Michael and the ladies walked through the floor of the spacious lobby. The guild’s so wide that they advanced from several dozen of meters from the entrance to reach the counters of fazed female receptionists.
A row of ten gorgeous women standing before their assigned desk. Having a job of receiving adventurer’s picked quest or answering inquiries about the guild. Seems like easy but a challenge for some receptionists. Calming a mad recipient is not easy at all.
Females of different races and originality, giving them their own distinction among one another. Each has their own kind of appealing features: bewitching, pleasant, innocent, motherly, and so on.
Too many options for the four to choose. Since there are less people around, some of the desks are void of recipients. They wanted a permanent receptionist to receive their quest papers so they don’t want to be hasty.
Since Raphael have standards, they wanted to choose the one that fit one of their requirements. For them to choose properly, they used a skill that Raphael got after killing a certain misandrous, maiden-loving equid-type monster that intentionally ignored his sister but attacked him ferociously and mercilessly.
(Purity Sensor!)
Upon the activation of the skill, a feature added on there vision. All female individuals on their sight, including adventurers and guild staffs, glow pale lights of red and green. They are the only ones who can see those lights emitted by the females.
The color of light emitted from the females had a corresponding definition. Depending on the hue, the original owners of the Racial Skill, the E-ranked monster Unicorn, will give its judgement.
They scanned the receptionists individually from left to right. Red lights shone faintly from the first receptionists to ninth, which indicates something. The tenth and last receptionist, on the other hand, emitted a faint green light.
If a woman gave off a green light, she passed the test. But if she emitted red instead, the Unicorn will give its conviction and attack her ferociously. When a woman radiate a verdant glow, that woman is a…
(Maiden.) They judged inwardly to the tenth receptionist.
Just as they thought, a female with green glow define that she is physically virgin. But there’s the word ‘physically’. The green light does not indicate the sexual inexperience of a woman, but the essence of her virginal membrane.
After acquiring the skill, Raphael puzzled up by the description of the skill. That’s why he conducted a private examination on the females within their mansion and got some results.
Inspection upon married servants gave him red results. Raphael’s fiancée, Sophia, glowed green. But the confusion started when Raphael checked his mothers, for them to be both verdant.
‘Both of them are virgins?!’ Raphael was aghast the moment he saw the green pale lights emitted from them.
He understood his Mother being a maiden since she never gave birth, or stimulating herself and each other barely broke their barriers. But lost in thoughts about her Mom, who gave birth twice.
Since he realized he is in a magical world, Raphael eventually solved the mysterious light of his Mom. His speculation was the use of magic, a healing magic to be exact.
After giving birth, his Mom probably used a high-leveled healing magic on herself. In terms of high-level healing spells, Light Magic Level 8: Restoration came up in his mind.
It’s a spell that restore and repair part of the body, including permanent scars and even a punctured earlobe. That’s one of the reasons why only few wore earrings and and other body piercings in this world.
‘I’ll make them shine like a blood moon!’ Raphael promised to himself.
Passing the examination, the four approached the vacant desk. Hearing the treads made by their shoes and heels, the ears of the receptionist twitched. Not her normal human ears, but her pair of furry cat ears. The receptionist was not a member of human race.
“Hello there, nice to meet you. My name is Nefa. Welcome to the main building of the Adventurers’ Guild. How can I help you?”
The Cat Beastmen receptionist greeted Michael and the others formally flashing a professional smile. She had cat ears and tail, green eyes and short amber hair. Ignoring her real age, she appeared to be in her late teens to early twenties.
“We’re here to renew our guild cards.”
They took out their iron-plated cards and pit it on the counter.
Seeing the material of their cards, Nefa couldn’t help but asked. “Wait, you’re only F-ranks but breathlessly defeated a B-ranked party?”
“We didn’t take quest for a long time so we didn’t get promoted.”
“Is that so?” Nefa tilted her head, then grabbed the cards. “Okay, I’m going to renew your cards now. Please wait a bit.”
Nefa started the process of renewing their guild cards, but she found a problem. “When was the last time your party took a quest?”
“Hmm. About three years ago? Is that right?”
“Yeah, that’s right.” Lucy affirmed Michael’s conjecture.
“I see.” Nefa responded, nodding. “That’s why your cards expired and revoked.”
The rank of an adventurer demote for several reasons. One was the repeated failures in participating missions, and another was not taking quest for a long time. But in their case, none of the above was the reason because their cards never exist in the first place.
“So we gonna register again?” Asked Gabrielle.
