Since that was it for todays exploration of the Labyrinths, the day was not even halfway through when we arrived back in the building of the Quratar Adventurers Guild through the Warp portal. While we were there we asked for the directions that would point us to the exact location of the Quratars branch of the Merchants Guild, which, as it turned out, was located on the other side of the Quratars Labyrinth and the Adventurers Guild and the ward where our house was located. We are lucky that the center of Quratar is so big and houses pretty much all of the facilities necessary for proper adventuring and everything else related to it, because that way we have access to pretty much all that we need within just a short walk from the Adventurers Guild.
So this is the place, huh?
I remarked when we have arrived in front of the Merchants Guilds building.
Yes, this is the headquaters of the Merchants Guilds Quratar branch.
Sherry confirmed that for me in a matter-of-factly fashion. I have to say, I expected the Merchants Guilds building to be a big one and it certainly was, but in an altogether different sense than the one that belonged to Quratars Explorers Guild.
I is quite big. . . . horizontally, I mean.
That is because building it in such a way was more efficient while keeping the place representative at the same time, as is expected of one of the two biggest guilds in Quratar.
Two biggest guilds?
Yes: the Explorers Guild and the Merchants Guild. While the Explorers Guild can be said to be the source of Quratars strength, the Merchants Guild can definitely be called the source of Quratars wealth.
The source of Quratars wealth, huh? Certainly, if the Merchants Guild had enough money to own such an impressive building, then the amount of money they must have at their disposal has to be even more amazing.
Master, since you decide to go in there, then may I give you a word of advice?
Sure, go right ahead.
Laurel
Male, fourty seven years old
Job: Sex Maniac Lv.35
Equipment:
Iron Sword of Landslide, Sacrificial Misanga
Oh, would you look at that, a human who has Sex Maniac set as his main Job and is not even trying to hide it. I think this is actually the first time I saw someone like that. Now that I think about it, if this man is a one of the brokers working for the Merchants Guild, then should he really have Sex Maniac as his main Job? What if somebody were to see it on his Intelligence Card and thought that this is awfully unprofessional of him? Then again, I guess there are not that many occasions when you have to present your Intelligence Cards to others in the first place, so he either found a way to hide it from others or he really just does not care about it at all. Anyway, if those information were all that I had to go by to make myself an opinion about this man, it would have to such that someone who has Sex Maniac set as his main Job does not fit to be an employee of the Merchants Guild at all. But I cannot make hasty judgements just yet. First, let me wait and see what thus man actually has to say to me, because there is no way someone like him would just chat someone like me up without some kind of reason behind it.
My name is Laurel, and I work here as a broker. If it is all right with you, sir, then could I ask for a moment of your time so we could talk?
I am not going to have anything against it as long as it is just going to be talking.
Of course. I will not hold it against you if you decline anything that I might offer you, sir. Now, if it is not too much trouble, then I would like you to accompany me to the upper floor.
The broker pointed to the stairs leading to the Guilds first floor and I started following after him, but then. . . . . . . . . . .
Wait a minute, please.
I looked back at Roxanne and Sherry, who stayed behind on the ground floor without a single word of complain. As much as I do not like the idea of leaving them alone here, I think that taking them with me to the room where this Laurel guy is heading might be just as bad, because if he sees Roxannes big boobs and Sherrys cute, small figure, then who knows what he might try to do to them.