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Translator: Kazumi
Editor: Silavin
Tamara was a well-known adventurer in the Airika Kingdom.
Normally, the Crown makes its own decisions when establishing branches. However, as a condition for Airika Kingdom to establish a branch, they requested that Tamara be appointed as the branch chief.
Naturally, the Crown also investigated Tamara’s personality and reputation not just in the Airika Kingdom but in other countries as well.
It was only after all these checks that they decided that she had sufficient ability to be appointed as the head of the branch.
Tamara was an Elf who had been active as an adventurer for more than a few decades since leaving her village. Her fame was such that it was not only known within the Airika Kingdom, but throughout the Eastern Continent.
She was great at fighting, and her personality was also well-liked by the adventurers.
This was because Tamara had taken advantage of her long lifespan compared to Humans to join various adventurer parties.
Rather than joining high-ranking adventurer parties, she repeatedly joined parties that were more like beginners’ groups, and taught them the ABCs of adventuring from scratch.
Whether it was because of her good eyesight or just by chance, the parties she could be said to have trained always went on to become high-ranking parties.
Furthermore, the party she left behind also trained newbies the same way she did.
After repeating this for several decades, it was said that there was not a single high-ranking party operating within the Eastern Continent that did not involve her, or a party she had trained.
Of course, these were exaggerated rumors. Nevertheless, her achievements were so great that they became the subject of such rumors.
In fact, the Airika Kingdom and other countries have honored her as the ‘Mother of Adventurers’. Since she had trained adventurers, and led to their development. Thus, many countries had bestowed upon her various medals.
However, even though Tamara received the medals, she did not stay in one country. She continued to travel around various countries.
When it was announced that she would be appointed as the head of the branch established in Airika Kingdom, the leaders of each country were surprised.
There was a flood of inquiries about how they had managed to persuade Tamara to join Airika Kingdom. Unfortunately, Airika Kingdom did not have an answer to it either.
It was a person from Crown who had persuaded Tamara.
Even Airika Kingdom did not know the details of how she was persuaded.
As a result, in the countries of the Eastern Continent, this topic was talked about with speculation and mystery. Just how did Crown manage to persuade her to join their organization?
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Tamara, who had shown Riku and the others to their room, first turned her gaze to Roman.
“I’ve heard about you from headquarters. Please show us your D-rank abilities from the Central Continent.”
“Eh? Yes?”
Roman and his companions tilted their heads at the sudden request.
Roman and his companions had been asked to spend a certain period of time working as adventurers centered around this branch. However, they had not been told the original detailed purpose of them being sent here.
Realizing this, Tamara turned her gaze to Arisa.
“You haven’t told them the real purpose of them being here, have you?”
“Yes. I thought it would be better to find out the details on the ground, so that you can really feel it.”
“I see.” Tamara nodded with a wry smile, agreeing with this reasoning.
“But… hmm…” After thinking about it for a moment, Tamara asked Arisa again.
“About the details, is it okay if I share some of them now?”
“Of course. Their instructions are to follow your instructions to the letter. But is there something wrong?”
“No, nothing. Considering what happened earlier, I thought it would be better to know some of the details in advance.”
“Oh… yeah, you’re right.”
Tamara, who was pleased with Arisa’s quick understanding. She looked back at Roman and the others again.
“I called you all the way to this continent for a number of reasons. It’s not just so that you can complete the request.”
“…What do you mean?” Wondering about the reason, Roman urged her to continue.
“Well, as you can probably tell from what I said earlier, we have the same ranking system on this continent as the Central Continent. But, there is actually a slight gap in ability between continents.”
Roman and the others looked at each other, clearly hearing this for the first time.
Incidentally, Riku was quietly listening to their conversation. He understood that it was not his place to interrupt them.
“You are all D rank in the Central Continent, but from what I can see, I think you would probably be able to get by as C rank on this continent.”
“What…!?”
The suddenness of the news took Roman and the others by surprise.
It was important to know that the standards for adventurer ranks were the same everywhere. Even Roman, who had graduated from the Adventurer Training School, had been drilled about this.
“This is just my opinion, but would you mind if I make a guess as to why that is the case?”
To this request, Roman and the others nodded in silence.
“I believe the basic premise is that the monsters on the Central Continent are stronger than those on other continents.”
Tamara began by saying this, and then went on to explain her thoughts to Roman and the others.
Because monsters on the Central Continent were stronger than those in other continents, and many high-ranking adventurers used the ranking standard of other continents, this had caused the discrepancy.
More high-ranking adventurers meant there would be fewer problems with the purchasing of materials or the defeat of monsters. However, if the population of mid- to high-ranking adventurers was too great, it would result in demotivating the low-ranking adventurers.
After all, there were many who aspired to become high-ranking adventurers precisely because there were so few of them.
If there were many A rank adventurers, there might be those who mistakenly think that it was easy to become one.
Furthermore, to become an S rank, the adventurer had to defeat powerful monsters of a certain level.
However, monsters that were certified as S rank outside the Central Continent, were monsters that could be found in the Central Continent if the people traveled by foot to a suitable location.
Tamara believes this might be why there were so many people who had become S rank by defeating such monsters in the past.
Tamara believed the Central Continent was stricter than other continents when it came to determining one’s rank. It was to maintain a balance, which would otherwise be thrown off by the presence of the few truly S rank monsters on the continent.
“In fact, I often hear adventurers with a certain level of ability here get frightened by the strength of the monsters in the Central Continent.” Tamara concluded.
Roman and the others listened to her explanation, seeming satisfied with her theory.
“I see. So that’s how things go around here?”
“Well, it’s just my opinion, but… what do you think?”
Arisa, who had been looking at Tamara, nodded in agreement.
“Yes. There are actually more and more people who realize this back at headquarters.”
Originally, guilds rarely worked across multiple continents. Such problems only came to light when Crown considered establishing branches on other continents.
There were no problems for adventurers moving from the Central Continent to other continents. However, there was a possibility of problems arising for adventurers outside entering into the Central Continent.
Such points were raised during an investigation.
“That’s a long-winded way to preface this. But, the main point is, you will be able to accept a higher rank request while you are working at this branch.”
When Tamara said this, Roman and the others understood what was expected of them.
“So, in other words, we just need to take on C-rank requests here, right?”
“Yes, that’s what I expect you to do.”
The real purpose of this request was to show those around them that, despite being D rank, they could defeat C rank monsters.
“We can do a preliminary investigation of the requests, right?”
“Of course.”
Tamara broke into a smile at their words.
There were many adventurers who head off to defeat monsters without even doing a proper preliminary investigation.
Tamara had a hunch that Roman, who answered in a straightforward manner, would show results beyond her expectations.
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