GUILD CERTIFICATION CARD: DIANE CULAINE
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Growth Potential: B
Aptitudes:
Mana Capacity: 63
Magic (Fire)
Melee (Rapier)
Mana Regen: 3/???
Healing Factor: 1
Mana Reinforcement: 1.5
スピリチュアルアンプ
Skills:
Fireball
悪魔の光景
共感リンク
悪魔の怒り
Contract Capacity Available: 0
Contracts Held: エラー
Power: 23
RANK: COPPER
Issuer: Njord A.G.
Exam Proctor: Mr. Ye Fan, Mythril Rank
*All items marked in red are removed from Diane's Officially Issued Card. Contracts held marked as 0.*
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When Diane opened her eyes, she saw that she was lying on a couch with Thistleman curled up beside her. The catkin, Elsie, was leaning over them.
“What is going on?”
“Nyah, you’re fyinally awayke. Gyood, I hyav some paperwork for you. I asked hyim, buy he syad he couldn’t ryead.”
Thistleman had been astonished to realize that despite his advanced age and his centuries of learning there were languages he couldn’t read, and that he really was in an entirely different world. How was it that an all-powerful Demon Lord couldn’t read? And so he remained in a fetal position, occasionally twitching as his mind kept trying to process his latest predicament.
“Ahahahahahahahaha. You two are certainly something special! You are an absolute riot! I haven’t had a day this interesting in months!”
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Terra’s voice cut through Diane’s tiredness while simultaneously being deeply annoying. Why the hell did she feel like the only adult in the room?
“Uuuwwuuuuu…” Diane moaned. “Finally, I’m finally done with all that paperwork.”
Diane was sitting at a table in the main hall of the Adventurers Guild with Terra and a freshly recovered Thistleman. She looked exhausted and her face was covered with grime, caked in sweat and dried blood. Even the meal Terra had brought for them wasn’t enough to perk up Diane.
“C’mon, forget the paperwork and eat up! You don’t wanna stay so small and scrawny forever, do ya?”
Terra let loose with another thunderous laugh. Just as Diane was wondering why she was the only one seemingly having a good time, she received a smack on the back of her head from Terra’s open hand. She went face-first into her meal.
“Ooooh, looks like you got your appetite back! Embrace your inner potato!”
Thistleman joined in with the laughter and Diane turned on him.
“ YOU! WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I WILL LET YOU GET AWAY WITH THIS?”
Thistleman froze for a moment and Diane thrust her plateful of food into his face.
“Mmm, delicious, thanks!”
“That was my meal! Give it back!”
Terra completely lost her composure and fell back, knocking the table over in the process and laughing hysterically.
“OH! Oh, oh, that was good. Ah, so great. So, thanks for that. Tell ya what, let me make it up to you. In exchange for giving me such a good laugh, how about I teach you a thing or two about adventuring?”
Terra stood up and righted the table and seats.
“You’re going to teach me about adventuring?” Diane said.
She perked up at the thought of tips from a veteran adventurer, particularly one with a gold rank, and forgot about her rapidly disappearing meal.
“First thing any adventurer needs is a decent map! Now, since y’all are new, I doubt you can find or afford one. But lucky for you, this gal here has an excellent memory!” Terra smiled as she pulled out a quill, an inkwell, and some paper. “Hmmm, I’m pretty sure this went here, and I heard about those reptiles from Sven… ah! I think Elsie forgot to tell you about the ranking system!”
“The ranking system?”
“Before the system was established, there was a huge problem with dangerous quests causing the loss of a lot of young and reckless adventurers. This caused manpower shortages around the world and made it hard to protect and manage the various realms. To mitigate this, the guild created the ranking system for parties and quests, in order to best match appropriate challenges to appropriate adventurers After proving themselves, adventurers earn the right to rank up.
“Now the advancement exam only applies to the lower end of guild ranks, which are Copper, Bronze, Iron, and Silver. Gold is the last rank that you have to take the exam in order to become Mythril. After that, the guild will promote you based upon enough achievements within that rank. Ya follow?”
Diane nodded her head.
“Now, your proctor today is probably the top Mythril rank in this guild hall. Now as for the higher ranks, we have Quicksilver, which is the minimum rank to apply to be a guild branch manager. Then, we have Orichalium and Adamantine. When the current guild master resigns, the next one is offered the position from the top of Adamantine on down to Orichalium. So far, only Adamantium adventurers have become guild masters, but Orichalium* is kept as an option because at this point there are so few Adamantium adventurers that if they all refused, we would be in quite the pickle! Lastly, we have Dragonscale, and these are absolutely legendary adventurers who almost everyone knows about. First we have a team we call the Three Samurai. They are made up of an oni, a youkai, and an akuma, and nobody has ever even seen their faces! Then we have the Walking Fortress Blanc, he is a dragonkin who only ever works alone. The last Dragonscale in the guild is the Fire God Byron, he is the first human to make the rank and brought the rest of his five man party with him. Of the Dragonscales, he definitely boasts the greatest firepower, but the way he uses his team, and his attitude… he is just such an asshole!”
Innocently, Diane asked, “But Terra, why do you think he is such an asshole? Doesn’t being a Dragonscale sound super cool and important?”
“You will learn this in the future, but men, they are terrible, horrible, swines! He dared to say I was too muscular and unrefined. My natural beauty?! My tempered bosom! My—”
Terra stopped as she realized her terrible mistake. Silence filled the hall as Diane started giggling and soon the hall erupted in laughter.
“Did you hear? Terra got rejected by Byron!”
“What? That woman was crazy enough to ask him out? No way!”
“Everyone knows Byron isn’t in to her type!”
Terra’s face turned a fascinating pink, and she stopped drawing the map.
“I… I… I have to go!”
Terra shoved the map towards Diane, who was now laughing full-heartedly. She looked at the poorly scribbled map and realized it was definitely missing a lot of important details.
**Orichalium is for the rank, Orichalcum is the mineral. Which is not like Adamantium, which is used for both.