The Guildmaster’s Office

  Guildmaster Julia Renthard finds herself staring blankly after the strange woman who ranks at the top of their entire planet’s leaderboard with an enormous lead over the second ranked hunter on it. Just as she quietly walks out of Julia’s office without another word after making her report.

  A report that shocks Julia just as much as nearly every other report the woman makes.

  A magical ore that attracts monsters to it… and numerous powerful monsters all around the ore.

  That part doesn’t shock her very much. Since things like that are common in the different oceans of the world.

  But what does shock her is how Aqua slaughtered all of the monsters there and came back with her level about fifty levels above when she left.

  So in the time that Julia and some of the other highest level users on Oceana managed to level up about six times, Aqua leveled up about fifty times.

  Julia stares at the door even after Aqua leaves the room. Then she opens the leaderboard to look at the top few users on the planet.

  And of the top three, the second and third ranked users are Jaleth and one of the hunters in his group. With the two of them being level one hundred and eight.

  Then it’s Aqua at number one with her level being just a little beneath level three hundred.

  Julia feels herself pursing her lips without even meaning to at the sight of Aqua’s level. Then she glances at the envelope on her desk. One that was recently placed there without anyone seeing who did it.

  But despite no one seeing who left it, Julia already knows who left it.

  There’s no one else who can sneak into her highly defended office without anyone knowing. Other than the woman that just left her office, that is.

  And right as she is about to reach for the document to read it again, she senses someone appearing in the corner of her office. Making her glance at them with a frown.

  “I would appreciate it if you would stop entering my office without permission,” Julia states as she sees someone dressed in attire that covers every bit of their skin with tight waterproof cloth. All wrapped in a thick cloak on top of it.

  They even have a mask covering the lower half of their face, revealing nothing but two slit eyes peeking out over the mask.

  One of the clan members… they really did show up.

  A part of her wasn’t sure since the clan has always avoided any and all politics closer to the surface. But it looks like someone impersonating them is too much for even them to ignore.

  Especially when the one impersonating them is far more powerful than they are.

  As for how Julia knows Aqua isn’t actually a member of their clan?

  It’s because she looks different than they do.

  The clan members all share the same physical traits with each other, along with one more unique skill.

  All of the clan members have slit grey eyes, long bluish gray hair, and have retractable grey claws on their hands and feet. With scales they can make appear and disappear as they please.

  Unlike Aqua who often uses tentacle based powers and has whiteless pitch black eyes with a glowing blue slit in them, as well as deep blue almost black hair.

  And no scales or regular claws.

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  But the biggest sign that she isn’t a member of the clan is how her name is actually on the leaderboards.

  Because the clan members all seem to have some sort of skill that removes their names from the leaderboards.

  One that they can activate and deactivate at will, as one of them did it for a brief moment just to prove to Julia that they were human in the first place.

  But even they don’t appear to be the same level as Aqua with them being at least fifty to a hundred levels behind her.

  “Do you agree with the plan? Or will you remain neutral?” the clan member asks without bothering to respond to her complaint.

  Julia sighs at their blatant act of ignoring her.

  “No matter how much her strength worries me, we need it to face the stronger monsters,” Julia eventually answers. “The Cryaxis Hunter’s City will remain neutral in the conflict.”

  A few seconds pass as the clan member glares at her before the clan member dissipates into a pool of water that appears out of nowhere.

  Vanishing from her office.

  Julia sighs again while looking at her door, in what she believes is the direction Aqua is.

  I don’t like being told to choose sides.

  Aqua

  I let out a yawn as I walk out of the Guild while looking at my status.

  [REQUESTING STATUS: USER AQUA AZURANTH]

  [STATUS RETRIEVED]

  [Name: Aqua Azuranth]

  [Level: 293]

  [Mana: 2930/2930]

  [Strength: 324(216)]

  [Dexterity: 186]

  [Constitution: 187]

  [Magical Strength: 190]

  [REGEN: 5556]

  [MEN: 190]

  [Free Points: 0]

  [Traits: Physique of the Abyssal Kraken, Apex Predator of the Depths, Lifeblood of the Abyssal Kraken, World First Ranker, Scales of the Abyssal Kraken, Galaxy First Ranker, Special Core 1x, Mana Metabolism]

  [Skills]

  [END STATUS]

  I’m so close to my next trait. Just seven more levels.

  I can’t help but smile at that thought as I admire my lovely status.

  The only issue right now is that it’s getting harder and harder to get REGEN stat points. Since the deeper I go, the fewer monsters there are in any particular area.

  So there are fewer monsters at my level to kill.

  And that’s getting annoying.

  Although my REGEN is high enough now that it’s not as big of an issue. Since my REGEN stat is high enough to heal in the middle of a battle now.

  It’s high enough now that something that would normally take an entire month to heal for a regular human only takes a little over an hour to heal for me.

  And that’s absolutely incredible.

  Meanwhile larger cuts and bruises that would normally take a week to heal will only take like fifteen minutes to heal.

  And smaller cuts and bruises that only take a day or two to heal will instead take just a few minutes to heal.

  So it really is high enough now to regenerate in the middle of a battle.

  That alone has me smiling uncontrollably as I leave the guild and the city beyond it. Entering the water where I immediately dive down in the direction of the higher level monsters.

  Because I want to reach level three hundred for that new trait as soon as I can.

  Of course, I ignore the comments in the chat calling me cute because of the uncontrollable smile on my face. And the messages still saying that hashtag mineraqua thing make me really wish I could ban people from my chat.

  But too bad for me, that’s not possible until after I become an official pioneer.

  After I become the highest level being on Oceana.

  I continue moving down deeper into the water until I find some large monsters to begin hunting. With my new abyssal servants that I got from that last battle.

  Unfortunately for me though, that mental offensive monster that I fought at the end of the battle is kind of useless. Seeing as its main offensive power was mental attacks.

  Which aren’t usable by abyssal servants who have no minds.

  So it doesn’t matter that I got it. At all.

  I let out a sigh at that thought before continuing to hunt. And hunt. And hunt some more.

  Even after entire days go by, I just don’t stop hunting. Without any sleep.

  I just hunt the monsters that I can find in the ocean. Which aren’t as powerful as the ones in dungeons or lairs.

  But after days of fighting – most of which is spent just sending my abyssal servants to fight for me – I finally reach level three hundred.

  Where I get my next trait at last.

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