Before departure

"Ohhh, do you have a request? So what would it be?" Belstegia was curious to know what the boy wanted.

"Simple, in one of my missions I found an abandoned castle, I thought it would be convenient to make it my home. But surely some times I will have to go very far, so I need a stable portal ... but I don't know a wizard suitable for this role. So my request would be that the Guildmaster be kind enough to introduce us to a wizard suitable for this purpose. " Asteri had long thought of creating his base there, in that castle. And now he had a chance to start building the foundations for that base.

"Let me guess, would you like that wizard to be paid by us to create that portal, did I hit the mark?" Belstegia smiled playfully.

"That's right, it's an important issue for me." Asteri looks Belstegia straight in the eye.

Belstegia stares at Asteri in silence, with a serious look, no longer playful. Asteri didn't show up, but he was a little tense.

'Come on, accept, how much does my beautiful guildmaster cost you?' Asteri spoke in his mind as the atmosphere grew tense. Allatu and Betty looked at Belstegia with a look of expectation, obviously positive. They wanted Asteri's request to be granted. Belstegia closes her eyes and crosses her legs, one over the other, showing her magical shapes.

"Okay, I accept your request. I will find someone for this job. But only if you fulfill the mission, otherwise you can forget about it, do we understand?" Belstegia opens her eyes, here's what she saw was Asteri with a smile on her lips.

"Sure! We'll complete the mission, my word." Asteri put a fist on his heart, as if he were taking an oath.

"Well, now that it's all over you can go, but get these first." Belstegia took three earrings from a box, they had a simple shape, nothing special, their color was milky white. Asteri sees them and immediately realizes that they weren't normal earrings. He could feel something strange emanating from them.

"What are?" Betty asked curiously.

"They are special items that can fool people who want to peek at your main rank, wearing them is like you are in ten fewer levels." Belstegia explains how earrings work.

'So if I am at the green, sixth degree core, I appear as one at the sixth degree white core. Comfortable.' Asteri was secretly fascinated by these earrings, he took a pair, thanking the guildmaster. Same thing the two women will do together with Asteri.

The three wear them and in fact they seemed to have gone down ten levels.

"It is not a public object, only a few know it, very few indeed. And they can vary with different shapes, they are not necessarily earrings. Before you felt a strange feeling emanating from them, right? Well that feeling is no more now, once upon a time worn it disappears completely. Comfortable isn't it? " Belstegia smiled proudly.

"Very convenient, you could catch a lot of people off guard with these. Thanks, Guildmaster. Is there anything else?" Asteri asks if there is anything else to talk about.

"No, that's all I wanted to tell you. You will leave in two days, in the meantime rest and organize as you can. In that letter you will find the place and time you should meet. I wish you good luck, you will need it." Belstegia greets them, sending them a wish of luck.

The three said goodbye and left the room. Belstegia saw that the door was closed and went back to her chair behind the desk.

"I hope everything goes well. I provoked him into believing he was a expendable pawn, but that's not true. Every member of the guild counts, no matter his status or level. But I had to see how he reacted to that taunt." Belstegia looked at the ceiling and smiled.

'And I'm happy to know that he passed it with flying colors ... maybe I was a little surprised too.' Belstegia mentally continued his speech.

Asteri's party descended the stairs and returned to the lower floor of the guild. They approached Thalia who was greeting an adventurer with whom she had just finished talking. The rabbit girl noticed them and gave them a worried expression. The three approached her.

"How did you go? Asteri didn't do anything indecent, did he?" Thalia's first concern was this.

"Who did you take me for? I didn't do anything like that. You only worry about that, I'm offended to say the least." Asteri crossed his arms with an expression of mock offense.

"Ahahah, yes I know, I was kidding. But I really wanted to ask you how did she go?" Thalia looked worried. Asteri took off her feigned playful expression and looked at her seriously, even with a hint of regret.

"Sorry Thalia, we can't tell you the details, but the guild leader has given us a mission. We'll be gone for a while." Asteri could only say that they had a mission to accomplish, and it wouldn't be short.

"I understand ... when will you leave?" Thalia wanted to know when the group would leave.

"In two days we will have to prepare and rest decently from the last mission". it is Allatu who answers.

"Okay, then rest well. I wish you all the luck in the world." Thalia sported a warm smile, which made the hearts of the three melt, especially Asteri.

"Thank you very much Thalia, but don't worry before you leave, I still have to keep my promise, do you remember well?" Asteri walked over to her counter and looked into her eyes.

"T-the promise? Then you haven't forgotten it." Thalia blushed slightly.

"Of course not, otherwise what kind of man would I be? I'll pick you up tomorrow night, you just have to tell me where I can find you." Asteri softly whispered to the rabbit girl. Allatu he could only smile amused as Betty rolled her eyes.

"O-ok I'll write you the address." She took a piece of paper and wrote something to it. She finished writing she gave it to Asteri.

"Perfect, then tomorrow evening at this address. See you tomorrow then, good day Thalia." Asteri read the flyer and agreed on the place and time of the appointment, she said goodbye to the bunny. The same thing I will do Allatu is Betty. The rabbit girl nodded, but a doubt gripped her.

'What should I wear for tomorrow?' thought the girl.