I just know from the interaction before. that maybe the adventure in this city is not so bad. They welcome the newbie like me. I thought before, that maybe, they will try to harass me or bully me. But I was wrong, instead, they cherished it if some newbie joins the guild.
The man before who covered my way is already gone. He joins the table with his friend. I walked to the receptionist corner, I'm still in awe because there's no 'inauguration' for the newbie. In my time, every time someone wants to join some group or organization, be it legal or not, there's always this thing called 'inauguration' for the new member. The inauguration itself is not official from the group or the organization. It was an initiative from the member themselves. The purpose of this inauguration is for welcoming the newbie so that he feels accepted in there, but sometimes the inauguration took the wrong turn and change the true purpose of that inauguration itself, in the end, the purpose change to make the newbie understand who is the one who holds a charge in here. Sometimes the inauguration ended with bullying. Even though it is already prohibited but there's still someone out there who practices the inauguration with the intend like that. Well, at least there's nothing like that in here I'm glad.
"Morning"
Clarisa greeting me
"Morning too"
I answer her greeting
"So how do you feel?"
While I was lost in my thought she is asking me, she grins in front of me. I already in front of the receptionist.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I'm asking about our greeting in here. The tradition that if there's a newbie join"
Oh, so she asking my feeling regarding that, huh?
"It's pleasant and very warm and it looks like there's not some sort of bullying for the newbie. Does the tradition come from the guild officially?"
"Yes, it came from the guild officially. No, to be precise the tradition come from before our guild master in this place before Rudy"
Oh, it means Rudy's predecessor who made this rule.
"What a nice tradition and warm welcome. Are this tradition only occur in this guild city? or any other guild in some place have the same tradition like this?"
Because she said before our guild master I have thought that maybe the other guild in someplace didn't have any tradition like this.
"Well… I don't know about other guilds, but as long as I know only our guild who have this tradition."
Now I'm glad I register in this place if it in some other place maybe I will get some sort of bullying. I don't know, though.
"heee, Is that so?"
"Yep, our guild master before Rudy is the one make this tradition so that the newbie will always be welcomed by the veteran adventure and to reduce the bullying from the veteran adventure. He is really a great man. Even though the system in the guild is already clear that they don't want to make any exception be it to experience adventure or new adventure why did the high-rank one become so arrogant and try to bully the newbie after they become one? I really don't understand"
Complain, Clarisa. it looks like I became the scapegoat for her complaint…
"What can I say… some people want to have value themselves more than any other people, if they can bully the newbie the feeling of superiority inside them will come and made them look big, but in contrast, it only looks more pathetic than any other person. They can't make themselves superior on their power or talent or even in their intelligence, instead, they made someone get the ugly part of them. They can't prove that they're better any than any other with their own will, isn't that pathetic?"
In other word people who always intimidate other person or bullying other's is because they want attention and recognition from the other. What a pathetic way of life…
"I agree with you, maybe that is the reason why our guild master before made that rule. It seems the purpose of that tradition is to make the guild get a positive impression on the newbie and instead of bullying the newbie, we must celebrate if there's someone who wants to join the guild…"
It is indeed his purpose. The guild master before Rudy is really brilliant. This tradition is to divert the eyes of someone who want to do some bullying on the newbie.
"I really thank the guild master before, he reduces our job, hehe"
Said Clarisa. The staff in the guild have another job too, it's a job to become a mediator if something happens with their adventure. Because the conflict between High-rank adventure and newbie adventure is nonexistent here, the job that the staff here have been reduced.
"oh by the way, why it is only one mug? Isn't that too little? Why the guild didn't give them a four or three drink for the night?"
Considering all of the adventurers are someone who likes to spend money on what their drink and eat, and their own desire, I thought one mug will be so cheap to be celebrated.
"Now you said it... of course, you didn't know"
What did I don't know? I'm confused. I tilt my head a little and made a puzzled face.
