Guild Boss's Ambition

In just a few years, he made the whole stone house a mess through continuous reforms, and he himself could not bear the huge pressure brought by repeated failures, and finally left our family without saying a word. Well, please don't get me wrong, he didn't commit suicide, he just left a letter and went far away.

After my grandfather irresponsibly ran away, my father, as the only son in the family, took over the mess left by his father very smoothly. At that time, after my grandfather's tossing and turning, the Stone House, which was once famous in the seven border cities, had been seriously damaged. Many high-level adventurers left, and it also fell from a platinum-level guild to a second-level gold guild.

When my father took over the Stone House, he immediately eliminated all the reform measures implemented by my grandfather and returned the Stone House to the operating model of my great-grandfather's era. He believed that all these disasters were caused by his father's unnecessary reforms, but in fact, even if the old system was used, the situation of the Stone House did not improve significantly and it was still gradually going downhill.

Later, just when I had just completed the graduation exam for senior knights, I received the bad news from my hometown that my parents had died in a gold-level adventure. This news was like a bolt from the blue, and my joy of returning home with cotton clothes plunged to the bottom of a dead silence. I did not sign the enlistment letter, but decided to return home to inherit my father's half-life's hard work and become the eleventh president of the Stone House.

It was not until shortly after I officially signed the property inheritance agreement that I discovered that the hole in the water tank had expanded to a terrifying scale. The condition of the entire stone house could be described as shaky. No matter how hard I tried to repair this dilapidated building, I could at most delay its fall. Now, I even began to look forward to its collapse. That would not be a relief.

"Okay, stop imagining that."

I washed my face and started to work seriously. I started to think about the list of things I had to do today. Then, I thought of a pitiful little girl: "Xiao Lan..."

When I thought of Miss Lannong, I couldn't help but have a headache again. The mountains of affairs in the stone house were already too much for me to handle, and now there was this amnesiac whose condition was unknown. I was suddenly caught in a dilemma. However, after all, she once saved my life. No matter what, I couldn't just leave an orphan like that.

So, I knocked on her door early.

However, she didn't seem to have the habit of getting up early at five in the morning to work, and the door was opened after a while.

"Good morning, President Ehard."

"Good morning, Blue."

She greeted me while rubbing her panda eyes, as if she had not slept well last night. Then I noticed that she was still wearing the same light blue dress, and after a long journey, the dress was already covered with dirty dust.

"I'm sorry, I should at least prepare a piece of clothing for you."

After hearing my apology, she frowned in confusion, then followed my gaze to her clothes, then she showed an expression of understanding and said with a smile: "No, no, you have helped me a lot."

"What plans do you have for yourself?"

At this moment, I quickly glanced at the mechanical clock in her room, and my heart sank. In fifteen minutes, I would have to go to Peter the Butcher to discuss the meat supply. To be honest, I really hoped that this amnesiac girl in front of me would not cause me too much extra trouble. It would be best if she would remember her memory after waking up and leave my stone house immediately.

"I want to work here, is that okay?"

"What? Say it again?"

She wants to work at the Stone House?

I actually heard her very clearly, but I still looked incredulous. Didn't she ask me to take a step back and see the wider world yesterday? Why did she ask me to step back and face the bottomless pit of Stone House today?

However, she gave me a gentle smile and stated her decision in a calm and serious tone: "I want to work in the Stone House. As long as it is not illegal, I can accept any position. And before the situation of this Adventurer's Guild starts to improve, I will not ask for any salary. I just ask President Ehard to provide me with food and lodging."

Not picky about the type of work, and not demanding salary?

"I'm sorry, but no matter how shabby the stone house is, it doesn't need anyone's sympathy."

A slight anger rose in my heart, and I immediately rejected Miss Lannong's request coldly, but she didn't seem to intend to give up. She just frowned and smiled, and asked me: "President Ehard, when I sympathize with your stone house, don't you also sympathize with my situation? If you regard my sympathy as an insult, then what is your sympathy?"

