History Literature / IQuitBeingAnAdventurer

* PowerAtAPrice: The reason mages are rare, and should be rated as B-rank in the adventurer's guild, is that casting magic abilities always requires a sacrifice of some sort. Luca, the girl in the page image, got puppet magic in return for being afflicted with androphobia. No word on what Aix traded to get his archmage level magic, but he had to trade that in to get the "extension" perk that allows him to extend the basic magics he's left with ''for a full month.''

* EntertaininglyWrong: The sheer level of misunderstanding strangers have regarding Aix, his circumstances, and his motivations reaches truly ridiculous levels at times.

* DealWithTheDevil: Literally. Casters bargain with demons in order to gain access to a trait that boosts their casting prowess in a way they want. In exchange, the demon they bargain with imposes a restriction on them that makes their life difficult.

* DealWithTheDevil: Literally. Casters bargain with demons in order to gain access to magic, even gaining a trait that boosts their casting prowess in a way they want. In exchange, the demon they bargain with imposes a restriction on them that makes their life difficult.

* AlmightyJanitor: Aix may only be able to cast the most basic magics, but he can extend their duration far past what any other magician could dream of. He's also been shouldering all the grunt work given to the guild for years, so when he quits the guild basically implodes in short order.

* StealingFromTheTill: The Guild Master had long been artificially deflating Aix's adventurer rank by making him start over so he could charge clients for the work Aix did, pay Aix a pittance according to his official rank, and pocket the difference for himself. When Aix quits and categorically refuses to return at ''any'' price, this behavior [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty catches up with him quick]].

* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: For 5 long and grueling years, Aix is put through ''slave-like'' conditions by the corrupt and dismissive adventurer's guild, ''in its entirety'', and Aix is left with no recourse, at all. The story begins with the arrogant, corrupt, and strangely self-righteous guild-master destroying Aix's guild license, his official ID, for laughs ''and daring him to quit'', and is openly shocked when Aix jumps on the opportunity, the only reason Aix does the three outstanding quests in his name is because the butt-kissing receptionist refuses to process his retirement until he completes them, even after the rest of the guild ''openly scorns them'' for being chores with a piss-poor pay. To the surprise of every last jerk who exploited him, Aix '''utterly refuses''' to return, no matter how sweet an offer they make.

Full Name: “I… Don’t Want to Work Anymore” I Quit Being an Adventurer. Even if You Treat Me Better Now, I Won’t Do It. I Will Never Work Again."\\
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Associated Name: "Mou.... Hatarakitakunaindesu" Boukensha Nanka Yamete yaru. Imasara, Taiguu wo Kaerukara to Onegai sarete mo Okotowaridesu. Boku wa Zettai Hatarakimasen.\\
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Aix "oversleeps" after being worked over 24 hours straight on demeaning mandatory "quests" by the corrupt Guild Master of the adventurer's guild, causing him to arrive ''a few minutes late'' to the guild master's early morning self-aggrandizing "rousing speech." The guild master goes into a tantrum and destroys Aix's adventurer's guild card in front of the guild members, who laugh at his plight, berating him for being an E-rank "defective magician", and then demands that Aix ''beg'' to be reinstated as the even lower F-rank.\\
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This is the last straw for Aix, who quits on the spot, but the butt-kissing receptionist refuses to process his resignation until he completes three outstanding mandatory quests in his name, to which the adventurers deride him even further.\\
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Aix retaliates by demanding the receptionist make the quests' contents, especially the pay rate ''public''. She reluctantly reads them aloud, at which point the adventurers rightly point out that the so-called quests are chores and the pay is abysmal, nothing to be jealous of.\\
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Little did the guild realize, but Aix was an Archmage level wizard who traded his advanced and intermediate magics for the ability to extend his "basic" magic spells' duration ''a full month long''.\\
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The guild thought he'd be back in a few days. They were wrong. He quit, and quit for keeps.

* RemovingTheCrucialTeammate: Invoked. Because the Guild Master destroyed Aix's guild card publicly and demanded he ''beg'' to be reinstated, he instead quit on the spot. Without his special "extension" ability to the basic spells he has, the town's infrastructure quickly starts to fall apart, and several high-rank members of the guild tear into the receptionist, because she ''enabled'' the guild master's abuse.
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: For 5 long and grueling years, Aix is put through ''slave like'' conditions by the corrupt and dismissive adventurer's guild, ''in its entirety'', and Aix is left with no recourse, at all. The story begins with the arrogant, corrupt, and strangely self-righteous guild-master destroying Aix's guild license, his official ID, for laughs ''and daring him to quit'', and is openly shocked when Aix jumps on the opportunity, the only reason Aix does the three outstanding quests in his name is because the butt-kissing receptionist refuses to process his retirement until he completes them, even after the rest of the guild ''openly scorns them'' for being chores with a piss-poor pay. To the surprise of every last jerk who exploited him, Aix '''utterly refuses''' to return, no matter how sweet an offer they make.

Full Name: “I… Don’t Want to Work Anymore” I Quit Being an Adventurer. Even if You Treat Me Better Now, I Won’t Do It. I Will Never Work Again.\\

* RemovingTheCrucialTeammate: Invoked. Because the Guild Master destroyed Aix's guild card publicly and demanded he ''beg'' to be reinstated, he instead quit on the spot. Without his special "extension" ability to the basic spells he has, the town's infrastructure quickly starts to fall apart, and several high-rank members of the guild tear into the receptionist, because she ''enabled'' the guild master's abuse.

* PowerAtAPrice: The reason mages are rare, and should be rated as B-rank in the adventurer's guild, is that casting magic abilities always requires a sacrifice of some sort. Luca, the girl in the page image, got puppet magic in return for being afflicted with agoraphobia. No word on what Aix traded to get his archmage level magic, but he had to trade that in to get the "extension" perk that allows him to extend the basic magics he's left with ''for a full month.''

* KarmicJackpot: Once Aix has had enough and quits, karma starts paying very, very close attention to how people treat him. Those who treat him well have nice things happen to them. Aix, despite openly stating he has no desire to work again, helps people who treat him kindly ''out of gratitude'' and lends a helping hand to a couple of orphaned little girls, one of whom needed expensive medicine to live. Those who treated him badly and look to exploit them have terrible things happen to them right away, like the adventuring party who was stealing the credit for his kills by picking up and turning in the magic stones of the monsters he killed on patrol and was forbidden from collecting himself, suddenly find themselves having to fight their own fights, and can't hack it, and then when they go after Aix in town, ''have the angry townsfolk come at them.'' Then there's what happens to the guild master himself...