In the world where monsters roaming and hunting living thing as their food, people live in fear for several years until one man decide to change humankind fate. He bravely stands and kills a monster that attacks his city, due to that event many humans begin to believe that they can defeat those monster and change the cycle of life in this world. Thus from that event, human rise to survive and began hunting monster as their job, these people that hunting and killing monster be called the [Adventurer]. As Adventure their job is to fulfill the demand of people which is being called as [Client], these clients will submit the job or known as [quest] to the [Adventure Guild] and many Adventurers will pick the quest base on its payment and their ability to complete the quest.
In the town known as the [Pretio] live a young boy in a normal family, the boy named is Elliot, both of his eyes are blue and the hair is white in colour, today Elliot age reach 15 years old and the tradition of Pretio town when the teenager reaches the age of 15 they are considered as an adult and need to find work and learn to earn their own money. “Elliot, now you are an adult. You need to find a job and start to be a useful person in your life” said the woman with white hair, she is Elliot‘s mother. “But mom, I don’t wanna to do any job, why should I work hard, why I can’t just be an adult who doesn’t have to do anything for his life and then died without any achievement” state Elliot toward his mother. Anger after listening to her only child plan for future she kicks her son out of the house “don’t you dare to return to this house if you don’t find any job until the end of this day” shout his mother in an angry tone.
“Why she needs to be a pain in the ass anyway, well it can’t help I need to find a job as soon as possible. I don’t wanna miss dinner tonight, mom cooking taste very good and I can’t sleep without having a bite from her meals” says Elliot while smiling. As he walking around the town to find a job that he can do all he can see is a busy walk away with people and also the travelers, not to mention every shop is trying to attract the attention of people to buy at their store. But what catching Elliot's eyes is a group of people wearing heavy armor and equipped with a huge weapon known as an Adventurer, “they are so cool, but I don’t wanna be that kind of guys risking their lives to fulfill a dangerous request from rich people” claim Elliot to himself.
During his walk around the town, Elliot has been asking many shops whether they want to hire him as the worker but all the shop don’t want to hire a boy who just turns to be adult today, most of the shop like blacksmith and armor craft don’t hire Elliot because of his body not suitable for heavy work, his body is slim and at first look it doesn’t seem to be able to handle hard work in the shop. “I’m dead, I can’t even find a place that wanted to hire me as their worker, and how can I explain this to mom” while Elliot mumbling about his life, a young boy with black hair and black eyes come near him and give a slap on Elliot's head, “what you doing you lazy fox, it hard to see you walking outside your house” say the black hair boy. “It hurt, oh it just you Alex, why you need to hit me whenever we meet” ask Elliot. Alex is Elliot childhood friend, they have been growing up together and tend to play together, and in a simple word, they like a brother without any blood ties.
“What are you been thinking Elliot?” Alex asking because Elliot face shown an expression he never sees before, Elliot shares what happens to him from the beginning until now but the only reply he gets from his friend is laughing until Alex's eyes shed a little bit of tear. “If it hard for you to find a job, I know where is the place that suitable for two of us to get a job. Well I already plan to go to that place today so how about you tag along with me Elliot,” says Alex with a glow in his eyes, trusting his childhood friend can help him in his trouble, Elliot follow Alex to the place Alex want to go to seek a job and he found out that place is an Adventure Guild, where many Adventurers gather and find a quest to complete and gains fame after successful finish hard quest from the client. “This is your idea dude; this place is a suicide area. Don’t you know how many people die because they become an Adventurer?” states Elliot while chocking his friend neck, mad with his friend Elliot walk away from that place. “What is your choice man, get killed by a monster or being killed by your own mother?” Alex asks, suddenly the image of her mother come to Elliot mind and his body start to tremble in fear and his face change like he just sees hell in front of his eyes.
His mother is far scarier compared to other monsters, thus Elliot doesn’t have any other option but to be an Adventurer in order to survive from his mother nagging. Both of them step into the building where they can see many adults gather and share their stories about their adventure and comparing their strength in arm wrestling. “Whoa, this place much wilders compare to what I imagine, well lets us register our name over there,” says Alex while running toward the counter inside the building. Behind the counter stand a woman with a smile on her face, “welcome to Adventure Guild and my name is Lisa, may I help you”, looking at that woman Alex face turn to red because of the beauty of that woman, “Well me and my friend here want to register as Adventurer today” says Elliot after seeing his stupid friend has lost to his own imagination. Lisa hand over a piece of paper to Elliot and Alex, it is a form that need to be fill with the information about personal info before be judged by the guild whether they can be Adventurer or not, after finish fill the form both of them submit at the same time and Lisa on the spot checking the form she just receive.
