"You''ll have to wait for some time as it will take a while for your license to be approved." Old Jack asked, "How abouting early in the morning to get it?"


    "It''s okay, I''ll be waiting here," Vincent replied.


    "Fine then," Jack said before entering the registration office and notifying Lorraine that Vincent has passed the tests.


    Meanwhile, Vincent sat on the chair ced near the registration office. In his fight against Theodore, he has exhausted all of his battle energy. Magic power is present everywhere on Earth, and a person only needs to breathe or rest to restore it. In contrast, battle energy required the execution of unique breathing patterns to be restored. Thus, he breathed in a unique rhythmic method to restore his battle power. It was being restored by a few units every several minutes, and it seems like it was gonna take a while for it to restore to the limits of his body.


    A whileter, Vincent saw Lorraine walking towards him with a smile. She handed him a card and a guidebook.


    "Here''s your adventurer license. You can ess different facilities meant for adventures by using your license. While you can use this book to know your way around the adventure association and its facilities." Lorraine exined the advantages of bing an adventurer to Vincent.


    [Name: Vincent Sangue


    Age: 16


    Rank: D-rank explorer


    Specialty: Inscriptionist]


    The rank of an adventurer was divided intos explorer and space traveler. Each rank was further divided into F to S. F being the weakest and S being the strongest. An adventurer could increase his rank bypleting missions issued by the adventure association.


    "Since I am an adventure, I can use the teleporters to travel from one ce to another, right?" Vincent asked as he stored the ID in his pocket.


    "Yes, however, although you''ve permission to go almost anywhere on Earth without a visa, you can''t travel to other worlds without a visa. After all, you''re only a low-ranked explorers. However, you can explore others by using our teleportation service without a visa once you be a space traveler ranked adventurer," Lorraine exined calmly.


    "What do I need to do to increase my adventurer''s rank?"


    "You will need toplete missions issued by the adventure association."


    "I understand," Vincent nodded.


    "Be careful not to lose your license. If you somehow lose it, you must inform the adventure association immediately." Lorraine warned.


    "Why?" Vincent asked with a curious expression.


    "First of all, it''s costly to apply for a new license. Second, someone can use your license tomit evil deeds under your name, and that''llnd you in a lot of trouble. But if you inform us immediately then your license will be revoked, saving you and us a lot of trouble." Lorraine exined as she looked at him with a serious expression on her face.


    Vincent knew that bad and evil people exist everywhere in the world. An adventure license could be used to scam someone and even be used to take advantage of someone''s immaturity. For example, amoner with no hope of bing an adventurer would be awed if an adventure favors him, and then that adventurer can take advantage of that person in various ways, and thus, it was illegal and a crime for adventurers to groom or mislead non-adventurers.


    "If such a situation ever urred I will do as you say." Vincent thanked Lorraine and excused himself.


    The guidebook contained a map of the entire adventure association and its facilities.


    Thus, Vincent opened the guidebook and used the mentioned route to reach the resting area. Then, he sat down on a sofa and began to earnestly read it all.


    "Let''s see what benefits I got from bing an adventurer. Hmm, I have free ess to most of the services provided by the adventure association. I can use the auction to purchase the items I want and sell the items I do not need. Information can be legally bought from brokers, but I don''t think anyone will be selling information about a treasure filled with life force. Lastly, I can use teleporters for free but only three times. Then I will have to pay for the teleportation bill. For now, I should hurry and teleport to the Silver Moon Ind," Vincent thought before he walked towards the teleportation section of this branch of adventure association.


    Soon after, he reached the teleportation section. This section was well-decorated with golden tiles and luxury paintings.


    Once he tried to use one of the teleportation devices, his request was denied. The reason being that he could only go to the silver moon ind if he epts a quest rted to that ce.


    ''If I want to teleport to the ind, I first need to ept a mission. Furthermore, I will be punished if I fail toplete the mission in seven days. Ugh, what a shitty rule." Vincent rolled his eyes in frustration. "Let''s be positive about it. Do everything calmly," he said to calm himself before he looked around to take a mission.


    The ce was filled with electronic disys, also called mission boards, which showed what missions have not beenpleted, the newly published missions, the expired missions, and the recentlypleted missions.


    ''It should be fine if I ept a mission to gather magic herbs that is easy toplete. I will be able to experience what it feels like toplete a mission and be rewarded, after all. Furthermore, it won''t be time consuming!''


