Hello everyone! 0W0
This chapter is a rewrited version of the chap3, the first version was really translated like shit and I was ashamed you have to read it but thanks to a friend that better now, hope you going to enjoy the new version
Rated M for Violence, Sexual Theme, Dark theme, and Language
Good reading! 0w0
PS: action "speak" {think}
/Faust's POV/
He was looking at Rose who's shocked, which can't believe that a young man in his twenties, who has no familia and clearly, doesn't seem to have ever wielded a weapon before, asks to become an adventurer and rushes into that deadly trap that is the dungeon, her eyebrows frowns
"Sorry to say it so harshly but it's sheer madness, you're going to die immediately"
She shook her head, she seemed to be always shaken by his request, but he smiled gently and said in a calm voice
"I know the risks very well, much more than you can imagine, but I still want to do it. I know that my speech has him thinking that I am extremely arrogant but I can assure you that this is not the case"
She hits her hands on the table and looks at him with a mixture of confusion and a bit of sadness
"So why! Why want such-"
But she stops immediately when she sees his look and he say immediately after
"I know my weaknesses, but I don't know my growth, or my limits, and I want to see them with my own eyes before I get a Falna. I want to prove to myself that I can do the impossible, show what mortals can really do even without the help of gods"
She looks conflicted and thinks for a whole minute before sighing. She rubs her temples, already regretting the decision she's gonna take
"All right... After all, it's not forbidden to become an adventurer without a Falna, it's just common sense… but I'll get the registration papers."
He felt a little bad for her because he knows her character, she doesn't want to attach herself to the adventurer because she doesn't want to have her heart broken if they would die. And yet, he literally convinced her to send a stranger to death
{Well, it's not like my plan is to die, until now I wasn't thinking clearly because I was shocked to have literally changed reality and, although the shock is still there, I have clearer thoughts. Choosing to be an adventurer may seem rushed but let's be realistic, I don't have the patience and talent to work in manufacturing Familia, it coupled with my adrenaline addiction I clearly have the choice to steer me towards combat. Ares might seem like a good idea but that guy is too stupid and thinks that with his muscles and Hestia... Yeah no, I never liked it and I would not risk curbing the growth of the bell, the kid needs to go through it by himself ... Well then, for the moment I prefer to play it solo and when I have really reached my limit I would go and get one... Well, speaking of god and all...}
Suddenly a huge, deadly aura escapes from his body, the hatred is so present that anyone in the room would have been uncomfortable and may even be terrified
"I intend to find the bastard who dared to take me from my home, whether a god or an even more powerful being... I WOULD MAKE THEM PAY!"
Some seconds after his statement he hears Rose open the door and he calms down, returning to his usual smile. She enters with some papers in her hands
"Here's all you need to sign to be officially recognized as an adventurer"
She put them on the table and Faust began to read them
"Bla bla the guild is not responsible for what happens in the dungeon, bla bla the problems between familia must be solved with the Guild as a neutral party to avoid all problems, bla bla and bla bla. Yeah it looks good to me"
He quietly signed with Rose having a neutral face. After he finished signing everything she handed him a small plate and a needle
"Prick your finger and pour a few drops of blood on the plate"
He nodded, suspecting what will happen, once the blood touches the plate it shines slightly and the following informations are displayed on it
Faust Stolas
24 years
Level 0
No familia
Bank account: 0
"Here is your adventurer card, it acts as an ID card and allows you to pay in the city or transfer money to someone else by placing your card on his one and choosing the amount. Your money will be kept in the Bank of the guild, Of course, nothing prevents you from not having all your money at the Bank, and rest assured that only you can use your card. Just avoid losing it without proof that you had nothing to do with it or you have to repay it for 20,000 valis, the price will double every time"
{That's what I've imagined, well, at least it makes it easier for me, no need to carry tons of money on myself}
She sighed again, clearly in disagreement with what she was doing, then gave him a small bag that can be hung on the belt, which he did immediately.
"It will allow you to put in the magic crystals, I saw on you no one so I'm allowed to take the initiative of us taking one from you"
"Ooohhh yes it will be very convenient, thank you very much!"
