The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases: Volume 2 Part 1 by Shin Kouduki

Author:Shin Kouduki
Language: eng
Format: epub

Busy at the Adventurer’s Guild

The Adventurer’s Guild—that is to say, the Rivera branch in the Duchy of Westfeldt, Kingdom of Adastera—was often a bustling place, and today more so than usual. In fact, this was the case for the past several days. Put simply, the cause was a lack of staff. However, the solution was not as simple as merely increasing the number of employees. While hiring new workers and bringing in support from other branches had been presented as options, both were difficult at the moment.

Any appeals for support were particularly hopeless—this guild was far too physically remote from the other branches, being located as it was in a Frontier town. Officially, it wasn’t recognized as a settlement, let alone a town, and didn’t even have a name. The “Rivera branch of the Adventurer’s Guild” was an entirely fabricated appellation—a temporary solution borne of the inconvenient reality that this town had no name for the Adventurer’s Guild to take its own from, as was customary.

Besides, traveling to the next-closest guild to deliver an appeal for support would take ten days by horse-drawn carriage, and another ten for help to arrive, and that was in the best case. Considering the preparations and handovers that would have to be performed at the other guild, thirty days seemed more likely. Of course, all of this presumed that the closest guild had staff to spare. If not, the travel time would be even more of a burden.

Moreover, the other guilds were under no obligation to respond to a request for assistance, and their destination would be a Frontier town—a town that gossip had essentially branded “a penal colony.” What kind of people would happily come to help out at such a location?

The assortment of oddballs that currently staffed the Rivera Guild answered that question. What were the chances of finding such types in other towns? As a result, appeals for support were likely to result in failure, and attempts to hire new staff seemed similarly ill-fated. Any honest observer had to admit that the local population was a motley bunch of troublemakers and rabble-rousers, each with their own complicated set of circumstances and skeletons in the closet. Hiring the best-dressed street urchin from any other town seemed preferable to employing any of these people. As overblown a statement as that may seem, the townspeople themselves would unanimously agree.

No, anyone who willingly came here would not be suitable as an Adventurer’s Guild employee. Besides, the guild didn’t simply hire people off the street. Its reputation was paramount, being responsible as it was for granting requests to those unpredictable rogues known as adventurers and ensuring that they were properly fulfilled. Any request granted to an adventurer who was clearly incapable of fulfilling it became the responsibility of the guild itself. As such, it had to be able to identify suitable adventurers for each job, and it was confidence in this ability that led the guild’s clients to request their assistance in the first place. A

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