Adventurer's Guild and first quest

"So this is the adventurer's guild."

After inquiring around about the guild, and asking several people in the town, who ignored me. finally a kind hearted guy was willing to tell me where the Adventurer's Guild was.

I don't know the name of the person who'd helped me. But I will remembere him so that in case I avoided death by hanging, I could properly thank them later.

(Time to make some money.)

The swinging wooden double doors of the guild made some noise as I entered . which made the people Inside look at me, there were a lot of people with scary faces.

They were all staring at me.

(This really is a little scary!)

I headed towards the counter fighting the urge to tern around. Standing there was a bald macho man about 30 years old .

"Excuse me, I want to do a quest to make some money."John

He answered me frankly: "Eh? You want to become an adventurer? At with your condition?"

"Er, yes. I do."John

"....."

He made a complicated face.

"...fine, write your name and such on this paper."

"OK."

As I brought my right hand up to the counter, I realized something.

"Hey, what is it?"

I could't read the alphabet used. Obviously, I couldn't write it either.

"Excuse me, I can't read and write."

"Eh? Then just say it instead. I'll write it for you."

"Thank you."

I told him my personal information, and he wrote it down.

"Name?"

"John."

"Location?"

"Here."

"Age?"

"24."

"Class?"

"Eh? Class?."

"Yes, what is your class."

"Ah...."

(What's a class?)

"Oh, whatever. Do you have any special skills?"

The guy at the counter clearly didn't want to talk more than necessary . If I was in his position I'd feel the same way.

(I should finish this quickly. The information I give here doesn't really matter anyway, right?)

"Um, I don't have any."

"You don't have any???"

"Yes."

"Fine then."

I could see that he'd just left a blank space on the page. With that, apparently the form was done.

"Here's your guild badge don't lose it."

"Thank you."

I was handed a metal plate about the size of a credit card.

"Don't lose it." He repeated.

"OK."

"Go hunt some goblins or horned rabbits in the forest. If you can't do that, you can collect some medicinal herbs. The guild will pay you for both of those things. You're rank F, so that's the work you can do."

he said before going about doing his work.

"I understand."John

"Bye."

I seemed to be done here, so there was no point in staying. I headed out to find some goblins and herbs.

°°°

I left the town with surprisenly no problems. I was afraid I will get caught again. When I returne, all have to do to get through is showing my guild badge and that's it.

After that, I walked for a while. I headed towards what looked like a line of trees I can see in the distance. Before long, I arrived .

"Wow It's a forest ."

I had arrived at a forest.

With dirty and bloodied clothes from when I was attacked by that group of thugs. clothes I'd been wearing for 3 days .

(I guess I'll look for some medicinal herbs, then.)

(I should wash my self in a stream or something first.)

I was also thirsty, and really wanted to wash my clothes.

So, I headed into the forest. Leaves crunched under my feet as I walked.

I walked and walked, but I didn't see a stream. It seems it wouldn't be easy to find one.

After walking for about an hour, I realized I got lost.

"This is bad ."

How many years has it been since I walked someplace with no road and signs? It had probably been more than 7 years since I'd walked for more than an hour straight.

(What to do now?)

I had no idea which way the town was anymore.

My recovery magic can get rid of the soreness in my legs, but I was still thirsty. And I am sure my magic can't deal with hunger either. More than goblins or herbs, I needed water, food, and the direction back to the town.

"Heeeeeey! Helloooooo!"

Feeling depressed, I called out while I continued to walk. After I'd called out, I saw the silhouette of something like a goblin ahead.

"There it is."John

"...hyumann?..." Goblin

The goblin had noticed me too. But it didn't attack me . I could see that its foot and leg had been cut. That was probably why.

"That looks like it must hurt."

John with a scrunched face.

"Kuh...is thiz whare I die?" 

the goblin said with a pained face

It was holding a sword in its hand, but its whole body was shaking and blood was pooling at it s feet. It seems it was attacked by others , from the looks of it death is imminent from blood loss, and it looked like even I could defeat it with a stick or a rock from the ground.

But that would make me feel bad about it.

"Hey, goblin. Let's make a deal."

"di...al...?"

"I will heal your wound, and you lead me to a stream."

"Wha...what..."

"No good?"

"..."

The injured goblin seemed to be thinking. Considering its wound, it didn't have long to live.

"Yez, deal..."

It nodded.

(Good choice, goblin.)

"Just remember your promise, now."

I remembered how things had went with a certain Holy Knight recently.

(Eh, it's probably fine, right? Besides, getting killed with a sword isn't any worse than dying of thirst.)

"Here I go..."

I imagined healing the wounds I could see, and they started closing up before my eyes. The recovery magic had worked on the goblin. I didn't know what exactly that magic was called, but it was really impressive.

"I...healed...?" Goblin

"You should be healed by now ." John

I stopped focusing on healing the goblin.

"Thiz is...recovery majic?"

"Now then, please lead me to a stream."

"...yez."

Following the goblin for a while, we reached a stream.

°°°

I finally washed off the dirt that I'd had on me for a few hours.

"Ahh, goodbye to that dirt."

While I was there, I also washed my pants and shirt and body. Without the blood and dirt, my clothes would be more-or-less wearable. Putting on the wet clothes would be a little unpleasant, but I couldn't do much about that.

" You really helped me there .Thanks, goblin.." said John with a content face.

"...juzt, reterning fayvor..."

Replayed the goblin.

"By the way, are there any humans living along this stream?" John

"Probly. Humanz...yez."goblin

"I see. Then I should be able to return safely."John

Having finally cleaned myself, I was wondering how I'd survive in this dangerous world.

"...human, what doing?" Goblin

"Eh? Me?"John

"Yez."goblin

The goblin was indeed talking to the me

, Who was scooping up water to drink with his hand.

"While looking for medicinal herbs, I got lost."

"Herbz? Grazz?"

"It's a kind of grass that if you mash it up and put it on wounds, it makes the pain go by a little."

"...I see."

"Does something like that grow near here?"

"Yez, it grows."

"Eh, really? Where?"

"Wait a little."

"Ah, a little, where are you going?"

The goblin had already walked off somewhere as I said that.

Like it had said to, I waited a little while. I guess it's my lucky day that it was warm here. The weather was about like early summer, so I wasn't too cold from my shirt and pants being soaking wet. I had gotten a little hot while walking around, so it was actually nice.

"Ahh."

I got bored.

Several minutes later, while I was in a daze the goblin returned.

"...this."

It held some grass in its hand.

"Those are medicinal herbs?"

"Probably. Mash, place, recovery, fazter."

"I see."

The leaves were like a 4-leaf clover, but with 8 leaves.

"...thizz, give."

"Ah, to me?"

"Yez."

"Thank you!"

"...beecause, you saved mee."

"You're a really friendly goblin."

"Goblinz, not good, not bad."

"Ah, neither good nor bad. I see. Humans are the same way. Thanks."

"Iz OK."

(That was educational.)

I'd learned something about life , and both found out what the medicinal herbs looked like and gotten a bundle of them. I accepted them and put them in my pants pocket.. I managed to carefully get all of them in my pockets without damaging them.

"You were really helpful ."

"I, leaving now."

"Thanks! Good-bye!"

"Goohd-bye."

I waved my arm at the goblin, and it waved back.

(You're a good guy, Mr. Goblin. I don't know if all goblins are like that, or just him, but so far the only goblin I've met was definitely friendly.)

(It was a good thing I didn't try to go for the goblin-hunting quest. I should stick to collecting these herbs instead.)