Chapter 23 : Getting A Guild Card!!

Right now, Wang Qian is bringing Bai Lian on a walk on the street. Both of them were very interested in the system the city has, such as the rules that the merchants has to obey, or the ranking and influence of the different organization in the city, and many more.

But what interest them the most, was the delicacy that only cities have. Wang Qian wanted to buy one for his daughter, Bai Lian , who looks like her saliva is gonna leak out the next second. After realizing their desperate need for money, Wang Qian headed towards the adventurers guild. 

Currently, Wang Qian and Bai Lian is standing in front of the entrance of the guild, amazed by how tall and big the building. While they were looking at the building, people were looking at them. The bystanders were curious as to why the pair was standing there. Some were even looking at them because of their looks! Well, they can't be blamed. Wang Qian's looks may not be the best, but he is definitely above average. He also gives off a special kind of aura that attracts people attention. Bai Lian, on the other hand, was due to her white hair and her cute looks that people were attracted to her.

After realizing that they've been standing at the entrance for a long time without moving and people were looking at them as if they were items on in an auction, they got embarrassed and quickly entered the guild. Just when they step inside, they saw all kinds of people standing around. Some who were wearing long robes and holding a staff, while some wore armor and hold different kinds of weapon. Bai Lian was very curious as what these people are doing here, but Wang Qian didn't want what happened just now to happen again, so he carried her in his arms and walked to reception counter where the staff was.

"Hi, I'd like to register two adventurer cards. One for her and one for me." Wang Qian said to the staff.

"Names?" the didn't bother with anything else and directly started to ask for information 

"Wang Qian and Bai Lian"

"Age?"

"She's 8 while I'm.... 26?" the staff didn't care about the questioning tone when he said his own age

"Please wait here patiently, your examiner will be ready and assess both of your strength soon" 

After finishing talking, the staff took the paper where she wrote their information and gave it to the other staff at the back. It was only then did Wang Qian noticed something strange, the writings of this world was different than he's former world, yet he's able to read it normally.

'That's a little weird, I should ask the system about this later' he thought

He then brought Bai Lian to a corner and stood there for about 10 minutes before their names was called out loud by the staff. They then walked back to the reception counter. The staff told them to go to the second floor and knock on the door of the third room at the left. He followed their instructions and headed to the second floor. He then walked towards the room and just as he was about to knock on the door, the people inside opened the door before he could. 

"Both of you are already here. If so, let's speed up the process from waiting to the assessment. Follow me" The examiner said

She then walked down the stairs. The crowd became quiet and some people sent some glances of pit towards the pair, but the examiner didn't seem to care about it and exited the building. She then continue to walk on the streets before suddenly turning into an alley. Seeing this, Wang Qian immediately put up his guard, ready to attack back if the examiner was going to do something to them. Bai Lian also turned serious after seeing him tense up. Wang Qian continued walking after getting ready. It was then that the examiner suddenly said

"Not bad, most newbies would just continue to walk without putting up their guard when I brought to the alleys. Both of you passed the first test."

Despite hearing what the examiner said, Wang Qian didn't put his guard down as he was afraid that the examiner will attack him the moment he did so. He is confident that he can defeat the examiner, but he is currently with Bai Lian, so he doesn't want to stain his hands or let Bai Lian get hurt just because he let his guard down.

The examiner also didn't care about what they feel, and entered the room that was hidden in this alley.

"This test will now assess your compatibility with mana and what affinity you have. Put your hands on the orb over here." the examiner said as she pointed at orb in the middle.

Wang Qian walked forward cautiously, and placed his hand on the orb. The orb then turned from white to black and turn back to white, but the white this time was much purer than at the start. The orb then turned into black and white, each taking 50% of the space within the orb

"Ooh, a rare talent! Although you possess a high affinity with dark magic, you also possess high affinity with holy magic. That's not something you get to see even in a millennium" The examiner gave her congrats to him without changing her tone, as if she was not surprise by the result of his assessment. Wang Qian then let Bai Lian place her hand on the orb. The next moment, the orb started flashing different colors. Blue, red , yellow and neon green, the orb then turned back to white before letting the 4 colors to be place together. Blue took up around 20%, red took up the same amount, yellow took up 25% while neon green took up 35% of the space.

"Water, flame , light and healing magic... interesting combination... Anyways that concludes the mana assessment. Follow me to the guild's training ground" the examiner said to them before leaving the place and head back towards the guild.

When they came back to the guild, the examiner brought them to the reception counter and said to the staff 

"A training room please"

The staff then took out something like a wooden tag that has the number '8' on it. The examiner took it and started walking upstairs towards the third floor. She then walked to the door that also had the number '8' on it and opened the door.

