Chapter 2 (2/2)
“Please give me one.”
“Then how about taking down the killer bees at the river bank? When you travel to the river in the east side you can quickly see them gathering there. Also, there are some medicinal herbs that grow there at the very end of the river bank. Ah, take this sample and look at it so you know what it looks like. If the quality of the herbs you gathered is good, the rewards will go up.”
“Understood.”
I leave the sample behind in the guild, and go to the weapon and armor stores first before doing the quest. I buy a magician’s staff and a mantle and equip them.
I chose a staff which raised [Intelligence] and a mantle that increased [physique].
There are many varieties that increased different stats or mixed stats in the store when I looked at them for the first time, but I was careful in choosing them.
Now then, I’ll quickly set off to do the quest.
*Viewpoint change*
Meldor’s adventurer’s guild. Carlo was battling against the papers as usual. He was an adventurer who retired five years ago, and had picked up the job as a receptionist in the adventurer’s guild with his achievements, but he did not have much affinity with paperwork.
He was facing the tedious paperwork today once again.
Right at that time —– A strange youth visited the guild.
A youth with black hair appeared. He was dressed like any other youths but Carlo had lived in the capital for a long time and had no impression of him at all. He was most likely a young man who came from the nearby village in hopes of becoming an adventurer.
But he was dressed too lightly and Carlo was bothered by it. The nearby village required at least two days to reach the capital, and he should have at least have some luggage with him. Did he take a merchant’s caravan by chance and came here —- He thought and tried to answer his own question.
As expected, the youth was a newcomer who wanted to be an adventurer.
But when the paper and pen was pa.s.sed over to him, he did not write on it.
It looked like he was unable to read. The literacy rate in this kingdom was not very high. It was one of the receptionist job to write on someone’s behalf, and so Carlo began his usual task of writing for them. He asked for the youth’s name, age and skills.
It was important to ask for an accurate report for skills. The adventurers would reference and a.s.sess these things when they formed a party.
Well, there were many newcomers who pretended to have different skills. When that happened they were going to learn a painful lesson.
And that’s when the youth said this. ——— My speciality is magic.
Carlo looked at the youth again. He did not have a sword or bow, and he did not look particularly strong, so there was a possibility that he could use it. But to use magic, one would have to know how to read books about magic and it was a given to improve their knowledge that way. It was impossible to not know how to write or read.
He considered that the youth was from some other country, but it did not explain his light equipment. No matter how he looked at him, the impression was mismatched.
He should let this slide first—– Then he started to explain to the youth about the criminal list and guild’s blacklist and the investigation’s procedures. (暫く泳がせてみるか――あとで犯罪者リストやギルドのブラックリストを調べようと考えつつ、彼に説明していく。 Unsure if this TL is correct.)
When he finished explaining, the youth asked if he could sell the forest wolves’ hides here.
Beyond the subjugation of the magical creatures and their proof of victory, there were also weapons, armor, herbs and various other things that were requested along from the quest. The adventurer’s guild would buy these things as a result.
It was not impossible for an amateur to be able to defeat a single forest wolf. However, forest wolves hunt in a pack. One cannot make light of that.
Yet the youth took out 50 hides, a number that was significantly beyond his expectations, and they did not appear to be old. These were probably recently skinned.
He couldn’t have fought 50 of them right—
He stole them or something—- No, this was still an impossible number.
There was never a time where such a large number of hides were taken from the wolves that reside deep within the forest. Just where exactly did he get these hides?
As his questions sprang up, the youth’s distrustful eyes looked at him, and he started to appraise the hide carefully.
Each of the fur hides were carefully skinned—- And it was rare to see such careful workmans.h.i.+p. The quality was comparable to a specialist who worked in this field, and one might even say that a master huntsman was the one who skinned them.
At the very least, when he was still an active adventurer, he did not have the confidence to do something like this.
There were adventurers who had the ability to subjugate the monsters, but were horrible at removing their hides. And if the creatures were hurt too much in the process, there were cases where the adventurer guild did not buy the damaged hides.
A merchant would spend a great deal of money to buy them with this level of quality.
Perhaps if this youth did this all on his own —- He would be an extraordinary rookie. No, he would completely surpa.s.s the level of a newcomer.
Even though there were many things that he did not understand, he involuntarily admired the youth. He ought to have an appropriate judgment for this transaction. And thus the guild receptionist Carlo chose to be fair in his appraisal.
After he pa.s.sed the silver coins to the youth —– Chaos requested for a quest.
Carlo considered carefully. It was undeserving of him to receive a quest for a newcomer. If that was the case he would test his strength out with a quest that was a little harder.
Killer bees were fierce insect type magical creatures the size of a human’s infants. Their quick movements and their lunging stings easily hurt newcomers, and it was a magical creature where a newcomer would find their limits. If Chaos had real capabilities, then he would have no problems finis.h.i.+ng it.
Even though there were many suspicious points remaining, his heart danced a little when he remembered the time when was an adventurer, and had great expectations for the rookie.
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