Katie walked briskly at the front of their impromptu squad. As a durable fighter with a longsword, it fell to her to be one of the frontliners, alongside a few other guys and girls from other teams. All of them were adventurers of the Silver rank who had had enough of that life. It was way too uncertain and the guild took way too much of their income. If an adventurer wasn't high-ranked they had to live in poverty. What's funny is that not only did high-rankers get paid hundreds of times more than lower-rankers did, but the guild even taxed them less than half as much, worried that they would quit being adventurers if the guild dared rob them.