Hunter License

After eating, Bogart and Lu Ciel went out of the training room to visit the Tank Department of the Hunter Guild. They passed by the reception area however, Mi Chell was busy accommodating the hunters that would approach her desk for inquiries and other miscellaneous things hence, they decided not to interrupt in her work just to say hello and just passed by heading towards the hallway going to the Tank Department.

Seeing the figures of Lu Ciel and Bogart, Mi Chell can't but grit her teeth as she bit her lips, feeling angered and disappointed.

As the two arrived in the Tank Department, Bogart saw that there's a receptionist here as well. The receptionist was a buffed woman to the point that her muscles were as big as his yet more toned as the cuts were like chiseled greek statue. He can't help but be amazed and ashamed at the same as she approached the female receptionist to inquire. "H-hello. I'd like to know how to get a hunter license for Tank class?"

Seeing that a half-dwarf half-human asking about becoming a Tanker, the female receptionist looked at his accompany. He was a human yet he can feel that this human is a hunter of Mage class. With that, she looked at Bogart from head to toe then toe to head, concluding that this is the person that wants to be a Tanker.

Sometimes, you can see that a dwarf would become a Tanker yet no human would want to become one as well. This is due to the unique constitution of each races. Having met a half-dwarf half-human wanting to become a Tanker is a once in a blue moon event. With that, the female receptionist can't help but scoff as she mockingly replied. "If you can last a minute in an arm wrestle with me. I'll allow you to take the hunter license for Tank Class. Consider this as your assessment for this hunter class, pipsqueak."

"Eh?" Bogart was taken aback with the female receptionist's reply. "Aren't receptionists supposed to be accommodating?"

'What an aggressive woman!' Bogart can't help but solemnly swallow his saliva as he saw her already put her arm on the table with her index finger taunting him to come over. "I'm already being accommodating, little boy."

With the female receptionist already ready for action, Bogart has no room to excuse himself from declining towards the invitation. With that, he approached the desk as he placed his arms locking up with the other party's arm. Surprisingly, the female receptionist's buffed hands were smooth.

With their hands and arms locked, the female receptionist looked at Bogart in the eyes. "Ready?"

"Please go easy on me." Bogart nodded which made the female receptionist smirk at his reply.

"Go!" Before, the female receptionist said the word, she already hardened her arm as she tried to topple Bogart's arm in an instant. However, it was good that Bogart was able to react when the female receptionist hardened her arm and her grip.

"You cheated!" But still, Bogart was already late. He was already in a disadvantage position where his arm is about to touch the desk.

"Haha!" The female receptionist only laughed at the disgruntled expression that the half-dwarf was showing as she keeps putting more pressure on toppling his arm. "Lesson 101: the word cheat is not in the vocabulary inside the dungeon."

Hearing this, Lu Ciel nodded was reminded of the advices that Sophia gave to him once he goes inside the Dungeons.

Seeing the expression of Bogart like an indignant child that was being denied of having a candy, Lu Ciel can't help but chuckle as he cheered for his butler. "You can do it, Bogart! I'd be ashamed to be your young master if you can't last a minute with a fine woman."

Bogart felt like he was already running a hundred miles marathon as he was pouring sweat, and to think that he will hear this kind of encouraging words, he can't help but asked, shouting. "Are we done?!"

"Thirty-five seconds to go!" Lu Ciel answered as kept cheering. "Keep it up!"

"Are we done yet?" Bogart asked again.

"Nope. Twenty-five seconds more." Lu Ciel answered back as the female receptionist and him looked at each other. "You can do this!"

As the female receptionist looked at the young man, the young man only winked at her. Understanding the meaning, the female receptionist can't help but shake her head as she laughed inside.

"Are we done?! Ha..!" ...

"Nope. Fifteen more seconds!" ...

"We done?? Ha..! Ha..!" ....

"Five more seconds." ....

"Done? Ha..! Ha..! Ha..!" Bogart's was like having an asthma attack as his baby face was steaming red with vein's bulging. He can't help but feel that this one minute was like an eternity. Especially, when he heard the response towards his asthmatic question.

"Three more seconds!" ...

"Gaddamn!!" Bogart can't help but curse out loud at the time for being slowly. He felt crying and wished he could whip the seconds to move their arses.

Seeing this, Lu Ciel shook his head, smiling as he felt proud inside. "Time's up!"

The female receptionist stop putting pressure right away upon hearing Lu Ciel's declaration. She unlocked her arm with Bogart then patted his shoulder in acknowledgement. "Congrats! You were able to last five minutes with a fine woman like me."

"F-five minutes?!" Bogart did not what to react with what the female receptionist mentioned. Should he be proud that he was able to exceed the goal that provided? But, the way the female receptionist said, he can't help but question himself in disappointment, "Only?"

With that, the female receptionist left Bogart's upper body sprawling on her desk panting, as she took out a paper and a crystal card in the drawer and handed it towards Lu Ciel. "This is the the hunter license. Please do fill up the form to retrieve this little guy's information. I don't think he can process this on his own for quite awhile."

"Oh, don't worry." Lu Ciel only smiled as he shook his head, refusing. "My butler can manage. He's a leftie."

Hearing this, the female receptionist can't help but be astounded as he looked at the half-dwarf who was now recovering, trying to accept the license and the form from her. "Hehe."