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“Oh boy, look like I can’t accept your application just yet, it seems both of you lacking for the most crucial information,” says Lisa, confuse with Lisa answer Alex ask “what are the info that is still lacking?” “Both of you still don’t have a Profession did you?” says Lisa. According to Lisa each one of the people who want to be Adventurer need to has a certain Profession for himself, it means before being an Adventure that person need to be expert in some sort of skill such as Swordsman, Knight or Mages for example. “Please choose your Profession first then come back, I will be waiting for both of you. Let me give you a piece of an advice; please choose your Profession seriously because you can’t change it after being register here, ” says Lisa with a smiley face.
Sitting at a table in the building, both of young boys thinking about what is the suitable choice they need to take, they having a hard time because they have zero knowledge on what is Profession and how many types it has. “Can’t we just pick anything that we think is cool and has a nice name on it, we have been sit here for one hour now” Alex has lost control of his patient and when he stands up, he unconsciously bumps on a guy with a huge sword on his back. “Watch where you going young boy,” says the big guy, notice that Alex and Elliot seem to be a new Adventurer, he takes a chair a sit with them and ask whether they had a problem or not. Elliot asked the big guy about the Profession and based on the big guy info there are many Profession that both of them can be chosen like Swordsman which is good in speed and has moderate attack power, Knight has high defence and durability but lower speed, also there are Healer who is good in healing and support aid, Mages can deal high magic attack but not good in close combat, Fighter best in close quarter combat and can deal multiple damages in short time, Archer best-giving cover from behind, best-using arrow, and bow, Alchemy using multiple buff magic and able to create magic item depend on level, Thief good with knife and has high speed and also best in collect and gains money, Dark Knight can summon demon to help in battle, all the skill require a gold as the payment, Berserker focus on dealing damage to enemy, but lower in defence, Assassin a silence attacker, can track and trap the monster, good in scooting the perimeter and Tamer able to tame the monster and let it be pet, pet can be store and summon depend on the Tamer.
“That all I can share with both of you, make a wise decision because once you take a quest and go for hunt is just a line between live or dead, if you die, it mean that all you can do, but if you live, you gain a fame and can enjoy your life for tomorrow.”
That speech really give impact and reach Elliot and Alex heart, “I will take Knight as mine Profession Elliot, it’s having been my dream to become Paladin in the future,” says Alex with the face full of confident. As for Elliot, he doesn’t want to be a meat shield for other, after several minutes thinking finally he has decided on his Profession “I will take Archer, so I can give you cover from behind Alex” says Elliot while holding Alex's shoulder. “You can't-fool me, dude, I know you take this Profession because you don’t want to stand in front-line right and if you see me be defeat by a monster you will run away faster if you are an Archer, am I right Elliot?” Alex asks with the tone of angry about his friend way of thinking, Elliot replies with “You really know me did you, do the best to be my shield,” seeing his friend doesn’t even reject the fact that he will run away, Alex become angry and bite Elliot's head. Everyone who is watching laugh because of their attitude and even place bet who will win in that fight.
“It seems you guys have decided on your Profession, from today onwards you officially become an Adventurers, please do the best of your ability to gains fame and money,” says Lisa, everyone in the hall begins to clap their hand to celebrate the new members inside their big family of Adventurer. “Please come here tomorrow at 8’o clock your training will begin later,” says Lisa again, Elliot asking “what training and why we need to have one?” Lisa replies with the statement “Well before both of you can do a quest, we will test your ability first to see your rank and the limits of a quest you can do”.
After their business done, Elliot and Alex say their goodbye to each other. Elliot returns to his home just about time for dinner, her mother notices her son has returned then come to the front door and prepares to give a lecture about life. “Do you get to find a job, Elliot? No don’t answer, I already know it, you know, you really should change your attitude, if you keep on the lazy side of you, you will become a useless man in the future” Elliot mother nag non-stop then Elliot stopping his mother and say “I has become an Adventurer mom, tomorrow I will start my practice”. Shocked after listening to her son answer, Elliot mother suddenly collapses in front of the door in their house, “oh, no mom wake up please, don’t collapse now, what about the dinner I hungry right now.”