Levi had walked out of the guild hall, finally free from the death-glares of the male adventurers and the hungry stares of the female ones. Just breathing the fresh Axel air felt like an escape.
Of course, Luna wasn't about to let him go.
"I'll guide you to your first quest," she said with a bright smile, clasping her hands behind her back as she followed him like a loyal puppy.
Levi raised a brow. "I don't need a babysitter."
Her cheeks puffed up instantly. "I'm not babysitting, I'm making sure a noble doesn't get lost."
Levi just chuckled under his breath, though in his head he screamed, 'I told you, I'm broke! I'm BROKE!'
They reached the edge of the forest, and his Slime bounced happily beside him like a green jelly mascot. Levi stopped, arms crossed.
"If I remember correctly," he muttered, "you showed up because you sensed my energy, right?"
The Slime made a squishy sound that might have been agreement.
Levi thought for a moment, then shrugged. "Well, worth a try. Summon Inferior Slimes."
The air rippled. At first, nothing happened. Levi tilted his head—
BAM!
A tidal wave of slimes shot out from the forest, tackling him to the ground.
"GAH—?! Too many—too many!!"
Dozens of colorful slimes bounced on top of him like a human trampoline. His eyes spun as Luna gasped, covering her mouth in shock.
"L-Levi-sama, are you okay!?"
Levi's muffled voice came from beneath the pile. "They were… supposed to be… five…"
One particularly large blue slime jiggled happily on his face like it was claiming territory.
Must've sensed my water energy… Levi groaned in his head. Damn it, now what? Do I just say, 'Kill yourselves for me'? That feels weird!
The slimes continued bouncing around, making him look less like a fearsome adventurer and more like a man buried under a squishy dogpile of jelly. Luna's face turned red as she tried not to laugh, kicking her legs under her skirt nervously.
Levi just grabbed ten of the slimes, holding them like oversized water balloons. With a smug nod, he turned to Luna.
"Quest complete."
Luna blinked. "…Um, Levi-sama, this is a kill quest."
Levi smiled, completely unbothered. "Yeah, I know. But I already have a slime companion. Why would I kill their cousins? That'd just be rude."
Luna's lips parted, but no sound came out. Her professional guild-receptionist brain screamed failure, paperwork, quest violation! but her maiden heart whispered something else entirely.
'So cute!'
Her face turned slightly red as she covered her mouth with her hand, pretending to cough. Levi, oblivious, crouched down and let the slimes bounce happily around him like toddlers with too much sugar.
"I mean, look at them," Levi continued, patting one slime that jiggled in response. "How could anyone stab this little guy? He's basically a jelly pet with googly eyes."
The slimes chorused with happy squishes, as if agreeing.
Luna's inner thoughts screamed again. 'CUTE!! HE'S LIKE A FATHER SURROUNDED BY CHILDREN!'
Levi stood up, still cradling the slimes. "Well, if the guild wants proof, I'll just say they… uh… surrendered."
Luna stared. "…You're going to turn in live slimes as proof of a kill quest?"
"Exactly. Efficient, humane, and—" he smirked, "—environmentally friendly."
Another squish noise followed, and one slime even jumped onto his shoulder like a parrot.
Luna almost swooned on the spot.
Luna cleared her throat nervously. "I may… need to check the rulebook once we get back, but um—"
Her words were cut short by a deep, echoing roar. The forest shook as birds scattered into the sky.
"W-What was that!?" Luna gasped, immediately darting behind Levi like a frightened cat.
Levi carefully lowered the slimes to the ground. "Stay put, jelly crew," he said calmly, straightening.
From between the trees, a massive brown bear emerged, its fur bristling with shadows, an ominous glowing X scar carved across its chest. Its eyes burned red as it fixed on the two of them like prey.
Luna's voice trembled. "T-That's a Darkmarked Beast! Rank—Rank Advanced! We—we need to run—"
But the bear suddenly froze mid-step. Its instincts screamed danger as it felt the crushing weight of Levi's dragonic aura. For a split second, it hesitated.
Then, roaring defiantly, it charged.
And then—
BANG!
The sound split the air, echoing through the forest like thunder. The bear collapsed instantly, a smoking hole clean through its head.
Levi casually lowered one of his gunblades, blowing off the faint trace of smoke from the barrel. "Yeah, no thanks. I'm not wrestling with an evil Winnie-the-Pooh."
Luna's jaw dropped. She stared at the corpse, then at Levi, then back at the corpse. "Y-Y-You… you just…!?"
