Tristan learned a few things about the adventurers. Every City with a certain amount off people living there has a „Adventurers Guild". People put up quests at a big board, for example killing monsters or gathering herbs, and the adventurers can select a quest and they get a reward for the completion of the quest. There were several classes an adventurer could have. It went like this: F-RANK, E-RANK, D-RANK, C-RANK, B-RANK, A-RANK and S-RANK. Every month there was an event where people would face different challenges, and based on how well they do the challenge they get a rank, but only F, E or D. To get to a new class you must have done at least 10 quests for your current class. Then you can partake in a new challenge and then you can climb to the top of the ranks. There are two exceptions in this system:
1. People with F-RANK will get fired from being an adventurer if they are inactive for to long.
2. S-RANK is only for the strongest of the strongest, you cannot reach it like normal, you must have done something very big, like defeat a really, really powerfull enemy or save someone important, stuff like that.
Since there was an upcoming adventurers event, Tristan wanted to become one, just for fun. The others were apparently B-RANK. B-RANK is considered rather strong. If you have good teamwork, like this group does you can register as an group and level together. But there is a big gap from B-RANK to A-RANK, so a lot of the strong people in A-CLASS are rather arrogant, of course there are nice ones too.
Tristan wanted to becomes adventurer because he could get some bonuses, for example, citys with an adventurers guild also have an adventurers inn, where adventurers get bonuses, so they don't have to pay the full price and depending on your rank the bonus is higher.
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At the time they entered the city the news of a big fire near itself had spread like (Pun-Alarm) a...
wild fire. The event at the adventurers guild still was 3 days ahead, so Tristan needed to find himself something to do.
„Hey, do you want us to show you the city? After all we don't have anything to do, like you"
„Yes, sure why not"
The group showed Tristan the important areas in the city. There was a magicians guild, the adventurers guild with the adventurers inn, then there was the market, the shopping street, it had a lot of shops like clothing shops, blacksmiths and stuff like that. And last the city hall. There you can do lots of stuff, like register as an citizen or search for houses to buy or get a visa, you could also search for jobs there. Tristan was interested in the magicians guild, so the two mages of the group showed him around. The other members went somewhere else. The magicians guild was a large building, the first floor was the reception, you could also register as an official mage here. The second and third floor consisted mostly out of training rooms. The fourth floor was a big library, with tons of books about magic. And the last floor was the office of the leading magician. He was apparently a strong one. As they entered the magicians guild the two girls, Elenna and Misty, were greeted buy some people standing around and talking. Tristan however didn't get any attention, wich was fine for him.
‚They do seem well known here. Maybe they are strong. But then wouldn't they be A-RANK? I'll just ask them'
„Hey, you guys seem well known here, are like important people here or just famous?"
„You see, most A-RANK adventurers in this city aren't that nice, so as B-RANK, and pretty high ranking at that, we are well known in the city, we stay here and do the jobs here. The citizens are thankful for that"
„I see."
Then, they reached the reception. A lady in a nice looking outfit greeted them.
„Hi Elenna and Misty, welcome back. What can I do for you?"
At first she didn't notice Tristan, he was standing behind the girls.
„Hey Sis. We want to register our friend as a new mage."
„Your new friend?"
Tristan stepped forward.
„Hello there. My name is Alan and I want to register as a mage"
„Hi there. I'm Mary, but you can call me sis, everyone does that here. Now, you want to register as a mage huh. Do you have any experience in magic? Or do you want to find out your Magica?"
„Magica? What's that?"
„You don't know? Well, it's the strength of your magic. Your friend Misty for example has 87 Magica points. And that's pretty high. For comparison, the strongest known mage in this world has 398 Magica points. So, do you want to find out?"
„Yeah sure. Let's try it"
„Alright! If you would follow me. The ladies can come too."
Sis led them into a rather small room. It had a round table in the middle and on top op that was a crystal ball and some small wooden boards.
„Ok so, what you have to do is you place one hand on the crystal and the other on the wood. Then you try to take the magic from the crystal and channel it into the wood. When I say so you let go of the crystal and take the wood in both hands. Then a number will appear on your hand. Understood?"
„Yeah I guess."
Tristan did as instructed. When trying to take the magic from the crystal a dark ball formed and kept growing bigger, and bigger and bigger. Sis eyes widened.
„That is.. unbelievable!"
And then...
CRACK
...the crystal cracked opened and exploded. Glass flew around the room. There was now a black orb floating before Tristans hand. Then, it got sucked into his palm. The wooden board begin to glow. He took it in his hands as instructed and waited.
New categorie, [Magica] acquired. Your starting value will be 1000.
And so a red 1000 formed on his hand. Everybody stared at him in shock.
„uhmm.... This is... unexpected."
Elenna was the first to speak.
„UNEXPECTED? THIS IS BOT UNEXPECTED! THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE! How could anybody have a value over 400? That's impossible for humans!"
Sis completely loosed her mind. She then opens the door and dragged Tristan up the stairs.
„This is not good! A 1000 Magica and that in the Dark arts? You boy have some explaining to do!"
It was that moment, a young man saw sis dragging Tristan behind her. He then came over to them.
„Hey sis, leave him be. You're gonna scare him away like that"
„Yes but he needs to-„
„No no leave it to me"
The man then proceeded to take Tristan into a trainingsroom.
„Now. This is a trainingsroom for distant combat, like fireballs or waterspikes. You want to try something?"
„Yes, sure. [Spears of Darkness]"
Shadow spears appeared behind Tristan, wich he then sent right into the trainingsdoll. It got completely destroyed and had 9 holes in it now.
„Ah... you are a Dark mage... well let's have a talk with the guild leader won't we"
Again Tristan was dragged up the stairs, into the leaders office. Sis was already waiting there.
„So you are the boy with 1000 Magica. This will be Interesting"