Chapter 63: Escort (7)

"Wake up" Kevin said and began shaking the sleeping Michael awake, a grave look on his face."What's wrong?" Michael pushed him away and groggily got up, it felt like he had slept for at least a couple of hours, better than nothing at all.

"We can't get in contact with Vivum"

'Hm?' He seemed a little confused, they couldn't get in contact with such a massive city?

Before Michael was about to ask further questions, the receptionist from before walked up to them, informing them of what was happening.

"It seems the mountain is at it again, it's blocking the connection needed to reach Vivum, something must have happened up there.."

'Something happened? Yeah.. Us' Michael sighed and looked at the others, they too were wearing understanding expressions.

"How long will it take for the connection to reestablish?"

The receptionist thought for a couple of moments "Not sure, last time something like this happened, it took a couple of days, though the time could vary."

"I see..."

'So we have to find something to do for a couple of days huh.. maybe a few requests?'

Michael was curious about them so he asked the receptionist "Do we need anything else besides an ID to accept those requests?"

"No, an ID is sufficient."

'Good' He nodded to himself and headed over to the holographic interface, checking out all of the requests.

His party seemed a bit surprised, they expected Michael to laze around, however, here he was, actively searching for work.

The requests had minimum levels, some of which even reached in the hundreds, though they were related to monster subjugation.

There were also some that were a bit menial, it reminded Michael of the time back in the first trial.

'Catch a cat.. pft' He found it oddly funny for some reason and continued scrolling through the requests, looking for a certain type he wanted to accept.

Just as he began scrolling once again, Kevin walked up to him and pressed on the hologram, displaying a list of categories.

"You are like an old man that doesn't know how technology works.." He snickered and walked back to the others.

'...' Michael was speechless as he looked at the displayed categories, pressing on the Escort category.

He thought that maybe, by traveling to another nearby village, he could save a lot of time.

'Escort a VIP around the village.. No.. Escort a VVIP to a nightclub.. ?' The more he looked, the more he was compelled to think all of the escort requests were a dud, so far none of them seemed like simple protection requests.

But he guessed since the people were VIPs, they could get away with putting a request in the wrong category so it would get more attention.

Just as he thought all hope was lost, he finally stumbled upon a request that he was looking for, it was some kind of a truck of goods traveling to a faraway village.

Michael obviously didn't want to go all the way there, thankfully, it seemed that it would stop at every village along the way, which was exactly what he wanted.

'Too bad it's not heading towards Vivum but away from it.. we are pretty far out already' He thought with a small frown but nonetheless, decided to accept the request.

The process was simple, he had to fill in his information and the person behind this request would reach out via the Association.

He told the others about it and they eagerly signed up, it seemed none of them were eager to spend their days here doing nothing, waiting for the connection to stabilize.

After finally filling out the request forms, they headed out of the association, the receptionist told them to check in tomorrow to see if they were contacted.

The village seemed lively and the mountain they just came down from could be seen in the distance, this place looked oddly peaceful.

"So Michael, where do you plan on staying the night?" Elizabeth suddenly walked up to him and asked with a small smirk on her face.

'She's doing it again..' He sighed and thought about it for a moment.

He had no money to his name and there was definitely no way to get it fast, well, unless he borrowed it from others. Your next journey awaits at M-V-L

Why don't you accept one of the easy requests, a few of them might be enough to let you stay the night somewhere.

'Have you seen the rewards? 5 dollars, what am I supposed to do with 5 dollars?' He doubted that spending the night would be that cheap, while this was a village, it wasn't exactly run down.

And to add to that, there were no visible inns or anything of the sort, it was way different than the previous village he was in.

Well.. just ask Kevin then.

Michael shrugged and turned towards his party, noticing the annoyed expression on Elizabeth's face, after all, he had just ignored her antics.

"Hey Kevin?"

"Need money?" Kevin instantly understood his intentions.

"Yup" Michael shamelessly replied and was met with a sigh.

Just as Kevin was about to lend him some money, Chloe spoke up.

"My family owns a building in this city, you guys can stay there for free.."

The entire party once again turned towards her with surprised expressions, it seemed as if she had an answer to all of their problems.

However, in this case, only Michael had a problem, nonetheless, they were all equally grateful, no one likes spending money if they can get a better deal, which in this case, was for free.

"Thanks Chloe" Everyone thanked her and she simply nodded, her ears turning a little red due to her being the center of attention.

She quickly turned around and began leading the rest to the hotel and upon arriving, they couldn't help but widen their eyes.

'So.. the massive building I saw from before was a hotel huh.. her family's hotel..' Michael began questioning life, how could someone be so rich?

The others had similar looks, with Elizabeth sharing the exact same expression as him.

Chloe walked through the front doors and was greeted by all of the attendants who were walking around the first floor.

'Damn.. we have a real big shot in our party..'

See, that's what you should aspire to do before you leave this world, get a lot of money.

Michael tilted his head 'Aren't you greedy..'

The system and he bantered for a bit while following an attendant who was leading him to the room where he would be staying for tonight.

Opening the door, a room the size of an entire floor greeted his eyes, he was getting the rich person treatment.

He waved at his party and went inside, lying down on the comfortable bed.

'I wonder how my stats are looking after the fight?' Michael wondered and called up his status

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Name: Michael

Age: 14 years old

Race: Human

Affinity: Light [Supreme]

Mana Purity: 14% -> 16%

Mana Core: Flow

Mana Core Rank: Tier 1 Sёarch* The NôvelFire.nёt website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

-:- 1% Progress to next Tier -:-

-Titles:

* Ruthless Combatant

# Raise all your stats by 1 Minor Rank when facing enemies at least 1 tier above you

* Being of Light

# Increase the effectiveness of your Light affinity based spells by 25%

* ???

-Stats

HP: 67/100% / Regen 5% HP Per Hour

MP: 11/100% / Regen 10% MP Per Hour

STR: Tier 1 [C+]

END: Tier 1 [B-]

AGI: Tier 1 [B] -> [B+]

INT: Tier 1 [B+] -> [A-]

CHA: Tier 1 [D+]

-Skills / [Skill Merging]

Herald of Light [Advanced] [Passive]

Eyes of The Healer [Intermediate] [Passive]

Hand to hand combat [Beginner] [Passive]

Discipline [Basic] [Passive]

Shooting mastery [Beginner] [Passive]

Purify [Intermediate] [Active]

Shield of Nourishment [Basic] [Active]

Physical Enhancement [Beginner] [Active]

Sword of Light [Basic] [Active]

Shield of Light [Basic] [Active]

Veil of Detection [Basic] [Active]

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'Hm.. decent improvement, it's time to combine some skills...'