Chapter 115 - 115. Its Hard Naming New Side Characters, You Know. (1/2)

As we walked to the town square, adventurers were vying for attention as they approached us and wanted to follow us to grind and I welcomed the whole lot. Since they had better nothing to do at this moment and have no clear direction, they preferred to follow someone whom they can look up to and grind together.

After Patricia has posted a new advertisement in the town square looking for new apprentices in culinary, there were already a few takers that wanted to give it a try. Try as they may, I do not have any restrictions at all since everyone is welcome but only for the first 10 slots.

Even with a large kitchen like ours in the castle, having 12 people inside and a mentor is cramped enough. Furthermore, there is a clause that they need to sign so they would not be there for the whole 12 hours every day. They are there to learn and to go home and bring back the menu that they had learnt for the day, on the next following day.

There's quite a number of adventurers that followed us during that day and our children had worn their Macleod Lucky Badge on their tunic to level up at an accelerated manner.

We reached the Northern Forest and I spoke to our children, ”Adam, Ingles, Jane and Kayla... All four of you will split up and take these adventurers with you and split into a group of four. The Wizards may follow the madam here as you belonged to one class.”

”Rangers who are following your mentors, be careful... No friendly fire... Adam, you will take these Assassins with you and hunt in that direction, use Stealth and everyone lead by example, alright? Goodluck... Daddy would be observing from here and do some study.”

”Alright Daddy, we will strike the same number of beasts before?” asked Ingles and I nodded in acknowledgement. Soon, our children had brought and briefed the adventurers along the way about what they should do and should not do.

Little did they knew that I was following their tracks and observing them since I had more than 200% Stealth in my old attributes. The study that I would do is simple actually. The apprentices would take an oath, learn how to prepare the 3 meals and also the 3 snacks and supper on each day based on the cuisine taught.

They would try to repeat what I had taught based on small portions and each of their meal would be presented on the tables and appraised by us. Something like Iron chef as since we have only 3 rocket stoves, only 3 cooks would be able to cook at any one time. Furthermore cooking is simple but the preparation is indeed laborious.

I opened up my notepad as I sat down near them and in hidden mode as I listened to our children guiding the adventurers, and even the older adventurers listened attentively to Kayla who was much younger than them.

This is the usual mannerism where age is not a boundary but the experience that counts. Furthermore, our children are Level 2 and on their way to becoming Level 3 once they had taken down 67 wild boars, rabbits, deers, an occasional bear and also a few wandering goblins when they emerged from their hideout to investigate.

Each kill has a 1.5% progress for our children while the rest of the adventurers will earn only a 0.1% progress for each kill. That's the hard fact, readers. Levelling up in this novel is sure difficult no matter how ferocious or mighty the beast or monster would be. Pretty sad huh?

When the sun dipped past the ridges of the mountain and as the sky turned with a reddish hue, our children came back to me along with Patricia and Adam suggested, ”Could we bring them over to our castle and we can explain the training regime there? I did tell the new adventurers that only when we are Level 5 then we would start recruiting.”

”Today we only managed to get a 50% increase, and the rest of the kills were distributed to the rest of them. We would have no hurry to reach our target, right Daddy?” Ingles asked as she had gathered information from the rest of her sisters that they all managed to get 50% of their usual target.

”No worries, anyone is welcome to take a look at our training grounds. Would you think 50 adventurers per class is too much for you to handle first? How about the first 6 or a dozen first?” I suggested as it seems that our children were able to take up some responsibilities in guiding a small group rather than a horde of 50 per class. Even I myself leads 10 men per class before.

”That's a splendid idea, honey. At least they make new friends and well... Even though it is too early for recruitment, let those children hang around ours first. Furthermore, they all seemed to be good children. Patricia added as we packed our things and went to NoOne to sell off the spoils. I stood beside NoOne as he began his normal opening speech and I followed him in a rather robotic voice, ”Be wary of the dangers that lurk in this forest...”

Everyone who saw me did that laughed as they began their trade and sell off those hides and excess meats. After we had done so, all of us walked back to the Northern gate and past the town square and into the castle.

There are a total number of 20 adventurers who were with us that day and they had already completed the quests given by QM Prius and QM Rebecca. The rest of the adventurers who had already become House members are not worried at getting other quests, and they all could gain progress by paying credits.

It is a real cutthroat business and only those who could afford joins the Houses while those who are seeking adventures for free remain as to where they are as renegades. Just like the 20 of them right now. It seems that applying for memberships need credits. Then they would sit for a proficiency test and if they failed, they would not get back their fees.

The passing marks for the proficiency tests were ridiculously high, now being 95% to be in the inner circle and 90-94% to be in the outer circle, any lesser than that it's either they change their class or become renegades.

Well, Band of Vagabonds used to be a group of 150 renegades before... Why not Castle Keating-Macleod? If there's nowhere else to go, this castle will open doors to them. And opening doors to them, would definitely surpass the rankings and become #1 very soon.