Section 6: Guilds
The Mercenary Guild originated on the East Coast, something we've been talking about for a long time. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
As with anything else, once an industry begins to grow, as it grows in size, the conventional "unspoken rules" of the industry no longer apply. When there are only a few people, relying on each other's familiarity and their own level as a binding practice, when the industry becomes larger, more and more newcomers enter the industry to make a living, it will be completely eliminated.
So the fact that a lot of things were born on the prosperous East Coast makes sense when you think about it.
Today's Mercenary Guild has evolved over a long period of time to become a huge multinational organization beyond the royal family and the royal family, maintaining delicate relationships with the major imperial kingdoms, and reaping huge profits from it. Those who have been certified by the Mercenary Guild will also have a series of privileges in addition to being paid a share of the remuneration and having to complete some mercenary tasks on a regular basis.
The east and west coasts are fundamentally different.
No one cares who you are on the poor and war-torn West Coast, and there are many people walking on the roads with weapons and armor, and on the East Coast, especially in a big city like Parnira, more than a day is obviously not enough time for our Luoan girls to get used to that relatively peaceful and orderly atmosphere.
After yesterday's shopping and strolling, the group had settled down more or less. Minna, who was carrying the royal certificate of Avenella, had already successfully approached the local officials of Parnila, and the blonde lady had returned with fear to tell her companions exactly what our Sage had told Mira.
The envoy of Avenella, a small country, went to negotiate with the officials of the Padrossi Empire, Minna was ready to be snubbed, but she never expected that the other party would be so enthusiastic.
Although the book has made up for the things related to it, Minna, who is a nobleman of Avenella and has never left the West Coast much in her life, thinks of Padrosi's first impression of "an enlarged version of a more powerful Sivalier" - and if the subject of this negotiation is replaced by a Sivalier who is in an advantageous position, then the other party will definitely put on a nostrils and look at people and ignore them.
After all, no matter how you think about it, there is a huge gap between the identities and status of both sides.
However, it is precisely because of this pride that Sivalier failed to foresee the rise of Avenella that he is now in such a situation, so although it may be psychologically uncomfortable to be ignored and ignored, on the whole, it is very beneficial for Avenella.
In a small kingdom, making a fortune in a muffled voice is what should be done, and attracting too much unnecessary attention at this stage will only be strangled in the cradle.
But it was the paramount head of Parnilla, as Padrosi called it, "the viceroy," so attached such importance to the envoys of their humble state, that the blond-haired baroness shuddered.
The lion fights the rabbit and does his best.
Sitting in a high position but not blindly arrogant, the depth of the governor's city government immediately swept away Minna's previous idea of "enlarged version of Sivalier".
She returned with little time to rest and rushed into the work of dealing with all kinds of related matters, and this attitude made the lady realize that she had to be more careful, and that the previous plan was not enough to deal with such an opponent. After the Arvenella embassy arranged by the governor of Parnila was decided, Minna only said a brief goodbye to Henry and Mira and left the inn.
Even if the relationship is close in private, due to her background and status, she and the path she has taken are already completely different. Mira looked at this figure who could be counted as her sister, and her mood was a little complicated for a while.
This is the case with life and encounters, and the distance will become farther and farther away with different directions.
Not only Minna, but Mira herself immediately began to get busy due to the pressure of life.
In a hurry, they sorted out a night's rest and walked with Muna and her party towards the mercenary guild in the city center. Henry and Mira must go to the local area to log in, and the registered mercenaries must do such a thing whenever there is a guild there, and if they don't record it, they will escape their obligations, and naturally don't expect to have some privileges.
As for Muna, Muhammad and others, who were born in the steppe, had to register their mercenary qualifications for the convenience of their activities within the Padrossi Empire in the future.
One of the privileges they value in relation to mercenary registration is the right to carry weapons freely in cities within the jurisdiction of the guild chapters.
This privilege is less evident in the chaotic West Coast, but it is even more important on the more civilized and orderly East Coast.
