A Serpent's Tale
Chapter 282: Dungeon Issues

Chapter 282: Dungeon Issues

"I do have to thank you though, for bringing the EXP issue to my attention. Because it’s brought a lot more problems than just that to light."

"Really? Like what?"

"Well, apparently, according to one of our clients, they received not one but four variants of what they requested."

I think I knew what he was talking about, otherwise he wouldn’t tell me such a thing.

"What about them? I didn’t do anything wrong by doing that, did I?"

Ba’arhim chuckled as he said, "No, no, you didn’t do anything wrong. It’s more about the fact that you were able to get those variants in the first place."

"What do you mean by that exactly?"

"What I mean to say is that occurrences where rarer monsters have been happening a lot more often than normal. More variant monsters and such."

"That sounds like a bad thing." I stated sceptically.

"It is a bad thing." Ba’arhim confirmed before he asked me, "Do you know what a monster tide is?"

"No, I don’t." I answered bluntly and truthfully.

"A monster tide is when a dungeon is overrun with monsters which, with nowhere else to go, start rampaging all over the area surrounding the dungeon, which in this case is the city."

"I see. That’s bad."

"Yes, yes it is. But that’s not the worst part, the worst part is we believe that someone has somehow taken control of the dungeons core to force this monster tide to happen."

"What? How?"

"We don’t know, but I want to thank you for bringing this to our attention, because they seem to be siphoning the EXP that people like us would normally get and using it to force a monster tide to happen."

After explaining everything to me, Ba’arhim formally thanked me with a full ninety-degree bow and handed me a rather hefty bag of gold.

I took the bag, looking at it in mild confusion, then up at him. Fortunately, before I could ask, he spoke up.

"Yes, it’s bigger than you were probably expecting, but that’s because you got a bonus reward for bringing a much bigger problem to our attention."

"Ah, I see... Thanks, I guess?" I wasn’t really sure how to feel about this. Yes, I’m glad that I got rewarded, but I never really wanted a reward in the first place.

"Don’t mention it. You should probably get out of here before some of those muscleheads come running after you in adoration." Ba’arhim suggested in a playful yet helpful manner.

"Right. See you around I guess?" I said goodbye as we parted ways, him likely going deeper, and me heading out of the dungeon now.

"Yup! I’ll probably call on Platinum ranks and up to help deal with this once we have the full scope of things." He waved back as he remarked about having me join an expedition to stop this.

I’d like to think he was just saying that to get me to join, but I think he would’ve said that even if I was a higher ranked adventurer.

With that, we parted ways, and I finally got a chance to use my full strength, which felt good.

My body felt a little more relaxed in some senses, yet my mind was a little troubled as news of this would spread fairly quickly.

Let’s just hope that they at least don’t spread my name. That way it’ll be easier to blend into the crowd, considering there are a lot of Serpentine with both red scales and red hair.

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The following week, on the third school day, I finally managed and remembered to go find Morrigan because I had something I wanted to talk about.

I had to wait until after the school day had finished before I could talk to her in private, which I was fine with. I never have anything to do today anyways so I just waited in the library as I studied up on some stuff regarding combat.

My combat training had been going well by the way. I may have started later than everyone else, but I put in the hard work to improve and managed to catch up and overtake a fair amount of my peers when it came to skill.

I’d asked about combat training with weapons but they only gave ranged weapons training since there was once an incident quite a while back that forced the Institute to ban close quarters combat with weapons.

Either way, classes were now over and I was on my way to Morrigan’s class when I ran into the bitch and her now single lackey.

"AAAAHHHHH!!!!" She screamed as she immediately started speeding her way over to me upon seeing me.

’Oh god... Not her.’ I thought as I sighed and slumped over slightly.

I wished I could avoid her, but the crowd was only getting thinner, making it easier for her to see me.

Since I was not able to avoid this encounter, I would just ignore her instead.

She rushed up to me as soon as she saw the chance and began pestering me with her incessant babbling and fawning.

"Oh my GODDESS! I can’t believe I finally get to have some time with you privately! You can go home early Alicia." She waved her friend away and she went off into the crowd.

And in that moment, I had slithered as far as I could as quietly as I could which was quite far. I had already travelled half way down the half from where we were towards the next turn where I needed to go.

"Hey! Wait for me!" She started to chase after me as soon as she noticed me escaping her grasp.

And seeing as I had been found out, I didn’t have anything to hide, so I went full speed and immediately lost her.

With my speed and agility, I was easily able to get away from her and reach Morrigan’s classroom without an issue.

I knocked on the door and heard her voice telling me to come in.

When I entered, I found myself in a room roughly a little bigger that the one I took my entrance exams in.

Morrigan was in the midst of talking to another student, so she gestured over to the seats and said, "Just take a seat somewhere and I’ll be with you in a moment."

A few minutes later, she was finished talking with the student who then promptly left, leaving me in the room alone with Morrigan to talk.

I got up from my seat and slithered over to Morrigan as she asked me why I was here.

"So, what have you come to me for? Do you need some help clearing up some problems?" The shift in her tone of voice when she asked the second question was instant.

And it caught me off guard. Why would she ask me that? I mean, I know that she’s a part of the Illuminati and all, but what made her think that I would need such services?

"Umm, no? I just came here to seek some advice."

"Oh! Well, ask away then." He demeanour instantly changed to a much cheerier one, not filled with a subtle malice.

"I have, as you know, a Soul Scroll." I began explaining.

"Mhmm." And Morrigan dutifully listened.

"And I have a Subclass, which I’m not entirely sure how I got, but that’s not what I’m here to talk to you about today. I came to talk about my main Class, and what I should do with it, since I don’t yet have one."

"I see..." She lifted her head and rubbed her chin in deep thought.

"Oh, and I was also wondering if I could use the Illuminati’s private gates to get back to my inheritance."

"Yeah, sure, that’s fine. I’ll give you a map of where we have our hidden spots, but you’ll most likely want to use the one’s we have here in the Institute, since they are the most secure."

She then somehow materialized a map out of nowhere, but I noticed that it actually came from a ring as she took a small booklet from there also and handed them to me.

She then clarified what the book was for upon seeing my confusion, "The map show’s you where they are, and the book explains how to properly use them."

I nodded my head and put them in my bag. With that over with, Morrigan began lecturing me about Classes. Not the learning kind obviously.

"As for classes? It depends on which path you want to take, since there are a near infinite number of choices one could make. You could choose to be a simple mage, or a fighter, or a combat mage."

"There are so many different kinds of Classes out there, and you can make so many different combinations with them. You need to find one that suits you, one that you can both do, and enjoy that is not only fun to use, but practical also."

"You can’t just pick a Class willy nilly, you have to think about what you want it for, Be it fighting or mundane things. A Class is something that is inherently linked to your Soul, and once you choose one, it’s hard to change it."

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