"No, the reason why I sympathize with you, Xiaolan, is because... because..."

Facing Miss Lannong's question, I was speechless for a moment. Seeing me hesitant, the little girl smiled even more. She advised, "If I hadn't accepted your help, I would still be in that terrible forest now, right? In fact, it is inevitable that people will fall into trouble in their lives. If you keep resisting the help extended by others, can you be considered truly strong?"

Being preached to.

I was actually lectured by a little girl who was only twelve or thirteen years old!

But I couldn't say a word to her loudly. At the same time, she forced me to admit my current weakness. Even though I was gifted in wielding swords and guns, I really didn't have the ability to revive the stone house left by my ancestors. If nothing unexpected happened, I was afraid that I would have to witness its decline with my lifelong efforts just like my father.

But even if one more underage girl were to help, what could the stone house change?

I sighed and said helplessly: "I will pay you, but what do you know how to do?"

At this time, her pretty face wrinkled up seriously. After a while, she smiled innocently and replied, "I should know how to do all kinds of things, but in fact, I don't know what position I can be qualified for!"

What does it mean to know how to do various things?

Is this the attitude an interviewer should have?

I looked at this confident girl in front of me with a frown on my face, and could only sigh: "In five minutes I will go out to discuss some business with Peter the Butcher. You can go downstairs to find Berlani, the white-haired waitress with a sharp tongue, and ask her to arrange some simple work for you. As for other matters, we will talk about it later."

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14. He clearly wants to be a sword master (Xiao Lan)

(Ulu-Lannon)

"...Go downstairs and find Berlani, the white-haired waitress with a sharp tongue. Ask her to arrange some simple tasks for you. As for other matters, we will talk about them later."

After saying this, my new boss left my room in a hurry and irresponsibly. I watched her disappear at the end of the corridor, and the face of the three-no and sharp-tongued waitress emerged clearly in my mind. But when I recalled the last sentence she said to me that day, my face suddenly turned green...

Well, it seems that I have offended my direct superior before I officially entered the workplace.

However, although I felt that the future seemed a little bleak, I didn't have time to hesitate. According to President Ehard's instructions, I needed to go downstairs to find the white-haired waitress in fifteen minutes. But I hadn't showered for two days. Although I didn't smell any strange odor from myself, I had to maintain basic personal hygiene out of courtesy, so...

"We must seize the time!"

I clenched my fists tightly and made up my mind to clean my new body well!

but!

I don't know if I overestimated the endurance of a 30-year virgin or underestimated the destructive power of a 12-year-old girl. Struggling alone in the bathroom, I simply couldn't complete the entire cleaning process within 15 minutes. By the time I had mastered this familiar yet unfamiliar life skill of bathing and changing clothes, it was already 20 minutes later.

"Late! Late! Late! Late!"

I hurriedly put on the same clothes, rushed out of the room, went down the stairs, and walked into the Adventurer's Guild lobby which had opened on time. At this time, the white-haired waitress from last night was also entertaining a few scattered guests. She was tall and slender, and her every move exuded a natural sense of indifference and nobility. She didn't look like a guild waitress who mingled among the people.

I watched carefully from the side, and when she was free, I followed her all the way to the backstage. When there were no other guests around, I called out to her, "Please wait! Miss Berlane!"

Hearing my call, Blanny looked back. When she noticed that it was me who called her, her eyes changed noticeably, from the expressionless look of a formulaic hospitality to the contempt she showed towards lower creatures. There was no doubt that she still remembered what happened last night and still misunderstood me as the kind of bad customer who deliberately teased the clerk.

"Excuse me?" she asked coldly.

Feeling the strong sense of distance between us, I swallowed, forced myself to be calm, and introduced myself in an orderly manner: "Hello, I am a new employee, Ulu-Lannon. This morning, President Ehad asked me to report to you. Since my position has not been determined yet, she asked you to arrange some simple work for me first."

I straightened my attitude and tried my best to imitate the elegant standing posture of white-collar ladies.

