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Chapter 066 - Request
The first thing we did after we defeated the Twin Dragon was to encase the dragon’s corpse in ice.
According to s.h.i.+a -- ‘There aren’t many Twin Dragon corpses in a condition as good as this, so if we bring it back we can sell it for a good price’, and she insisted on it so we ripped off a scale and leave a wooden tag with adventurer number on it then had her, who still had magic power left encase the dragon’s corpse in ice.
This way it wouldn’t be eaten by other monsters, nor taken by other adventurers.
After that we’d return to the mining town once, and ask the guild to transport the Twin Dragon. Transportation would cost us, but it’d be insignificant compared to the money we’d get after selling it.
And so, we finally headed back to Gomugo’s group and let them know the result.
When they saw our figures still in one piece, they shouted out of joy from within the cave.
It was because we’d returned alive from almost certain death situation.
The ruckus they made couldn’t be helped, but they were so loud I was worried my eardrums would burst.
Not everything had went well.
We went back to the open s.p.a.ce we planned to make camp on to take back the cargo we left, but the horned horses had turned into Twin Dragon food, and the cargo and personal effects were all crushed to pulp.
It was the result of the Twin Dragon raging about in fury.
We have no other option but to retreat to the Mining Town Vesta for the moment, but we should consider ourselves lucky to escape with our lives, at least.
We’d been fighting all through last night so we decided to make camp here.
As they’d used up quite a lot of magic power, I let Snow and s.h.i.+a rest first.
”Sorry Lute-kun, Chrisse-chan, let me rest first.”
”Don't worry about it, you worked very hard for it, Snow.”
[That's right, and I'm still going strong so I'll be alright!]
”Thanks Chrisse-chan! Ah, but sleeping with a sweating Lute-kun in a cramped bed and [sniff-sniff]-ing his scent might be good, too…”
”Just hurry and go to sleep already. Recover your magic power!”
”Au, that hurt, Lute-kun~!”
I’d done a karate chop on Snow who had just said something dumb with a straight face.
Really, she never changes.
”Madam, the bed is ready.”
s.h.i.+a had patched together a simple bed out of the wood from the broken wagons.
The two of them got on the bed to recover their stamina and magic power.
Chrisse and I who remained fought our drowsiness as we stood watch over our surroundings.
Meanwhile, Gomugo and the others collected the scattered cargo and tidied them up.
They also collected our luggage alongside, and sorted through the things that could be used.
I was about to say thanks —
”It's us who should be thanking you. You saved our lives from the Twin Dragon”
They felt grateful and thanked me, bowing their heads again and again.
I took up their offer and let them collect our luggage.
Thanks to them the [38 Special (9mm)], [7.62mm × Russian Shot], and the [7.62mm × 51 NATO] spare rounds scattered about by the Twin Dragons were gathered in one place.
At dusk Snow and s.h.i.+a woke up and relieved us from watch duty.
It looked like about half their magic had been restored.
Chrisse and I switched with them and got on the bed.
It was a standing tree with poles propped against it, wooden planks laid underneath those, burnt and torn canopy cloths laid on the planks and a sheet that looked clean covering it all. And it was cramped. It was practically a hamster bed.
TL Note: fear my G.o.dly paint skill, again puu.sh/kOhde/06db755c2b.png - yuus.h.i.+ng
But once Chrisse and I crawled into bed, it didn't take long for us to fall asleep.
I didn't even have the energy to lay my hands on my cute cute wife sleeping next to me.
We slept like logs until we were woken up when it was time for us to switch with Snow and s.h.i.+a for night watch duty.
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The next morning, we set off from the camping grounds.
Before we departed, Snow and s.h.i.+a cast some more magic on the iced Twin Dragon to thicken the ice.
With that we wouldn’t need to worry about it melting for a while.
It took us two days when we went out but because we were walking it took three days to get back.
When we reached the Mining Town Vesta, we rushed to the inn.
Without having to worry about being attacked by monsters like in the camping grounds, I slept soundly.
The next morning we went with Gomugo to the Adventurers' Guild.
The reason we took him along was because I wanted another testimony besides ours.
We reported to the Adventurers' Guild.
We showed them the peeled scale and had them hear not only ours but also Gomugo's testimony.
The Adventurers' Guild showed no doubt and believed our evidence.
We requested the Adventurers' Guild’s services for the transportation of the iced dragon.
From here on it’d take more or less 10 days to transport the remains of the Twin Dragon, including the preparatory period and the round trip.
Several adventurers went ahead to identify and secure the Twin Dragon frozen in ice.
A large transport wagon would come later to carry it.
This large transport wagon had magic stones built into it, equipped with the function to make the cargo’s weight lighter than normal.
TL Note : whoa, gravity stones. - rei_hunter
And of course this transportation would cost quite a lot of money.
The Adventurers' Guild had only heard about the Twin Dragon and hadn't examined it in detail but it could easily fetch at least 1000 gold coins.
That's an amazing amount of money.
Which is why they had no problems with deferring the payment.
In return, since the Adventurers' Guild had no way to pay the 1000 gold, they requested us to not ask for it in a lump sum.
I, of course, agreed.
We would also be in big trouble carrying the 1000 gold even if they did pay in full.
The Adventurers’ Guild suggested that we deposit the money in the guild. That way we could take the money out from Adventurers’ Guilds in different continents.
As long as your tag and pa.s.sword number aren’t stolen, there’s no worry of it being taken out by other people. In case you withdraw a large amount of money then they will verify the person himself too.
s.h.i.+a also recommended it, so I carried out the procedure to deposit the reward money to the guild.
But I asked them to let me take out the necessary money immediately when the goods would arrive.
The necessary money was for the merchandise of our client Gomugo which we couldn’t protect. I wanted to pay him back for the goods, wagons, and horned horses that he lost.
But the concerned person made a surprised face himself.
“Normally if you’re targeted by a dragon, a twin dragon even, and getting out alive is already G.o.dsend! To think you’d even pay me back for the merchandise!”
Since he was affiliated with the Merchant Guild his insurance was guaranteed, but it looked like it wouldn’t be anytime soon so he was very grateful at my offer, bowing his head.
Of course since he would be insured by the guild, I didn’t need to fully reimburse him; just covering up for his deficit seemed to be enough.
I finished the procedure for Gomugo to take out the money as soon as the a.s.sessment price of the Twin Dragon came out.
When he takes out that money, we don’t need to be there to witness; he can do it alone.
After this we only need to pay the penalty for the rental wagon & horned horse then we will have resolved all of our money problems.
Gomugo just kept bowing his head as he left.
Next problem is our adventurer level.
This time it’s a quest to level up to level 3. Judging by result alone, the quest was a failure.
But we captured the level 4 cla.s.s Twin Magicians.
And we subjugated a level 5 cla.s.s Twin Dragon (young) -- not only level 2 or level 3 adventurers rarely encounter such high level quests in such a short time, get caught up in it, and even come out triumphant.