“You, eh, sir? Shall come to see the king at once, on his majesty’s order!”

And that’s how I was woken up.

They opened the door, with whatever lock-picking ability they have, and yelled that.

I yawn and stretch out.

It’s been a week since I became S-Rank, and I’ve done three quests since then.

All of them were LVL 100-150 dragons.

I’ve gained a couple of LVL’s from that, but why were all of them dragons?

There was barely any other option but Dragons.

The squire looking dude walked out looking confused and shut the door.

By the way, now that I’m S-Class I got a pretty snazzy apartment.

I have a balcony, a freaking balcony, not like those cheap ones that are smaller than a bed, I have a deck balcony, I could have a small party if I wanted, do an entire barbeque on this balcony.

And I have a huge bedroom, a trampoline-like bed, I don’t know what it’s made of, but it’s bouncy and comfy, what more could I ask for.

I have a kitchen and dining room, but I don’t really use them, because I can’t cook.

Anyway enough about my house, even though it’s awesome, everything I could ask for.

Let’s go to the king.

…

I have no idea where the king lives.

There are no castles in Convictoni.

Just huge walls.

Maybe I can catch up to the squire and ask.

I walk out the door and to the entrance of my apartment complex.

No trace.

Well, then I’ll ask the guild.

Walking in this town has taught me something, people adapt quickly, and if a tourist is here then they are very easy to spot.

The adaptation part is because no one notices me anymore, the tourist part is that they always notice me.

“Excuse me little chocobo, are you lost.”

(“No.”)

Of course, they always act surprised when I talk back.

“I’m sorry did you just talk.”

(“Yes, and I’ve been summoned by the king, so I have to go.”)

“And it has a sense of humor, I’ve gone insane.”

It’s the truth, but I’ll leave them thinking they are crazy.

Before I got to the guild, I saw the crowd.

There are so many people that I thought they were rioting.

I try to get around people, but quickly get squished in between peoples legs.

Instead I fly over their heads, that got a couple eyes, but most were focused on looking for something in the guild.

I go through the large door above people's heads into the guild, and then I see, surprise more people.

The guild is packed, you would think there was a concert or something.

I try to look for somebody who could tell me where the king lives, as the counter where the guild workers are packed.

I kinda feel sorry for them, but this is their job.

I see the lady who tried to stop me at the guild door, she’s in the corner drinking adult juice with her party members I assume.

I approach her and try to get her attention, (“Excuse me?”)

She looked around until her eyes landed on me.

I get the feeling I might struggle to get an answer from her.

She hasn’t stopped blinking since she saw me and her head is tilted almost sideways.

It’s morning, but I think she’s had way too much adult juice.

The entire party has that look.

“Wha-t, isit.”

Well, might try a direct question, (“Where does the king live?”)

“He liv-*hiccup*-es in the castlllle.”

(“Where is the castle?”)

“Phshhh, why don’t you kno-*hiccup*-ow?”

(“I’ve never been to it?”)

“Wellll, why didn’t you say so, *hiccup*, it’s in Voyaltry.”

(“Where is Voyaltry.”)

“Stop asking so many questions, you’re making my head hurt *hiccup*.”

I’ll have to ask a different question, something easier.

(“Can I see a map that shows me where each town is.”)

“Rolak, he wants the map.”

“He can’t have the map, it's mine.”

“Let him see the ------- map.”

My poor child bird ears.

“Jeez fine, just see it, you can’t have it.”

He laid a map on the table, knocking down a drink, and then cursing, but I saw it.

If this town was the size of a donut, the city of Voraltry was an entire plate.

It was huge, there were plenty of towns on the map, but only three places stood out.

Convictoni, Voraltry, and Rigundiret.

Convictoni and Rigundiret were similar sizes, but Voraltry was bigger than both of them combined.

The thing is, the towns were in a straight line from one another, from left, Convictoni, to all the way to the east, to Rigundiret.

It was definitely on purpose, if not the coincidence would be scary.

At least I know I can’t miss it, so on to Voraltry.

