Chapter Twenty Two : The Work At The Guild Headquarters .
Early in the morning, I got up early as usual and headed to the dining hall while trying to ascertain the maze-like passages in the church headquarters.
"Oh, aren't you the new hire. Why are you awake so early?"
I bumped into the obachan (aunty) who served me my dinner yesterday.
"Ah, good morning. I'm Lucien. I'll be in your care from today onwards so nice to meet you."
"Oh dear so polite. I think being a healer at the headquarters is very difficult so good luck."
"Hahaha. Well I'll do my best. Also actually, I'm early because I don't know around when breakfast starts, and I'd like to ask in advance do you know about Object X?"
"No. I have not heard of it. What is it?"
"No worries, it's okay if you don't know about it. Oh, also how can I go to the Adventurer's Guild?"
"Ah~ For individuals below the rank of priests you would need to get a permit to exit the premise, without it you are not allowed to go out."
" … As expected. So when does breakfast begin?"
"Usually it starts after about two hours later. All the priest-samas here all wake up late."
" … No wonder. If so, is there anywhere like a training field?"
"I think there is but I don't know where it is."
"Is that so … I understand. I'm sorry that I ended up barraging you with questions.
Later is it okay if I ask you to pack bento for me?"
"That is fine but where would you be going to?"
"Well I'm just going to do my job."
"Okay. Don't overdo it too much."
"Hahaha. I'll see what I can do."
I returned to my room to kill time by practicing magic before finally having my meal and placing the prepared bento into my bag, and headed to Granhart's room.
"You've arrived."
Apparently Granhart-san was already waiting and beside him stood a young man that looked slightly older than me.
"Good morning. I'm sorry that I kept you waiting."
"Hahaha. It's okay. At any rate Gran-sama didn't set a specific time to meet."
"That's not the case … "
"You didn't right. I'm Jordo. Your predecessor."
"Oh sorry. I'm Lucien. From today I will take over your responsibility. Nice to meet you."
"First of all, take this."
Granhart-san forcefully entered the conversation and passed me a white robe.
"That's a unique robe, given to headquarter healers, knight and Healer's Guild healers of above A rank, woven with a holy silver thread making it capable of blocking miasma."
" … It looks expensive."
"It costs 10 pieces of white gold. Once you put that on, don't do anything foolish that can undermine the authority of the Healer's Guild."
"Certainly."
"Next, I'll pass this to you."
"This card is?"
"With this, you don't need to find me each and every time for permission to leave. I don't have time so absolutely don't give me any trouble after I pass this to you. It is forbidden to bring seriously ill people, children, pet or frankly anybody in to the guild headquarters. If you don't swear to this I won't pass the card to you."
" … I swear."
"Okay. The witnesses are me Granhart and Jordo."
After the simple declaration the card flashed for a moment.
"What was that just now?"
"It was your pledge. If you break your promise, you won't be able to use the card. If that happens, you would be penalised so beware."
"You'd seriously better don't do so. The church's penalties are unusually severe."
"Understood."
"Jordo, I'll leave the rest to you."
"Understood Gran-sama. Well then, follow me."
Thus in this manner I took my first ride on the magic elevator towards the basement since arriving at to the church headquarters.
"If you walk a bit from here, the shop will be visible."
As Jordo-san said so, we walked towards the light up ahead.
As the elevator was emitting light faintly, I was relieved that I can likely return and I followed behind Jordo-san to enter the room where the light was spilling out from.
"Surprised?"
Jordo-san said so while showing a boyish smile overlooking the room.
It was exactly so.
Similar to how it looks like in games, swords and armour were beautifully decorated and spell books were arranged in a cramped manner.
"Here you can exchange the magic stones from the labyrinth for points. By accumulating points you can exchange it for anything here. You can also exchange for spell books that are only obtainable here. Since there's nobody around at this time, lets immediately open the labyrinth door here."
The moment the door was opened, I was stuck by an oppressive feeling like I've never felt before.
"From here it's already the labyrinth."
I casted 「Aura Coat」.
We approached a flight of stairs just after walking a little.
"The monsters will come out from here. Well just watch." Just like he was going for a walk, in front of the zombie that appeared, the accustomed Jordo-san began chanting.
"By the hand of holy healing, by the breath of Mother Earth, I wish for no harm onto my body and myself, return the unclean existence to its original path. Purification."
As a result the magic flew towards the zombie, when it hit the zombie the light immediately spread around it and the zombie disappeared, leaving a small red magic stone.
"From today this will be Lucien-kun's job.
The undead will flock to the living so please defeat them using 「Purification」."
"If I couldn't use 「Purification」, what did they expect me to do?"
"They would have you memorize
「Purification」 via actual combat.
「Purification」 is not a singular spell but instead made up of multiple Holy waves so please properly defeat them."
"Well then, please return after recovering these magic stones."
After he said that, Jordo-san left the labyrinth.
"Even though it's smelly he didn't have to leave in such a hurry … Okay. Lets proceed safely."
I equipped the weapons and armour taken out from the bag and put on my robe once again. For the first time since my reincarnation, I began my dungeon attack.