The 9th Story: First Time in the Adventurer Guild
After the inspection at the gate ended without any problems thanks to the village mayor’s letter and Mare-san’s help, we entered the city.
As we move further into the city I am impressed.
Naturally the people here have proper clothes.
On the way the caravan stopped in many villages with the purpose of buying and selling goods, but to be honest, the difference between Thales village and the other villages was not that great.
Everyone was using shabby clothes; it gave a feeling of poorness.
It must be because the majority of them are farmers.
And every village has a routine of waiting for the first of each month for the merchant caravan; it is the only thing they look forward to.
Well, to the frontier villages it must be the only form of entertainment when the caravan arrives with various goods and stories of their travel.
Actually, most of the villagers do not leave the village their entire lives and finish their lives inside the village.
Perhaps the Father with his point of view as an ex-adventurer had an open mind and could easily accept me, an outsider.
In a way I could say I was lucky.
While thinking about such a thing.
“Okay, I will move the carriage to our commercial firm. After that we will be done” [Mare]
Mare-san said so, and led the carriage to the Darren commercial firm.
Darren commercial firm is the first one that started to travel to the villages, and it was with Darren as representative.
Mare-san seems to be the 3rd most important person in the commercial firm.
The a.s.sistant Carna-san told me about Mare-san on the way.
Darren commercial firm is a medium-sized business in Valles, but it is said that it was made in Darren’s generation with his knowledge.
Mare-san is one of the persons who started the business with Darren ten years ago.
Although he has enough status to be able to stay out of danger, Mare-san likes to go around to the villages himself.
After the baggage was carried to the commercial firm Mare-san comes and says.
“Carna and Gash go to Darren’s main office to report and confirm the items and sales. I will go to the adventurer guild with this guy” [Mare]
“I understand. Take care” [Carna]
They bow to each other and begin their work immediately after.
“Okay, then let’s go” [Mare]
Mare-san walked in front of me and called Gal and the others to go to the adventurer guild in the same commercial district.
After the status confirmation at the castle’s gate it is necessary to follow a certain procedure to register as an adventurer.
Normally, a person can join as an apprentice adventurer and build up trust with the guild, and after that that person can formally join the adventurer guild.
In other words, they won’t easily accept strangers.
Well, normally it is a wait and see probation period.
However, and adventurer apprentice loses too much.
They receive almost no service from the guild, and the reward fee from the quests is cut by 40%.
Well, when you think about an adventurer the image that comes to mind is of a group of scoundrels, so it is hard to build a trust relationship.
But it seems that with a recommendation from a trustable person like Mare-san they will formally accept me easily.
Although I was teased by him a bit in front of the castle’s gate a while ago it seems that he properly observed me and judged me to be a trustable person.
“I will say this just in case, but I don’t usually recommend people that easily! I am doing this because I like you as a person, so don’t forget to thank me for that” [Mare]
Mare-san explains to me.
“Of course I know. I might even cry from the grat.i.tude” [Yoji]
“You, are you really thankful?” [Mare]
I said so slightly joking, but, is he okay? I look at his expression.
“Mare-san, Yoji-san’s att.i.tude was a bit bad, but we were greatly helped by Yoji-san, so please forgive him” [Gal]
Gal says so to help me a bit.
While walking and talking for about 15 minutes I finally saw a big building in front of me.
“This is the adventurer guild which we belong to” [Gal]
Gal points and tells me.
“Then, let’s go and finish the procedure because I have work after this” [Mare]
Mare-san said so and opened the adventurer guild’s door, so the seven of us entered the guild.