I walked through the town of Rozenburgh, my hometown, wearing a tattered shirt that has been fixed by sewing many times over, it was apparent, it actually looked like the entire shirt was just sewed bits of reparation of the previous thing it used to be, a proper ‘shirt’. Wearing long pants as the weather wasn’t in my favor either. If this clothings even counted as something that could be used as a countermeasure to the cold biting wind.

Through the main street of the town where all of the little stores were set up, selling a variety of items such as fruits, clothings and food in general. The road made out of concrete stone, patterned like a cobblestone throughout the town’s streets. As I walked through all the villagers gave me their looks of disgust as if I was something that wasn’t meant to be allowed to walk through that street, they treated me as if I was a menace, a disgusting parasite that wasn’t meant to even be alive.

They did this just because I had nothing, no one. But to me, this all didn’t matter to me, all of this townspeople didn’t matter to me, as I had my eyes set on being the best adventurer there ever was! TODAY! Today was going to be the day I set out on my adventures to the dungeon! I had to walk through the town to the guild administration to create my own guild as that was the prerequisites to become an adventurer! I’ve been spending my previous years saving up all of this Eliets to finally create my guild! A full 100,000 Eliets. I excitedly made my way down to the guild administration, buzzing through the town ever so zealously even with all those looks of disgust casted upon me.

I’ve finally achieved one of my greatest dreams! Not achieving it actually. My greatest dream has always been being the greatest adventurer! But that was something I couldn’t even do, but today is finally the day that I can finally begin, even a tiny step to becoming the greatest adventurer that roamed this lands.

All of the years I’ve spent, on the streets trying my best to sell gum, doing odd jobs just to earn little amount of Eliets. Till the day I reached 16. I’ve been living by a small chute down by the drainage area. Everyday came by hard for me as I lacked basic necessities. Coming by food was a fortune for me, I’d usually have to go around different amounts of garbages to search every little bit for food. My best haul was an entire pizza that was thrown fresh out of the bakery. But that was 5 years ago, I’d usually be feasting food from a restaurant, Le Relais, where they only served the best fresh food throughout the entire year. Due to their policies they’d throw away all food that were not served the same day they were received, so as to never break their law.

All for this day, to walk through this guild administration center to finally become an adventurer. As I pushed the door forward, the staff in the center was alerted as there was a really shiny sparkling golden bell that was hung on side of the door to serve as a notice of anyone entering the administration center.

As I walked towards the front desk of the center I was greeted by a mellow girl. She had a pin on the left side of her chest. There read her name Sara Otosaka.

“Good morning! How may I help you today?”

“I was wondering how do you register for a new guild?”

“Come this way I’ll help you out to the best of my abilities.”

She said that ushering me towards a corner of the guild center where there was a glass table about 60cm of the ground. With two comfortable looking sofas on the opposite sides of each other. There was also a little bit of green scenery added, there was a pot of beautiful Lisianthus flowers, they had a beautiful shade of dark purple at the edges slowly converging to the center with a nice gradient of white.

Sara sat there notifying me to sit on the opposite side of her to discuss the registration of the new guild.

“To start of there are 2 prerequisites to create a new guild. The first is to be in possession of 100,000 Eliets and the second is to fill up this card.”

The card had only three things.

Guild's Name Leader Date of Creation

“I do have the 100,000 Eliets”

I said that as I carried a pouch of Gold coins onto the table. There were only 10 pieces to be exact. Just so you readers don’t get confused Eliets are a currency that was put into place to make a definite value of this coins that we use as currencies. So a single copper equals 1 Eliet. To get a Bronze coins, you need to trade in 100 coppers for a Bronze coin, so bronze equalizes 100 Eliet. To get a silver coin, you need 10 Bronze, so Silver symbolizes, 1,000 Eliets. Gold coins, equalizes 10 silver coins, which means that Gold coins come up to 10,000 Eliets. Platinum is 10 Gold coins, which is 100,000 Eliets and last but not least Diamond which is 1,000,000 Eliets which can be traded for 10 Platinum coins.

Currency Eliet Value Previous currency needed for exhange Copper 1 N.A Bronze 100 100 Silver 1,000 10 Gold 10,000 10 Platinum 100,000 10 Diamond 1,000,000 10

Sara handed me the registration card. I immediately filled up the card. I’ve always had the name of the guild I was going to create etched in the back of my head.

Guild Name Phoenix Victoria Leader Fenix Date of Creation Estier 748 Aeon 04 Delate 11

“Beautiful name”

“Th-Thank you! There is an actually meaning to this name, Phoenix Victoria is supposed to carry the meaning ‘Phoenix’s Victory’, I’ve always looked at the Phoenix as such a powerful entity. I’ve always been living the way they do. If a Phoenix die, they resurrect stronger. The same as I do, whenever I fall no matter how badly, I’ll always come back, stronger than before. That was my motto, and now the guild’s motto as we-............. *Flustered* Ahhhhhh. I’m sorry for rambling on so much!”

………

There was an awkward silence.

*Should I peek at her? I’m too embarrassed to do so though……. I should*

I looked at her, she had a look of astonishment as she stared at me.

“I’ve never seen someone who had so much meaning behind of their name before! I’m impressed, that was also a great tale to share. Thank you.”

“Th-th-thank you” I said as I started getting even more flustered.

As I handed this to Sara. She asked me to come over with her to a rock that seemed to have a very magical feel to it. It had an aura around it that was visible to the naked eyes. A mellow beautiful light blue aura gradient with a slight amount of green, it was teal, more to the blue side of shade though. The stream of teal light floated around the rock ever so gently almost hypnotizing me with it’s beautiful visuals.

“Hehehe, I can understand why you’d do that. I did that too as I first came. Watch this.”

Sara chuckled at me as she placed the registration card over the stone.

The stone’s teal ribbon of light streamed across and flowed into the card, the light converged to the top of the card and beamed down like a ray of light into the card, the moment it touched the card it ran past the card like a circle of light that expanded. The light infused with the card.

The card now had a glow to it, it was…. As if it was alive!

As this happened, I felt a burning sensation on my back. It didn’t hurt, but I could tell that it was burning. I realized that a glow starting appearing on my back too.

“That is the Statistic Tattoo that have just been engraved onto you. Congratulations! You are now a certified adventurer!”

I had such a strong rush of emotions, all of the hard work and conditions I’d had to endure. It all finally came to fruition. Tears started welling up in my eyes. It started dripping down my face.

“Thank you! Otosaka-san”

I gracefully took my card from Mei and headed out of the guild center immediately to the dungeon’s entrance.