Levi shrugged, twirling the gunblade. "What? I've got guns. Why wouldn't I use them? What kind of idiot sees a giant shadow-bear and thinks, 'Yeah, I'll fight that thing with a stick.'"
The slimes all bounced up and down in unison, as if cheering. SQUISH! SQUISH!
Luna clutched her chest, face beet-red. Cool… he's so cool!!
Levi holstered the gunblade, scooped up the slimes again, and smirked. "Anyway… now the quest's double complete."
Back in the guild hall, the air fell silent. Adventurers froze mid-drink, mid-card game, even mid-brawl. All eyes turned to the door.
Normally, when newbies took a kill quest, they came back empty-handed… if they came back at all. At best, a couple scratches, some tears, and excuses like "The monster was too strong!" or "It wasn't worth it!"
But today?
Levi casually strolled through the door with ten jiggling slimes bouncing happily behind him… and one very, very dead Darkmarked Bear dragging across the floor, leaving a deep scratch trail in the wood.
And the most terrifying part? He was chatting with Luna like he had just gone grocery shopping.
"Man, that thing was heavy. Do you guys offer parking for murder-bears? Or do I just drop it here?" Levi asked casually, letting the beast thud onto the floor in front of the counter.
The guild hall went pin-drop silent. Someone dropped their mug. Another adventurer fainted face-first into his stew.
At the counter, Luna fumbled with her paperwork, her face red as she ducked behind the desk. She quickly yanked out a giant leather-bound book titled "Guild Rulebook: 7th Edition, Unabridged (Now with Pictures!)".
"J-Just give me a second!" she squeaked, frantically flipping through the pages. "I… I have to check if living monsters can be… submitted… for… um… kill quests…"
Levi raised an eyebrow, scratching his head. "You don't know?"
"I-I've never had anyone try this before!" Luna squeaked again, looking like her soul was leaving her body.
Meanwhile, the slimes were happily bouncing on top of the dead bear's stomach like it was a trampoline.
From the adventurers' corner, someone finally broke the silence.
"…That's… that's illegal, right?"
"No, no, it's gotta be cheating—he skipped a whole rank of progression!"
"He tamed slimes! Who the hell tames slimes!?"
"He's stealing all the girls at this rate too, damn it!"
The whole hall erupted into noisy chaos as everyone tried to make sense of Levi's "quest complete."
Luna flipped frantically, her finger trailing down the dense rules. Finally, she straightened up, face serious.
"…It's allowed," she declared.
The guild hall gasped.
Levi grinned, pointing at the happy bouncing slimes. "Quest complete, then."
Then, casually, he jabbed a thumb at the enormous corpse of the Darkmarked Bear still leaking ominous black smoke on the floor. "And this one?"
Luna blinked, hesitated, then slowly turned toward the quest board. Her eyes scanned over the parchment until she found it. She pulled the sheet free and read aloud:
[Quest: Find and kill the Dreadmarked Bear terrorizing the southern woods.]
Rank: Advanced
Reward: 50,000 Eris
The room went silent again. A spoon clattered onto the floor somewhere.
Luna stared at Levi with wide eyes. "…That… was a different quest. You didn't… take it."
Levi tilted his head. "But I did complete it."
The Rulebook was back in her hands before she even realized it. Her knuckles white, she flipped through the pages at record speed.
"W-well technically…" she muttered, scanning like her life depended on it. "…I-It doesn't say… you must accept the quest beforehand to claim… so if the conditions are fulfilled…"
The guild hall roared.
"He's hacking the system!"
"This guy's a monster!"
"No, worse—he's a bureaucratic monster!"
"Why do I feel like the guild's about to collapse because of one guy!?"
Luna slammed the Rulebook shut with a nervous smile that tried and failed to hide her panic. "S-so… Congratulations, Levi-sama. Y-you… uh… technically completed two quests."
Levi beamed. "Great! So how much do I get?"
The entire guild choked on their drinks.
One of the adventurers shot up from his chair, slamming his mug onto the table.
"THAT'S CHEATING! JUST CHEATING!"
The guild hall erupted in agreement.
But then, one of the older receptionists—an elderly woman with glasses hanging on her nose by a thread—looked up from her paperwork. She didn't even flinch at the chaos.
"Actually," she said in a calm, almost bored tone, "this rule has been there since the guild was founded. It's in Section 3, Subclause 12 of the Adventurer's Charter. 'Completion of quest requirements may be validated regardless of contract initiation, so long as the request exists on the official board.'"
Silence.
Every adventurer froze. Even Luna turned to gape at her elder.
