Early in the morning, the Adventurer's Guild receptionist had just removed the heavy lock from the door and, with his back to the main door, stepped towards the counter with his shoes half-stepping on. Hearing footsteps behind him, he habitually said, "Hey, buddy, it's so early, are you short of money?" This was the greeting he gave to the first adventurer who entered the room each day, no matter who it was.
"good morning."
A clear, graceful voice came from behind the receptionist. He perked up. After all, it had been a long time since he'd been alone with a woman. The first people through the door each day were usually men or groups. Clients wouldn't come to the Adventurer's Guild so early in the morning.
He quickly threw the door lock into the cabinet, stuck his head out and said, "Would you like to see some new commissions?" He didn't care whether the female adventurers could knock him down with one punch.
"Thank you. Where can I find the commission?"
"Ah, it's you, Master Priest. Good morning." The receptionist's restless mood immediately calmed down. He said awkwardly, "Commissions are generally posted on the bulletin board below the large map on the second floor."
"Okay." Eryi looked around but couldn't see the stairs. "Where are the stairs?"
"Right behind here," the receptionist said, keeping a close eye on Eryi as she unloaded documents from the cabinet. "Is this your first time at the Adventurer's Guild, Master Priest?" Sunset City has many gods, and no single deity has its own independent faith. The receptionists here don't look down on priests of certain gods, as they do in smaller towns.
Eryi smiled and nodded to the receptionist who guided her: "I've been here once before." After confirming that the stairs were located behind the reception counter, she walked up the creaking steps to the second floor.
Although the Adventurer's Guild was located across from the Healing Station, Eryi had only been there once when he first arrived in Sunset City and accompanied the adventurers to the guild to hand in a quest, and had never been there again.
"Are you here today to issue a commission?" The sound insulation of the Adventurer's Guild was not very good to begin with, and there were only two people in the entire building. The receptionist's voice easily floated into Eryi's ears from the first floor.
"Not necessarily." Eryi stood in front of the Adventurer's Guild's notice board, examining the quest list and the price of the magic core. "Maybe I'm here to take a quest? Don't underestimate me, I'm an adventurer too."
"The High Priest is so busy, how can he have time to accept missions?" The receptionist noticed that Eryi seemed approachable and spoke less reservedly. "The Sunset City Adventure Guild hasn't had any new priests register as adventurers for three consecutive years."
Eryi continued casually: "According to you, a priest has registered before?" She was dazzled by the variety of task lists. The number of tasks here was dozens of times that of the small town. The task lists were stacked on top of each other, and some had to be opened to read in full.
The receptionist sorted the change into ten pieces and thought carefully: "The registered priest three years ago seemed to have just happened to do a mission and needed to register to hand it over. If you count carefully, there really was a combat priest ten years ago. Although it was only a short-lived one, we still think of him sometimes." He chose his words carefully, trying his best to make the description sound without any intention of belittling the priests.
"What do you mean?" Eryi was interested.
"He was a Divine Guide. As you know, without any family background, Divine Guides don't have much money at first. He was really...poor." The receptionist paused, unable to find a better word to describe the situation. "Not rich" simply didn't describe the situation. "So poor that he didn't even have enough coins to register with the Believers' Union."
"Registration requires a gold coin, which is not cheap." Eryi couldn't help but agree.
"Yes, but a god without believers wouldn't provide him with much divine power. Fortunately, he seems to have learned some swordsmanship, and he took on the task of hunting long-tailed rabbits for two weeks."
"What happened next?" Eryi felt the receptionist would talk for a long time, so he decided to just listen to the results. "Did he collect enough gold coins to build the church?"
"No." The receptionist also realized that he was a bit long-winded. He often boasted to young adventurers in the tavern and was used to the way of description that kept people in suspense.
"He later joined an adventuring team and even raised his adventuring rank to B, but he still didn't save enough coins."
"Then he will always be an adventurer? What about the god he serves?" Eryi asked curiously.
"I'm not sure if you'd like to hear this." The receptionist hesitated for a moment, then spoke with a hint of meaning: "He was recruited by a certain divine pope and is now their chief paladin."
There were only a handful of churches with a pope, and being a Paladin Commander meant he would definitely be well paid. After losing his only believer, the god he had once served naturally disappeared without a trace, even his name.
“Is this a good result?”
"I, I don't know." The receptionist stuttered, as the topic was too sensitive. Although everyone in the tavern would talk freely and casually, he didn't dare to speak nonsense in front of the priest.
Eryi had already found the information she needed on the notice board and walked down the stairs. She dug out the long-fanged rabbit magic core she had discarded in the corner of her personal space, placed it on the counter, and gestured to the receptionist. "How much would you pay for this?"
