount of mana, but it taste extremely bad." – Uri.
"[Summon Earth Servant]."
Uri summoned the earth servant. The earth servant approached the corpse and tried lifting it up, however it couldn't do it.
"….." – Uri took out a second blue colored potion from his bag.
"…. Fuck it."
Uri drinked the second potion while trying not puke. After that he made two more earth servant appear and carry to ant corpse back to the city.
After sometime Uri manage to arrive back to the adventure guild.
"This is…. Forest ant soldier. You saying you killed it?" – said the adventure guild worker to the Uri.
"This may sound bit rude to ask, but where did you find it?"
"Well, after I done the quest with the forest ants I decided to head back, but when I was heading back, I heard sound of multiple forest ants approaching and I hid. When I peeked behind the tree, I saw this guy with the group of the forests ants surrounding it. Next thing the thing turned around straight towards me and they attacked me. It happened somewhere near this area." – said Uri while pointing his finger on the map he took out.
"I see. Hm… Well then. We confirmed the proof of defeating the forests ants to defeat as well as you binged the proof you killing the forest ant soldier, this will be recorded as one of your achievements."
"Do you also wish to sell the corpse of the forest ant soldier to us?"
"Em. Actually, I'm thinking of having it dismantling and harvest its materials like shell and the mana crystal if it has one. Is it possible?"
"Hm. Understood. Then do you wish to deduce some of the payment from the reward to cover some of the dismantling cost?"
"Yea."
"Understood. Please write your name here as well as your current adventure rank." – said adventure guild worker while handing over some documents.
Uri quickly filled out the documents and gave it back. Afterwords a male adventure guild worker came over and took both the document as well as forest ant soldier corpse with him.
"The dismantling should finish between 1 day to a week. You can always come and ask if the dismantling was completed."
"Okay, thank you." – said Uri.
Uri walked away from the counter and walked straight towards bar inside of the adventure guild.
"Excuse me. Can I have some apple juice?" – asked Uri.
"Sure. Wait please..."
"Here." – said the bar worker after returning back cup of the apple juice.
The bar worker handed the apple juice to the Uri and some copper coins to cover the cost before moments later walking and sitting to the nearest empty table nearby.
"…." – Uri stared at the apple juice in the cub.
(I almost died today.)
(That ant monster could have killed me or bit off one of my libs off if I screwed up even once back there. If I didn't summoned the earth beast in time, I would have been screwed. On top of that, the earth beast is my current strongest summon, if that ant would have beat it, I would had obviously died.)
(There was also that small army of those forest ants. Earth servant don't have trouble fighting 4 of them at the same time, but with the numbers I just fought, earth servants barely survived until earth beast assist them.)
(Fuck me. I'm scared. I don't want to die. Should I give up while I still can?)
(I know that becoming adventure has a risk of dying and all, but I wasn't expecting to came across something like that while doing my first F rank quests. There is also no guarantee that it won't happend again if I were to conntinue being adventurer.)
(Was I unlucky that I encountered this thing or was I lucky that I survived? I don't fuking know anymore.)
"…."
"Fuck me. I'm pathetic." – said Uri before drinking the apple juice.
(I chose to be the adventure because I want to get stronger, so I shouldn't whine like a little bitch since it was my decision.)
(I'm still a weakling even after all my training and even after getting occupation. However, that bloody doesn't mean I'm giving up.)
(I will became stronger by and I will do it MY OWN WAY! I will live the life I fuking want.)