Chapter 22

In terms of earth money this world's currency would be like this -
1 copper coin = 100 yen, 1 silver coin is 1000 yen, 1 gold coin is 10000 yen
1 silver = 10 copper and 10 silver = 1 gold
As an adventurer you begin with copper awards as compensation then move up to silver by rank E and D then get gold coins at high end C rank quests.

Rank C is where you begin to make more than the average worker and B rank you can make enough to retire early if you save money.
A rank you will be rich and S rank are on a different league than mere money.
Though expenses pile up so it's not as luxurious as it seems plus you can die on the quests.
This fear of death along with injuries, the military you can join and not being good enough to rise in ranks means the adventurer count as a profession is not that high due to its high turn over rate.
Each guild location has less than 100 regular members, most not even reaching 20 members but even so it keeps going since young ones want to test themselves and go for the big money opportunity.

The dwarf finishes the dire wolf leader smithing job, it only took 5 minutes.
That's the ease of magic casting in smithing.
'that comes out to 200 gold, it would be 500 but you only have the head here'
'urgh'
The average salary is 2 silver a day, 10 for higher skilled trades but smithing and magical jobs are way more expensive.
It seems we don't have enough, the 3 quests and all the monster corpses brought in alot of money but not 200 gold coin's worth of it.
'then how about we keep the shield we made and we leave it at 100 gold?' says the dwarf smith master.
'are you sure?'
'of course, we banter like this all the time with jobs since money is always tight for upcoming adventurers'
'then I'll take on that offer'
The rogue and dwarf shake hands and deal done.
The shield is a basic magic shield with good defense, worthy of a B rank team.
The 2 daggers are want we wanted, they go well with the rogue since sh already uses daggers.
Also basic magical ones, the daggers are strenghtened by mana and deal more damage though this means you can't just throw them around since they might be taken or stuck in a fleeing opponent.
You have to learn actual dagger martial arts or keep it for quick strikes only.
'glad to have you, if you ever need more magic smithing come one over'
'right, we will'
Wave goodbye and we move on.
'that cost us nearly everything' says the healer.
'we don't need all that money anyways since we'll be going out now, we'll keep the rest in case we need it somewhere'
50 silver, that was what was left.

The girls stand on the saddle footstool and come on top of me.
I barely feel like a spider now, I am a mount.
Being ridden like a horse and used like a camel but atleast they don't have any face equipment  like a bridle to pull me along.
The 3 fit on my spider end and sit down, how will they hold on? the rope and wires around me make it easy to grab a hold of and the saddle itself has parts to grab on to as well.
My body is wrapped around nicely, you could even put armor or some fabric or flags on the sides.
Not a war horse but a war spider.
As we leave the streets are empty again, though not as bad as before.
Having all these things on me makes me less threatening I guess.
'we could put on some bright colored flags next time' says the healer.
'huh, that would be lame' says the rogue.
'come on, it's fine and everyone will be less scared of us'
'fine, but no tacky colors like pink or light blue'
'stingy, then we can use yellow, make it look like we are a holy unit, wouldn't that be nice?'
'sounds like it'll bring trouble but that won't stop you will it?'
'hehe'
It actually doesn't seem that bad, I might like it, being a holy knight spider mount thing.