BXBX NOVEL Chapter 14: The Receptionist.
Chapter 14: The Receptionist.
He did not think it was a great idea to enter the building but the blue-haired Noah did not seem to notice his plight as he took a card out of his pocket and pressed it onto a drawing in the middle of the door that looked like an evil eye.
"Okay, and here we go!"
The drawing made Felix feel like a devil was peeking at him from inside, making him shiver at the mere sight of it. After Noah showed his card, the door glowed reddish around the engravings before it slowly opened.
Felix widened his eyes as the door opened, revealing a hall with many empty sofas at the right and a reception area on the left with someone sitting behind.
The hall appeared like it was well-maintained with lots of unique paintings hanging on the white wall and a magnificent golden chandelier on the ceiling. There was a big board pinned with many papers and notes on it beside the reception area.
The floor was made from what looked like black marble and had an elegant feel to it. Straight ahead of the door around ten meters away, there were stairs that led to the second floor. Overall, it seemed that the person who designed the hall had a dark and gothic sense of style.
"Beautiful...."
Felix blurted out absently as he stared around the hall which was not something that an ordinary person would ever see in their life. He had never seen something like this even on Earth, maybe only those large castles of some royal families would look similar.
"Come here Felix, I\'ll introduce you to the receptionist."
Noah went ahead to talk with the receptionist. They seemed pretty close to her as she smiled happily and stood up when they came inside.
The receptionist was a mature-looking woman wearing a dark red robe over her curvaceous body with shining black earrings that enchanted her looks. Standing straight at 1.65m tall height, she had her blond hair tied in a ponytail and her flirty blue eyes seemed to want to make fun of little kids.
"Miss Elsa, we brought a new member for the guild. Oh and also here to submit our mission."
Noah smiled as he pointed at Felix who was standing there nervously. Hearing Noah call him, he looked at the receptionist and greeted her.
"Ah! Hello there. My name is Felix and I wish to...join the guild?"
Felix said unsurely as he was not yet ready to join something that he had no idea of, but he also had nowhere else to go that was why he decided to come here.
Miss Elsa seemed to have noticed his obvious intentions as she smiled at the boy and spoke with her alluring voice.
"Nice to meet you, Felix. My name is Elsa and I\'m the receptionist of the Twilight Chaos Guild. You must have some difficulties in joining the guild right? It\'s not a problem, we can sit in the lounge and discuss it. But before that, let me submit their mission."
Felix just nodded at her and went to sit on the sofa per her instruction. He relaxed leaning back on the sofa as it felt nice and comforting for his tired body. He looked back at the kids and Miss Elsa who were working on submitting their mission.
\'What should I do now? Joining and staying here is not a bad idea but I don\'t know anything about them. Well, considering that Noah and the kids can become their unofficial members, means their work or should I say missions must be not anything dangerous.\'
\'Is there no other way? If only I had some basic knowledge of this world....sigh.\'
Felix sighed as he closed his eyes and rested his head comfortably on the sofa. Suddenly he opened his eyes as he remembered what his quirky System could do.
\'Wait! I could create a skill for knowing more about this world.\'
As he was in the city right now, the chances of getting into something dangerous seemed low. That made him think of creating a skill to help him with knowing more about this world.
Like finding water in a desert, he felt happy knowing he had what many did not, a System!
He turned to the side and looked at the others. Seeing that they were talking and not watching him, he softly asked the system.
"Hey System, do you have any idea for a skill that could help me with getting some information about this world?"
[Host is Host and System is System. Imagining a skill is your job and creating them for you is mine. So it is advised for the host to-]
"OKAY! OKAY! I UNDERSTAND!"
Felix shouted out loud without thinking as he was getting tired from the system by now.
But then he remembered he wasn\'t in the forest anymore, and there were others present here.
"Hey Felix, are you alright?"
He jumped up at Noah\'s question and turned around, only to see that all of them were looking at him with pity and sympathy in their eyes.
His face turned red as he realized that his shout must have made him look like a madman to them.
"Ah don\'t worry guys. I\'m alright, you guys can carry on."
He shook his hands at them as he smiled awkwardly, making it the second time for him to act weird in front of the kids. They just nodded and went back to discuss their work.
Felix sighed in relief and quietly cursed the system in his head.
\'This bastard of a system. Why does it always make trouble for me? Was it made to kill me or to help me?\'
[First of all, the system cannot be a bastard.]
\'What the hell\', he jumped up again when a voice spoke in his mind but stopped himself from shouting. Then he realized that it was the voice of the system.
\'You...You can speak in my mind? Wait more than that, you can hear my thoughts?\'
[Affirmative. I never made trouble for the host. It was the host himself who acted crazy at serious times. And yes, I\'m here to help you and not...kill you]
Felix shivered at the end of the sentence, but he shook his head and asked the system again.
\'Wait. If you can speak in my mind then why didn\'t you tell me about it before?\'
[The host never asked.]
\'Sigh...there\'s no way I can depend on you from now on\', shaking his head, Felix cleared his thoughts and again leaned back on the sofa as his muscles relaxed
His internal mind wasn\'t working right at the moment because of the intense situations that kept happening one after the other, especially when his previous life was mundane and boring to the point of calling it \'grey\'.
\'If I can\'t ask the system, then I\'ll have to create something myself.\'
Felix closed his eyes as he started imagining any skill by remembering many anime and manga that could help him at the moment.
\'Hmmm...What should I create?\'
He sank into deep thought as nothing seemed to come inside his mind that could potentially let him know more about the world.
\'Even if there is a skill that could do that, it\'s not something my 10 skill points could afford. That means I\'ll have to think of a simple skill and not something grand.\'
\'Think...think...think\'
Holding his head, Felix groaned as he tried really hard to think.
\'wait, I think this may be possible. Let\'s try...\'
Almost giving up, he asked the system.
\'System, create the skill.."