"Alioth! The Foods ready" My Mother Candice shouted in a lovingly tone

HOI HOI!!!!!!!!!! I'm coming ! I said While rushing downstairs to try the food prepared by my mother .

My Father Jargon was sitting down at the dinner table already digging in . Father wasn't tall but had broad shoulders to make of for the lack of height and He had a clean shaven head , with Dark brown skin and eyes to match. My mother on the other hand had red hair and blue eyes and a fair complexion .It was never hard to spot her in a crowd since very few people in the region had those traits.

Sitting down i greeted my father and mother and started to nom on the rice and chicken left on my spot on the table , With my mother being done with the cooking she joined us .We all sat together happily making idle chit chat until my father mentioned adventuring. Him and mother were obviously planning this from the very get go as i was only a few more ranking points away from hitting rank D which was their current rank.

"uhh ahh so you're almost D rank now that's quite the surprise, your advancing further then me or your father ever could've dreamed"

Dad seemed to be doing a worse job at hiding his emotions and he just leapt across the table with happy tears in his eyes "Me boy! i cant believe this, you're already grown so much and now your ready to become the same rank as your pops .When you hit rank D were going to through a huge party, the likes no D rank adventurer had ever seen."

Not that people D rank and below were considered adventurers most of the time D and F rank people served as luggage carriers for the more powerful people .

It was true for some reason i had the most growth in the family, both my parent were stuck at D rank and occurrences like that were very natural in this world. We don't know if that's just the way the world works but many people reach a certain rank and just stop advancing .Unless your in B rank or above this tends to leave people in a state of constant paranoia, in fears that they might reach a bottleneck. This was exacerbated by the fact each of the ranks were vastly superior to the last. The ranks in of themselves don't really mean anything they just serve as identifiers to the power level of the individual.

The only thing that was really finite in this world was your class. Classes are assigned at birth by the gods themselves, though no one really knows that we just know that when your born you're born with a class.

For every monster killed that person and the people in the party got stronger regardless of how much they helped, of course there was a contribution system. This led to to rich nobles hiring adventurers and putting their toddler in that same party so they could power level themselves without getting into any danger. It wasn't fair but neither was anything.

If your wondering my class is summoner ,The class itself is on the rarer side of the spectrum but given my lineage even my parents thought i was destined to be a mule. Not that i really mind its safer and mules can still make tons of money depending on their parties competency.

"Thank you mom dad , I'm going to try my best to make you proud "

I finished my food and readied my gear that consisted of brown trousers and a beige shirt. I didn't need a backpack, the party I'd join would usually have the courtesy to supply them for their luggage carriers.

"I'm heading out!"

"Bye we love you" both of my parents said in unison

Their words brought the feeling of a warming rising in my chest and i made sure to cherish it. Walking outside of my lovely shack of a home I made my way down the city street. I was headed to my usual spot in the guild to put out a application for a party .Left Right right left I knew this path like the back of my hand. It was a beautiful day the birds were singing when I heard feminine voice shout

"What do you mean our luggage boy is nowhere to be seen?"

"Ahh don't you fucking yell at me ill beat your ass, Carson said that he wasn't crazy enough to trust you to enter the infinite dungeon"

"id like to see you try it , and dammit this is why you can never trust a muley"

I know I shouldn't have been ease dropping in on these obviously violent peoples conversation but the allure was just so tantalizing .I had a bad habit of looking at horse carriage wrecks on the few and far between times they happened , and this was one just in the human form.

"Damn it "

This girl was definitely some type of Firestarter everything seemed to agitate her

"What's the big deal cant we just get another one?" the male voice said

"Where are we going to find another in a few hours notice they most likely already have a job "

"when there's a will-"

"There's a way right? shut the fuck up" the girl said cutting him off

Where they looking for someone like me? This was my time to shine I think I couldn't see who exactly was talking but just judging from their voices they sounded like they were bad asses, at the very least they were stronger then me. While lost in my thoughts something suddenly appeared in front of me .It was a elderly man with white hair clad in armor with a huge gold and white sword on his back. He didn't look friendly in the slightest, this notion was aided when he picked me up by my neck collar.

"Are you a spy, if you don't answer I'm going to snap your puny neck"

Stumbling over my words i was just surprised by the whole scenario I didn't even get to see him approach.

"uh em err " I tried my best not to sound aggressive to the person who was clearly hostile to me "I'm just a everyday luggage carrier!" i made sure to strike a pose as to reduce hostilities

Seemingly flabbergasted he let me down allowing for a better circulation of blood in my body ,When the female figure appeared next to him.

