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Chapter 8 - Eight

The hunter return to Baron Bafortha's mansion before getting dark, on the way back, the hunter meets Meina and Neina who are fully equipped with their new and improved weapons.

"Hey...How's your day?"

"I'm good, also look at us....our new equipment, how's that?"

"Looks Good, Then how much money you spent for this?"

"20 gold coins, amd we still have 25 golds for rent at the Inn, how about you?"

The hunter tells the two of them about the hunter's new job of digging up in-depth information about monsters, and they are surprised about the payment they will receive.

"No way....1 platinum coins for one small monster!"

"And we can get 30 platinum coins for huge monster!"

"Yeah, but I'm not sure you two wanna join me to research the monster, especially goblins"

Hearing goblins make them shiver.

"Sigh.... If you two don't want it's okay I won't force you two, and also I have a duty to look after you both, that's the promise I made with the priestess"

"Otherwise, we need gather some money to buy a house, we can't keep renting at the inn every day, I need 15 platinum coins to buy my dream house"

"That too expensive..."

"I know, also the equipment what you bought it seems like still low-middle rank, right?"

Meina and Neina were silent with the hunter's answer about their correct equipment, high-class equipment could touch 1 platinum coin. The hunter invited them both to return to the mansion to rest and then prepare their things to leave the mansion and look for a place to stay in the city. 

The next day, they left Bafortha's mansion and looked for an inn in the city and waited until they returned to the Adventurer Department to pick up their adventurer badges, while the hunter bought equipment useful for his research like crossbow, ink and pen, books and paper, binocular where it slighty expensive, and tent, also two of dagger.

"4 gold coins for all of these...but the problem is....I cannot write their words"

Yes, the hunter could read all the writings in this new world, but when he wanted to write a sentence, the hunter was confused about matching the writing he wanted to write with what he thought. Therefore, he went to the library to ask for help from one of the officers there to teach him about the writings in that world. For 6 days, the hunter often visited the library to study the writings in that world until the day when they had to receive the badge to go on an adventure came, the time spent studying the writings was still not enough.

Upon arriving at the Adventurer Department, Meina called out to the hunter.

"Hey hunter"

"What?"

"About your job, we'll join you...."

The hunter didn't react at all and just mumbled as if he agreed with Meina's decision. They entered and approaching the receptionist.

"Welcome"

Meina gave them a flyer as proof to get their badges, then the receptionist gave them 3 brown badge necklaces indicating that they were new adventurers. 

"Here, one for you" Meina gave one badge

"Uh..."

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"Uh, this mean we're officially a adventurer?"

"Yeah, and we're the lower rank of adventurer, there are 7 adventurer ranks here, the lowest is copper while the highest is Diamond"

"And my dreams and big sister's is become a Diamond adventurer, because they are the adventurers who saved us long ago"

"I see, then how we can get promoted?"

The receptionist explaining how they can get promoted is they have to do many quests available on the quest board and the available quests also adjust to the rank of the adventurers have, if the adventurer has completed many quests the same as their rank then they will be promoted, but they cannot immediately take a quest that is higher than their rank if they are new adventurers or newly promoted, but if the adventurer has just completed several quests according to their rank and takes the risk to take a higher quest and survives, then they will be immediately promoted 1 level in their rank. However, if there is another party that is higher who has a quest according to their rank and another party with a low rank joins the quest then the distribution of the results will be negotiated but the party with a small rank will not be promoted because they only take part in the quest.

"What about my job, I was asked by the guild master to research monsters, there is a possibility that we will meet one of them whose completion level is higher than ours but we managed to defeat them and survive safely?"

"You can negotiate it with the guild master if you can prove it, sir"

"I see, thank you very much"

Meina is looking for a quest that suits their rank, Neina and the hunter sit waiting for Meina to get today's quest.

"Hey, why you're asking her that?"

"I tried to think about the ironspike bear yesterday if we managed to bring the item from that monster, but yesterday the guild master didn't say that we could be promoted directly for bringing that item, in other words he tells us to start over again"

"It's okay, also we need more experience to before we got promoted, and we'd still copped when we got attack"

"By the way, Besides the two of you and the priestess, who else died at that time, were you in the same party?"

"No, me and big sis is a new adventurer, and we join the priestess's party where their rank was higher than ours, namely silver, 2 ranks higher than copper and 1 rank higher than iron, and the priestess was a silver rank at that time"

"Huuuuhhhh"

Meina came back to take 1 quest from us, the quest we received was to collect wild plants. A suitable quest for copper adventurer. The three of them went on a journey to the forest where the plant grew, then the hunter asked Meina what the plant looked like, she said that the plant was usually near a large tree, the hunter thought about the habitat of the plant growing. After walking around looking for a large tree that contained the plant they were looking for, they finally found it.

"Hunter, look! that's the plant we need, let's get it..."

"W-WAIT MEINA!"

"Huh?"

The hunter throwing a branch near the plant, and suddenly something hit the branch.

"What! what just happen"

"There's some monster over there"

What attacked earlier was the figure in the tree, a large chameleon that camouflaged itself with the tree trunk. And the trunk what the hunter throws dissolves when it hits the tongue. 

"That was Sour Chameleon, part of monster"

"That's great, my first job. You guys don't mind if you have to wait a long time for me to observe this monster"

"Yeah, we don't mind that"

The hunter prepared his things, then he tried to lure the chameleon away from his place but failed, he tried throwing some other objects to find out how far his attack was, then when he tried to wait for other animals to pass by, the chameleon only attacked insects, small animals like rabbits and birds he ignored, but the monster was not disturbed by loud noises like when Meina and Neina were training their weapons.

