They changed the information on their adventurer card. So this just made the whole point of him taking the mission from the guildmaster to avoid having his guild card identification void meaningless, because he could've just hacked it and falsified the information to begin with, avoiding the nullification to begin with.
Actually I have a lot of issues and questions about this, but as some people have already pointed out, we're just moving from event to event. There is no world building or explanation provided.