NOVEL NEXT Start of the story
Soon enough the field leader brought the two to the meeting area were they could be introduced to the various heads of the groups. as well as debrief them on the information the guild gave them to pass along. this was when the official designation for alex was learned by the the rest of astera including alex. everyone was happy about it minus alex who wanted a badass name like the red star of wisdom or some such name. everyone just laughed when alex motioned this and said he'd need to start putting down elder dragons to earn a new name.
No one was laughing when alex agreed to this suggestion however since it implied that alex was planning to hunt elders. they didn't doubt he could do it either as the story of the two massive ships he had lifted from zorah's back told them he had the raw strength for it. most elder dragons had extreme levels of elemental powers but were only a little physically stronger than normal monsters. alex was the exact opposite in this regard as he had normal monster levels of elemental power but ludacris amounts of physical strength.
The commander briefed the two new comers about the few rules involving alex but the handler named alcina commented that they were mostly common sense type things. simple stuff like don't attack him or steal from him , nothing complex to understand really. alcina did ask if she could sample the monster meat that alex got though. when asked why she explained how she loved trying new foods and the new world was filled with things to try. she mentioned how most hunters just leave all the meat behind on their hunts so she never gets to try it but in alex's case she may be able to.
The commander didn't have any problems with that but told her it wasn't up to them but alex to begin with. alex was hit with the biggest puppy dog eyes ever and it was super effective as he could only relent under that look. everyone laughed as alex was suckered out of a bit of his food by the girl and even teased him for being a big softy. alex just sprayed them in the face with some water this time earning a giggle from the hunter , freya.
Everyone just laughed it off since it as all in good fun and a celebration was thrown to welcome the fifth to the new world later that night. alex somehow ended up with the alcina drunk and passed out on his side in his nest along with five other new fifth fleet people. he understood that it was easy to get lost in a new place after getting drunk but his nest was outside the town for gods sake. alex had a sneaking suspicion that alcina knew exactly where she was but wanted to get away with cuddling against him. the others though were just blackout drunk , he checked.
Alex ignored the six people and got to sleep himself since he was planning on hitting the wild spire waste tomorrow to see how the monster of that area tasted. he had held off on going there until the events of the story began because he only knew that it was active after zorah passed through. he wasn't sure what the ecosystem was going to be like before the events of the story in any particular region and only now after reaching the point he could kill rath members in moments was he confident on tackling the other regions.
Alex's biggest worry however was his weakness to ice attacks that made him especially vulnerable to the legiana of the highlands. nothing super powerful shows up minus the brief appearance of nergigante during the zorah capture mission at this point otherwise. but if alex wasn't wrong the span of the video games story actually takes place over the span of months rather than the days it seemed like. this wasn't strange since if the developers actually made the game take that long it would bomb horribly. gamers were pretty patient normally but there were limits to how far you could repeat the same actions over and over without getting bored.
There were also the daily activities that weren't shown in the game such as freya doing in depth maintenance on her weapons as well as any hobbies she may have. unlike in the game weapons were pretty prone to actually breaking in this world which wasn't surprising considering how they were used. the worse weapon to use in this regard was the gun bow since the things had a very bad habit of misfiring or getting gunked up making it unable to function. in fierce battle with a monster either of those happening was a death sentence and everyone knew it.
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