"You know your shit at ease dropping, you know that?" The women made sure to point out

where they aware of me the whole time? I guess with my F rank that was expected

"Well now that you know I'm not a threat I believe I heard you guys talking about needing a new luggage mule"

At first it felt bad to refer to myself as that but that was plenty of years ago, i wasn't even phased at this point since it was 100% true and i needed to make myself as advertiser friendly as possible..

"Oh is that right?, atleast you know your place"

She peered over me in a very domineering manner even though she was slightly shorter then me .She also had white hair that matched the old man but it seemed hers wasn't due to age , along with her very pale skin purple eyes and pointed ears it was in my best interest to assume she was a elf of what variety I had no clue.

"Show me your adventurer card and kneel before me"

Listening i manifested my character card through thought

"didn't I command you to kneel before me?" She said looking my dead in the eye, was this girl serious?

"Son you don't have to kneel , she's just a crazy dominatrix bitch and she loves messing with the newbies"

"you didn't have to tell him that " she said pouting with her eyes and crossing her arms. She started reading my character card.

I would assume she had a little dere mixed in her personality but i wouldn't add fuel to the fire.

"mhh mhhh mhhhhhhh mhhh Alioth ... summoner... F rank ... you should be fine " She said as she began to think about where best to put my ability to use

was it that easy? I guess they really were desperate or was there more too it? Thankfully for them i was kinda desperate my self since i was only one more dungeon run from a class rank up

"ehh really? is that all the the prerequisites for joining your party?"

"well its only for this dungeon , since you were being a rat I'm sure you know our main luggage mule has ran off because he's a little pansy bitch and now we need one asap. Don't worry you'll be sure to be compensated 1% of all the loot acquired by your superiors"

1% of the loot sounded like they were making fun of me , but I didn't know their rank yet .In my numerous years of adventuring i knew that that rank of the loot matters more then how much I got. If they were B rank and above then even a few items could match a whole arsenal of c and d ranked items.

"1% ? what rank are you guys?"

" I'm rank S the girl said pointing to herself and This big guy Eric is rank SS"

Ehhh... I didn't believe that

The amount of rank S and SS adventurers might literally be 100 in the entire world . This seemed extremely unlikely that two of them were standing in front of me.

"uhhh"

"I can tell that you don't believe me but how could I expect a frog to recognize a princess as the princess recognizes the frog. The woes of someone as talented as me "

The elf girl summoned her character card and with a nudge so did Eric.

Looking at their cards I was awestruck.

Valentina Ordus S-

Sacred spear Eric Lightcraft SS unyielding berserker

(Valentina Rank S- class : Sacred spear and( Eric rank SS class : unyielding berserker) . Adventurer cards couldn't be forged or mimicked these were authentic .

"wow" was all I could muster

" do you see now peon ? We're the real deal"

"Ahh son excuse her attitude believe it or not she is usually worse ,But yes we really are S class adventurers. We plan to explore the infinite dungeon but only the first level just the scout it out "

The infinite dungeon is rumored to be a SSS rank dungeon , if anything in there choose to breath on me and i could die, so why risk my life when i could easily go on a C rank mission and just rank up. Seeing my resolve wavering Valentia tried to entice me

"even just a few S ranked items would get you and your family generational wealth and you'd never have to work again in your entire life. Literally all you would have do to is be protected and carry our things doesn't that sound like a once in a lifetime offer?"

Indeed it did but that also could just be a suicide mission i didn't know these people well enough to just trust everything they said. Seeing as her toddler level plan didn't work Valentina got frustrated

"Look here weakling its now or never DECIDE NOW!"

she was rough and demanding that was the opposite of someone that i would listen too

"Son sorry but I have to agree with her on this matter , we really didn't have much time to spare "

Mhh the gears were ticking in my mind. This was seemingly a low risk high reward situation, and just one item I'm sure would leave me wealthy beyond my wildest imagination. If i were to die or better yet if they were to kill me in the dungeon it would all be for nothing .I wanted to turn it down but the thought of my mother and father never having to work again was just too much. I was willing to risk my life in order to help them spend their years in peace and luxury. This wasn't much different from a normal quest anyway since my rank was so low practically anything could one shot me even lower ranking dungeons. I've decided

"Ok lets do this"

"Smart decision Son " Eric said as he picked me up like I was sack of potato's

"UHHHH what are you doing?"

"Don't be alarmed were heading to the dungeon site, traveling with you on foot with your speed would take us a few days if not longer , With me it should take 30 minutes "

I could protest but its not like I could stop him, I pretty much sold my soul when I agreed so lets see where this would take me. Stopping my resistance I let him take me and the whole world turned into a bright and colorful blur, so much so that it began to hurt and dry out my eyes .Closing my eyes I could only wait until Eric reached his destination and hopefully soon.