"We are done here. From now on, you are officially an orario adventurer and I will be the advisor who will take care of you"
"Oh so I have a pretty wife as a counsellor Hehe I'm really a lucky man"
He laughed with amusement and she did not reply, he got up to go and went towards the door but she kept him with a question he did not expect
"Why do you want to become an adventurer? I've understood your reasoning for not joining a familia, even if I don't approve it, but I would like to know what motivates you in a way that will surely lead you to death and despair"
{Why... It's true, that's a good question, I can tell to myself that it's because I have no choice but it would be a lie. After all I know the real reasons}
He turns around and she freezes on the spot, fear and surprise can be seen in his eyes. Faust had a massive carnivorous smile and eyes injected with pure madness
"Because I will be the one who will surpass the gods... I will be the supreme predator of this beautiful and disgusting world"
After he said that he left the room
/Rose's POV/
She stood there, frozen, still shocked because he comes from this past. She thought at first sight of a stranger who wanted to flirt with her, like the majority of the men she meets. She quickly realised that he was an arrogant idiot who wanted to brave the dungeon without familia, but now she had a completely different opinion about him. He's a madman, who has ambitions that would makes many people laugh, but not her, not after this look, this burning and chaotic madness
"That kind of monster I just dropped on Orario..."
/Faust's POV/
He has just left the guild offices and stretches quietly, he goes towards the spiral staircase
{It's now that the serious stuff starts. No going back, especially after what I've put out in front of Rose... Well let's go!}
An amused smile appeared on his face and he began to go down the stairs with other adventurers. After a good minute of walking he has finally arrived on the first floor, the stairs behind him. He took a big breath and then pulled the sword out, trying some swings with it to see his weight
"well, it shouldn't be a problem"
He began to walk on the first floor and after some steps he finally saw his first monster, a goblin. The creature looked like a little humanoid worn with little horns on his head, he took a big breath and this calmed down, holding his sword with both hands, put it on the side then charged the monster at full speed, without screaming, hoping to not alert him. Yet, the monster noticed it and rushed in its direction, screaming with a distorted vision. As soon as the creature was to carry, he swung the sword with all his might towards the neck of the creature and, to his great surprise, he succeeded in cutting it easily. Right after the monster became dust, he left behind only a magic crystal and a fang. He opened his eyes wide when he saw something to reward him.
"A drop on the first floor and a first monster? Weird..."
He shrugged his shoulders and said to himself that maybe it's just luck, picked up the rewards and put them in the bag that gave him Rose. Then he keeps progressing in the first floor, after 5 hours of very careful hunting he managed to gather about thirty magic goblin crystal and kobolt, he smiled seeing his loot but frowned when he saw the rest of the loot, more exactly the thirty drop that fell to each monster kill
"It's weird, I've been lucky... Almost too lucky... Mmm... Well it's okay, I'll make a lot more money like that! Luckily I didn't get so many injuries, just a cut here and there and bruises, but it's better that I don't venture into the lower floors below third for the moment, not before I've become stronger physically and with a sword"
He nods his head, in agreement with his logic. He began to turn back because he felt rather tired after more than 5 hours of fighting, even if his wounds were serious, but for someone not used it still weighed on his body and the feeling was really not pleasant. He sighed, but a strange feeling of pride filled him when he was suddenly on the surface. It shouldn't have surprised him too much, after all he had just killed more than thirty monsters, considered legends in his home world
"I wonder how Rosy will look when she sees all that I did on my first day! Well, it's not safe on the first floor... However there is something that bothers me a lot since I arrived and I had not really noticed at the beginning but everyone speaks and writes in French here... It's weird, yet the voice of Rose was exactly the same as her Japanese version but with a perfect French... I have a ton of mystery to solve and I feel like the list is still growing"
He goes to the rose stand he smiles friendly while she, on the other hand, looks slightly uncomfortable, but hides that feeling pretty well while he puts the bag on the table
"It was rather complicated and I admit that I took some damage, but since I stayed on the first floor I was able to minimise the blows I took"
