Chapter 94 – The Adventurer’s Guild
Next day.
Early in the morning, we went to the adventurer’s guild in Hamburg.
The adventurer’s guild is a for-profit organization spread throughout the Kingdom of Oz, to the extent that there are branches in any city.
Even if you weren’t an adventurer belonging to this city, you could order and accept various requests, so it was a place where quite a lot of people came and went every day.
“Oh. It’s pretty well decorated.”
Dorothea said that while looking around the building.
Generally, adventurer guilds sell simple food and beverages together, so the hall on the first floor was decorated like a pub.
Since it was morning, no one particularly drank, but there were plenty of people grabbing a simple meal.
Most of them were adventurers leading a rough life, so they gave off a somewhat dull impression, but the neatly decorated appearances of Dorothea and Vanessa in such a place stood out quite a bit.
I led the two of them to the window before we got into a fuss.
Then the clerk standing in front of the window asked with a friendly smile.
“Hello. How can I help you?”
I took out a medal proving my belonging to the Emerald Tower from my bosom and held it out.
Because gold can be obtained from the 4th rank mage, the expression of the employee who saw it changed.
“If there’s an ascending route to the capital, I’d like to join it.”
“Now, please wait a moment.”
The clerk heard me and hurriedly took out an old book from under the window.
Then he looked around and showed me a note that seemed to have been pasted relatively recently.
“Still, the Baltimore Merchant Corps, which is going to the capital in two days, has requested escort troops from the guild. If you are a magician of 4th tier or higher, you will probably accept it without asking or questioning.”
He said the day he went was market day, so it seems that there was a request with the right conditions.
The employee, who was explaining the request with a flushed expression, hesitated and asked if there was something wrong.
“By the way, the reward promised by the upper ranks is only 20 silver, would that be okay?”
20 silver, definitely a small amount of money.
In general, if you want to hire a 4th tier or higher mage as an escort, you will need to bring at least some gold coins.
However, since our purpose was to go to the capital from the beginning anyway, money was not that important.
When I said I was okay and nodded, the employee asked me for my name with a happy expression, saying that he would put a word on the top.
“My name is Patrasche.”
Then, the employee who wrote the name hesitated, looked at me, and said, “That’s an unusual name.” He muttered.
Well, it’s a name more suitable for dogs than people.
“I hear that kind of talk a lot.”
When I said that and waved my hand as if I was okay, the staff tore up the completed request form and handed it to me.
“You can go to the eastern gate of the city in two days.”
“Thanks.”
Saying that, I nodded and went back to Dorothea and Vanessa who were waiting behind me.
***
Originally, the most comfortable way to travel when traveling long distances is to fit into a plausible top row.
And if we, who had no connections, wanted to join the procession of the upper ranks, it would be best to receive it in the form of a request like now.
“Can’t we just go by ourselves?”
To Dorothea’s reasonable question, I answered with a shrug.
“Then it will be blocked by the capital’s checkpoint.”
First of all, the identities of the three of us are a bit ambiguous to prove.
If you go to Oz, the capital city, you will not be able to enter with only a disguised identity.
Since we had to act stealthily to assassinate the king, we couldn’t do anything conspicuous, so we naturally had to use expedients, and in that sense, belonging somewhere was a very good way.
If we belong to the upper matrix, we are in a state of double proof of identity.
1st Adventurer’s Guild, 2nd Baltimore Merchant.
And in the case of these upper ranks, most of them bribed soldiers to minimize the cumbersome inspection process, so they were less likely to be caught in front of the gates.
It’s literally two birds with one stone, making it easier to travel and avoiding inspections easily.
After hearing my explanation, Dorothea nodded as if she finally understood and indifferently chewed the breakfast bagel.
Unlike Dorothea, who was eating quietly like this, Vanessa, who said she had been to a place where humans lived for a long time, was looking around the adventurer’s guild with curious eyes.
I felt like I was going to have an accident if left alone, so I told Dorothea that I would come back for a while and got up.
“What are you doing?”
As I approached, pretending to be familiar, Vanessa, who had been staring at the party recruitment bulletin board, glanced back.
