The Otherworld Conquest Method of a Reincarnated Porter Chapter 31 Part 1
Adventurer Registration
「Excuse me, it’s my first time coming here, but I’d like to register as an adventurer.」
Going back to sleep after having a lot of fun with Soara, I woke up before noon and came to the Adventurers’ Association. Soara was sleeping soundly with an innocent sleeping face, so I left the room without waking her. I thought there would be no one here at this time of the day, but as expected, I was right. There are three people at the reception desk. A beautiful woman, an old man, and a serious-looking woman. The beautiful woman is happily chatting with some adventurers. So I go to the serious-looking woman and tell her that I want to register as an adventurer.
「I understand. This is your first time, isn’t it? Please tell me your name, age, origin, and job. As we will engrave them on your Adventurer card.」
「My name is Sei. I’m 14 years old and come from a village. My job is Porter.」
She seems to be as serious of a woman as her face tells. She writes what I just said in beautiful handwriting on a wooden card. What she writes there is my name, year of birth, and job only. Given how sloppy the process is, I guess it has little to no validity as an identification card.
「It will be done once we engrave these, but currently, we have a lot of people who have just come of age registering, so we will not be able to have it ready until tomorrow. It will be ready early in the morning tomorrow, so please come again at whatever time is convenient to you tomorrow at the earliest.」
Behind her, a near-elderly man is busily engraving wooden cards. There are still about 20 wooden cards in line.
「Is this wooden card going to be my adventurer’s certificate?」
「Yes, the wooden tag is a temporary adventurer’s certificate. If you are able to work as a temporary adventurer for a certain period of time, you will become an iron-class adventurer. Higher than that will be bronze, silver, and gold, but most adventurers are iron-class, few are bronze-class, and there are only two silver-class adventurers in Magt.」
「How does one become an iron-class adventurer?」
「There are no specific standards. Well, if you can work as an adventurer for a few months to half a year, you can usually advance to iron-class. Normally, you either accumulate experience by doing odd jobs for other adventurer parties, or if you are lucky, have a mentor to take care of you. Early in the morning, they usually recruit personnel they need outside this building, so I believe it will be a good idea to go and check it out. Rather, if you are a porter, the Porter Union will likely take care of you if you join them.」
「Where is the Porter Union?」
「Next to this building. It is located on the right side as you exit the building, so you will be able to find it immediately.」
「I understand. By the way, I heard from the gatekeeper that adventurers are exempt from the city entry tax?」
「Yes, we will hand you that along with your adventurer’s card. For the time being, you will be exempted from the city entry tax until the end of February, but after that, you will have to apply again. In case you are deemed not to be very active, we may not issue you one, so please be careful.」
「Duly noted. Err…」
「I am Irina. Please take of me, Sei-san.」
「Please take care of me. Irina-san.」
Thank goodness she is a kind person. When it comes to registering as an adventurer, the template would be to have a muscle gorilla of a C-class adventurer come at you and beat you in an instant, but it went off without a hitch. The registration is also ultra-analog, hand-engraved on a card. The template would be to have yourself appraised by putting your hand on a mysterious machine, have your magical energy capacity measured using a mysterious crystal, and then complete the registration by having a drop of your blood spilled using a mysterious technology, but it seems that this world is very pragmatic.
I then head for the Porter Union. I got there soon after. The building is considerably smaller than the Adventurers’ Association. There is no one at the reception desk, so I ring the bell. After a while, a middle-aged woman comes over.
「Welcome. Ah, you must be a new porter, right? Would you like to hear an explanation?」
「Yes, please take care of me.」
She is quick on the uptake. As expected, there must be a lot of new porters who register with the union at this time of the year.
「If you belong to the union, you see, it will earn you nothing but good things. We do take 20% of your pay as fee, but that is very cheap, you know? Simply put, porters who belong to the union are in safe hands. In order to go deep into the forests or labyrinths, a porter would be indispensable. Should something happen to a member of the union, you see, the adventurer party in question will no longer be able to hire a porter from that point on. And should that happen, that would spell the end for that adventurer party. Be it luggage or materials, they would have to carry them all their own, after all. That is why the adventurer will desperately protect the porters, you see. As such, it means that the union members are safe. Besides, if the porter dies, all the stuff in their storage will vanish along with them, after all. That is why, you see, the adventurers will desperate protect the porters.」
「I see. I understand how it works. By the way, how do you find work?」
「Basically, every morning, people look for adventurers or porters outside the building, so all you have to do is take a look at it. Once you decide on the conditions, you only have to sign the contract here. You can pay the 20% fee afterwards. Other than that, do check out the bulletin board. There are all kinds of requests posted there, after all. There is quite a lot of requests such as transporting goods from one town to another, you know?」
「Are there no porters who join specific adventurer parties?」
「There are, but I guess only a small part of them. Unless it is a party you get on very well with, it is difficult for a porter to join one, you know? Those who make fun of porters who cannot fight always exist anywhere, so most of the time, it will not last very long, you see. In particular, male porters.」
「I understand. If I want to register, it’s free of charge, right? Can I register now?」
「Sure thing. Err, please tell me your name, age, and storage capacity. A porter’s worth is determined by how many wine barrels they can fit in their storage. So on your days off, you should use your storage as many times as possible to improve your proficiency level in it.」
「My name is Sei. My age is 14. My storage capacity is four barrels.」
It is actually eight barrels, but since I have a lot of my stuff in there, let’s leave it at four. To begin with, as someone who has just been granted with his job, even if I were to say that I have eight barrels-worth of storage capacity, I doubt anyone will believe me.
「Four barrels? You must be kidding, right? I have never heard of anyone who has just come of age having four barrels-worth of storage capacity. Are you really not lying?」
「What’s the point of telling such a lie that’ll soon be exposed? In that case, I don’t mind proving it to you, you know?」
「Hmm~, normally, it takes two to three years to increase your capacity to four barrels. As for eight barrels, it usually takes five to eight years, though.」
My proficiency level in magical energy manipulation is high, after all. I have increased my capacity to eight barrels in a few days. But still, it seems that the ability of the porters is lower than I thought. I guess I should keep a low profile until I have built up enough strength.
Just to be safe, I put four barrels into my storage in front of her to prove my capacity. It seems that my porter certificate will be issued the next day.
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