MONOCHROME: Choice Of Destiny
Chapter 33 Becoming an Adventurer

We were all gathered in front of the gates of Lucifer's residence.

Everyone gathered here including the King and the queen and Lucas, they all came to us for our departure.

"Hurry back, we'll be waiting for you."

"It's true don't neglect the job for too long."

"When you're gone I'll train and get stronger!"

"This is your home now so come back whenever you want."

"I'll calm down if you're here to take care of my sister."

Everyone starts saying farewell words starting from Lucy, Ana, Asta, King and Queen and lastly Lucas.

"Thank you, then we're leaving."

"Ehh!? no words for me!?"

I ignored him and walked away, half-excited Zep coming behind me.

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We arrived at the adventurer district and headed straight for the Guild.

When entering as usual, the attention of all people was immediately directed to us.

"Ohh you've arrived! we've been waiting for you!"

Gido and his party greeted us.

"Ohh long time no see Gido."

"No need to talk, come with me."

I did not ask and just followed him to the upper floor, the Guild consisted of several floors and we headed to the upper floor and then entered a room.

There sat a beautiful woman with short brown hair.

"You've come, please sit."

The only ones in the room are Me, Zep, and Gido waiting outside.

There are 3 empty curtains as prepared before.

We all sat down and Gido opened his mouth.

"He was the Alviria guild master in the Empire's central Guild, simply put he was the supreme leader in the adventurer world."

"It's nice to see you guys, I heard that Gido wants to recommend you both so that I can give you special treatment so I want to meet you first. And I'm surprised it turns out you two are strong enough for a kid your age."

Although he said that he was surprised but there was no expression on his face there was only a flat and emotionless face.

"I've never given a stranger special treatment all this time but I heard that you're a Knight of my best friend's daughter so I'll give you an exception."

I didn't do anything and everything went very smoothly, is this the power of connection?

"But that doesn't mean you can pass without an exam so I'll give you some tests before making a decision."

With that we were given several tests and most of them were related to the Dungeon such as what items to bring, what to prepare before camping, what to do if you get into a trap and so on.

After that there was a test of fighting ability and we were able to pass it easily.

Normally we would start from Bronze but because of this we could go straight into the Gold rank which was equivalent to the Gido rank.

The adventurer ranks started from Bronze, Silver, Gold, Mithril, Diamond, and lastly Adamantium.

A normal person would usually only stop at Gold rank because if it wanted to rise to higher it required not just strength but achievements recognized by at least 3 branch master guilds, as well, and if you want to rise again, you need the recognition of the central master guild, Alviria, and finally if you want to rise to the highest rank, you must get the achievement and recognition of the 7 demon princes.

We are now once again gathered in Alviria's office.

"If not wrong rank Lucy is mithril, if a monster like her just ends there how strong is the person who is in the rank diamond or adamantium?"

"That was quite difficult because it was Lucy's special treatment, Do you believe me if I say she became an adventurer at 10 years old? and he was a solo adventurer meaning he was doing missions or exploring dungeons alone ever since. The boy requested that his rank remain in the bronze forever but because his achievements were too big to hide so inevitably I had to raise his rank little by little and end up in the mithril rank now, he said, if in achievement he was on par with a diamond level adventurer. To the question of how strong an adamantium level adventurer you can see the man called Lucifer now that he used to be one of the adamantium adventurers."

"Gulps."

I gulped not because of Lucy but about the fact that the strongest person in the Empire is an adamantium rank adventurer, so I had to ask her about the whereabouts of other strong people.

"Haha do not put on such a face because until now there were only 5 adamantium level adventurers namely Lucifer, I, and 3 others, as well as 3 others, since Lucifer and I are retired, it's only 3 now and just being able to meet them is already an amazing thing."

"Thank you for the story."

"No problem, Ohh! and accept this."

Alviria held out a small tablet like gadget.

"It's a status mirror, drop your blood or flow your mana into it and it will think of you as its owner and will display your current stats it also serves as an identifying mark so don't get lost."

We both tried it out and the numbers immediately popped into the screen.

Name: Takeda Ryutaro

Age: 25 years

Gender : Male

Basic statistics :

Stamina: 592

Speed: 829

Intelligence: 547

Physical strength: 648

Magic power: 912

Rank: Gold

So this is my statistic, I don't know what the world's standard is so I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing.

"Woahh! what the hell are these crazy stats!"

"Hmm pretty good."

"Zep is with you."

Name: Zephyr

Age: 25 years

Gender : Male

Basic statistics :

Stamina :861

Speed: 405

Intelligence: 484

Physical strength: 947

Magic power: 0

Rank: Gold

Her stats are arguably on par with mine but she has no magic power.

"As expected."

"What is the child of today? they're all monsters."

"My advice is not to be too proud of your strength because in this world there are many monsters that are much stronger than everyone imagines."

"I understand."

"Ohh and this take away this is your special right, as long as you carry this token you can go anywhere in the Empire without checking."

"It's gonna be a big help, thank you."

The two of us went down to the ground floor where all the adventurers gathered to drink or take missions.

"Are we going on a mission now?"

Zep asked excitedly.

"Not here, we'll go straight to the demon lord Leviathan's territory."

"Tch, it took me days to get there."

"Then you take the mission alone, I'll go first."

I walked without waiting for an answer and Zep kept following me.