“No, it’s written quite interestingly.”
“What content?”
I looked at the contents of the poster that Vanessa had been looking at just now.
[If you call a quick thief while waiting, it will pop out within 10 minutes. Holds the record for the fast-forwarding kingdom title]
“Ah.”
What else do I say
“If it’s not because of my mood, it seems that there are a lot of posts left by thieves on the party recruitment bulletin board.”
As Vanessa said, he pointed to several thieves’ posters that seemed to be trying to appeal to him somehow.
I shrugged my shoulders and answered Vanessa’s question.
“The supply of thieves is overwhelmingly greater than the demand. So if you don’t actively appeal to yourself like this, you won’t be able to join the party, so you’re struggling.”
In general, a thief is a fairly ambiguous position among adventurer occupations.
It is useful when doing miscellaneous tasks such as setting traps, disarming, exploring dungeons, picking locks, etc., But when it comes to combat, it is neither one nor the other.
To entrust the role of scout, the position overlaps with the rangers, but it is not that the combat power is excellent enough to fight in the front like a warrior or a wizard.
At the beginning of the adventurer guild’s establishment, it was said to have a similar pick rate to other occupations, but it was one of the most extinct occupations in the current Diltan meta.
“That’s why there was a saying to shut up the thief and bandage it.”
“Ah…”
Vanessa nodded as if she understood.
I returned to my table with Vanessa, who was still looking around the building curiously.
He whined about wanting to see more, but quickly calmed down as I put bread in his mouth.
This guy, eating is a favorite food, but I haven’t seen him skip a meal.
***
Two days later, we headed for the eastern gate of the city, as the adventurer’s guild staff had explained.
Originally, when I go up in this way, I tend to hire a lot of escorts to take me.
When we arrived at the time written in the request, we found that adventurers who seemed to have received a request from the adventurer’s guild had gathered in front of the castle gate in groups of threes and fives, peeling nogari.
“If you are an adventurer who has received an escort request, come here and line up!”
I heard a man who seemed to be an employee and went there.
“Give me the request form here, and tell me the number of people participating in the ascent.”
“Three.”
“What is your occupational group?”
“Two wizards and one warrior.”
Upon hearing that I was a wizard, the staff looked at my face in surprise.
What you looking at? Have you ever seen a handsome face?
As I waited for what I would say with an impudent expression, the man entered his name in the ledger with a confused expression and explained.
“Your party will be in charge of the rear of the procession. You’d better not think about doing it casually. There’s eyes of the upper ranks all over the place.”
“Remember.”
I said that and nodded, then turned to find Dorothea and Vanessa waiting behind me.
Well?
The two were in the middle of a scuffle with a man they had never seen before.
As I approached, wondering what was going on, Dorothea, who had just found me, exclaimed with a happy face.
“Patrasch!”
I was told to call it by a pseudonym in a place where there are many eyes to see, but it is a title that I cannot get used to whenever I hear it.
“What’s wrong? What’s going on?”
Then Dorothea, who clung to me, whimpered.
“This guy keeps bothering me by asking me to join him at the party.”
When I looked at the man wondering what I was talking about, the narrow-eyed man smiled awkwardly and scratched the back of his head.
“Hello.”
“Hello, this is Nabal, what are we going to do with our group?”
Then the man said with a very embarrassed expression as if he couldn’t help it.
“Looks like it’s a party of three, but if there’s room left, can you hug me? The staff tried to kick me out because I said I came by myself.”
I stared intently at him to read his mind when he asked to join the party.
Since ancient times, narrow eyes have been the contemplation of suspicious people.
He probably hid his power or had a sinister mind.
First of all, I didn’t feel that way right now, but I decided to refuse his request because I didn’t know when he would reveal his true color.
“Sorry, but we don’t need extra people in our party.”
“That!”
He looks at me as if he is unfair, but since I have already made up my mind, I have no intention of repeating the words.
“Get to know someone else.”
As I said that, I waved his hand around, and the narrow-eyed man left with a grimace on his shoulder and left to find another party.
