Chapter 358: Adventurer’s Guild

The Adventurer’s Guild was quite impressive. The building itself was one of the larger buildings he had seen in the town so far. It was also one of the busiest as well. Countless people were coming in and out of the building. Many of them were wearing armor of various kinds. However, most of them had some type of light armor, made from leather or other types of cloth.

One person in particular had some armor that caught Julius’s eye. It looked very similar to scaled armor and was likely from some type of lizard monster. But what really drew his eye was how the leather dissipated mana upon contact.

It was weird, and he doubted many could see it, but whenever ambient mana made contact with the leather, it would break away. It was like a built in disruption skill, he had a feeling that Kyle would have loved to see it in person. It was too bad he was already busy with his apprenticeship.

Upon entering the guild, they drew some eyes. He believed it was partly due to their age. They were definitely some of the younger people there. Even in a world where someone who was over forty years old looked barely over twenty, they still stood out as young people. With that being said, there were also a good number of even younger Tier 2s hanging around.

Lord Holten also stood out. While the man’s aura was carefully controlled, he still had a presence that stood out. One that commanded respect.

However, the moment they entered, Julius did the smart thing and immediately separated himself from the others, walking up to the furthest counter where he spotted a receptionist who had a decently short line compared to the others. He hopped in and waited for his turn.

When he finally got up to the counter, he was greeted by a woman with a firm look on her face. She was pretty young and could have even been considered cute, but the severe expression didn’t make her look very welcoming. Perhaps that was the reason her line was shorter than the others.

“Hello, I would like to register as an adventurer, please,” he said cheerfully, not allowing the woman’s sternness to dissuade him.

The woman barely reacted and simply reached down underneath the counter and passed him a piece of paper. “Fill this out and then wait over there. When your name is called, we can start your examination,” she said plainly.

He nodded enthusiastically and took the paper from her. “Okay, thank you!”

Once he filled it out, he handed it back to her and went over to wait at the benches where she had pointed. He noticed that he wasn’t the only person who was registering either. There were already a couple of young people sitting there.

One was a particularly young boy who was only Tier 2. He looked very anxious for some reason and his clothes were a bit tattered. Another was a pretty black haired girl who looked the opposite. She was Tier 3 and looked very collected. Her clothes were simple, but very clean. He could even subtly sense the mana running through the threads of the black cloth, meaning they likely had some kind of enchantments sewn into them.

The boy was too absorbed in his own worry to notice Julius sit next to him, but the girl certainly did. She glanced over when he sat down and he felt her examine him when he was looking the other way.

He didn’t pay her much mind, though. He had made sure to keep his aura around a low Tier 3 level. So when she used her aura to probe him, she shouldn’t have found him too interesting. He had learned that hiding his aura wasn’t as good an idea. Like Lily’s parents had done, it was better to control your aura as if you were a normal Tier 3 rather than shrouding it completely.

The girl who was trying to extend her aura to him was trying to hide everything, and honestly, she did pretty well. He wasn’t really able to get anything from her except that she was Tier 3 and decently well trained. However, he doubted many other Tier 3s would even be able to sense that much.

Once she had investigated him and found nothing to be curious about, it would seem she dismissed him and then ignored him.

After a few minutes the young boy was called over to the desk and Julius winced sympathetically when he saw the boy almost trip trying to get up from the bench. He had a feeling that the boy was registering out of necessity rather than an actual desire.

Not long after the boy left, Aubrey came over first.

“Ugh, I should have followed you. Your line was much shorter,” she complained as she plopped down next to him lazily, jostling him with her shoulder.

The girl who was still there looked over at Aubrey, and Julius noticed that she was interested in his tall brunette friend right away. To be fair, Aubrey was someone interesting. She didn’t really care to hide her aura like Julius chose to.

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She would keep it restrained politely, but anyone looking at her would know that she was Tier 3 and a decently powerful one at that. Her aura skills had improved by leaps and bounds alongside her mirage skill. However, for some reason, the girl never bothered to shroud her aura to the extent that Julius did.

Apparently, she didn’t see the need to do that and had often criticized Julius for using so much effort to mask his own. She liked to say that he would have so much more time to focus on his other skills if he stopped learning how to disguise his aura like an assassin.

She wasn’t exactly wrong, but he still liked to do it. He considered it an extra precaution.

The girl’s probing didn’t go unnoticed by Aubrey and Julius spotted his friend glance over with a frown. “Didn’t anyone tell you that it is rude to do that,” Aubrey said bluntly.

This seemed to alarm the girl, and she was frazzled for a brief moment as if she never expected someone to be able to detect her aura probing or at least have the courage to speak up about it. “Oh, I am sorry. I didn’t mean any offense,” she said quickly and genuinely apologetic.