Until night time, where Meina and Neina were already asleep, but the hunter was still awake to observe the monster realizing that the chameleon did not move at all from the tree, he tried to throw stones and other objects but it did not react, thinking that the monster was resting. But he realized something that the monster was not alone, there was 1 more monster above it, another Sou Chameleon.

"Damn, Meina-Neina wake up"

"What's wrong?"

"We got some problem, look..."

Meina and Neina look at the top of the tree and they surprised there has 2 Sour Chameleons right now. And the one it's not sleeping and the eyes looking at Meina and Neina.

"That monster looking at us, hunter what should we do?"

"Get hide behind the tree"

When Meina and Neina hiding, the monster moved, but there was something strange as if it wanted to vomit something from its mouth, the hunter immediately told Meina and Neina to move away from the tree. The monster vomited something and the vomit made the tree that hit it get sour and destroyed, the hunter tried to shoot an arrow at its head and the arrow managed to penetrate its skin but strangely after being shot by the hunter the monster was still targeting Meina and Neina. Suddenly the monster jumped from the tree and approached the two of them, the hunter was surprised by the monster's behavior and immediately told Meina and Neina to scatter while the hunter took his dagger. The monster chased Neina while Meina tried to attract its attention by being bait.

The monster's focus shifted to Meina and chased after her, but when the hunter was right in front of him the monster ignored him and continued chasing Meina. The hunter told Neina to hand over the sword she had, then the hunter took the sword that Neina threw, the monster managed to corner Meina but the monster did not attack directly when Meina was cornered, until the monster vomited again towards Meina but she managed to avoid it but Meina was hit by a little of his vomit. Lying helplessly, the monster approached Meina slowly, but the hunter immediately stabbed his sword into the chameleon monster's head.

STAB

"Are you okay, Meina?"

"Y-Yeah..I'm okay, but I got a little bit of the vomit on me earlier on my feet"

The hunter immediately took off Meina's shoes and took water and poured it on Meina's feet that were covered in vomit. Neina, who was worried, immediately helped the hunter to provide first aid.

"Take a rest, big sis. Let us take care of the rest"

"Yes...be careful"

The hunter take his crossbow and shot the monster left at the body and the monster wake up from his sleep, and the focus was on the hunter alone, even though Neina was next to him. The monster was more aggressive than before, he even vomited something towards the hunter more often, even jumping from tree to tree, until there was a moment where the hunter threw his dagger right at the chameleon's head but the dagger that was thrown was eaten by it but the monster was fine. Neina had tried to throw some arrows at the monster and hit the monster's back, but her focus was still on the hunter, when the monsters chased each other for quite a while the monster lay down and stopped moving. Feeling that the monster was dead, the hunter made sure by hitting the monster's head hard, and there was no reaction from the monster.

"Thank you for the support, Neina"

"Glad you safe....huft I'm tired"

The hunter examine the corpse of monster, meanwhile Meina and Neina take the plant from the tree.

"Is this enough for the quest later, Neina?"

"I think we still collect another again, Big Sis"

"Then we'll continue again tomorrow, You guys can go to sleep first, I still have to check on this monster"

Instead of sleeping, they both helped the hunter to check the monster's corpse, all night they checked and wrote down whatever information they could and wrote down whatever they saw and experienced during the hunt later.

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The morning, Meina and Neina woke up to make a breakfast when the hunter still sleeping. While Meina making a breakfast, Neina trying to wake up the hunter but he didn't wake up at all, feel the hunter didn't waking up from the sleep, Neina opens her top lift up the hunter's body and bring his mouth into her left nipple. Then the hunter sucking Neina's breast and gulping her breastmilk.

"Mmmmhhh...he sure know I will breastfeed him"

"I don't understand what kind of instinct he has"

When breakfast was ready, Meina called them both and the hunter woke up from his sleep and took his mouth off from Neina's breasts. Neina put on her clothes and bring the hunter to breakfast. After eating, they prepared to travel again to look for plants according to the quest they were on. until the hunter managed to find one of the small hedgehog-shaped monsters that attacked them and managed to defeat it and return to collect the wild plants.

When they felt they had enough, they returned to the city to report and bring the body parts of the monsters they defeated. Return to the Adventurer Department, report to the receptionist, receive the reward for the quest, then Meina and Neina wait for the hunter in the lobby to report to the guild master.

"Behold the Sour Chameleon, master. One of the monster, and Fire Hedgehog"

"Incredible, then about the information?"

The hunter gave the guild master's stacks of paper about the information the monster of Sour Chameleon and Fire Hedgehog. The guild master amazed what the hunter writes it.

"Are you sure you write all this, Mr.Hunter?"

"Of course, the Sour Chameleon almost eat us last night, but we can take care the hedgehog easily but the fire make us be careful, about how the can make a fire...did you know how it works?"

"Yeah, about the Fire Hedgehog, when you kill it you can fine an item like stone inside their body, ot called magic stone, and each color represents an element they can use, you should get it, right?"

The hunter offer the red magic stone.

"Yes, this is what I mean"

"They appear in great numbers, and the stone is always in the same place at their heads"

After considering the results to be obtained, the guild master offers the hunter 6 platinum coins and 6 gold coins. The hunter takes his prized and leave the room.

"GuildMaster, are you sure you gave him 6 platinum coins?"

"Yeah... I have received reports of many adventurers being indirectly attacked by Sour Chameleon while they were sleeping, but he managed to protect his party from the threat and obtained very useful data for us"

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