Guild Boss's Ambition

"A sense of mission! Our Stone House lacks a sense of mission!"

Sister Menger raised her clenched fist high and made a bold declaration like a head of state: "The Black Technology Camp hosts the spirit of machinery and wisdom, the Tree of Life regards the peaceful coexistence of nature and humans as its mission, the Golden Lion respects the spirit of benevolence and righteousness, the Bright Heaven carries the doctrine of the Sun Cult, and even the blackest silver-white venomous snake has a set of principles of tooth for tooth, so what about our stone house?"

I knew this was a question that didn't need to be answered because she was the captain and I was the sailor.

She knew the direction, and I just had to follow.

Like a navigator giving directions to the world, she took out a world map from the drawer.

I started to feel bad...

It seems that my Miss President is going to give me some scientific knowledge again!

"Four hundred years ago..."

Hey, Sister Meng'er! You're really a real man four hundred years ago?

She pointed to the center of the territory of the Alliance of Light on the map and explained, "Four hundred years ago, our Stone House was not in Mopolis City, but in Isnai, the capital of the Kingdom of Falorin. At that time, the Alliance of Light had not yet been established, and humans were engaged in a long-term melee with orcs and other alien races. The entire world was still under the management of the high elves—"

"Four hundred years ago, when there was a lot of conspiracy and bloodshed, the adventurers we are familiar with now could only be called mercenaries. Mercenaries only took low-risk risks and generally only took the risk of one death in nine lives. They were rational and tended to preserve their own lives."

“But real adventurers are different. They are a group of desperate people who only seek the unknown in the unknown. Before embarking on the journey, they don’t know what kind of dangers, evils and challenges they will face. For their own ideals, they risk their lives and explore the world beyond the map.”

"Their journeys were often filled with death and fear, but with the return of the survivors, human civilization gained a deeper understanding of the world. Without this group of adventurers willing to risk their lives, the Alliance of Light would never have been established, and people would have to live in fear of the wrath of nature forever."

The wrath of nature?

As a positive intellectual, when I encounter something I don’t understand, I immediately raise my hand to ask questions.

"Sister Meng'er, what is the capital of Isnai? What is the wrath of nature? Why do adventurers have to desperately explore the world?"

"This……"

Sister Meng'er hesitated for a moment, then shook her head. When she talked about that period of history, her tone was gloomy. "It's a long story about what happened four hundred years ago. To put it simply, you just need to know that the high elves are the biggest enemy of the Alliance of Light, and the real adventurers are the heroes who fight against them. If you want to learn more about this period of history, you can go find Annie. Half-elves are the byproduct of that war."

Hearing this, I was full of doubts and half-jokingly accused her: "You aroused my curiosity in this way, but you didn't give me a complete story. Sister Meng'er, you are really an irresponsible bad woman who abandons you after having sex!"

She looked at the financial statements that were waiting to be sorted out and said with a wry smile, "After all, I still have a lot of information to look at."

"Come to think of it, back then I also had to deal with a bunch of documents every day..."

I gave Sister Meng Er a sympathetic look and asked, "Well, you don't need to teach me history. I will ask Senior Annie myself when I have the chance. But in the final analysis, what does the adventurer from four hundred years ago have to do with our stone house?"

At this time, Sister Meng'er's expression suddenly became serious and solemn: "In fact, if we just look back at this period of history, we can easily notice that the Stone House of the past has deteriorated. We have fallen from an adventurer's guild to a mercenary guild. The tide of the times has washed away the once great reputation of our Stone House. Today's Stone House is no longer a real Stone House!"

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19. Real Stone House (Little Blue)

(Ulu-Lannon)

“Are stone houses today no longer real stone houses?”

After listening to Sister Meng'er's words, my curiosity was aroused again.

She nodded slightly and smiled nostalgically: "My father once said that adventurers achieve greatness by completing absurdities. They are explorers of the world, but even the strongest warriors will inevitably get tired. The end of adventure is the beginning of rest, and the real Adventurer's Guild is the resting place for adventurers."

"In fact, the original stone house was just a cave on the outskirts of the city."

She pointed out the location of the old Stone House and said, "My ancestor, the first Stone House leader, was also an adventurer, but he retired due to injuries. Afterwards, he set up a stop in a cave for adventurers to exchange information, and the name Stone House was the name given to this place by the adventurers."

At this time, Sister Meng'er took out another map.