She signaled them to enter first. Wang Qian also walked in but continued to put his guards up. Before she closed the door, she hanged the tag outside, telling others that this place was occupied. 

When Wang Qian and Bai Lian walked in, the first thing they saw was a grassland that didn't seems to be infinitely large. Just as they were curious to what this place is , the examiner walked towards them while explaining to them about this place.

"This is the guild's training ground. It uses spatial magic to create a dimension that exists along the real world and anything that happened here will not affect the real world. Your last test will be testing your overall combat ability. Would you want to do the test separately or together?" the examiner asked

"We would like to do it together please" Wang Qian and Bai Lian replied together at the same 

"Very well. To test your overall combat ability, we decided to use a unique way to test the people who wants to join the guild. That is to use a special type pressure that will land on the participants body, the pressure will more or less determine the strength of the participants and their mastery over their skill. To past the test, you both will need to stay in here for at least half an hour. The pressure will continue to increase every minute. So good luck to you both, and I hope you guys can make it through" the examiner said

The next second, Wang Qian and Bai Lian feel small increase of weight on their shoulders. Being worried as a loving father would, Wang Qian asked if Bai Lian could handle it, and she said that the pressure right now can still be handled by her. Hearing her reply, Wang Qian became less worried, but he still told her to let him know if she thinks she can't hold on anymore. Bai Lian nodded her head as a reply.

Time seems to pass slowly under that kind of pressure. 10 minutes in, Bai Lian is already starting to feel tired while Wang Qian still didn't feel anything. To lessen her burden, he placed her down on the ground so she can breath in more air. Bai Lian's expression immediately turned better as she was placed down. 20 minutes in, he still didn't feel anything while Bai Lian seems to be going to faint the next second. Wanting to help her, Wang Qian tried to shift the pressure Bai Lian was feeling on to him by hugging her and using his upper body to cover the top of Bai Lian. Surprisingly, it actually work as Wang Qian started to feel something on him while Bai Lian expression turned back to rosy after a while. 

30 minutes in, Wang Qian started to feel the pressure clearly. 50 minutes in, he felt the weight of a rice package on his shoulder. 60 minutes in, he started feeling some pressure continuing but held on instead. 70 minutes in, he started sweating beads of sweat. 80 minutes in, he started to feel thirsty under the constant sweating but he continue to go on as he didn't want to give up. 90 minutes in, Wang Qian started to feel a bit tired. 100 minutes in, things started getting a little tricky as Wang Qian find that the current pressure level is also affecting Bai Lian, who is in his arms. 110 minutes in, both Wang Qian and Bai Lian started to have difficulties breathing, and it was when 120 minutes that Wang Qian decided to give up. He didn't want Bai Lian to continue suffer that kind of experience.

"I'm impressed. Usually people who can handle the pressure for 30 minutes are people who already have strength comparable to D-ranks, and every 10 minutes after that raises by a small rank. For you both to hold on for 2 hours means you will have strength comparable to a A-rank bottom layer adventurer. But since I can't possibly give you both A-rank guild cards, you both will have to take B-rank guild cards first before working hard on your own." the examiner said before leaving the room, letting the father and daughter rest.

Wang Qian and Bai Lian then laid on the ground, taking deep breaths.

"We did it... Bai Lian.... we passed the test..." Wang Qian said happily despite being tired.

But she didn't reply to him and instead choose to hug his arm like a pillow and go to sleep. Seeing this, he stopped talking and let the girl rest. After a while, he got up and carried the girl like he was doing the test and went down to the reception counter. He then saw the examiner standing at the counter too before waving her hands signaling him to go there. It was just then that he noticed the noisy place turned quite the he got down. He looked towards them and saw them looking at him curiously. He then turned his gaze back and walked towards the examiner. The staff, who suddenly turned very respectful, said

"Here are your two B-rank guild cards, sir" 

He extended his hand and took the cards, and just as he was about to keep it in his pockets, the whole place suddenly went into an uproar

"B-RANK?!"

"DOESN'T THAT MEANS HE IS STRONGER THAN THAT GUY?"

"OF COURSE, THAT GUY ONLY MANAGED TO GET A C-RANK CARD DESPITE HAVING STRENGTH COMPARABLE TO A B-RANK ADVENTURER. THIS MEANS THAT THOSE TWO ARE...."

"COMPARABLE TO A-RANK ADVENTURERS?!!?" the whole place suddenly shouted after hearing the words of the previous dude.

"A-rank adventurers?" Wang Qian and Bai Lian said at the same time with confusion

They didn't know that after this, they will suddenly became famous around the city, while they were still thinking why are the people at the guild this excited and shouting all around just because of a card....