"W-wait… that's a real thing!?"
The older receptionist shrugged. "No one ever bothered to drag back extra monsters before. Everyone just assumed it wouldn't work."
The room exploded again.
"YOU MEAN I COULD'VE BEEN DOUBLE-DIPPING THIS WHOLE TIME!?"
"Wait, what if I just kill random goblins every day? Do I get infinite goblin quests!?"
"No way, that's— that's… oh gods, I've been poor for nothing!"
"WHY DIDN'T ANYONE READ THE RULEBOOK!?"
Meanwhile, Levi just scratched his cheek, completely unfazed. "Huh. Neat. Guess I'll just do that from now on."
Luna slammed her hands on the desk, panic in her eyes. "P-please don't turn the guild into chaos, Levi-sama!"
Levi cleared his throat, feeling the strange pressure of everyone's eyes on his back. He hadn't meant to start a riot—he'd just wanted a quiet slime quest and maybe a decent bowl of stew—but momentum had a way of carrying people.
"Before any of you get bright ideas about doing what I did," he said, voice calm but carrying across the hall, "think carefully. You might lose your life if you try to copy me."
The room stilled. Men who had been mid-rant abruptly shut up. A few of the bolder ones opened their mouths to protest, then looked at the scratched floor where the darkmarked bear had dragged itself, and shut them again. The reality of a random adventurer actually dragging back an Advanced-ranked corpse—and the risk that implied—had a sobering effect.
Luna hovered behind the counter, clutching the rulebook like a talisman. Her cheeks were still rosy, and her expression had that mix of professional alarm and starstruck adoration that made half the guild want to curse and the other half want to faint. A register clerk hurried over with a heavy leather purse; Luna's hands trembled as she counted the payout aloud.
"Fifty thousand eris for the dreadmarked bear… plus five hundred for the slime quest," she read, eyes wide. "Fifty thousand five hundred eris total."
A roar of noise tried to rise—some jealous, some excited—but Levi was already hefting the purse, slinging it over his shoulder with the same casual air he'd worn since stepping off the water-path. His ten new slime friends wobbled beside him, plopping over each other cheerfully as if the whole affair were the most normal thing in the world.
As he moved toward the guild doors, a couple of younger adventurers surged up, ready to tail him and learn his "secrets." They advanced two steps before the older veterans in the hall gave them one look and a chorus of muffled, "Don't be idiots," and the would-be copycats sank back to their seats.
Luna called after him, voice a little breathless: "Levi—if you ever need help—um—come back! We'll—" she trailed off, blushing so hard it was visible even from across the room.
Levi glanced over his shoulder, gave a small half-smile, and waved once. "Thanks. I'll be back. Don't let the rulebook catch dust, okay?"
Then he stepped outside, the bell above the guild door tinkling behind him. The cold air hit his face and felt like a tiny, merciful slap of normalcy.
As he walked away with the purse and the slimes, the thought that had been nagging him all day popped into his head and made him snort quietly.
I don't even know what I just said, he thought. But hey—apparently it worked.
His slime companion squelched happily at his feet, and Levi's grin widened. For the first time since waking up in a fog with a talking goddess and a cardboard rule menu, things were going his way—messy, ridiculous, and absolutely not boring.
Levi then realized something. "Where did I even go to stay, actually?".
He then walked to the water and called for Nereis in the river of Axel, and then came out the Water Nymph
Nereis looked at him S he spoke. "Oh, master Levi, you called for me, what may this Humble Servant do for you?".
Levi just looked at her with a deadpan face. As he sighed internally, he spoke. "Just a place to stay, do you know a Ho-"
He was cut off as Nereis' eyes smarkled. "Yes, Master, please follow me".
She started to move the water, as a whirlpool was made, as Levi took a deep breath, as he put his feet on it, as the slime followed him, he closed his eyes, but something happened, he didn't feel wet or cold, he opened his eyes, and his body felt dry.
He took a few seconds, and it made sense. He was a water dragon. He looked around, and something caught his throat. There was a mansion, made out of water, as Nereis looked with sparkling eyes.
Nereis looked at him as she spoke. "Do you like it, master? I told a few spirits that the Grand Child of the Leviathan is here, after hearing that they and a few other Nymphs got to work with the magic".
Levi just yalled his mind in disbelief. "I was only gone for 1 hour."
Levi looked at her, as he put back at her as she spoke. "It's good".
jaw slack, eyes wide. Crystal-like walls shimmered in the moonlight, waves folding into pillars, windows rippling like liquid glass. The whole place looked like something out of a fairy tale—or, in his mind, like something Aqua would've bragged about owning but never managed to keep from collapsing.