After about 30minutes just as Eric described I felt the wind between my hair come to a more normal pace

"Where here son" I heard Eric say

As he made sure to drop my on my feet which I appreciated. Looking around I saw that we were in a completely different region to where i was last. We in a mountainous region where the very earth itself was scorched a shade of black , with red crackles showing there was a eruptions not long ago. The air was hot which was a sharp contrast to the oceanic breeze of my hometown Lunka There were dark clouds surrounding the area brewing like a giant pot with purple strikes of lightning added in for good measure. The dungeon door in front of me screamed ungodly power The edges of the door boasted red and black glowing skulls , much like the terrain in this region it seemed to fit in. The gate itself was absolutely enormous as it could probably be seen for miles, it even was bigger then some of the smaller mountains something about it just didn't seem right. It was like the very existence of this gate was effecting the area around it

While I was busy gawking at my surroundings I could feel the rest of the part sizing me up.

"so who is this guy? he doesn't seem very strong"

When I looked at who made the dialogue I saw a beefy and muscular womanly figure , with dark skin and robes for armor .She was even bigger then the huge Eric ,had 2 armored green bracelets on each arm with short black hair . She was barefoot and green eyes to match her green armor, quite intimidating if I had to say.

"For once I agree, "

this time the voice came from someone roughly the size of my knees ,he was mostly covered in a mages gear and had blond hair with blue eyes and wielded a staff bigger then his body he was most likely someone of the halfing race, which was odd since you didn't see many of those around. Looking over the rest of his party members i saw very young looking girl who at most couldn't be older then 16 holding a book and wearing all white robes and a necklace that carried the god of earths insignia on it , I wasn't the smartest guy in the room but i had a feeling she was the healer of the party. She had blue hair and blue eyes along with a crown across her head .

Lastly was a arachnid Who had a white and blue body and purple hair she had black armor to contrast her white legs along with white skin and red eyes she wasn't much bigger then me, she had a womanly charm to her that was both creepy and alluring.

" He's our new baggage handler , Carson dipped on us so he's the replacement" Eric said while handing me a familiar luggage bag that was almost as bigger then my person.

"makes sense" said the arachnid women

"oh" said the hafling

"I'm opposed to this, this guy seems like he is even weaker then Carson who was a C rank... how is that possible you guys seriously didn't sweet talk him into a suicide mission did you?" the healer spoke up

"Of course not I'm not, we will protect the pup its the least we can do" Eric said while giving me a reassuring hand on my shoulder.

Studying my parties demeanor i concluded that they didn't want to off me in the dungeon so that was good enough, I've actually had that happen before but that's another story .

Not satisfied with the answer Eric gave the priest looked over to me " are you sure you're ok with this this is a high level ranked dungeon and you could die very easily"

I didn't know if the concern was genuine given that we just met but i sure about this .I'm sure she had he reasons on asking me and i had my own reasons as well, mainly my family.

"Yes im sure" was all i responded with care not to offend her. Not only was she nice enough to consider my well being but I understood that everyone in this party could hurt me. Cowardly maybe , but then again hey I wanted to survive.

"you see that everyone's happy , now lets go we literally have no reason to be wasting time" Valentina said to the whole group"

seeing a party notification added to my line of sight hitting the yes , i was immediately added to their party.

Valentina Ordus S- Sacred spear Eric Lightcraft SS unyielding berserker Charloette Maner S Holy Light Ομα Σπρινγκ SS Monk Yona Casadula S Death Stalker Λοϋντ Φλαμεχαντς S Magus Alioth White F Summoner

Now i got to see the names of everyone The arachnid was Yona , the priest Charloette those were the only two new members in a language that I could read , the hafling and buff lady were probably part of some lost tribe somewhere.

"Gear up folks where going in" Eric said while pushing the mountainous door open along with a bright blinding light.

We were now inside the dungeon now ,I saw the floor one indicator on take up the bottom left part of my vision. We changed from the volcanic wasteland to what looks like to be the inside of a tomb of some sort.

"Yona! you protect the pup you have the best monster sensing abilities out of all of us, try to keep him out of danger"

"fine " i heard her say through her many fangs

As we began walking my eyes began wandering, it was hard to deny that everyone in this party was attractive, well accept for me anyway. Maybe it had something to do with them being a high rank , maybe if you received one gift from god you received them all. Looking over to the other males in the party. I couldn't help but notice that the hafling would a hit with the older women he was a shota no lie, and Eric had a refined and gentle aura , along with a sharp killer beard that must've made him a smash with the younger ladies.

Grabbing me Yona immediately jumped and landed upside down on the dungeon roof with only her webs keep us from falling to my death.

