Legend

If you walk around the city, Ray and Seto naturally stand out.

Griffon's ceto, which is more than three meters long, stands out, and since it is with such a ceto, it soon turns out that it is Ray and stands out.

Usually Ray would buy a lot of food while walking around the city, but today we need to talk about the promotion exam to Rank A.

If you think about it, you can't imitate things like stopping by a stall.

The stall owners usually call out to Ray to buy it, but I don't see him calling out today because he decided he wouldn't be able to afford it based on how Ray is doing.

Originally, for a stall owner, Ray is a superior who does tons of shopping at once.

However, it was immediately understood whether it was a situation where the shopkeepers could speak up more than they were also those who worked in the Guild.

Fortunately, some of the stalls have come to Gilm recently, but fortunately, they do not imitate Ray's voice by looking at the other shopkeepers.

At this time, I guess I was lucky that no one was thinking only of me.

There are many stalls, but that's why there's so much competition.

Though it was only natural that the stalls that people do that just think about themselves and don't care about others don't last long, unless they're also something like good cooking skills.

Neither do the passers-by see how Ray and Seto are doing and decide they're at work, and there's no way they're going to talk.

Precisely a few kids have said they want to play with Seto, but if Ray says he needs to head to the guild from now on, he didn't force himself against it and honestly left.

That's how we go all over the city...... eventually we arrive at the guild.

"Well, I'm going to the guild, so Seto will wait here. 'Cause it could be quite a long time...... No, would Seto be okay with that"

"Gru?"

To Ray's words, yeah? and a ceto tilting his neck.

Until he comes to the guild, anyway, Seto needs to wait in front of the guild while Ray is in it.

And if Seto waits in front of the guild, it's easy to imagine that those who love Seto, play with him, feed him.

That's more than usual if you try to lay it on. Naturally.

After gently stroking such a ceto, Ray heads to the guild.

Seto looked behind Ray just a little lonely and, as usual, fell asleep towards the waiting area of the carriage... in less than a few minutes, many gathered to play with Seto.

"This is again... awesome"

Ray, who enters the guild, looks around the guild feeling like he's been here for some time.

Even though it was still daylight, quite a few adventurers in the Alliance were gathered to seek work… or to let them know that they had finished their work.

Still, like early mornings and evenings, it's a lot smaller than the most crowded hours of the guild.

It's not uncommon to be in such a sushi-filled state that early mornings and evenings are when people are about to be crushed in the literal sense than many are gathering in the guilds.

And more than adventurers, it's the guild clerks who are showing their feathers stuck.

Originally, the time now is not so many adventurers coming to the guild, and the guild staff are taking their time, but that's not what it looks like to be on the other side of the counter.

Above all, the number of guild employees and receptionists on the other side of the counter is clearly increasing, even from Ray's point of view.

That's not to the extent of one or two, either, but on a dozen basis.

The place on the other side of the counter is so crowded that people also have to be quite careful about going through it.

(I mean, I'm going to be talking to the Alliance Master worker about the promotion exam, right? I mean, am I going through there to the back?

The stairs leading to the office used by the Alliance Master are at the far back of the counter.

Ray is pretty small from the average, so things like walking across the counter may be easier than others, but it's not like he can still move around easily.

(Oh, but do you even think about that area on the Alliance side? There were a couple of rooms upstairs or something, so there's a chance we'll talk about it.)

That's the decision, and Ray heads to the reception.

Noticing Ray's presence, Lenora sees Kenny giving instructions to the other receptionists a little further away for a moment, but when she finds out that Kenny hasn't noticed Ray's presence yet, she shows how she's lost track of what she's going to do... but in the end, she decides that it's better to have Ray meet the Alliance Master first, and ends up bowing her head toward Ray without telling Kenny anything.

"Welcome aboard, Mr. Ray. Now go to the Guildmaster's office."

"Huh?"

Ray is surprised by the words that were put lightly out of Lenora's mouth.

In the Guildmaster's office, and. Because that's what I said.

"Uh, in here?

"Yes. Mr. Ray would make it as easy as going through all these places, wouldn't he?

"I thought I'd meet a worker upstairs or something because the inside of the counter looks like this."

"Oh, upstairs... upstairs, it's worse than here."

Lenora whines with a slightly distant eye.

If you look at Lenora like that, you can understand that the words are never daunting or anything.

(This is what it looks like inside the counter, and it's natural to use it for work if there's a place available. I mean, given the current situation, I guess the guild itself is small. So you wouldn't even be able to imitate making it bigger easily.)

The Guild is one of the very busy places in the Guild currently undergoing additional construction.

More than that, there is no way that we can easily imitate things like adding or rebuilding.

Then I didn't even think about the means such as moving to other big buildings, but when it comes to guilds in the Guild, it is definitely confusing here and in a state already recognized by many, if you imitate such things as moving.

(When it's winter...... no, is it tough to move in the winter in the first place)

In the meantime, I decide that I should think about the promotion exams rather than the moves, and I never go into the counter with my will.

