Chapter 16:
Issei - What's wrong? Is there any problem?
Issei couldn't help become confused because of her reaction.
Luna - N-No!
Luna shakes her head hastily.
Luna - Its just that your Ability Value was really too astonishing! The values of various status parameters by far have surpassed the average value! Its even more outstanding than a First Class Adventurer!
Immediately after her outburst, every person inside the guild look towards Issei, and they couldn't help become doubtful if that is true.
Luna - Every single of your status parameter is off the chart! Be it Strength, Agility, Intelligence, Magic Power and even Luck has surpassed the standard value!
But Luna don't see any surprised appearance from Issei and she couldn't help become speechless, like its all normal for him.
And she remembered she just said his status out loud inside the guild.
She become embarrassed and feeling awkward because she just basically told his secret.
Just when she about to apologize, Issei said
Issei - Its ok, since you have said that many then don't mind it anymore. What's done is done, I won't blame you.
She couldn't help lowered her head down in embarrassment for what she did.
She continued inform Issei while lowering her voice this time.
Luna - But for some reason your class is '???' I never seen any case like this before... Usually its a 'Novice' class for a beginner adventurer. (I don't know if its true in the original konosuba so I just use Ragnarok job setting)
Well Issei isn't too surprised hearing that because he is basically isn't normal human, its no wonder the card can't register his class.
Its not like the crystal ball can register his class as 'True Red Dragon King of Domination' now can it? He knows there's a Dragon in this world but from the information he gathered so far, the strongest being is the so called 'Goddess' and Demon Lord.
And he don't feel any threat from the aura he felt around him so far.
Luna thought he become downhearted knowing he doesn't have a class so she hastily says
Luna - It-Its okay! Even if you don't have any class just from your status parameters alone you could easily become an outstanding adventurer, I can guarantee it!
Issei couldn't help chuckle a little at her effort on reassuring him.
Issei - Thanks for your care, but I don't mind it. Like you said even without a class I can easily become top adventurer no?
He says that while giving her a small smile.
Luna heart couldn't help skip a bit when she saw his smile and his soothing voice, her face went red after that.
Even though she can't clearly see his face but from his voice and the outline of his face alone she could tell he's quite the handsome guy.
Luna - U-un...
She mutters lowly while looking down.
Issei - Anyway. Could you finish my registration as an adventurer?
Luna- Ah! Ha-Hai!
She hurriedly finish the process and give Issei his <Adventurer Card>
After that Issei became an adventurer.
And the legend of the strongest Adventurer in history begins from here.
Issei check his <Adventurer Card>.
Issei - Hmm, Level 1 huh... And as for the status parameter... I don't know the average parameter of the other adventurers are, but I guess from the reaction of the receptionist its very high. Oh well, not that really matters.(I don't know the numbers in konosuba power level so i just made it vague)
But I wonder if I <Level Up>. Can it make me even stronger? Well only one way to find out.
Then Issei head towards the request board. The adventurer who were standing in front of the board gives way for him because they don't know if what Luna said was true or not.
But they not gonna test it out like some idiot. There's nothing to gain by testing it out anyway, they ain't gonna follow some certain template.
But of course there's always an exception for everything
??? - Oy you newbie over there!
Issei looked towards who call him, and he saw a young man with a slender body, blonde hair, and a black mole under his left eye. His outfit consists of a neck choker, a red track jacket with a cuffed sleeves, bandaged forearms, brown pants with tucked socks.
??? - Yes! You! Now I see you have some cash on your bag? Now as your senior I want you to pay some newbie fee for me! You better comply or I woul-
Before he finishes his words he got blown away by Issei punch, and he went crashed against some tables and chairs.
Thankfully Issei held back or he will become a meat putty by now, but even then he have few broken ribs and there's foams coming out of his mouth. And he's already lost consciousness long before he crashed against the tables.
And the one near that tables get away hastily and just when they gonna complain at Issei. They saw him glaring at them with a glowing red eyes, and that scared the sh*t out of them and they choose to vent their frustrations to the guy who got blown away.
MOBS - OY WAKE UP YA PRICK! / DON'T YOU DARE PRETENDING TO PASS OUT / YEAH! PAY FOR OUR LOSSES!
They keep kicking the poor guy and shaking him around, even though they know he REALLY passed out already they don't want to mess around with the one who did this to him.
They can only give silent prayers to the guy and pretend to kicking and punch him around. They know this guy well and they know when he's pretending or not, but at this moment they know for sure he's not pretending at all.
Poor bastard... That's what on their mind at this moment while looking at him.
Issei just snorted at them and went to look at the quest board:
1. Crusades against a Giant Frog: Crusades against five Giant Frog in three days, the reward is 100,000 Eris.
2. Crusades against Goblin: Crusade against goblins that nesting around the clearing of the forest, the reward is 5.000 Eris for each goblin killed.
3. Crusades against a Cockatrice: Crusade against a cockatrice that are found roaming around near the western forest of Axel. The reward is 300.000 Eris
4. Crusades against a pack of White Direwolf: Crusades against a pack of White Direwolf along with its pack. The reward is 1 Million Eris and 50.000 for each white wolf killed.
ETC.
So Issei look for the hardest quest he can find and took it to the counter.
When Luna saw what Issei choose as his 1st quest, she couldn't help become stupefied because the Quest is to kill a <Poisonous Wyvern> and the reward for it is 2 Million Eris if he could repel it, and 15 Million Eris if he could kill it.
Luna - <Poisonous Wyvern> Subjugation?! This Quest is too hard for a beginner please consider it. Even if the reward is big but the difficulty is too hard especially for a beginner!
Luna tried to prevent Issei but he calmly replies.
Issei - No need. This Quest is fine enough.
Luna - Bu-But...
