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The streets are surrounded by city walls, so there are guards at the gate. They sometimes enforce violations, but because the walls are primarily for protection from supernatural beings, it's not too strict.

Foreigners like Wayne, or players, are usually allowed entry as long as they don't bring forbidden items into the city.

Although players have inventories, they don't need to worry about prohibited items.

After getting directions from the guard, Wayne searches for an affordable inn.

Although the inn recommended by the guard looks cheap, Wayne appreciates it as he doesn't want to waste money.

Upon check-in, Wayne finds the inn to be very basic.

After logging out and immediately logging back in, Wayne looks for missions in the mercenary guild.

Wayne asks the innkeeper about the location of the mercenary guild.

On the way, Wayne thinks about the need to become stronger before getting involved in city affairs.

The mercenary guild Wayne reaches isn't very crowded, perhaps because many are working outside.

Wayne expresses his desire to work in this city without needing to officially register.

Wayne also sells the wild rabbit loot he brought in his inventory.

The admissions officer is surprised to see Wayne has a rare storage skill.

NPCs consider players to have such rare skills.

"Well, it's not that they're born very rarely, but only a few NPCs can use inventories compared to players. If one day you hear words like 'I've been seeing a lot of people like that lately,' then those people you've been seeing are definitely 100% players. No doubt about it."

After receiving payment for the Wild Rabbit, I immediately check the mission board and choose a task.

Requests brought to the mercenary guild are posted on the mission board. However, mercenaries are not allowed to take them and carry them away.

Mercenaries only need to check the request and inform at the registration desk when they reach it. Only then will the request be removed from the board.

Profitable tasks are often contested, but it's unknown who besides yourself is trying to complete that request. Therefore, you should check the mission board faster than anyone else and reach the request faster than anyone else.

The result of working for a day and returning, it is not uncommon to find that someone has reached it before. Unless the job is very rare, similar requests are also available to be moved.

Therefore, the requesters are also confused about how much reward to give. If the reward is high, it will certainly be prioritized, but if it's popular, many mercenaries will act to achieve it, and thus, requests with the same reward will be quickly reached. However, if it's too cheap, only the cost will be drawn and it will never be reached. It's difficult to determine. It's better if there are special intermediary agents.

Wayne targets requests that don't seem to make much money. It's also been on the board for a long time. Such requests may rarely be encountered by others.

It seems that requests requiring travel towards the forest are unpopular. That's good.

After carefully checking the requests at the mercenary guild, Wayne immediately decides to head to the forest.

It turns out, there's a border with monster territory within the forest, and the guards warn Wayne heading into the forest. Leaving the city without care and entering the forest, Wayne continues.

Although there's a border with monster territory, up to that boundary should be just an ordinary forest.

The forest is filled with dense trees, although it feels dark during the day. It seems that locals rarely enter here. Although not accustomed to walking in the forest, not entirely inexperienced, so Wayne continues exploring as best as possible.

The forest is more serious than Wayne thought. This place doesn't seem suitable for the current equipment. There needs to be tools like a sickle or a knife to clear bushes and wear clothing that doesn't expose the skin. Early equipment will quickly become useless.

Wayne decides that going deeper into the forest is suicidal, so he decides to return to the city. Although the request won't be fulfilled, with that amount, there will still be some more later. Until money accumulates, he'll try to target requests that can be completed in the grasslands while leisurely hunting rabbits.

In the end, Wayne returns to the grasslands that day and successfully hunts about 10 rabbits.

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