Bottom of the barrel
We find ourselves looking at the bustling city of Orario with people of different races and ethnicities moving about life just as if it was any other day. As you look at the people a small percentage of them were wearing different types of armor and gear. They were known as adventures, or a small group of people whose very ambition was to adventure the dungeon for multiple reasons, them being money, fame, and power.
We zoom in even further to see long blond locks overlooking the flowing street from a window. Arthur was watching the scene with a gobsmacked look and he came to comprehend he was really in a new world with magic and swords. He pulled his head back into the temporary room he woke up in after he blacked out after his attack. Without wasting time he dressed in his clothes that were freshly clean and folded.
When he placed on the outfit he took a good once over of himself, he looked like Quetzalcoatl with a darker shade of skin tone, a more masculine face, body, and eye patch. Arthur's eye was drawn to the eyepatch cause it was just a mystery that had to be solved. With hesitation, he pulled off the eyepatch and looked in the mirror. "Oh that's it...pretty cool," he said as he looked at the eye that was an X like another captain from Fire Force.
As he was investigating the eye it started to glow producing thermal energy that was quickly followed by pain. The once colorful world lost all its vibrant color and became black and white. Arthur started to panic as he could see small figures of different sizes moving around outside and inside the building. Without a second thought, he placed the eyepatch back on and the black and white world faded into nonexistence. Arthur was panting as the pain decreased and a phantom pain was left in its place. "Ok not doing that anytime soon," he signed and proceeded to leave the room.
As he reached the front desk he thanked the owner for looking after him while he was unconscious. He waved him off "Any friend of the Loki familia, is welcomed here," he said with a hardy laugh following after. Arthur was confused when he mentioned the loki familia. 'Were they the ones who brought me out of the dungeon...' as he looked at the smiling man in front of him he just nodded. 'Guess when I see them I'm going to have to thank them' Arthur thought as he left the building and joined the bustling streets.
As he was walking around he was amazed by the sights that his eyes were falling upon. He's only seen some sight from his computer screen when he was watching the anime but seeing it in person was a whole different experience. He saw vendors of all types selling goods and food, as he smelled the delicious aromas his stomach growled loudly causing the passing people to stop and look at him.
Arthur chuckled and looked at a young man by him. He placed his arm on his shoulder and said out loud "Man, how are you hungry we just had breakfast..." the crowd's eyes left Arthur and focused on the man.
"n-n-no, I swear it wasn't me!!" as he was saying this Arthur blended into the crowd and disappeared.
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As his stomach growled once more his body began to lose energy and he became sluggish moving like a zombie. "I need food... No money... No money then food... yes" as he said this remembered the events of yesterday killing all those goblins, but most important the magic stones that were dropped. His mood skyrocketed but then plummeted thinking about how the dungeon resets and eats all non-picked-up stones. 'Wait Loki... they're good guys so they must have picked them up for me...right... so where would they be... THE GUILD' he thought with excitement and dashed off in a random direction.
(4 hours later)
After continually running around without a location of his destination Arthur came to a conclusion that his mental abilities decreased so he wised up and asked for directions, but something stumped him he would never do something like this. As he thought about it he realized that his personality started to take on more of Quetzalcoatl's goofy qualities. But how was it possible he integrated two people so where was the seriousness of burns? Then he came to a conclusion based on who they were compared to Quetzalcoatl. She was a god-turned demi-god in the show compared to him and burns who were just humans so her personality was most likely stronger than both of them combined.
His thoughts on his changing personality were cut short when he arrived in front of the guild. Without missing a beat he pushed open and doors and entered the ever famous Orario guild. The once rowdy guild hall was silenced when he entered. Arthur didn't care because to him all of them were background characters. He walked up to the counter with a serious face with a fierce aura around him that cause everyone to tense.
The unlucky attendant was shaking as Arthur approached, she tried to change places with her neighbor but they all looked away. She felt abandoned in her most dier moment. At the guild, they got complaints all the time by adventures but they were all not stupid enough to cause a ruckus cause they knew their familia would either pay or they would have a word with the guild master. Then there were new adventures who were reckless and had nothing to lose so they were the real troublemakers, but none of them gave off the vibe of an experienced adventure or mid-tier adventure like the blond approaching her.
As Arthur reached the counter he stared the woman in her eyes making her shift uncomfortable under his gaze. "M-m-may I help you t-today?" her voice was appropriate level to not cause more of a scene but she also had a strained smile on her face. Arthur observed the uncomfortable women and with a sign, the once fierce aura was gone replaced with a calm one. "Yes, I was wondering if I had either magic stones or money miss placed here?" he asked with a small smile present on his face causing the women to relax.
