Chapter 105: Hunter Guild (1/2)

The next morning, Tyler — Still dabbed in his hooded coat and accompanied by the beautiful Nadine. Opened Hunter guild's large main doors and walked in.

The first thing he saw as he entered the room was the counter further down ahead, where three of the guild's receptionists greeted the Hunters with smiles on their charming faces as most of the Hunter's they attended to were practically drooling over them. Tyler couldn't help but wonder if everyone on the demon continent were just horny perverts.

There were warriors in specialized full plate armor, nimble fellows in light armor and bearing bows or crossbows, as well as robed magic casters with their staves and grimoires.

On the left was a large door, and on the right was a notice board. There were several pieces of parchment upon it that most likely contained quest or job offers from the merchant guild and magic institute. Several Hunters were chatting in front of it, most likely discussing with their party members about the jobs that were available for their ranks.

The atmosphere here was rowdy so early in the morning and Tyler was a little annoyed by that. He didn't need to bother with anyone here though as he had no plans of becoming a Hunter so he walked towards one of the receptionists.

The eyes of everyone present focused on the pair that had just entered and most of them still gawking at Nadine while glaring at him, he could also feel those eyes sizing him up from head to toe as much as they could.

There were even those that had activated their skills, trying to pry on the figure under the hood. It was a good thing he had used another set of anti-divination scrolls this morning before heading out.

Tyler was also surveying the Hunters in turn. Most of them wore slim gold and silver strapped bracelets on their arms that had symbols on them represented their ranks although the metal on the mostly leather bracelets already signified what ranks they were. There was also no copper-ranked Hunter around. From what he knew the Hunter guilds ranking was a little different from the adventurer Guilds back in the human continent.

The adventurer Guilds used letters from an F to S when ranking their adventurers based on strength alone. However, the Hunters of the Demon continent didn't solely judge strength. This was because the human continent lacked a lot of powerful individuals while that wasn't exactly the case here.

The monsters in this continent were also worlds apart from the human continent so survivability was a very valuable trait when ranking a Hunter. It was why every new hunter had to start from the lowest ranking and work their way to the top no matter how strong they were. Of course, they still favored those with magic.

The rankings in the Hunter guild went from Rank 9 to Rank 1 but were popularly referred to by the metals on their Hunter bracelets. Ranging from Copper to Quantium. When Tyler had looked around and didn't see any copper ranks he was referring to the lowest ranking Hunters. A Rank 9, a number that was generally depicted on the metal parts of their bracelets.

Feeling vaguely out of place, Tyler advanced to the counter followed closely by Nadine.

A party of Hunters had just departed, freeing up one of the counters. He stepped forward and said:

”I'd like to sell some cores and monster

corpse to the guild.”

”Thank you for coming, may I ask if you're a member of the guild.”

It was a simple question, similar to what he had gotten from the male receptionist in the merchant guild, but this one was only a courtesy ask as he wasn't wearing a metal plated bracelet that shows he was a member of the guild.

'No, I'm not.”

”Then would you like to join the guild, you'll only have to pay a slight fee and do a potential test even if you're not a magic caster.”

This was what he needed to avoid the most so Tyler quickly shook his head and replied. ”No. I already joined the merchant guild so there is no need.”

He brought out the purple glimmering card from his coat. His VIP Rank 1 merchant license. The female receptionist had been ready to continue her pitch when she saw the purple card and had no choice but to stop. She then took the card and slightly bowed before Tyler and proceeded to leave the counter, entering the door to the right.

The surrounding hunters that had been paying attention to the newcomers were in shock. These two did not look like they were merchants at all, especially the hooded figure that moves through countless hostile gazes so casually like he had felt nothing.

Even the Gold Rank hunters here would tremble under such pressure, yet they were meant to believe that he was just a merchant. If all merchants were like that they had a bad feeling that half of their weekly income would disappear.

The female receptionist returned soon after and invited Tyler upstairs into a meeting room. Tyler followed behind her with Nadine who was still attracting almost all the male's attention as they entered the room where he saw an elderly man with a full head of whites seating on the sofa in the well-furnished room. He wore an expensive-looking white mages robe with gold inlaid threading.

His long white beard gave him the appearance of a typical wizard in various folklore Tyler had heard about. This was the kind of person Tyler would expect to see in charge of the magic institute but not what he had pictures when he thought about the Guild leader of the Hunter Guild.

Even the innkeeper he met last night seemed better suited to this role than him. He decided not to dwell on the topic too much as he felt a strong aura emanating from this old man the moment he entered the room. It wasn't something he couldn't handle, although he had barely felt it, Tyler still tried to put up a front.

He pretended to be disturbed by the aura at first but slowly got used to it. This was also one of the pieces of information he had gotten out of Z and if it works, Tyler would have to seriously reconsider his opinion on him.

The old man stared at him in a bit of surprise and apprehension before finally calming down. A faint smile appeared on his face as the female receptionist that had lead Tyler to this room bow and left the room.

”Not bad, Not bad at all. Looks like you're not just an ordinary merchant, the fact that you have a VIP license without me ever having heard of you shows the amount of value the Merchant Guild has of you. I am Ivan Geriyl, the Guild Leader of this branch of the Hunter guild.”

”You can call me Lix, this here is Lilith.”