Chapter 125 - Volume 7 (1/2)

Volume 7, Chapter 10: I Became an Adventurer, Part 2

[3rd Person PoV]

There are people in [Tess] that are called Adventurers, as well as an adventuring guild which supports them.

This guild… you could say that the [Adventurer] job and guild were all the result of people summoned from a different world.

Its history is surprisingly shallow.

However, although it’s called the adventurer’s guild, only a part of it is for the actual adventurers, most of it is basically a [General Store].

It really is true that there are no free things for newcomers that don’t do anything.

There are no rules about entering a request, but there are some points to remember.

For example, even if an ordinary person wants to set up a request for something, they wouldn’t know what adventurer to ask. If you’re a farmer that wants to get rid of rats from your field, if you just ask adventurers are around to complete it, you wouldn’t have enough money no matter how much you have.

Thus, the adventurer’s guild ranks tasks and adventurers to manage who will accept a request and made a system where adventurers can accept personal requests.

There are four ranks of adventurers:

[Bronze] is the lowest rank of adventurer, mostly these are people that are new or not dedicated to work who are lazy about taking jobs.

[Silver] is a fine, middle of the road adventurer, which makes up most of the ranks of professional adventurers. These are the type that will be called out to fight Orcs and other monsters.

[Gold] is restricted to skilled veterans or highly talented people.

It’s said that this rank can only be nominated by others, and only 12 people can be registered as such in any one country at a time.

There’s also the highest rank of [God], but that’s a title only given to Hero-class people, so it has nothing to do with general adventurers.

Anyways, there is an adventuring guild in this capital of Sail.

To become an adventurer here, you need to spend a small silver coin for the registration fee, which is about $10, as well as an annual membership fee of the same amount, regardless of rank. However, since there are so many Bronze ranked people, the building seems to show how profitable it’s been as it’s truly splendid looking.

When entering, one could see individual tellers, like you’d see in a bank, were you could see adventurers taking requests early in the morning, since they become sparse in the afternoon.

In most cases for Bronze adventurers, they will pick up their task in the morning and turn it in in the evening of that same day.

People who are more selective of the requests they take, people of Silver rank or better, will generally come and wait in the guild for new requests to be posted.

For those who do that, it’s common for a café to be set up on the first floor, although it doesn’t sell any alcohol.

If there are multiple hubs in the area, there are cases where it also serves as a tavern, but in most cases, they don’t want the image of the adventurers to be hurt and to make it easier for the general public to come in.

There are cases where civilians come to give a request, so the typical scene of adventurers bullying a kid like the stories is hardly ever seen.

You’d almost expect a confrontation, like the stereotype.

There are people who treat their work as an adventurer like a part-time job, so the image that adventurers put out is similar to handymen, but since they deal in such rough matters, there are still some people with tempers.

However, since this is the capital of the country, gentlemanly adventurers are the norm, there are very few of the rough folks, although the adventurer guilds off in the east are a bit different.

“S-someone’s coming …”

“What are you so tense over?”

“Yeah, calm down”

“I see…but”

A few of the adventurers had a conversation like that on the first floor.

They was an adventurer who had just reached the rank of Silver who was waiting for someone to enter the guild.

However, from their expression and appearance, it seemed like a sort of hazing for the newly upgraded adventurer.

In the guild here in the eastern countries, a certain culture has been spread around by the foreigners.

There is a tradition of “Showing new adventurers the harshness of the world.” Basically, the silver adventurers would talk down to the newcomers.

Of course, there are also strong newcomers, so there are cases of blowback, but it’s the job of the other adventurers to support each other.

This tradition is known by the merchants and others who work with the guild and is used as a test of newcomers’ resolve.

Apparently, the adventurer in charge of this today seemed to be a good person and was nervous about intimidating a young person who he didn’t know.

Since there were other adventurers in the building watching them, their own hesitation was making them even more nervous, and the atmosphere in the room was becoming tense.

*Karrang*

“““…”””

The adventurers in the guild all turned to face the sound of the door chime.

Although the door was used often, no new adventurers were expected to come in yet.

The adventurers had been awaiting their entertainment, so the total number sitting around was higher than usual today.

Then, the time had come.