Standing in the middle of a grassy field where there are no trees, the cold wind brushes my cheeks while my dark hair dances in the air, my hands feel cold without gloves and my jacket is dirty with dirt, looking up at the sky the sun is almost rising.

I have to look for another one, another one and this is all done, at least for this month anyway, encouraging myself in my heart, I felt something coming from ahead.

Looking ahead, what came before me was a creature as tall as a child, with disproportionate ears and a nose on its head, it had green skin and eyes like a goat while holding a wooden stick in its hand, goblin that's its name.

"GYAHA!" the goblin waved the stick in his hand carelessly to intimidate me, raising the kitchen knife in my hand, I prepared to fight once more.

"GYUGE!" Seeing me not intimidated, the goblin ran towards me with its thin legs, even though its body was small, goblins were monsters that were quite strong and agile, their body strength was equivalent to that of an ordinary adult, I've seen so many newbies get concussed because they underestimated goblins in their first encounter.

"GYAAA!" The goblin swung his stick as hard as it could, jumped to the side, I avoided its attack which was aimed at my stomach, if it hit, it would feel like being punched by an adult. luckily, goblins weren't smart creatures, so he lost his balance after his attack missed.

"YAHA?!" Stabbed the goblin's chest from behind, he screamed in surprise and pain, dark blood dripped onto the ground but it seemed like my attack missed a bit because the goblin was still alive while lying face down, quickly pinned the goblin under my foot, I stabbed him to end it.

"AAaAaaA..." After taking his last breath on the ground, I immediatly open the goblin chest.

What Im looking for was a small yellow gem, took it in my hand, I cleaned it from blood with a bottle of water, looked at the gem in front of my eyes I smiled broadly.

With this, I can pay this month's rent!

It's not in vain that I hunted all night, at least, I didn't have to sleep on the road this month, with a feeling of happiness in my heart I almost forgot about the tiredness in my body, looked up at the sky, the sun had started to shine on the grassland and the sky started to turn with dark blue mixed with orange colours, now the first floor of this dungeon will start to fill with people, so I'd better get out of here...

Walking towards the exit, I rubbed my cheeks which were slightly swollen and red after my previous fights, I entered this floor exactly at midnight and it was already six in the morning, so I'd been hunting goblins for six hours and managed to hunt twenty, this alone is a good catch for today.

Humming while patting the cloth bag at my waist, I could feel the many small gems inside.

After walking for some time I was finally able to get out of the dungeon, climbing the wide stairs to the surface what greeted me was the interior of a very large building, built like a mixture of an airport and a mall, this building was built right above the dungeon, inside there were lots of facilities, starting from hundreds of restaurants, equipment shops, training places, apartments, and many more.

This building was called the Canaria dungeon center, and this dungeon was called the Canaria dungeon, the biggest dungeon in Aragis City.

However, what I'm going to right now is one of the biggest shops in this building which is located not far from the dungeon entrance.

With giant writing on it that said Canaria dungeon guild, I entered the glass door quietly.

In the dungeon guild, there are already many adventurers who come to look for quests or just have breakfast in the dungeon guild cafeteria, but the most crowded place is the line of adventurers waiting in front of several receptionists, from left to right the ranks of wood, copper and iron are written, standing in a row of Wood, I waited with several other adventurers.

After five minutes, I finally arrived in front of the female receptionist, with a business smile the receptionist asked me "Is there anything I can help you with?"

"Yes, I want to sell some monster cores" Taking the cloth bag around my waist, I poured the contents into the tray prepared by the receptionist, the sound of the monster cores hitting the iron tray sounded good to my ears.

"Please wait a moment" took the tray, the receptionist immediately poured them into a machine and operated the screen, this machine is called ACAM (automated cores analysis machine) it can calculate the quality of the monster cores and find the latest price, after a few moments, the receptionist turned towards me and offered a price for 20 goblin monster cores, "we offer 240 credits for all the cores"

"Yes please!" I quickly spoke, Goblin cores are usually worth 10 credits a piece, on bad days they are sometimes worth 9 credits, and 11 on good days, so 12 credits per piece is a very good price.

"thank you, Please come back anytime"

walking away while looking at the credits on my smartphone screen, suddenly I felt a painful feeling in my stomach, ahh...my stomach started to rebel...

I hadn't eaten anything since lunch yesterday, looking at the adventurers who were eating heartily in the cafeteria, I thought about buying some food but my thoughts were distracted by the vibration of the smartphone in my hand, looking at the screen, Lisa's name was displayed.

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Is it due already? Walking to the quieter corner, I picked up the call then a familiar voice rang in my ears "Brother Ren, how are you doing..."

listening to the young girl's voice, I ignored the pain in my stomach and the tiredness in my shoulders, speaking cheerfully I answered "Lisa? I'm doing good, you sound weak, have you had breakfast?"

I spoke jokingly, hearing my answer, the girl sounded relieved before speaking "Yes, I have... Brother Ren, have you eaten too?"

"I've had 3 plates haha!" I lied, sitting on a nearby bench, I spoke while looking at the adventurers passing by.

"Is that so, I'm thankful you are alright...brother Ren...mm...actually..." Hearing her hesitant voice I already knew what she wanted to ask, I am now 15 years old, three months ago I lived in an orphanage in the village, when I entered high school I decided to try my luck in the city and become an adventurer because being an adventurer can start from the age of 15, after that I managed to support myself even though it was difficult.

