Chapter 398: The Children's Mini Adventure, Beating Some Thugs On The Way To The Dungeon!

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As Veronica and the rest of her party walked back to their restaurant, Kuro-chan and her party had already picked up a new quest… or several of them.

Potin, the young dwarf boy who attended the Adventurer Guild was assigned by Vairvec to personally attend anything Kuro and her party had a doubt of or wanted to know or do.

Due to that, they were able to quickly gather the quests they wanted and get them registered by Potin as taken.

"The quests you want is… Giant Rat extermination… Orc Hunt, and… Gathering of Demon Wolves Pelts… The last two missions… they are for Adventurers above D-Rank… are you sure?" asked Potin with a bit of concern, he couldn't help but imagine Veronica's rage the moment she was to know that her daughter was somehow wounded in her adventures… because of this fear, he didn't really want these younglings to take on such dangerous quests.

Especially because they included the group exploring a nearby Dungeon, where the Orcs and Wolves lived deep within the floors.

This Dungeon was a D-Rank Dungeon where the strongest monsters were Rank 4 and the weakest Rank 3, Orcs were often Rank 3-4, while Demon Wolves were always Rank 4, with the danger of a Demon Wolf King being Rank 5.

Because of the difficulty of the Dungeon, not many adventures adventured inside, and making it the first visit of these newbies was like a death sentence…

Although Potin did not know that Kuro was a Rank 5 monster herself, who also had taken into several Jobs, perhaps being comparable in full strength to a Rank 7 monster.

…Which was the level of strength that a B-Rank Adventurer or beginner A-Rank would have.

"Yeah, we are sure, Potin-chan!" said Kuro with a bright smile, as Potin only sighed and let them go.

"O-Okay then, please take care of yourselves… d-don't get in trouble!" said Potin while seeing the party of little misfits walk away from the guild, he felt his heart racing due to the concern he had for their lives…

"Bye!" said Kuro, walking with her sharp, metallic arachnid legs and reaching the streets of Seashore with her party.

"Damn we are really getting into Adventure now, I am looking forward to that! I am going to beat a bunch of monsters!" said Fei.

"We had already beaten a bunch ourselves! You will have to catch up to our speed, hehe," said Mitiliph, the little Cockroach-type Insectoid.

"Don't get too cocky, Mitiliph-chan, they are stronger than us…" said Acaracia, the young Banshee girl.

"No, it's fine, Acaracia. Veronica-sama said that it was good to be competitive," said Berth, the young giant boy, who was already the size of an adult human, but still held features of a young boy. Giants were a naturally tall race, and he would easily reach over 3 meters when he became a young adult.

"Yeah! I am going to beat you anyway! Hehe!" laughed Fei teasingly, as Mitiliph's eyes blazed with conviction, she was not going to lose to her!

"Don't underestimate us, we work pretty well together, and our equipment is super strong too!" said Mitiliph, just like Acaracia and Berth, she possessed a special type of Cursed Equipment that could transform and mold in the battle to easily cover their blind spots while offering amazing defenses and offense, a new prototype of Cursed Equipment crafted by Veronica, Ervas, and Anna with the assistance of Abraham and even Kireina.

"Hey, don't forget about us! We also want to level up a bit more!" said Tina, the daughter of Lilith, a Blood Half-Lizardman, as she waved her purple-scaled tail around happily.

"Yeah, we gotta train hard, let's clean up that whole dungeon!" said Asure, the son of Naamah, a Blood Half-Goblin, unlike a goblin he looked like an adorable night elf, sitting over the shoulder of Vina.

"Hmm~ I'm hungry… I wonder if those monsters are yummy? Oh, right! We are going to hunt Orcs, right? Hmm, Orc meat is very yummy!" said Vina, the daughter of Eisheth, a Blood Half-Orc, she was even taller than Berth, almost reaching two meters despite being a little, six months old girl! This was due to her genes as an Orc making her grow very fast. Orcs usually reached adulthood after one or two years of age, becoming around 3 to 4 meters tall… she was still an infant, yet she would possibly become taller than Berth in the future!

"You are always hungry, Vina-chan… I am more interested in the Demon Wolf. Maybe we could tame the pups if we found some!" said Lime, the son of Agrat, a Blood Half-Kobold, as he waved his fluffy tail around.

"Isn't it weird though? Aren't you half-orc? Why would you want to eat orc? That's cannibalism!" said Acaracia.

"Eeeh? Mommy always says that I am only a porky girl, not an orc! I am a blood human!" said Vina while pouting.

"Porky girl might be a bit of a stretch… But do not annoy Vina-chan, Acaracia," said Berth.

