Legend

m the day before.

It was still the same leather type armour, but it had been changed to a superior one.

「I see, that’s the armour you picked.」
「Ahh.
……Yesterday was tiring.
Of course, the armour was heavy and I had to carry it.
After keeping some spares for myself, I sold of the rest to shops but……」
「Ahh, I see.」

Things like potions and gems don’t take up that much space and Rei only took 5 spears and 10 daggers.
It wasn’t that hard for him to carry around as Rei had the Misty Ring.
In comparison, the protective gear that Supervia took was different.
Both shields and armour had a considerable weight as they were made from metal and the skin and bones of monsters.

「What’s wrong?」
「I called up some acquaintances to help carry them.
But I had to give them some money in return.」

At that point, as Rei was talking with Supervia, he heard footsteps coming towards the conference room.

「It seems he’s come.」
「What?」
「The person who will tell us whether or not we ranked up.」

Matching Rei’s words, Gran entered the room a few second later.

Gran looked around the meeting room and after confirming that all the rank up test participants were here, spoke up.

「Okay, everyone is here.
Then, the results of the test will be announced now.」

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At Grans words, the meeting room fell dead silent, filled with tension.

Scola, who had been reading his book without minding his surroundings, now turned his eyes tensely to Gran.

Attracting everyone’s attention……Gran nodded with a smile.

「Congratulations.
All of you have been promoted to rank D.」
「YEEESSSS!」
「I did it, I did it.」
「Ahh, that’s good……」
「It’s seems I’ve done it somehow.」
「I’m relieved.」

Arogan, Culotte, Scola and Supervia rejoiced at their rank up in their own ways while Firuma gave a sigh of relief.

Rei also smiled while sighing in relief.

After all, it was his social skills that were being tested as party leader.
He would have been more confident if it was testing his strong points, but he was nervous as the test had been on his weak point.

「Congratulations Rei.」
「Ahh, you too as well.」

Rei replied as Firuma congratulated him from nearby while smiling.

「That’s enough rejoicing for now.
Hey, come here.」

At Gran’s voice, a person, who was probably a guild staff member, entered the conference room and approached Rei.

「Everyone, because your rank needs to be updated, please pass your guild cards to this person.」

Following his instructions, they all handed over their guild cards.
The guild staff member checked each one as they were handed in to make sure.

「Gran-san, I’ll get this done immediately.」
「Ahh, thanks.
In the meantime, I’ll talk about the test until it’s done.」
「Okay, it shouldn’t take that long.」

After saying that to the the guild staff member and seeing him off, Gran turned to Rei.

「From today on, you are all rank D adventurers.
However, you should remember that there were some dangerous situations in the test.
First of all, Rei.
As I said before the test, you have no problems regarding combat power.
However, at rank D and higher, you will have to participate in groups more often.
Though your social interaction was a problem……and your instructions in combat weren’t perfect, it is still a passing grade.
Your cooperation with allies was the same.
However, in regards to the exchange with the merchants, particularly regarding the goods, there is a demerit.
If you return a merchant’s goods for free, it will become a problem if they start demanding the same from other adventurers.
……Fortunately, it worked out well this time as those merchants understood the problem.
So as I said, watch out for that in rank D.」

Rei nodded at Gran’s words.

Seeing that, Gran turned his eyes to Culotte.

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「Next is Culotte.
At the beginning of the rank up test, you were aggressive to Rei and Arogan, probably due to your nervousness.
As I said to Rei, there was also the issue of returning the merchants’ goods free of charge.
However, other than that, your abilities as a thief are worthy of rank D.
Continue to work hard in future.」

Culotte also nodded.

Gran turned to look at Scola.

「In your case Scola, your mental weakness is an issue.
At any rate, vanguard aside, as a mage in the back, you were troubled after you killed the bandit.
Your future task is to improve your mental strength.」
「Yes, I’ll do my best.」

Scola answered.

Nodding in satisfaction at the response, Gran looked towards Supervia.

「Next are Supervia and Firuma.
Both of you did well to hide your unease even though you had killed a person.
If you were to add that to your rank up test mark, you two would come out on top.
However, you are still only rank D.
From the viewpoint of adventurer, there’s still more to the top.
Keep working hard in future and don’t be satisfied with just this.」
「I will do that.」
「I’ll keep that in mind.」

Seeing the two people nod, he finally turned to Arogan.

「In this test, your evaluation was the lowest.
You overestimate your own power and look down on others.
You were late to the meeting time.
You couldn’t communicate well with your party members either.
A after killing a person, you showed mental weakness.
Honestly, the way it was, it wouldn’t be wrong to fail you on the rank up test.
However, after you talked with Culotte and Scola, you got over your mental weakness of killing people, thanks to that, your interaction within the party also reached the passing grade.
……However, listen up.
You should not forget that you only barely passed the rank up test.」
「……Ah.」

At Gran’s harsh criticism, Arogan nodded with a bitter face.

Making sure he understood, Gran then directed his gaze to everyone in the place.

「At any rate, from today on, you are all rank D adventurers.
You will now be seen as fully fledged adventurers who are past the beginners and rookies of rank E.
However, you should not forget to conduct yourselves.
……Especially Arogan, you must always be conscious of this.」
「Sorry for making you wait.」

As Gran’s words finished, with good timing, the previous staff member came back.

In his hand, he held six guild cards, who he returned to each person.

All the ranks on the guild card had been changed from E to D.
They all smiled when they realised that they had all ranked up.

It was the same even for Rei, who usually didn’t have too much change in his facial expression.

「Okay, that’s the end of the rank up test! I expect you to play an active role in future.
Dismissed!」

In accordance with his words, each person stood up and left the meeting room.
Arogan and Culotte continued on from yesterday while Scola pulled out his book.

As for Rei, as he stood up to follow them……Gran called out.

「Rei, you remain here.
We have to talk for a bit.」

Gran said that with rather serious look.