I intended to rent a horse carriage but Zep held me back.

"Hey it's going to be a long journey so it's going to be very boring if we just focus on getting to the point."

"You know? I'm a blacksmith and I need materials for weapons so let's take a detour."

"If that's your excuse then fine."

"Yes! then let's go hunting wyverns!"

Finally we set out on foot because who would have thought that Zep intended to cross the mountains while hunting wyverns.

"Hay!"

I swung my sword and attacked the wyvern right around the neck.

Although it could not be beheaded because it was large enough but it was already deep enough to be a worrying wound.

And not long after that wyvern died.

Wyvern this time was quite weak when compared to that time because this time they could not regenerate and were always alone.

We kill quite a lot of wyverns in all kinds from Fire, earth, wind, water, plus light, and darkness which is quite rare.

I don't know why we have to kill so many wyverns just to make a weapon, I'm not a blacksmith so I don't know what so have no right to complain, I don't know what, anyways it's quite fun to be adventurous like this while fighting wyverns.

When killing wyverns we will take the scales, fangs, and the core because it is very suitable for weapons.

When we want to go to the next place.

"Groooaahh!!" roars sounded.

"Danger let's go."

Zep warned and we ran straight away because whatever it was, it must be a monster.

But before we ran far enough something fell from the sky.

"Boom!"

The ground was crushed and dust was flying where I could feel the ground shaking because of it.

When the dust disappeared there stood a wyvern with a height of 30 meters is very different from the previous wyvern which was only 10 meters high.

"Damn it, it looks like we got caught."

"A dragon!?"

Right, there was a giant black dragon staring at us.

"You dare enter and mess up my territory don't think you can get out of here alive!"

"Damn it!"

In this world there are several characteristics of dragons that make it very scary, namely absolute control over mana, absolute defense, and absolute orders.

If the dragon tells the man to die then the man will die but that does not mean there is no payment, if the dragon gave such an extreme order of death it would also overload its body so it was most often used to seal enemies as it did right now.

I can't run away now, it feels so strange but when I think about running off the mind is always changing so I can't think that way.

"Now we can only fight."

We both use unification and attack simultaneously.

In response to our attack the Dragon used its breath to attack us but Zep went straight ahead while swinging his spear to resist the dragon's attack.

The breath was split and we went straight ahead to attack him.

As always against a great enemy we will limit his movement by attacking his legs or wings.

I attacked the right leg and Zep attacked the left leg.

The dragon roared in pain, although it could not read the dragon's expression but I knew that he was quite surprised because we were both able to break through his absolute defense.

Less within.

The dragon swung its tail to attack us but because the tail was too long and big there was nowhere to go.

I tried to hold it with my sword but it blew me away.

"Kukkk!"

It felt like my bones were fractured because of the attack, though simple it was like a giant hammer that would destroy your body if it hit you directly.

We both continued to attack non-stop.

I don't know how long it's been but my attention is focused on the dragon so I can't think of anything else.

The dragon also already had many wounds on its body even though there were no injuries fatal enough to kill it.

"If we delay any longer we'll run out of steam first."

"You're right, there's something I want to try, can you help me?"

I don't know what he means but I'll just follow.

"Well, what am I supposed to do?"

"Hold the dragon alone for a while and wait for my aba."

"Give it to me."

I walked towards the Dragon then removed my armor and used the form of a vampire after a long time.

I realized that my hair was getting longer and my ears were also becoming more pointed and there was a transparent red wing behind me that more importantly strange magic was exploding from inside my body.

Usually the vampire form will only strengthen my physique but this time it feels like it will swallow my magic power.

My previously jet-black sword was now dyed by a blood pattern.

I tried to run towards the dragon but before I knew it I had already arrived behind the dragon.

The dragon swung its tail once more but this time I did not crash and remained standing in place with the tail of the dragon in my hand.

I was very surprised to be able to withstand the attack.

The dragon retracted its tail then launched a breath attack.

I broke through the attack and then gave a slash right in the chest.

His thick scales were cut off and blood exploded from there beyond what it should be.

"Haah haah."

I feel so tired now.

I'm so hungry, so thirsty, so sleepy.

The dragon wanted to fly but I raised my hand while imagining a spear.

And the instant around me came the red spear, it was strange because I just activated the dark spear.

I didn't care and shot the spear straight away.

It pierced through the dragon's wings and some stuck into its body and made it fall back to the ground.

When he wanted to attack again Zep shouted.

"Return as fast as you can!!"

I ran away without thinking and after that.

"TWOARR!"

a violent explosion appeared and created a gigantic mushroom-shaped smoke.

The ground shook violently until it felt like there would be a landslide in a moment.

The area that was hit by the explosion instantly disappeared and turned into a giant crater.

Not up there from the sky plunged a spear with high speed leads directly towards the crater before.

"TWOAR!"

until another explosion occurs.

"THEN!!"

Explosion after explosion continued until the tenth explosion stopped.

Everything that was in front of us was destroyed not left because of the explosion.

In the middle of the crater a black dragon lay limp while covered in wounds.

It's surprising that he's alive.

We approached the dragon, he looked at us then closed his eyes.

Even so I feel that she is crying right now.

The dragon held his head against the ground, I saw Zep and he closed his eyes.

I walked towards the dragon and raised my sword.

"Good bye."

I cut off his head, the dragon died.