This time it is a world map depicting the situation four hundred years in the future.

Four hundred years ago, the world people knew was only one-tenth of its current size.

There's not even the city of Mopolis where Sister Meng'er and I are now.

The president said calmly, "My father always said that human destiny lies in death and change. If you are not willing to live a limited life, you must learn to change yourself according to the environment. Therefore, you must learn to observe, learn to explore, dig a hiding hole before the storm comes, and train soldiers before the war breaks out..."

Her tone gradually became indifferent: "However, change is painful, exploration is difficult, and people are naturally resistant to pain and hard work. Selfishness and self-preservation are people's most shrewd and most evil nature. If everyone is so selfish, no one dares to take risks in the unknown, and the entire race will gradually begin to decline."

Her tone began to show hatred: "However, although people pray for the appearance of adventurers, they ridiculously do not give them enough respect. They only praise one or two heroes and ignore the other brave men who silently contribute. Once the crisis is resolved, everyone naturally returns to their own lives."

"At that time, the adventurers' efforts and benefits were not proportional at all."

Hearing this, I finally began to realize what Sister Meng'er wanted to express: "It is for this reason that the first generation began to use the stone house as the center to fight for the rewards that those adventurers deserved?"

Sister Menger nodded, confirming my guess: "That is indeed one of the original concepts of our Stone House. It can also be said to be the biggest motivation for the first generation to build it. But in addition to that, I think the Stone House should have several other core values."

"estimate?"

I have considerable doubts about this verb.

Sister Meng shrugged helplessly and said, "After all, my ancestor lived four hundred years ago, and many of the documents handed down were lost due to multiple migrations. When the story of the first generation of stone houses was passed down to my father, only a few fragments of unknown authenticity remained, so the best we can do is to use estimates and guesses to restore the original situation."

I thought about it and didn't say much.

After all, the stone house still belongs to Sister Meng'er. Right now I am just helping her as if she were playing a management game. As for how she wants to set my game goals, that is not within my scope of interference.

"So, Sister Meng'er, what do you think is the other value of the stone house?"

"Hmm! Well..."

She stood up, thinking seriously, and paced around the room.

After a long while, she raised her first finger.

"First of all, what we just talked about - to fight for the rewards that the adventurers deserve."

Because Sister Meng'er looked very serious, I was naturally influenced by the atmosphere and picked up the pen and paper on the table to start taking notes. However, I still didn't know how to use a quill pen, so I could only write the mission of the stone house very ugly.

"The second is to help adventurers become better."

I suppressed the doubts in my heart and wrote this down on paper first.

"Finally, it is the sustainable operation of the Adventurer's Guild."

The core goals that Sister Meng Er summarized were not as many as I imagined, but it was not easy to achieve more than three goals. I asked, "President, if there is a conflict between the above three goals, which goal should the Stone House's policy focus on?"

"Eh?"

She obviously hadn't thought about this aspect of the problem.

But she is a determined person, so it didn't take long for her to come up with the answer: "We should take the last point as our primary goal. Only when we exist ourselves can we reach out to help others."

After a pause, she continued, "Fighting for the rewards that adventurers deserve should be the second priority. This was the original intention of the first generation to establish the Stone House. As an adventurer's guild, we cannot abandon this concept."

Well……

According to Sister Meng'er's suggestion, I rewrote these three core goals again. During the copying process, I gradually had a clearer impression of the current development of Stone House in my mind.

Very bad impression.

I looked up at Sister Meng'er with a serious expression.

"First, we don't have any real adventurers in Stone House for the time being."

"Second, we also have no specific measures to obtain sponsorship or compensation for adventurers."

“Third, we have not set up any systematic training services for adventurers.”

Seeing that Sister Meng'er's face was getting uglier and uglier, I changed the direction of my analysis: "However, although the Stone House does not yet meet the standard definition of an Adventurer's Guild, we are currently efficiently and smoothly developing in the direction of sustainable operation. Through the sideline business of the Mercenary Guild, we have gradually formed the foundation for the development of the Adventurer's Guild."

I turned a corner, and Sister Meng'er's expression looked a little better.

As a leader, she was competent and not impatient. She shrugged nonchalantly: "As the saying goes, a tall building starts from the ground. We will rebuild the stone house bit by bit. Even if our generation fails, there will be the next generation to inherit us, and the next generation after that..."

Hearing her words, I couldn't help but smile.

