Xylene was quite tense about whats going on right now...
There are two people in front of them, one was a woman on prime and an old man who has beard and has an aura filled of experience
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I felt a hand on my head... I looked up only to find Eline smiling at me
"Its okay, no need to worry about things"
I silently nod as a reply
"So, sorry about the delay, about the other thing that I am talking earlier. Her name is Xylene. We have found her on the waters one day, we have thought that maybe she has gotten into an accident with the commercial boat or a fishing boat that she was in and has fallen into the water. We havent found anything at the vicinity of where we found her so we disregarded the thought about wreckage and maybe it has sunken. We managed to save her but we have also seen her damaged clothes that implies that something serious must have happened to her and its a miracle that she managed to survive. Also her memories seems to be clouded so we can't ask her more about the problem" Eline said while elaborating some parts
The two seems to think for abit about it, I can notice a map on the center of the table with one spot of it being marked
"Well, I see" The old man shrugged before continuing "I believe that it was a serious tragedy and it might have been caused by an attack on the seas. Also about her memory being clouded, its best to leave it like that as it might have been caused by a trauma" he exclaimed
"Her age was still young so its better to not cause anymore stress for her as she might break down" the woman said before looking at Me "Also Xylene was it, do you want to find your parents?" she says "While I believe that it would take a lot of time to succeed seeing that it happen on the seas and we are unsure of their location, its better if she enters the cathedral or the orphanage at the mean time"
"Actually about that" Eline replied "She said that doesnt want to enter an orphanage and instead wanting to join the guild instead"
"The guild?" The old man said "So you are interested about the guild..."
"That is also a choice but we have a thing about young recruits. While younger people can enter the guild and do quest, the only rank they could get was the lowest and that is only limited to errands and gathering, directly from the receptionist, where it had less danger and wont cause any harm to them"
"But well, we could test her abilities first and determine her performance in combat to advance to second rank where the quest would now come from the board"
"Also there is a thing about affinities with mana as it was dangerous traveling around if you had less of it, based on the reasearch done by Wizard's guild, mana would cause harm to the body if you are exposed to high density"
I took a moment of understanding to realize what is going on right now, so in short the story about me was that I was from a wreckage caused by an attack mostly caused by pirates and managed to survive at the sea. While it would hide the reason about me suddenly waking up into this world it would most likely fill up the story of my past better than me weaving it manually
I do feel weird about their talks traveling faster as I could feel their professionalism into their work
"Well, its indeed better if we knew of this before hand as it would most likely cause suspicions from the receptionist" The old man said "But well, like always we should start with the basic requirements"
The woman took out a decent sized paper out from the stacked papers on table before saying "Its the form you need to fill out before joining the Adventurers Guild, you can leave out the thing about your background empty as of yet. Fill out the Names and Age, and leave it to us to deal with rest"
I silently noded my head and took out the handed paper
Name, Age, Profession, Background, Affinity rating, and performance in combat
Its really like a resume, but its better since you just have to fill it out and no more interviews
No actually this is better since the last time we had to make a resume as an activity on school, I literally missed the submission date
They handed me an ink and a quill, I was kinda stupified when I realized that it was the old age. I filled it up with care but my hand writting literally suck lately, the ink did stick on the quill but they should have invented something like a make shift pen since I wasnt used to this. I can accept fountain pens but quill is a little too old gen for me
While the pen sucks in itself I realized that the language werent as different, at first I thought that the Sign earlier was just me seing something translated, like a skill in those fantasy novels, but that was just probbably a wishful thinking as everything in the bookshelves was titled using english, its weird actually seing that people here were more fluent in english than the me who came from the world where it originates
By now, the question about this world just keep stacking and stacking, by the time I solve them I may have forgotten some of it
I handed it back to them, the said name and age, smiling while im feeling tired mentally
"Its nice that you knew how to use that, but you really had trouble using it" The old man said "Its probbably a good thing because you can enter the academy with that"
My lips twitched by the words but its fine, its fine, haha, its not like Im a writer or anything
"Well yes, the academy started to enrollments for this year's batch, it just started this week and about two days passed already" the woman added
"I have head of it before, but I think they had dormitories in there right?" Eline says trying to remember it
"Hmm? Oh... yes they did, they had living quarters for each respective years, the batch of 3rd years would graduate two days from now before the enrollees can go to school, by then the 1st years will move to the 2nd year dormitory leaving the space, and by then another two days after that, the enrollees would need to return back to school for the test that would filter them out" The woman said
"I guess you are lucky about the time if you are thinking of entering the academy. You can find yourself a place to stay" the old man said with a smirk "Claire could I trouble you to bring the girl into the training hall?"