"Is there a reason it was misplaced?"
"Yeah... you see I was in the dungeon yesterday killing a lot of monsters..." he started but was interrupted by the women.
"Excuse me are you an adventurer... cause if you are you must be pretty new for me to not notice you" as she said this she examed the handsome young man in front of her. 'Cause I know for a fact if you came through here a majority of the staff would notice' she thought.
"No, I'm not... well yet... I ended up in the dungeon accidentally not like I didn't enjoy it."
"WHAT!!!??...." she shouted once more gaining attention from everyone, and with an embarrassed face motioned for Arthur to lean closer. "YOU CAN'T JUST ENTER THE DUNGEON ON A WHIM, EVEN IF IT WAS AN ACCIDENT...(Sign)... you could cause a stir in Orario" she whisper shouted to him.
"Trust me it wasn't my intention at all it....just kind of happened." As said this the woman signed once more cause she knew this blond will be trouble like another blond. "well carrying on I kind of blacked out after killing the monsters" the woman looked at him incredibly. "then the Loki Familia brought me to an inn where I woke up and came here"
"Ok... that's a lot to take in...so you were the person Tiona was blabbing about huh" as she said this Arthur put on a confused face. 'Right... he was unconscious' she quipped in her head. "I will see what was brought in yesterday by the Loki Familia, so please stand quietly and don't cause a ruckus," She said going towards the back leaving Arthur to himself.
(Minutes later)
The women came back into Arthur's view with two heft brown bags. "Ok... that is a total of 100,357 valis were collected for you by a miss Tiona." Arthur was frozen stiff just hearing the ridiculously high number. 'WOW... I've never thought I would receive that much... reading it is different than seeing it.'
"Guess when I see this miss Tiona later I would have to thank her" Arthur nervously laughed.
"That would be generous of you... any other business you would like to complete today?"
"Oh yeah...I would like to sign up to be an Adventurer."
"Good and we have two options to pick through... there are the freelance adventures which are mostly to themselves, it's not much of a gig cause you don't get to level up as fast or ever really go to the lower floors unless you are in an expedition and but you are mostly on the upper floors cause it's the safest. Then you got the normal or Familia based Adventure which can adventure to any floor as much as you would like but it comes with some restrictions such as you would have to do an evaluation task or test to see if you can advance into the lower floors."
Arthur didn't think much about the options cause one had way more benefits than the other. "Do you have any familia's that are recruiting?" without missing a beat a stack of fliers was placed on the counter. "I didn't know there were these many familia's in town?" Arthur was gobsmacked cause in the normal storyline they didn't show these many familia's ever.
"Trust me there are a lot of them, but a majority of them are either small or exclusive that you need an invite to join." She said with a large smile.
"Well um, thank you...."
"Luna... Luna Lovegood" Arthur was shocked a second time in the span of a could seconds. How the hell didn't I notice this before she looked almost like the damn girl, without changing face on the outside he spoke.
"Arthur...Arthur Valentine"
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As the day when on, we see Arthur running from familia to familia, hoping to get a chance but they were all dead ends. As he was on his last leg a poor potion shop came into view. "Miach" he whisper, this was his chance. Based on the character of Miach in the show he was an all-around great guy and he was in a terrible situation that Arthur, unfortunately, could take advantage of. He didn't hesitate to enter the shop and saw the very man behind the counter.
Miach has long dark blue hair and dark blue eyes. He wears a black robe, a tan brown stole that reaches down past his shoulders. He looked up to Arthur with a kind smile, that almost made the boy burst into tears cause this man was his salvation.
"Hello, is there anything I can do for you?" asked the kind god. Without hesitation, Arthur appeared in front of the god with a burst of speed and placed his hands on each shoulder causing the man to stiffen.
"LET ME JOIN YOUR FAMILIA!!!" he shouted at him taking the offensive instead of wait and we'll see approach.
"HUH!?!?!"
"I DON'T CARE YOU GUYS ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL AND HAVE NO SORT OF INCOME, BUT GIVE ME A CHANCE MIACH AND I PROMISE I WILL BRING U TO THE PINNACLE!!!, HAHAHAAHHAHA" he shouts to the other man with a rowdy laugh followed after.
Miach had a stupefied expression on his face. "HHHHHUUUHHHHH!!!!"
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That's the chapter it was a meh all filler type stuff, give it a 5/10 in my opinion but next will have more dungeon type stuff and grinding, plus we will see his stats and skills next chapter, we might even figure out what's up with his eye in the next I don't know maybe we might. If you watch fire force you can make a good guess what his eye does.
Thanks for reading till next time.