Chapter 165 - Mission Briefing

After absolutely demolishing my opponent in the drinking match, drinking over 72 shots before she finally passed out, I got up and walked towards rose.

At the same time, she stared at me with a complicated expression on her face. 

What kind of person would explode after drinking so much? And at that, after drinking so much of one of the most powerful liquors in the city. While she knew of my abnormal ability to be able to eat 5 times the amount as she could, sometimes even 6 times the amount, she did not expect me to have the same ability when it came to liquor.

"Since when were you able to do that?" She asked with a trace of worry on her face.

"Eh, I don't know. To me, it feels like drinking juice rather than alcohol since I literally cannot get drunk" I laughed which made her expression worsen.

Eventually, Rose took the girl back to her dorm room while I and her then went back to ours. Sunset was about 4 hours away so I made the best of it with my alternate personality, trying to gain more popularity within the community.

Eventually, when night came, I wore my mask and changed my clothes back to the clothes I had gotten from the guild. I quickly put on the two black and white katanas, also known as the ying-yang blades, and took off jumping from roof to roof.

***

The next morning, I and Rose walked together in a certain direction until we saw what we had come to see.

On a bench closest to the front gates of the city sat a twin-tailed girl while speaking into her communication crystal. She seemed slightly happy while the projection within the crystal also seemed happy when speaking to her which allowed me to assume that the person on the other side was a close friend if not a family member.

Even though I did not have a communication crystal, I still retained the features of the communication crystal after absorbing the remnant of the world crystal and could call anyone or message whenever I wanted.

Analysis even added a feature where I could see my contacts list which is created after touching a communication crystal once and saving it with the name of the person. I hadn't seen the girl's communication crystal until now so I was still finding it hard to remember her name, but after getting her contact information I should be fine, right?

Eventually, when we neared enough for her to spot us, she quickly said her goodbyes and ended the call, and looked at us with an annoyed expression.

"You guys are late" She crossed her arms and glared at us

"Actually, no June. You had come too early today which is a little out of character, don't you think? Did losing to Lilith yesterday cause this effect on a person?" Rose Grinned

"Hmph" The girl simply looked away with an even more annoying expression than she had when she first started glaring at us.

"Anyway, we are here so I can inform the two of you of the main things you will be doing in the mission" Rose walked to the side and spoke down to us, a bit like how you would expect a Guildmaster to speak to their guild members.

Since Rose was the person who would pick every person who joins the guild, everyone had some kind of a relationship with her, whether that would be of friends, teammates, or simple accomplices. However, this was a much better relationship most people in other guilds did not benefit from having with the guildmaster, meaning compared to her, every other guildmaster didn't have the best impression from their guild members.

Even then, she sometimes had to show dominance because the moment she passed a certain line of leniency, some of the guild members would think they can trample all over her. 

With a domineering tone, she carried on speaking "As you know, the regional guildmaster of both the phoenix and Thunder Dragon guilds have gone missing with a good chunk of their members too. I had sent a few scouts to see how they were doing, but a lot of my scouts have come back without any information. All my informants don't have anything on them after a certain point and no one had heard of them for the last 3 weeks" She took a deep breath and continued-

"Apparently, they were after a Spirit tressure that had appeared after a whirlpool of mana had concentrated into a single area. They assumed it was a spirit treasure and went over to excavate it, and knowing their rivalry, they wanted to see who can get it first" She sighed

'I KNEW IT' I cheered inwardly

[Shouldn't you be more distressed about your closest friend is in danger?]

'Nah. I am sure she is fine. At most a few light injuries that I could ask Juilam to heal within the blink of an eye,' I chuckled inwardly.

"You both will go and investigate the problem. This mission might take anything from a week to a few months and you will be paid accordingly. At any point, the mission could go up to an A+ rank depending of the situation" Rose finally finished speaking and her expression softened

"If you understand the mission could become an A+ rank at any moment, why are you making the newbie come with me? Isn't she a little too much of a hinderment?" The girl pointed at me while shouting at Rose who wore a professional smile once again. However, I could still feel the annoyance within her eyes which made me step back a little.

"Are you questioning my reasons" A cold voice entangled and weaved meticulously within the strings of killing intent with such mastery that it made her voice make everyone around us become pale while some of the weaker ones fell onto their knees.

My natural divine aura repelled the killing intent like it was nothing, leaving me as the only person in the area that hadn't turned pale.