Guild Boss's Ambition

According to the rating of each guild by the Adventurer's Association, the content of the package tasks will also change. For example, our Stone House, a gold-level adventurer's guild, can apply for a maximum of 200 black bronze-level tasks, 100 silver-level tasks, 50 gold-level tasks, and 15 platinum and silver tasks each month.

According to the alliance's regulations, each adventurer's guild must complete 90% of all approved missions. Otherwise, the guild will receive a poor evaluation in the next round of adventurer's guild ratings in early summer.

And because the manpower and material resources of our Stone House have increased significantly recently, the number of tasks that Hai Lao applied for from the Adventurer's Association has also increased from a total of 1.25 to , which is a growth rate of times. If you look closely, the types of tasks are gradually moving towards the middle level, and the tasks that most people undertake are silver-level tasks.

In Hai Lao's words, this is a healthy task resource structure, and it is also the basic task structure of all first- and second-rate adventurer guilds. What does this mean? This is a simple concept of supply and demand.

In most cases, silver-level adventurers will choose silver-level missions, and gold-level adventurers will also choose gold-level missions. However, the adventurers' performance each month is often not stable. Sometimes they are more active, and sometimes they are more passive, which will cause the missions to have insufficient supply or too much surplus.

Among them, the imbalance between supply and demand is easiest to resolve if it occurs at the gold or bronze levels, because gold-level adventurers are generally willing to reduce risks and take on silver-level missions, while bronze-level adventurers can strengthen their strength by forming teams and then challenge silver-level missions.

In other words, as long as the guild has a stock of silver-level tasks, adventurers from bronze to gold will not be out of tasks to do. As for the platinum level, because there are only a few adventurers who can perform these tasks, as long as communication is done in advance, the number of tasks applied to the Adventurer's Association will generally be able to meet the actual situation.

In addition, apart from the Adventurer's Guild as a source of missions, the rest mainly come from personal commissions from customers.

Suddenly, a male voice sounded above me.

"Good afternoon, Miss Lannon."

A familiar green algae head appeared in front of me.

He is Luke, a Bronze-level warrior. It is said that he has been entangled with Catwoman Tina recently, while Catwoman Tina has a lion-man boyfriend.

"Hello, Luke, are you here to take another mission?" I asked this magical young man with a smile.

"No, no, no, I'm here today to ask the guild to do something." Luke said, scratching his cheek.

"Have you finally made up your mind to hire a killer to kill the lion man Odo who is in the way?" I said half-jokingly.

"Please don't speak of Mr. Oddo in that way."

Hearing this, Luke corrected him seriously and said, "Mr. Oddo is a very good man, a noble man who can rarely understand my hobbies. Although there was a little misunderstanding between us earlier, we have now reconciled our differences. Not only did he agree to let Miss Tina become the poster girl of my coffee shop, he even agreed to invest and become one of the shareholders of the Cat Ear Girl Coffee Shop!"

Why is it that as I listened to this story, a strange scene of a lion man and a human boy facing each other calmly appeared in my mind?

Young Luke, be careful not to transfer your interest in cat-eared girls to cat-eared boys...

After all, just the pair of enemies in our kitchen, those fujoshi have written many outrageous books. If you, a high-energy combination that transcends racial boundaries, are added to the mix, the literary world of our Mopolis city will really be hopeless.

Of course, I didn't say a word of these thoughts out loud.

I was just playing the role of an NPC: "So, what mission do you want to entrust me with today?"

"I hope someone can help me capture three Tarzan cats alive in the Panlong Forest."

"Tarzan civet?"

Recalling the monster encyclopedia I read a while ago, I couldn't help laughing and said jokingly, "Haha, do you want to tame the Tarzan civet cat to help you make that unique coffee? Although it is rumored that it tastes very good, the production method is really not good enough──"

Because of my contempt and laughter, Luke, a young man who loves cats and coffee, had a serious expression: "I can guarantee that once you taste it, you will fall in love with it like I do!"

"No, I don't want to drink cat poop!"

Cat poop coffee is just a myth, it actually tastes very bad!

