Take the tests
"I apologize, Mr. Nicola." A woman in a hooded cloak seemed to separate from the shadows as she headed towards Nicola making his allies hold their weapons more tightly pointing at her. But before getting any closer and causing an attack towards her she took an envelope out of her clothes and continued "Chief Rhicina sent me to meet you, she wants to have a private meeting with you and sent this letter."
Nicola used some elemental wind control to bring the envelope towards him without letting the informant approach. The card had a golden hexagonal seal with three stars inside, it would be similar to his own mercenary identification medal if it weren't for the golden color and a pair of wings that embraced the medal.
Bronze level mercenaries would earn one star for every two levels that they went up, silver level mercenaries would earn one star for every three, and gold level mercenaries would earn one star for every four levels. That is, each star would increasingly confirm the bearer's power. As levels rose, it became more and more difficult to accumulate experience and increase cultivation, each level was particularly harder to reach. But it would represent much more power as soon as someone crossed that barrier.
Of course, that was the personal seal of the Mercenary Guild branch chief. Having connected with her during those years he came to discover that she was a master of the level of gold stars. Nicola did not think that the branch master of the guild would be so powerful while the master of his old town, Opus city, where he was reborn, was so weak that he had not yet reached the level of the silver stars.
All this made Nicola suspicious, his years on earth inside a laboratory full of greedy humans desperate to steal research data and an unfair competition made him realize that behind her existence in the city of Jambel, there was certainly some hidden agenda with a intention not yet confirmed.
Nicola thought all this while he broke the seal and opened the envelope. The letter inside was written in a feminine handwriting:
"Dear Nicola, I cannot be seen meeting you as soon as you leave the Six Rings Academy. I would like you to come into my office to talk to me, I intend to give you some clues of something that, for sure, interest you. In addition to some rewards for a special mission that I intend to carry out. Please, after reading this letter, get rid of it."
The few words in the letter were quickly read, and then he used the same hand that held the paper to crumple it and when opening that hand there was only burnt ashes from what was a letter, flying on the air of that street.
"Guide the way, messenger" Nicola ordered and nodded to his friends indicating that it was okay to follow her. It didn't take long to reach the branch of the mercenary guild of the city of Jambel. Nicola had already discussed with Kin and Gin about what they were going to do and separated from them by going up the stairs to the branch master's room.
Kin and Gin waited for him to go up the stairs and looked at each other before turning to Tyris and Tuatha. "Are you going to take the test with us to become mercenaries. You have certainly awakened the right system, Tyris? Tuatha?" They nodded as followed the two teenagers to the counter, the mercenary guild was built to receive all sorts of sentient races, so even Tyris's large, crawling body didn't seem disproportionate to the location, with a large space to sit. to move.
They soon registered under the name of Nicola Kanata as Gin and Kin Kanata. Usually teenagers so young couldn't join the corps of mercenaries, but showing the silver five-star medal they quickly entered in the system under special conditions and became able to take the tests to earn their own medals.
This was yet another privilege of becoming a top-level mercenary. Which encouraged the other mercenaries to climb the ranks of the organization with dedication.