Episode 22
“Then take a look.”
“thank you.”
Damian glanced at the captain of Whispering Island and turned his head.
It was a familiar landscape.
Green forests reflected beyond the shallow sandy beach and vast plains that stretch endlessly.
And the gigantic fortress, dimly reflected in the distance, boasted a vast width and height, just like that of the Middle Ages, creating a magnificent scenery.
< Terra > was one of the most prosperous kingdoms in the eastern part of the Arsia continent and the undisputed center of the eastern part.
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“It’s still the same.”
Damian laughed as he watched the chat window go up quickly.
It was a huge crowd.
It is difficult to follow with the naked eye, so you can see how many users there are.
Damian glanced over the chat windows with his eyes, while confidently following the adventurers to Terra.
Although he had the atrocious tendency of -9999999999, he had already tricked Elmoore and the villagers once.
Before that skillful behavior and improvisation, the propensity penalty was no longer a problem.
– Looking for someone who wants to go to the desired dungeon raid! Healer will give you preferential treatment!
– Who wants to run a short-term mercenary part-time job for a week? Accommodation provided!
– I’m going to catch the countess crazy! 1000 gold per day! Only those who have a good personality!
“Uh.”
Damian stuck out his tongue at the voice resounding from the lobby on the first floor of the building he arrived at.
It was a pretty grand place.
It is a huge building measuring 300 pyeong with its thick stone walls and exposed square beams.
The building was filled with people of all kinds despite its size, and Damian had no choice but to take a deep breath as he saw the scenery reminiscent of Dottegi Market.
“Oh, I’m going to die!!!”
“Come out and see!!”
It was because the counter located on the other side of the entrance door was crowded with hundreds of people who were like a wall of people.
‘It’s too late if I get blank and forget.’
Poof! Whiik!
Damian made his way through the crowd of users in the lobby to the counter.
It was a place reminiscent of a bank teller.
Dozens of employees, all dressed in black and white uniforms, sitting at their desks dealing with huge crowds.
“Did you finish the quest well?”
“No, so the schedule…”
“Adventurer. Then you go to the goal. This is a platinum level commission.”
“I don’t think you’ve ever served as an escort before. Will you be okay?”
“The dividend is…”
And Damian could feel the old nostalgia coming back once again as he saw those employees busy dealing with people.
This was the < Adventurer's Guild >, one of Terra’s core facilities and one of the most crowded places in the kingdom.
“Maria! Bring all the adventurer license applications that came in today!”
“yes!!!”
As Damian reached the counter, a loud voice echoed through the counter.
It was the sound of a thunder tiger.
A man with a shaggy beard and a thick stature, and at the same time printing out hundreds of documents at terrifying speed.
“Hello Hassan? I want to get some licenses.”
“under?”
Soon after, the man who had been stamping Damian’s words raised his head, and then he implied back, concentrating on stamping documents like a machine.
“Come on. Are you a newly descended adventurer from another world?”
“yes. I just came over from the whispering island.”
It was < Hassan >, the head of the Terra Kingdom branch of the adventurer’s guild.
“Anything like that, you have a good eye for it. In the meantime, I also checked the business card with my name on it.”
“To work as a mercenary, you have to have this level of awareness.”
“That’s right. That’s right.”
Hassan nodded at Damian’s words.
It was pretty good for wearing a boar’s head.
The continent’s largest guild, with branches all over the continent of Arcia, and one obligatory establishment in each kingdom and city.
Such an adventurer’s guild is one of the facilities that transcends national and racial boundaries, and it was one of the few facilities that continental people (=NPCs) and adventurers (=users) use without distinction.
Depending on their needs and interests, they either paid money and requested a request, or paid money and received a request.
In a word, can we call it the < job market >?
Because the adventurer’s guild served as a bridge between clients and consignees based on communities spread across all continents, and took a BM (Business Model) of receiving fees from them and operating the guild.
“But you need a license to do that. is not it?”
“yes. I heard that too.”
So, despite the fact that he already knew everything, Damian continued to react positively by politely nodding his head at the words of Hassan, who continued to explain at a fast pace.
Not only did Damian go through the adventurer’s guild threshold countless times in his previous life, but also in the certification grading table divided into Iron-Bronze-Silver-Gold-Platinum-Diamond-Master-Grand Master.
There was a record of holding a challenger license that was given only to the top 100 people in the guild.
“Looking at the reaction, I don’t think I need to explain anything more. Do you have any questions about the guild?”
“doesn’t exist.”
“okay? It looks like you did a lot of research beforehand. Then, would you like to apply right away?”
“Sure.”
“It’s also cool. Maria!”
Damian nodded and Hassan called the staff.
He was a well-spoken adventurer.