You ask me why I am so sure?

Because before I traveled through time, I had already been ambushed once!

Humanity must never make the same mistake.

However, the young Luke was very determined: "No! I will definitely let you understand the deliciousness of civet coffee! Miss Lannong, after I have prepared a satisfactory flavor, please be sure to taste my coffee!"

"I reject."

"Very good, we have it settled."

The young boy Luke has special negotiation skills. Just like that, under his firm tone, he forced me to establish a mysterious relationship with a cup of cat poop coffee. No matter from which angle you look at it, he was feeding me shit openly out of passion. However, a hot-blooded fool like him is the type of person that I find it hardest to refuse.

Ugh……

Anyway, cat poop coffee has already been hit once, so it shouldn’t be too much of a shock if it’s hit again.

With this selfless mentality, I silently agreed to taste the civet coffee for the young Luke.

Then, I asked him a few more questions about the task conditions and filled out the commission form for him.

After checking the list carefully, I handed it to the white-haired old man who was napping next to me.

"Ebi, take a look at this mission—"

"Yawn~~" He yawned, got up and glanced at the list, raised his eyes and asked me: "Why do you think this task will be a silver level? Taishan Civet Cat is just an ordinary black iron level monster, and it doesn't have a strong offensive power."

"But the Taishan Civet's habitat is the Panlong Forest, which is a dangerous area of ​​silver to gold level. Although Taishan Civets are not aggressive, they are very agile. If you are not an assassin, it is definitely not an easy task to capture them alive. Once you chase prey in the forest, you are likely to attract the attention of other powerful monsters."

I answered Hai Lao's question with a nervous mood.

Hai Lao glanced at me twice, said two words, but then buried his head between his arms again and continued his sleep.

"qualified."

call……

I secretly breathed a sigh of relief and turned back to look at the young Luke while holding the list.

"Confirm one last time. The mission condition is to capture three Taishan civet cats alive. The mission reward is two gold coins in total. The deadline is three months starting from November. If there are no problems with the inspection, please sign here."

"Yeah, no problem."

After signing his name, the young Luke glanced at the big clock behind the counter and immediately exclaimed in a low voice.

"Oh, it's already so late! I have an appointment with Tina and the others to go for a walk around the forest park later. We will definitely be late this time! Miss Lannon, I'm sorry, I have to go first──"

"Young man, stand still!"

Unexpectedly, Hai Lao suddenly woke up and shouted at Luke who had already taken several steps.

Because of Ebi's loud voice, the people around us all looked in our direction. Luke, who was not used to attracting attention, blushed and walked back angrily, looking at Ebi with a bad look.

"What's the matter, old man?"

"There are rumors that an unknown monster has appeared in the forest park. Don't go to that haunted place if you have nothing to do recently."

"Monster?" Luke frowned, but did not continue to contradict Hai Lao: "Well, I understand. I will go somewhere else with Tina and the others today. Thank you, Mr. Hai Lao."

"If you know, get out of here."

Although our Hai Lao's tone was extremely arrogant, Luke just turned around and left. Sometimes I don't know how to describe this young man. It's not right to say that he has a bad temper, nor is it right to say that he is steady. He is just a cute boy who is sometimes reliable and sometimes stupid. If he really opens a coffee shop and never becomes an adventurer again, I think I will miss him.

but……

anyway……

Isn’t Forest Park a picnic spot in Mopolis?

"Ebi, you said there are monsters in the forest park, what's going on?"

"I don't know, there's just some gossip saying that."

"Well, where did you get this gossip?"

"You're asking me even for these little tidbits. This is one of the reasons why you're so far from being up to par."

"So, could you teach me your intelligence gathering methods?"

"No, that's a trade secret between men."

"..."

Just like this, today Miss Lan Nong also worked hard to learn how to trade from an old man.

……

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81. The Lost Ancient Mountain (Annie)

(Anne Princeton)

The holiday day has come again unknowingly.

I never dared to touch the perfume that Gu Shan gave me.

However, ever since he gave me the perfume, Gu Shan has never appeared in front of me again.

