When I returned the glass to the counter, the water had become transparent again.
“I really don’t understand this, what’s up with this water?”
“This is water that was received from the church. It is holy water that reacts to the Total Level of a human being by changing its color. It changes roughly every ten levels, going from red, to orange, yellow, green, light blue, blue, and finally purple. Because it turned orange for you, your level is 10.”
“Oh, that’s really useful. But it can only measure up to level 69.”
Hearing that, the woman laughed blankly and said, “There are only five human beings in this world who have managed to surpass level 70. It’s fairly rude to think of comparing oneself to such celebrities.”
…..Is that so? So anyone that’s gotten that high is a celebrity. If I keep at my current levels of activities, I could reach that in another two months. Well, it’s something to keep in mind.
“So I can enter the guild?” The woman returned to her original expression. The impression of her despising children has disappeared.
“It’s alright, since you passed the test.”
“Test? Is that something everyone has to go through in order to join?”
“That’s right.”
“Understood.”
Claire I returned to the cave together. It’s the same cave we went to with the old man yesterday. Because the gatekeeper was there, I had to present my guild papers that I had received from the woman at the guild.
“I came for a guild test.”
“Huh?” The gatekeeper compared the paper and me.
“Already taking the guild test at your age? As expected of a pupil of the sage.” Unlike the woman, I was impressed with this man.
“Do your best.”
“Ok.” Nodding, Claire and I entered the cave. The guild test requires the collection of the fur of pillings.
“But only the handful of golden fur on its back.”
“Uh huh, and I’ll store them in this bag.” When collecting fur, you can’t burn the pillings.
I used the level Dragon skill, Wind Breath. Using level 1 and 2, I’d defeated pillings with a single blast, and it was no different with this skill. Turning the bodies over, the golden fur was not conspicuous. I cut it carefully and placed it in the bag I brought along.
“This is pretty difficult work. If you’re patient, we can have it done in a week’s time.”
“Umm…..Callus-kun.”
“Yeah?”
“May I fight as well?” was what Claire said.
“What’s the matter, all of a sudden?”
“The reason I wanted to enter the guild, was to train so that I could level up and use the job change item that Callus-kun has given me.”
“So was that the reason?” Unless one was level 10 or more, they cannot register with the guild.
“Since Callus-kun has been able to enter the cave, I wanted to fight a little so I can raise my level.”
“So it was that?” I nodded after thinking about it a little bit.
“If that’s the case, then it’s fine.”
“Thank you.”
“Let’s work together. If I remember correctly, Wilf-sama once said that when fighting monsters, to get the last hit in was the best way to get experience in order to level up.”
“Okay.”
“Then once I’ve weakened them, Claire will go in and finish them off.”
Because I level up when attendance is taken. In the case of this guild test, I will help in raising Claire’s level. I sealed away the dragon skills, and fought using my ninja skills. I let Claire finish them off with a coup de grace by protecting her with caltrops and weakening them with shuriken.
It went reasonably well. We fought the pillings without things getting too dangerous, and because I have a lot of skills to use, we were able to collect fur and raise Claire’s level. Because Claire is fighting, she gets injured. She took out some leaves used with her Munching skill and ate them recover quickly.
It’s strange, every time she uses munching with a strained smile on her face, as expected, I have to help her out. We took out twenty on the first day. On the second day, because it wasn’t necessary to travel to Gordon, after the old man’s class, we were able to defeat forty of them. The next day was the same. After another forty pillings were taken down, Claire finally managed to level up.
As she was holding the job change item as she defeated a pilling, Claire was able to become a Warrior level 1.
“Thank you, Thank you Callus-kun!” Claire was in high spirits now.
“Yeah, that’s great.” “Callus-kun, I really, truly thank you for what you done!” [TN Note: Ladies and gentlemen, I do believe a flag has been raised.]
“You really worked hard for this.” This was said without any modesty or irony and was my true opinion. For the last three days, Claire has worked hard in defeating one hundred pillings. Defeat a pilling, munch some leaves, defeat a pilling, munch some leaves. Isn’t that kind of repetitious?
Her happiness is a reward in and of itself to me.
“Well, now that you have levelled Claire, do you want to start hunting in earnest now?” I looked into the bag. We had collected about three quarters of what we needed.
“I’ll help now. Callus-kun can concentrate on attacking, and I’ll collect the fur.” Claire was determined with a ‘let me work!’ face.
“Right, then. I’ll entrust it to you.” “Uh huh!”
Claire nods with a bright smile filling her face. We went back to one-shotting the pillings. The skills for Dragon levels 4 and 5 were Photon Breath and Dark Photon Breath.
I had gone up two levels over the last two days, and proceeded to use my new skills on the pillings. I defeated them, and Claire harvested the hair. By allotting the work, the last remain quarter was collected in no time. I took it to the guild and passed the test without any problems.
“Since you can’t enter the guild yet because your level is too low, do you want to work with me for a while?” I asked Claire.
“Sure! Thank you Callus-kun!” She was greatly pleased, and skipped on her way back, and picked up a leaf from the roadside, and munched it with a happy smile on her face. To level Warrior or Hairy Caterpillar, which would be best for her? I wasn’t sure at this time.
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