Not to mention Parnira, a port city that welcomes a large number of people and travelers every day, many urban areas within the Padrosi Empire and many other kingdoms and principalities on the east coast are practically forbidden to carry weapons indiscriminately.
In addition to the aristocracy's desire to limit the commoners from having the means to rebel against them, this matter is also inseparable from the overall environment.
Unlike the dirty West Coast countryside, where people live in peace, weapons are not necessary. There is a well-established security team patrolling, and ordinary people carrying weapons is also a decorative role. And when you get into a verbal altercation with someone and it turns into a fight, if you have a weapon in your hand, it is likely to turn into a bloody tragedy under impulse.
To sum up, even in a port city like Parnira, where unidentified people are allowed to walk openly with weapons, it is limited to the neighborhood near the docks.
Further in, closer to the residential areas of the nobles and wealthy merchants, anyone who carries a weapon without mercenary identification or wears clothing with obvious aristocratic household ornaments will be considered a potential criminal and will be targeted by the vigilantes.
Words go back to square one.
The weather in Parniera seems to be sunny all the time, and on the street, you can often see casual and elegant residents watering potted plants on the balconies of the second floor of the bright, warm-colored houses. Perhaps because of the warm weather, people here love the golden daisies, and not only do they designate them as the national flower, but most people also put a pot on the corner of their balcony.
The journey to the Mercenary Guild in the city center is not a short one, but thanks to the well-established and effective city street plan and the ubiquitous directional signs, even newcomers can easily find their way by themselves as long as they are literate.
The market that Henry and his party went to yesterday is located on the south side of Parnilla, and from the road from the port pier, it will be a slightly sloping Y-shape from the top. The fork on the right leads to the hotel where they live and the large market, which is easily accessible by walking out of the hotel and following the road, which is where most of the travelers and visitors live.
Today they are on the left side of the Y-shaped road, which is the main road of Parnila.
Towards the south, the wide main road draws a large C around the northern perimeter of the market and inn area, and the upper end is the center of the southern district.
If you want to take a shortcut, you can get there faster by going straight through the market, but the time for their group to set off is in the morning, and the lively and lively upper and lower street areas are crowded, and if you choose to go there, you will only be stuck in the crowd for a long time.
And in a beautiful city like Parnila, it's also a great pleasure to walk slowly along the wide, smooth main road.
The first thing you see when you cross the private hotel and trade market area is the neat four-storey buildings across the wide road, these brick and stone structures are painted in bright colors, very much in the style of the East Coast, the boxy white marble staircase and columns below give a classical Raman charm, and the glass windows with mahogany window frames above are very contemporary.
This series of buildings was the office of the major chambers of commerce and various institutions, and compared to the small private inns and shops, they were imposing on the outside, and when entering the more prosperous interior of the city, a variety of horse-drawn carriages of all kinds began to appear in large numbers.
Just over twenty minutes away, it presents a very different scene from the port and hotel area.
Ladies and ladies dressed in fine costumes, as well as wealthy merchants, traveled in reddish-brown wooden carriages, which were mostly open-top due to the warm and sunny climate. The burgundy velvet seats provide a cosy and soft feeling even from a distance, while the foldable awning made of bamboo frame and breathable fabric provides excellent sun protection for these delicate aristocrats.
Horse-drawn carriages like this don't go to the docks and hotels.
Merchants and ladies of aristocratic families haunt only these various offices all year round, and this is where the real big deals are processed. Although the wholesale market was already very hot and seemed to be of an astonishing size, the largest part of the southern and Otolo merchant ships anchored in the harbor were all in charge of the transactions who crossed the market and went directly into these beautiful houses to attend to the business.
The wholesale market is aimed at low- and medium-sized individual traders, most of whom are managed and marketed by branches of these chambers of commerce. And when it reaches a larger scale, it is time to negotiate directly with these elites of the upper class.
To herself, it was almost another world's figure, Mira thought after the sage explained it to her.