"U-Umm yes Guild master!" Claire said nervously
Even I was shocked to hear the word Guild master, I wasnt expecting to hear that word first thing after being here
Claire took up the Form and guided Xylene out of the room
"So there is one more thing I was going to say" Eline said
"One more? Seriously?" The old man said tired and feeling helpless
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I was brought up then as we went past the counter, right now theres another person on the counter
The place felt like open space because of how the second floor was only till above the counter leaving the main hall wide open till ceiling...
There are still tables from above the second floor, honestly the design of this really piqued my interest
We went to the right side of the building and we had to pass from behind the counter, as there was a tunnel like way behind to avoid going through the line of people
'So the counter in front of us is only one room and from behind it there are multiple private rooms. Now Im starting to wonder what could possibly be on the second floor'
I was led into a staircase to second floor and one side of it going forward...
We went through it and it also give up a tunnel vibe
Being lead around by Claire felt kinda nice, their uniform's base was similar to each other. The design of it was actually unique, hmm actually I may have seen it before in my life but I dont exactly know how do they wear that thing on
Its like a one piece dress but it has a collar and they had something like another layer of uniform to top it off, it was adorned with few ribbons and they had a ribbon that tied up the hair into a ponytail, they had black stockings and a regular low shoes
As we went through the way, we encountered some people walking around the place. One thing that interest Xylene more was the fact the she could see through even dark corners around her, leaving no blind spots on her entire vision
Now that I think about it, I did have a very nice skill called Night vision
And...
'OOOOOOOOHHHHHH I remembered something really really CRUCIAL. The fact that I could clearly see throught darkness meant that I hit the very very very wonderful jackpot price from a scammer's lottery machine!!!'
'Yes Yes Yess baby! I could now see through under the skirts!!!'
'No one could accuse me of peeking as it only applies on things that was hidden!, hell yeah! I will now be sight seeing great sceneries with no hindrance!!!'
'HELL YEA!, IF ITS VISIBLE, THEN IT MUST BE SEEN!!!'
'Though... Claire wore a long enough one piece with the end of it reaching her knees, haaah, right now I want to get reincarnated into Japan'
*klang klang* sounds of metal clashing could be heard on the background
Xylene's attention was focused on Claire's skirt along with the stockings thinking about mischievous things by herself and almost nearly drooling
But due to the sounds she turned her attention back to where they are heading
"Ah" She unconsciously muttered, while she was being guided by Claire the only thing she knew about their destination was a training hall, and she was looking on Claire's skirt on the way
She dont know exactly how the Training hall would look like. She thought that it might have been similar to a large room, or maybe the Guild building itself which is actually quite big for a reception, but she did not expect what appeared in front of her
A very large dome that could be compared to a regular colosseum, the entire place was very big and the ceiling itself could be measured to be atleast 3rd floor above, but thats not all, the main area itself was even lowered by another 1 floor down and was filled with people all around. This is no joke as the size and design could rival the old ages' gladiator arena. There are pillars by the sides that supports the ceiling and the current level where we currrenly are was used exactly for spectators seats. There are only 2 entrance that was visible from their position, but there are few doors around
"Its quite crowded today, mainly because of the academy's enrollment that was happening this week, normally this place could be used to settle brawls and sometimes they even host competitions" Claire muttered as she glanced around looking for someone
Xylene nodded in response
"So you are about to take the examination, to determine if you are able to advance to the second rank and officially join the guild rankings. If you feel unsure or if you disagree, its not too late to go back now and proceed as is, as we doesnt force people into violence"
"No.. its fine"
"Is thats so. Then if you have already decided then Im bringing you into the storage room to use the guild's modified weapons"
