But those were, after all, a minority. Under the adventurer ranking system of copper, iron, silver, gold, platinum, mithril, orichalcum, and adamantite, the overwhelming majority of adventurers could not reach gold rank.
Or rather, for ordinary people without talent, the limit of a lifetime of diligent training was merely the level of a gold-ranked adventurer.
As for adventurers below gold rank, bluntly speaking, they were merely peripheral personnel who handled tasks like clearing monsters from cities. Their income was fairly decent, and their social status was barely above that of ordinary people, but compared to the life-risking work they did on the edge of a blade, it seemed rather insignificant.
At this moment, most of the adventurers handing in and accepting tasks at the Adventurers' Guild were below gold rank.
A green light flashed through Aya's left eye as she activated a spell called [Wide-Area View].
As its name implied, it expanded her field of vision. It was a low-tier spell used for scouting.
There was no interference with her scouting. Having noticed this first, Aya silently lowered her assessment of the humans' strength in this region by one level.
According to the information obtained from Est Village, in the villagers' understanding, an ordinary man was far weaker than an ordinary werewolf warrior. Being able to fight an adult werewolf one-on-one meant that one was already, at minimum, an outstanding adventurer.
The standard for an outstanding adventurer was ridiculously low, so what level were the top adventurers? Unfortunately, the villagers had no understanding of that either, since they had never seen high-ranking adventurers.
"If it were an adamantite-ranked adventurer party, they should be able to deal with those werewolves easily." That was the only estimate the villagers could provide.
That estimate was far too vague. What exactly counted as "dealing