Primordial Expanse: I have the Strongest Talent!

"Are you saying I can't take these missions because I'm not a high enough rank?"

Alex asked the receptionist just to confirm what he was hearing.

"Yes. Please apply for a rank assessment if you wish to upgrade your licence!"

The receptionist was very professional, maintaining her positive attitude the whole time through the process.

"How long would that take?"

Naturally, as always, the first thing Alex was concerned about when it came to this was time.

He and Mira didn't want to spend more time in the Primordial Expanse than they had to.

"The current wait time is 7 days, is there anything else I can help you with sir?"

Alex was clearly taking up some of the receptionist's precious time as their conversation continued though, as she tried to usher him along to finish the conversation so she could move on to the next customer.

Her performance review was coming up and she would naturally be flagged for review if people like Alex dragged down her numbers because they held up the line!

"One more question, I can't accept these missions obviously, but I can still freely browse them?"

Alex wasn't bothered about what sort of inconveniences he was causing for the receptionist, all he cared about was this one last question getting answered.

"Yes. Next please!"

She answered his question quickly and ushered the next adventurer standing in line over before she gave Alex the chance to ask anything else.

"What do we do?"

Mira asked Alex, at a bit of a loss.

They couldn't accept missions because of Alex's low rank, and her lack of any rank at all since she wasn't an adventurer.

But worst of all, it would be at least 7 days before they would have the chance to upgrade their ranks!

Mira could do it right then and there, but that would mean nothing if Alex would still be stuck as an F tier adventurer!

"Nothing's changed, we still follow the plan!"

Alex replied to Mira with his spirits still high.

"Did you hear her answer to my last question? We can still browse the missions, so we can still get all the information we need from reading them! We just won't be able to claim any rewards from the adventurer association for them."

It was only after Alex explained to her his thoughts that Mira understood.

'So it's like this!'

Mira wasn't familiar with the way the adventurer association worked, so she didn't know if they would still be able to find useful information from the missions or not, but since Alex was confident, she had confidence in him.

"Let's see here…"

Soon enough, they found themselves back at the mission boards.

"We should focus on completing your requirements first. A few D or C tier Variant class beasts will be much easier to find than a B+ rank Variant class beast…"

Alex still felt somewhat speechless and a little distraught at how outrageous his requirements were, but he couldn't do anything but complain.

"Try and look for missions that mention areas which might be a hotspot for these types of beasts. That way we can maybe complete your requirements in one mission and shorten our stay in the Primordial Expanse."

Alex gave Mira a bit of advice, while he continued to scan the thousands of mission postings on the board himself.

***

"Found one!"

It was only after 5 minutes of scanning the board that Mira called out to Alex a little excitedly.

Alex dropped what he was doing and moved over to her side to read the mission she had picked out.

"1000 kilometres north west of the city, a hotspot for C tier Leopard type beasts. Beast strength can vary from Ordinary to Variant class! Recommended rank, B- Mutant class or C+ Variant class, a party of three or more. Danger level: Extreme!"

The mission seemed promising from what he was reading.

Although it wasn't quite an area where Variant class beasts were guaranteed to be found, it was better than any of the other missions they had scanned.

Most of the other missions involving Variant class beasts were those that rallied together a group of Mutant class adventurers to take on the beast together, which would be useless to Mira since her requirement was to kill them alone.

Other Variant class missions were either 50,000 kilometres away with only one beast being guaranteed, or one that didn't fit her requirements.

So far, this mission only 1000 kilometres away from the city was their best bet.

***

"Puha, did you see those kids looking at the Extreme danger level section of Variant class missions!"

A voice drilled through the air, its tone clearly condescending and the masculine edge to it clearly belonging to a man.

"Looks like we got some more suicidal adventurers!"

"Yeah haha!"

"What idiots!"

More voices joined in the ridicule and sarcasm from all around the mission hall, all wanting to witness the massacre that would happen in the north west forest.

But alas, none of them were strong enough to even dare step foot in that area, let alone challenged the beasts that roamed there.

***

"Looks like we're nearly there!"

Mira called from the side, her voice carrying across her eagerness for battle quite clearly.

It took them nearly an hour to clear the city streets and exit through the city gate on the north west side of the city.

The dense traffic and bustling streets made it so they had to move at a drastically slower speed than they were used to.

But they made it through the gates quite easily because of their VIP passes.

And when they were finally outside, they could let loose all they liked without worrying about injuring some random passer by!

Compared to traversing across 300 kilometres of the city in an hour to exit it, they made it to the designated area 1000 kilometres away in less than 20 minutes thanks to their increased speed.

Although it wasn't any record breaking speeds for Alex, it was for Mira!