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Chapter 464
🕑 Added 2025-05-11 02:00:02 +0000 UTC“So what do you want to know?” Ruel asked.
“Does the Adventurer Guild charge for registering as an adventurer, and how much is it?” Anton asked.
“It’s a gold coin to start as an Iron rank adventurer. If you want a higher rank than that, you will need to undergo a combat test. It’s 10 gold coins for silver rank, and 50 silver coins for gold rank. I don’t know how much for a rank above gold since the guild didn’t release any information about that, but a friend told me that the Gold rank is as high as you can go using coins and a combat test. For the ranks above that, you will need to have completed a gold and above rank mission to qualify,” Ruel said.
“What are your ranks?”
“We’re still Iron rank and could only do Iron-ranked missions. We need a hundred of those to climb up, and we decided not to spend the gold coins to rank up since we thought that doing the missions would allow us to earn coins and combat experience,” Ruel continued.
“We’re halfway to Silver, though, and we’ve only started our group this year!” Hector boasted.
“Have you delved in any dungeon?”
“Yes, but we only do so once a week since dungeon diving, though rewarding, is dangerous. The missions that we normally do, if we’re not working, were escorting merchants or slaying wild monsters on the roads,” Sylvan said.
“Does entering a dungeon cost coins?”
“The beginner dungeon will cost a diver 1 gold coin per person. It was worth it, though, because if we’re lucky, a monster will drop a low mana stone,” Ruel said.
“Mana stone?” Anton asked curiously.
He knew of mana stone since, as an avid fantasy and science fiction web novel reader, he had encountered the mana stone concept, but this was the first time he encountered the term in this world. He wondered why Antonia and the others didn’t introduce the resource to him.
“Monsters in dungeons would sometimes drop a mana stone, although extremely rarely. The wizards purchase them. They buy low mana stones for one hundred gold coins. Medium mana stone for one thousand gold coins and high mana stone for ten thousand gold coins, but medium and high mana stones don’t drop in the beginner dungeon,” Diego said.
When Anton asked why the beginner dungeon didn’t drop high or even medium mana stones, they told him that the beginner dungeon only went down to ten levels, and even the second level was one hundred times more dangerous than the first floor. They said that a wizard or a healing priest was needed to enter the second floor, but the rewards were more than doubled.
They said that ever since they started as a group, they delved the first level of the dungeon ten times and gathered a total of three low mana stones, which was considered a success. There were other resources that one could get in the dungeon, like some of the monster’s meat if the monster were the devil pigs or demon cows, or some of the edible fowl monsters. The skin and fur were also particularly valuable and were used for clothing and armor.
Groups could also find rare ores inside the dungeon, so most groups, especially the beginners like them, would bring a pickaxe during their dungeon delve.
The facts answered one of Anton’s questions on why mana stone didn’t become an accepted currency. From the novels he had read before, mana stones usually became the currency of the powerful people, while coins remained the currency of the ordinary people. It did not happen in this world simply because of how rare it was, and from what he understood, the mana stone was consumable. Anton still had a few questions about mana stone, but he guessed that it would be best if learned wizards answered them.
For example, what did they use them for? Did they use them as batteries? For enchantments? For leveling up? If used as a form of battery, did that mean that his mana power bank could be considered as a form of mana stone?
Ruel then dropped a bomb. The most important information that one could get from the dungeon was that, once you entered the dungeon, in the first level entrance, one could touch the wall and it would show a magical panel that would allow an adventurer to see their profession and level based on their abilities.
“So just two information? Profession and level?” Anton asked, and the group confirmed it.
“When you check your panel, do other people see them, and do you need to report them to the guild or other places?”
“No, the person who’s touching the wall is the only one who could see them. You also don’t need to tell the guild, but of course, to join a group, they will ask you your level and your profession,” Ruel replied.
“Some guilds do require that you inform them, but the only thing that could verify that information is your combat ability,” Hector said.
“There’s not much secrecy when it comes to professions and levels since most adventurers will boast about them all the time,” Sylvan added.
“We’re all level two Warriors,” Ruel said, looking proud, and Anton wondered why.
“Is it hard to level up in the dungeon?” Anton asked.
“We don’t know the exact details, but personally, we’ve delved the beginner dungeon a few times each month for a few months, and we’ve only reached Warrior level two,” Ruel answered.
Anton then asked for the information that he truly wanted to know. The answer would define his next steps regarding posing as different characters with different professions.
“If a person is a powerful warrior but is also a wizard, do you have an idea of what the dungeon would say his profession would be and if for example, I declare myself as a warrior when I register as an adventurer in the guild but secretly, I’m also a priest, can I use another identity to register as a priest?”
The four adventurers looked at each other and stated that they didn’t know.
“So, do you want to join our group? If a healer joins us, we can start on the second floor of the dungeon, and our earnings would explode!” Ruel said excitedly.
“I’m new in Ormunda and I plan to explore it a bit and learn a lot more information before I join a group. Thanks for the information, though. I appreciate it,” Anton immediately left after leaving ten gold coins on the table.
Ruel and his friends looked disappointed, but they pocketed the coins immediately.
Anton went directly to the Adventurer’s Guild after he left the tavern. He decided that the best thing to do was not to hide but to declare his intentions and gather solid information there.
The main branch of the Adventurer Guild was a huge monstrosity of an edifice that anyone would be intimidated to enter. It’s a huge horizontal building that Anton could only compare to Lord Farquaad’s castle in the Shrek film that Shrek implied was built because Farquaad was compensating for his small stature or maybe his penis. He then wondered if this building also received the same tawdry joke about the builders designing it that way as a way to compensate for something.
When he entered the building, the main hall was filled with counters with clerks, and even though at a quick count, there were at least ten counters, all of them had long queues, so Anton lined up in one of the queues.