Claire brought Xylene further and went past the railings surrounding the place, using the stairs and into the ground where some people do their trainings. She was guided till they reached a room further back of the arena. On their way they went past several people who sent curious gazes into Xylene but she didnt notice them all as she proceed to be mesmerized by the training hall
"Here. You can enter the room and select your preffered weapon. Please note that the weapons are dulled so that they wont cause any serious injury. You can use as many weapon based on your preffered fighting style but do not use any personal weapon as they might cause injuries or harm to the test conductor"
Xylene nodded but she cant help but feel weird as she doesnt even have a weapon right now. Seing that her job requires her to fight with weapons but seing herself right now that was unarmed was a little bit pitiful to bear
Maybe if she had a chance, she could try to look for the place where she could buy them. There is also the option of her making one like before, but right now she lacked all the materials
'A blacksmith huh', remembering that this was the old age, she can probbably not find any weapon stores that sells already made weapons, if that is so and she managed to find a blacksmith instead, the she might consider commissioning a new weapon
She browsed through the room and saw several weapons aligned on the racks
Various models were lined up from dagger to short swords before moving into the next line up
"Woah" She stood next into a big sword that was piled in the line, it was a Greatsword, she found it after following the line up of regular swords so she decided to look at it, its size was even bigger than her, this was the last on the line as the previous one was just a little smaller version of the Greatsword and the next one beside it being the Broadsword
Further into the storage room, she found the long stick variety. What appeared first was the common Spear that have a blade on the tip, however the length of it was a bit long for her to use. She decided to look abit more to the line up. A single bladed Spear, a Lance, a Spear with a hook, a Halberd but its design was the double crescent blade, the axe type Halberd but uhh, the length was a bit long as expected
She decided to stop looking at them anymore, the line up remained to have the same long length with some exeptions being the short Spear but their length was about the same as her height, she wanted to take it but its design was only available to spear
She couldn't find a halberd of her size, and she couldn't just take a short spear thinking that if it was a human to human battle, short spear or spears in particular have restriction on range, they cant be on the receiving end and that exactly is the crucial part. The halberd of her choice, which is the axe type, could handle side swings and has a weight, it can push an enemy away or have a heavy devastating downward swing that is considerably better than short handled axes
To deal high damage while remaining safe, that was her play style, shes basically on the glass cannon faction
She calmed her thinking for a bit. Out of all the things she had in her mind, she already forget her ability and skills that was given by the system before it dissapears
Spear and Sword, just those two for this test, magic is a complete no no, seing that they made effort to dull the weapons, they totally wanted to avoid injury as much as possible
But damn, this is still made of metal, its like getting hit by Hammer and... Hoooly Cow there are actually some Hammers on the line ups, what the heck are you gonna dull on a Hammer!!
There are also ranged line ups. Bows and Arrows, a Crossbow but I cant use them
Throwing... was also part of my combat style before... hmm I need to brainstorm some idea...
Stones... round objects... none of them here, plus the arena was paved dirt, I cant find a stone there
Then what to throw... as an attack it has to hit and pierce... then hmm... a knife maybe...
This is the crucial part on my life, this is where I had to decide which is which as I cant go doing shits every time. I had to get stronger too, hmm...
Xylene thought of ideas over and over and lasted a bit much of time to decide. At this time Claire went out and decided to search for any available Test conductor, seing that the Training hall was bustling, this as well took some time
*Sigh* "I see, That should work aswell, if I were to convert all of my preferences into one, then there is only one career choice left for me!"