The neat houses stretched out into the downtown area, and next to the tall bell tower, the central building was larger than any chamber office and hung with the Padrosi black flag and various noble coat of arms flags dazzling in the sun, which was the destination of the group's trip, the headquarters of the Parnira Mercenary Guild.
The splendid and imposing building is separated by a wall by the central plaza of Parnilla, a huge and empty square with three six-story fountains in the center, shallow pools reflecting the bright sky, and in the center, surrounded by these three already imposing white jade fountains, is a huge statue that can be seen from the pier.
The bronze statue is tens of meters high, and you can see the traces of the details poured and spliced when you stand up close. When she was at sea, the white-haired girl could not see clearly because of the distance, but now when she stood below, she realized that the gesture was "shining all over the world" - although she was not wearing armor but a Laman-style dress, her expression did not look aggressive, but her muscular right hand was clearly clenched into a fist, and the index finger line was hard and powerful, pointing straight to the end of the sea.
The huge black marble pedestal at the base of the statue of "Charlemagne 'Visevolya' Konstantin Saxiyutu" has a two-meter-high Lamanite script on each letter, and after Mira whispered the name, Henry next to him shrugged his shoulders for the first time in a long time and spoke.
"Although it was said that it was 'conquering the West', it turned out that I didn't even see the West Coast until I died. Therefore, such a statue was built here and pointed to the west coast forever, so that travelers could admire the dignity and grandeur of this great emperor. As the sage spoke, Mira rolled her eyes, then turned and walked with him to the mercenary guild.
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Compared to other buildings with the characteristics of Padrosi, despite the grandeur of the appearance, the interior of the Mercenary Guild gives the girl a strong sense of familiarity.
Because of the same rules, the interior decoration is also the same as those chapters on the West Coast, although the scale is huge, but those front desk staff and the rest area next to it, the assessment office on the second floor, the mission announcement with the color of the mercenary level on the wooden board, the white-haired girl who is unfamiliar with life after coming to Parnila, there is a sense of peace of mind when she enters here.
"Really. She shook her head a little amusedly, and Henry and Muhammad on the side also walked over after explaining the registration process succinctly, and the two of them walked together towards the front desk in charge of the mercenary landing.
The scale is huge, and the number of people in charge of handling operations is as high as 20 people. The long wooden table draws a semicircle that covers a large area of the antechamber. In the rest area behind him, many mercenaries sat on benches and talked casually, and various languages and dialects seemed lively one after another, and even with more than twenty front desk staff, Henry and Mira still filmed for a while before it was their turn.
"Welcome home, do you want to register?" Due to their natural affinity and attentiveness, most of the front desk staff at the guild are women. In the place chosen by Henry and Mira, the young lady at the front desk had black hair and fair skin, and although she was sitting, it could be seen that her height was much taller than the others, and if she stood up, she should be close to Mira.
"Yes. The white-haired girl replied before the sage, and the other smiled politely back: "Then please give me your mercenary card." As she said this, Mira nodded, then took her blue badge off her belt and handed it to the other person.
"What about the blue card, female adventurers are rare, how old are they?" said the black-haired staff member as she handled her work.
14," Mira replied, slightly surprised by the answer, but then smiled back with a very friendly smile: "Amazing, amazing." β
The staff said this, but Mira's attention was drawn to the wooden name sign placed in front of her desk, which was always displayed at the front desk of the Mercenary Guild, after all, it would be time-consuming to introduce herself again and again.
βTan... The name .....of the structure made the girl frown, she seemed to have seen a similar name somewhere, but she couldn't remember it for a while.
"Tanga?" Mira blinked her sparkling eyes, and the female staff member was stunned for a moment, explaining with some amusement, "No, it's a mistake that people often make. β
"I'm from the north, and the j is pronounced y, and the tas in front of me are pronounced together. β
"So the correct pronunciation would be, Ta-n-ja, Tanya. He smiled and said, "Your companion looks like a fellow countryman, and I thought you would know the correct way to read it." Tania said, and Mira glanced back at the sage, who shrugged.
"Okay, the entry has been completed. β
"Welcome to Padrosi. β