Several days after Irene finished convincing Sage that the Adventurer Guild could somehow earn more than a million gold coins every day and still have reasons to worry about money, Rowan Flintpath returned to the Kingdom Headquarters carrying a bloodstained map.
He found Sage shortly before noon inside the Mission Hall, where Garran Holt was reviewing a growing collection of assignments with three evaluators.
The number of missions leaving the Royal Capital had increased considerably over the past two weeks.
Escort requests now connected the Guild to nearby towns and villages, merchants were paying Adventurers to investigate attacks along trade roads, landowners wanted monsters removed from estates beyond the walls, and independent requests for rare herbs, ores and monster materials appeared almost daily.
Most were still relatively ordinary jobs, but the Guild's reach was steadily stretching beyond the districts surrounding its Headquarters.
