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City Guard Training [SC0401] |
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- Sponsor: Adventurer's Guild
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- Report to the City Barracks.
- Spend one week getting trained.
- Work together with your team.
- Pass the final exam.
- (Optional: Party Quest)
| You want to be on the City Guard, huh?
A hotshot like yourself might have done a lot of solo work before...
But here you'll have learn how to work as a team.
You'll be assigned to a team of four rookies (two pairs).
Your entire team needs to work together to pass the final exam.
Either you all pass or you all fail! |
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Rewards: |
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- Other: City Guard License
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Day 1
"Your proficiency on each role was pretty average, honestly. Your quest experience indicated that you may fit as a scout. But other than your mobility, I cannot say that your tracking ability is good enough for the role. Not to mention, you don't show any investigation ability. As a sharpshooter too, while you have ranged attack, your accuracy dropped considerably after 60 meters. But, it is the most suitable for you, in my opinion. For field medic, honestly... I shouldn't recommend you this role, as you don't have any experience. But, here we will train you to fulfill these roles." The examiner explained.
Knowing that she took the sharpshooter role. In the future, she probably took this training once again to take the scout specialization. After she confirmed her role to the examiner, she was led to the room she would spend in for the week.
Her teammate were the same, each one having taken the sharpshooter role for that session of training. Two of them wields a bow, while one of them wielded a lance and shield. Apparently the red haired girl could manifest some kind of beam of light to attack the opponent at long range with her lance.
"So..." Annika, one of the archer girl, began. "How about we do a little competition?"
"Not interested." Imca replied.
"Guh... why did you shot my idea down? I haven't even explained it..." Annika paused. Turning to face the remaining two, she asked, "How about you two? We go to archery range and see who can hit the target the most."
"I'm sorry. My ranged attack is rather destructive... I rather not use it without supervision." Riela, the red haired girl, replied.
Seeing that, Annika deflated.
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One hour passed, while they talked. Exactly at eight, someone came to their room and told them to gather in the courtyard in 5 minutes. As she had nothing to bring, she waited for the others to get ready, and then went there. At the courtyard, she saw people, most likely the other teams, already gathered. Though, there was no semblance of order there.
One by one, each role was called, for the people with that role to gather around the examiner. She saw the other role being led outside somewhere, while most bowman there remained. There was three teams at that moment, amounting to 12 people excluding the examiner remaining on the courtyard.
"Alright. You guys already accepted the sharpshooter role. So I'll do my best to impart my knowledge to you.
As a guard in Scribel City, you are expected to do your combat in three terrain." The man stopped, then lifted his fist. His pointer finger rose, and he continued, "First. at the city proper and the surrounding village. You are expected to make the shot even in the middle of the crowd. If you are unsure you can do this in one week, you can drop out of the training now and look for another role."
The man waited, maintaining his gaze at them all. He looked from the left to the right. Then, seeing that there was no one who took his suggestion, the man continued as he lifted his middle finger. "Okay. The second is on the meadow. You are expected to be able to make the shot while riding a horse."
Then, after one pause, the man continued with the last part. "Third, in the forest. For hunters, this is a familiar territory. The first two days will be spent on honing your urban combat capability. The third and fourth day we'll move onto the grasslands, and the remaining two will be spent on the north scribel forest. At the end of each day, you will be graded. If in the first two day you cannot manage to get the passing grade, you will be given a chance to do the exam on the seventh day. Any question?"
Seeing that everyone were silent, the man then called them all to follow him.
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It was hard. On the range, The guard called the description of the target. Then, each of them must shoot the target described using bow and arrow provided by the guard. After seeing the failure on even using the bow, the guard then sidelined her and the red-haired girl.
"Okay, the examiner must be seeing something when they included you in this class. Please show me how you will attack the target. Riela, the woman with blue eyes and shoulder length, yellow hair. Target its limb. Watery, the man with black eyes and black hair. Target its limb too."
She transformed her right hand. She made the barrel long, with a small diameter. Solidifying it into ice, the next step she did was to make the bullet. Then, she moved the energy from her body to the small water section inside the chamber between the bullet and her end of barrel. As the water in there turned into water vapor, she released the folding on the subspace at that part, letting the air to expand at a rapid pace.
The bullet went out. She missed her target and hit the target behind it.
Meanwhile, at riela's side, the girl emitted some kind of humming noise as she was enveloped by a white light. The white light then moved to the lance she carried, and after it glowed, she shot a beam of light from the lance. The lance that was glowing returned to its ivory color, no longer glowing after she was done. The problem with her was that while the accuracy was good, the number of target broken behind the targeted part was hit too.
As both of them stopped, the man then had both of them paired into one pair, breaking her pair with Imca and Annika's pair with Riela. As her projectile were still affected by gravity and wind, she was still offered the lesson on ballistics, on how to aim in the afternoon class. As for Riela, she was just told to practice whatever she has, to not give the ability of her too much piercing power.
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Day 1 passed. After she adjusted her accuracy, she could reliably hit the target at 60m distance. It was still far from the necessary 200m range minimum they had to possess. But for the city proper, she would be able to do so.
Her biological function were nonexistent. Thus, while the others spend their night sleeping, she continued to fire her bullet in the range. Trying out how to comfortably attack at 80m distance was the only thing on her mind right then.
When the morning came, she returned.
