Adventure Registration Test

In the Adventurer's Guild, something that most old parties in town were waiting for is happening. Each party was sitting patiently on the chairs it had been a few months since the brightest star festival,

"You just wait, I will be the one to recruit them," a young-looking adventurer said as his party clenched their fist,

Another party leader sitting at another table heard this and said with a mocking look,

"First get a bush, kid! No way he will join your party over our BearClaw party!?"

The young adventure tried to answer, but before he could, another party from another table laughed loudly.

"Hahaha!! Do you really think he will consider any party other than the most earning party in town? Our party is the most profitable" an adventurer with braided hair proclaimed,

"As if he would, he is our brother!! He used to visit us every day!!" the young adventurer from before said with a frowning face,

"Keep dreaming!! Bear claw party will get him," the Bearclaw party leader said with confidence, as he and all the other party leaders thought,

'With a mage trained by her… value of party will go up straight' as the competition between parties was going on, a girl sitting at the other table said to the chubby man sitting beside her,

"Mamo big brother, we got a big competition!!" The girl said this with a little look of panic and the chubby man sitting beside her said with a buddha like expression,

"Patience is the virtue, you know; they all are fighting because they don't know anything about him but we have done much research!! And know him personally, so worry not!!"

'Is forcing him to join research,' the girl thought with a troubled face as she looked at Mamo's face, while Mamo's eyes were burning with resolve as he think,

'I will finally recruit you!!'

The fight between the other three parties was intensifying,

"I will request to him as brother!!" the young adventurer said and his party members nodded.

"Requesting to brother? What do you plan making him your caretaker?" a party leader who didn't speak till now said laughing, his bald head shining.

The employee seeing their bickering hoped

'When will they fight physically!? I want to show them the door so bad!!' as she was having trouble focusing on her record-making with their trolling session going on,

While they were sitting here, the one they were aiming for was in the training ground of the adventurer's guild,

"Guild master, I didn't know you take the test yourself?" Ryu asked with a questioning face.

"Yes, I saw other tests earlier, but Guild master uncle wasn't the one taking them," Jue added, tilting his face.

The Guild master standing in front of them nodded as he speaks,

"Indeed, I don't take tests, and mostly it is a job we put up as a quest for high-ranking adventurers so the position of tester keeps changing and no cheating may occur… but with you two, we cannot let any adventurer in this town take the test for 2 reasons,"

Ryu and Jue looked at each other and asked together,

"What two reasons?" and Guild master answered, saying,

"After this, no more questions, first almost every party in this town is out for recruiting Ryu, and second, that old man forced me to take the test myself!!"

'By old man, he meant Grandpa chief?' Ryu thought while Jue looked at him thinking.

'Big brother is so impressive!! Every party wants him'

"Now focus!!" Guild master said with pressure in his voice.

"The test will contain three parts and will access basic skills needed by adventurers. If you do good in all of them you will get a bonus of starting from D-rank" the last part caught Ryu's ears as he wondered,

'Getting D-rank from the beginning will be like skipping a year's worth of work, and also on E rank one couldn't take subjugation quests!!' Ryu clenched his fist hard with a challenging spirit.

"So for the first test, you will both have to finish a fruit of beygan without spitting out a single piece or throwing up!!" The Guild master announced and the fist that Ryu clenched was open instantly,

Both he and Jue looked at the Guild master as if they were looking at a monster. To their eyes, he looked like a monster with a big grin smiling at them.

'I think working my way up to D is not so bad either…. Beygan!!' Ryu thought as he looked at the olive-colored drop shaped fruit as big as the Guild master's hand who held them,

"Now hurry up take them!!" saying this Guild master pushed the fruit towards Jue and Ryu who, with dreadful faces, received them. This fruit was the worst tasting fruit Ryu had ever eaten in both of his lives,

It is said to be full of nutrients and things needed by the body but its taste is worse than the worst thing he could imagine. It is extremely dry and tastes like cardboard mixed with gutter water when eaten,

"Guild master uncle, I never saw this test happen ever before?" Jue asked, hoping he would find a way to ignore the test and Ryu gave him a small thumbs-up, but what the Guild master said afterward broke both and Jue's hope completely.

"The tester can add or remove test according to his preference, and this is one of the important three according to me and that old man knew this even if you fail, I will let you try once more… you know this fruit is called the savior of malnourished, eating it is an important part of being adventurer you can keep one and eat it in emergency… So now eat it beygan already!!" The Guild Master said,

And Ryu thought,

'I could swear his voice was cynical at the end!! Grandpa chief, so that is why you told me and Jue to go empty belly today!! This betrayal will not be overlooked!!' as he took the fruit from the Guild Master's hand and Jue followed him as he thought,

'I won't talk with Grandpa tonight!!' The village chief who was with Rana in the next Town suddenly sneezed twice as he got a chill,

As both of them held the fruit in their hands, Ryu suddenly got an idea.