Several adventurers had their gaze on Ray entering the counter, but Ray turns to the back of the counter without worrying about it, especially as there was no such thing as hostility or malice.

... I was scared that the packed documents would collapse if I made a wasted move, to be precise.

Still manage to get through the place that is a pile of paperwork and reach the staircase that leads up to the Guildmaster's office and up that staircase.

Along the way I heard Kenny calling Ray's name, and then I heard something collapse, but Ray decided not to notice it.

If you look inside the counter, it's because you definitely felt like you'd be in trouble.

... Then I heard Lenora's fury too, but Ray decides to ignore it too and arrives upstairs.

"Exactly. We don't have the paperwork or anything so far."

Maybe there's a pile of paperwork in the hallway of this room.

I thought so for a moment Ray, but fortunately the hallway is normal and there is no such thing as a pile of paperwork.

With relief from that, Ray proceeds and eventually arrives in front of the office for the Alliance Master.

"It's Ray. I'm here because you called me, okay?

When I knock on the door and ask him that, I immediately hear him enter through the room... and Ray opens the door.

"Phew."

There were also a few piles of paperwork in the office, but still less than Ray had expected.

I'm relieved by that, exhaling Ray.

Inside the office, the worker was just looking at some kind of paperwork and signing.

And when you clean up the paperwork you were looking at, the worker's gaze is directed at Ray.

That's just being an Alliance Master as the Rear Cauldron of the Marina. You know, unlike the Alliance staff who were on the ground floor, it doesn't look like they're tired.

"So, I heard you wanted to talk to me about my promotion exam... have you set a date and time for your promotion exam?

"Precisely, that's a suggestion."

"Suggestions? No way, would you rank me a without a promotion exam or something? It would be helpful if it were this way."

That's what Ray says when he asks, it feels like he's joking.

In fact, I guess it's only natural that you don't really think you can be rank A without an exam.

That's not the first thing.

Because I thought so, it was Ray's word... and for some reason I didn't have the appearance to argue with Ray's jokes like that, to the worker who keeps his gaze on me, is Ray kidding? I think.

"Maybe there's really talk of promotion without exams"

"No, it's not"

Ask Ray again, the worker says so and denies about the promotion without exams.

It was Ray who was denied his words, but still more relieved than sorry.

Because I didn't think I could be a Rank A Adventurer without a promotion exam.

In fact, it's no surprise that that happened, given the many actions Ray should call the feat he's left behind so far.

Nevertheless, it seems that the majority of these things cannot be done superficially.

"So, what's going on? Something happened, so this is how you called me in, huh? That too, when you seem so busy."

I just talked a little bit, and I didn't think Ray would call himself in at a time like this.

I mean, I'm pretty sure I called myself in this way because there was something against the promotion exam.

The worker snorts at Ray's words, who asks him so.

"Of course. I called Ray today, and there is no mistake in having to do with the promotion exam.... I just want to hear one thing before that. You know Ray's called The Devil's Forest?

"Demon Forest...? Of course I do."

You can't possibly know.

That's where Ray first woke up when he came to this Elgin.

It would be like another home town in Ray, in a different way than this guild.

Though, that is only known to a small number of people who know Ray and his circumstances.

In the absence of such knowledge, the Devil's Forest would be a place that should not otherwise be touched and many would think so.

The only frontier in the kingdom of Mireana, Gilm.

But even an adventurer in that guild is forbidden to go to the Devil's Forest.

Demon Forest is not an easy place to touch, even as an adventurer working in a peripheral guild.

Nevertheless, when the guilds were made...... and when the existence of the Devil's Forest was known, many adventurers never returned intact toward the Devil's Forest.

That's the magic of a minority of even Rank A adventurers returning.

(Come to think of it, I guess Zepail chose Demon Forest as the place for me to wake up, too, because it's such a place. When I came out, I found quite a few monsters, but they weren't so powerful.)

Ray's physical abilities, Death Size... and the presence of Seto are also significant.

But I'm pretty sure the monster Ray encountered when he came out of the Devil's Forest had only the strength that he would have been able to defeat if that was the Rank A Adventurer.

In that sense, Ray also knows a place called Demon Forest again, but I guess that's just a superficial thing.

Because it's not like I've encountered an overwhelming presence.

Although it's like Ray heard rumors, it was said that the dragons also inhabit the depths of the Devil's Forest, naturally Ray hasn't encountered any of those opponents.... If it's a dragon, I live with the black dragon child's porn.

"You naturally know more than being in the Guild, don't you? If so, of course, you also understand that Gilm's adventurers are not allowed to enter the Devil's Forest without permission, right?

Ray nods honestly to the worker who asks him to confirm.

"I know that if you break it, you will be punished fairly heavily.... So, the fact that such a topic comes up in this situation, after all, involves the Demon Forest in the promotion exam?

"Yeah. I can't help but say it around against Ray, so let me be frank. Aren't you willing to take your promotion exam in the Devil's Forest?

That's right. The worker's face asking Ray wasn't like he was joking, but seriously... he seemed to be asking from the bottom of his heart.