Collecting the reward

We rested for for some time and made our way to the guild. Since this was our first time finishing the quest, none of us knew what to do. I told Cleo and Turek about the drop off gate and we headed over there to see if we can finish the quest by handing over the Kura plants.

The drop off area was large room with a long table and various measurement tools. There were 5 booths, where people were handing over their quest items. Some had herbs like us, while others hand animal remains. We got in line for one of the booths with the bag of Kura plants. I was in the front since the quest was officially accepted by me.

When our turn came, I handed over the quest document to the man behind the booth and told him that we had finished the quest. He looked at the document and asked me for the plants which I promptly handed over. He inspected the plants, weighed them and made an entry on the quest document. Then he stamped it with a seal and told us that we can collect our reward from the registration booth inside the guild. He didn't tell us anything about how much reward we will get or said anything about the quality or quantity of the plants.

I checked the document to see what he had written and it said the weight of the plants is 3.8 kg and the quality level was good. We made our way to the registration booths where I saw Miss Melaine again. I thought it might be a good idea to get the reward from her since we were already acquainted. Hopefully she can give us a good reward.

"Hello Miss Melaine. I am here to collect the reward for this quest." I handed over the quest document as I said that.

Miss Melaine looked at Cleo and Turek who were standing beside me and asked "Did you join a party?"

"Yeah, this is Cleo and Turek. They have not yet registered with the guild, so only I accepted the quest."

She studied the quest document and said "Since you found more than the required amount of good quality Kura herb, I will accept this quest as completed. You will receive 1 silver as the reward for the quest and 5 additional silvers for the herb itself."

All three of us got pretty happy after hearing the reward money. We could split 6 silvers equally so everyone gets 2 silvers. I started to wonder if we should split it so that Cleo gets more for this quest when I heard Miss Melaine saying "So how was your experience with adventuring since this was your first quest?"

"Uh.. we had some trouble but overall I found it exciting!"

"What kind of trouble? Did you encounter any wild animals or bandits? I will need to you mark down their location if so."

"No no, nothing of that kind. It was more of a self inflicted accident."

"Huh? What does that mean?"

I looked at Turek awkwardly who just shrugged telling me to go ahead.

"Um.. Turek here wanted to know what Kura herb does, so… he ate a leaf of the herb."

Miss Melaine raised her eyebrows as she looked at Turek. After staring at him for a few seconds she looked back at me and said "Continue"

I looked up at Turek and he seemed really embarrassed. He must be regretting giving me the go ahead to tell this story. I couldn't really stop at this point so I told Miss Melaine the rest of the story.

"Well as you might have already guessed, it knocked him off completely. Neither Cleo or me knew what the herb did, so we were both afraid that he might die. So we decided to return to the city to ask for help from a healer."

"Kura herbs effect shouldn't last for longer than 3 hours if all he had was one leaf. He would have woken up if you had stayed there. So, since you didn't know this, you two carried him all the way to the city? It must have taken you at least 3 hours right?"

"Well Cleo here did all the carrying. She is really amazing! I could barely keep up with her even when she was carrying Turek."

Miss Melaine looked at Cleo with admiration which made her blush.

"It's not a big deal ok? It's just that I am used to travelling in the forests near my village so I thought it should be me carrying Turek instead of Ren. Ren was amazing too!"

"Seems like you 3 managed to make even herb gathering quest interesting. I hope you will be more careful from now on Mr. Turek."

"Y.. Yes of course. I am not going to try out any more herbs thats for sure!" said Turek