《The legend of Aila (dropped fiction)》Interlude - Your job as an adventurer
Advertisement
Extract from “The adventurer’s guide, Chapter 2 – Your job as an adventurer”
“Now that you are all familiar with the structure of our beautiful world, let’s talk about your job as an adventurer. First and foremost, please keep in mind that adventurers are the life line of humanity as most of the materials necessary in daily life are no longer present on the 2 lowest floor of Tower.
Let’s take steel for example, steel is the most used mineral in the whole empire especially because of it’s various uses in blacksmithing. It is vital to the everyday life the empire, yet it cannot be mined anymore on the two lowest floor. So what do we do ?
If you thought the answer was simple as we just have to send adventurer hunt steel golem then i will give you full mark. Now, joke aside, humanity as no choice but to send adventurers out into the wild in order to gather numerous materials. Once defeated, the creatures you kill must be thoroughly disassembled for materials, be it the ivory of monster’s teeth or simply their fur, everything has value and should be stocked in your sturdy magic backpack.
The reward will change depending on the kinds of material you bring back, their quality and the current offer of the market. For example, killing a lesser steel golem on the 8th floor will usually result in getting around 2 tonnes of steel which amount to around 20 gold.
For those of you that still don’t realise how much 20 gold amount to, remember that such an amount of money will be enough to drown yourselves in alcohol and women for a whopping 40 months. Of course, you will have to share that amount of money equally with the other members of your party but, given the relative weakness of lesser steel golem in the world of Tower, hunting them will soon become easy and bring you tremendous amount of money.
Advertisement
Of course adventurers are not only monster hunter or they would instead be called as such. You can also work in one the various guilds in town, honing your skills while pursuing knowledge or giving course to younger adventurer and all that while being paid a decent salary.
As adventurer you can also apply for apply to various job that will contribute to the glory of our great empire, the most profitable being a wall guardian, where you just sit around on the walls of Dailya, drinking booze all day, while observing the majestuous flora and fauna of the third floor.
Convinced yet by the wonders of adventuring ? Then jump to the next chapter of this book and learn about the various kind of adventurer and the way they are ranked by guild !”
Advertisement
- In Serial22 Chapters
Inglorious Bastard
My life is in no way unbearable or hard, I fully recognize that it could always get much worse in a multitude of ways. Be happy with what you have and all that. But the future looks bleak and boring no matter how I look at it. Spend 40~50 years trying to educate the bossy rich kids of Pinecove private school and retire having wasted my life or throw everything away in hopes of a more fulfilling job, risking to go under? This world has no place left for excitement and adventure - everything there is to explore and discover was found a long time ago; everything that can be created is here already in one way or another; because of laws, borders, inflation and back-breaking taxes an average Joe just can't do anything too crazy or too ambitious, lest they decide living in prison or being penniless is a great way to lead your life. If only it was possible to be released from all constraints and start anew in some other place, in a different time. Drop the masks and live a life with no regrets. Impossible and childish wish, I know. But a man can dream...
8 114 - In Serial10 Chapters
Scrap: An End, A Beginning
The year is 2362. Two years after the signing of the Ceres Armistice, and the cessation of open hostilities between the Earth Sphere Federation and the Jovian Confederacy, Rain and the crew of the Speak Softly, a salvage vessel plying the Jupiter System, discover the remnants of one of the many secrets of that war, and their lives are changed forever. Sci fi mecha action, philosophical introspection, plenty of LGBTQ characters, and more than a little fangirling over Jupiter abound here. Chapters are currently being published every Saturday, here on Royal Road and on Spacebattles.
8 151 - In Serial8 Chapters
Darks Rising
A boy with violet eyes and hair blacker than night walks out of the woods. He doesn't know who he is, what he is, or where he is? What he does know is your weakness. They call him Dark and this is his story. Haha finally made a cover yes! Foul language why not, sex sure, honest politicians inconceivable.
8 187 - In Serial15 Chapters
Jane
Jane, a mysterious British tourist with Ninja like skills, teams up with US Boarder Patrol Agent Brad Scott to find the ten year old sister of a sixteen year old Mexican girl who was forced to come to the US or be killed.
8 105 - In Serial51 Chapters
Fighting for the Lord of Earth
A fleet of alien spaceships were detected coming into the Sol Universe heading for Earth. During the initial talks with the humanoid aliens their leader took control of the planet itself becoming the lord of Earth. He demanded the world leaders send him subjects that would be trained and fight for him who fought for the King of space. In return the Earth would be protected and their primitive knowledge would be greatly expanded. Roughly 6,000 people from all around the earth were gathered into their ships and taken to another planet for training. After they would be dropped off the ships would return several times to pick up the full numbers demanded. Kohn Lowson was the first to step on one of the alien ships.
8 142 - In Serial5 Chapters
Wild Calling
Good Glen was a strange town that held a lot of secrets, but Ari couldn't complain... not when it leads her to him.
8 160

