Looking at each other, we eventually pile out of the room and head to the receptionist desk and upon seeing the familiar figure with curly pink hair, she calls out to us. "Hey, well done passing the tests now first I'll do an explanation and orientation then we'll go over each of you individually okay?"
After nodding she continues in that vibrant tone of hers "To begin with, the hunter’s guild ranks work from E to S rank where E is the lowest and S the highest. Each of you will begin at E rank and to go from E rank to D rank you must either fulfil ten E rank quests or five D rank quests as you can only take quests higher than your rank by one." After taking a quick breath, she continues "Rank C and upwards, on top of completing quests you must take examinations just like before in order to prove that you deserve those ranks. On top of this, there are training grounds, classes for knowledge and the quest board which can be used to ask for teammates to work with as well."
Once giving us time to process that word vomit, she then started to call us up individually by taking us into the room just behind her where the individual is seen coming out wearing a small copper tag on their neck. After roughly half an hour, Lumina hears her name being called thus she stood up and entered the room with anticipation.
When entering the room, she sees the receptionist standing beside a brass looking contraption. "Come here, now I'll guide you through the process, you will need to make a small cut on your finger and place it here on this machine which will use your blood to create an identity tag and an identity card which will not be replicable and thus requires payment if it ever gets lost and needs replacement."
Once that was said, Lumina grabbed the dagger and made a small cut at the top of her forefinger before pressing it down on the top of the brass machine.
WHIRRR
The machine started to make some noise as it glowed various colours before settling down from its vibrations where her tag and card were finally processed. Picking them up, she feels them only to realise that they didn't feel anything special whilst looking at the card which had her basic information placed down.
"Now that's that, let’s begin with some extra information for you. After looking at your scores on the theory test, we realise that you are rather unknowledgeable and require to take classes in Foraging, Plant types, Monster Ecology, Trap Making and Normal Beast Ecology. Now, the basic classes for these are free except for monster ecology and normal beast ecology and require a payment of twenty coppers each and after that, there are the advanced classes for all of these, and they all have a payment requirement of one large copper each." The receptionist talked in a rather business style tone as if a script was in front of her.
Lumina blinks at the information thrown at her then answers carefully. "I will take the free classes for now and when I start gaining a reasonable income, then I will pay for the other classes will that be okay?"
"Yes, that's perfectly fine, now that everything is settled you can head back and do whatever you need to do."
Once that conversation was over, Lumina left the room and headed back to the inn as it was starting to become dusk after everything that happened that day. On the way back, Lumina thought about her teammates. I believe that I can become friends with Sheryl and Dave easily, but Sharron will be one of those harder to communicate with unless there is something that will interest her. As for Ternan... Let’s hope he doesn't bring any unnecessary trouble after today.
As Lumina nearly reached the inn, the spider that she left behind with Alan managed to pick up a conversation that he was having with that mysterious person which caused her to furrow her brows.
Alan POV
"Report." After commanding thin air Alan saw the empty room shimmer as a covered person appeared from thin air going into a saluting position and started his report in earnest.
"Sir, after following that Lumina person a couple of days I gathered information that before she became a 'she' she was actually a 'he' from one of my subordinates that was in the women's clothing store. Meanwhile, most of what she said was true in that she was just an apprentice knife wielder and is, in general, rather unknowledgeable. She worked well with most of her teammates and is rather friendly, However, I feel that we have not seen the entirety of her capabilities. Should we put her in a situation that forces her to go all out?"
After taking a few moments to think Alan responds with a question. "What do you feel she is hiding?"
"Sir, I believe that she could be a remnant follower of Death and thus has some of those 'forbidden' classes either in curses, necromancy etc." Answering in a monotone the shadowy person only had a bit of an excited quiver when he mentioned necromancy.
"Hmm, if she isn't revealing her abilities then it means she doesn't feel strong enough yet, not to mention some of these knights underneath me will not hesitate to attack her if she is considered weak. No, we'll wait until she is strong enough, then we can use her to take down those who are giving us unnecessary headaches and bring her to our side."
"What if she feels entitled to have better treatment and become the ruler of this city, wont that put her against your steady rule?" The shadow asked with some level of curiosity within his monotone voice.
"If that becomes the case, I will welcome it after all I'm a knight commander not a ruler but for that to happen she will need to learn how to rule and she can only learn that once she leaves this forsaken land and become a noble in one of the other empires. Besides she has a right to rule here as she could be related to death on this land." Once Alan came to this conclusion he sat down and briefly looked into the spider’s direction before turning his head back and said, "You may leave now."
"Yes sir."