"Are you saying I can't take these missions because I'm not a high enough rank?"
Alex asked the receptionist just to confirm what he was hearing.
"Yes. Please apply for a rank assessment if you wish to upgrade your licence!"
The receptionist was very professional, maintaining her positive attitude the whole time through the process.
"How long would that take?"
Naturally, as always, the first thing Alex was concerned about when it came to this was time.
He and Mira didn't want to spend more time in the Primordial Expanse than they had to.
"The current wait time is 7 days, is there anything else I can help you with sir?"
Alex was clearly taking up some of the receptionist's precious time as their conversation continued though, as she tried to usher him along to finish the conversation so she could move on to the next customer.
Her performance review was coming up and she would naturally be flagged for review if people like Alex dragged down her numbers because they held up the line!
"One more question, I can't accept these missions obviously, but I can still freely browse them?"
Alex wasn't bothered about what sort of inconveniences he was causing for the receptionist, all he cared about was this one last question getting answered.
"Yes. Next please!"
She answered his question quickly and ushered the next adventurer standing in line over before she gave Alex the chance to ask anything else.
"What do we do?"
Mira asked Alex, at a bit of a loss.
They couldn't accept missions because of Alex's low rank, and her lack of any rank at all since she wasn't an adventurer.
But worst of all, it would be at least 7 days before they would have the chance to upgrade their ranks!
Mira could do it right then and there, but that would mean nothing if Alex would still be stuck as an F tier adventurer!
Other Variant class missions were either 50,000 kilometres away with only one beast being guaranteed, or one that didn't fit her requirements.
So far, this mission only 1000 kilometres away from the city was their best bet.
***
"Puha, did you see those kids looking at the Extreme danger level section of Variant class missions!"
A voice drilled through the air, its tone clearly condescending and the masculine edge to it clearly belonging to a man.
"Looks like we got some more suicidal adventurers!"
"Yeah haha!"
"What idiots!"
More voices joined in the ridicule and sarcasm from all around the mission hall, all wanting to witness the massacre that would happen in the north west forest.
But alas, none of them were strong enough to even dare step foot in that area, let alone challenged the beasts that roamed there.
***
"Looks like we're nearly there!"
Mira called from the side, her voice carrying across her eagerness for battle quite clearly.
It took them nearly an hour to clear the city streets and exit through the city gate on the north west side of the city.
The dense traffic and bustling streets made it so they had to move at a drastically slower speed than they were used to.
But they made it through the gates quite easily because of their VIP passes.
And when they were finally outside, they could let loose all they liked without worrying about injuring some random passer by!
Compared to traversing across 300 kilometres of the city in an hour to exit it, they made it to the designated area 1000 kilometres away in less than 20 minutes thanks to their increased speed.
Although it wasn't any record breaking speeds for Alex, it was for Mira!