Chapter 348: Working as a seeker

Angela didn't hold back at all with the way she grabbed Lin Fan's hand. If Lin Fan's body hadn't become stronger, his hand definitely would have been crushed by her grip.

But Lin Fan didn't mind since it warmed his heart that she would act this way.

In her own way, this was how she showed that she cared.

But Lin Fan also felt despair since he knew that he would be in trouble tonight…

Momonga just watched the two of them with a faint smile.

He might have been a lonely dog for thousands of years, but he definitely didn't mind eating dog food. It had even become his own kind of entertainment.

But that didn't mean everyone else around them enjoyed it just like him.

When they saw Angela's beauty, it was like being dazzled by a spotlight, but no one came forward in the end. That was because they all saw how handsome Lin Fan was as well.

Even the most prideful man didn't dare take a step forward because he knew that he couldn't compare to Lin Fan's looks.

Not to mention that no one here could see through their cultivations.

Most of the people that were in the hall of the Seekers Guild were in the Platinum Realm and there were a few that were in the Soul Realm. However, even with that being the case, they still weren't able to see through the cultivations of these youngsters.

That only meant that they were far more powerful than them and with their age, it would be crazy if they didn't have a backer.

The upper realm was definitely more dangerous than the lower realm, especially in Harmony City. If one made even a single wrong move in Harmony City, they wouldn't know how they even died.

Lin Fan was pulled by Angela over to the large board that was placed on the left wall, right in the middle of the exit and the counter.

This giant board was the list of requests that the Seekers Guild received and the seekers that registered with the guild were free to choose a request to finish. Of course, just being a seeker didn't mean that one would be able to take any request.

Just like in the adventurers guild from the isekai novels that Lin Fan had read, the Seekers Guild had a similar system.

The seekers that registered with the guild would be given a grade from F to A, with S to SSS ranks being awarded only to the leader of the rankings.

Naturally as new seekers, the rank that Lin Fan's group had all received was F rank.

There were some new seekers that could receive special treatment if they joined with an introduction letter, bumping them up to C rank or even B rank, but of course that wasn't the case for Lin Fan. He was nothing more than a new Soul Realm Expert from a lower realm, what kind of backing could he find?

That meant that he would have to start his way from the bottom with F rank requests, but that was also the problem. F rank requests were at the very bottom of the ladder, so naturally that meant that they had the lowest reward and the lowest point value.

It took a hundred credit points to move up from F rank to E rank and each F rank mission was worth around 1 to 10 points, so that meant that it would take from 10 to 100 missions just to reach E rank.

Not to mention the fact that Lin Fan had to reach S rank within two weeks to qualify for the yearly Hunters Organization exam. If he wasn't able to qualify for this exam, he would have to wait an entire year before he would be able to qualify again.

Then there was the fact that it cost ten times as many points to go from E rank to D rank. It cost ten times the amount of points for each rank increase, which meant that it would just be harder and harder to reach S rank.

There was also a hundred times increase when going from A rank to S rank, which meant that in total, it would take a total of a billion points just to reach S rank. This seemed like an impossible task, but Lin Fan had no choice.

The only saving grace was that seekers were allowed to take missions that were two times higher than their rank when they were in F-C ranks and missions that were one rank above their own when they were B rank. Only A rank were forced to stay within their own rank because S rank quests were only for the monsters that were able to reach S rank or those that received special permission. This meant that by completing these higher tier missions, they would be able to quickly gather points and move up the ladder much faster.

Of course, this was only a rule that the Seekers Guild had provided for those that were truly monsters. For most of the normal seekers, they didn't dare take this path because it was a path of suicide.

Most of them were only normal experts, they had no way of fighting those that were above their own level, which is what it usually meant to skip ranks in accepting missions.

The missions starting from C rank all involved Soul Realm targets, so for those that were in the Platinum Realm like most of the people here, it would be impossible.

Of course, that wasn't a problem for Lin Fan's group.

They quickly picked out ten D rank missions that were in the same area and registered them at the counter.

The one strange thing that happened at the counter when they went there was that the receptionist there didn't stop them at all.

Normally, when people took missions that were above their own ranks, they would receive a warning from the Seekers Guild since the Seekers Guild didn't want them to walk to their own deaths.

But there wasn't a single warning for Lin Fan's group at all.

The receptionist just said with a warm smile, "Good luck on your journey" before sending them off.

But what no one noticed was that under the counter, there was actually a piece of paper that had the names of Lin Fan, Angela, and Momonga printed right at the top of it.

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Lin Fan's group quickly left Harmony City and made their way into the wilderness outside.

Their goal was a forest that was several dozen kilometers away called the Green Mist Forest.

This was a place that was filled with powerful beasts and rare herbs, which was what their targets were this time.

It was too bad that they were only able to accept D rank quests, which meant that their opponents were only in the Platinum Realm. For these three that were already in the Soul Realm and two that were far beyond that, it was as simple as flipping their hands to finish these missions.

It didn't take them long to reach the Green Mist Forest with their flying speed and they immediately charged in without caring for anything else.

The Green Mist Forest had received its name from the ruler of the forest, which was a True Illusion Python. It was a beast that had already reached the Child Soul Realm and was on the verge of breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm, so it was considered quite powerful. However, in this human dominated realm, it wasn't that powerful either.

Since this was a human dominated realm, it meant that there weren't any void cracks like on the Blue Star Planet from the Beast Race invading. When the Beast Race did invade, they attacked this planet from off the planet and were kept away by the experts of the Galactic Humanity Alliance.

However, this was also a world that had a rich concentration of life energy, which made it very easy for beasts to evolve.

The only reason why these beasts hadn't all been destroyed was because they were more valuable as farms. Instead of killing them and harvesting their materials in one go, it was better to keep them alive and let them procreate, creating even more materials.

That was why there were beast areas found all over the Galactic Humanity Alliance. They were allowed to stay there and humans went to kill beasts for materials from time to time.

Of course, this was a world where the strong ate the weak, so there was no vengeance when beasts killed humans that wandered into their territory.

Still, the humans had the bigger fists and those from stronger factions had tokens with the aura of those factions. When the beasts sensed the aura from those tokens, they would immediately know that these humans were ones that they couldn't kill.

It was a system that had a delicate balance, but it was also a system that had been developed over thousands of years, so it had reached an equilibrium.

Lin Fan's group quickly made their way through the outer ring of the forest which only had weak beasts and soon reached the middle ring. Once they reached the middle ring, they longer went any further because there were only beasts and materials that were in the Soul Realm and above there. For now, they only had to deal with Platinum Realm items, so there was no point in going in any further.

But when they were about to start their search, they suddenly heard a voice call out, "Help!"