There was a time, the guild was suspected for using his guild members to protest against the ruling king.
This was a taboo, but Bradley with his immersive intelligence was able to fight off the allegations and won at last but that has already caused them to lose trust from the citizens and they experienced great losses in their finance after that.
Another time, there was a massacre in a village under the kingdom and the blames was placed on them because they recently completed a mission in that village.
No matter what tricks the nobles used, the guild stood it's ground and still managed to become a little bit popular with missions coming in everyday.
There he met Bradley who had a small badge on him signifying he was the guild master, and also Clinton who was in charge of vetting and releasing missions on the mission board and also in charge of recruiting members for the guild.