"Haha! Not bad, little guy!" The female receptionist handed the license and the form to Bogart. "My name is Mi Zelle. Feel free to let me know if you have questions or concerns in regards to Tank class dungeon hunter."

"T-thanks." Bogart began filling out the form.

"You can rest on the couch first then consolidate the license." After filling out the form, the female receptionist who introduced herself as Mi Zelle gestured to the two stay for the mena time since he'll be needing Bogart's blood finger print after consolidating the hunter license.

Bogart followed the directions of Mi Zelle and rest on the couch first while Lu Ciel can't help but asked since the process that he did was different. "What's the blood finger print for?"

Hearing this, Mi Zelleraised her eyebrow in question and while understanding her look, Lu Ciel expound his experience for receiving his hunter license. "I did not do this kind of process."

"Just to confirm.." Mi Zelle asked. "are you a special hunter?"

Lu Ciel nodded in reply. "A special mage class, yes."

"Oh, wow!" Mi Zelle was amazed with what she have found. "No wonder you don't know this process despite being a hunter yourself already. The form was for the Hunter Guild to be able to track the individual hunter inside or outside in the Dungeons. This can also be called as Life Slip because the form will slowly burn once the hunter's life was detected to be in a state of danger or if the Hunter was detected to have died, the whole paper will instantly burn down to nothing."

"This is a pretty neat form!" Lu Ciel exclaimed upon hearing what is the usage of the License Form. "I presume that this from is not being provided by special hunter license holder. Why is this so?"

"Well.." Mi Zelle can't help but sigh at how ignorant this young man really is. "This has actually been debated in the Capital City. As for the reason why this procedure was not being provided because of the simple reason which the special hunters should have the privilege of Data Privacy Protection Law. With how powerful special hunters are, the Guild and the Empire itself can't help but give way and provide this kind of special treatment."

"I see.." Lu Ciel can't help but ponder over what Mi Zelle said. There must be something about the form than what she have explained.

Lu Ciel and Mi Zelle was able to talk for another minutes while Bogart was still trying to consolidate the license in his System since she has nothing to do as the hunters who went in and out were already veterans which do not need her assistance. After twenty minutes passed by, Bogart finally able to completely consolidate her license making her an official hunter of the Tank class.

"Congrats, little guy." Mi Zelle took the license form and placed it on her desk as she gave instruction to Bogart. "Stick your thumb out."

Bogart then complied right away. Mi Zelle took out a needle and pricked it on Bogart's thumb as she direct his thumb on the eight pointed star symbol on the license form. After his bloody thumb was marked on the paper, the magical star symbol glowed in white, making the blood finger print magically moved into the outline of the star symbol replacing its white glow into scarlet red.

"Done." After the magic symbol glowed red, the black ink that Bogart wrote into blood red. Mi Zelle folded the license form into three right away and sealed it with a stamp of the Guild's logo. After that, the license form was dropped on a simple box.

"That will be ten spirit stones." Mi Zelle announced as she looked at Lu Ciel, sticking her hand out to imply to pay up.

"Isn't the hunter license cost only two spirit stones?" Lu Ciel was surprised to hear the cost of the license from Mi Zelle.

"The procedural fee is three spirit stones." Mi Zelle explained with a straight face. "While the fixer's fee is five spirit stones."

"Fixer's fee?!" Lu Ciel was shocked to hear this kind of term. He remembered this kind of term back on Earth when he took his driver's license. He let a fixer processed his driver's license application so that he can get it right away without taking a driver's exam.

With this, he can't help shake his head and chuckle as he complied, taking out a spirit crystal. To think that this world have this kind of thing as well. "Do you have a change?"

Seeing a milky white crystal being handed over to her, Mi Zelle's eyes widened in delight. To think that she will see a spirit crystal from a young man that has no dungeon experience yet. She looked at the young man, nodding to his question while thinking that he must be a prodigal son from a filthy rich merchant. 'I must befriend this young man, and seduced his father. Or maybe, I could seduce this young man directly. Nah, he's too young for me. But then again, age doesn't matter.'

Seeing that this female receptionist was having a fantasy in daylight, Bogart can't help but gave her a weird look. He loudly coughed to bring this she-male back to reality and thankfully, he was able to dragged her back right away.

Realizing that she was having a dilemma in the middle of transaction, Mi Zelle slightly coughed as well to compose herself. She opened the drawer, taking out nine small bags of clothe and handing it over to Lu Ciel as she stated, "Each of these small bags contain ten spirit stones."

"Thank you for your business." Mi Zelle slightly bowed as she put the spirit crystal on the drawer.

"Thank you as well." Lu Ciel smiled as he nodded, accepting the nine small bags of spirit stones. "Had your lunch already?"

"Excuse me?" Mi Zelle did not understood the abrupt question.

"I mean, you seem to be a..what do you call this, a dungeon fanatic?" Lu Ciel replied as he explained his intention. "We will be buying skills, weapons, equipments and other things needed for Dungeoneering, perhaps, we could use your experience and insights in regards with what we'll buy?

"Sure! Why not?" Mi Zelle's eyes sparkled upon hearing Lu Ciel's invitation. It seems that things are going in her way with seducing the father of this prodigal son. "You can compensate three spirit stones for my day here and that will be seven spirit stones for my talent fee."

"Alright." Lu Ciel nodded as he find it amusing how micer this woman can be.