She sighed of relief, as if she thought he was going to rush into the heap
"At least I'm glad you're more careful than I thought"
She starts looking in the bag but quickly she freezes for some second then looks at Faust with a stern look
"Explain to me how this is possible? Since the existence of the guild this is the first time that someone has literally brought back the same number of crystals and drop, it's as if every monster you killed had drop an object"
Faust: "Indeed! I also was rather surprised by this, but I ended up thinking that lady luck surely had a crush on me Hehe ~"
"Lady luck? Never heard of this god before"
He laughed at it
"It's just an expression from home, Hehe"
"I see… Normally for something so bizarre an investigation would have been conducted but I have a feeling you're telling me the truth"
He sighs inwardly, happy that it didn't create a problem, especially when he didn't nothing wrong
"Well that will make us a total of 11,000 valis, normally the first floor does not pay as much, but the drop we play a big role in it"
She transfers the money to his card and he is happy to see all those Valis on his bank account
{What a wonderful feeling not to be totally poor ~}
"Thank you Rose! Well I'm going to look for a place to stay now, it's already getting dark outside"
And he left with a smile on his lips, Rose simply gives him a salute with an hand
/Freya's POV/
On the top floor of the tower of Babel, there is a magnificent goddess at the head of one of the two largest familia of the city, the goddess Freya, sitting on an armchair she looks with interest at the young man just coming out of the tower. She was so surprised when she saw him arrive in the morning, that boy had something she had never seen before, a soul so dark and corrupted that it would scare the abyss. Although she has already seen a very dark soul without her long life that has the particularity to look natural, as if he had been born with such a soul. Looking closer she could see 3 different colour dots in this dark soul and when she noticed what her 3 colour spots were she couldn't help but shudder with pleasure. The first is a scarlet red that looks like a flame fuelled by chaos and madness, the second is an abyssal blue that contains an anger so cold and insensible that it could freeze anything, the last stain of colour is the most interesting according to her, a dark green looks like a toxic swamp that releases a feeling of disgust for all that exists in this world.
"My my my, what a soul, simply fascinating. I have never seen a soul so naturally dark in my life and soiled by the life he lived, mmmm I cannot leave my eyes of him"
She was confused when Faust stopped without explanation and suddenly turned around and looked directly at the top of the tower, or more exactly, in Freya's eyes and his look was filled with disgust and boredom
{He felt me looking at him? Impossible, he doesn't even have a falna and yet he was able to feel me, and that look ~ ooohhh I didn't know that such a dirty look could be as exciting Hehehe ~~}
A perverse smile appeared on his face, some second after Faust left
"mmmm who would have thought that someone so intriguing could be so young, I'm gonna look you up close my little human and see if you really deserve my attention."
/Faust's POV/
He always walked mad at the 'meeting' he just had with Freya
{Why the hell did she have to care about me? Would my soul have something special that would have attracted her?}
He remembered that perverse look on her face, that memory made him shudder
"Well the good news is that I was able to buy an healing kit on the way"
At this moment he was following a path that he was given to go to a rather nice inn. He finally arrives at the place
"mmmmm 'The relaxing sword' , funny name but it looks pretty nice. if it wasn't for... That"
He sighs and looks behind him and not too far this finds a very large castle of name the mansion of the twilight, also known as the base of the loki Familia, one of the two most powerful Familla of the city
"And I, who wanted to avoid them for the moment... Finally"
He entered the inn and instead of looking like a unique place with a ton of pretty girls as in most fancy taverns, this one look rather normal. The waiters are all men in their twenties or thirties and the bartender is a rather elderly man, close to 70. He could be mistaken for a civilian if it wasn't for this powerful aura that surrounds him
{Awesome another retired high-level adventurer…}
Faust this leads to the bar counter because he notices that this is also where the room reservations do, the old man calmly smiles at him
"What can I do for you, young man?"
Faust is a little reassured that the man seems at least nice and kind
"It would take a room for the week"
"Mmm a week... that's 7,000 valis."
He nods his head and gives the 7000 valis to the man, he gives him a key and smiles gently
"Have a good rest, young adventurer"
Faust smiles and nods before leaving for his room
{I really need a nice sleep}