Chapter 502: A Vast Empire 2
Mercenaries and adventurers were separated by a fine line, and the same went for their guilds. After all, wasn't this a world where plenty of people worked as both?
You'd be a mercenary while escorting merchant caravans on long trips, briefly switch to adventurer when hunting monsters in remote areas along the way, become a mercenary again for small territory wars or bandit subjugation requests, and maybe do some highway robbery on the side if you found easy targets - that was the average in this world.
So naturally the Mercenary's Guild was bigger than the Adventurer's Guild in the Imperial capital. They needed mercenaries to escort merchant caravans departing from the archipelago and attend to bored noble lords.
"Please come this way and have a seat!"
Even people who were adventurers elsewhere became mercenaries upon entering the archipelago. Where people gathered, money followed, and with money came bigger buildings. Dealing with nobles had made the guild itself more upscale.
Instead of a cheap building where drunks rolled around in their own vomit, the guild members worked systematically in a clean building that could be called modern-style wooden mansion.
The receptionist, whose size exceeded even Grace and Irene's and had viewers screaming "THICC," led us to the counter. With partitions between desks, it felt more like a government office than a guild.
"You said you wanted information? What kind are you looking for? While we can't investigate individuals like the Information Guild, we can compile local rumors for you."
"Strange incidents related to monster waves. Especially cases where monster corpses vanish leaving only mana stones."