    Vincent was interested inpleting such a mission as it would be easy to gather magic herbs while roaming around the ind to look for the thing that''ll help Le.


    He began looking through most of the missions that were requested by the residence of the Cloud Tower City, but he was met with disappointment as most of the missions were rted to bringing back beasts, alive or dead, but he didn''t have anything to carry the huge corpses of beasts.


    He only had a small backpack that could store several average-sized magical herbs, and it also takes a lot of time to hunt down the beasts, thus, he almost lost all interest in epting a mission, when suddenly, just as he was about to look away from the mission boards, his gaze stopped at a particr mission that he could easilyplete.


    [Forger Uto has issued a collecting request for Purple Poison Grass which can be found in Silver Moon Ind.


    Conditions: Purple Poison Grass×20


    Rewards: 100 magic power stone (low-level)


    Danger level: D-]


    ''This mission isn''t hard as I heard that no beasts guard these grasses as they are inedible even by beasts'' standards. The reward of this mission isn''t half bad, moreover. It doesn''t sh with my main reason for going there, either. I canplete this mission while roaming around the ind,'' Vincent thought as he walked to the receptionist.


    Magic stones are stones that contain magic power. It''s used to restore magic power. It''s not useful on Earth. However, it''s useful in worlds and ces with no magic power. The only way to recover magic power in such ces was to use magic stones and simr products.


    "Miss, I would like to ept this quest," Vincent said to the beautiful receptionist.


    The receptionist said, "Are you sure? You might think it''s easy but there''s a huge chance of encountering deadly magical beasts while roaming around the ind."


    "I am sure as I have ways to evade such encounters."


    "Okay then, please show me your adventure license." The receptionist said, "I need to verify that you''re eligible for this mission."


    The mission an adventurer could ept was limited by his rank. As a D-rank explorer, Vincent can only ept a mission with a danger rating of F to D.


    "Here you go," Vincent said as he gave his license to the beautiful receptionist.


    "The mission has been assigned to you. The maximum time limit of this mission is one week, and you need to hand us the requested item within seven days. Otherwise, not only will your mission be invalid, but you will also receive a penalty." The receptionist said as she returned his adventure license.


    "What kind of penalty?" Vincent asked.


    "You won''t be able to ept any mission for a week, and the penalty will get worse if you fail three missions in a row." The receptionist said, "Remember to give the requested item to any receptionist of the mission clearance section after you finish collecting. They will hand you the reward."


    "Alright, I will," Vincent said before he walked towards the nearest teleporter.


    His eyes widened as he saw a familiar figure in his sight.


    "Theodore, what are you doing here?" Vincent said as he saw Theodore entering through the door and walking towards one of the many teleporters.


    "Oh, you''re also here," Theodore said. "My mission to supervise thebat tests ispleted, and now I am just going back home. What about you, where are you going?"


    "To the silver moon ind, to hunt down beasts and get some herbs, that''s about it, I guess."


    "Be careful not to venture too deep into the Silver Moon ind as a lot of powerful beasts resides in the central region," Theodore warned. "See you soon!" He added with a mysterious smile before he stepped inside the portal which had generated in the center of the teleporter.


    "Goodbye!"


    The teleporter was in the shape of a triangle two times bigger than an average human. It was covered with silicone rubber. A panel was attached to the teleporter. A person can choose which city''s or ce teleportation section they want to go to by inputting the information on the panel. Teleporters could open a portal to other teleporters. For example, if there were teleporter at points A, B to Z. Then you could go from point A to any points and vice versa.


    The teleporters of adventure association building followed the rule of self-service. He was expected to do everything by himself, but as he has read the guidebook, he knew what to do.


    As Vincent gained ess to the teleporter by using his adventure license, the silicone rubber sealing the teleporter immediately vanished. Then he inputted his desired location on the panel and a portal to the Fortress established in the Silver Moon Ind generated in the center.


    A second after entering the portal, Vincent found himself in the teleportation section of the Fortress established in Silver Moon Ind.


    Fortresses are ces heavily guarded by soldiers. They are usually established in Earth''s Wilderness, ces where beasts and monster resides, as safe points for adventures whether they be explorers or travelers. The teleporters are also set up in the teleportation section of the fortress. Except for keeping the beasts outside of the fortress walls, the soldiers guarding the fortress also save teleporters from being harmed or worse, destroyed by a maniac.