"Then Sister Meng'er, you must find a good man to marry as soon as possible."

"Oh my! Are you itching? How dare you tease me, your sister?"

The president's daughter stood up in pretended anger, and started hitting the sensitive spots on my body up and down as I screamed. I couldn't stand such intimate playfulness and barely resisted a few times. Then I quickly pushed Sister Meng'er back to her work station.

“Ah, my, my—stop it! Stop it! If you go back to look at your report, are you going to attend the annual Adventurer’s Union Conference with an empty head tomorrow?”

Upon hearing the term Adventurer's United Conference, the Miss President immediately collapsed onto her chair in dejection.

She speculated about her future with a worried look on her face: "Yes, I have to go to a meeting tomorrow. I really hope that those big shots will not pay too much attention to our Stone House because of Morning Star. But from the tone of Hai Lao, Xiao Lan, your Morning Star seems to have a great influence. I will definitely be beaten by those cunning bastards tomorrow, right?"

"How about I go to accompany you tomorrow?" I asked worriedly.

She glanced at me and answered in a resolute tone, "No, if you come, it will only cause more trouble. The reports in Fangju have already pushed your fame to the eyes of those big guys. When you really gain a foothold in the Stone House, you'd better try to avoid attending the United Conference, a place of right and wrong. You can just stay in the Stone House to look after the store tomorrow."

Take care of the store?

No! It's boring to run a shop.

I whispered, "Actually, I am still quite interested in that conference..."

Sister Meng Er saw through my playful thoughts at a glance: "No means no!"

I tried to imitate the posture of a young girl, and with tears in my eyes I denounced her tyranny.

But she was miraculously immune to my attack and showed a malicious smile: "When your two little buns grow as big as Berlane, I will naturally take you out to see the world."

Is she as old as Senior Berlane?

I glanced down at my chest and sighed.

"Then I'd rather stay in the Stone House and run the store from now on?"

"Huh? Why? Xiaolan, you obviously have great potential for development!"

"Sister Meng'er, you don't understand my heart."

I felt pity for my masculinity and left the president's daughter's room.

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20. The First Desperado (Ebi)

(Ebi)

【Good people have short lives.】

I don't know who coined this saying, but after living for seventy years, I have always taken it as a lesson day and night.

However, I don't know why, but recently I found that I seemed to be becoming more and more successful. Not only did I have a nagging little girl by my side every day at work, but even Blanny began to change her attitude towards me. Occasionally, when she made some snacks, she would share some with me.

No matter how I think about it, I feel that I have performed too well. Maybe I should deliberately do something wrong to make up for it?

Is that the way to follow the doctrine of the mean?

"Oh, it's all because the little girl wasn't here today. I've started to have wild thoughts!"

I was at the mission counter, flipping through a photo album in annoyance, but my eyes happened to catch sight of something that made me even more annoyed.

"Twelve ogre skulls, not one less."

The girl in the strange white bone dress placed a large cloth bag on the counter.

The cloth bag made a crisp, hollow clatter when it collided with the tabletop.

Since it's her, there's no need for me to count the number of skulls in the bag one by one. She always strictly abides by the rules and will perfectly achieve the goals of each task. Basically, I, as a task appraiser, don't mean much to her. She knows her abilities very well.

"This is your next mission."

I placed a scroll that I had prepared long ago on the stage.

Bai Ye did not read the text in the scroll immediately, but talked about other things: "Yesterday, Xiao Lan forced me to tell her about my attempt to use the elemental spirits for experiments. You should have said nothing to her, right?"

I don't deny this problem. A monster in shackles can't hurt anyone.

I asked curiously, "I'm very curious about where you got the materials for your experiments. You have done quite a few experiments, but there have been no reports of people going missing related to them in Qingyun Road. How did you get them?"

She gave him an alluring smile. "That's an open secret among the necromancers."

I couldn't help but be moved: "What price would it cost me to know this secret?"

"Please help me pay attention to various supernatural events." She pointed at the scroll I gave her and said unhappily, "And don't pick these emergency and distress jobs for me, okay? I never need anyone's recognition and praise."

I pretended not to hear the second half of her sentence and focused on the first part: "Supernatural things? Haha, I get it! You must have been completely banned by the little girl from doing live experiments, right? That's why you want to go and operate on those ghosts, but..."

I smiled slyly.

She frowned and warned me gloomily: "You'd better not talk too much."