Poor Noble Nod's Adventure Volume 1 Chapter 2

Nod lowered the adventurer guild card of a piece of wood that was struck at the counter (the string was pa.s.sed by himself) and moved to the place called "request form" (依頼書) taught by the receptionist of the adventurer guild.

The request board of the adventurer guild is close to the bar and on the left of the entrance.

Strictly speaking, the back of the  adventurer guild, where the chairs and tables are installed is a tavern, so the s.p.a.ce between the entrance and the bar seems to be a s.p.a.ce where adventurer look for requests.

Nod went to the place where the request board was placed.

The request form seemed to be affixed to the entire wall.

A number of large wooden cork boards were installed on the wall, and many requests were placed there.

The board on which the request form was affixed: On the request bulletin board quest board, characters such as "Crystal" and "Black Iron" were engraved along with the pattern.

Nod saw them and remembered the adventurer's rank.

Adventurer will be ranked higher by their adventurer guilds depending on their strength and contribution. The higher the rank of the rank, the higher the reward of the request that can be received.

The rank indicating the position of the adventurer is different based on their rank, that rank is from top rank to bottom rank:

10th Rank Legend Adventurer

9th Rank Orichalc.u.m Adventurer

8th Rank Mythril Adventurer

7th Rank Gold Adventurer

6th Rank Silver Adventurer

5th Rank Iron Adventurer

4th Rank Bronze Adventurer

3rd Rank Crystal Adventurer

2nd Rank Stone Adventurer

1st Rank Normal Plate Adventurer

Exception is:

No rank, wood/newbie
**Note: there is also something like "holy treasure adventurer" and such to describe the rank but it confusing especially on rank like the stone and normal plate adventurer because of "cobblestone adventurer and stone plate adventurer"

Like that.

Nod is now a newbie adventurer. If it follows the name usual thing, it will be called "wood", but in fact the slang name of the newcomer the "newbie" is generally used,  but since "wood" adventurer is still a newbie it fits.

Every time the rank rises, a certain amount of money is paid to you, so in addition to the increased in the reward of the request, you also must be prepared to get the "taste" of rank up.

**Note:( 階位は上昇する毎に一定額の支度金などを貰えるため、受注する仕事の報酬が増えるということ以外にも、階位ランクを上げる旨味が用意されている。)  <– there="" is="" a="" "umami"="" word="">

Also, in order to be promoted to a rank Mithril cla.s.s and up, the  adventurer guild needs to be certified that the adventurer has made an extraordinary achievement. It seems that the rank can be raised only after the accreditation is judged to be appropriate through the meeting between the top executives of the  adventurer guild, and the top executives—the adventurer guild councilor—are successfully accepted that adventurer rank prmomotion.

 If the promotion is approved, they say that each cla.s.s material will be given instead of the preparation fee based on your own rank.

Even a senior aristocrat with a huge amount of money, he used it and his legendary material for his armor - when he thought it would be exhausted by warrior, Nod shook his head and brought his thoughts back to reality.

Its better to have something to eat today rather than the legendary armor you can't get.

Well, Nod is still newbie adventurer.

He must advance to the Normal Plate Adventurer as soon as possible and earn as much as possible.

Nod looks at the bulletin board again

The only request that can be received by the newbie adventurer is the lowest-level request that anyone can receive.

The request was lined up at the back of the wall where the request board—that is, in the corner of the  adventurer guild. A request board called free board is attached to the wall.

The requests you can get on the free bulletin board are small, but even if you fail, no penalty will be incurred, so it's a perfect job for the newbie adventurer.

All the requests posted on the free bulletin board freeboard are completely different from battles and adventures, such as "Fix The City Drainage", "Debris Removal At Construction Site", "Cleaning Work In The Capital City", etc. It was just a request with random content.

The relatively adventurer-like request is "Gather Medicinal Herbs!". This is a so-called "permanent request" that is made throughout the year. Since there is always demand, in principle that kind of request will not be withdrawn no matter how many adventurer pick it up. By the way, the request for "Cleaning Work Of XX" is also a permanent request. However, there is an upper limit on the number of people who can receive orders at the same time, and it turns out that today's amount is full.

In fact, this free board request can be received even if you do not have an adventurer card. Nod has also do that kind of request to make money from a long time ago.

This is the reason why it is said that newbie adventurer is not strictly an adventurer.

Nod after looking through the request board for the free board, decided to receive request for the "Slime Capture Request". The main requester was the sewer management office.

In the request form, "Giant rats bred abnormally and ate sewer slime. If this is the case, there will not be enough slime to eat trash and the sewer will be clogged. Collect and bring slime!” was written.

Supplied a supplementary note from the adventurer guild, and a total of 500 slimes are needed, and the current number of achievements was written.

According to it, it seems that about half of the slimes has already been collected, so I thought it would be better to go to the node soon.

Nod  also received a request to collect herbs.

Both of the two requests were low in payment, but if you collected the numbers, it seemed that it would be enough to eat a small amount of food.

