Free Web NovelChapter 73: Chapter 73 - Form Of Identification
Now if you thought that this time Erick and I would take the trip a bit slower because we were travelling alone, and didn’t have my lovely wives telling us that it’s a training exercise, then you’d be completely wrong.
On the contrary, we actually increased our pace.
We were going at a pretty good clip through the forest.
There weren’t any other people that we needed to worry about keeping up, so we found the absolute maximum comfortable pace for us, and we stuck to it.
I had business to attend to after all.
Very important business. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom
It was not at all that I just wanted to save time anywhere I could, which could mean that I could go home to my lovely wives faster.
I’m not that clingy after all.
I was just very excited about getting my silver from the Forest Flute, and then claiming Julia’s debts from Duke Charles.
Yes... That’s all it was.
We kept that pace through almost our entire journey, only stopping for short breaks, and to dispose of the odd beast that made the mistake of attacking us.
I kept the bodies of these beasts in my storage, along with the bodies of the Grey Wolves that we had killed on our journey back to Lofie Village months before.
Luckily anything that I kept in my storage spell would be stuck in a sort of time... stop... freeze, ah what the hell you know what I mean, they’d stay in the exact same condition they were in the moment I stored them.
Which meant that I would have yet another small coin boost as soon as we reached Stellor.
Sometimes being attacked by those beasts could be viewed as a bonus.
At that time I couldn’t wait for my mercenary ’guild’ to get up and running so I could send some of the men out to take care of some beasts.
Obviously I would give the men the larger share of the prize, but a small percentage for the company still wouldn’t be all that bad.
Mid-day of the second day our journey started, Erick and I stood in front of the gates of Stellor city again.
"I’m thinking you can probably use your identification now," I said to Erick, honestly I couldn’t bear to pay the entrance fee for both of us again.
I had even decided that maybe it wouldn’t be all that bad of an idea to get my own identification.
We were probably going to visit Stellor a bit more often than I had originally expected, and paying the two silver entry fee every time I went there seemed like an unnecessary expense.
"Are you sure?" Erick asked. "It might lead to some trouble for us if anyone ever figures out where I came from."
"I’m sure," I answered, as we moved forward in line. "The chances of that happening are pretty miniscule anyway."
I might have overstated that a bit at that time.
Dellroy Kingdom, and Tusra Kingdom were neighbours after all, and yes they weren’t friendly at all, there had even been some skirmishes between the two of them because of Dellroy’s ambitions, but that wouldn’t stop Dellroy’s list of bounties to reach the hands of citizens in Tusra.
But at that time I didn’t particularly care about that, I just really didn’t want to have to keep paying entry fees each time we came here.
"If you say so," Erick shrugged, showing his identification to the guard when we reached the front of the line.
I pulled out two silver, and felt my heart clench the moment I dropped them into the hand of the same guard.
We entered through the massive gate, and the same scene as my first visit greeted me, streets that were so packed with people, and carriages that it was difficult to even move around.
"Maybe I should buy myself a carriage and some horses," I whispered to myself.
"I doubt your stinginess would allow that," Erick smiled.
"I’m not stingy," I glared at him. "I’m just careful with my money."
"Daniel," Erick sighed. "You have an income stream at the moment that would allow you to live comfortably even in this city, much less a place like Lofie Village, and yet you still flinch every time you have to spend two silver on an entry fee."
"You’re stingy." Erick finished.
"Whatever," I huffed, turning to walk in the direction of the adventurers guild. "I’m going to go and register as an adventurer."
"You’re what?!" Erick exclaimed, clearly surprised by my brave decision. "You said you would never become an adventurer."
"And I still stand by that statement," I said. "But I need identification, and that’s the easiest route to follow."
"That’s true," Erick said as we kept moving through the streets.
We dodged carriages that seemed to not care whether they ran us over or not, we had to make ourselves smaller so we wouldn’t walk over the people who were walking the streets with us.
By the time we had made the short journey to the adventurers guild I was almost more out of breath than I was from running all the way here from Lofie Village.
"This city seriously needs bigger streets," I said, standing in front of the guild’s doors, bent over with my hands on my knees. "Either that, or they need to implement some sort of road laws."
"I’m pretty sure you’re just over exaggerating," Erick said, looking down at me with a smile that I didn’t like all that much.
It looked almost... Mocking?
Why he would mock me I had no idea, I mean it was a hell of a trip to get from the gate to the guild.
It’s not at all that being surrounded by so many people completely fried my nerves, and exhausted me.
"Just... shut up," I said, making my way through the doors into the guild.
We made our way over to the front desk, where a familiar receptionist stood waiting.
"Hello sir, it’s good to see you again," she said with a bright smile.
I couldn’t believe she actually remembered me, it had been more than two months after all, and it’s not like I had signed up as an adventurer, or completed any massive quest or something. We had simply trained in their training area every day.
Obviously it had to be because of my handsomeness, and charm.
Sometimes, I swear, it was almost like a curse.
"Hi there," I said with my most charming smile. "I would like to register as an adventurer."
For a moment the receptionist simply stood staring at me in shock.
"You would?" She finally asked. "But I’m sure I remember you saying that you had no interest in becoming an adventurer."
Why was it that everyone remembered that?
Could none of them understand that sometimes a person could change their minds?
"I changed my mind," I answered, my smile becoming a bit more tight, I even felt a small twitch in my left eye coming on. "I need a form of identification after all."
"Oh!" She said, starting to rustle around under the desk. "That’s fine then, but you should know that at the lower ranks you have a certain quota of missions you need to fulfill otherwise your registration will be revoked."
"You can’t be serious?"
"She’s very serious," Erick answered from next to me.
"Then how do I rank up so I can get rid of this quota nonsense?" I asked, this felt like my job back on Earth again.
I could almost imagine a manager walking into a room and yelling at me that I was fired because I didn’t hit my sales target that month.
"You need to complete missions," The receptionist said as if that should have been logical, and it probably should have been.
"Oh for f... Fine! Just give me the forms." I sighed.
