Handing over some silver coins without any thought, the woman began explaining more about the classes. “These will help you get started. Usually, these are taken by young kids or young adults, but you’ll fit in since some older men do take the classes. The main classes you want to pay attention to the most are combat and profession. There are strong adventurers with no secondary skill, but it’s a nice safety net to have.”

Pulling out a couple of papers with many diagrams, she laid it out on the table, “I’ll briefly run through the way the guild works. This is the FeatherBright Guild. One of the few guilds in Temploran. While there are other guilds, we transfer information, events, and other things with other major guilds across countries, so no worries about being forced to register once more unless you’re going to a different continent.

All adventures start off at G-rank. It goes up the alphabet to A, after that there are the special ranks, but you don’t have to worry about that. Even seeing a public event related to that level is really rare unless it’s a major emergency.

Each rank provides different benefits and accessibilities. One of the main ones being access to different quests, systems, and much more. A side bonus is that your reputation and respect are followed along. Even a slave, recently turned free, who is let’s say a B-rank can meet with a noble, and even the nobles will have to give a respectful and kind tone to them.

While fighting is not the main way to advance in rank, it is the most popular way. Even scholars will have to learn how to fight and develop their path through it. However, there are extremely rare cases where there are high-ranked adventures who despite being much weaker than the average in their rank, got there due to achievement and the skills they’ve shown.

As for how to specifically meet the goal to rank up, it mostly has to do with achievement. Even a newbie can climb the ranks fast if they show enough progress or achievement. Anyways, after you got the basics of combat down, try out some G-rank quests, and if you are daring F-rank quests. Well.. Don’t actually, we got too many cocky adventurers who do that and get killed.”

Saying his goodbyes, he dragged Leah through a couple of streets before finding a large open field. Ironically, the first class that was available opened in one hour, and it was the one that the woman recommended, combat basics.

“Oi, are you the newbie that’s recently registered?” A muscular man walked over to him, presumably the instructor as there were a lot of tables with weapons laid out on the field and dummies set up.

“Ah, for the combat basics, yes. How did you get the information so quickly? I just left the guild a few minutes ago,” he said, curious as to how information traveled despite there being no phones.

The instructor pulled out a weird device with a stone in the middle, “All guilds, and even the army and guards carry these devices. The one that I’m using has a small range but enough to have the guild send information over here. Though these are just a puny device, the big bad boys are heavily guarded but can reach over to another country!”

Even though the woman from the guild talked a lot, the muscular man talked a ton not out of work, but enjoyment. “Ah, where’re my manners. My name is Jebon, the instructor for the Combat Basic course. You’re pretty early, but either way, since you do seem to be older than the other young students, how about I test you out and get you started?”

Checking if he had any experiences using any weapons, and quickly testing out his physical abilities, Jebon quickly realized how behind Yuu was and how much help he needed.

“I guess before we even start to pick out a routine, let’s pick a weapon. Out of the many weapons laid out, which one do you like the most? There’s no harm in switching later, but you should pick one you genuinely like and are willing to practice with.”

Looking around the tables, he saw a variety of weapons. Swords, bows, spears, axes, daggers, and much more. However, one that stood out to him was a scythe that looked like it could break at any moment. It had a wooden handle that looked like it was starting to rot, and the actual blade had stains on it as if no one cleaned it properly in years.

“Huh, has that caught your attention? Sadly there are hardly any Scythe users in the world. It just isn’t a popular thing like those who use hammers in battle. Rare, but when used right it can be deadly.”

Grabbing it, it felt oddly light yet his balance felt a bit shifted. Unlike a spear where it just had a pointy tip, a scythe had a long blade at the opposite end of where someone would hold it, making it feel a bit off-putting.

“Lucky for you, as someone with years of experience, I actually do know how to use a scythe, at least enough to help you get started. When you progress, later on, you will have to find your own teacher or make your own techniques as rarely anyone uses it, but for now, let’s get started! Also for your slime, I’d suggest having it trying out attacks on the dummy. Doesn’t seem like it’s a stupid fellow, so have it learn how to attack.”

Passing the scythe to Jebon, he showed him the basic forms and the ways to properly wield and attack. He had Yuu continuously practice swinging in the air a certain way to help get him used to actually holding it. Even though Yuu held the scythe with ease when he picked it up, he started to realize truly how weak his muscles were.

Even though it felt like a bit of time, he fell on his bottom, relaxing his hands while taking big breaths. He saw a couple of people entering the field, five to be exact. Three of which were young males, another an older lady, enough to be someone’s mother, and lastly, a young girl who just appeared to have turned into an adult.

“Hey Teach! How ye doing?” one of the teenagers shouted.

“Eh, who’s he? New student eh?” the second of the three shouted.

“A scythe? Huh, seriously?” the third said in a calmer yet slightly demeaning voice.

The instructor grabbed two swords and a bow and threw it at the three. They’ve clearly been here for a good amount of time. Even though Jebon was usually calm, with the three he spoke to them in a more authoritative way, “you three, go swing or shoot a hundred times before I start teaching you three,” he pointed to a certain area of the field. He turned to the older lady and the young woman and smiled, “hello you two. Come join Yuu in working out, I'll help you two soon.”

Seeing Jebon coming back, Yuu made a slight comment, “You seem really harsh on those three.”

Hearing that, Jebon smiled at the three practicing as a unit, “I knew them since they were babies. They have average talent, yet they have a promising future. Well, at least enough to be the talk of the city one day.

“Two of them, I promised their mother to teach them long ago and the two brats begged me to teach the other one. Even though the three aren’t blood-related, they make a fine team. Though I hope you don’t mind their words Yuu, they’re brats, but good ones at the very least.”

“No worries, I had to deal with people like that all the time. Some truly meant their words, while others didn’t. But I could tell they didn’t, they just need a slight push or kindness brought to them sometimes,” despite swinging the scythe, he smiled at the thought of his friends from back home.

While he was swinging, he heard a slight cough. Looking over, he saw Jebon staring around his waist. He realized that his form was wobbly, and adjusted himself while receiving a slight caution, “Either way, don’t get too distracted. Distraction in a battle means nothing but death. However… you are right. Sometimes I feel like beating the three of them up, but I treat them like my own children too much.”

“You also need to do a lot of exercising, so after doing about a hundred swings, instead of working on your arms, work out your legs. I’ll give you a copy of a manual I have regarding scythe techniques, which should be useful in the future. You don’t have to learn them now but hurry and learn how to read so you can get started on them.”

Stopping the scythe, he stretched his body before asking Jebon, “Can’t you just teach the techniques to me?”

“I can, but only a small chunk of it. The manual gets quite advanced and I think it’ll be more beneficial if you yourself actually took the initiative to learn it instead of hearing it from someone who barely knows how to use a scythe-like a professional.”

“Ah, okay. Though thank you anyways, learning from you is better than nothing or from someone else,” he said while smiling.

Letting out a small laugh, Jebon waved at Yuu while walking towards the other two females.