Unfortunately, two months ago the biggest benefactor of the orphanage died so the poor orphanage barely managed to feed the children there, because I still had many people who I considered relatives there I decided to send some money to the orphanage, This way the orphanage didn't get disbanded even though I was really struggling right now, I didn't regret it.

"Lisa there is no need to be reluctant to me, you are all my family after all, I hope you all doing fine"

"yes, we are doing fine here, but we are worried about brother Ren..." Lisa said with uneasiness in her voice.

"Haha, no need to worry, I'm happy here, don't worry Lisa, I will send money for this month, please buy delicious food for the others okay?"

"Thank you very much, brother Ren, please don't force yourself"

"I won't, also, I'll become a high-level adventurer one day so there's no need to think about me, I'm strong"

"Yes...Brother Ren, what job class you have?" Lisa asked curiously, she sounded quite excited.

why suddenly? Lisa doesn't usually ask this kind of questions, I guess everyone is interested in job class and leveling, I hope she doesn't dream of being an adventurer.

"Lisa, it's rude to ask adventurer job class you know, It's a taboo" I dodged the question.

"ah! I'm sorry brother Ren! I don't know!"

"Haha, no, that's alright... Hm?...ah I'm sorry Lisa, but my party members called so I have to go now"

"...yes, I hope you and your friends succeed in your adventure, brother Ren"

"I will keep it in my heart, that's all for now, see you later"

"See you"

"Haaahhh" Hang up the call, I let out a big sigh from my mouth, there is no way I could tell her my job class, leaning my body on my bench, looked up on the ceiling, I closed my eyes to find a little peace in my mind.

Right now I have 7340 credits, I need 1200 credits to pay for my apartment and 6000 credits to be sent to the orphanage, it leaves me with 140 credits to live for a month, but since I have the money for my room and the orphanage, I feel the weight was lifted from my shoulders, about meals, I could scrap it from here and there.

"BZZz~ BzZZ~"

"Hm?" felt the smartphone ring again in my pocket, I looked at who was calling and what was written on the screen was 'manager'

huh? I don't have a part-time job scheduled today, picking up the call, the manager's loud voice hurts my ears "Ren! we need your help here! or we will be defeated!"

"Please wait a moment manager... what's going on? defeated by who?"

"How can you tell me to wait! There are so many customers today!"

"Ah I see, do you want me to come to work?"

"yeah! as fast as you can!"

"I understand your situation manager but-"

"I will give you a special bonus today! Come here quickly!"

"right away!" ran to the locker room where I kept my change of clothes, I quickly changed clothes and ran out of the dungeon guild.

Running through the busy crowd of adventurers in the dungeon center, I saw a lot more people than usual today, arrived at the parking lot, I took my trusty old bicycle, pedaled my bicycle out of the large parking lot and turned onto the main road.

"Happy 500th anniversary! Aragis city!"

riding on the main road, I was immediately greeted by a parade and megaphones that enlivened the streets, high in the air, between skyscrapers of the city, a giant blimp floating in the air carrying big blue letters that read (Happy 500th anniversary of the founding of the Dungeon City)

The streets are filled with vehicles and pedestrians, looking in all directions, there are many red flags with shield and sword emblem on them, this is the flag of the city of Aragis, I almost forgot that today is the 500th anniversary since the founding of this city, No wonder the manager is overwhelmed.

The city of Aragis is located in the northeastern part of the continent, sharing borders with three other large regions, to the south there is the South Sea, to the east there is the Republic of Parabellum, to the southeast there is the fireflies-free city, and to the west there is the kingdom of Fliran.

Aragis city is a city of adventurers, it has its own government under the dungeon guild and senates, so it is more like a small country, this city was originally just a place where adventurers built simple buildings as a place for them to live during expeditions into the dungeon, however, over time it developed into a giant city and Aragis become famous as the dungeon city, where you could find power and opportunity.

Parrabelum Republic on the other hand is a democratic country led by a president and parliament and is the strongest country of the four regions in this area, strangely Parrabelum Republic is the only one that does not have adventurers as a military force or affiliation with dungeon guilds within the country, instead, Parrabelum has an elite army with a fairly high level and rapid technological progress, even though right now they are on the verge of war with Naga Diraja Empire which is located across their territory.

meanwhile, Fireflies-free city is the city with the smallest area in this region, just like Aragis, Fireflies city has its own government, but they are led by one of the strongest clans on the continent called Gray Wolf, their government system is more like a dictatorship, however, Their regulations are actually looser than other city to prioritize economic progress and profit, making Fireflies-Free City visited by rich people from all over the world, I heard you can buy anything in Free City, but it's a bad place for poor people like me.

and lastly the Fliran Kingdom which is located in the west, the Fliran Kingdom is a kingdom with a monarchy system led by the royal family and nobles, the Fliran Kingdom has the largest area of the other three, if all the territories of Aragis, Fireflies and Parabellum are combined and multiplied by 3, that is the area of Fliran kindom in proportion to its very large population, however, the Fliran Kingdom is only the third strongest of the 4 regions, both militarily and economically, because the Florian Kingdom focuses more on agriculture and exporting raw goods, making it not have much influence.

With this, four northeastern regions were formed and competed with each other, there are several countries and cities outside this region but I don't know much about them, let alone the countries behind the great desert of Kalajen or the other two continents.

Lost in my thoughts, I cycled through the lively and noisy city.