22 Adventure Association Assessment Task (1/2)

Ultrix was walking back from the mess hall when he noticed the sign that was posted on the billboard.

Task Description: need combustion affinity wielders who are willing to assist in hunting wild stag beasts.

Payment: 2 silver coins per stag caught in mint condition, no burnt ones allowed!

Further Information: combustion wielders will be creating fires to corner the stags. However, be careful not to burn the meat! These stags must be killed cleanly. Anyone caught misconducting will have their earnings and contracts revoked instantly.

[Sheesh,] Ultrix thought to himself. [these requirements sure are strict.] However, after looking at his wallet, he decided that he should probably take a side job anyways. He was currently running low on funds, and he preferred to not starve.

Looking at the contact information, Ultrix took a mental note of the registry number and headed to the Academy's adventurer's association.

Walking into the marble building, it suddenly dawned on Ultrix that he had never actually visited the association before. After all, he never needed to visit them before considering he was never good at anything combat-related.

Heading straight for the information desk, Ultrix asked the secretary politely: ”Excuse me ma'am, but where can I register for the quests?

The young girl turned to look at Ultrix and checked him up and down quickly before asking, ”You don't seem to have the association's token on you, are you a registered user?”

[Ah,] Ultrix thought awkwardly, [I guess I need to register with them first?] Feeling slightly dumb, Ultrix shook his head. ”Sorry, this is my first time, I didn't know I had to register.”

The young secretary shrugged her shoulders. ”It's not a super big deal,” she said nonchalantly. ”All I need to access is your token and we can get you to do an assessment right away.”

”Ah, is there an assessment for this kind of thing?” Ultrix asked curiously.

”Of course there is,” the girl replied with a slight hint of frustration. ”Everything in this Academy has an assessment protocol for first-time registrees.”

”This way, we can place you into a specific category based on talent and skill level.”

”I see, that's reasonable,” Ultrix replied. ”How does the assessment work?”

The young girl was tempted to slap the young man's face out of frustration. [Are you an idiot?] she wanted to yell at him. [You come in trying to get a quest and you don't even know that there is an assessment and much less how it even works?]

Calming herself down, the young secretary slowly went through the details of the assessment with Ultrix.

”Ah, so it's not super difficult,” Ultrix said calmly after the girl explained everything.

In actuality, the assessment itself was quite simple. It was similar to how the assessment for affinity was tested as well. The only major difference was the task that an adventurer would have to do to qualify for the ranks.

For the starter copper ranks, the jobs would be quite simple like hunting small animals or simply foraging different herbs and other vegetation. However, as the tasks became more difficult, the foraging locations would become more treacherous or the hunting objectives would become stronger.

”Taking a look at your token, it appears that you have a high affinity with the combustion department,” the young girl replied.

Handing Ultrix's card back to him the girl took out an artifact from her desk and started writing some things down on it.

[Huh, that's interesting,] Ultrix thought to himself. [everyone who has seen my token thus far has seemed to freak out somewhat, I wonder what gives?]

Looking back at his token, Ultrix realized that the information the girl had accessed had simply been his identification number and his combustion affinity number.