After hearing my confession, Berlani nodded to me expressionlessly and said in a flat tone, "President Ehard did tell me that a new person would be coming. However, although she asked me to help you arrange some simple work, I can't think of any department in our store that is short of staff. In fact, everyone's work has been very idle recently."

Thinking of the quiet environment in the lobby outside, which was so quiet that it could be a monastery, I realized that what Blanny said was true.

After a while, Berlani looked me up and down, and finally came up with a solution: "Well, you can just stay with me today and learn how the stone house works, right?"

"Well, I'd be happy to."

At this moment, a translucent text window appeared in my field of vision.

[System: Congratulations to the player for becoming an apprentice poster girl. The career skill menu is officially unlocked! ]

what?

What was that just now?

Why can the system help me force employment?

Can I change it back later?

I am a man who dreams of becoming a sword master, not being a poster girl for the rest of my life!

A short prompt from the system caused a huge wave in my heart, but the white-haired waitress in front of me could not understand my dilemma at all. She just said "Follow me" and turned to walk deeper into the backstage. Finally, the two of us came to the female employee locker room in the store together.

Different from the women's locker room in imagination, the locker room in the stone house is kept very tidy and clean by the users. Coupled with the pale white magic crystal lamp, the sense of space of the whole room becomes comfortable and peaceful. If you start a day's work in such an organized environment, employees will surely be able to get into the mood for work faster.

“The people who manage this place must have put a lot of thought into it, right?”

I smiled and expressed my appreciation for this locker room to Berlane, who was standing beside me. She just stared at me deeply for a moment, then immediately turned her face away and pointed to one of the lockers in the room.

"You can use that locker."

Then she handed me a set of work uniform.

"Here is your uniform, try it on to see if it fits you."

"OK, all right."

I took the uniform with both hands, walked to the locker, and prepared to take off the dusty dress. However, just as I was about to change clothes, a gaze as if real came from behind...

"Senior Berlani..."

My face flushed and I turned to look at the white-haired girl behind me.

Unfortunately, it seemed that Berlani didn't feel my embarrassment at all. She just stared at me motionlessly, as if she was really ready to watch the whole process of me changing clothes from beginning to end. When she saw me stop, she asked in confusion: "What's wrong? Is there something wrong with the clothes? Is it too big or too small? I can help you find a new one."

The woman who called me a fly yesterday, Blanny, seemed to be more friendly than I expected, but her calm green eyes made me a little overwhelmed. And since she and I are both girls now, if I asked her to stop looking at me, it might cause unnecessary embarrassment. After some thought, I decided not to make things more complicated.

So, I showed my professionalism and took off my long skirt neatly, completely revealing the two pieces of white underwear hidden inside. Through the mirror above the locker, I could clearly see the white-haired girl behind me still calmly observing me as I was changing into my uniform. This made me feel a strange feeling in my heart, and my lower abdomen began to feel slightly hot.

Berlani didn't move, and I continued to put on the uniform she handed me. The uniform consists of two parts. The upper body is a short-sleeved moon-white shirt with a black bow tie, and the lower body is a dark gray three-quarter pleated skirt. Overall, although this waiter uniform is a bit simple and plain, it is also dignified and elegant. Personally, I think it is a very pleasing type.

"Are you dressed? Senior, how do you...feel?"

Under tremendous pressure, I finally managed to put on this unfamiliar female costume. However, since I really lacked experience in this area, in order to avoid making a fool of myself because of the outfit, I took the initiative to seek advice from a professional, Berlani.

Hearing this, she took two steps forward and stretched her hand towards my chest.

What’s going on!

I was so scared that my eyes widened and my heart was beating wildly.

However, the super development I imagined did not happen. Berlane was just kind enough to button up the button that was not buttoned for me. At the same time, she adjusted the black bow on my collar. Sniffing the fragrance coming from her white hair, I felt ashamed and intoxicated. I wanted her to stay in front of my chest, but I also wanted her to leave quickly...

"Well, that's fine."

