When the receptionist saw Fang Zheng and his group appear, she was quite surprised.
"Sir Knight, Miss Priestess, you're back? Where have you been all this time?"
"I took them somewhere to train."
"Indeed..."
Hearing Fang Zheng's answer, the receptionist carefully examined Priestess and the others beside him.
"Indeed... You all look more like adventurers than before. Where did you go?"
"The Deepest Dungeon. We stayed there for a few days..."
"There?!"
Even the receptionist could not help but gasp in shock. Although she had never been there herself, she had heard rumors about the Deepest Dungeon. Unlike ordinary jobs, the Deepest Dungeon was practically hell for adventurers. It was easy to lose one's way there, and there was no way to resupply.
Now that adventuring had become increasingly professionalized, few people still went to such places to challenge themselves.
After all, most people became adventurers to support their families, not to throw their lives away.
"No wonder all of you seem so different."
Muttering to herself, the receptionist carefully looked over the girls beside Fang Zheng. She had never met Eris, so she could not say much about her, but she knew Priestess and Megumi. If they had looked like mere rookies before, they now carried the air of genuine adventurers.
Unfortunately, hardly anyone did that anymore.
The receptionist had heard many old adventurers say that, long ago, when the Adventurer's Guild had first been established, veterans would take newcomers through the Deepest Dungeon once. If they came back out after making a round, they qualified as adventurers. But now, with Guild regulations becoming increasingly standardized and adventurers' attitudes changing from the old days, people like that had all but vanished.
What she had not expected was that Fang Zheng, despite being so young, knew to use such an