60 Chapter 54 ~ Rakuri’s Expedition: A Certain Dungeon First Layer (1/2)
Opening the [Dimensional Teleportal] grimore, a red trail of fire seeps through her brows as her eyes redden in flames. A red flaming circle appeared at the top of the book and Rakuri swing it away to the ground.
*Fwoooosh*
The red circle whirling in the air above and split them, creating a crack. Soon after, the air completely turned red and a spiraling force big enough in size for Rakuri to come in appeared.
After the red whirling air turned dark blue, she walked in.
Arriving back to Bakuyo's home. She went to look outside for her pair because she couldn't find her anywhere inside.
Rakuri hasn't returned home is because of the grinding she did, and she kept doing many more quests after those wolves extermination.
Siola too... has not yet to come back.
Going out of the house, and go to the back. She finally found her pair there.
*Mwmm *Mmm *Ahhh *Haaaa
Intertwining her tongue with Bakuyo right in the open. Rakuri was baffled and kept staring at them with a blank face, 'Since when did they get so close?'
*kiss *kiss
Nibbling on her neck, she then continues to exchange saliva with her.
”…” slightly biting her bottom lip, Rakuri shows signs of jealousy. First, her girlfriend doesn't want to have sex with her, and now her sister being taken away.
Rakuri holds a significant feeling towards those she had emotional and physical contact with, to get them so close to another person, truly induces her rage. But she can't do anything about it, 'Tch, why am I even watching this.'
She walked away with a bitter mouth. Though little did she notice, what happened was actually it the opposite. It was Bakuyo that's being taken... not Kurira.
Still moaning in shattered eyes, Kurira stripped her pants down and pushed Bakuyo down to eat her bottom. ”Hm?” Kurira noticed something, 'I was sure there was someone there, did Rakuri come home?' She was about to go and check, but when she shifted her eyes to Bakuyo, who is gazing at her with puppy eyes that is afraid of her leaving. Kurira chuckled at it and let her continue.
'Ah well, I'll deal with that idiot later.'
Rakuri took a large pouch out of her inventory and gently put it down on the table. It's a bag full of money. Several gold coins and a lot of silvers. Afterward, she left the house and went to the portal to continue her journey again.
*Bwooosh*
The portal leads up to a cave near the Center Capital, it is a very desolated location, one would not come by and visit so often.
She pulls out her grimoire again and undo the spell.
Soon, she set out to the Center Capital. Walking towards it, she pondered in her own mind amidst the crowd. 'Hmm… so packed in here.'
'Ahh, right. I heard large guilds are recruiting, can't believe that alone shook the entire community like this.'
'42 Gold coins, 14 Silver Coins, and 89 Copper Coins. I've exchanged the Silver Coins to gold with a small fee. Even if I'm not resting, that's nowhere near my income back then. Well, I guess it's not fair to compare the two.'
'In equivalent to Desolated Sector, it would be 40 dollars since the exchange for Gold Coins is 1:1. But, in High Sector, it's only 10% of what it actually worth. The system always put a track on where its consoles were built and planted, so there is no way to get around it.'
Sighing as she finally passed through the crowds, she rested her butt on the fence and stare at the scenery outside the wall. 'I need to upgrade my rank quickly, but I can't do it if I don't have money. I also need to upgrade my gear. My weapons are also about to break.'
She suddenly heard someone talks about something that piqued her interest.
”Hey, did you hear? The Draconic Passage is recruiting.”
”What, no way? Why would they- oh shit, I need to prepare right away then.”
”Heh, what's the point? You won't get picked anyway.”
”Gah, woman. Can't hurt to try at least, who knows, maybe they'll pick me. I'm already level 300 right now.”
”Yeah, right.”
Pondering in her thoughts as she holds her chin, 'Hm, Draconic Passage, huh. That's the same guild that took over the many as the world's strongest guild after defeating Silver Phoenix.'
'It was different from back then. Now, that is yet to happen and I don't think it will happen again. There are 4 large guilds that dominate this game, aside from those two, there is also Nightwave Syntex and Blossoming Moon Flowers.'
'How do I know? I've checked them before.'
”…”
'I should go, why am I wasting time here.'
She opened her status and saw something in the inbox. It's a notification bringing some rewards.
