Walking back to the crossroads, Lumina turned left and headed to what was the inner ring which was said to be the main headquarters to some of the largest guilds there. The further towards the inner ring she went in, the more armour-clad people there were revealing that she was in the right place. Once she reached the inner ring, she turned her heel to the left and eventually came across a large brick building that appeared relatively new in comparison to the architecture around making it look new.
The sign above read that it was The Hunter's Guild in cursive, bold lettering on a wooden sign where it looked like groups of people of differing races, mostly human walked in and out through the door. Gathering her courage, Lumina pushed open the door and waltzed into the guildhalls open area.
Inside was a warm tavern-like atmosphere where some of the rugged men and women in armour carrying weapons were sitting down while laughing, having a drink and a meal being rather boisterous while ladies wearing cute looking uniforms were taking orders and carrying trays. In one of the corners there seemed to be a board with pages and contents littered them where some of these people were standing.
Looking around, Lumina eventually saw the reception front desk where a few young ladies were standing plastered with professional service smiles on their faces while dealing with a small line of hunters. Lining up, Lumina waited for a couple of minutes before it became her turn getting face to face with a receptionist with short, pink curly hair and red eyes. "Hey, I wanted to register into the hunter’s guild, would you mind helping me?" Lumina asked in a polite tone.
"Sure, just so you know you need to fill in a short form and complete a few test trials before you get handed a verification card so others know that you are a part of this guild and what rank you are. I can explain more on this subject once you become a hunter and just so you are aware you will need to pay a small sum of five coppers upfront to take the tests no matter whether you succeed them or not. Shall I get the form now or would you like a moment to think about it?" The receptionist said in an even tone, the smile never leaving her face.
"No need, here's the payment can I have the form please?"
"Sure thing." After a couple of moments to receptionist grabbed what looked to be the form from under the desk and handed it over to Lumina to fill out and waited patiently. Carefully looking into the form, Lumina checked and filled out its contents such as name, age, occupation, occupation level etc.
After doing so, Lumina hands the sheet back to the receptionist who looked over the notes, nodded, then said "Good, looks like everything checks out. Now the first test is a written test that will test your current knowledge, don't worry this test has no impact other than letting us know what kind of classes you may need to shore up in any deficient knowledge in, this should only take thirty minutes." Once saying this she got Lumina to follow her to a room that had desks, quills, ink and paper and approximately a hundred people sitting in them taking the test.
When she found an empty seat, Lumina saw that a lanky figure was standing by the main wall, his presence almost unnoticeable. A muffled voice was heard through the mask he wore "You may begin." Once saying that, Lumina grabbed the quill, started reading the questions and started filling them in as best as she could despite being unknowledgeable.
A short thirty minutes went by before the masked figure shouts out loud "Times up!!" Making everyone put there quills down as they get collected by some of his assistants. "Now that's done we can get to the physical test, all of you will compete against a C-rank hunter and those who past can move onto the final examination while those who fail will have to try again another time." Once he said this, he led everyone one to what looked to be a large training ground with a large muscular man ripped and tone with several scars on their body carrying what looked to be a two-handed broadsword.
"Welcome, for the second test all you need to do is be able to keep standing after my attacks for a few minutes." The man bellowed loudly, his words echoing within the room.
Taking a large portion of the day, nearly all of the challengers went up, most of them failing but some passing with relatively decent capability such as a male elf with a bow, a human female mage, a human with a sword and a beastkin woman with what looked to be a chain and sickle with everyone else failing leading up to Lumina being the final fight.
"Ready?" Nodding her head to the question, the examiner got ready into a slashing stance whilst Lumina grabbed her knife out of the sheath and crouched low into a pouncing position. "Set......Go!" Yelling that out the man ran up to Lumina before slashing the sword from top to bottom by her head.
Lumina seeing this, sidestepped to the left and went into a pounce with the knife targeting the neck as a thrust.
CLANG
It was blocked by the quick judgement of the man as he pulled his sword up using the flat edge to stop the forward momentum before parrying the knife into a thrust towards Lumina.
Lumina predicting this, sidestepped to the right while turning the knife into a reverse grip to do a backhand slash yet the man just pulled back before giving Lumina a kick to her abdomen sending her shuttling backwards before rolling into another pouncing position. He has much faster reflexes to predict my movement, I need to be faster. Coming to this conclusion in her head, Lumina got into a quick sprint....
This back and forth went into a long exchange that severely tired out Lumina as beads of sweat dripped from her forehead and skin as she stood in a prepared position panting. "Times up, you pass." The man says casually putting his sword down revealing no difference from earlier. "Those who pass, come here tomorrow for the final examination. Now that we know your individual capabilities, we now need to know how you work in a team, thus, those who passed will be put into a team for a real hunt."
After hearing this, Lumina picked herself up and travelled back to the inn she currently rents a room for and ordered a quick meal for dinner before heading back to bed leading into a quick sleep and hopefully peaceful dream.