The Adventurer's Guild building explained why there was a lot of adventurers gathering altogether, as it turns out they were peoples that was about to take on quests and venture out to the wilds.
Syla stared at the hanging sign for a few seconds, her heart was racing to the thought of becoming an Adventurer and taking on quests like in those stories from earth. She took a step forward, then another one, slowly making her way towards the entrance before she opened the door and went inside.
'W- woah..' Syla uttered unconciously.
As soon as she entered the guild, she was met with a chaotic scene, hundreds of adventurers stood in every corner of the building, they leaned to the wall, they sat on the available chairs, they carried swords, magic staff, shields, and large backpacks.
The sound of those adventurers chatting ringed inside Syla's ears, it felt like someone was shouting right infront of her at all times, although the noises was almost deafening, it didn't stop Syla from pushing through, she kept walking, passing by a few adventurers who looked both innocent and serial killer type of face, even the girls there were scary, many of them stared at Syla, wondering who she was, their gaze was intense, and Syla could feel that most of it were targeted towards her body.
'Haha, they're scarier than i thought..' Syla said to herself. 'There's a lot of people here who are a different species– Elves, and.. That's a dwarf right? That man over there looks like a lizard demihuman.. I guess Direwell is as Lori said, they don't discriminate against anyone.'
After squeezing through a group of adventurers who were blocking the way, Syla arrived at the counter desk, she stood infront of it and was greeted by a female receptionist.
"Good morning, my name is Nomi, how may i help you, miss?" She said.
For the first 5 seconds, Syla didn't know what to answer, she stayed still and quiet until her mind worked again.
"Uhh, i want to register as an adventurer." Syla replied, her face was somewhat awkward.
"Sure!" Nomi then grabbed something from under the desk, it was a rag paper with questionnaire written on it. "Can you read?"
"Ah, yes, i can." Syla replied, she looked at the paper content and saw the questions, it was rather simple, the question asked for Syla's name, date of birth, occupation, and ability.
"Great, you can fill this question here, you can ignore most of it, but the ability and your name question is mandatory." The receptionist said, she placed both of her hands on the table and waited for Syla to complete the questionnaire.
Syla decided to answer every question, she filled her name on the first question and then put her date of birth, 6th of March, 209 Emperor's Year.
She put Wanderer as her occupation and then writes 'Magic Spells' in the ability question.
Although there are more questions below the past four, it was just a descriptive question to know more about Syla's abilities, she decided to write 'Capable of both swordmanship and magic spells, have been trained for a decade.'
Once everything had been filled out, Syla gave the paper to the receptionist, Nomi then reads Syla's answer, her eyes grew for a moment as if she was surprised by Syla's answer, when Nomi was done reading the paper, she nodded in confirmation and told Syla that her answer has been accepted.
"Then, please follow me." Nomi said as she stood up from her chair.
"Huh? Is there anything else i have to do?" Syla asked, confused with the extra steps that was taken since adventurer's guild usually don't do anything else beside the paper questionnaire, atleast that's what she thought.
Syla followed Nomi to the back of the building, passing by a few more receptionist on her way before she arrived at a door, when Nomi opened the door, Syla was met with an open arena, similar to a dueling ground.
'Ahh, don't tell me.. They need to measure my abilities, to make sure i don't lie?' Syla thought.
"Is this a test?" She said to Nomi who was guiding her to the side of the arena.
"Yes, we do this to measure one's abilities, you can reject the measurement if you want, however that means you'll start at the very bottom of the rank." Nomi explained.
When the two of them arrived on the side of the arena, a shirtless man was waiting for them in the shade.
"Oh? A new adventurer? Perfect timing, i was just done with my morning exercise." The man said, his figure looks perfect, not too big and not too small, his muscles looks well developed, and his blonde hair was wet with sweats, most likely from battle, that's when Syla knew that the man infront of her was the one that will test her.
'Woah, he looks hot..' Syla accidentally blurted out in her mind. 'Ah, wait– He's my tester! What am i thinking.'
"Syla, say hi to Mr. Swen, he'll be the one that will test you, you and him will duel in this arena and at the end of the battle, he will measure your strength and ability to give you the appropriate rank." Nomi said.
Syla then bowed to give respect to Mr. Swen.
"Nice to meet you, Mr. Swen." She said.
"Ahaha, you're too polite, now– follow me to the center." Mr. Swen said as he wiped the sweats off of his face, he then grabbed the sword that was lying on the ground and walked to the center arena.
Syla followed closely behind, and once they arrived at the middle, they then pushed their distance away.
"Mr. Swen, i have a question." Syla lifted her hand up and asked.
"What is it?" Swen replied as he raised one of his eyebrow.
"What rank are you?" Syla said.
Mr. Swen was stunned by the question, he fell into silence for a few seconds before laughing at her.
"Ahahahaha!! What do you think? feeling confident eh? Well, i'll answer your question, even though i barely do any adventures now, im still a B-Rank." Swen replied, amused by Syla's confidence.
Syla stopped giving any replies to Mr. Swen, when the two of them realized that they were ready to fight, Syla and Swen took their stance and was waiting for anyone to strike first.
'Let's see.. I've never seen this girl before, she must be from out of town– To be asking for my rank, she's either skilled or she has too much confidence, no matter which one it is, it should be over in about 30 seconds.' Swen thought, his eyes was dead focus on Syla.
'A B-Rank adventurer.. I wonder if i can beat him, back in the village, Raywen said my im about B-Rank, though he mentioned that i could be A-Rank, i need to doubt it for now unless i fought someone worthy of being A-Rank.. Maybe this guy is stronger than what i thought.' Syla said to herself, her feets slowly sliding closer and closer to Mr. Swen.
Then, after a grueling 15 seconds of stillness, both Syla and Swen pushed their legs at the same time, they dashed forward, creating an after images before meeting at the centerpoint with their swords clashing against each other.
CLANG!!