Melton and Mathias were on their way to the Mercenary Guild. While they were walking, Mathias started explaining to Melton.

"You see, the Mercenary Guild is a neutral organization established by an agreement from countries across the whole world! You can sign in to get a license and receive jobs assigned by everyone from common folks to royalty. The mercenaries' experience and the difficulty of the missions are ranked from F-rank to S-rank."

"Once you register you will be appointed F-rank. That is the beginning step for every person who seeks adventure. When you are F-rank you aren't considered an adventurer, even by the guild, so it's more like being a part of it, but you are mercenary in training."

"Upon seeing that you are capable, they will quickly promote you to E-rank where you are finally officially acknowledged and considered a rookie."

"But why don't they test the newcomers' abilities before they assign their rank?" Melton asked.

"Cus in the worst-case scenario, we have some cannon fodder," Mathias replied.

"Anyways, let me continue. When you are E-rank you have a variety of quests and things to do. From common errands like cleaning a house to the subjugation of monsters. Newbies usually stay in D-rank 2 or 3 years at most depending on how much they suck." Mathias said as he gigged a bit.

"Once you complete enough missions and get some experience, you go up to C-rank. At that point, people usually start to specialize in certain types of jobs. Although it is not an official change in registration, people usually divide themselves into a few classes like scouts, subjugators, and escorts."

"Reaching B-rank means you're quite good at what you do. Most of the higher classes consist of subjugators since those jobs are more dangerous but more rewarding."

"After becoming experienced, or skipping a few steps with talent, you reach A-rank. Most of the people in A and S-rank are just a bunch of strong weirdos. It's either a self-righteous "Hero of Justice" type of dude with a bunch of women around him, a "wise old dude" who constantly peeps at women, or some random guy eating rocks as a hobby. For your information rock eaters are the best ones you can find. The S-rank is the same as A-rank just a bit more extreme and hard to achieve. It's like a privilege equal to being a noble."

"And that's it. Simple, right?"

Melton's head started to hurt a little from all the things Mathias happily talked about, but he understood most of it. After walking for 5 more minutes they arrived in front of a 2-story building with a sign "Mercenary Guild". They got close to the doors that looked like the ones you see in a bar in cowboy movies. Melton was about to enter, but before he could, Mathias rushed in first and swung open the doors screaming happily "G'day the noble people of the guild".

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Everyone in the guild turned towards the two of them but soon continued their work. The building's interior was quite nice and simple. There were five receptionists behind a set of separated desks similar to the one at the post office, a board with a bunch of missions, and a bunch of tables filled with mercenaries of various races and nationalities happily drinking and talking. The second floor was where the meetings with important guests and adventurers were held regarding important and dangerous missions along with the guild master's office.

Mathias started approaching the 4th receptionist and Melton was quietly following him while observing. Behind the reception was a young girl with light brown hair tied up in a ponytail.

The Receptionist (clearly annoyed): "Not you again"

"Oh hiiiii Lilyyyyy. How have you been?" Mathias said with a big smile on his face.

"Great until you arrived," she replied without waiting a single second.

"Jeez. You will never make it big with that attitude. Anyway, I would like to request a meeting with Hector."

"I am pretty sure he doesn't want to see you."

"This time I got serious stuff ya know. Can you call him already?"

"Ugh. Fine. You two can go in a meeting room." She said and angrily went to the second floor.

She went left to the office while Melton and Mathias went right. There was a medium-sized room with 2 couches and a table. The room was decorated pretty well and Mathias seemed like he went there quite a lot of times. They sat on the couch that was further from the doors and was tapping on it.

"Come on. Sit already"

"Ok," Melton said and sat next to him

After a few minutes, A large man bald man with a scar going from his forehead to the back of his head sat down on another couch.

"So. What do you want this time." The man said. Melton quickly realized he was the guild master.

"You see. I got a new pal here and I would like to register him along with a few extra things. Shall we discuss it in private?"

The guild master turned towards Melton and said politely "May you please wait outside a couple of minutes"

Melton got up and waited outside along with Daisy. Since Melton was bored he decided to ask Daisy a few questions. Daisy seemed like a nice person when she was not arguing with Mathias so she started answering his questions. Melton learned that Hector, the guild master, was an A-rank mercenary who got injured in one of the large operations but he managed to recover leaving only his scar. After experiencing a situation where his life was so close to ending he became much more mature and started working as a guild staff member instead. Because of his cooperation and commanding skills, he quickly rose to the position of guild master after the old one retired and held the title for more than ten years.

While they were chatting both Mathias and Hector returned from the room. Hector gave Melton some kind of card and Mathias leaped to hug him.

"Congrats pal. Now you are officially B rank mercenary"

Daisy was outraged by what she heard and immediately started yelling at Hector

"HOW CAN YOU PROMOTE SOMEONE TO B RANK WHEN THEY JUST STARTED"

Hector started calming her down and said "Since Mathias is one of the strongest A-rank mercenaries and is connected to the church of Bytos I had no choice"

Daisy angrily went back to her workplace while Hector headed to his office to do some paperwork. Melton then headed with Mathias back to the 1st floor and went searching for a quest. The quest Mathias decided they will go with is the subjugation of a monster named Bear Warrior, a bear with 6 arms and very tough skin. They got their request approved by Daisy who was clearly pissed and so their first fight expedition began.