"[Quickening]!!" he shouted and began eating the fruit like someone who hadn't eaten in weeks.

'If I had to eat it, I'll do it as quick as possible!!'

Jue looked at Ryu with admiration and thought,

'I can't disappoint big brother!!' and used [Scaly shield] salvaged skill on his tongue for eating, this was the skill Jue gained after killing white toxin croc, using this skill gives him a scaly shield on his body for 1 min to 3 minutes depending upon the part of the body the shield doesn't let him feel the incoming attack and decreasing the impact,

'I will eat this in 2 mins!!' and Jue began to consume food at a higher speed than Ryu as he can't taste it, unlike Ryu,

In 3 mins both of their fruits were finished and the Guild master was surprised by their performance and clapped.

"After all, you both are amazing!! No one since I set this exam could finish it under 3 mins, especially without throwing a single bit out,"

'This praise is suddenly making me angrier,' Ryu thought, and Jue, who still got the taste from the last one minute on his tongue, was inhaling through the mouth to get rid of the taste,

"don't worry, the next two tests are standard, just a fight test and crisis detection test. Cheer up!!" the Guild Master said with a mocking smile,

On the stage, Jue and Guild Master stood in front of each other, Jue's knuckle already covered in [Gravel claw] and the Guild Master announced,

"For winning this test Jue, you need to get three hits or two hits on me! Also if you get 6 hits before that you are out,"

"Yes, Guild master uncle!! I am ready" Jue's eyes were as if ascertaining his strength,

"Let the fight begin!!" the referee employed by the guild shouted, and Jue and Guild's master started running toward each other. It was the first time Ryu was seeing the Guild master fight and he was worried about Jue.

'Beside me, he didn't have much idea of fighting with humans!!'

Jue used Ground smoothing and jumped towards the Guild Master.

"You got some tricks down your sleeves!!" Guild master laughed as he held his broad swords upwards, stopping Jue's attack.

Jue landed on the ground after being stopped and the Guild master hit his head with the back of a broad sword,

Jue shouted,

"[Arm strengthening]!! [Gravel shot]!!" as he swings his knuckle hard towards the Guild master, who got caught off guard and had his head hit with [Gravel shot],

'How can he have [Arm strengthening]!? and [Gravel shot]? Wasn't it a salvaged skill!?' Guild master wondered as he moved towards Jue swinging his big sword in a circle along with his whole body,

"You caught me off guard but Giant's sword: mighty push," the Guild Master said as his sword went directly towards Jue's belly, pushing him towards the right.

'I have to at least do this much as a student of my sword school!!' he thought and watched Jue who stood still after rolling twice to right, with a feeling of admiration as earlier he thought Ryu was the only one, he need to play serious against,

'Even though I planned to let him have all the 3 shots after taking his 3… they sure are getting trained by Geld' Guild master thought and rushed carrying his big sword towards Jue, and Ryu, who was standing at the side of the stage, thought,

'He is doing that!!' excitedly as it was a technique, he taught him yesterday.

Guild master who already saw the small [Mud wall] Jue made for tripping me over laughed in his mind.

"These kids!! They can't get me with such a simple trick," and as soon as he stepped on it, Jue shouted,

"[Ground bound]!!, [Ground solidification]!!" before the Guild master could comprehend what happened the mud wall opened and caught his leg and solidified at the same time he tripped over his nose, and Jue who had his arm strengthened and rushed towards fallen him,

"[Swing boost]!! [Smash…." Jue tried speaking, but before he could finish, Ryu shouted from the side,

"Oii brat!! Do you want to injure him or something!? Don't use smash!!" and Jue came to realize that [Smash IV] is overkill and just punched Guild master back two times with [Swing boost],

'Ahh relief if he had injured him, my test would be halted,' Ryu thought without a shred of concern for the fallen Guild master.

"The winner is the Applicant!!" the referee announced, and the match was over.

As they were preparing for Ryu's and Guild master's match next, the Guild master asked Jue

"Why use [Swing boost]!? When you can just have punched the fallen me?"

Jue with an awkward face confessed,

"It is out of habit and also I really don't like beygan's taste,"

Guild master looked at Jue with a conflicted look while Ryu thought.

'Am I having a bad influence on him!!'

-To be continued