The Hunter System
Chapter 17 - Call From the Association
After laying Vina in her room, Alvin prepared dinner and tried to wake Vina up. However, because the sleeping pills Shiva gave him were too excessive, Vina was still too difficult to be fully aware that Alvin had to feed him porridge for dinner.
Alvin was with Vina until morning. After he saw that Vina looked fine, he went back to his own room to check on the subquest he got after beating up Brondy and his herd last night.
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“Adding friendships? What is this?”
[“You can add friendships to the people around you. It would be very useful for you if you wanted to find their whereabouts like when you were looking for your brother's whereabouts earlier. The distance of the friendship map was also not limited like the distance of the Dungeon map. You can find out where they are wherever they are."]
Alvin nodded slowly. Inside the friendship map, he saw a blurry green dot located not far from him. He knew it must be Vina's location. After reading the guide below the map, Alvin finally touched the opaque green dot and the color turned bright green after he did so.
'I'll add dad later too.'
"Is that all it does?"
[“Yes."]
Alvin was a little disappointed when he found out.
["The friendship system is pretty good and will be useful when you want to find your partner in the Dungeon later.”]
“But, didn't you say that I would go to the Dungeon alone?”
[“Tsk... Don't you need a minimum of 20 hunters in the team if you want to raid a Dungeon this time?”]
“I need to do a raid in the Dungeon of this era as well?”
[“Of course. That's what I came from the future for. I will help you to hunt down all the monsters that are in the Dungeon today. Tsk.... indeed in what age do you live?”]
“…”
While Alvin was still talking to the System while checking his status window, a call from an unknown number appeared on his phone screen.
"Who else is this?"
Although somewhat suspicious and thought it might be a call from the Lewis Association or family, Alvin eventually accepted the call.
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“Ya?”
《"Is this Mr Rufino?"》
'Well, this is the guy from the Association, right?'
From his formal way of speaking, Alvin can guess where the call came from. All he was confused about was, where the Association got his phone number when he had replaced it when buying a new phone.
Alvin snorted harshly before answering the question.
“Yes. I'm Alvin Rufino." Alvin said in a lazy voice.
In the past, he would definitely get excited when the Association contacted him, because only from there could he get a job.
《”Are you okay if you participate in a raid that the Association will do 3 more days?”》
“I actually have a busy life and can't keep up with it yet.”
《”Sorry, but this is an important raid, Mr. Rufino. We hope you really consider it. We sincerely hope you can join the raid.”》 team
‘They are asking me to consider or force subtly?’
《"Mr Rufino?"》
“Who is the captain of his team?”
”Nona Lewis. Miranda Lewis.”
Alvin let out a long sigh when he heard the name of Brondy's sister mentioned as his team leader. He almost laughed when he found out.
‘For sure. This time they intend to eliminate me, right?'
Although Alvin knew there would be another rotten plan behind it, he still wanted to accept the offer. “You said when was the schedule?”
《”Three days from now, mr.”》
When the caller said it, Alvin could feel that he was waiting anxiously for an answer just from the vibration of his breath.
Alvin can guess, of course the caller was threatened so that he could persuade Alvin to participate in the raid, or he might be doomed.
‘Three days. I hope I will get the Dungeon quest to raise my level again before raid time.’
Ring…
Alvin speechless.
‘How can his main quest appear when I just think about it?”
《”Tuan Rufino?”》
With a wide grin, Alvin finally responded to the raid call. “I'll take it.”
After Alvin informed him of his willingness, he could feel the excitement of being restrained from the caller, before they finally ended the call.
“She was really forced under threat, right? The Lewis family is a real jerk!”
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In another location, inside the special treatment room of Hunter Hospital.
"Miss Lewis, she responded" whispered a man in a black suit to his employer who was staring at Brondy Lewis from outside a special care room.
Brondy who just 2 hours ago was discovered by the Association hunters in a state of unconsciousness in an old building, still getting special care from a Healer.
Miranda Lewis looked at the man with a sharp look. His expression was very dark after finding out his sister had just been harmed by a hunter in the middle of nowhere.
"Find a Dungeon D rank. We're gonna kill him there."
"Yes, miss."
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“System, did you give that quest?”
[“All quests are from Rimi.”]
“Rimi?” Alvin seemed to have heard the name, but he also felt he had never known a person named Rimi.