Issei - No buts. Don't you remember my status parameters?
Luna became at loss for words at that.
Issei - Don't worry. I will be fine.
Issei once more gave her another calm smile and her heart skipped another beat and finally she relent to it with a "En...".
But she add a small voice at the end when she saw him turn around.
Luna - Be-be careful out there...
She says that with a red face, and the guys who saw that couldn't help become jealous because this is the first time for them seeing her this bashful against another guy. And there's a lot of them here are aiming for her, so they became envious and angry at Issei.
Issei just calmly gave her a small nod.
After Issei got to the destination he saw a purplish colored wyvern on top of a cliff and when the wyvern saw him, at first it growl at him because its feeling angry there's someone dare to trespass to its territory.
But when it feels his 'Aura' it become frozen in fear, because it can feel he's strong as fck!
It can tell this 'human' isn't a human at all. But a Dragon in a 'human' skin.
Just when it about to fly away Issei suddenly disappear from his previous spot and reappear behind the wyvern.
And the wyvern can only helplessly see its death coming.
Issei kicked the wyvern head just with a tap but the wyvern fall down and its dead, there's no wound can be seen from the spot where Issei's kick landed.
Its the Ougi he learnt from his shishou, he just need to land a small hit and the skill will take effect whenever he want to. The Ougi turned the wyvern heart into a mush inside its body.
Even though he still isn't fully master it, but to kill a weakling such as this wyvern. Its more than enough.
Then there's a particle of light from the wyvern body and it went straight to Issei <Adventurer Card>.
<Level Up!> <Level Up!> <Level Up!> <Level Up!> <Level Up!>
(I don't know how in konosuba when they level up so i just made it up)
There's a series of <Level Up!> sound cue from his card. He only level up 5 times after killing the wyvern, even though it supposed to give more exp than that but it can't be helped because he's a special case.
But Issei just thought that its normal.
Then Issei head towards the city after that.
-At the Guild-
Luna - What?! You're done already!? B-But you've only gone for about 1 hour...
Luna couldn't help become flabbergasted, because it only took him about an hour to finish it.
Then she hurriedly check his <Adventurer Card> because she could tell if he's lying or not just from the 'Experience' stored inside his card.
Luna - I-Its true...
Luna vision changed to Issei and her face was in awe after confirming it.
Luna - A Level 1 who can subjugate a <Poisonous Wyvern>. That needs a party of B class at the very least to take it down, and it only took you 1 hour at that...
Unknown to her he can be faster if he could find the wyvern location earlier.
Luna - If you have the materials from the wyvern, the guild will gladly buy it off from you. If you wanted to sell them that is. Be it its scales, gall bladder, meat, etc. Every part of its body can be used for either alchemy, food, and even to create an armor or weapon. And the value is quite high.
But Issei of course doesn't bother gather the materials off the wyvern, he's too bothered to gather them like that. So he's planning to buy a storage ring for next time. So he told her no, because he doesn't want to gather anymore attention by saying he left it back there.
Luna - I see. Then congratulations for completing the Quest, Adventurer Issei Hyoudou-san.
Then she gave Issei the reward for the quest. And Issei asked her if she sells any storage ring over here, and she says yes.
So he bought one at the price 12 million Eris.
After he received the storage ring he proceeded to ask her
Issei - How can I learn the skills after I got my skill points?
Luna - Well... usually there's a skill tree that shows up at the card but it seems because you don't have a class... It doesn't show up... So the only way for you to learn skills is to study it from other adventurers just like a <Novice> class probably?
But you can only learn the skills that are compatible with you. If its not compatible then you can't learn it no matter what, but considering your status parameters. I doubt you will have difficulties learning new skills.
Then Issei get the general idea of it, so he looked around the guild and says "Who want to teach me some skills? I will pay you for it" He jiggles the money bag that contains 3 Million Eris at them.
And all the adventurer eyes inside the guild lit up by seeing that.
-At night-
Well Issei became disappointed because most of the skills they possess is useless for him. Such as <One-handed sword>, <Two-handed sword>, <Dagger Mastery>, etc.
Because he already posses the <Eternal Arms Mastery> skill from his shishou, because it enables him to use any weapon proficiently already at an expert level.
Other <Weapon Mastery> types become useless for him.
Well he learn some basic skills such as <Enemy Detection>, <Stealth> , <Physical Reinforcement>, etc.
He doesn't learn any supporting skill such as <Healing> because he can't, probably because of his <Life and Death> skills interfering. Not that he need one in the first place because he can just regenerate from his wounds as long he have enough mana.
And he can regenerate mana just by absorbing some Life Force around him.
He doesn't bother learning skills such as <Steal> , <Lockpicking> , <Hawk Eye>, etc.
Because he don't need to steal stuff, nor lockpicking stuff. He can just bust door opens with his bare hands and why would he bother stealing from people? As for Hawk eye he already have the best eyesight from his Dragon eye.
As for magic there isn't any capable mage/wizard presence at the guild just now so there's no one that can teach him about it.
Even though he learnt magic from Semiramis but she can only teach magic that related with his <Life and Death> skills, the most basic he learn is the <Clean> one where he can remove any stains.
Probably because she's a girl that likes to be clean hence the only basic magic she can teach him is that.
She doesn't even know basic <Fireball> skill, not that he blames her for that because she has her Life and Death Magic related stuff. And she sure loves to use poison, she tries to teach him that but he just doesn't cut it.
But he do gain <Poison Resistance> from trying to learn her poison skills though.
Issei - Well at least there's some new skills I got. Better than none I guess... Well let's do some more quest tomorrow.
Issei become quite the workaholic after this, even though Semiramis and Scathach told him to relax. But he just couldn't help it knowing he can get even more strength just from leveling up.
Then Issei finds an Inn to spend the night.