‘This is delicious..’ Michael exclaimed as he stuffed a whole slice of pizza inside his mouth, he had completely forgotten the taste of pizza.
The last time he ate one, was when he still lived in luxury and had a private chef all to himself.
However, he was not able to enjoy it for long as he could see his party approaching the Association building.
All the while he was close by, inside a restaurant, eating a cheese pizza.
Michael was sad to leave it there as he just started, but he didn’t want to leave a bad first impression.
‘Fuck.. why didn’t I buy it to go.. there’s also a massive line so I can’t really ask for them to put it in a box’ He sighed and picked up 2 slices, heading out to the Association building.
Over the course of the entire night, he found a grand total of 7 cats, earning him roughly 35 dollars, enough to buy 2 whole pizzas.
Even the receptionist was surprised since not many take those types of requests, however, there is always that one person who did.
He caught up to his party and saw Kevin looking at him with a frown “Where have you been?”
Michael ignored him and stuffed the last slice of pizza inside his mouth, watching as the receptionist walked closer to them.
“The one who put up the request has contacted you, he is in the room over there” The receptionist said and pointed towards a door located at the other side of the building.
Everyone nodded and walked towards the room, opening the door and seeing 2 people inside.
An elderly man and some young looking girl were in front of them, the man had a longsword on his back.
‘A swordsman.. He looks pretty old to still be fighting though’ Michael gazed at him up and down, no matter how he looked at it, this seemed a little strange.
Just as they were about to introduce themselves, the girl stood up and crossed her arms “How dare you be late?”
‘..A brat.’
“Do you think your payment will remain the same after this discourtesy?” She kept rambling on, scolding them as if they were a couple of hours late.
When in reality, they were here early.
Elizabeth’s brow twitched and she spoke up before anyone could stop her “What the fuck is your problem?”
‘Well… Shit’ Michael and Kevin facepalmed, while Chloe had her mouth wide open, seemingly shocked at how the entire situation was unfolding.
“You.. You!” The girl seemed shocked as well, backing away and gesturing for the man to stand up and draw his sword at them.
However, he just simply sighed and stood up, walking up to them “I am sorry about that, my name is Torin and she is Selene.. the one overseeing this escort request.”
Michael could see the apologetic expression clearly plastered on his face.
‘So the brat is our boss for now’ He couldn’t help but look around to see what the others were thinking, but they too had mixed expressions.
“I see, it’s a pleasure to meet you both” Michael decided to put on the Saint act like before, he even got a new white robe from one of the people whose cat he saved.
He no longer looked as shabby as before.
But his little act seemed to not work on Selene as a scowl appeared on her face, clearly expressing her displeasure with the 4 of them.
‘How can someone be like this? She was rude first?’ He thought for a moment when something popped up in his head.
The system once explained how most of the rich children were.. special and it seemed she was too.
Torin nodded at his attempt and began explaining the contents of the request since Selene refused to do it.
Long story short, they were just supposed to protect the truck at all costs as it contained some expensive materials that were being transported across a few villages.
Selene took up this mantle as a show of respect for her family, yet it seemed she was still too used to being treated like a princess.
And here was Elizabeth, constantly trying to piss her off.
Michael honestly found it funny but at the same time, he had hoped this girl wouldn’t take all these words to heart, he didn’t want to antagonize a rich family.
Even if he was considered decently strong, it was only in this world, if someone strong was exiled from another world and came here, Michael would be squashed like a bug.
Or so he thought, he hadn’t met any beings like that besides Fafnir and even then, he didn’t act anything like the noble dragon he portrayed himself to be.
There was Amanda too but he couldn’t quite gauge her strength, though he doubted she was stronger than Fafnir.
They quickly got the dealings finished and checked back in with the receptionist, confirming the start of the request.
“Michael, can you go calm her down?” Kevin turned to him with a helpless expression.
By her, he referred to Elizabeth who was still fighting with Selene, from the side, they looked like two good friends.
However, “For a rich girl, you sure are an idiot, didn’t your parents hire a private tutor for you or something?”
“You..” By now, Selene was speechless, she didn’t know how to deal with someone so vulgar.
“What’s wrong, are yo-”
“Stop already” Michael interjected between them, interrupting Elizabeth as she was probably going to continue hurling insults.
“Aren’t you a humble Saint?” She snickered and backed away, he was surprised it was that easy to get her to stop.
Turning to Selene, he noticed her eyes which were shaking as if she was about to cry.
Michael didn’t bother to appease her, she would get over it anyway.
They eventually arrived in front of a truck that looked the same as the ones from his previous world, the key difference was that it looked slightly longer than he remembered.
As they approached the front of the truck, they saw extra side doors, like those of a fire truck.
“You guys get in there, we will be in the very front” Torin opened the doors for them and gestured to get in.
And after everyone was finally seated, the truck started moving.
The destination was some kind of a village that had similar architecture to the one they just left.
Michael was silent, trying to observe Torin as he appeared to have let his guard down completely.
From what he managed to find out, he was around level 60, not exactly the highest of levels for someone that age.
‘Hey system, can you tell me what is the highest Tier someone has reached in this world?’ Michael questioned, he was going to be sitting idly by for the next 6 hours at the very least, better to have a conversation with someone.
Not sure, probably the very peak of Tier 2, the amount of mana needed does not exist in this world, meaning you can’t exactly Tier up unless you travel to another world.
‘Then what about the monsters? Do they also follow the same rule of Tiers?’
In this world, you will only find monsters that have Mana Cores once you go to the Daor continent, until then, most will be fairly high leveled, but nothing you can’t handle.
‘I see.. well, that’s something at least.. though the monster I saw in the collapsed dungeon was definitely one with a Mana Core, right?’ He thought back to the time he was inside a dungeon with Shingen.
Yes, both him and the wolf boss monster had Mana Cores, they weren’t extremely strong though, probably around the peak of Tier 1?
‘So not much stronger than the current me then?’
They are stronger but you are quite versatile, if you have all of your mana, you might even be able to take one of them down, though don’t get too overconfident.
‘Sure sure’ Michael nodded to himself, seeing his party either on their phones or asleep, well it was mostly Chloe who was asleep all the time, the others not so much.
He chuckled and closed his eyes as well, his fatigue finally catching up to him.
‘Wake me up if you feel anything strange.’
I am not your alarm clock.
