"why is it you again?"
Some time later, at the Tanzania City Adventurers Association, the receptionist of an association, who was still busy in front of the counter, looked at Duan Qing's face standing in front of him with a pair of slanted eyes on his strong body: "You Why are you coming back?"
"I want to receive some tasks, so..." Duan Qing, who looked embarrassed, then laughed: "I want to see if there are any other suitable tasks that can be assigned to us..."
"Didn't I give you an F-level mission before? Why, that mission wasn't enough for you?" The big man who stopped his busy movements replied with an attitude that didn't look like he was serving the players at all: "Have you already finished it? "
"It's done, it's done." Duan Qing nodded hurriedly like a chicken pecking at rice: "Old Man Yuge...Old Man Yuge was very satisfied with the prairie wolf skins we provided, and he also gave us fifty more gold coins. The reward..."
"Then what's not satisfying? Go away, go away."
Waving his hand, the big man standing behind the counter pointed at Duan Qing's back: "Go to the registration office and hand in the commission receipt, and then change your adventurer level. Although this task is not difficult, but with It should be enough to give you new adventurers some experience... What are you looking at? Do you think I will provide you with any help here? You don't have an adventure group, so you can only leave the entrustment evaluation to yourself. Do you know what’s on your body?”
"Well, I really don't know about this..."
"You know now."
Staring at the magician wearing a new gray robe again, the big man's expression finally changed to one of helpless boredom: "Get out of here now, I was very busy and didn't see the long line behind you. Really? After asking, quickly make room for them."
"Um...I'm here to take over the mission." Duan Qing, who did not leave, scratched his cheek again and emphasized, "Can you give us some other missions?"
"There are no more F-level missions!"
After repeating this sentence loudly, the big man's voice became much more impatient: "With your current level of adventurer, no matter how hard you look, you can't find a simpler task than killing wild wolves! Or do you want to Try a higher-level mission and then risk your life in Kempero Canyon or Chimeron Mountain?"
"Then, that..." Trying to cater to the other party's mood, Duan Qing asked carefully: "Are there any higher-level tasks suitable for me to receive now?"
"What do you want to do? Do you want me to send you to die?"
After looking at the other party sideways for a long time, the big man behind the counter slowly crossed his arms: "Sorry, the Adventurers Association also has the rules of the Adventurers Association. It is almost impossible to skip the level and receive the mission. Even if you start from The secret of the client was found elsewhere, and the completed commission could not be recognized by the adventurer..."
"Unless you can prove now that your level has reached level E or above." His eyes narrowed slightly: "Or...are you here to receive the mission for other adventure groups?"
"ah--"
Patting his thigh hard, Duan Qing showed an expression as if he had remembered something: "That's right, that's it! We just joined a guild, and we forgot to tell you just now, haha. Ha ha!"
"Oh? Which guild?" The squinting big man raised his lips: "Let me state in advance that I know a thing or two about the adventure groups around the Santerius Province. Please think carefully before naming them, otherwise if……"
"Uh..." Duan Qing, who rolled his eyes as he watched the big man twist his fists, hurriedly changed his words and said, "I remembered wrongly. We just formed an adventure group, and now we want to help our group." The adventure group builds reputation and makes some money on the way..."
"Newly formed adventure group?"
His eyebrows raised slightly as these words appeared. The big man behind the counter then brought a pile of scattered scrolls on his table to his face: "The notification of the new adventure group... Why didn't I receive it? What's it called? Name? Who is the president? Where is the group logo on your body?"
"This, this..."
The cold sweat on his face began to become more and more, and Duan Qing could only respond to the other party's question with a dry smile: "That, that... our Qingling Adventure Group has not been officially established, and is currently in the temporary formation and trial stage. , so, so..."
"So why are you still talking such nonsense?"
Putting down the hand that was inspecting the scrolls, the big man then cast his disdainful eyes on Duan Qing again: "Let's complete your trial mission first. That trial mission alone will probably make you feel better... "
"Well, then give us two other tasks first, and we can do them first." Duan Qing hurriedly rushed forward again: "We are short of money recently...ah, no, I mean, we The trial mission requires a lot of preparations, which requires a lot of funds and a comprehensive investigation of the areas surrounding Tanzania City..."
"..."
"I, we didn't lie to you."
Looking at the suspicious look in the other person's eyes, Duan Qing hurriedly raised his hands again: "If you don't believe me, you can ask the receptionist at the door. That's what happened yesterday! We just climbed to the second floor yesterday. Then I plan to register for an adventurers guild or something..."
"It's not that I don't believe what you say, but rules are rules."
His eyes moved up and down for a while, and the big man finally withdrew his gaze from the stairs on the second floor not far away: "I have not received the official registration of the adventure group, and I have never heard of your Qingling Adventure Group. I can’t give you any formal missions until I see the detailed information and rating of your adventure group.”
"That's right, you can't even give F-level tasks." He raised his hand to interrupt Duan Qing's attempt to speak again: "The reason... is the same as what I emphasized before."
"Well, then you can just do a few random tasks, any task is fine." Duan Qing smiled and continued to ask: "As long as it is enough for us to eat... ah no, small tasks that we can complete along the way, let us practice our skills , just add the kind that increases experience..."
"No!"
Pointing in the direction behind the other party, the big man shouted in a serious voice: "Get out of here and stop disturbing other people!"
As the players around him became more and more visible, an invisible wave of air suddenly flew towards the far side of the Adventurer Association hall as the big man yelled. Duan Qing, who used his arms to block the wind and wave, stabilized himself after a while. He steadied his figure, then lowered his head and took two steps back amidst the ridicule of others who appeared after the air wave gradually subsided: "If you don't want to, forget it, why do you keep getting so angry..."
"Wait a minute." The association receptionist shouted from behind him: "Looking at how pitiful you are, I can give you a suggestion."
