Me, Adventurer! - Undoubled Skills Are Flat Magic (WEB Version)
Episode 30: Me, Adventurer!
I went back to the reception, but the process wasn't over yet. The receptionist, who saw us coming back as if nothing had happened, also began to explain the guild's terms as if nothing had happened. The boulder is an adventurer guild reception, highly adaptable. The tone is also an explanation for me, which makes it crushed.
"I'm Misha. Nice to meet you. Well, that's quick, but let me explain the guild to you.
Mr. Misha is a bit of a small, early 20s and thoughtful shortcut beauty. Beauty is still in charge of the reception. And the breasts are huge. Perhaps less than or equal to D. I'm not an alien opium, so I don't find it appealing.
"First of all, it's funds for the Adventurer Alliance operation, but taxes are being used for this. So you mean state-owned.
What the fuck!? State-owned!? Are Adventurers Public Officials?!?
"What!? Isn't that an independent organization?
Even though Temple Fantasy dictates that the Adventurer Guild is an international organization that does not belong to the country, and because of its size and potential possession, it is a major force that none of us can ignore.
"You know a lot of hard words. But the Adventurer Alliance is a state-owned company.
Then I was convinced to hear more about it.
In the first place, the Adventurer Alliance began when the country and nobles hired hunters and woodcutters temporarily to maintain security.
At the time, there was a major war with foreign countries, and the soldiers had been driven out there, so they absolutely lacked the strength to protect domestic security. That's why heinous crimes such as banditry and robbery were rampant, and security was rather poor, he said. Furthermore, the threat of demons is imminent. They hired hunters, woodcutters, etc. who remember their arms to deal with this, and made them crusade bandits and demons. Don't think it would be nice to make those people soldiers, but then they would have had to be hired only temporarily because there would be no more workers and industry would decline.
They said the mechanism was maintained even after the ceasefire because the attempt was more fruitful than expected. At any rate, the woods and mountains that bandits root castles are like gardens to hunters and woodcutters. It's not something you can hide.
In addition, the hunters were temporarily employed and therefore very cheap to maintain as a force. Eating gold just to hold without having to do anything is armament, but they only hire the number of people they need when they need to, so it cost little to maintain. For a country that needs enormous costs to rebuild after the war, the ship meant that it didn't take long until it was officially in shape as an Adventurer's Guild.
It also needed to be state-owned from another point of view. That's information control.
Adventurers head everywhere at their request. That means, in other words, that you can know what's going on in different parts of the country. Some of that information would never be known to other countries. It must never happen that an adventurer with such important confidentiality is free to leave the country. That's too good a reason for the state to manage.
"But it's not like there's no freedom of movement. With guild tags, you can go anywhere but royal and aristocratic private property in the country, and use the station carriage that connects each city is free.
I see it makes it easier to ripen requests by making it convenient to move around. And on private property, there are classifieds that would be troubling if they were seen. He's giving me a dark warning that it's better not to come near him.
"Then we'll talk about rewards and taxes next.
Same thing I was asking the village chief about around here.
The point is, if you get ripe at the request of the bulletin board, you get paid. You're just like Temple Fantasy.
And when you're an adventurer, you'll be able to keep your money in your guild. Or they make an account. Rewards are transferred to that account and some are stocked in 'tax brackets' that cannot be debited. At the end of the year, taxes will be collected from it, so they will be stocked again the following year. The boulders are state-owned, don't be shy.
If there was not enough stock in the tax bracket, it would be taken over the following year, but if the shortfall amounted to more than five large gold coins, they would fall into slavery. Don't be afraid, let's be careful.
"Then one last thing about the rank system of adventurers.
This is exactly what I was asking the village chief.
There are three fields in the Alliance tag that you can get to join the Adventurer Alliance that display ranks in addition to your name. The ranks divided into 'procurement', 'crusade' and 'escort' rise upon a certain number of successful requests relating to each.
For example, a successful request to exterminate a Goblin settlement would accumulate crusade points, and if you complete a request to escort a merchant, you would accumulate escort points. In the case of requests that do not fall under any classification, points were allocated at the discretion of the Alliance. In past cases, 'I need help plowing the field because I don't have enough men,' he asked, and the point of this was added to procurement.
Rank is expressed as the number of stars. Temple fantasy can be an alphabet, but that's a funny story if you think about it. "What do you mean, alphabet, even though letters and languages are different in different worlds? Plus the highest rank is S, which is" SPECIAL "or" SUPER "S, right? There's that word in the other world, too? 'Etc., and now I just think that I'm waiting for a scratch.
I'm a little out of line. That rank, but they say 7 stars is the best, starting with no stars for each rank. That's up to 21 in total. They say the rank is the number of stars because the literacy rate is not very high. No matter how unschooled you are, you can count about a few of them.
And this is where it's different from Temple Fantasy. Oh, my God, a higher rank and a higher number of stars will give you aristocracy! The boulder is the parent Hinomaru! No, it's not the Hinomaru! And I'll go in myself.
When the total number of stars reaches 12, they are awarded the rank of Associate Baron, Baron in 15, and Viscount in 21. In fact, they say six associate barons and two barons have been born in the past 30 years. Unfortunately, they haven't had a single Viscount since the founding of the Alliance.
The titles of nobility in this country are divided into six parts, apart from the royalty. "Duke," "Marquis," "Count," "Viscount," "Baron," and "Associate Baron" in order from the higher ranks. Of these, the Duke and the Associate Baron are contemporary titles only and cannot be succeeded by children. However, the child of the Duke is given the position of Baron. Also the Duke and Baron, the Associate Baron, are aristocrats with no territory, the main income being pensions paid by the State.
The Duke doesn't seem very wealthy with this explanation, but he doesn't. Since the Duke is a title given to a royal family who could not succeed to the throne, he actually sleeps in a majestic mansion, where the cost of living is covered by state expenses, and where pensions live in the luxury of being used only in hobbies. What a backyard.
The only difference between the Marquis and the Count, the Viscount, is simply the size and richness of the territory. It is the Marquis whose territory is large and rich, the Count who has a wide territory there or who has abundant financial resources, otherwise it is the Viscount. It is also the Count who reigns here in Bordersetz.
I think the system of being able to be this aristocrat is good in many ways.
From an adventurer's perspective, life is made easier because a certain amount is given as a pension. I also have no anxiety about my life after retirement. In addition, if you become a baron, you can take over the title to your child, so your child's life is also somewhat guaranteed.
Meanwhile, as a country, we can curb the exodus of good adventurers from the country. That will not be the case for those who seek asylum in other countries until they have kicked the throne of nobility. If he is, he's a criminal, no, he's noble, so he's a traitor or something.
"Is this the place? Is there something you want to ask me?
"Even slaves can register adventurers?
"I can do it. In other words, the adventure-owned slaves are asked to register as much as possible. Don't let the taxes get deluded.
Mr. Misha answered me in a bit of a dogmatic way. I see, the boulder is state-owned. There seems to be an organization like Martha in the back.
Just when the conversation was separated, a middle-aged woman in charge of affairs informed me that my adventurer registration was over. And give Mr. Misha what he has in his hand, plus it's offered before me.
"Please wait. Now I'm an adventurer. Good luck with that.
There was a silver shining guild tag there.
All right, uh! Finally, you're an adventurer.