I make my way to the guild door, but before I hear.

“There he is, question him.”

It was the female guild clerk pointing at… me.

The entire guild turned to me, I recognized most of them as regular townspeople.

“You’re, the new monstrous S-Rank adventurer.”

(“No.”)

Judging by their reactions, I guess it would be a bad thing if I said yes.

“Yes, he is an S-rank adventurer Monster, the rumor must have skewed to monstrous making you think he was very powerful and strong-looking, now that you’ve seen him, could you leave the guild, actual adventurers need help.”

A bunch of people started inching closer to me.

“S-rank monster adventurer, I’m with the Heaven Union, I would like to make you an offer to join for multiple Level Up Pills.”

That brings in memories, those terrible-tasting pills that I won from the filolial village, why would I want those.

“No no no, he doesn’t need those disgusting pills, My guild, the Knights of Greater Good will give you plenty of opportunities to LVL up skills with battles suited for your LVL, we have three S-Ranks and you can take it from them how satisfactory our guild is to their services.”

Yikes, what a terrible name, I got to slip out of here, I thought it was a riot, it’s much worse, recruiters.

I back up slowly, to find the entrance full of people staring.

“I’d like you to join my…” “I’d like you to test my…” “I’d like to make an offer of…”

Phrases I didn’t stop hearing until I started flying of course.

I immediately head east, the king probably shouldn’t be kept waiting.

How fast can I go, I wondered, I haven’t tried to go full speed flying, but if I know I can’t miss my destination, I’m going to try flying as fast as I can.

I activate speed up, then stop holding back.

Speeding up, I start seeing blurs, I activate mind acceleration, and then the world goes at normal speed.

Normal speed, my reaction time is multiplied by 5 in mind acceleration.

I am a flying sonic.

Anyway, I start to see something very quickly approaching in front of me.

It’s a town.

Wait, stop.

I try to stop but hit the wall.

Thankfully I lowered my velocity and with my minuscule weight didn’t even hurt it, but it did make a noise.

“Who's there!?”

I hid using my newish skill hide.

The wall is so big that the guy had to be using a skill to be loud.

I walk around toward the south because that’s where the entrance was on the map.

The entrance was crowded, but not like the guild was crowded, it was a neat line, I guess I’ll just wait in the line.

The line went quickly and efficiently.

“Show your identification,” he said sarcastically.

I pulled out my adventurer ID.

He panicked and saluted, “Please go on through.”

And I was in.

That was easy, I miss that button.

I need to make my way to the… castle, well I’ve found it.

I mean how can you miss it.

Neither Disney or Sir Lancelot could top this castle.

I can’t count the number of towers, each roof was bright blue, the number of figureheads on it must have been infinite, and the best part, it has a slide.

No, you read right, a literal slide to get to the bottom quicker I guess.

Almost every balcony has one to the bottom.

The slides have enclosed roofs of course, and I have no idea how they don’t fall, they don’t have supports.

Magic, probably enchant.

I walk through crowds of people to the entrance of the castle, which just has two guards.

“I’m sorry sir, no one is allowed in without a called audience.”

“Please, I’ve got no one to turn to.”

“That’s what the last guy that almost got me fired said, now no one talks to him without a called audience sir.”

“This won’t be the last time you hear from me.”

I walk up to the guard.

“Aww, you lost little guy?”

(“No, I have been called for an audience with the king.”)

I get out my ID.

His expression changes.

“Hold on a minute.”

He takes it and puts it in his hand.

Then the ID did nothing.

He just held it.

“Do you know how to manipulate MP into objects?”

(“I can try?”)

“Good.”

He puts it in my beak, then I use MP manipulation on it, to my surprise instead of the usual liquid sports drink coming out, the pass just vibrates.

“Yep, it’s real, you’re allowed in, I’ll call you an escort.”

Someone appeared immediately, “I’ll take him from here.”

“Redsi, you sure, it’s not your job.”

“The highness told me to take the rest of the day off, but I can’t stop when I see he’s working so hard.”

“If you’re sure.”

“Come this way.”