We quickly make our way towards the downtown area of the small town of Billando, hoping to get this done quickly. It only takes us a few minutes to locate the place, there are a bunch of thugs standing outside of a warehouse.
They also seem to be sampling their own stash, because all of them are fidgeting like they have ants in their pants. soon as we get in viewing distance, they start shouting and wolf whistling.
"Oi Oi, ladies, ditch the wimp and get some real meat. I can guarantee satisfaction and then a quick death!" One of them shouts.
I'm seriously unimpressed, and neither is Rem, as she makes her extendable flail appear, and then sends it's mace-head flying straight into his face, and he goes flying through the main warehouse door. The un-named savage retard squeals like a dying pig for like 3 seconds, complete with gurgling and choking noises, and then goes still, Rem just retracts the connected chain and her flail returns to looking like a normal flail with a short chain attached to a mace head connected to a long handle.
Ram takes out her short swords, not bothering to activate her wind aura.
We still need the leader's thumb after-all, wouldn't want to turn him entirely into meat-paste.
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after an entirely too easy slaughter of people who literally have no self-preservation instinct, seriously, none of them even tried to run, we decided to check the back room, to find a man cowering under a desk, not even trying to escape.
"Spare me!" he shouts.
Rem smiles at him, and puts her hands together cutely.
with a happy smile, she says. "Not on your worthless, insignificant life!" in a cheerful tone.
Ram proceeds to slit his throat, and then cut off his thumb.
He gurgles and then dies...
God, I love stress-defense. I'd probably have vomited up my entire stomach and died crying if I were to kill people without it, let alone 4 dozen bandits.
At least the company was good for something.
neither Emelia or I had to do anything at all.
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We return to the guild, thumb in a pouch. we hand the receptionist the posting, and then her eyes bulge out, she curses, and hands us some paperwork. we fill it out, but then we have a nervous sorting clerk coming over to bow to us in apology.
"With the number of Bandits in that warehouse, the quest was mislabled as obsidian. It was supposed to be bronze. I'm sorry I put you four in danger!"
We all deadpan at him.
"That quest was easy though." I say, not dropping my deadpan for even a moment.
The receptionists eyebrow twitches, she hands us 3 small gold and 24 large silvers and 99 small silvers and 100 copper. She then hands each of us a copper plate.
I strap the copper-plate over my neck where the old paper one was.
and says. "Here's your payment. It's split in the standard form, if you want more change then the money desk is over there." She points to another desk with a symbol that looks like an infinity mixed with a hashtag through it. I shrug, thinking that's the symbol for currency.
I frown as my perception then turns it into a dollar sign, and then a yen symbol.
with an effort of will, it turns back into the weird infinity hashtag thing.
I then look at the signs in the area, and they turn from Japanese to English to Japanese again and then to whatever gobblygook they use for a language in this world.
How did I not notice the company gave me auto-translation software for my brain?
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We quickly end up in a really fancy inn. we spend 3 large silvers each for a room each. All of them side-by-side with a bath. I then notice this place is literally built for a king. What the hell kind of buying power does this currency even have?!
I feel like I just spent 3 grand on a room, and I probably did.
I then notice that there's a mini-bar with alcohol and snacks. I look at the over-priced sandwiches and see that what would probably be a 5 dollar hotel snack is 50 copper. so that makes one copper 10 cents.
HOLY SHIT I DID JUST SPEND 3 GRAND ON A ROOM!
Being an adventurer pays big!!
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I use my ability to set my save point to right before I start cultivating.
I start to meditate and just think.
I need to start planning ahead. I've been flying by the seat of my pants ever since I got here. I also had several opportunities to farm for charges by dying over and over.
I completely wasted those chances.
Next time I'm in a life or death battle, I should save and let myself die a bunch of times and save up some charges for later. Not like I need to use them right away anyway. I could save up for some really cool powers like a top tier Alexandria package and then dump a bunch of points into it.
Or get a stupidly overpowered shaker or blaster ability. Hell I could get them all, as long as I'm willing to suffer a bit.
I slap my cheeks with both hands, and focus.
Time to cultivate my physique and Ki.
Tomorrow is our test to see if we can beat a mithril-rank adventurer. Maybe we can skip all the way to steel rank. they said that's the limit for skipping ranks.
I shrug, and then enter a cultivation trance.