"A-Ah, sorry, I just got a bit startled by the thought of such a thing… But I guess Vina-chan is like us, Orcs are monsters," said Acaracia, apologizing to Vina.

"Hehe, it doesn't matter, don't worry~ Just let me eat a few Orcs when we get there…" said Vina while licking her lips, imagining stuffing herself with delicious Orc meat, which was perhaps even better than pig meat.

"Eeh? No, Vina-chan, you gotta leave some for us too!" said Asure.

"Hmmm… But I am hungry! Or I am going to eat you! Nam, nam, nam!" said Vina, playfully biting the small Asure's shoulders as they used to do when they were babies.

"S-Stop! We are already pretty old to do that…" sighed Asure while blushing a bit, he had slowly entered maturity now as a half-goblin, a race of monsters that reached adulthood after a year of being born, he had slowly started to see Vina differently than before, and he didn't like when she played around with him like that… making the little boy flustered.

"Hehe, you're so cute when you get embarrassed, Asure-chan!" laughed Vina cutely.

"Oof, get yourselves a room!" laughed Berth, as the kids began to laugh, even more, leaving Asure all red in embarrassment.

"I-It's not that! Sigh…" he said as he crossed his arms, whenever he got angry, he would make a face very similar to an actual goblin, which made Vina, Tina, and Lime laugh even louder.

"Haha! He made the face!" laughed Tina.

"Asure-chan is embarrassed again, hehe," laughed Vina.

"Haha! He really looks like a goblin sometimes!" laughed Lime.

"S-Shut up you stinky dog!" said Asure.

"Oi, whoa re you calling a stinky dog?! Mommy always brushes my tail!" said Lime.

"Y-You are a stinky dog!" said Asure.

"Come on, boys, don't fight! We are all in here as a party! Sorry for laughing at you, Asure, relax!" said Kuro with a gentle smile, as the boys sighed and obeyed their leader.

"Okaay…" they said.

"Yeah, sorry for that Asure-chan, I will not make you flustered anymore…" said Vina with an apologetic expression, melting Asure's heart.

"A-Ah! No, it is fine… If it is… you, it's fine…" said Asure.

"Eh? Really? Hehe, you are so nice!" said Vina innocently, kissing Asure's cheek, making the boy once more all flustered.

"U-Uwah, don't do that…" he sighed.

"Hehe, it's hard to resist when you are so cute!" laughed Vina carefreely.

Berth, Acaracia, and Mitiliph glanced at the pair to play around, they had to resist the urge to tease the two half-blood-humans…

"T-They are really like a little couple, huh?" wondered Acaracia while covering her mouth.

"Yeah, I think Asure likes Vina! But Vina most likely is too dummy to realize, and she keeps teasing him unknowingly of how he feels…" laughed Mitiliph while lowering her voice.

"You two… stop chatting around like that…" sighed Berth, the two little girls he always took care of were becoming quite mischievous.

"Hey, let's go for this one alley, it is a nice shortcut to reach the city's outskirts and get into the dungeon," said Fei, leading Kuro, and the rest of the party through a shady alleyway…

"Are you sure, Fei? This place looks pretty shady…" said Berth, glancing around as he saw trash thrown around and rats walking about, there was even a homeless man sleeping on the floor with an empty bottle of wine in his hand.

"Yeah, I know my stuff, I explored around here the other day with Pekonisia and Pekorina! We beat any thug that came into our path, so it wasn't anything hard," said Fei.

"I-I guess it is fine then… (To be honest Fei and Kuro alone can beat any street thug anyways…)" said Berth as he considered that he was with pretty strong friends.

"Oh, there's a lot of rats around here… Can we eat them?" wondered Vina.

"W-What are you talking about, don't eat nasty street rats, Vina-chan!" said Asure, reprimanding the gluttonous girl.

"Okay, don't get mad!" said Vina while pouting adorably.

"Though those rats are pretty big… I bet they could give some EXP," said Tina.

"Maybe I could make Zombie Rats?" wondered Kuro, as suddenly, the figure of five shady guys appeared in front of them…

There were some beast-kin, a few demons, and a human…

The leader seemed to be an ugly cat-kin old man that Fei recognized.

"Huh? What do we get here? A bunch of stupid kids thinking that they are hot shit by walking in a dangerous alleyway! Do you want to get assaulted so badly?" asked the man with a cheeky grin.

"Is that the girl that hit you, Aniki?" asked one of the men, pointing at Fei.

"Yeah that's the little shit!" roared the man.

"Please step aside, we are not interested in street fights," said Kuro.

"Step aside my ass, get them boys!" laughed the man, he seemed seemingly drunk.

"Don't come regretting your decision as ghosts later, alright?" asked Kuro as her eyes gleamed in crimson red.

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