"Very well, A Group of Adventurers. Congratulations on successfully registering as members of the Guild. All the Guild's services are now open to you—
I imagine Hope has already introduced you to everything, so I won't go into too much detail. Based on the address you provided, the Guild will begin charging a membership fee of 10 gold per person each month, starting next month."
"10 gold per person?"
Tang Qi glanced back at the bustling adventurers behind him.
The hall had returned to its usual din, but some people still occasionally looked their way, unable to resist sizing up Tang Qi and the others.
Tang Qi tried to estimate the number of adventurers in Dragon Gold City.
A few thousand, or tens of thousands?
As a group large enough to be assigned its own district in a city of 100,000 people, Tang Qi figured it couldn't be a small number:
"You sure know how to make money."
10 gold a month—that was far more than he made from writing books.
As expected, the people at the top knew how to make money.
With Tang Qi drawing so much attention, it took the hawkfolk woman a long while to maintain her customary professional smile:
"This is also meant to encourage adventurers to take on quests promptly. After all, one quest can bring in a handsome reward, enough to cover all of this. And that's especially true for you.
If everything that happened in the Twilight Forest really was connected to you."
Tang Qi didn't elaborate. He simply smiled in response.
By not explaining anything outright and keeping a certain air of mystery, he could attract some attention without standing out too much.
Just as he caught snippets of people whispering—
"Three of them—no, two people, with a dwarf? They're the