The walls of the Adventurer’s Guild ihem in, the warmth spreading out towards them. Their sense of aplishment helped qui their steps as they approached the desk.

  Emma bli Adam and Jurot, seeing the boar over his shoulders. “Wele back,” she said, fshing her practised smile. “I see you’ve mao plete your first quest.”

  Adam smiled, throwing up a thumbs up. “That’s right.”

  “I will plete the transa,” Emma said, looking at the boar. “Will you please bring it around back?” She grabbed some paper ahem to the room behind, which was quite rge, and made pletely from thick stohere were a few wooden ns in the tre, though they were covered in notes. Around the pce were a feons too of various disrepair. Some were fine, whereas other ons were pletely chipped and ruined.

  There was a rge stoable, and a few stools around to sit on. Emma waved her hand towards the table where Jurot y the boar. He cracked his ned stretched his shoulders, feeling the gentle ache.

  Emma leaned in towards the boar, reag out with the back of her pen to follow a line she had drawn in her mind. She circled around it, writing down some notes on her paper. She leaned in close towards the tusks, and then towards where it had been wounded. Her eyes fluttered for a few moments as she calcuted everything together.

  “I have firmed that you have pleted the quest. Do you wish to keep a portion of the meat?”

  “A small portion,” Adam said, looking to Jurot. “What do you think?”

  Jurot nodded. “I want to eat it for dinner.”

  “We’ll be eationight and tomorrow m,” Emma said. “I’ll send Margh the news.”

  ‘ht. Margh! I knew someone was missing.’

  “I’ll portion some of the meat for you. If you’d like, you ask Margh to cook it separately on the grill. We have a few herbs that you’ll be able to use as well, since you’ve taken a quest which allows the guild to feed its members.” Emma smiled, making sure they uood that they would be rewarded properly for helping the guild out with a b quest.

  “That sounds good! I should go a some butter too.” Adam hinking about grilled boar meat. He hadn’t tasted it before, but butter and some herbs would make most things taste good.

  “The boar you have sin will earn you twelve gold total, this includes the price for the meat, the tusks, and the bounty for sying it.”

  “Nice,” Adam said, nodding his head. He was gd to make so much gold in one go. Of course, it wasn’t like he was going to be able to swim in the gold, and iy it wasn’t that much, but since he had very few bills, it meant he could steadily earn and create a pot for his savings for emergencies.

  Emma brought them to the front desk once again. She prepared the for them, as well as their stamps.

  Quest pleteBoar Hunting

  XP Gained+50XP70XP -> 120XP

  Stamps Gained+13 -> 4

  Currency Gained+5GP +4SP14GP, 6SP -> 19GP, 10SP

  Adam beamed with a sense of achievement as the two of them passed their first quest together. He looked to Jurot with a rge smile on his face. “Here,” Adam said, quickly casting Tricks on the jam buns to make them warm, before handing oo Jurot.

  Jurot stared at the jam bun for a moment before accepting it. He waited for Adam to take a bite, but the once Adam started to eat it. It was warm, soft, and tasted fairly fresh still. ‘How it be so warm? Why is it not that stale?’ Jurot tio eat it until it was done, not even thinking about whether it could be poisoned.

  Adam fi too, tasting how warm and sweet it was. “After we finish a hard day at work, shouldn’t we reward ourselves?” Adam said ily. “ime, let’s head to the bakery so we order it fresh.” Adam wiggled his brows towards Jurot, before putting his helmet ba, feeling the gaze on his ears.

  “Making two trips is inve,” Jurot said, lig his lips to finish tasting all the jam.

  “That’s true, though isn’t it worth it if we order from the baker fresh?” Adam’s voice remained as i as it could.

  ‘Order from the baker…’ Jurot thought about it for a moment, spending as much time as most Iyrmen did thinking. “Okay.”

  Adam chuckled, shaking his head slightly. “What quest should we take tomorrow?”

  Jurot bli the half elf. “What?”

  “You don’t want to take a b quest, right? So what are we doing tomorrow?”

  “We should rest and spend our ,” Jurot said, still not quite uanding what Adam was talking about.

  Adam stared at Jurot for a moment too. “Ah, right. Sorry. I was getting ahead of myself, wasn’t I? I didn’t really get injured so…” Adam cleared his throat, fetting the fact that Jurot had taken a heavy blow from the boar.

  “We quest another day.” Jurot wondered why Adam was in a rush. The typical adventurer would go on a quest, make their gold, and spend it over the course of a week, befoing on another quest.

  “Alright. We’ll sy another boar another day then, or we do something else.” Adam shrugged his shoulders.

  “You want to sy another boar?” Jurot asked, raising his brow. Typically, adventurers would ge their quests depending on what they needed. Yet Adam wao hunt another boar?

  “Yeah.”

  “Tomorrow?”

  “Preferably, but I’ll wait for you.” Adam nodded his head. He didn’t want Jurot to push himself, since he didn’t want Jurot to die again. That was one of the best things that came from his revival, the fact that Jurot was alive again.

  “I will rest tonight and we hunt tomorrow,” Jurot said, nodding his head towards Adam. It was a surprise to see another adventurer wanting to go around sying things so eagerly, so he didn’t want to lose that opportunity.

