Chapter 8: First Quest as a Mercenary
"Hey, the boy over there, what are you staring at me for?!" Sky kind of played it dumb to see what the girl wanted and ignored her. "Don't ignore me! I'm talking to you!" Sky continued to ignore the girl but this time rolling her eyes in front of her just to see the pretty girl pissed off. Sky continued to the counter of the pub to ask for the location of Mercenary Agency is. A pub girl came to the desk side of where I was sitting. "Hey, handsome, what can I do for you?" The pub girl with heavy mascara asked. "I just need to find the location of the Mercenary Agency." I said plainly. In Sky's minds he is thinking, "What the hell, woman, you don't even know how I look." "Well, it's just behind this pub if you walk out the back door," the pub girl said a bit depressingly. "Ok, thanks!" Sky thanked the pub girl and continued walking towards the back door. While he went towards the back door the girl that was yelling at Sky kept on yelling and followed Sky back into the Mercenary Agency.
Sky continued to be ignorant of the girl and walked to the reception desks to register as a mercenary. Sky was shocked at the stupid questions you have to answer to register as a mercenary. It asked, gender, address, status, eye color, race, country, and height and weight. Normally Sky would treat these as "stupid" questions but honestly he doesn't know what his height, or weight, and if he doesn't know how to answer those "stupid" questions wouldn't that make him stupid too? Sky put on a wry smile and asked, "Do you guys have a balance and a ruler here?" The attendee didn't seem so surprised at Sky's question, and obviously she had figured he wouldn't know his weight and height, after all in this world, mercenaries are usually all guys and guys tend to not care about appearance, it's usually all about the strength.
"Please continue back to the weightroom." "Thank you," I walked to the back and THAT girl is still following me. Heh, once I start taking off my shirt and pants to use the balance, I wanna see if you will still follow me. Sky thought with an evil smirk. I walked into the weight room starting to take off my shirt. The girl started to notice the situation after she saw a creak into the weight room but she was obviously dumb to not realize the male symbol on the weight room…
"Eeeeekkkk!" I noticed the girl already I only pretended to not notice, I started to say. "Creep girl, now that you have seen my body, I'm guessing we are even now," I'm currently facing backwards towards the girl so I didn't see her facial expression, but Im sure her face is really interesting right now. I started to imagine her face but snapped out of it when the girl yelled, "Shut up! My name isn't creep girl, it's Nathalie!" I turned around to see her blushing. Then I realized that my tops gone so she is looking at me naked on top. By this time my hood has been taken off revealing a almost adult like face with a bit of childish touch to it but still handsome. (The main characters being a narcissist right now)
"I didn't ask for your name did I? Or are you flirting with me?"I put on my usual evil smirk as I walked closer to the girl acting sort of like a gangster. "Don't come near me!" She yelled, and I stopped. "Ok, then get out, I don't plan on showing my body in front of a girl I have no relations to." I said with my usual smirk playfully. The girl is currently probably blushing redder than my red blade right now. She slowly walked out the door regretting to ever have followed me here.
I looked at my own body clearly for the first time, and realized I had countless little scars across my abs and arms and even my back. I took out a ruler and started to measure myself, I had grown pretty quickly over the years now I'm already 178 centimeters tall. (approximately 70 inches about 5 feet 10)I then weighed myself and found myself to be a little below weight 50kg.(110 pounds) I quickly filed in my data and returned it to the receptionist while I noticed that girl is still there as if waiting on me. "Hehe, is that young lady with you?" The receptionist girl jokingly asked. "Why do you ask?" I was curious what she would say so I just put out bait to her question while I in my devious mode took over. "She has been staring at you all this time and I saw her go back to the weight room and returning red as an apple…" "Shit, this lady probably is thinking dirty," I thought but put on a wry smile and returned my registration form. "No, she's just some random girl and… A creep." I answered. "Oh, hehehe," the lady obviously didn't take what I said. Unfortunately that girl heard me and now looking at me with furious eyes which I don't know why, because what I said is true I have no relations to that girl.
"Well the last thing we need to have data for is your current rank or strength level," "Sure, how do we test that?" Sky honestly has no clue what level of strength he has. "We have a strength and magic sensor here used to rank the level of mercenaries. The levels of mercenaries are F,E,D,C,B,A,S,SS,SSS ranked mercenaries from lowest to top," the receptionist lady said, anticipating that Sky probably does not know the ranking since it's his first time registering. The lady pulled out an orb like sphere thing. "Place your hand on this detector; as long as your strength isn't past Gladiator rank it should give me a result." Sky put his hands on the detector and "lowers" any sense of the bloodlines power and aurorus magic to the minimum so he won't be reported to having a high affinity of power since I'm only 15. "Congratulations! Your strength is a gold ranked mercenary! That's pretty good for a 15 year old, I'm almost jealous!" The lady said. Pfft, if she knew I probably have 40,000 more times stronger strength than this what would she say if I told her that? I can't even imagine what face she would have. "Thank you and this is your Mercenary ID, Sky LaGuardia rank D mercenary based on strength." (Sky had filled his name in with Alice's surname because if Sky filled in Bladefield Sky would get himself a heap load of more trouble) "Thanks!" I thanked her and before I left, she stopped me for a second. "Hey, you do know that there is an Outlaw kid named Sky also, he has the same name as you so you might want to be careful; that kid is a high bounty outlaw but you obviously seem to have a lot of manners not like that vagabond of a kid…" Sky is seriously cracking up inside now, THAT VAGABOND OF A KID IS STANDING RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU! That was what Sky wanted to scream out so bad but he knows what would happen if he did.
"By the way, do you have any D rank quest I can do right now?" Sky is thinking of quickly making himself noticeable to get close to the Flias Emperor so he can have his revenge but to do that he has to become well known as a mercenary. Looks like I'm gonna have to start out slow since I can't very well just show my real strength and alarm the City guards just to have a better quest to do. "Uhm, yes actually, even though the client was mysterious and didn't leave a name but , but this quest on first look it appears to be a D rank quest but many D ranking mercenaries have failed and even some C ranks…" "That's fine, what's the info?" "It's to retrieve a precious flower used in alchemy to make some expensive pills, the flower looks like this." The lady flipped through a book of botanic plants, she stopped at a page and showed it to me. To my surprise the flower looks really pretty looks like as if it's gleaming in a rainbow color but it gives a quaint feeling of drowsiness. I felt like I was almost hypnotized by the flower. "The flower is called Somnias flower if you take a deep breath over it you will fall asleep for 4 days straight, it can be found in the middle layers of the Eastern Low Forests; the returning mercenaries that failed all were seriously damaged in body and mind as if seeing a horrifying demon; I do not recommend this quest but…" "It's ok, I'm taking the quest."