CH 22

The next day, after breakfast in the cafeteria, I immediately headed to the adventurer's guild.

I woke up a little late because I had experienced a lot of exhausting events yesterday, including travel fatigue and mental fatigue.

This made me miss the first morning when the adventurer's guild was crowded, so I accepted that it was a positive thing. The late bird catches the worm...isn't it?*

I walked into the adventurer's guild, thinking about trivial things that were not important.

And then I walked to the nearest reception desk from the same entrance as yesterday, wondering inwardly with nervousness when the event involving the other adventurers would occur.

There she was, the receptionist who dealt with me yesterday, a beautiful woman with big b**bs who still looked good in her glasses.

“Welcome to…ah you are the one from yesterday.”

“Hello.”

“You didn't register as an adventurer yesterday. How about today?”

The woman at the reception desk smiled at me as she said this. It was a great sales smile, but it was also a beautiful look that would suck you in. It's definitely not because of her boo…oops never mind.

She asked me again, and I thought about it a lot, but I came to the conclusion that it would be better to register as an adventurer, even if there were some disadvantages. Because it would give me a guild card that I could use as identification when I entered a town. And if I became a high-ranking adventurer, I would be treated like a noble.

“I would like to register.”

“Understood. Then please fill out this form.”

The document she handed me consisted of a few simple things such as name, age, and hometown.

I suppose it was because many uneducated people become adventurers, so they couldn't answer questions that were too complicated.

I filled in the blanks on the form that was given to me, and when I was done, I silently handed the form to her.

In the name field, I wrote Rolando, which I had decided to use as my new name, and in the age field, I wrote that I was twelve years old and that I was from the Rogue Village in Malbert's territory.

It seemed that there was no problem with this information, especially if it was a false name or false information. It was a kind of profile registration for the adventurer's guild.

“This is your guild card. If you lose your guild card, you will be charged a fee of one medium silver coin to reissue it, so please be careful not to lose it.”

“Understood. By the way, I'd like to know if there are any other terms and conditions regarding the guild that I didn't hear yesterday.”

“I understand. First of all, I will explain about the guild's rank…”

She explained that adventurers had ranks, which were classified into nine ranks, from the lowest, F-rank, to the highest, SSS-rank.

The meaning of the rank was related to the level of contribution to the adventurer's guild, and the higher the rank, the higher the contribution to the guild and the better the benefits.

In particular, requests submitted through the Adventurer's Guild ranged from F-rank to SSS-rank as well, and requests could be accepted up to one rank above your rank.

In other words, an F-ranked adventurer could only accept requests that were one rank above his or her rank, which is E rank.

Requests varied from minor chores to killing monsters, escorting merchants, and obtaining specific materials, making it more of a so-called do-anything job.

However, there were cases where the king gave the rank of nobility to those who were recruited from the aristocracy or made great achievements, making it the perfect profession for those who dreamed of getting rich.

As for the rest of the rules, they were the usual ones, such as no fighting between adventurers, no committing crimes, etc. There were no special rules.

I was about to thank the receptionist and leave when she stopped me.

“If you don't mind, why don't you start taking requests?”

“A request huh. But isn't the most attractive request already taken by other adventurers?”

The current time was not the first hour of the morning, which was when adventurers rushed to get requests, but a few hours past that time.

Therefore, it was easy to predict that there would be no decent requests left, as the adventurers who arrived first thing in the morning would have already accepted the ones with good rewards.

But she didn't seem to think so and asked me to accept a request. The request was…

“Collecting herbs?”

“Yes, that's a permanent request, so you can take it at any time. It's just…”

“We can accept them, but the rewards are not that great.”

“Yes…”

I interrupted her mid-sentence to tell her what I expected to hear, and she lowered her beautiful eyebrows and made an apologetic expression.

However, the fact that it was a permanent request meant that the item being requested was always in short supply and in need.

Furthermore, I thought that it would not be a bad idea to experience this kind of request for the future.

In the end, I decided to accept the request she offered and went to collect medicinal herbs. By the way... I hadn't heard this woman's name yet.

“I should introduce myself again since I'm going to be in your care. I'm Rolando.”

“Please take care of me as well. My name is Marian and I work for the Adventurer's Guild.”

“I see. Well then, Marian. I'm off.”

“Take care and be careful.”

I went straight to the entrance of the city and presented my guild card to the soldier guarding the gate. The procedure was completed without any problems, and I was able to leave the city without a hitch.

Before I left the adventurer's guild, Marian had told me about a small forest a few dozen minutes' walks from the town of Laresta.

It looked more like a thicket than a forest, but if you asked me if it was a forest or a thicket, I would say it was a forest without hesitation.

“Now, where are the herbs?”

I immediately entered the forest in search of medicinal herbs, but here I realized something important. I forgot to check what kind of medicinal herbs I was looking for.

I thought about picking some random weeds, but then I thought about it and realized that I had a certain ability, so I said it out loud.

"Right, why don't I just use [Appraisal] to find out?"

It didn't take long to figure out the answer to this question, and I immediately started looking for medicinal herbs through my appraisal.

The herbs were easy to find, and I picked the ones I saw, but I kept some of them because I knew that if I uprooted them, they would never grow in the same place again.

According to the results of the appraisal, the herb was called "Serenite Grass," and in addition to being used to make low-grade potions, it could also be used to prevent minor illnesses such as colds and injuries if it was boiled and consumed.

After collecting as much Serenite grass as I could carry, I decided to head back to town. Next time I came back, I'd better bring a bag or something.