  “That boar retty easy, all things sidered. You were also really good at trag. Do you think we could hunt several boars at once?” Adam tilted his head, thinking about how they could hunt multiple boars to make more . ‘How we bring them back?’ Carrying too many boars would slow them down, and their hands wouldn’t be free to defend themselves.

  “That would be dangerous.” As Adam was thinking about the bes and costs, Jurot’s mind had already fshed with them due to his experience.

  “I’m thinking just two. Double up our ine in a single quest, as well as the meat we eat in a single night.” Adam chuckled.

  “…” Jurot narrowed his eyes slightly. “We do that. We are strong enough.”

  Emma was listening in on this versation with everyone else. Her brow pulsed slightly in ahe other adventurers were also whisperiween one another.

  “Didn’t they just go on a quest?”

  “Are half elves always in a rush?”

  “Aren’t they long lived? Why does he o ght to work?”

  “Do you think he doesn’t know how to rex?”

  “He’s just trying to show us up, the leaf ear bastard.”

  Emma let out a soft exhale. “What are you two discussing right in front of me?” Her jaw was tense, and she looked at them with the iion to beat them. “Do you think that just because you slew one boar successfully you go up against more? Whose to say you weren’t just lucky today? If you go up against several boars, won’t you just be throwing your lives away?”

  Adam looked at her in surprise, heariry to hide her obvie within her voice. “…”

  “You bunch of punks,” she s them. “Do you know how many newbies we have to bury a year? Do you think you’re special just because you know a little magic, or that you’re an Iyrman?”

  “Yes,” Adam and Jurot replied in sync.

  Emma’s brow twitched. “That’s besides the point! If you two want to throw away your lives, you do it aime!”

  “As long as we’re safe on the way back, I have a way to deal with the boars so we hunt multiple.” Adam thought about his spells. One of them would assist in dealing greater damage to the boars, and he also had Summon Familiar, though he he items for it. He should probably work oing a familiar, but he didn’t have much gold to work with. ‘Why did I even take prehend Languages at this level?’ He wao sp himself. There was a much better spell he could have taken which would have assisted him at low levels.

  “That’s why you o be careful!” Emma snapped again, reag up to massage her ag forehead. “What happens if the boars injure you too much? What happens if you’re attacked on the way back? Even if boar sying is retively safe for the pair of you together, if one of you is injured oes down, then it’s easy for the situation to escate. There aren’t just boars in the forest either, what about all the other creatures? Wolves, bears, even reater beasts, each of which could easily kill aire party of four, never mind just to pair of you!”

  “I’m happy to work with someone else to help with the boar sying. I think we’ll be fih someone who help us carry a boar, or maybe use ons from a distance. If we increase our party by fifty pert, but increase our load by double, then we’ll still be from it.”

  The moment Adam started to mention math, Jurot blinked. “Fifty pert, double,” Jurot said, nodding his head slowly. He was sure in the back of his head he uood what Adam was saying, but he didn’t think too hard about it. “Math,” Jurot muttered under his breath. There were a few Iyrmen who were well versed in the dark art, but Jurot khe most simplest amount of math, and it usually took him a while.

  “I will find someohrough the guild,” Emma said as she sighed. She reached up to rub her brow. ‘These two are too reckless. Just how much trouble are you intending t to the guild?’

  “Then we’ll leave it to the dependable guild,” Adam said, smiling at Emma. He could uand why Emma was currently annoyed by what he had said, and he had to make sure he took her s on board. ‘If a guild worker, who knows how strong we are, tells us to be careful with something…’ He didn’t want this life to end so quickly.

  With that, Adam went up to bathe. As he did, the other adventurers watched him. One almost stood up, but their partner pulled them down.

  “Calm down, idiot,” she whispered. “Sit.”

  “I wasn’t going to do anything.”

  “I’m sure.” She pulled him back down.

  Adam bathed quickly and ate even quicker. Sihey had sin the boar, they had a few extra sbs of meat. He didn’t spend much time sav it since he could feel the intense gres of other adventurers with his helmet off. ‘Damn, they really don’t like half elves…’

  Adam quickly returo his room, saying a quick good night to Jurot. He didn’t want to aggravate the others too much. ‘I should eat earlier, or maybe ter?’ He sighed.

  He dropped onto his bed and stretched. “Bell, show me how much XP I o buy arick.”

  [You buy arick for 400XP.]

  “Whoa, so much?” Adam whispered. “How much do I have?”

  [120XP.]

  “Wasn’t it only 200XP st time?”

  [Yes.]

  “…”

  [It has increased because you already have plenty of tricks at this level.]

  “So does that mean my rick will be cheaper once I level?”

  [The price will return to 200XP once you level.]

  “I see. So the higher levelled I bee, then the cheaper things bee? Or is it just that it resets the price?”

  [Yes.]

  “Yes to both?”

  [Yes.]

  “Huh. Makes sense…” Adam wondered if he should try for arick. “How much to level up?”

  [1000XP.]

  He whistled. “Damn, that’s a lot. Alright, well…” He took a moment to think. “A trick might be nice, but the level would give me more health, won’t it?”

  [Your health will increase by 13.]

  “Double…” He clicked through his teeth. “I think I should wait for that then. The extra health will be too useful, and I will be able to learn new spells. Or should I pick the greater martial abilities?” Adam yawned. “Whatever, I’ll think about it when I have enough XP. Good night, Bell.”

  [Good night, Adam.]