Wondering...

I woke up early in the morning and was hungry until noon, when my stomach complained and I finally went to the restaurant on the first floor.

At this point, I have prepared myself mentally to face the huge challenge of Gushan.

However, the puppy-like girl did not appear as usual. I did not even see her in the entire restaurant. Could she be in the lounge handling other matters? However, at a lunch time like now when the tables were almost full, Gu Shan should have come out to help. Why did she disappear?

"Or did he go to the bathroom?"

I made a similar guess, found a seat and sat down.

As soon as she saw me sit down, a receptionist nearby came over competently and greeted me with a smile.

"Good afternoon, Daisy."

"Good afternoon, Senior Annie, what would you like for lunch today?"

"Please give me a meal C, with black tea without sugar."

"Okay." Daisy quickly wrote down the list, but did not leave. She put away her smile and replaced it with a worried expression: "By the way, Senior Annie, have you seen Xiao Gushan recently? The foreman had her period two days ago and she has not come to work for three consecutive days. Could something have happened?"

"Eh?" I felt a little doubtful and asked, "Did Gu Shan have any reason to stay?"

Daisy shook her head and replied, "No, it's just that the foreman hasn't shown up since her period that day."

Looking at the other busy poster girls, I didn't dare to discuss with Daisy for too long, so I comforted her and said, "Yeah, I understand. I will go and find out about Gu Shan's matter today. I guess he just caught a cold accidentally. Now you go back to work and don't worry too much. I will notify you when there is news."

Because of Gu Shan’s matter, I ate my lunch a little faster today.

After the meal, I first went to Gushan’s room.

However, her room was locked and no one answered the door when she knocked.

Just in case, I asked Meng'er for the spare key to her room and opened her door without permission.

But she was not found in her room.

“Maybe he went back to his hometown?”

So, while returning the keys, I asked Meng'er for Gushan's address.

Gu Shan's home was much farther away than I had imagined. Even by carriage it would take more than two hours, and it was not cheap at all. One trip back would basically use up half a day's travel expenses from her work. Under such harsh conditions that wasted both money and time, it was understandable that she did not go home more often to visit her brothers and sisters.

"It's not easy for her to become the breadwinner of the family at such a young age..."

"But are those children she left with her neighbors really okay?"

With all sorts of worries in my mind, I paid the driver the fare and got off the carriage in a residential area.

Compared to the Qingyun Road where all kinds of people gather together, the atmosphere in this civilian area is even worse. Although there are fewer adventurers with knives and swords, the road is also relatively deserted. If you are unfortunate enough to encounter a criminal, even if you scream and shout, there may not be a kind-hearted person passing by who will come forward to help.

Because my fancy clothes and appearance didn't fit in here, I was approached by several refugees on the way to Gushan's house. Fortunately, they were all weaklings who could only talk, and I finally arrived at Gushan's house safely and knocked on their door.

dong dong dong.

Unlike the solid door of the stone house, the door of Gushan's house was a hollow door that looked like it had been eaten by insects.

After waiting at the door for a while, a black eye appeared in the peephole on the door.

"Excuse me, who are you?" the man at the door asked in a crisp voice.

"Hello, I'm Gu Shan's colleague. Is she here?" I replied in a friendly tone.

Hearing this, the person inside opened the door.

Behind the door was a girl who was half her size. They looked almost identical except that she was shorter and had a single ponytail.

"Are you her sister Gulin?" I asked tentatively.

"You know me?" the brown-haired girl asked warily.

"Gu Shan occasionally tells me about your affairs."

I smiled and nodded, then got to the point: "By the way, is your sister at home?"

Gulin looked confused and shook her head, "No, my sister hasn't been home to see us for almost three weeks. Normally, she would come to see us once every two weeks at most. We all thought she was busy with something! Hmm? Wait, big sister, you are an employee of the Stone House, right? Then where is my sister... where is my sister now?"

While answering, Gulin also realized the delay of the matter.

Contrary to what Gu Shan usually described, her sister was not stupid but very smart.