Dragoon Piping 2

"Hey," he gave her his best charming smile, "I was told this is the admission desk, where I can sign up to be an adventurer?" the Scottish teen asked.

"You were told correct sir," she smiled back at him pleasantly, "It will be 1000 eris to register here though."

Yarden paused, "…It costs cash?" he asked. Shit, he hadn't even thought to ask about that at first. That was kind of annoying, it was one thing he was always particular about, having enough money for what he wanted to buy on him at all times.

It was a pride thing.

For that matter, he didn't even understand how the currency worked here, so he didn't understand if that was expensive or not.

"Indeed," the stacked blonde nodded, "It is to help cover the expenses of the creation of the guild cards."

Well, he only had a rough idea what a guild card was from games he had played, but that made sense at least.

She clearly saw his hesitation though, "Am I right in guessing you have no money?"

"Oh, I have money," he waved her off, "Just not this Eris you're talking abut, I'm totally new in this country and kinda just got dumped here because of weird circumstances."

Upon arriving here, he'd come with his backpack and whatever was inside his pockets, including his wallet.

"I see," she frowned lightly at his words, "I'm afraid I can't help you then until you have the required funds, and we are not able to give missions to non registered adventurers either."

Hmm, well that sucked.

He leaned on the ledge of the booth and hummed in thought. As he did, his eyes slid to his wrist where his gleaming silver watch glinted.

Ah, that could work.

"Have you got any pawn shops around here?" he asked her, "While I don't have any Eris, I do have some things that should be worth a pretty penny."

The only problem would be buying his shit back. But, at the same time, he was a dragon now. It should be a peace of cake for him to take care of some missions or quests or whatever and make money quickly so he could get it back.

"There is one just down the road," the blonde replied, "But, if it's anything you want back and worth a lot I don't really recommend it."

…That kind of didn't help.

Yarden sighed, "Then what do you recommend?" he asked, before pausing as a thought occurred to him, "For that matter, how much does it cost to say stay a night in a hotel around here in Eris."

He was pretty knowledgeable on hotel prices, he'd stated in quite a few. Hell, he'd just died in front of one less than an hour ago, so he could use it as a reference to gauge how much this Eris currency was.

"If it's just a single room for night and morning at an average one, I'd say roughly around ten thousand eris?" the blonde gave a rough estimation.

Hmm.

Basing it on the rough amount of staying at the same kind of hotel he was from, that meant a thousand eris was basically worth in the vicinity of five pounds.

….Fucking seriously? It was a pittance and causing him so much trouble.

How embarrassing. What kind of roadblock was this on the way to godhood, and for a dragon!

One thing was for sure. He wasn't going to pawn off his possessions from his old life on Scotlands green Earth just for a mere fucking five pounds.

"Hey good looking," he said to the blonde, looking her in the eye, "Loan me a thousand eris will you? I'll pay you it back five times over by tonight and let you hold onto this as insurance." he reached down to his right hand and pulled off his gold Celtic ring.

A christmas gift that cost over three hundred pounds. Three hundred and fifty specifically. And much less full of sentimental worth than his watch that he'd gotten from his grandfather, "This should be worth around sixty thousand or so Eris at least, if not more."

Honestly, it was still a beauty of a thing he didn't want to give up. Predominantly gold, with diamond inlays on the top, with a square of glittering onyx atop that and the celtic banner engraved within it in gold.

And within the band of the ring, his name was inscribed.

"…It looks worth far more that," the blonde gaped at the ring as he laid it down and front of her.

She eyed it for a few moments, before looking at him and then looking back.

If he couldn't pay back a mere five thousand eris, she got to keep the ring was what he was saying.

"Very well, I'll pay the fee for you, but remember what you said, you have to pay it back by tonight." she agreed.

He shrugged her words off. Once he was registered as an adventurer, he'd just go take the quickest and best paying jobs within the area, get them done and come right back. Going by where the sun was positioned on the sky on his way here to the adventurers guild, it was still pretty earlier in the day after all.

"Okay then," The blonde reached beneath the teller booth and lifted something up after taking hold of his ring, depositing it where the ring once sat.

It was a strange looking contraption. A bit like a gleaming blue crystal ball sitting on a gold plated stand, with a small latch where a bunch of blank rectangular cards almost like business cards sat.

"Right, just put your hand over this," the blonde pointed at the crystal ball looking orb on top, "And it will read your aura and imprint your information onto one of the blank cards."

"Righto." Yarden nodded and agreed, doing as told. He rested his hand over the top of the orb atop it and the blonde pressed some form of switch on the side of it, a split moment later the orb began to grow brightly and make an odd whirring noise.

As it did that, the blonde made her way out of the booth to stand next to him and wait for the device to finish what it was doing.

When it did finally finish nearly a minute later, the machine let loose a kind of 'ding' like noise before the light died down.