In the request form handed over to the staff of the adventurer guild at counter, Nod name's that is the receiver of the request was written in the column “Ordering party”. After the staff confirmed that the name and the name engraved on Nod's adventurer guild card were the same, an adventurer guild stamp was pushed into the request.

In order to receive the reward, a request form with this stamp was also required, so Nod was warned not to lose it. That seems to be a mechanism to prevent fraud such as preemption of requested remuneration depending on whether the records in the ledger on the adventurer guild side match the stamp pattern stamped on the request form.

Nod who received the two requests in total took care not to lose them, and then left the adventurer guild building..

The node is ready to capture the slime.

However, it is not a big deal.

Aside from a long sword that is worn on the waist for self-protection, a bag that contains at least slime and a string that gathers herbs are needed.

Once Nod got home, Nod prepared them and Nod headed out of the capital.

The guards of the royal city castle gates were busy inspecting the people who were visiting. They check people's belongings,  check whether the cargo loaded on the merchant's carriage is the same as the doc.u.ment or look at the someone as to see if they are a criminal.

For Nod the capital city is his hometown. As a n.o.ble child, Nod has the citizens.h.i.+p of the capital city, and Nod was also familiar with the guard of the royal city. So just by calling out, the guard immediately let Nod out of the city.

In the adventurer guild, getting the request of the free board is more likely to mean a familiar training tutorial that will familiarize you with the procedure of receiving the request rather than aiming to clear the posted request.

Considering this, the node moved from the gate to the place where the slime live on foot.

The capital city has a river that flows around it. In the capital city, the river water is drawn into the castle gate. For the residents of the capital, the river is also water for daily use.

Nod come downstream of the river. On the bank of the river, gra.s.ses that were familiar to him are prosperous. Their  leaf has grown in five directions as if a person's palm was opened.

Hold the leaf from the base of the stem and cut it with the hands you are used to. There was a distinctive smell coming to the nose. The smell of medicinal herbs.

More precisely, it was the lowest one of a numbers of herbs.

The medicinal herbs higher than this medicinal herb are also "medicinal herbs", but for Nod who have never seen them, the term "medicinal herbs" refers to the lowest medicinal herbs shaped like human palm.

A trembling creature appeared in front of Nod who tears medicinal herbs with ease.

Perhaps it crawls out of the water, and the creature that moves while shaking its own body had a thin membrane wrapped around a translucent liquid body. In the center you can see something like a dark core.  It's a slime.

Slime is a creature that live everywhere, mainly eating dead leaves, animal carca.s.ses and garbage. It also seems to eat small insects, but it was harmless to animals over a certain size.

Since Nod has received a request to capture slime, he went to caught the slime. When he grabbed it with his bare hands, the slime shuddered its body so that it could escape. However, the slime could not escape from his hand and was put into the bag just like that.

Since slime's body is almost liquid, its body color changes depending on the environment. For example, the slime in the sewer seems to have a faint color due to sewage.

This slime, which is now transparent with river water, will also be thrown into the sewer and dyed in sewage.

 While thinking about that, Nod silently collects more medicinal herbs and occasionally packed slime that emerged from the riverside into the bag.

Nod returns to the capital before sunset.

The capital city cit can't basically go through the gates at night unless it is an urgent matter, such as a military messenger. So if you are unlucky, you will be stay outside the wall at night.

Naturally, Nod a citizen of the capital city, knows a lot about the situation.

And after handing over the slime at the sewer management office where the slime was delivered at the reception, Nod returns to the adventurer guild with an empty bag.

On the way to the adventurer's adventurer guild by walking along the cobblestone road of the capital city dyed in red before the sunset goes down, Nod saw a number of people who dressed like adventurers who would have done the same request as he did.

After going through the adventurer's adventurer guild door, there was already a long line at every counter. Since it can't be helped, Nod was also lined up at the end of the line at the counter.

At the tavern, adventurer with appearances such as the rough men who have already finished the report have started drinking.

Person who celebrates the success of their request, strikes a cup and toasts with  their friends. Person who eating alone. Person who spreads the horror of the monster that they has defeated and its feels.

As the lines moves forward, the number of such adventurer will gradually increase in the tavern and the noise of the bar increases. By the time Nod reports the request at the counter, the bar was turned into a banquet hall where drunks were completely drunk.

"Is it always like this?"

Nod never visited the adventurer guild during this time, so he asked, surprised by the noise. When submitting two request forms and a bunch of collected herbs to the window, the receptionist of the adventurer guild in the counter responded with troubled face, while proceeding with the request .

"Yes, it 's always like this. Did you like it?"

In response to the words of the receptionist who continued to be accustomed to adventurers, Nod briefly answers, "No, I don't hate it".

Due to the hustle and bustle of the adventurer of adventurer guild, Nod felt a similar atmosphere to his home, the Ferris family. It's not so loud, but his house is lively.

For adventurer, the adventurer guild might be home their.

While considering that, Nod receives today's reward at the counter.

It was just a few small coins that would gives him a normal meal, but this was a solid first step to Nod's adventure.

this is waaayy longer than last chapter lol so it tooks more time

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