"……Um?"
"Let's find someone else's adventure party."
The distance of one counter then got closer again as Duan Qing gradually turned his head, and then got further away when the big man pulled the corner of his mouth and pointed into the distance: "If you're lucky..."
"You can get some considerable shares from the commissions undertaken by other adventure groups."
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"So you came back in such despair?"
Not long after, in the corner of the association hall, Xue Ling Huan Bing, who had hidden his figure in his cloak, greeted Duan Qing, who was getting closer, with smiling eyes: "That uncle with a bad temper still didn't give me anything. ?”
"Say, what are you talking about?" Duan Qing, who was looking sad, straightened up his back immediately when he heard the sound: "Do I look like a failure? It's just that the process was a bit tortuous..."
"With our level and status as savages, it is indeed difficult to officially receive a commission from the Adventurers Association."
Fingers slightly playing with the long white hair hanging out from under the hood, Xueling Huanbing slowly folded her slender legs together: "If you want the administrators and receptionists to recognize the players' abilities, at least... It should be around level 30."
"Well, the adventure group I was with before was established in the countryside of the principality, and the Adventurer Association it belonged to had only one person from top to bottom." Duan Qing's expression became helpless: "So these associations have nothing to do with each other. I should have never been involved in the rules among adventure groups...but!"
"We have our own solution now!" He walked up to the woman and his expression became much more excited: "We can carpool!"
"……Carpool?"
"We contribute, and others do the work."
With a raised finger across the woman's field of vision, the gray-robed magician turned sideways and gestured to the association task display board aside: "Let those who are qualified to take the task form a team with us, and then complete the task. Give us a portion of the remuneration when the time comes, wouldn’t it be the best of both worlds?”
"I see, I'm hitching a ride." Putting his green fingers on his chin, Xue Ling Huan Bing replied with a sweet smile: "But the problem is..."
"Since they are qualified to take on those tasks, why do they need help from outsiders like us?"
"...Oh, don't worry about it so much."
Duan Qing paused slightly with his fingers, and then broke his embarrassed and dull expression with a dry laugh: "As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers, right? What if there is really a guild or fixed group that is short of people? What's the status? We are a combination of powerful alchemists and powerful swordsmen, so the level of attraction is very high."
"Okay, it doesn't hurt to give it a try." Xue Ling Huan Bing, who let out two sweet smiles, shook her head helplessly: "Anyway, it's you who have to find a way to support the two of us, so you can do whatever you say. "
"We can go look for tasks first and pick a few more difficult ones that may need help." So Duan Qing turned around and walked in the direction of the display board: "Those tasks must be within the sight of many teams. , the reward must also be considerable..."
"If we can hitch a ride, we might get the first pot of gold."
With a long sigh, Xue Ling Huan Bing, who still had a smile on her lips, looked at the enthusiastic figure running forward waving her robe, and felt an inexplicable warm feeling in her heart. She stood up to follow him and leaned towards the circle of people where Duan Qing had disappeared around the exhibition board. It seemed that they felt the aura emanating from this woman. Some of the players who wanted to get close to the Snow Spirit Fantasy Ice among the crowd did not immediately extend their hands to strike up a conversation. The crowds coming and going also As the two stones were thrown in, the discussion coming from the two players was absorbed into his hearing: "Look at this, look at this - hunting the Herid in the Santerius Wilderness. Behemoth, an A-level mission that no one has accepted so far, and the reward is a full 10,000 gold coins..."
"The Hrid beast... no wonder no one picked it up. If we can really kill it, then we don't need to be recognized by the Adventurers Association."
"Is it difficult? Then, how about this mission? Exploring the ruins of Kemperos and looking for a magic gem left behind by the ancient magic empire... Well, let alone the reward for this mission, what about the relics and magic props unearthed in the ruins of light? Yes, it should be worth a lot of money, right?"
"What you said is absolutely correct, so other people must also understand this. The reason why they still hang this A-level mission here is probably because they are afraid of the danger of Kemparo Canyon... By the way, don't be too old. Are you just focusing on A-level missions? Do you think the Adventurers Association rated these missions as A-level in vain?"
"But the rewards from other adventurer missions are too small, not to mention that we can only get part of them... Ah, how about we help the city guards patrol the city. This mission seems to have just been released."
"It was probably issued by the Royal Guards. Those people from the Empire are never rich people who are short of money, but as far as I know, this kind of patrol mission is generally boring..."
"Being boring isn't a problem, as long as you have money to get it... eh."
"That's right, not all players think like you do. If you are willing to stand on the city wall for a day, others may not be willing! There are more thrilling and profitable missions, who would be willing to take on these city patrol missions? ? Not only do you have to do the dirty work, but you also have to look at the faces of the nobles..."
The surrounding players looked at them with disdain like country people. A man and a woman just looked at the adventurer commissions hanging on the display board and continued to comment on them. Their picky eyes were also expecting to meet with them. In the disappointing back and forth, I passed by the small slips of paper with the contents of the adventurers' commissions again and again. It seems that because of the disproportionate relationship between the difficulty of the task and the rewards, the glances from the two people back and forth began to become more and more entangled, and their brows became more and more wrinkled as the selection results became fewer and fewer. Deep, until the surrounding passerby players began to gradually disperse, they dispersed with their own shouts: "This! This is very good!"
"...It does seem to be a good fit."
"That's it! I just need to wait for an opportunity..."
Snapped.
Before the two of them could fully express their smiles and celebrations, a hand suddenly stretched out from behind and instantly tore off the commission note that Duan Qing and his two men were focusing on, and stretched it as hard as they could. A tall player in his body then slowly stuffed the note between his belt, and then looked at the faces of the two people who were staring at him with doubtful eyes.
"……what?"
