In the past, guild employees only handled local business. Occasionally, there would be large-scale regional commissions from other places, and very rarely there would be emergencies such as monster sieges. The principle for setting up guild bases at that time was that there would only be one base in a place to facilitate the centralized processing of intelligence data and the management of adventurers.
But after the forum was established, both major guilds took advantage of the convenience of the forum to form a set of effective information exchange methods. The content of the exchange is not just 'intelligence', everything from mission evaluation and acceptance to adventurer grading, acceptance of commissions and final results are all recorded and evaluated by dedicated people on the forum.
In other words, the original necessity of setting up only one guild base in an area to facilitate the centralized processing of information no longer exists. As long as there are clerks who are familiar with the forum, and relying on the support of the forum, a guild reception can be set up and become a place to accept entrustments and assign tasks.
The advantage of spreading out widely is, of course, that it can expand the scope of services. Bring the convenience brought by the forum to both publishing clients and adventurers.
Just like the Holy City, a few years ago, there was only one Adventurer's Guild Hall in the city area of Tower I. The building is quite grand and luxurious, and is no less impressive than the mansions of nobles. In Estari, anyone who wants to issue a commission or take on a task, no matter where they live, must go to the guild hall in District I in person.
Today, the hall is still luxurious, but the number of people is much smaller. More people go to the taverns near their respective activities, with the mountain-shaped signboard of the Adventurer's Guild, or the Sword and Shield sign of the Mercenary Guild, to issue commissions or undertake tasks.
For users, the layout of the two major guilds is much more convenient. But for the guild, it is not completely without shortcomings. The most serious point is the lack of strength in the town.
In the past, a stronghold was a branch. In most cases, the strength and reputation of the branch president were enough to arbitrate various disputes or suppress all kinds of violence. But now a small reception office may only have one or two employees, or even just a few literate young people. If everything goes well, of course there is no problem; if a dispute occurs, most of them can only stare blankly and be unable to deal with it.
The place Lin went to, the tavern under the name of the Adventurer's Guild, was just such a place. Located on the outskirts of District VI of the Holy City of Estali, the only employees inside are a young female clerk from the guild and a fat chef who runs the tavern. The latter doesn't have any hidden fighting power. He can chop a dragon with a kitchen knife. He is just an ordinary person.
In the past, the client had to submit the reward content when the guild released the task. Could it be money? It could be something else of value.
The remuneration value will be evaluated by the guild. If it is too high or too low, revision suggestions will be given. But considering the client's situation, such as being too stingy, or too poor, the guild will also accept the request, or add explanations, or provide subsidies. After it is determined, as long as it is not a national-level war budget, the entrusted remuneration must first be handed over to the guild for safekeeping.
When the person who takes on the task completes the work, the guild will evaluate the work results, and then the reward will be given by the guild to the adventurer who took on the task. If the results do not meet expectations or meet the originally set conditions and requirements, the guild will also deduct part or even the full amount of the remuneration.
Originally, some small reception rooms of the two major guilds also kept this money? However, they were robbed several times due to lack of strength. Although reserve forces were mobilized every time to recover the venue, this still did not change the fact that individual reception offices lacked sufficient resources. So what is being implemented now is a compromise approach? The two parties who publish and undertake the task actually meet and complete the transaction as agreed.
But when people meet directly, friction easily occurs.之前芬跟别人发生纠纷? 几次是对方见色起心，然后被揍个半死；几次是对方狮子大开口? 然后被揍个半死；几次是对方瞎搅和，以次充好? 空手套White Wolf's, and then beaten half to death.
If anyone were to comment, it would be that the lich had been quite restrained, at least it hadn't killed anyone yet. But who would listen to these words? The girl guarding the counter came to someone in private to complain several times. There is no choice, as long as the reward is still hanging, someone will take the time to handle it personally. After all, this matter is his own business, and Fen is happy to have one less trouble.
Like this time, the group of warriors from out of town were clearly planning to cause trouble. They threw their broadswords onto the table and nailed them, which had already frightened the guild girl clerk. The adventurers who usually operate in the Holy City are not many in number and everyone knows them well, so they will not do such things in the Adventurer's Guild, but it is different for those who come from outside.
The adventurer group will change its base area for several reasons: there are troubles there and they can't survive; there is no money to make there and they can't survive; there is easy money to be made in other places and they deliberately go there.
The bounty that Fen placed on his head was quite high; although it required the capture of a demonic beast alive, the difficulty of capturing the demonic moth was not very high. As long as you are prepared and don't run into a place where demon moths gather, there is no danger. However, when meeting the adventurers who accepted the commission, nine out of ten would have bad intentions, and at least half of them would take action.
Therefore, the saying "Under a heavy reward, there must be a brave man" does not work in the lost land. Because if you offer a huge reward, you will only be treated as a fat sheep...
