Waking up in the morning to the unfamiliar ceiling, I rose up and yawned.

Yesterday after I came back to this inn, Ars came and challenged me to a fight, which I quickly accepted.

The result

I beat him.

One kick to the crotch, and he was down.

Some may say I am a cruel person.

But I was tired and wanted to sleep, so I just kicked him where it hurts and was done with the fight.

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A good night's sleep refreshes me, and I am ready to start my day.

I walk downstairs and order food from Ars's mom and quickly finish the breakfast.

It was food made from a magical beast called a lesser boar.

Don’t let the lesser word fool you.

It was still a magical beast, and as a magical beast, it was a proper mid-tier level.

It was also a boar that I often hunted alongside Cain.

Anyway, a cooking made by amateurs and professionals is really different.

They are more professional and have more complex flavor than amateurs and can bring forth the best of the raw ingredients.

In other words, it was delicious and worth every coin I spent.

I really need to get some job if I want to stay long in this inn.

While staying at the inn cost me nothing…. At least for this week.

The food is still expensive; if I eat every day like this, then my coin pouch won’t last a week.

So without postponing any longer, I go to the adventure guild.

Opening the door to the outside, I was quickly greeted by a boy with red hair.

He was hitting himself with an iron rod.

Clearly he was crazy, and it was better for me to get away before he realized I was here.

But before I can take another step, he turns his head.

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Whether it was because of coincidence or because of some wild instinct

I don’t know.

What I know was he noticed me and quickly ran toward me.

I gave up running away and waited for him to come to me.

He tried to hit me with an iron pole that he held.

I quickly move out of the iron pole's way and evade his hit.

“What was that for?” I question Ars.

“That was for hitting me in the nuts.” Ars with red eyes replied with anger.

“A loss is a loss; real men don’t give an excuse.” I tried to defend myself by saying something that I don’t particularly believe.

That worked as Ars shut his mouth with a clear sense of frustration and walked away in shame.

While he was walking away, I quickly made myself scarce and ran away from the inn.

My destination … The adventure guild

Ars still did not realize that Rai had run away and started talking.

“Hey, I still don’t know your name.”

…

“We will meet more often in the future because you want to be adventure, right?”

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“I am an adventure, a graduate to be exact; I have already passed my novice stage,” Ars said with some pride in his voice.

“Do you know what that means? It means I am your senior, and you should respect me, so tell me your name already.” Ars turns his head and finds no one there.

With a red face and rising anger, he shouted.

“BASTARD”

Ditching Ars at the inn I continue my way toward the adventure guild.

I arrived shortly after and took the test.

They give me a number.

My number is 17; looking left and right, I see other people mostly my age or younger.

It seems I was one of the old ones in this test.

Then I better ace the test to at least recover some pride that I have left.

They told us to go to the adventure academy where the test will be held.

Thankfully I knew where it was; anyway, it was not too far from the adventure guild.

After a 3-minute walk, I arrived at Adventure Academy.

Following the other participant, I walked toward the largest hall where the other participant was gathering.

It took one whole hour until all the rest of the participants arrived.

If I knew it would take this long, then I would not have arrived too early.

We take a seat according to our given number.

The test with the announcement from the guild staff

The test is easy, as I already studied most of the content from Cain and supplemented it with the book the lady receptionist gave me.

I am pretty sure I got a high score.

The only thing I need to do is wait for the result to come out.

While waiting, I observe all the people waiting in the outside hall.

I took my time when I wrote my answer.

This resulted in me being one of the last participants to finish the test.

With at least 50 other participants taking the test, I wonder when they will finish the evaluation.

Before I can think of any idle thoughts, the stuff comes out, and I call some of the participants.

I was one of them.

Without further delay, I followed the staff.

The staff guided us into a room and asked us questions.

“What skill did you awaken from drinking the awakening potion?”

Is the reason they give the weird first question for this?

No wonder it was just a yes or no question.

You see, the first question is, did you consume an awakening potion?

I thought it was some kind of bonus question and did not think too much before answering it.

There are 5 people here, three boys and one girl and all of them are in my age group

From the question the staff gave, it seems that all of the people here have already consumed the awakening potion.

So I will wait for them to answer before giving mine.

Because honestly, I have no idea what to say.

Looking at the other people, they also have some questioning looks as they stare at the staff.

Thankfully the staff understood our difficulty and handed us a paper showing a list of skills that came with an explanation.

Taking a cursory glance, I notice what fits me the most from this list of skills.

It was a skill called beast sense.