3 Different Pills

The light green building looked big, at least from the front. Alex walked into the building's registration hall and asked for a room for one of the many people waiting to help the customers. 

"Do you have an Alchemist rank?" the man at the registration asked. 

"Umm… I can make Common Rank Earth grade pills, so Common Earth Rank I guess," Alex said. He was really confused. Neither the Hong Wu sect nor the Tiger sect ever asked for what grade pills he could make before letting him take a room. 

'Is the capital different somehow?' he wondered. 

"Please take out your badge then," the man said. 

"My… Badge?" Alex asked in confusion. 

"You do not have a badge?" the man asked.

"No, sorry. I have no idea what this badge is," Alex said.