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Day 2
Day 2 consisted of observation training. All the trainee there were tasked to look at objects for a minute, turn back and then after some time passed, recite the object in their memory. From then on, the guard wouldn't give them target they need to shoot like yesterday. He instead gave them a list containing the characteristics of the target, and were told to memorize it. Only at the afternoon they came out to the range, each to shot their target given on the list.
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Human. Blonde hair, 155cm. Hair worn in twintail. Eye color, blue. Skin, pale.'
Finding the object, she made her first shot.
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Lizardman, black scale. 180cm'
Reciting each target from her memory, she shot those target. After ten of her target shot, she returned to her team.
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Day 3-4
"Can you ride a horse?"
she shook her head. Her body were made of water. While she could shift her shape, the physical limitation of her body made it hard to grip on something. She could make her body turn into ice, with joints like those of dolls to allow her to mimic human movement. Thinking about that, it was probably a good idea to do that. Thus, she shifted her body from water to ice.
Riding horse was another thing she would have to improve, she guessed. Once again, she was sidelined. The trainer brought her to horse stable and asked her to train it. As for that day's training, she would just be given the theory.
In the end, she didn't manage to get into horseback archery at all during the two days. Thus, she had to bet on completing the test on the last day.
Day 5
"Alright, for the last two days, we are moving into the forest for training. You'll be given the basics on how to track objects and how to not give away yourself."
Discouraged by her failure, she felt like she wanted to drop out at that moment. Her range only raised to 100m, far from the 200m necessary to shot at the plains. She was not able to gallop. The guard recommended her to use the Asteria village mission, instead before returning to this training. In one month to two months, she was asked to do that mission during her performance review.
That day's material was tracking. It really accentuate on how lucky she was in completing the previous missions. The knowledge on how to track human and animals were given by the lecturer. With each knowledge, she felt like she could shorten the completion time of hunting mission considerably. For tracking, she felt that she was able to learn it easier compared to other materials that week.
The tracking, coupled with the observation training they had to do everyday, made her notice a lot of things. How her teammate made their own track when traversing the forest, how to see the disturbed objects due to the movement no matter how careful they were, how wind and smell could give away someone's presence. She applied that knowledge to see her teammate's habit.
"Well... the theory of tracking is good and all." The trainer explained. "But, if you apply it just as is, you won't catch your target. To do that, we have to understand our target, and place ourselves inside of their mind. Knowing what your opponent will do when they are in pursuit is essential. In the afternoon exercise, we will move you all to three different place. All you have to do is to get the flag from the other teams. Now, use this time to observe them, and in one hour, you'll move to your designated place."
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She took it back. Tracking was hard. Her team managed to find one of the team easily and took their flag. But, the second team managed to use that knowledge to make a lot of track instead, and ambushed them. Seeing that that team had made a lot of trail, her team pursued them in haste. The further the other team were, the further they had to pursue. This made them stop when they lost the other team's trail.
At that moment, the ambush sprung. The other team managed to gain an initiative in attacking their team. Their flag bearer's shoulder were tapped, and the exercise ended. Thus, the other team were ranked first, their team were ranked second, and the last team in last position.
"Good work. That's the exact example I want to show you. Team A, you made a sense of urgency to team C and exploited it. For tomorrow, our exercise consist of hiding and stalking your objective. Similar to this day, you are not expected to raise your bow against the other trainee for the session.
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Day 6
At least she was able to complete one of... six training? Who was she kidding. She definitely would fail. By making herself as small as possible, she completed that day's exercise. Meanwhile, her teammate fell as they were tagged out. The other complained too when she tag them all, earning her victory for her team.
"Well... in this case, I am also in bind. Simply said, being wary for each dew, puddle, spring, or river is not feasible. Torching the forest is a solution, I guess. But, that is absolutely forbidden for a guard."
"Right... Teacher. So can you disqualify her?"
"I don't see why I should. If you encounter this case on the field, you should retreat and let the higher up solve this for you. They will get a more specialized tracker, like a magician who may be able to track her. Anyway, your evaluation is not only decided by her. The fact that you managed to disable the other three also factors into your evaluation, so don't worry about it. Next, let's pack up and return to the city."
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Day 7.
For range, she had ony 110m/200m necesary. While she passed the exam on the city, at the grassland she was unable to pursue the target, making the target able to get away from her. Not to mention she wasn't able to tame the horse at all. Instead, she had decided to fly instead when following the target. The target were getting away when it entered the forest, which disqualify her. The exam at the forest was completed this time as she managed to tag the examiner, making it a success.
The team exam portion was her saving grace. They succeeded in making the target disabled on live exercise in the city. Instead of attacking using bow and arrow, Imca made a paralytic poison and get close to the target before the target able to break their pursuit. How that would be evaluated, she didn't know. But from that part, she knew she should specialize in scouting instead sharpshooting.
The exam done in the grassland were done in the same way as previous. Only, they had to capture multiple targets. Riela immediately asked her to lift her, which she complied. Using that beam attack of her, she targeted the area in front of the target's horses, spooking them. After the delay, the other two in their team managed to catch up and launch the blunted arrow against the first two target. The remaining two were also tagged in this manner. Finishing their exam, they moved onto the forest.
The forest exam were the same as previous. Only that the opponent's team were the examiners instead of other trainee. The examiners showed her how they took her out even with her stealth strategy as they tagged her out when she tag the second one. For the first one, she managed to get away and hide once again. Yet, at the second one, the third and fourth examiner were there, tagging her out.
Then, after that was done, they returned. The examiners said that the verdict would be given later through the adventurer guild. Thanking them for the lesson, she left.