Sacrifice: Time of Mine

Chapter 45: Bottom-Eaters

Almost all the Riskers gave their attention to the three.

"Hey! You three are late! Are you beginning to slack?!" one man in his twenties laughed.

"That couldn't be, these three are the toughest! They wouldn't slack!" within the crowd, one replied.

This exchange was thrown from here to there while the three; Naron, Temon, and Fobo ignored them with their eyes somewhere else.

"Hey, Fobo, we have some left-overs here!"

"On my way!" Fobo ran over to the ones who shouted.

"Hey, Fobo! You never stop humiliating yourselves for food!" Naron stomped but knew that Fobo will never stop. This made Naron ignore it.

"Naron, you came again." a middle-aged lady smiled sweetly at him as she waved her hand.

Seeing her, Naron made a dumb face, "Lady Yan, of course, I came." he then went straight to her, not aware of his dumb face.

"Hehe, Naron still haven't accepted the reality that he was only seen as a friend. Lady Yan is a widowed woman and she doesn't accept a man." Temon slowly shook his head in pity while he whispered at Avion.

Then a group at the table shouted at Temon, "Hey, Scholarly Temon!"

"Yes!?" Temon smiled upon hearing that name.

"Pronounce n-e-g-l-i-g-i-b-l-e!"

Hearing that, he pondered for a while before his smile turning confident, Temon answered, "Nejijibol!" 

But only received laughter. After a while, the three conversed with different people. While Fobo's meaning of the word "conversed" was a little different than the two. He was just eating left-overs from left to right. 

The title Bottom-eaters was because of his nature. The three were fun to see since they were always taking the lowest jobs and failing. However, the real reason it was fun to see them was that these three never missed a day to go to the guild!

Even though they were failing each time and were humiliated at first, they come back the next day. This gained the admiration of others and eventually, they were accepted.

Although they weren't really part of the guild, they were treated as important. Riskers, as the name implied, always take the risk that involves their lives. If they take low-ranking missions, the rewards were not enough to improve their strength which will stagnate their progression. 

Strength is greatly sought for, especially in this world!

High risk, high return. 

They have to take jobs that were dangerous for them to get stronger. However, fear was always lingering in their hearts. What if, they die on that day? This goes on and many quitted. However, that slightly changed when these three came.

Their stubborn nature inspired others. Even though their jobs are just cleaning houses and finding lost cats, they always fail. 

Some say humiliation is worse than death. And these people took the name Riskers for they are proud of it. Meaning, they wouldn't accept humiliation!

But three comes back again and again even after unending humiliation. It was as if, they were coming back for death. But then they, the Riskers would quit even though they have the strength? No!

'I am not less courageous than them!' the Riskers couldn't accept it as it would devastate their pride.

For this reason, each time they see the three enter, their spirits would restore. They were important to the guild but not that the three were aware of it.

Avion was in the middle of them but was not left alone. Temon was on his side.

"Hm? Who's the new guy?" someone finally noticed.

At first, they thought that the new guy was a noble taking a stroll. His appearance is largely contrasting from the three. So the thought of these four being together didn't cross their mind at first. Only when this pretty boy was noticeably following Temon did they ask.

To this question, Temon's expression became profound, "I mean, who are we really?"

"Oh, he started." the group seemed used to this.

In the end, they were called by Naron, and the group that asked didn't get anything. They just shrugged their shoulders but Avion's face attracts the envious gazes from men and the daze from women so they were a little curious.

None of them could connect him as the one who offended the King of Karan and slapped Princess Alisera.

"Sorry for making you wait." Naron apologized.

"No, it's fine," Temon smirked while he tilts his head up.

"I'm talking to Avion."

"Hmph!"

Avion smiled at this.

'So precious.' every girl in the vicinity thought of this when they saw him smile. They couldn't be blamed. If Avion was a girl, the men's reaction would be wilder.

"Another wonderful day," Fobo said while patting his enlarged belly.

Naron and Temon just gave him glances of disappointment.

"Come, let's take some jobs now." Naron smiled at Avion before leading them towards the counter at the very end.

A young man with a lifeless expression was standing behind the last counter. There was a line there that was almost non-existent to the other counters. Just like the boards with different frames, there were two counters for each. 

The last two were meant for the missions on the wooden frame.

The young man with a lifeless expression was one of the clerks of the guild that handles the process of Riskers taking missions. But in the case of that field, they couldn't be called Riskers.

The wooden frame signified the Rank Eeh which was not even considered as Elementalist. The jobs there were mainly what the three are always taking. It was the simplest and by taking these jobs, they couldn't be considered as Riskers. They could only take Low-level Missions, from Difficulty Level 1 to 5. 

Anyway, Naron already took a paper from a board which was immediately replaced by staff.

"What's the job you took today?" Temon asked which Naron answered with a smirk;

"Hehe, today, we are going up on the difficulty. I took a Difficult Level 3!" he then showed the paper to the three.

"Get ten buckets of coal in the coal mine in one day? Reward, a cren?!" Temon and Fobo were shocked. This was the first time they took a job with the reward of a cren. Although it is just one cren, it amounts to a hundred brons which can buy ten pieces of bread!

"We always fail the mission because the client abuses us. Even though we did what we were asked, they still say we failed and does not reward us. Then what about this? We can literally show them the proof if we finish it in one day. And since there are four of us, we can split the reward equally, how about that?!"