Chapter 193: Welcome gift

Chapter 193: Welcome gift

Behold, my new house! It has two floors and a sizable garden that seems to be a rarity in the surrounding area. In the garden, there is well-taken care of trees, grass, and flowers. The house itself is made from wood and big grayish bricks and it's on a hill that overlooks the city, so the view is amazing, and the person who designed the house took that into consideration.

There are multiple large balconies and terraces that offer a comfortable view of the city while still allowing some privacy from the neighbors.

The street the house is on is made of cobblestones, and even the surrounding houses seem to be similarly well-designed.

So, yup, the house is mine and I don't care that Sophie used her mambo jumbo to get a better price for my bracelet that paid for all of it.

Maybe I can just train and experiment here while asking rent from Group 4 which seems to plan to play on the guild and go out for hunting. I won't only freeload but I will also make some money, which are mana stones here, and buy myself some good stuff.

Currently, I'm sitting on the large balcony of my room, and in my hands are papers Hadwin and Tess left for me, all with some basic information they were able to gather.

Most of the info is useless as I don't want to deal with this kind of stuff. As always, I will leave it to Haddy and Tess and if they need any help they can ask me anytime.The initial posting of this chapter occurred via N0v3l.B11n.

I'm like a parasite exploiting my extroverted group members who take care of boring stuff.

Good!

So yeah, there are guilds, there are houses that give quests to those guilds. Stuff like, "Kill twenty giant hedgehogs that started to block trading roads" or, "Bring me a live specimen of a giant ant."

Some of them pay much better than others and the payments sometimes are items, but most of the time they are Mana stones.

The stronger you are, the more dangerous quests you can take.

Exactly like in games, and that makes me curious. This kind of system isn't that bad, so did it come into existence naturally or is it something that the system set up for us, people from Earth? It could be both, and the system is also collaborating with these quests.

One piece of information that I found interesting is that the moment you accept a quest from the adventure guild, the system gives you the same quest and the reward is a few shards. The system, being as greedy as it is, doesn't offer that many shards, but it might change if they rank up and are able to take more dangerous quests.

Angry Kittens have a lot to do. I'm also amazed by what they were able to achieve in just 9 or so days. Sure, they had the cheat code called "a lot of money" and "mind-blender missy", but they were able to collect a lot of information.

Monsters around the city, maps, information on Calamities, details on the city and lynthari, some powerful individuals in the city, information about shops, auctions, blacksmiths, and enchanters. All this stuff. The amount of information is staggering and it all sounds so interesting.

From what I understood, the main difficulty of this floor, which makes it Hell difficulty, is to actually kill one of the Calamities.

How the heck do you kill millions of bus-sized ants? How do you kill the Fallen Hero which is creepy armor using the body of a Champion as a battery? How do you deal with a giant sentient tree that wiped out an entire capital?

Hell difficulty is different here. It's not an imminent danger, just finishing the task is extremely difficult. Plus, with my theory that you can spend an entire five years on a single floor if the floor quest allows it, it is nearly confirmed, and looking at the luxury and somewhat peaceful atmosphere of the city, this floor doesn't seem like that bad of a choice.

Obviously, I won't have that. If the rest of Group 4 really wants, they can stay here, but I will just take a few months to get my rapidly growing power under control, practice my skill, and then I will look to deal with one of the Calamities.

Hmm, the Fallen Hero seems like a good choice. And nope, it's not only because of the Valorplate. Damn, that's a cool name.

Instead of kick landing, at a dizzying speed, one of Biscuit's purple mana tentacles appears and hits the man, throwing him against the wall.

The man slides down and groans with pain. Biscuit then ignores him and continues to pass through the alley.

I carefully follow him, and when I get inside the alley, far behind Biscuit so he doesn't notice me, I stop in front of the man.

"Fuck, was that a shitty animal. Hey, you, stop looking around so creepily and help me," he says to me.

After looking at him for a moment I stomp on his shin, breaking his leg with an audible crack. The leg he tried to kick Biscuit with.

I ignore the man's painful cries and continue to follow the doggo.

After a few more minutes, Biscuit stops and looks around. When he doesn't see anyone close by, he starts hovering again. The corgi-shaped blimp slowly floats right up, and after what feels like a minute, Biscuit reaches the roof of one of the houses and continues his wobbly walk on the roof.

Where is he going?

It doesn't take long for me to get my answer: It's food, obviously.

Dang it, Biscuit.

The doggo reaches an older, big house that has a few smaller buildings nearby, and each of these small, barely room-sized buildings keeps spewing smoke from the chimney. Looking a bit longer, I identify them as smokehouses. Observing a bit more and watching people open and close them, I realize they are smoking deer meat.

Most likely, it's something similar to what I gave Biscuit, which made him pick me over Isabella's amazingly smelling, expensive-as-heck meat that I still want to try myself. But I've known Biscuit for a long time. His favorite snack seems to be deer meat, similar to the one we smoked on the first floor.

It's almost cute that the small animal prefers this kind of meat, most likely because of some fond memories from the first floor. It was at that moment he ate the meat of the deer monster that he started being different from a normal dog.

I watch as he spends a few more minutes floating toward one of the smokehouses. Biscuit then uses his mana arms to open it and grabs a few pieces of dried deer jerky with the same arms. The cute little doggo drools while doing so.

Then he creates another tiny mana arm that reaches into his clothes, the ones Isabella put on him, and pulls out a small piece of glass. It's similar to the mana stones they use as the currency here.

He must have seen people buying stuff with mana stones and wanted to do the same, not realizing that there's a big difference between a normal piece of glass and a mana stone.

Biscuit places the piece of glass in front of the smokehouse after closing it and then leaves the way he came.

I don't follow him this time and just take the longer way to get back to the house on the hill.

When I get back to my room, I find a few pieces of dried deer meat on the table next to my bed. Just from a glance, I realize it's more than half of the meat Biscuit was able to get today.

It's a sort of welcome gift, something that the doggo considers extremely precious, yet he still wanted to share with me.

For a long time, I just sit there and stare at it.