"The mug that used to drink is as big as the one you used. Basically, if you use a mug as big as a barrel it still counted one. The adventure in here, make a loophole in that tradition. At first, the guild only gives it 5 mugs for free, but because they use a bigger mug, we reduced it to one so that they can't make our finance broke."
What a fucking little shit… the guild already give them free, and then they make it to suit it themselves. I really don't have any word for them. I finally understand why the guild make it to one mug.
All these bastards use that tradition so that they can drink freely. It's surprising that the guild still didn't broke…
'so this is why they look very happy, those little bastards…'
That was what I thought.
"isn't the guild will have a deficit if it like that?"
"don't worry about it. Isn't everyday people want to become an adventure, you know. the adventure job maybe sometimes dangerous that's why there are not many people who want to become an adventure,"
it's true…
"Let's end our chit chat in here, okay?"
Clarisa then ended our little conversation.
"So what business do you have? Are you want to pick some quest or want anything?"
She asks my intention to come to the guild this day.
"Yep, I want to pick some quest, and I want to take my money from yesterday"
The money that I mean is the monster corpse that I sold to the guild.
"Ohh… I really forgot about that, I'm sorry. Henry already finished his job and he said the reward for you killing the monster is…"
Henry is the butcher who handles the monster that I sell. Clarisa searches the document and she looks like searching for something in the drawer behind her. Not long finally Clarisa finds the thing that she wants.
"This much is your reward. For the detail, you can see in this report that henry write"
She gave a pouch that full of the coins. I don't know the full cost of the monster that I sold.
"For mutated pangolin that you kill because you only bring 4 of their scale the reward is only 5 coin silver. The fanged mole for the teeth and the claw we will give it 11 silver coins. the fur of the Ice ape, though it's a little broken we can only buy it with 2 silver coins. And last for the golden bull that you killed because the price depends on the auction price I hope you wait for the auction already done. For the profit you will get is about 30% that number is already been reduced by the tax and administration so you don't need to worry."
Clarisa detailed one by one on the monster that I kill. I can get about 18 silver coins, with that I can live about more than 2/3 weeks. Surprisingly the golden bull didn't get list of the price by the guild instead they use the price that was sold in the auction.
"Okay, thank you. For the golden bull, I can wait it's okay."
"thank you for your understanding. And for the quest, you want to pick you can look at the bulletin board there. We already listed the quest that we have today. If you have decided the quest then please bring that quest here, after that we the staff will register it that you already will take that quest. And if you failed at the quest there's some penalty in it."
She pointed to the bulletin board and explaining something to me.
Woah, scary, so they give the penalty if we failed too, huh?
"Okay. I understand the gist of it, thank you."
I leave Clarisa and go to the bulletin board that Clarisa pointed out. I looked at the bulletin board. There's a quest that needs to fix the lantern outside the city, delivered some mail, fixes the carriage, brings the total amount of goods to the northeast city.
Wait a minute… I thought adventure have the job only to hunt the monster. It looks like I was wrong… the job that I see earlier is a labor job that is free to pick. The guild didn't only accept the quest of slaying monsters, the guild accepts "all the quest" if there's some quest that people assigned to them, as long they can pay the fee. Now I understand the system of the guild quest. I looked in another direction. there are so many quests in the bulletin. I try to find the quest that suited me. Today I want to relax a bit. After all, I got a little 'disturb' this morning so maybe right now I want some quest that didn't involve monster hunting besides, I want to test my magic, I want to test some magic that I have imagined.
While searching for the quest, then someone taps on my right shoulder. I turn my back to see someone tapping my shoulder. And in my back I see a man with a bulky body, I can clearly see his muscle, and he have a great black sword in his back.
"Do you need something for me?"
Asked me, I don't know him but if he is poking me from behind maybe he needs something from me.
"No, No It just my first time seeing your face in here, I just want to greet you"
The man casually spoke like that. There's not intimidating tone from him. So maybe what he said is true he just wants to greet me
"oh, by the way, my name is Agata, Agata Cariah. You can call me Agata. And I'm an S rank Adventure."