Cosmic Peak

"Do you know what happened to those people from otherworld you met several years ago?"

Hearing the question of Aren, Donnie wryly shook his head and said, "One day, they all suddenly disappeared, never to be seen again."

Aren and Luna turned silent before Aren asked one more question with a solemn expression, "Do you know how many years they spent here? rough estimate is fine."

Donnie nodded before speaking with a thoughtful expression, "As far as I remember, approximately three years."

Aren and Luna looked at each other in shock.

"Anyway, now that assessment is over, you can directly pay the fees at the desk," Donnie said with a smile before he took out two white crystal cards and closed his eyes for a moment as several words appeared on the card along with golden patterns.

Donnie gave Aren and Luna a card each before saying, "These are your Guild ID cards. You will need this ID card in all matters related to Guild. You can get more information after paying the fees at the desk."

"Let's go, big brother and sister. Today, I will show you around everywhere and introduce to you everything this town has to offer," Gin spoke with a cheerful smile. After all, one gold coin was his several days worth of work.

...

After a while, Aren and Luna paid the fees of fifty silver each for their assessment and ID card before they got to know more about Guild ID cards.

Their current rank within the Guild was Wanderer. Once they reach level 50 and become Warrior-rank, they will need to go to a Guild branch and upgrade their ID card by paying five hundred gold coins. Of course, there are also benefits after they upgrade their Guild ID, but since it was a bit far from their current situation, they put it in the back of their mind.

Aren also asked about the requirements to register a company at the Guild since there are some quests that only companies can accept from the Guild.

He wanted to register a company now, but the requirement was to gather at least five members in a Guild branch before registering the company and add their names to the said company.

Another thing was that they got two tier-1 red berry health potions as a mandatory gift for registering in the Guild.

"Say Gin, these tier-1 red berry health potions' main ingredients are these berries, right?" Aren asked as he took out a red berry from his inventory.

Gin looked back and saw the red berry in Aren's hand and nodded with a smile, "That's indeed true. You can sell those berries at a high price in the market, or you can go to Alchemy store to create potions from those berries."

"I see," Aren nodded before he thought for a moment and said, "Well, we can do that later. For now, we want to go to Red Leaves Armory shop."

Gin was surprised, "That VIP shop? It's the best armory shop in this town and sells high-quality armors and weapons."

Aren smiled and nodded, "Yep. Let's go there."

If anyone was wondering about Luna, then she was actually sitting on the heavy broad sword of Aren while reading the scroll.

She said she wanted to read the scroll of Meridians opening and told Aren to carry her on his sword.

Fortunately, the heavy broad sword had a broad blade that allowed her to sit on it. And since they were just walking, the sword was just slowly floating along, so there was no chance of Luna falling down.

It was a bit strange sight as it attracted people's attention, but Aren could only smile wryly at that while Luna didn't care about it in the slightest.

While walking, Aren contacted his mother with a spiritual call and added Quinn to the call as well.

Aren--"Mom, Quinn. How much have you progressed? Did you find one spirit stone each and two fields of red berries?"

Lorain--"Oh...Actually, we met our goals but forgot to contact you about it since we started forming our spirit core."

Quinn--"Yeah. And we are still in the middle of that process. Once we are done, we will contact you and meet up."

Aren--"Alright. By the way, I mainly called to tell you that Luna and I found a bigger town which is where our real adventure about getting strong will start. So once you are done, we will leave Wild Expanse to meet together in our world before entering this bigger town together."

Quinn--"That's great! We will immediately meet up once we finish forming our spirit core."

Lorain--"Mhmm. Be careful and take care."

...

While walking on the street, following Gin as he took them to their destination, Aren thought, 'Grandpa Borus and other teams also didn't contact me yet as well. Did they forget about it or...?'

Aren shook his head as he stopped thinking about it. The decision was up to them. He just gave them the information that was not that valuable in the bigger picture.

In the first place, he was not going to waste his time going around in all beginner towns to find spirit stones and red berries since he knew that this was just a low-level area, A beginner town.

Just small benefits like one spirit stone and a field of red berries to each person are enough of a head-start to make their journey smoother. After all, once the person goes to a bigger place, like this duchy, they are bound to progress faster.

For instance, Just access to the Guild gave them a plethora of benefits like quests, information about places, and they also found out about magical places called dungeons where they can progress faster with higher risk. But the risk can be avoided as long as they are sufficiently prepared beforehand.

Aren and Luna didn't accept any quests because they first needed to meet up with others outside and enter this duchy town together.

...

After walking for fifteen minutes, Gin, Aren, and Luna finally arrived at their destination.

<Red Leaves Armory Shop>

Its size was three storeys tall building with six meters wide front, and a giant board with the shop's name was written on the center of the building with mystical redwood material with leaf patterns.