Although she was helpless, she couldn't hope that the trembling girl hiding behind her could reason with the bear-like strong man opposite her. Lin had no choice but to come forward and said: "Brother, it's not that I don't want to pay the reward. It's just that according to the commission I issued, these magic moths are of the type I already have, so I can't get the highest reward amount."
"What's the highest and the lowest? I understand mathematics. Anyway, I calculated these things, and they are worth m gil (1000 gold). I don't care if you have them or not. When I accepted the commission, there was no such mess. condition."
You are the only one who dares to understand mathematics in front of me! Someone is speechless. However, the situation mentioned by the other party is indeed a flaw in this commission. Because the content of the entrustment will change, there is no clear standard on whether it should be retroactive. Besides, even if the old terms are accepted, how can we prove that when the other party took over the task, the entrusted terms were the old terms?
However, it may be someone's frown and troubled expression that irritates the other person. The bear-like warrior easily picked up the broadsword nailed to the table, and when he was about to advance further, a burst of laughter disrupted everyone's intentions.
The untimely laughter paused the momentum just mentioned, and then made the anger of these warriors rise even more. They all looked at the source of the laughter, and a few even raised their weapons, preparing to intimidate and teach each other. But when they turned around, everyone froze.
It was a handsome aristocratic boy who looked to be in his teens. I'm sitting down, so I can't tell whether I'm tall or not. But judging from the body shape, it can be seen that the other party is considered to be thin. The clothes are quite tasteful, elegant but not gorgeous. They are different from some little nobles who don't have enough accumulation. They feel like they can't wait to wear all their wealth on them.
But his sitting posture is not elegant at all, it can even be called rude. But these two images that are supposed to be mutually exclusive are perfectly integrated into one person. He bent one leg and stepped on the chair, straightened the other leg, leaned his upper body back slightly, and watched everything happening in the tavern with a smile full of confidence.
For a moment, someone thought they were seeing artistic photos taken by Italian-style fashionable male models. And it's the kind of 'failure' where the person is more eye-catching than the clothes. The youthful and frivolous arrogance is just right. Even as a male, it is difficult for me to feel disgusted.
He has very rare black hair, shoulder length and slightly curly. With her fair and rosy skin, bright red lips, and a pair of soul-stirring eyes, both men and women will be amazed by such a wonderful person.
...that's how it should be.
But when the soldiers who made the trouble saw this one, they showed expressions of horror and fear, and even started to tremble.
It was silent for a while. Just look at the bunch of hair on the young man's forehead slowly turning from black to red. He smiled sweetly and said, "Why do you have to put on such an ugly expression? Just smile. Come on, smile."
A group of grown men tried their best to put on an ugly smile, which made the young man frown, and said, "Your smile is really ugly. Do you know how to make a painful expression? I can teach you this, and I guarantee it will be vivid." After saying that, he put down his legs that were bent on the chair and stood up simply.
With just such a move, the originally menacing warriors rolled and crawled out of the Adventurer's Guild's reception area.
The young man did not catch up, he just turned his attention to the other party. Someone was worrying about the pile of dead bugs left behind. When he noticed the young man's gaze, he cupped his hands and said, "Thank you for your help. This saves me some trouble."
"Oh, why do you think I'm helping you?" The voice was also sweet, but there was a hint of contempt in the words.
Regarding this attitude, Lin said neither humble nor arrogantly: "Help does not necessarily have a clear destination before it can be called help. I have benefited from your behavior, so I owe you a favor. It doesn't matter whether you are willing to ask for this favor or not." It doesn’t matter if you want to, I always remember it.”
"Uh-huh." The young man responded, staring at someone for a long time.
Just standing in the classroom, Lin, who had long been accustomed to the sight, looked at the green moth on the table that was no longer restrained. I watched it flap its wings several times, but still couldn't fly. Sighing, he executed the puncture technique, and penetrated the last trace of life fire in the Green Demon Moth's body in his field of vision, ending its life. At the same time, use the Corpse Purification Technique to turn all moth corpses into ashes.
This is a system of necromancy learned from Zifen, with the purpose of preventing other necromancers from using the corpses left behind by them. It means that they have all turned into ashes, so where can there be corpses that can be returned to the dead? Of course, this magic will only work on dead objects.
"Oh, I thought you would be merciful and cure the insect and release it," the young man said.
"Not killing is compassion, killing is compassion. Pretending to cure a demonic insect and then letting it return to nature, who are you showing off to with such pretentiousness?"
The bunch of hair on his forehead turned from red to brown. The young man smiled and said, "Yeah, who are you showing it to?" After that, he picked up the sword without a scabbard and left. Just leave someone with a puzzled look on their face.
