Chapter 21

The second town I see is a little bit larger than the last. Iron still sells for only 10 credits, and I'm not missing anything from not waiting to sell my materials. There is an alchemy shop in this town, but I decide to pass on it. While I am here, I come across a place I've always wanted to see.

>Welcome to the Adventurer's Guild!

Oooh yeah, time to adventure and stuff. I hope I can find some quests to kill monsters that have the location of the monsters. If I could find a party, that would be good too. I remember a group of people from a few days ago. They might have been a party.

I walk inside the adventurer's guild, and it's a wasteland. Well, there just aren't many people.

"Hello," I say to the woman behind a desk at the end of the hall. The hall is big, but she is the only worker there. Oh, and she's hot.

"Welcome to the Adventurer's guild." She says, not looking up. She's a bitch. Hot, but a bitch.

"Do you have any quests for monster subjugation?" I ask her. I remember subjugations being a popular type of quests in video games, and I have to start somewhere.

"Check the bulletin board. Bring any quest you want to take to my desk." She says, pointing at a board on the left side of the hall.

I walk over to the board and look at some of the quests. There is also a large map above the board, apparently of the surrounding area. Judging by the distance from this town to the one I came from, the map covers 500 miles. I see the obsidian peaks and the holy sword of Nordas. I also check my minimap, but looking at the larger map did not add anything to my own map.

The quests are outlined very simply.

>**Quest**

>Rank: D

>Details: Gather 10 Horned Beakle Root.

>Reward: 100 Credits

>**Quest**

>Rank: E

>Details: Gather 5 Rock Gaul Eggs.

>Reward: 150 Credits

Most of the rank D and E quests are the same, to collect some ingredient that I've never heard of before. The one to collect eggs seems a little dificult, but I don't know anything about Rock Gauls. As I read all the quests, only the rank C, B and A ones interest me.

>**Quest**

>Rank: C

>Details: Kill 6 Black Tailed Fortilers in and around Black Mountain. Retrieve the fangs and tails.

>Reward: 600 Credits

>**Quest**

>Rank: B

>Details: Kill 10 Iron-Back Devil Hounds in the Obsidian Peaks. Retrieve the hide.

>Reward: 1000 Credits

>**Quest**

>Rank: A

>Details: Kill 1 Fire-Tipped Dragon in the Obsidian Peaks. Retrieve the entire body.

>Reward: 5000 Credits

I don't want to pretend to be an expert on this whole monster killing thing, but I am taking that Rank A quest. Maybe not today, but I will someday, just you wait. For now, I'll start in relative safety and take the rank C quest. I don't know what a Fortiler is, but I can probably kill it. I take the quest poster and take it to the woman at the desk.

"I'll take this quest."

"Have fun." She took one look at the quest poster and took out a paper from her desk and wrote a few things down. Without reading what she wrote, I left there. She didn't seem too happy to be working there, but I can understand. In such a magical world, I would hate having to work behind a desk.

I'm not really sure what to do now, so I check my minimap. Gone WILD! The minimap shows the locations of the Fortilers! They are a little more to the west than my house, but it should only take a day or so to get there if I hurry. I leave town quickly without looking at anything else and start straight towards the quest markers.

I ignore everything on my way to the quest markers. I don't have my bow out, and I don't want to bother with getting it out and readying an arrow. It is midday on the 27th day, and I've got a lot of distance to cover.