Chapter 4

"We're almost there."

"Y-Yeah."

This morning Zegion came to the hospital to bring Luke to the Hunter Headquarters to sign up Luke as an official hunter and assign him a rank.

Since Luke discovered that Zegion was a dragon he became a little aware of him. Because this was a different world maybe it was normal to see dragons nearby. But putting aside the matter with Zegion, Luke was more concerned about his new surroundings of the different world.

'Isn't this supposed to be a fantasy world?'

Luke had thought that he would see a world similar to the European Medieval times on Earth, like almost all of the novels he read before, was the plot located, but contrary to his expectations, the reality was very different.

The surroundings were very similar, not to say identical to Earth. There were modern buildings, cars, and even the internet. When Zegion gave Luke a cellphone he was very surprised to see one, at first Luke had lots of doubts about this being a different world, even the hospital that he was staying in was very modern, but with Zegion explanation things became more clear.

According to Zegion, one hundred years ago all the technology that exists today wasn't here. Life was simpler as adventurers joining the guild and taking quests to gain money and fame, those were the good old days. But one day the gates started to appear in the whole world and with them, monsters similar to goblins and all those fantasy creatures started to appear.

In contrary to the novels that Luke read when all the world panicked because the existence of monsters didn't happen here. The people who were accustomed to go hunting monsters as adventurers somehow handled the problem as a normal monster outbreak. The problem was that the monsters that came out of the gates were stronger than the normal monsters that were living already in this world.

The population started to panic when the number of monsters became larger than the adventures and soldiers that could fight them, but as randomly monsters started to appear in the world, humans also started to come out of the gates. These people were called [Travelers] and they declared that all of them had come from a different dimension where these monsters attacked their world until the verge of extinction, so the survivors traveled this world to live.

Zegion told Luke that all the travelers that came out of the gate didn't remember how they succeeded in going between worlds, but with their help, the technology was developed and they make huge advances to fight the monsters that came out of the gate. Just to make it more clear instead of electricity there were using mana as a fount of energy.

'So in summary there were other people other than me that traveled to another world.'

Luke was a little relieved to heard that he was not the only one in this situation, but he was also troubled. If what Zegion told him was true, was his old world destroyed by the gate monsters? Luke didn't have memories of something like that happening, all he could remember was how he went to school, shut himself in his house, reading a lot of novels and that was almost all of it, no memory of and an apocalyptic world came in his mind

'Did I came for a different world besides those?'

It was also a possibility to come from a dimension different from this one or the one that the travelers came from.

"We are here."

Lukes thought were interrupted by Zegion voice. Then the two of them came of out the car and went inside the big building that was the Hunters Headquarters.

"Wow, is huge!"

"Haha, I know right. The building is formed by 9 floors and 3 of those floors are open to the public."

"So, where do we need to go?"

"Since it's you, we have and a special area where we do this kind of procedure."

'Since is me? What's that supposed to mean?'

Luke was about to ask Zegion what did he mean by that but a young lady came to them so he lost his chance.

"Hunter Lockster! Is nice to see you here."

"Yeah is been a while."

The young lady that was taller than Luke, had blonde hair that had a half-up lace rose hairstyle and was wearing a suit that looked like a sexy secretary. Out of curiosity, I decided to check her status.

[Ingrid Esthefan]

[Raze: Human]

[Hunter Rank A]

[Age: 28]

'So her names was Ingrid, this was the first time that used my appraisal skill in another human besides me'

Since Zegion doesn't count as one. Maybe because her rank was A, Luke wasn't able to check her skills or titles.

'Maybe that means that my rank should be lower than an A rank.'

"Oh my, who is this cutie that is beside you?" Ingrid meanwhile giving Luke a very warm smile.

"This is Luke, the one I was talking about earlier, he came today to register as a hunter."

"Good morning, my name is Luke and I will be in your care."

"Oh my god! How can you be too cute!? Leave it to me. I going to take care of you just fine."

After that Luke and Zegion followed Ingrid to the second floor of the building, then they entered a room that had to allot of equipment in it.

"Now Luke, please step in that platform."

Following Ingrid's instructions Luke get on the platform that was at the back of the room.

"Please be still this will only take a couple of seconds."

