The Upcoming Promotion Test
"Alright, so what really happened last night?" Kell emphasizes really.
"None of you remember?" Ian asked in shock as they all looked at him.
"Nope,"
"Nothing,"
"No,"
"I am sorry but no,"
Ian sighed, rubbing his forehead. He wondered if he should tell them the true but mortifying story. Oh, who was he kidding, he definitely took the chance to embarrass all of them when he could.
"We have a voyeur party," he tried to describe what happened with a single word.
"What do you mean?" Kell has a suspicion he will not like what he will hear.
"Basically we have sex in the same room," the first sentence, and he already did not like it, "We don't change partners or anything, we just did it. I'm with Fiona while you're with Ana and Lisa," Ian explained.
"But, well," he struggled to put the right word into his mouth. "We let the other see what we do," he used the possible less humiliating term possible.
"I watched as you railed a sandwiched of Ana and Lisa while you watch me breed Fiona like a rabbit in heat," he tells some examples.
At that moment, the rest remembered vividly what happened, or so Ian assumed as he watched all of them turn into a varying shade of red.
"Why don't you stop up?" Ana whined, clearly embarrassed by what she remembered.
"One, it is 4 against 1. I don't stand a chance. Two, I am drunk as well, but sober enough to drag all four of you into our room before you decided to dance naked at the town square," the female fighter pouted but she could not refute things would have been worse if not for Ian.
"All agree to never acknowledge what happened last night raise their hands," to Kell's surprise, only he and Ana raised their hands.
"All agree to do what happened last night in the future raise their hand," three hands rose up as Ana looked at Lisa with a betrayed look.
"What? Last night is, hot," Lisa replied to Ana's look.
"Agreed, watching Kell railed the two of you, I don't know I like to watch but I liked what I saw last night," Fiona said.
"While seeing my best friend in his birthday suit is not fun, watching him do a lift 69 is both surprising and arousing," Ian told Kell.
No words were able to form out of Kell's mouth. When he comprehends what they said, the only thing he can say is, "You all are perverts,"
The three shrugged. After all, it is true.
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They left the room and headed towards the guild building. As they entered the building, they saw the head at the counter, giving them a warm smile.
"Welcome. I assume you here for news of your promotion?" the party nodded.
"Excellent. Now, we can't just promote you without testing you," Mr. Grul said.
"Then why are we promoted from Gravel to Iron without any test?" Kell asked.
"It's because surviving as Gravel for some time or when taking a rather dangerous commission for Gravel shows that the person deserved the promotion. As for the higher rank, Bronze and above, a test is needed to make sure one can handle their ranks," Mr. Grul explained.
"So, what is the test?" Ian asked.
"The test varies. For melee combatants, they have to fight Bronze rank adventurers and hold them off. Winning will also mean you pass. As for the archer, it is an accuracy test and a quick battle, where you will try to shoot the enemies.
As for mages, it depends on the type of mages you want to be. For offensive-based ones, they will see how dangerous your attack is and how good your control and accuracy are.
You have to wait for three more days before the examiners arrive, and one day after so they will be able to test you at full strength," hearing the head, they nodded.
They then take their leave, as they plan on getting some food as it is already noon. After they leave, the receptionist looks at the head.
"Who will come and test them, sir? After all, Bronze rank adventurers are not that many in this part of the kingdom," the man asked.
"I am not sure but I all afraid it will not be an easy one. The one who responded is that man," the receptionist gasped.
"Mr. Jale! He hates your guts,"
"So do I with his guts. Unfortunately, he works at the larger city branch, allowing him to respond to our promotional test," the man sighed before a terrifying smile formed on his face.
"That's why, I believe we will see a group of Bronze rank adventurers being beaten to a pulp by a bunch of Bronze rank candidates,"
-x-
"So, what is our plan after getting promoted? We definitely not staying here as the highest-ranked commission is at the D-rank," Lisa commented.
"Yes, we have to head to the bigger lake, but we don't know much about the different cities. I plan to ask the head of his recommendation first before we decide. But before that, we should see the options we have," Ian put several books he borrowed from the library, all about the Melun Kingdom and cities inside the kingdom itself.
They split up the books and read their parts. They spent almost 2 hours reading before Kell put down his book, clearly bored.
Seeing this, Ana did the same thing, followed by Lisa. As for the two, they keep reading. "Should we wait for them?" Ana asked, poking her book.
"You don't need to," they heard Ian's voice. "Go out or eat something. This will take us a while,"
"Alright, just don't forget to come out," Kell reminded the two before leaving the library. When they step outside the library, the only man voices the thought all of them share.
"They will forget to come out, wouldn't they?"
"Yes,"
"Absolutely,"
-x-
They managed to get the two out of the library before it was closed, trapping the two inside, though it was less of a punishment and more of a reward for the two bookworms.
"So, what have you learned?" Kell asked Ian.
"Well, the Melun Kingdom is divided into 5 regions, West, East, South, North, and Central. We are in the South Region, the place considered to be the poorest of the 5 regions, in terms of leylines at least.
There are 3 cities and 14 towns we can go to in the southern region. I think we should just skip to a city. Those are bigger and offer more opportunities for us, and there will be a lot more C-rank commissions for us to take," he explained.