Usually, when working in an adventurer’s guild, there were many adventurers who had to explain everything from one to ten, and in the case of Damian, who was in the guild, it was a case of one in a hundred.
“Are you a team? Or individual?”
“Individual.”
And while Damian poured out answers to Hassan’s questions like a rapid-fire cannon, he was able to apply for the < Adventurer's License > faster than anyone else.
For him, who had already peaked once, the application process for an adventurer’s license was just a formal question.
“The adventurer’s guild’s license is issued after a simple test. If you pass through a total of ten levels of gateways, you will be given an appropriate grade accordingly. Do you understand?”
“yes.”
“Since the test center isn’t full… If you want to get a license quickly, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to take the qualification test right now.”
“If I want a higher tier, can I go after preparing thoroughly?”
“okay. I have nothing more to say.”
Hassan nodded at Damian’s words.
Indeed, he was an adventurer with thick bones.
The adventurer’s guild included not only the innate physical abilities of adventurers, but also their equipment and items in their skills.
Depending on how you use your resources, you were supposed to give extra points to the grade standard.
whatever job you have It didn’t matter how the request was carried out.
It’s just that depending on how successfully the request is completed, the grade of the license is also managed with a marked difference.
“I’ll do it right away. I don’t think it will change much anyway.”
“…is it?”
So, when Damian held out the adventurer’s license application form, Hassan tilted his head and rubbed his chin alludingly.
No matter how much he had done his research beforehand, it was because he felt the composure of an unknown strongman in this adventurer.
“Is there any need for any preparation? If you go in, equipment maintenance will be limited.”
“Because it’s a test to prove your usual skills.”
“…So much confidence. Come with me.”
Tring!
And a new quest window appeared before Damian’s eyes.
* * *
[Qualification Test]
In order to become a member of an adventurer’s guild and work, you need to verify your skills and obtain a license accordingly! Prove your worth by passing the Qualification Test of the Adventurers Guild!
Category: Epic
Content: Pass the Qualification Test of the Adventurer Guild
Progress: 0% (0/1)
Reward: Adventurer’s Guild License
Notice: If you give up this quest, an iron license will be automatically issued!
“long time no see.”
Damian licked his lips while looking at the quest window that appeared in front of him.
It was a quest that came to my mind the moment I followed Hassan to the back of the counter.
The moment I closed my eyes to the sunlight pouring in from the huge arched exit after passing through a long and wide aisle like that of the World Cup Stadium.
Damian could hear a loud and cheerful voice resounding at the same time as a huge circular structure reminiscent of the Colosseum appeared.
“Adventurers from standby numbers 301 to 400~! Please prepare for the test!”
“…wow.”
There was a huge crowd in the middle of the stadium.
“Summon gate…. This must be a bit difficult.”
Damian wiped his chin at the sight of the Colosseum.
A guild employee in a maid outfit was waving her arms on the podium.
A platform several meters high built on a sandy open field, and a total of ten lines of dozens of people below the platform.
And from the back of the platform, Damian could find a high arched door and a thick iron grate attached to a pulley.
This is the place Terra branch created to test adventurers, and Master Arceus of < Monster's Tower > put his heart and soul into this masterpiece.
It was < Summon Gate >.
“If you go behind the podium, you will see an exam hall where you can take your exams~! If you defeat the monsters summoned to the test site, you will pass! There are a total of ten steps, so please refer to it and shout out to give up if you think you can’t do it in the middle!”
“Are you a real monster?! Maria?!”
“It is an illusion created by wizards belonging to the guild! I’m just pretending! Of course, since Arceus-sama personally supervised the data, there shouldn’t be a big difference from reality, right?”
When people asked questions, the maid called < Maria > winked.
It was literally.
The way the Terra branch of the Adventurer Guild grants licenses is none other than how efficiently you defeat monsters.
The reason why the adventurer’s guild set the standard for killing monsters was because most of the requests were from monsters, and it was a very practical method.
If it was natural, it was natural.
Just as all kings and nobles could not directly solve the problems that occurred in their territory, each kingdom was solving various civil complaints by subcontracting to the adventurer’s guild.
In other words, the reason why the Terra branch of the adventurer’s guild commissioned Arceus to supervise and advise on the construction of Summon Gate was also to select those who could best defeat monsters and differentiate their ranks.
“Then~ let’s begin~.”
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Eventually, starting with Maria’s clear voice, the moment when the iron bars at the entrance where Damian and the participants entered came down.
– Kyaaaaaaa!
– Aaaaaaagh!
– Save me!!!
Kwajik! Quick! Quadduk! Fast! Kwajijik!
Damian could hear a terrible scream echoing from the door behind the podium, and at the same time, all sorts of destructive sounds and monsters’ roars filled the arena.
“…is it the start?”
It was the start of testing.