[“Rimi is an Intelligence System that always gives you notifications.”]
“Ah...” Alvin finally remembered, Hunter System used to mention that name, “So, do you also have a name?”
["You can call me System."]
"Bright..."
"alright... Oh yeah, are you two separate Systems?"]
["Yes. The work we do is separate. But we become a unity in your body."]
"Can't Rimi speak freely like you?"
["No. Only I have a free mind. Rimi will only tell you if there are important things you can or should do. I will serve as a guide for you so that you can take advantage of all the things Rimi gives you to become a good hunter. Simply put, Rimi is the provider of the means for you to thrive. I'm the System that will help you utilize those means."]
"So so..," Alvin nodded his head slowly, understanding what the System meant.
["If you want to take the main quest, you better finish your daily queat first."]
"certain. But before, there's something I want to ask."
["What is that?"]
Alvin shut up for a second. Recalling what he thought yesterday while cooking dinner for Vina.
"Are you always going to make weapons and armor for me when I get the materials in the Dungeon?"
["Yes."]
"Then..," Alvin was silent for a moment. What he wanted to ask was actually a bit embarrassing to him.
["What do you want to ask?"]
"Look. Will I be able to sell weapons and armors that I no longer use?"
["Sure. You can destroy or sell all the items you don't need. And again, you only have ten drawers of storage."]
Alvin recalled the 10 boxes that were inside his inventory window. It was similar to what was normally in a game.
"Will that storage space increase as I rise to a certain level?"
["No. Why have an excess storage space? You're just gonna pile up trash in the system. Save what is necessary, then destroy or sell what is not needed."]
"so."
["I've made 30 armors and 30 swords from horde materials. You can take it in the inventory window and sell it."]
"REally?!" Alvin jumped out of his bed while listening to that.
["Tsk. You should thank me."]
"... Thank ye. You're kind."
["Yes."]
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Enthusiastically, Alvin took out all of the raid gear through the inventory window, then marketed it online through an unofficial trading site that was not managed by the Association.
In just half an hour, the 60 items were sold out. The very high status of the item for the size of the cheap selling price that Alvin offered, made all those items a scramble.
"Crazy! I earned 300,000 dollars in just 30 minutes?!"
["Tsk.., quickly complete your daily quest and go to the Dungeon."]
"Y-yes. I'll do it after packing all these items."
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As Alvin wanted to complete the jogging quest that became his last task in the daily quest, he met a grim-looking Vina sitting at the side of the dining table.
"You okay? Did they hurt you?"
"I'm fine" said Vina who then forced her smile.
"Thank God."
The atmosphere in the room was silent again in a few moments.
"Hey.., you know, I thought you were a very weak hunter like the news that was circulating around me." Vina suddenly said.
"What's? You hear about birds like that?"
"I'm glad to know it turned out to be a lie."
"Huh?"
"I realized when you beat up those people."
"Ah, b-so..," Alvin blushed as well as being proud of himself.
["Tsk.., your face is so disgusting."]
"Shut up!"
"Yes?" Vina was shocked when Alvin suddenly cursed at the empty air before her.
"No. I didn't talk to you just now..."
"Hmmm...?"
"..."
"Next time be careful, ok? Being strong is dangerous too. There are many people who will envy you and try to harm you."
"I-I understand."
"You want to practice again?" asked Vina while paying attention to the clothes that her sister used to wear when she was going to practice at the Academy.
"Yes." Yeah."
"Spirit, ok? You should be able to protect your brother and father. We can't continue to rely on the Maxwell family to protect us from your enemies."
Alvin speechless.
'Did he really know that the youngest son of the Lewis family always bullied me?'
"Yes. Don't worry" said Alvin before he left their home.
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After completing the final task of his daily quest, Alvin finally went towards the location of his Dungeon quest gate.
Very different from the Dungeon he had previously conquered, Alvin was very difficult to face his second Dungeon quest.
He even almost died many times when fighting with monsters in Dungeon rank C until he took 3 days time in the human world until finally able to conquer Dungeon.
However, Alvin's efforts there gave him a lot of results. In addition to obtaining a lot of materials to forge raid equipment of good quality, he also obtained a good item.
In addition, his rank had immediately risen by several levels until he was now at level 44.
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