(Reminder: In Mushoku Tensei, the age of adulthood is 15 years old)
"Hey, Mayibeia, you're bringing someone again!" A somewhat plump middle-aged woman looked at Mayibeia with eyes full of dissatisfaction.
"Oh come on, landlady, little brother Dan Feng has such a tragic background, let me tell you~" Mayibeia started clinging to the landlady, her face full of flattery.
Then Mayibeia began selling Dan Feng's sob story—abandoned by his parents since childhood, wandering alone, nearly eaten by monsters, and so on; the more miserable, the better.
The landlady looked at the boy in front of her, who was indeed quite thin, with tattered clothes and shoes, and combined with what Mayibeia had just said, she immediately felt sympathy.
"Child, you've suffered so much!" The landlady rushed over and hugged Dan Feng, who looked like he had just reached adulthood.
She thought about how he had been abandoned by his parents from a young age, surviving solely by wandering, and had stubbornly persisted until now.
"Uh." Dan Feng was caught completely off guard by the landlady's sudden embrace.
"From now on, you'll stay here. Treat this place like your own home. Lifa, hurry and bring out dinner." The landlady called out to her daughter.
"Okay!" Lifa replied, then turned and headed toward the kitchen inside.
When Lifa came out carrying a bamboo basket, Mayibeia looked at Galdaruf with admiration. "Galdaruf guessed right again! So amazing!"
But to Mayibeia's praise, Galdaruf remained very calm, as if he was long used to it.
Dan Feng watched the two of them—they really seemed like a married couple, but according to Mayibeia, they were just party members who had been together for over ten years.
Dan Feng really wanted to roast them: What's the difference from actually being in a relationship?
After everyone finished dinner, the landlady led Dan Feng to an ordinary guest room on the second floor.
"Dan Feng, you'll stay here from now on. These are new clothes and shoes—if they don't fit, just tell me, and I'll change them for you." The landlady said while handing the clothes and shoes to Dan Feng.
"Mm, thank you, landlady." Dan Feng felt a warmth in his heart. After all, for someone who had nearly ended up on the streets, meeting a person who let him stay for free and even provided food and drink was truly hard not to be moved by.
Since the first floor was the tavern and the second floor was the inn, the landlady always kept plenty of spare clothes on hand for those who got drunk and spilled stuff all over themselves.
"Then I'll head back to my room. Come find me if you need anything." The landlady said and returned to her room.
Dan Feng closed the door, then let out a sigh.
"So much happened today."
Then he went straight into the bathroom.
The bathroom here was still quite basic—only cold water was available, and if you wanted hot water, you had to heat it yourself.
After bathing, Dan Feng lay on the bed thinking for a while. He planned to go to the Adventurers' Guild tomorrow to check it out and become an adventurer.
Not long after, he fell into a deep sleep.
The next day, he arrived at that silver-white building—this was the worldwide headquarters of the Adventurers' Guild.
As soon as he got there, Dan Feng was stunned by the scene. Even though it was still morning, the place was already extraordinarily lively.
Adventurers were all gathered at the request board, picking out suitable quests, while many people around Dan Feng's age were heading to the counter to register as adventurers and smoothly receive their unique adventurer cards.
Dan Feng joined the registration line, and soon it was his turn.
"Please fill out the form." The staff member handed him a yellow sheet of paper.
Dan Feng took the paper, picked up the pen, and began filling it out.
Since the system had transmitted not only the Cloud Rider spear techniques but also the human language and writing of this world to him, he could easily use the local script.
Name: Dan Feng
Race: Human
Occupation: ...
"Uh, excuse me, what should I put for occupation?" Dan Feng was stumped on the occupation field—he wasn't sure what it meant here, whether it was job or something else.
"Are you a mage?" The staff member asked Dan Feng.
Dan Feng hadn't learned how to use magic yet. The system had only given him chantless magic techniques, but not a single spell.
"Then what weapon are you good with? If you use a shield, put Tank; if you use daggers, put Thief; if you use a sword, put Swordsman." The staff member patiently explained the occupations to Dan Feng.
"I'm good with a long spear."
"Long spear?! Is it that kind of weapon used by the Superd race?" The staff member stared at Dan Feng in shock, looking at him as if he were some kind of monster.
"Ah, I don't know what Superd race you're talking about. Anyway, it's a long one with a sharp point at the top." Dan Feng scratched his head, wondering inwardly if long spears were really that rare in this world? This was supposed to be the king of weapons, right?
"Then just put Warrior."
After filling out the form, Dan Feng naturally received his own adventurer card. He was now an F-rank adventurer and planned to pick up some requests.
Just as he was about to leave, the people behind him who had heard him say "long spear" started whispering about him.
"Hey, you heard that, right? That guy actually uses a demon's weapon."
"So creepy. He wouldn't be Superd race, would he? I mean, I've never heard of anyone else using a demon's weapon."
"No way, Superd have green hair. That guy's got black hair—how could he be Superd?"
Dan Feng wasn't deaf; he heard their conversation. "Does this region discriminate against long spears too?"
He didn't bother arguing with them. He had no weapon yet, and his personality wasn't one for verbal sparring—unless absolutely necessary, he preferred to stay quiet.
He went straight to the request board to check what F-rank adventurers could take.
[F-rank Request: Help Water Flowers]
[Requester: Mrs. Jakari]
[Location: xxx]
[Reward: 4 Millis copper coins]
"F-rank requests are all just manual labor like this!" Dan Feng looked at the F-rank requests in surprise.
These included finding cats, washing clothes, delivering things, shopping, and so on—all zero-skill quests.
"Little bro, first time as an adventurer? Don't worry—until D-rank, there won't be any dangerous requests." A burly man behind Dan Feng said.
"I understand." Dan Feng glanced at the burly man. His build was very imposing—clearly a battle-hardened adventurer.
"That's why you should cherish these low-level requests. Once your rank goes up, you won't be able to take them anymore." The burly man sighed, then walked off on his own.
Dan Feng tore one request from the board—the flower-watering one—and went to register the quest details.
"You can't take them all at once—such a hassle." Dan Feng walked out of the Adventurers' Guild.
Officially beginning his adventurer quest career.
(PS: The female lead will appear soon, please wait a little longer!)