There are more that comes along with it, including a Common Dungeon Key, a badge of E-Rank, and 10 lockpicks.
'Oh, already? I didn't notice.'
The system for a rank up in Center Capital is unknown, even if one were to finish the same way as the other, they won't rank up at the same time. People assumed that it's judged by the performance, while most of it is true, sometimes it's not.
There is also a leaderboard being put all around the center capital for the best performing members, a trending basically. And there are also a different leaderboard for the amount of contribution people did and also there is an additional menu inside the Center Capital menu screen that listed all of its members.
Only names that chosen to be displayed are visible to the others, and Rakuri does not hide her visibility. Fame or anything like that does not matter to her.
'Welp, go back to grinding then.'
”Um, excuse me.”
Her eyes shifted to the party that is approaching her, it was that knight and his party from a week ago. ”You again?”
”Ahh, yes. I'm glad you remember us. I won't waste much of your time. We'd like to ask for your help.”
”Help?” squinting her eyes, ”What kind?”
”Yes, we noticed that you have ranked up. I take it you're good at this game, so we want to ask you again to join us. I mean, temporarily of course, would you like to hear us out?”
”Hmm…” thinking, 'Guess there's no harm in it.' she then said, ”Sure.”
The knight and the others' eyes light up, ”Then, let's go to the canteen. We can talk there.”
Rakuri nodded.
They went to the canteen and the knight treats her to some of the best meals that they have, and true to its hype... it tastes really good in her mouth. She's been holding off on buying unnecessary things, but to be treated a meal once in a while is not as bad as she thought it would.
”I'm called Suburbian Fortress, that cute Assassin cat girl is Kucing-in-disguise and that priest lizard over there, his name is Baldheaded Grandma.”
*Pfft*
Rakuri burst out the milkshake she got on her hand, trying to hold off her laughter. Even his own teammates are holding off their laughter and the lizard is just staring at them with a blank face.
”Come on, Bian. It's not funny” he said.
When their reaction is like that, it really is not funny for sure, yep, 100%. ”Gehehe, sorry dude. Anyway, back on the topic.”
Sternly fix his posture, he turned to Rakuri, ”So, there is this dungeon we want to raid. It has something Kucing wants and needed so badly. We'll even pay you and you can choose the items you want first, how about it?”
”Hmm…” thinking, 'Just what kind of an item is that.' Rakuri then responded, ”I suppose I don't need to question why you want me, but I have to ask why do you need me?”
He paused for a moment and formed a hardened face, almost… nervous. ”The dungeon we're going to raid is called Cracking Husk Dungeon. And all three of us are less than level 50.”
”But I'm also less than 50?”
”Yes, but we figured that you were... um, judging from your equipment. No offense of course. But, since you were climbing the rank pretty fast, we thought that we want to invite you with us. And err, it's just an assumption, but… are you a smurf?”
”… no. This is my main.”
”Ahh, I see. Well, regardless, we still want to invite you.”
”Mm, Cracking Husk Dungeon, you say?”
”Yes,” he nodded.
Cracking Husk Dungeon is a low-level dungeon under the F Rank Category. This is perfect for her, and she just got the common dungeon key. She can make use of it once she's finished. ”Yeah, sure.”
Their eyes quickly light up, ”Then, how much do you need? We don't have much with us, but I'll go look for more if it's not enough.”
Rakuri thought to herself, 'Hmm… it would be a waste if I'm not taking any since they have offered, but I also don't want to make enemies out of them.' She then said, ”Do you have 8 Gold Coins with you?”
”8 Golds?” Fortress's eyes widened. Rakuri thought for a moment, 'Was it too much?' but then he responded, ”Is that all? Are you sure?”
Sighing a sigh of relief in her mind, she responded, ”Yeah, I don't need much.”
The party gleaming in bright and glimmering eyes. They agreed to it right away. Now that the deal is done, Rakuri joined their party and set out to Cracking Husk Dungeon.
…
Passing through many landscapes, they arrived finally to a river. It is a place where they could find the dungeon. Following down the rocky surfaces, there is a cave inside the waterfall.
”This is it, huh,” said Kucing.
”Yeah, where we got our ass kicked.” Responded Fortress.