Hao Yun turned his head and glanced at the three of them, then said.
"I'll go first."
The old man pushed open the countertop, revealing a stone slab.
"Put your hands on it,"
Following the old man's instructions, Hao Yun placed his hand on the stone slab, and golden light emanated from it. Hao Yun's control panel popped up automatically.
"Hmm, very good qualifications. I hope you won't waste them. This is a career you can choose. You can choose for yourself."
Words appeared on the stone slab. Logically speaking, Hao Yun shouldn't recognize the writing from another world, but for some reason, Hao Yun felt that he should be able to recognize it.
"Don't be curious, there is magic on it, and people of all races can understand the writing on it."
The old man adjusted his glasses and answered Hao Yun's question.
Six professions appeared on the stone slab: mage, warrior, assassin, archer, paladin, and priest.
"I want to remind you that you should be careful when choosing a career, because once you've chosen one, you can't change it."
Hao Yun smiled and nodded, decisively choosing the warrior.
At this moment, two more words appeared on Hao Yun's own panel after "Human Race": "Warrior".
"Next."
Hao Yun stepped back, making way for the three people in the time machine.
With Hao Yun's demonstration, the other three quickly chose their professions as well. There was no choice but to choose the time machine, so the only option was to become a mage.
Sixth Brother chose the archer, while Sun Wukong chose the warrior.
After the four had chosen their professions, the old man gave them adventurer certificates, small iron pieces engraved with their names.
The rudimentary receipt made Hao Yun feel that he had wasted four gold coins.
Chapter 181 Registering an Adventurer
The four people had finished registering their professions and were about to leave when the old man called them back.
"Wait, I'm getting old and my memory is getting worse. I almost forgot to tell you that after choosing a career, you can learn skills."
The time machine jumped onto the counter and asked in surprise.
"Skills! How do I learn them?"
"Of course, you have to pay to learn it, and you also need skill points. If you don't have skill points, you can't learn it."
The old man's words were like a bucket of cold water.
The Time Machine glanced at its stats: 0 skill points.
How are skill points obtained?
"You can get it by leveling up, but if you want to hunt monsters in the wild, you need to buy equipment first, otherwise you'll just be feeding the enemy."
After listening to the old man's words, Hao Yun couldn't help but mutter to himself, "Are you advertising for the equipment store? Do you think you'll get a kickback if we buy equipment from you?"
"I have skill points, can I learn skills?"
While killing goblins, Hao Yun unexpectedly leveled up twice, gaining exactly two skill points.
"Of course you can. You can choose for yourself. Skill points are very precious, so you'd better learn the skills that suit your profession."
As he spoke, the old man opened the table again, revealing the stone slab.
This time, densely packed small characters appeared on the stone slab.
All six professions listed above have the required skills, and each profession has no fewer than twenty skills.
The number of skill points required to learn each skill is different; some require only one, while others require more than a dozen.
Hao Yun currently only has two skill points, so he has ruled out most of the skills.
After reviewing the warrior's skills, Hao Yun chose to charge.
[Charge: Can be cast on targets within 30 meters. After using the skill, the user quickly charges towards the target, ignoring any crowd control effects.]
"I want to learn this skill."
"One gold coin."
The old man squinted and replied casually.
Hao Yun took out a gold coin and handed it to him.
A flash of white light appeared on the stone slab, and Hao Yun's panel gained a new skill, but also lost a skill point.
With one skill point remaining, Hao Yun looked at the mage skills.
Fireball: No casting time, deals 300% damage to the target, consumes 5 MP.
"I want to learn this skill too."
The old man raised his head and looked at Hao Yun.
"I advise you not to study this. You'd be better off focusing on learning warrior skills."
Hao Yun shook his head and did not accept the old man's suggestion.
"One gold coin."
After paying the fee, Hao Yun learned the fireball technique.
The time machine standing to the side was filled with envy.
The recent goblin attack served as a wake-up call for him, reminding him that it would be difficult to survive in this world without the ability to protect himself.
Glug glug.
Six-Wa's stomach growled at that moment. He touched his stomach and said somewhat embarrassedly.
"Excuse me, I'm a little hungry."
The time machine rubbed its stomach; it was a little hungry too.
"Let's go get something to eat first."
Under the oppressive rules of this world, Hao Yun, who had returned to an ordinary life, also felt hunger.
Hao Yun used to eat simply out of habit, but now he eats purely to avoid starving.
The old man behind the counter gave a reminder at this moment.
"The union provides food ordering service, it's over there."
After pointing the four people in the right direction, the old man fell silent and began to doze off, leaning on the counter.
Hao Yun glanced at the old man and felt like he had entered a shady business.
In this world, the currency conversion is 100 copper coins equal to 1 silver coin, and 100 silver coins equal to 1 gold coin.
Currently, the coins circulating in the market are almost all copper and silver coins; gold coins are very rare because most people don't need them.
Before the four of them arrived at the Adventurers' Guild, Hao Yun witnessed one person buy a huge amount of stuff for only a few silver coins.
Looking at the four of them, they had only been in the Adventurers' Guild for a few minutes and had already spent six gold coins.
Even so, Hao Yun still obediently went to the union's food ordering area.
The four of them found an empty table in a corner. It was lunchtime, and all the tables in the union compound were packed with people.
Hello, what do you need?
A young and beautiful female police officer stepped forward and stood beside the table to ask questions.
What do you have here?
The time machine leaned back casually in the chair, looking like it had plenty of money.
"This is the menu, and the union's signature dishes are highlighted on it."
The waitress patiently explained the dish to everyone, and if anyone didn't understand something, she would carefully describe the ingredients used in the dish.
While ordering food at the Time Machine restaurant, Hao Yun eavesdropped on conversations at other tables.
"What quests did you all take today? I saw that a quest to drive away the earth dragon was posted this morning. I wonder if anyone has taken it?"
"Only a fool would accept that. The Earth Dragon is a level 20+ monster. Unless a high-level adventurer happens to be passing by, no one would accept it."
"Yeah, I snagged a slime-repelling quest today and easily earned five silver coins. I'm treating everyone to drinks tonight, wanna come along?"
"What's the point of just drinking? Why don't we go to the red-light district tonight?"
"Hehe, okay!"
The two men exchanged a lewd smile, clearly anticipating the arrival of night.
Hao Yun looked around and realized that the Adventurers' Guild was really big, at least as big as a football field.
"Thank you for your patronage, eight silver coins."
Just as Hao Yun was looking around, the waiter looked at him with a smile.
"ah?"
"The meal costs eight silver coins in total; the guild refuses to accept credit."
The waiter remained smiling, showing no fear that Hao Yun and his group would try to renege on their debt.
The time machine, responsible for taking orders, was looking around, seemingly observing what others were eating.
As for Liuwa and Sun Wukong, they were studying the control panel and left the matter of settling the bill to Hao Yun.
Hao Yun took out a gold coin and handed it to the waiter, then began to check how much money he had left in his system inventory.
Upon closer inspection, Hao Yun found that there were still two gold bricks left, and he couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.
He originally had a lot of gold bricks and jewelry in his backpack, but he took all the money out when building Dragon City in the previous world.
Because of the sudden recall of the virtual, Hao Yun had no time to take the gold and silver jewelry he had collected with him.
Based on the current spending habits of the four of them, Hao Yun felt that his two gold bricks wouldn't last long.