<~> Chapter 215Eventually, we made it to the ter of the adventurer's guild.

  "Hello, how may I help you?" The receptionist kept a professional tone, but I could tell she looked a bit wary based on the number of people who came up to the desk with us.

  I stepped forward. "Well, we have a lot of information to update in our party roster. Firstly, these two were sves in my group aly their colrs... fell off. So I want to add them troup normally."

  The receptionist raised an eyebrow and looked over the twins. "Sure... let me just talk to them alone first and then we'll update the roster."

  "No problem," I replied.

  The receptionist brought the two behind the ter where I surprisingly couldn't hear anything while they talked. I suspected this was to ehey weren't being intimidated into tinuing to serve me after their colrs were removed or something along those lihe versation didn't take long, but it looked like she wao hear directly from both of them that everything was okay.

  Man and Torien came back from behind the ter and stood o me again. The receptionist took her pce back behind the desk and nodded. "Thank you for your patie seems everything is in order. We'll update them to be in your party. What's ?"

  "I would like to add three more people to our party roster as well. Mimi, Sibyl, and Raya," I said pointing them out.

  She started looking over a file that I hadn't noticed her retrieve. "Yroup is made up of iron tier adventurers and you're adding some wood tiers to round out your ranks? Your file says you should be receiving cartography training in the capital paid for by the Traehall guild master. Have you been w on that?" she asked.

  "I'm almost finished with my training, I just o take the final test today and I'll have the certificate. We io head back to Traehall within the couple days," I told her.

  She nodded. "Good. In that case, I register and add these three to your roster. Just as a heads up, when your party starts getting this rge, people start to split their parties into groups to do quests. Keep in mind the guild requires you to indicate who resent on any specific quest so that we advance rank properly. Don't send your lower tiered members to do quests they 't handle or aren't qualified for alone. Evehey succeed, the guild may choose to demote the party leader if they feel that you put your lower tiered members at greater risk than is appropriate for their rank. Even if they're strong fighters they may not have the proper experieo hahings, keep this in mind. Do you want to test their elemental affinities while they're registering?"

  I turo them. "Raya and Mimi for sure, Sibyl?"

  Sibyl shook her head. "Not necessary. I know what my affinities are." I raised an eyebrow, irely sure that would be true after the transformation but if she doesn't want to I wouldn't push it.

  I gently put my hand on Raya's shoulder and pushed her up to the desk. "We'll start with Raya here."

  Raya looked excited when the receptionist pulled out the gss tablet a on the desk in front of us, then she gestured to it. "This will test yic affinities. Please pce your hand here."

  The kitsune girl pced her hand oablet and her affinities lit up. The receptionist smiled. "These are great affinities. Very high fire magid illusion magic affinities, medium affinity in light magid minor affinity in terra magic. You're perfectly suited to be an offensive fire mage and you have a lot of utility using illusion magic. A minor affinity in terra magi be helpful but it's unfortunate you have a medium affinity in light magistead of the reverse. Still, having such a high affinity in fire magic will allow you to bee pretty powerful. gratutions, Miss Lilith here made a good choiapping you up when she could. You'll go far in the guild if you py your cards right."

  Raya's eyes were sparkling at the news. She had always wao be an adventurer but getting a direct firmation that not only would she be able to, she had the potential to bee very good at it. As soon as she stepped away from the ter she pulled Sibyl into a hug and pulled her off the ground to jump in joy at the news.

  The receptionist chuckled at their antics as she reset the tablet for Mimi to use . "Yay, I wanna see what I have too!" Mimi said practically boung in the shared excitement.

  Mimi carefully put her hand oablet and the receptionist suddenly looked shocked. From a g the tablet, I could see why.

  Mimi's brows kogether, "Is it bad?"

  The receptionist coughed, broken out of the spell she was in. "No! Your affinities are amazing!"

  Mimi looked down at the many lit lights oablet.

  "You have a very high affinity in spatial, metal, and terra magic. You have medium affinities in enha, water, and wind magics, and you have a minor affinity ihing else except for..." she leaned forward to look at the only absent space, "holy magic. Spatial magic this strong alone would give you amazing potential. These affinities are incredible, I've never seen anything like it!"

  Raya hugged Mimi from behind and started boung with her . "Mimi you're amazing!" At least I don't have to worry about Raya being jealous.

  The receptionist shook her head. "You have the potential to be an amazing mage, Miss Mimi. With affinities like this, I would reend you go to a magic college rather than adventuring. It would be a loss to the world if you fell in battle somewhere."

  "No thanks, I wanna go with Lilith!" Mimi decred without a moment's hesitation.

  The receptionist furrowed her brows and g me. I put my hand on Mimi's shoulder and looked back at her. "Don't worry. Mimi is a lot tougher than she looks. She may look unassuming but she's already strong."

  She frowned. "If you say so... At the very least you should buy her some books on magic theory."

  "I 't read yet! But the librarian dy gave me a book to help with that!" Mimi told the receptionist.

  The words sent instant relief through the woman. "You're members of the great library? Of course you would be. With affinities like this Sorsette herself must have approved your membership. Okay, as long as you stay safe out there."

  You don't know the half of it dy.