He rubbed his temples. I leave for one hour. One. Hour. And suddenly I'm apparently royalty with a house made of… wet architecture?
Nereis floated beside him, clasping her hands together, eyes sparkling like a fangirl at a stage concert. "It's not just any mansion, Master. The walls are reinforced with spirit-bonded enchantments. It will stay as solid as stone, yet remain as fluid as water. The nymphs said it's a once-in-a-millennium honor to house the kin of Leviathan himself."
Levi just blinked. "…And you did all this in, what, sixty minutes? While I was out getting slimed and shooting a bear in the face?"
Nereis nodded vigorously, as if this were the most natural thing in the world. "Yes! Time flows quickly when spirits hear something exciting. Everyone wanted to contribute! The rivers, the springs, even the wells sent whispers of magic. Look—there's even a hot spring inside the mansion. It cleanses fatigue instantly."
Levi pinched the bridge of his nose and muttered, "I just wanted a cheap inn bed, maybe with breakfast included…"
The slime happily plopped into the shimmering fountain near the entrance, splashing as if it owned the place.
Nereis floated closer, voice soft, hopeful. "Do you… like it, Master?"
Levi stared at her sparkling eyes, then at the literal palace behind her, then back at her. His shoulders slumped. "…It's good."
Nereis lit up like a firework. "Truly?! Oh, I'm so glad! I'll inform the other spirits right away—they'll be thrilled!"
As she darted off, Levi sighed, dragging a hand down his face. Great. Day one in Axel, and I already own a luxury water mansion. This is either peak luck… or the setup for something really, really stupid.
He glanced back at the mansion's glimmering gates, then muttered, "Yep. Definitely stupid."
The slime squeaked in agreement.
Meanwhile, in the Primordial Void, where the currents of nothingness twisted and churned, figures cloaked in shadow gathered. Their forms flickered like silhouettes behind curtains of cosmic mist, each radiating an aura so ancient the stars themselves would have bowed.
One of the shadowed beings finally broke the silence, voice deep and echoing like a hymn sung in reverse.
"Leviathan… it seems one of your descendants is stirring up trouble in a lesser world."
From the darkness, the water thickened, coiling into a vast, monstrous shape. A titanic form revealed itself—scales darker than the abyss, tendrils writhing across its body, countless eyes opening and closing like galaxies collapsing. When it grinned, rows of jagged teeth gleamed like obsidian blades.
This was Leviathan, the primordial sea serpent of chaos, spoken of in scripture and feared by creation itself.
"Descendant?" His voice rumbled, a mix of tidal waves and cracking glaciers. "Do not speak such nonsense, Tiamat. I have only one son, Neuvillette, and one granddaughter, Furina. That is my bloodline, and I recognize no other."
The shadowy figure opposite him chuckled—a voice ancient, feminine, yet heavy with motherly dread. Her outline stretched into infinity, scales and wings that could have once blotted the world, her smile serpentine. This was Tiamat, Mother of Monsters.
"Oh, but Leviathan…" she purred, her words dripping with mockery and glee. "This one bears your blood. Not fully, no—but half-human, half-dragon. The mana of your tide flows within him, whether you claim him or not."
Leviathan's many eyes blinked, then narrowed. Instead of rage, he burst into booming laughter that shook the void. The other shadows stirred uneasily at the sound, some stepping back.
"Ahahahaha! So that's how it is. That world. That pathetic little playground of a goddess. How amusing!" His tendrils whipped the void like whips of thunder. "A half-blood child of chaos in her garden of fools… Excellent. It seems my legacy of the Chaos Tide has taken root once more."
Tiamat tilted her head, her smile curling wider. "Then you will not interfere?"
Leviathan's laughter died down, his rows of eyes burning brighter. "No. Let the boy carve his fate. If he thrives, then he proves himself worthy of carrying my essence. If he falls, then he was never mine to begin with."
The other figures in the void murmured, their whispers like storm winds and cracking stone. The stage had been set, though Levi himself seemed content to simply watch.
Still, as he sank back into the abyss, his voice carried one final, chilling note:
"Half-human or not… if the child awakens the true Chaos Tide, not even the gods of that world will be able to leash him."
And in the mortal world, far away in the cozy little town of Axel, Levi sneezed.
"…The hell? Did someone just talk about me?" He muttered, rubbing his nose, while his slime companion happily bounced in circles.
To be continued
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