"Hold on tight " Yona whispered in my ear which i made sure to do . Seconds later a sand worm reveled itself from the position i was previously occupying which made me shudder a bit. If not for Yona I would've been down its toothy maw in one clean swallow

I have never been this close to an arachnid before but there was a first for everything. Her body was much colder then I anticipated , I was holding on to her upper waist for dear life and her body, mainly her legs were wrapped around me. This situation seriously gave me the heebe geebes, I wasn't scared of small spiders but she was the size of me and on a instinctual level I wanted to run.

As if sensing or assuming my fear of her and not the sandworm she decided to tease me a bit .

clatter clatter "Don't be scared my sweet little F rank ill hold you tight , even at night if you want " She said that while now squeezing me hard with her 8 legs while opening her mouth into a kiss and giving me a wink.

The problem with that was her mouth had two small pedipalp's and she literally had fangs .Between the failed seductive gesture and her horror esque appearance my whole body shuddered in fear and confusion.

My male lizard brain saw breast so it was telling me its a go, but my thoughts were saying otherwise

feeling my shudder her eyes lit up " am i making you shake? how cute"

The sandworm had been vanquished long ago at this point the whole party was simple content to watch me get harassed .

"Yona did you have your fun yet? lets go" the buff lady demanded from the arachnid

" huh? how are you going to manage to make me. "

"when you get down here I'm going to kick your derriere"

These two seemed to have a bad relationship or maybe they were just that good of friends.

"We don't have time for this , lets go" Eric said in a commanding tone making the whole party get a move on.

"it was just a joke , don't leave me guys" she said as we lowered to the floor

We began moving behind the main party , that was busy clearing monsters such as skeletons warriors and mummies .It was a strange experience usually i was much closer to the combat and it lasted much longer but these guys were one tapping the monsters killing them instantaneously. Why did they even need me here, all I was doing was sucking exp as I felt my rank nearing closer to D.

"Ha! I love the puzzled look you have on your face, like your always thinking or something"

Yona was quite friendly, in contrast to her somewhat spider royal creepy looking appearance. She was the only one who actually made small talk with me so I noted that .

"well I was just wondering why I'm here"

"awww don't feel so insecure bro , your going to pick up the loot when we hit the boss .Wait you've probably never been to a A rank dungeon and above do you want mama Yona to explain?"

"Yes please"

I wouldn't turn down extra information , every little bit of knowledge would help keep me alive in the future .I really had nothing to worry about now

"Ok but you owe me a cold one when we get out"

"Dungeons above A rank have a boss on every floor and all the loot is in the loot room after you kill the boss unlike in B rank and below which the loot comes from every mob you kill since there isnt a boss. Basically all you have to do is pick up the crapton of loot when we kill whatever it is we have to kill. oh yeah enjoy the exp i can tell you almost D rank, heck you'll probably we halfway through D by the time we finish here."

Wow she really was nice, I feel kind of bad for judging her based on how she looked. That's a life pro tip if I do say so myself. I could even feel myself getting stronger by the second, these guys really were professionals.

"If you want you can even just sit back and talk with me , since Im on babysitting duty"

Hard to deny I wasn't the baby in this party so I didn't say anything. This was turning out to be a overall pleasant surprise. Since my only frame of reference was lower level parties I thought it would have a lot more cursing and me getting kicked .Guess the higher the rank the less of a need to show your status.

"I'd love to talk with you, beats facing the monsters " i responded

I wasn't much of a fighter truthfully, my family raised me on love and affection. This was turning out to be the perfect dungeon experience and really I had them to blame.

"well first of all I would like to say thank you for being so kind. Second i would just like to know more about you , i guess its not often I get to speak to a S rank adventurer. "

"I forgot how sweet the lower rankers were, well I'm Yona from the Casadula Clan. and " She took a second to lift me up , I could see her debate internally whether or not to put me on her back but she ultimately decided against it.

"you almost walked into a pit trap bud, but anyway im the third daughter of the village chief, my class is death stalker... um how about yourself?"

This could be a chance to make a good impression!

"My name is Alioth , i'm a summoner/luggage handler, i'm good at cooking and cleaning"

"so mostly domestic duties, Oh a summoner ? I've only come across 2 other summoners in all my years of adventuring and one was super over powered and the other was a weakling .Do ya mind summoning something for me?"

Summoners got their first summon when hit rank D so I didn't have any yet.

"Sorry to inform you but I don't have any yet I need to hit rank D at least"

I could see a small flash of disappointment go across her face, but then it lit back up

" makes sense I guess ill see it when you Rank up, good thing were close to the floor 1 boss "

We were close to the boss? It felt like we just started the dungeon, I guess this was the benefit of being carried. Time to focus my only job was about to start.

"Did you two enjoy your chat," This time it was the hafling man from before

"More then I do with you" Yona retorted in defense

That seemed to really piss him off as all he did was suck his teeth. I wonder what's going on between them.

"Well! while you two were chatting we reached the boss room"