She looked up and approved of my current attire.

And I am also sure that her calm gaze can capture any man's heart.

I looked down at the blue eyes under the white bangs. My heart was about to be overwhelmed and my breathing was about to be suffocated. For the sake of my life, I gently pushed her away and changed the subject: "So, what do we have to do next?"

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15. I sell my art but not my body (Xiao Lan)

(Ulu-Lannon)

“Please support Stone House!”

"My magnanimous brother, are you looking for an adventurer to commission?"

"Hey, that beautiful lady, would you like to come to our guild for a cup of coffee?"

I never thought that there would be a day when I would be handing out flyers on the street wearing a skirt, but this actually happened in my life. But overall, compared to the inexplicable situation of my little brother disappearing, wearing a skirt and working hard is nothing. Even though it is a bit embarrassing, there is also a sense of unexpected novelty.

"Oh, you are so pretty, why do you still distribute flyers for this shabby shop like Stone House? Actually, there are many ways to make money in this world. For example, if you accompany me for dinner tonight, you will get 500 silver coins--"

At this time, a handsome young adventurer appeared in front of me with a smile on his face, saying realistic and frivolous words. I didn't get angry because I was once a man and I could understand the behavior of using money to get sex, but...

"I'm sorry, I sell my art but not my body, and our shop doesn't have the kind of service you want."

I rejected him with a smile, showing my usual professional hospitality. The young adventurer, who did not get what he wanted, did not act violently like in third-rate novels. He just shrugged in boredom and left my side very simply.

Only after I saw him really walk away did I secretly breathe a sigh of relief. Although my intuition and reason told me that this price asker would not pester me, I still felt a little frightened when I saw the big knife at his waist. Unlike in the Earth Federation, this city of Mopolis seemed to have no laws controlling knives, and almost everyone on the street was holding a weapon.

Occasionally, an adventurer would get excited and even pick up his weapon to fight on the spot, which made me, a waiter holding a piece of paper to solicit customers on the roadside, often scared, fearing that a swordsman's whirlwind slash would go astray, or a magic apprentice would throw a fireball at the wrong target and accidentally hack and bomb me, a weakling whose fighting power was not even as good as that of a goblin, to death.

Before I knew it, I had already been handing out flyers for three hours. Although I had no experience in this area before, the residents of this other world were quite appreciative. About one to two percent of the passers-by would be influenced after receiving the flyers and would walk into the stone house instead. Every time I successfully attracted a customer, a prompt message would pop up in the text window next to me.

[The player successfully recruited a silver-level customer, character experience +3, career experience +3! ]

[The player successfully recruited three bronze-level guests, character experience +3, professional experience +3! ]

[The player successfully recruited a gold-level customer, character experience +10, career experience +10! ]

The more than 102 guests in three hours brought me a total of 102 character experience points and career experience points. According to my preliminary observation, the system has a general rating standard for the spending power of each guest, which increases gradually from gray bronze, silver, gold, etc. The stronger their spending power, the more experience points I will get.

but……

I looked at the experience value cap of 40000 and couldn't help but feel discouraged.

Unlike most online games, my upgrade system obviously wears down the players' patience. Assuming that the flyer distribution activity can bring me 34 experience points per hour, it means that I have to work hard for 1176 hours to upgrade myself from level 3 to level 4. No matter how I think about it, I feel that this world is indeed a bad game...

"No, maybe this isn't a problem with the world or the game."

I looked across at the Life Tree, which was also a home for adventurers, and secretly noted its customer flow per hour. I then substituted the roughly estimated number into my experience value formula...

Finally, I suddenly realized that the world is still beautiful!

It was just that President Ehard's stone house seemed to have offended God.

However, although the conditions of the Adventurer's Guild opposite seem very attractive, I would not want to run away to join the hostile forces on the first day of work. Anyway, I don’t know how long I can stay in this unknown world. Instead of blindly pursuing a game level that has no real meaning, I might as well follow my heart and help that hardworking and lovable girl.