'I hoped that my skills and the title don't show up'

Since Luke didn't want to bring any unnecessary attention towards him, he decided to hide them but if the appraisal of this machine blows his cover, he would be in trouble.

"Okay now is done! Now please honey come here for a sec"

Luke came where Ingrid and Zegion were and Ingrid gave him a card with his name, race, age, and hunter rank.

'Few, Is a relief that the skills don't show up.'

"So what are the results?" Zegion asked with a voice full of expectations.

"Well, the machine tells that Luke stats combined with his skills making a D Rank Hunter. Honey, please open your status to confirm it."

[NAME: Luke ▣▣▣▣]

[Raze: Half Elf]

[Hunter Rank D]

[Age: 19]

[Stats]

[VIT: 20] [STR: 10

[MAG: 300] [AGI: 23]

[RES: 15] [LCK:500]

[Skills]

[Conqueror Soul L]

[Athena's Wisdom L]

Boss Buddy L]

[Titles: Tamer.]

Indeed the status window had changed, now Luke was officially a D Rank hunter.

"If I can say it, I have never seen a Hunter License with a glitch on it. Honey, what is your last name?"

Zegion made a weird expression and then he answered Ingrid's question.

"Luke currently has amnesia. He didn't even remember his name before he learns how to open his status window."

"Yeah, maybe because I don't remember my last name doesn't show up."

"Oh, I'm sorry it seems that I ask something that I shouldn't have."

"Is okay, I don't mind."

"But someone like you to have amnesia is surely a problem."

There was again, but now it was Ingrid how said it, this time Luke didn't miss the opportunity to ask.

"I been curious for a while, but what do you mean when you said some like me?"

"Oh sorry, I forgot to tell you," Zegion said with an apologetic voice and then he proceeds to explain.

"Luke, do you remember when I told you that monsters came out of the gates?"

"Yeah."

"Well, As I explained before, monsters did already existed in this world way before the gates appeared but after the incident other races other than humans started to be treated differently, more badly in a certain way."

"Wait…Do you mean like they been chased?"

"Because other races besides humans shared some similarities with monsters, the humans that had numerical advantage started to be warier of them. Some races like beastman or elves are treated in different ways some of them fear them, others want to use them as slaves, they are all kind of different behaviors."

"So when you said someone like me…"

"Like Honey is a half-elf, you should be more careful, you can kidnap or be hatred depending where you go."

'Yeah, you are right about that.'

"Since honey doesn't remember almost anything, I only assuming that you don't have a place to return to, I am right?"

Ingrid was correct, Luke forgot about that detail after all the events that happened yesterday. But the reality was he didn't have anywhere else to go.

'I think I'm trouble.'

Zegion noticed Luke worried and he wasn't able to stop giggling a little.

"Don't worry too much, Luke. I had a feeling that things will turn out this way."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"Oh! Maybe are you think about that?"

Ingrid faced showed a noticeable joy after comprehending what Zegion was thinking, maybe because her face looked as if it was a good idea, Luke had little expectations about what Zegion had to say.

"Luke, would you like to join my guild?"

"Mmm? Your Guild?"

"Oh my! Zegion, haven't you told him yet?"

"I forgot?"

"No wonder why this cutie looks so confused. Hear me out honey, this man is the guild master of one of the most powerful guilds in the kingdom.

"Huh!?"

After Luke calms down after hearing that Zegion was such an important person, he listens to Ingrid's explanation. Luke had expected Zegion to had an important charge or something since he looked so cool and professional wearing that expensive suit, but he didn't think that Zegion could a be guild master of the most powerful guild in the area.

'But an ancient dragon being a guild master, I guess it sounds cool.'

According to Ingrid, this was a kingdom called the Orion Kingdom. Even though this country was supposed to be friendly to all types of races, the population still treated the other races coldly and even some parts inside the kingdom could be very dangerous.

"Having that in mind, I wanted to build a guild that could gather other races and make their image improve by being a strong guild," Zegion said with pride and his chest up.

75% of Zegion's guild members were nonhuman races.

'Hearing how talks about the other races, I think he's hiding that he's a dragon. Well, since he had been so nice to me I can keep his secret.'

"Would you let me join?" Luke asked.

"Yeah, I will welcome you with open arms."