Level 1 Strongest Sage ~

We went out of our way to go to Glendale’s royal capital.

There is also an adventurer’s guild in the territory of my dad, the count, but the one in the royal capital received far more commissions apparently.

Not only that, the adventurer’s ranking and the guild he was affiliated to also had bearing on whether he would receive commissions or not.

Thus, I thought the Adventurer’s Guild in the royal capital would be great if we were to register.

Usually, noob adventurers would register in their hometown, so they would travel to other places. That’s because monsters they slay on the road could also raise their ranks.

It was also possible to renew their registration at their destination.

They could use the location where they renewed their registration as their base and main area of work, and they could also choose to work elsewhere.

Adventurers were free people.

However, there were various requirements for registration renewal, so we decided to register at the royal capital from the get-go.

We still had two years left at the Ifrus Academy of Magic after registering as adventurers.

Some of the students also registered as adventurers while still attending the academy of magic just like us, but everyone of them registered at the branch office of the adventurer’s guild located within the academy of magic.

It was convenient for them since they did not have to go to faraway places, but there was also another reason why they chose to do so.

Registering as an adventurer required the person to receive several commissions within a certain period of time according to his rank. Failure to do so would result in the cancellation of his registration.

However, those who registered at the guild office in the academy didn’t have such requirements. Their registration would not be terminated even if they didn’t receive any commissions for a long period of time.

That’s why almost all of the students of the academy of magic decide to register at the branch office.

In addition to Sitri and I who could teleport, most of the Ernol family members could travel at high-speed.

That meant traveling to and fro from the royal capital was just a piece of cake.

Moreover, our class had already completed all the mandatory curriculum courses last year, so there were fewer classes that we absolutely had to take at the academy.

In short, we had a lot of free time now.

We would probably need to accept commissions from the guild a few times in a week.

With that reason in mind, we made our way to the royal capital’s adventurer’s guild.

“So this is the Royal Capital’s Adventurer’s Guild?”

“It’s as big as Halt’s place ~!”

Luna and Hakua exclaimed as they looked up at the adventurer’s guild building. It was the first time for both of them to come to the royal capital of Glendale.

The building standing before us was roughly the same size of — or probably slightly bigger than — my mansion.

This was the main office of Glendale’s adventurer guild. It was also the headquarters of all the adventurer’s guilds in the entire country, and it also functions as a regular guild.

There were a lot of people entering and leaving its premises.

There was a time when I checked out the adventurer’s guild at my dad’s territory, but this one was far livelier than that place.

Moreover, there were many people around here who gave off the vibes of being an adventurer.

It’s quite exciting.

Today, I would finally become the adventurer that I was always interested in back in my previous world.

“Alright, let’s go.”

“Yes.”

Starting from Tina, I led my family and comrades — seventeen people and one beast — into the guild’s building.

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“Here. This is your guild card.”

“Ah, yes… Thank you very much.”

The beauty at the guild reception desk gave me a guild card. It had a huge F written in the upper right corner of the card.

…How weird.

My adventurer registration was completed without a hitch, and I even got my guild card.

Got my guild card… wasn’t that too odd?

I came all the way here to register as an adventurer, and did complete that with no problems whatsoever, and even got my guild card.

I accomplished my goal, but it left me feeling unsatisfied.

— That’s it. The ‘template event’ didn’t happen.

This might sound off coming from me, but I looked like a weakling and yet I was accompanied by more than ten gorgeous women and beautiful girls, so I expected the senior adventurers to pick a bone with me.

Nothing of the sort happened at all.

“As I thought, are you dissatisfied with the F-rank?”

Tina looked worried about me since I looked like I had a hard time making sense of everything, so she asked me.

“Er, that’s not it, but…”

“Halt-sama, the bastards around us were harboring ill will against Halt-sama, so in order to prevent them from doing untoward things, this concubine brainwashed all of them.”

Kikyou whispered to my ear.

Ah, s-so it was her fault!

The adventurers didn’t fight with me because of Kikyou. Except for everyone accompanying me, she brainwashed all the people within this building.

Normally, Kikyou should be thanked because she prevented us from getting into troublesome stuff.

However, I had been anticipating experiencing that ‘template event’ since I had the chance to come to another world.

“Thanks, Kikyou.”

In the meantime, I still thanked Kikyou and patted her on the head.

Kikyou and Youko’s tails would normally be invisible when they morphed into their human forms, but I could still see them because of my magic vision.

Her tails were swishing behind her, as if waiting for me to praise her.

“Master, why are you praising my mother?”

Youko seemed puzzled.

It seemed that even Youko, who was also a nine-tailed fox herself, didn’t notice that her mother cast a mind manipulation spell.

“I avoided getting into trouble thanks to Kikyou, so that’s why.”

Not a single person in this guild had the ability to resist Kikyou’s mind manipulation magic, probably.

I was a sage, so I could barely confirm that she was actively using her mind manipulation spell after listening to Kikyou and tracing her diluted mana.

There shouldn’t be anyone who noticed that they were under a spell.

By the way, there were also magic tools that could resist brainwashing magic.

Good timing, there were also high-ranking adventurers who just passed us by, and they had anti-mind manipulation magical tools, but —

The tools didn’t seem to have any effect, either.

These tools contained spirits inside them, who were responsible for blocking the interference of other people’s mana and magic, thus resisting mind manipulation.

It seemed that the spirits were shocked because of the presence of Mai and Mei, and they couldn’t focus on their job.

That’s why even the high-ranking adventurers with the anti-mind manipulation magic gear didn’t stand a chance of resisting Kikyou’s brainwashing.

And so, this was how we ended up registering as adventurers without getting into a single trouble at all.

It wasn’t like I was looking for trouble, so this was fine, I guess.

Hmmm…But, promises are important, right?

We left the adventurer’s guild with me still feeling dissatisfied.