  The receptionist cleared her throat. "If that's everything, that will be sixty silver. Ten silver each for the registration, ten each for the affinity checks."

  I cocked my head to the side. "It was cheaper in Traehall."

  She smiled. "The affinity checks are more expensive in the capital. You've been slowing down the li the busiest bran the try," she said nodding to the people milling about behind us, waiting for the desk to open.

  I dug my gold pouch out of my backpad started ting out silver. While I was doing that Tenna stepped forward. "Hello, Miss. While she's gathering her , I'd like to file a job with the adventurer's guild for this group here. An esission from here to Traehall."

  The woman frowned. "An escort to Traehall would normally be a Steel tier quest. They're a little too low. Are you sure you want to request this team in particur?"

  Tenna nodded. "I trust in their abilities. They had just pleted a delivery quest from Traehall from my family members there and they have a special service that most steel tier adventurers don't have," she said nodding to Mimi.

  The woman's eyes lit up in uanding. "Oh! I see!"

  "I'm told they already have uunas and a carriage so we'll head to Goldeh and join up with a caravan on the way to Traehall."

  The receptionist pursed her lips. "Very well, if you're sure of your choice I approve it. But that reminds me." She turned bae and g the tray with stacks of silver lined up on it. "There's this other sheet here that I would like to firm. Mr. Tarklin Silvergrove came here and indicated that Miss Cecilia of Silvergrove had left his party and joined yours. I need a firmation that it's true. If so, with a steel tier adventurer joining yroup it'll make it easier to justify approving this mission."

  I nodded. "She has joined us. Is a verbal firmation fine or do I o e down here with Cecilia as well?"

  "A verbal firmation is fine. Uhe circumstances, I'll approve this mission and assign your party to the esission as requested. The fee will be two gold." Tenna nodded and passed over two gold to the guild receptionist. "I've firmed the amount. Is there anything else I help you with?" she asked.

  I did a quick s over everyoo make sure no one had anything to add before turning back to the receptionist. "It seems that's everything."

  She did a short bow. "The me t this silver and prepare the guild cards for your new members. One moment." She quickly ted the stacks of silver before turning bad nodding. "I've firmed the amount, sixty silver. Thank you."

  She pulled the tray away from the ter and pced the money into a one-way safe before pulling out those wooden dog tag looking things out of one of the drawers. She theo a separate draulled out multiple sets of dog tags that looked like they were made from a dark steel.

  She went through a process of marking each set of dog tags before pg them in the box and bringing them back to the ter. "These records say that you never received your iron tags in Traehall oldeh so these are your new iron adventurer's tags," she said handing the three sets of wooden tags to Mimi, Sibyl, and Raya before handing out the 'iron' tags to the rest of us. They were 'iron' tags but it was obvious they were just a dark colored steel. I hahem out to the group before returning the sets of wooden tags we'd been wearing for a long time now.

  "Thank you for ing to the adventurer's guild. I hope you return to us safely."

  The momeepped aside Tenna sighed. "Gods, I khat would take forever. At least it's over with now."

  "Where are you headed?" I asked her.

  She turo me with a fused look on her face. "What do you mean? You're esc me now until we get to Traehall."

  I stared at her bnkly.

  Tenna raised an eyebrow. "Is that going to be a problem?"

  "Uh, let's get out of here and we talk more about it." There were too many ears here in the adventurer's guild. It was better to tell her where we were staying outside. We left the building and walked into a nearby alley where I snapped up a quibsp;[Zone of Silenbsp;in the immediate area.

  [Illusion Magic has increased from level 5 to level 6][Learned Illusion Magic Spell Mirage]

  Useful, but kind of distrag right now. I'll have to look at that ter.

  I turned back to Tenna. "Well, we're currently staying at the Northern Greens Embassy right now. They might let you stay with us but I would have to ask permission and it would make things a bit more spicuous..."

  She looked at her apprentice before looking back at me. "The whole city is on edge right now. I'm able to protect myself under normal circumstances but if a riot breaks out and the two of us are all alohat will be a problem."

  I looked over roup not sure what I could do before Sibyl stepped forward. "I think Cecilia will be able to smooth things over. Worst case sario we escort her to the southern quarter if the elves say no."

  "I would rather stay with your whole group if possible," Tenna said. "I don't trust the way things have been going in this city tely. It's why I'm leaving after all."

  I frowned. I hoped it wouldn't be a problem but I didn't want to sour our retionship with the elves. It might also look strange if we bring another couple of people from outside into the embassy but it's not like roup isn't already getting a lot of odd looks everywhere we go. Keeping Tenna separate from our business at the Northern Greens would be ideal but she was already helping us a lot by giving us the cover we o leave the city without too many questions. We haven't gotten word when the riot will start and separating roups was asking for trouble.

  "Alright. That'll probably be fine. I'll talk to Cecilia as soon as we get back. Keeping Tenna safe is the job we just agreed to. Even if they don't let her stay it'll be easier tanize roup when we're there," I admitted. "Before that though, we should buy our two budding mages a couple of spell books." I turo Tenna. "You wouldn't happen to know where to go for that, would you?"

  Tenna smiled. "I think of a pce."

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