Otherworld Adventure

Adventurer’s Guild

As Cecil was looking towards the two guild staff behind the booth, Lucia begins asking how they could register as adventurers. The two kindly explained to them.

Cecil never really paid much attention, but most of the beast kin that he's seen around town are actually lizard kin.

The Anglaria Kingdom is run by a lizard kin royal clan, so it was no surprise that the majority of the population is lizard kin.

"Okay, thank you very much."

"Your very welcome, miss. Please head in through this door to register as adventurers."

After a quick conversation, the female lizard kin points them towards the door to the left of the booth.

It wasn't the main entrance, but it seems that for convenience's sake, the counter for adventurer and quest registration was located in different areas of the guild building.

"Come on Cel!"

"Okay, okay. Aren't you eager?"

"Hihihi~"

Lucia drags Cecil towards the door. She was really excited about this.

After entering, they see 2 counters that were on the right area which had youngsters older or near the age as them queuing up.

While on the left area there were 4 counters that had a variety of people queuing up.

Cecil looked above and sees two boards that indicated what those counters catered for. As expected, the 2 on the right were for adventurer registration and the 4 on the left were for quest registration.

Lulu and Cecil quickly head towards the left. They enter the queue and silently wait for their turn.

While they were waiting, Cecil looked around the hall and see that it was somewhat high end and luxurious, especially for a town.

The exterior of the building from a quick glance was made by materials that looked similar to bricks and concrete from earth.

The interior walls however, were covered by a layer of polished wood. The beams and pillars that supported the ceiling were even made by highly polished wood.

Everything inside was really shiny and with the light stones that were attached to posts and the huge chandelier that was over head, it made building interior look especially bright.

This wasn't like any of those clichéd portrays of a guild in novels or manga from back on earth. Everything seemed so high end.

Mind you, this was only a TOWN, how luxurious would the guild buildings be like in cities or even the capital city?

However, Cecil was honestly, a bit disappointed.

He thought there would be some kind of problem that they'd face before registering as adventurers. They'd fight bla bla bla. Guild master comes and the misunderstanding furthers, they show their prowess and receive recognition and whatnot. The clichéd development.

'Well guess, that only happens in novels.'

The reality of the situation was that, everyone here seemed so well-mannered! Everyone was just queuing up neatly.

Although it wasn't like the place was quiet or anything, but the voices from the people weren't boisterous or anything. Everyone was talking to each other in normal room speaking voices without anyone yelling or cursing at each other.

"Heh, not what I expected."

"What's that Cel?"

"The place isn't as what I was expecting, Lulu."

"How so?"

Cecil quickly explains to her what he's read in the novels from Earth about how a guild was portrayed as.

"Haha, what's with that?"

"Hey, it's just what everyone back where I lived before thought how a guild would look like."

"Well, not the adventurer guild, but maybe the mercenary guild or merchant guild would be like that."

"Oh, there's a mercenary guild?"

"Yes, but unlike the adventurer's guild. You can't register unless you've graduated from a fighter or mage academy and if you're over the age of 21."

"What's the difference anyway? There aren't any clashing jobs with adventurers are there?"

"For mercenaries they can only accept jobs in the area of escorts, subjugations, battles, and any other mercenary-like quests~"

"The only difference is that they can't take dungeon, gathering, and miscellaneous tasks then?"

"No, Cel. Except for escorts, the subjugation requests and battle requests can only be accepted if the kingdom issues one. As for escort quests, they're practically the same as the ones from the adventurers guild, except most requests are long term."

"I see."

"As for any other mercenary requests, I don't know the exact specifics... but–" 

Lucia continues to explain to Cecil the differences.

Basically, subjugation and battle quests are issued to mercenaries by the kingdom, meaning quests issued by the town or city's government.

Subjugation quests would be similar to the ones from the adventurer's guild, except most subjugation quests for mercenaries would be for the subjugation of B-class pack-type monsters or monster waves.

Battle quests are only quests issued when the kingdom was in war-time.

While, for escort quests, mercenaries after taking one would normally be employed on a long term basis through a contract sign by both the mercenary company and the requester. While for adventurers, escort quests would only be a one-time thing.

These were some types of requests that mercenaries can take. Adventurers handled much broader range of quests, no matter how ridiculous a quest sounds.

Basically, adventurers are this world's freelancers. To put it harshly, they're just people who are unemployed and looking for jobs that they could take at their own leisure.

While they were talking, the two notice that it was finally their turn. They head towards the counter and like before, Cecil kept his mouth shut and let Lucia do all the talking.

"The both of us would like to register as adventurers!"

"Here are the forms, there's a 10 silver handling fee for registering as adventurers."

"Here you go."

Lucia takes out her bank card and quickly pays. He didn't know this, but thank goodness Lucia had money on her.

"How'd you know?"

"I only found out when we talked to the two staff outside, but good thing mama issued my bank card when I was 10, so I've been able to save up quite a bit since then."

"... I'll pay you back later."

"No worries Cel."

Lucia gave Cecil a cheeky grin, her face practically begging to be complemented. Cecil looked back at her and smiled wryly.

"Okay, let's quickly fill in the forms. You need any help in writing, huh~ stupid Cel?"

"I can do it myself, thank you very much."

"Fufu~"

Cecil takes the magic pen that the guild clerk handed over with the guild forms and quickly fills it. Name, age, mana level, expertise, etc. It was a pretty standard form.

After filling in the form, Cecil looks up and sees that Lucia had also finished. He gave her the form and Lucia hands them both to the female clerk behind the counter.

"Okay, thank you for registering, please wait by the lounge to your right for your guild cards to be issued, I will call you by name when the cards have been successfully issued."

"Yes, thank you."

"Thank you."

After politely thanking the clerk, they head towards the lounge where they see many others like them who have finished registering and were waiting for their guild cards.

The two quickly head towards the empty seats and waited for their cards.

Looking around, Cecil sees others who have received their cards head towards the big double doors that was located just next to the lounge. He was guessing in his head whether the door leads to the main hall of the guild.

As they were waiting, Cecil started chatting with Lucia.

"So, Lulu about the guild... how's the ranking system work?"

"Ah, the ranking system for adventurers actually only have 4 that really matter."

"4?"

"Yeah, although there are 7 in total, only 4 really matter."

"They are?"

Lucia continues to explain to Cecil about the ranking system.

There are 7 rankings in total, starting from Stone, Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and lastly, Diamond rank.

For requests under Bronze, any adventurer, regardless of their rank may accept those ranks of requests. So even if you're just a Stone or Iron ranked adventurer, you could still accept Bronze ranked requests.

Only for those requests higher than Bronze, meaning Silver until Diamond rank, can only be accepted by those in their corresponding tiers. You couldn't accept any requests that were outside your tier starting from Silver.

It was convenient, since low ranked escort quests were Bronze rank so Cecil and Lucia could take them even when they've just registered.

By doing requests above their tier, they'd be able to easily promote their ranks to Silver rank.

Now Silver rank is where the actual 'adventuring' starts.

Large scale subjugation quests, dungeon or labyrinth quests, and monster material collection quests start from here. This is why Lucia said that only 4 ranks actually mattered.

The first 3 ranks were only for the beginners to adapt themselves for those bigger and much more difficult adventuring quests that were littered all over in the last 4 ranks.

The rewards for all quests the adventurer's themselves would take 90% while the remaining 10% would be given to the guild as commission fees.

While they were talking, another group of teenagers that was around their age approached them.