Compared with Fernandez's other branches, the Adventurer Guild in the Tower District had far fewer adventurers.
The reason was easy enough to understand. As one of the city's most stable and safest areas, there simply were not many commissions that could arise here.
Yet this was the guild that conducted the most tests for new adventurers in the entire city.
This was because, at Fernandez Magic Academy, once new students entered their third year, the credits for their "practical combat courses" became directly tied to their Adventurer Guild rank.
This somewhat peculiar measure had originated from an expedition into an abandoned mage tower in the Hidden Valley District many years ago.
In order to strictly comply with the Team Exploration Safety Regulations issued by the academy, the expedition team, composed of outstanding third-year students, spent an entire week before departure writing an eighty-page Risk Assessment and Emergency Response Plan. As required, they also invited five veteran professors from different schools to form a "Remote Guidance Committee."
On the day of the expedition, the party had to stop after advancing each stretch of the way, use Telepathic Communication to report the situation to the committee in detail, and wait for a joint decision.
Over the question of "whether to push open a wooden door in the tower that appeared to have no magical aura whatsoever," the professors of the Protection School and the Divination School engaged in a fierce two-hour debate. Only after casting [Detect Magic], having everyone reconfirm their [Mage Armor], and receiving a remote ruling from a vice principal did they finally receive the order to "proceed inside."
In the end, their only gain from the tower was a Guide to Raising Common Household Magical Pets, which was not even as thick as their emergency plan.
Meanwhile, the temporary