The receptionist was a bit surprised. He took the magic core in his hand, took a look at it, squatted down, took out something like a scale, and placed the magic core on it. After a while, he confirmed, "The magic power is a bit mixed. The basic purchase price is 15 silver coins. It will be higher for special missions."
"Are you selling this?" The receptionist seemed to understand something. When she looked at Eryi again, her eyes were complicated. "I heard that your healing ability is very good. If you like, I can connect you with some good high-level adventurer teams. You said earlier that you are already an adventurer. Have you taken the special measurements?"
He worked at the Adventurer's Guild almost every day, and he had heard that there were no believers in the healing station across the street.
Without believers, there would be no money for support and no faith, so life must have been very difficult. Furthermore, this priestess didn't seem very good at managing money. She kept the magic lamps lit all night, and that cost a lot.
"Specialized measurement?" Eryi did not resolve the misunderstanding.
"Did you bring the Adventurer's Handbook?"
Eryi took out the adventurer's manual with very simple information and handed it to the receptionist.
Priest Eryi
E-rank adventurer
"If you want to join the adventurer team, it would be better if you have undergone priest measurement." The receptionist opened the manual to confirm the information inside: "So that's where you registered, no wonder the information is simple. You have been promoted to the next level before. Come with me to the back, it will be quick." As he said, he took out a sign and placed it on the counter. It read: Come back in 2 minutes.
Seeing Eryi's eyes wandering over the sign, he explained, "You're a little early. If you were an hour later, everyone else would have already started work."
The Adventure Guild always had at least ten employees assigned to work each day. However, in the early morning and before the end of the evening, only one staff member would be on duty. This was because there were few people around during these times, and most employees were reluctant to get up early or stay home late.
Eryi followed the receptionist into a private room. The room was simply furnished, with only a table and two chairs. The receptionist climbed a ladder and, from a compartment in the far corner, retrieved a complex-looking square instrument with fine markings on its edges.
Blowing the dust off the instrument, the receptionist said a little embarrassedly: "It looks quite dirty, doesn't it? After all, it hasn't been used for a long time."
"Alright." After confirming the scale was clear, the receptionist placed the instrument on the table and said, "Use any of your skills on this instrument."
Eryi decided to release a skill that increases fatigue the least - intermediate healing.
The spell she had chanted thousands of times came out of her throat like a song, and a white stone next to the scale of the square instrument began to glow from the bottom, shining brightly, flickering, and then going out.
“…”
"It looks like it hasn't been used for a while. It's not working well." The receptionist looked a little embarrassed. "Sorry, do you mind trying again?"
The second spell was cast, but the instrument did not respond.
"It seems to be broken." The receptionist picked up the instrument and gestured: "Just now I remember that the brightness was here... Anyway, let's go register first." As he said, he quickly led Eryi back to the counter, took out a bottle of purple-red ink and wrote something on a yellowed paper.
He placed the paper and Eryi's Adventurer's Handbook into a nearby instrument and pressed a button. After a short while, the writing on the paper disappeared, and the information in the Adventurer's Handbook automatically changed.
Priest Eryi [three and a half stars]
D-class adventurer
"A three-and-a-half-star rating is quite good, enough to get you directly upgraded to D-rank adventurer." The receptionist returned Eryi's manual to her, feeling a bit guilty. He didn't know if the three-and-a-half-star rating was real, after all, the instrument was broken.
At this moment, a group of adventurers walked in from the doorway. The red-haired man in the lead yawned and greeted the receptionist, "Good morning. What are the new missions today? We're looking for escort or subjugation missions above C rank."
"Let me see..." The receptionist's attention was drawn to the adventurers: "I have a quasi-B-level task here that seems a little difficult for you, but if you bring..." He was about to help the priest who was short of money to attract some business, but found that Eryi had left at some point.
"What should we bring?" The adventurers came over to check the quest prompt. "This is indeed a bit difficult for us. What did you say to bring?"
The receptionist wiped his face and said, "Nothing. There are no new C-level escort missions. Let's take a look at the D-level missions."
…
An hour later, the receptionist reported to the administrator of the Adventurer's Guild.
"Our meter is broken."
"Let me see."
The manager, a believer in the goddess of luck, recited a prayer to the meter, which then lit up with a very faint light, signifying his faithful faith but no potential for becoming a priest.
"Isn't this good?" The manager was a little dissatisfied. He didn't need this instrument to tell him again and again that he didn't have the potential to become a priest.
"No way? That's strange. It was clearly broken just now." The receptionist took the instrument and examined it carefully.
"What time did you drink last night?"
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