“In your case, yes.” Nefa frowned. “Though you’re going back from the start.”
“We’re going to register.”
“Alright then.” The catwoman ducked under the desk. When she stood up, she placed a printer-like device on the desk. “Can I have a strand of your hair, please?”
The four followed Nefa’s instruction and plucked a piece of their hair. Michael collected the hairs of their party before handed it over to Nefa.
Nefa successively dropped their hairs unto the device.
Following the sequence, their adjusted Levels and stats seemed to appear on the tablet of the device.
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Name: Gabrielle
Race: Human
Condition: Normal
LV: 207
MP: 5382
STR: 2484
DEF: 2070
MAG: 4554
MDEF: 2484
AGI: 2898
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Name: Lucy
Race: Human
Condition: Normal
LV: 232
MP: 2784
STR: 5568
DEF: 2088
MAG: 2320
MDEF: 2088
AGI: 7424
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Name: Uriel
Race: Human
Condition: Normal
LV: 225
MP: 5400
STR: 1800
DEF: 1800
MAG: 6750
MDEF: 3150
AGI: 2700
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Name: Michael
Race: Human
Condition: Normal
LV: 240
MP: 2400
STR: 7200
DEF: 3360
MAG: 2400
MDEF: 2880
AGI: 4800 𝙚𝙙𝙤𝒗𝒆𝒍．𝒄𝙤𝙢
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“…Your Levels are like that of a B-ranked adventurer. But the guild has rules to follow, so you have to start at the lowest rank.”
“That’s fine with us.” Michael sighed. “We’re going to register, anyway. It’s better than nothing.”
“While your cards are processing, would you like to hear out the rules and regulations of the Adventurers’ Guild?” All four of them nodded to Nefa’s question.
“Well then. Adventurers’ Guild is a neutral organization that expand not only in the empire but also the countries within the continent. Anyone can join the guild, as long as they have the power to fight.”
“Hmm.”
“Adventurers have to fulfill the quest they are entrusted or selected to. Succeeding multiple missions increase your credits to promote yourselves to higher rank. Of course, failing the mission subtract your credibility to rank up and might demote you if did repeatedly. Do you follow me?”
“Yes.”
“Okay. By continuously succeeding missions, one’s rank goes up. As the rank of an adventurer increases, the risks and rewards of the quest reacts the same. Same goes for the privileges.”
“…”
“The lowest rank is F, which quests are low risk and easy for anyone to succeed. Upon reaching Level 50 or more, and already reached the required credits, an F-ranked will be promoted to E. Level 100 for D, Level 150 for C, and so on. You understand?”
“We understood.”
“Good. Let’s tackle about the monsters. Monsters are creatures that contains magic crystal within them unlike animals which doesn’t have. Monsters have Levels and stats like intelligent beings, which can be harvest to Level up oneself.”
Monsters are like overgrown and mutated animals with a crystal inside, which includes them in the system. If animals have Levels and stats, butchers and slaughters would have dominated the world.
Although didn’t have magic crystal, intelligent creatures like humans have numbers on their boards. Which means killing one will strengthen oneself.
“Monsters have rankings based on their Levels regardless the type of monster itself. Fifty and below are Fs, Fifty or more are Es. One hundred, D-ranks. Two hundred are C-ranked monsters, three hundred for B. Level 400 are As and Level 500 monsters stepped on the S tier, the disaster class.’
“Is there higher than that?”
“There is. There’s a huge gap between S-rank and the next. Monsters of Level 500 to 999 are S-ranks. Level 1000 monsters hold the rank of SS. A creature of that Level could destroy several small countries in a single night.”
“Scary. I don’t want to encounter one.” Uriel blurted. “By the way, what rank does an Ancient Dragon have?”
“An Ancient Dragon? Well, the guild don’t have information about that.” Nefa answered tentatively.
The guild don’t know how to assess an Ancient Dragon since they can’t get near to appraise them. Only the Lightness Ancient Dragon is the only one people can interact of, but the prideful dragon cannot let inferior creatures to measure their strength.
But it’s not a problem to Raphael. A Clairvoyance enveloped with the concealment of the God’s Veil can casually approach the dragon without even noticing. Upon analyzing the dragon, he discovered that it was over Level 2000, which exceed the Levels of his mothers.
After their conversation, the device spat out four iron cards one after another. Nefa picked up and piled the cards before handing to Michael.
“Here you go. Your newly issued guild cards. You four are now F-ranked adventurers once again.”