[Extraterrestrial Mission]
Mission Title: Rise of Alien Civilization (Part Two)
Mission Category: Progressive
Mission Details: [First Contact]
This mission shall be completed when the host has set foot in another nation and makes a friendly connection.
Mission Duration: 15 days (upon acceptance).
Mission Success Rewards: Origami Orbital, Vibration Level +10, Anon Spell Blade
Mission Failure Penalty: Progression Quests Dormancy +1 Year (unable to accept any progressive quests).
Going back from the laboratory room solely prepared for the first special subject, Princess Quintella, Grey, who cozily seated on a dark green metallic chair of the Host's Headquarters, accepted the [Second Progressive Mission] that was directly linked to the grand goal of establishing the Alien Empire.
On the other hand, Grey couldn't help but inspect the list of Progressive Missions directly related to the category of Special Subjects.
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[Extraterrestrial Mission]
Mission Title: Diversity of Existence (Part Two)
Mission Category: Progressive
Mission Details: [The Lost Demon Queen]
This mission shall be completed upon the "abduction" of the wandering Demon Queen who has lost everything from the Patriarch of the Hero's bloodline, and if the said Demon Queen submits to become your subordinate.
Mission Duration: 66 days (upon acceptance).
Mission Success Rewards: Mark of Darkness, Random Skill Upgrade
Mission Failure Penalty: Twisted Fate.
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This particular progressive mission was something that Grey had already checked some time ago. It was then that he had learned a thing or two about the peculiar existence known as the Extraterrestrial System.
To begin with, Grey began to realize the subtle contradiction between the capability of the Alien Archive to passively collect information at certain distances, and the undeniable truth that when Grey reincarnated as an unidentified alien species, strangely enough, the Extraterrestrial System provided him the first part of Progressive Missions related to the Diversity of Existence, which allowed the system's host to meet and save the abandoned Princess of the Holy Empire of Lumenasia.
With that said, a few questions arose in Grey's mind...
If the moment of my reincarnation was the same moment of the Extraterrestrial System's integration, how did Krishnaya possess the background information about Princess Quintella, allowing her to trigger the first mission for me to meet the said princess?
Was it perhaps due to Alien Archive's criminal collection ability? Or because I hadn't told her that time NOT to act on her own volition?
However, being able to share one consciousness, prompting Krishnaya to know his inner thoughts and desires, she informed Grey in regards to this peculiar and seemingly unfathomable matter, which was not limited to the fact that the Progressive Missions were stored in the Alien Archive: Devourer Dimension with an exclusive file section titled...
[Fated Path]
This meant that even before Grey asked the Extraterrestrial System to organize the Alien Archive's collected information by creating separate folders of the same interest, such a sole file already existed within the Alien Archive.
One more thing...
[I don't remember, Master.]
Krishnaya did not or could not recall the origin of the [Fated Path] folder, which indicated an anomaly that had yet to reveal itself. However, if there's one thing that Grey realized, it is that his reincarnation was not so random or a mere coincidence, which was similar to the belief of a true Physicist that there was no such thing as nothing.
"World of Magica aside, the mysteries just keep filing up. Sigh, my head's going to explode at any given moment.
"Anyway, let's go and set foot in another nation for the first time since arriving in this chaotic world." Grey organized his thoughts before descending to the ground to see the Black Crabs Army.
But before he did so, Grey looked at the most prominent holographic screen in front of him, which showed Princess Quintella lying in a capsule, dreaming and changing.
"See you in a year, little brat."
***
Adventurer's Guild, Southern Earthenshire Branch, Territory of the Dwarves.
"The increase in the number of applicants is noticeable because of the labyrinth incident... Sigh, it's quite overwhelming." Sitting on a high-back wooden chair in his personal workplace within the guild, the proctor adventurer Rahk skimmed through the stack of papers pertaining to the hopeful newbie adventurers.
If someone applied and wanted to become an official adventurer, certain qualifications and processes must be passed.
First of all, the applicant must be at least a Blessed Soul in terms of rank, which was enough to raid a Goblin and Orc Villages given that there were proper resources and preparation.
Secondly, if the first qualification was met, then the said applicant would undergo two categories of exam: Written and Practical. For the former, the basics and ethics of being an adventurer must be answered, which mostly in regards to being responsible, while the latter, at least the standardized one, referred to being guided by a proctor adventurer like Rahk, who would witness and grade the newbies' performance in a real-life monster village occupation.
Lastly, if the applicant passed the two qualifications, he or she must sign a Death Waver, which stated that whatever circumstances the said adventurer faced, especially if the matter was not in any way related to the Adventurer's Guild, then the guild must not and never be blamed.
However, since Rahk and the other surviving adventurers returned some two months ago, he revised his own standards in accepting applicants in consideration of their savior, the strangely powerful Mutant.
"Has a good relationship with family? That's a failure." Rahk muttered before proceeding to the next application form.
"Hm, being abused by her father? That's a passed."
Based on Grey's own set of moral principles, he did not want to form deep connections with adventurers with good relationships with their respective families unless it was inevitable.
Upon witnessing the reactions of those families when Rahk and the others returned from the perceived labyrinth incident, he realized the reasoning behind Grey's thought process.
It meant that by truly following Grey's arduous journey to the unknown, there was this possibility that one would lose something. But Grey does not want that.
"What a considerate Mutant. He's the strangest one I've seen so far when it comes to morality..." Rahk let out a sigh as he quickly finished the application process.
Among the one hundred applicants, even though some others were more than qualified to become adventurers, only three (3) passed the revised standards.
Knock!
Lost in his own world as he rested his mind, Rahk heard a hurried knocking.
"What's the matter, Kesha?" Sensing the identity from the other side of the door, Rahk queried.
Click.
Opening the door slightly ajar, Kesha's fairly gorgeous face questioningly looked through the gap. Her green eyes under the golden-rimmed eyeglasses innocently glimmered.
She then said, "Sir Rahk, someone's looking for you. But I said you're busy because of the new applicants."
"Looking for me? Did you ask the name?" With both his hands on the desk, Rahk asked.
"Ah, he said he's Grey. Do you know–"
Woosh!
Before Kesha could finish speaking, as though the room's air was disrupted, Rahk abruptly raised his body and swiftly exited his workspace, leaving the secretary standing in wonder.
"...him, S–sir...?"