The following day started much sooner than I'd expected it felt like I had only just closed my eyes when I opened them again to light streaming into them as the twin suns projected beams of searing light right onto my face.
Rubbing my face gently as I made my way to my feet, confirming my attire for but a moment before leaving the room and locking the door behind me, before descending the stairs dropping the key off at the desk without a word, and departing from The Last Resort without looking back.
I pulled up the map and made my way back to the main road, knowing that as it stood right now, I would need to accomplish my own goals of getting my registration set so no one could mistake me for Kokei the runaway from the Kingdom.
Once that's done then I can take jobs to buff my professions, since I only have Skinning and First Aid for the moment.
After that I can start my hunt for the warehouse to butcher the remaining drops I have in my inventory then I can reunite with Raisa, if she doesn't find me first that is.
Having arrived at the main road I stopped a passerby and asked for directions to the adventurer's guild, they respond in kind as soon as I produced a copper coin to grease their palm.
I was pointed to a building not even 30 feet away with long draped red flags with a tri-art emblem emblazoned, featuring a shield with crossed sword and bow.
[This must be the sigil of the guild, pretty sure the merchants, and mages each have their own along with dedicated color, though the Kingdom didn't showcase any of this, so perhaps the Meritocracy is just more of a show off]
Deciding it didn't really matter but making sure to mark down the location of the guild with a pin on my map before striding up and into the building, unlike last time when I first entered a guild and just gawked this time I entered and then confidently strode right up to the reception desk.
"Good Morning, here to request a job?"
"No actually I'm here to register with the guild"
"I see well then in that case, please fill out this form; afterwards it'll be a 5 silver registration fee"
Putting the silvers on the counter before even filling out the form, he took it and stepped back to prepare the guild card while I filled out the form.
[I'll go with just Satou from now on, since only nobles, or freemen have multiple names here it seems, next up I need to remember to register my summoning skill, and Kurama as well so I can freely have him out in the city as my pet]
Having put in the barest of essentials I handed the form back to him.
"Oh a summoner that's a pretty rare skill, but work hard so you can level it up, a kobold will only get you so far"
I nodded my head, deciding to accept his sage advice since countering would expose my secret, which this isn't true summoning.
Moments later after a flash of blue light the receptionist returned, and handed me my new Onyx guild card as soon as I had it I made sure to press a drop of blood onto the card before pressing the logo to turn off the tracker before turning from the desk and advancing towards the job board.
[Hmmm lots to choose from for G, and F rankers but if I'm looking to grind some professions, I should take the limit I'm allowed to in the forest, that way I can get herbs, and possibly some monsters to continue grinding skinning]
After looking over the board I pulled down three requests for herbs that can be located in the forests surrounding the city.
[Oh yeah that's right I still have my monster mats I was going to turn in, better do that before I grab these new jobs]
Taking them back to the receptionist I accepted all three jobs onto my card, once that was done I place the card into my inventory.
"If I defeat a monster not on the request I selected am I allowed to turn in the materials here?"
"Oh but of course do you know what to collect?"
"It's the left ear from humanoids, Fangs, and Claws from others right?"
"Yes that is correct it differs for higher ranked monsters but the ones you'll find in the forest should suffice with that"
I thanked him and exited the guild, before heading out of the city I stopped by a tailor and purchased two large messenger bags that I could put the herbs into so I can hide my item box.
The bags were of good quality and cost a fair bit but the price of exposing my true skills would be even higher, so the loss of two white gold is nothing.
Thankfully with my new guild card leaving the city was a simple task, once I was out of eyesight I pulled the messenger bags into my inventory and took off at a sprint towards the forest.
After only 10 minutes of running I arrived at the edge of the forest, immediately my brain went into job mode, and I began scanning the surrounding everything and anything I could analyze I did, collecting herb after herb, not once but twice, first when I cut they herb from the ground, and then again when I collected the herb drop.
[Nice double growth]
I did a mental fist bump after my first collection; I received for both the item drop and the physical collection.
I had fulfilled all three requests I had taken from the guild within the first 20 minutes of getting to the forest, so I placed those required herbs into the messenger bag, before wandering into the forest further to collect more things for my profession acquisition and growth as well as to assemble ingredients I would need for gaining skill in Alchemy.
"Summon Kurama"
A white flash and my faithful Kobold appeared in the forest, performing and exaggerated stretch like he'd just woken up, before stopping to look around with worry on his face.
"Don't worry she's back in the city, safe and sound"
"Aroo"
A light call out with a simple nod of his head the kobold return to a normal stance.
"Ok so for right now I'd like to find some herbs so I can work on potions, think you can find some for me with your search skill?"
"Arooo"
Kurama raced into the forest, with me tailing after him.