Chapter 404 The Guild And The Rivals
Nial was happy about the improvements 100 Refinements of Imperfectia allowed him to achieve but he was far from satisfied.
The thought that he had merely finished 1 percent of the whole body refinement technique was enough for him to shudder because he was pretty sure that perfectly refining his body by using the 10,000 Refinements of Imperfectia would allow him to become truly powerful.
Once he would have completely fixed his body by using this technique, he might as well search for a different type of Body refinement technique, one that would create a symbiotic relationship with his unique traits and the five abilities he would have bound by then.
Both of his hearts began to palpitate and he immediately began to daydream of an interesting future, a future where he was powerful enough to protect everyone important to him, where nobody had to be afraid of getting killed at any moment.
His mother's death had left a gaping hole in his heart and the memory often ate at him and Nial was still haunted by nightmares whenever he fell asleep. He thought that the nightmares would end after leaving the new human shelter but they kept tailing him wherever he went.
Nial had finally accepted the nightmares and his fault for his mother's death but that did little to help him. Instead, it made things even more difficult because Nial was not sure what exactly his subconscious wanted to tell him through the nightmares.
Would the Nightmares stop when he found out what he wanted to achieve in the future or would they keep haunting him until the end of time? Nial was not sure about the answer but he hoped that the nightmares would end soon.
Ryu noticed Nial's mood swings and he chirped out while releasing the complex emotions he felt as well.
The wingless Gryphon hadn't been outside Nial's room for the past two months and he was bored to death after being caged in the walls. Monsters didn't need to actively work to refine their body or to improve their mana core.
They would just grow up on their own as long as they had enough nutrition and mana around them. Afterward, they would have to find ways to surpass their racial limits to keep improving.
For some of them that was easier, while it was far more difficult for others. As for the wingless Gryphon, Ryu, he was trying hard to replace his missing wings by becoming more proficient with his darkness affinity.
Training the darkness affinity had worked pretty well but Ryu had yet to gain actual practical experience. Yet, because he didn't want to leave Nial, Ryu had yet to find an opportunity to try creating properly functional wings.
"I know, I know…" Nial just said when he heard the complaints of the wingless Gryphon and he got up from the ground.
His mana core rank hadn't changed in the last two months but that was not something Nial was bothered about. He had to find three suitable ability crystals to bind to his mana core before he could focus his work on the mana core, either way.
In the meantime, he might as well finish the 10,000 Refinements of Imperfectia technique, and become a better Runicier!
"Let's register at the Guild to earn some contribution points, otherwise, we will die as poor beggars, rather than bigshots," Nial suggested with a grin as he changed into a cleaner set of clothes before he left his room with Ryu.
They needed more resources and completing missions of the Guild was probably the easiest way to earn contribution points. Contributions points were not only the currency of adventurers in Alliance City but they could also be used by organizations to gain more power.
Alliance City was a neutral place for all races to have an equal chance at procuring power. The 10 Divons and the organizations they had created might have the most power in Alliance city but other forces were allowed to attain the same rights in the City as the 10 Divons and their organizations possessed.
The only thing they required was to possess enough contribution points, which could be used to upgrade the ranking of their organizations or to procure specific titles for individuals.
Every newly established organization would start from scratch, without any benefits in the city. Their ranking would be at the 0-Star, and upgrading the rank would cost them a tremendous amount of contribution points.
As members of the Divon races, the Divon of the Valxians had shared some contribution points with all those, who had achieved many glorious feats in the past.
That was also one of the reasons why the Dojo Master had been eligible to buy a large piece of land in the Alliance city, build the ginormous pagoda and create the 0-Star Thousand Bodies Refinements Dojo!
Until now, the Dojo Master had yet to upgrade the Dojo to a 1-Star organization, which was mostly due to the fact that the Dojo Master had spent a major chunk of contribution points to nourish the new members that joined the Dojo.
Every single member was given a grand welcome gift that was as valuable as the resources and techniques Nial had been given.
Thus, it was only obvious that the Dojo Master had yet to accumulate enough contribution points to gain more power in Alliance City.
Every member of the Thousand Bodies Refinements Dojo knew about this, which was also why they worked hard to collect contribution points whenever possible.
And that was also one of the reasons why Nial was ready to collect a bunch of contribution points by completing missions for the Guild.
He could get his hands on resources and contribution points by solving the Guild's missions, and it would be possible for him to test his new powers.
Meanwhile, Ryu would finally get some space to test out his proficiency in the darkness affinity. The wingless Gryphon was excited to see if it could finally gain the ability to fly without the need for someone else to help him in any way!
Unfortunately, Nial sensed something that was rather annoying when he was on his way to the Guild.
The Guild was located in the center of Alliance City and Nial had to ride on Ryu for a short while to get there.
On his way, he was able to perceive many things that attracted his attention, including a rather annoying situation.
Khain and two other Valxians seemed to have encountered trouble with members of another race. This race was none other than the Heligav, which was enough for Nial to tell Ryu to make a detour.
It didn't even take two minutes before he reached the huge crowd that had formed upon seeing the commotion that the Heligav and Valxians made by shouting at each other.
Nial didn't even try to listen to their bickering and catcalls. Instead, he went to one of the few humans, who had come to observe what was going to happen between the members of the two races, and asked them a bunch of questions.
"What happened here?" Nial asked in the universal language, which caused some humans to look at him weirdly. They squint their eyes and spoke in their own language just for Nial to smile apologetically.
"I can only speak in the universal language. My family prepared me for the Origins' awakening and they thought that I should rather learn the universal language than anything else," He came up with an excuse in the hopes that the humans would buy it.
They looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders before one of them spoke to him.
"Your parents must have been hard to deal with then. I know a few families who are similar to yours… Erratics… well, whatever…" The young man said, realizing too late what his words implied. He faked a cough and gave Nial an awkward smile.
"You wish to know what happened here, right?" He asked and Nial nodded his head, ignoring what the young man had said before. It didn't really matter to him because it was unrelated to him.
"As you might know, Valxians and Heligav are not really on good terms with each other, to begin with, but these two groups are clashing with each other way too often. Whether it is a coincidence or not, the members of the 0-Star Thousand Bodies Refinements Dojo and the members of the 2-Star Blade Obliteration Academy usually accept the same missions at the Guild.
Thus, they end up fighting each other a lot outside Alliance City. There were already a bunch of casualties and the situation between these two organizations seems to be getting worse by the day," The young man explained and Nial started to smile when he heard this.
"Won't the higher ups of the Alliance City say anything against the murders that happened outside?" He asked in curiosity and the young man could clearly see the faint grin that had appeared on Nial's face.
Nial's expression and his weird attitude caused the young man to hesitate for a few seconds, especially since Nial had asked questions that were common knowledge by now.
"The higher ups won't do anything as long as nobody acts up inside the city, and as long as they don't hunt each other actively. Fighting each other for picking the same missions is not something that can be avoided, and intervening might make things worse," The young human explained and Nial nodded his head once again before he stepped forward.
"Wait, don't interfere, or you will get pulled into their trouble as well!" The young man tried to pull Nial back, just to miss him by a hair's breadth as Nial turned his head.
"I'm already in the midst of the storm… Why should I try to escape it?" He asked while the insignia of the Thousand Bodies Refinements Dojo dangled down his neck.