They accepted that there was nothing to do at headquarters for now, fog on the stru of their guild hall. This project had three prerequisites.
A blueprint, an architect, and building materials.
The party learned from Liam that an architect usually came with a basic blueprint. The materials could be gathered through guild quests. They were tless random, small quests issued by the guild association, which could be aplished by all members.
This left them with the task of recruiting an architect, which was a job held by NPCs rather than a pyer profession. And Liam already had a didate in mind.
“Fononpiss?!”, excimed Cye with an incredulous expression.
“Mirage, that name doesn’t spark fidence. Are you sure that guy has a high potential?”
“Of course. Would I lie about something like that?”
“Well… I guess we’ll follow you…”
“Good. I think retty much done discussing then. Should we go?”
“Sure. Good luck, guys…”
Liam Cye while his party members got up, leaving behind Cye, Balm, and Sun’s Knight to deal with the recruitment.
The friends had already assigheir tasks. Silent Acacia and Quickstep separated as well, cheg out the PvP arena, preparing to earn some guild points.
In Fate of aboul the arena matches followed an elo system from broo diamond. A registered guild team earned points for the guild depending on their elo.
Dream Avenue po form a team soon after s out the recruitments, led by the inal Hotpot. This team would receive a boost at the start if its members were high elo. Thus, Silent Acacia and Quickstep po rise in advance, creating favorable ditions for the team.
The party members khe couple’s wish to win against Silent Acacia’s old team and were naturally supportive. Siheir aspiration could help the guild as well, it was a win-win situation.
However, the rest suddenly found themselves a little uaffed. Luckily Final Fend messaged Silver Bde, tellihat they broke out of the crowd together with uild members who logged in ter.
Thus, they were immediately scripted.
Soon, Bleary Mirage, Silver Bde, Radiant Shield, Bloody Edge, Watchful Eye, and Fortune waited he teleportation ptforms.
It didn’t take long until they spotted a group of three among the crowd.
The elf cdded in dark armor and the older dwarf arrived together with a pretty woman with flowing pink hair and a broad, colorful dress, which swung freely with every step.
“Final Fend, Braag, Edelweiss! You finally made it!”
“Yes, it was quite the fight! I almost thought my fans would never let me go!”
Braag threw the boasting Final Fend an annoyed gnce:
“If you wouldn’t have started taking pictures, we would’ve had a much easier time.”
“What I do? My fans dema…”
“I’m just gd we got out.”, added Melodious Edelweiss shyly.
Silver Bde looked at the bard they got to know during the party three days ago with a gentle smile:
“Edelweiss, are you ready for our first mission?”
“Ah… I hope so. But I’m such a low level pared to you guys…”
“Haha, don’t worry. Look, you reached level 17 despite being by yourself, while those two are only level 19 despite pying in groups!”
Final Fend and Braag looked awkward as Silver Bde used the onish them.
“Ah, no. But I’m sure Final Fend and Braag are really talented!”
Edelweiss quickly tried to smooth things over, afraid that the two men would hold reseowards her.
“Ok guys, don’t worry about levels. Follow us and you will rise quickly.”, promised Fortune.
While the group talked, Silver Bde sent out the party invitations before leading everyoowards the teleporter.
Sihey have been in Duabalis Harbor before there was o go by cart again. It was marked as destination for their teleport, allowing the party to be directly transported into the harbor.
After a brief shift their vision was filled with a bustling city and a geous o.
The party walked along the main street, reag the busy stru site.
Final Fend watched the se with a strange gaze. Thinking about the au house which has been built within a few days, some doubts came to his mind.
“Mirage, do you really think that Fuys is petent?”
“Of course, don’t worry. Isn’t he still young after all?”
“How would I know?”
Final Fend’s question caused the party to ugh as they approached the gsses-wearing, bck-haired architect.
Liam, ready to prove the power of his new ring, approached Fonor fidently.
“Adventurer? Are you here to help me? Finally!”
“No, I…”
“Listen, my job is it to lead the stru of a gateway here. It is an incredible honor to be hired by the Broken cil directly…”
“Wait, wait, wait!”, interrupted Liam hastily. “I came to invite you tuild… sir.”
“Yuild? Oh, I see. Well, I’m not opposed to the idea, but as you see, I am loaded with work. Why don’t you… hey, where are you going?”
Liam felt incredibly embarrassed, going back to his friends. Although his improved charisma stat proved useful in pr a quest within a few words, he didn’t sider solving the quest first as a prerequisite.
“Should I try it?”, asked Silver Bde with a teasing smile.
“Go…”
Everyone chuckled watg Silver Bde approach the architect.
“Adventurer, you are back! Great! You won’t believe it, but those zy workers are missing again…”
“I’m sorry sir, but I came with a different purpose this time. I wao invite you tuild.”
“Guild? I see. I would love to join you, but I am loaded with work at the moment. Listen, adventurer, if you could help me out here, I would be freed up and could naturally join you.”
“Sounds great, what do you need?”
“I need what every architeeeds…”
“Inspiration?”
“Money! Do you think I like hanging out here and watch this stru adva a snail’s pace? Of course not!
But the Broken cil has gutted my budget retly and I have to make do with these sed-tier workers.
Adventurer, if you vihe Broken cil to increase my budget, I would be done in no time at all and will happily join yuild!”
Silver Bde quickly accepted the quest she had just received, sharing it with the party.
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“Ah, adventurer, finally someone willing to assist me!”
“Don’t mention it, sir. Just wait here for the good news.”
“Yes.”
Fonor stopped talking, turning towards his blueprints. Silver Bde uood the signal ahered with the others.
The party didn’t waste much time, returning to Duabalis City and following Liam towards the majestic mountain covered in magical fog.
Looking at the stern-faced soldiers guarding the entrance Liam turned around with an apologetic smile:
“Suys, only inal nephilim proceed from here…”
“Oh, what a pity. I will take some time off then, I guess.”, answered Braag with a broad grin.
“You wish. We will be ba a few minutes. I dare you not to wait here!”
Liam threw the dwarf a meaningful gnce before leading the inal nephilim towards the mountain.
They walked along the peaceful paths embrag the natural mountain side until reag a small temple-like building made from fine white stone.
But as soon as they ehe seremosphere was interrupted by busy nephilim browsing through dots and the loud scribbling.
Surprisingly the temple-like building tained an offiside.
Liam led his friends towards an old nephilim with a thick grey beard. The little hair left on his head was desperately styled in a way which covered as much of his skin as possible.
The man had his eyes closed while multiple quills moved before him as if trolled by magical hands.
Only when Liam came to a stht in front of his desk, did the old nephilim open his eyes, the quills slowing down siderably.
“Ah, another supplit… Who sent you? Renaln? Do his troops need more food again?”
“No, sir. We came on the behest of Fonor.”
The old man looked ahead for a few seds before turning towards Liam with a skeptical expression:
“Who?”
“Fonor… Fononpiss, the architect w on a gateway in Duabalis Harbor.”
“Oh.”
As the man fell silent, Liam could only send his doleo Fonor. Obviously, he had been fotten by this elder of finance before him.
“Now even Fonor wants money? Do I look like the god of wealth?
Everyone is causing trouble, stretg our budget to the limit. Today it’s an infernal invasion, tomorrow it’s a group of bandits ambushing merts.
One person actly poisons a forest and another experiments with curses. Do you know how exhausting all of this is?!”
“Sorry…”
The old nephilim let out a deep sigh, waving his hand at Liam.
“It’s ok. I’m gd you adventurers exist, or else my job would be tless times more difficult.
You wao increase Fonor’s budget, correct? Let me think…”
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