Chapter 82 (1/2)

Chapter 82 – Rumors That Can’t be Missed.

Dogaaaaaaan!!!!!

A roaring sound echoes through the pure white world.

The shock raised a huge amount of snow and smoke, using it as cover I freely cast a spell and attack with my sword on the “target”.

However, being used on the unfamiliar snow, the sword cut through the skies, but failed to reach it’s mark, leaving a trail on the snow it hit.

「Kueeeee!! 」

The “Target” raised its strange voice, making its entire body glow with a bachi bachi. 1

「Almost…! 」

I fl.u.s.teredly tried to retreat, but the discharge came faster than that.

Dogooooon!!!

A flash of light was followed by a big explosion, which blew me away with the snow all around me.

「Argh… it’s a S rank monster, indeed. It’s not going to be easy… 」

Due to the improved defensive magic, I did not receive any wound,  I still need to learn how to fight in this unfamiliar place, so as to make sure it doesn’t go like the fight with the dragon. I’ll need to move from place to place. 2

Grasping the sword tightly, I looked at the “target” through the soaring snow.

Just as usual, I was looking through the requests on the adventurer’s guild, when I heard some agitated words from the tea room.

「…… Thunderbird…, saw…… Tesla Mountain…… 」

Hearing that, I instinctively turned towards the voice.

Stretching my sight, I could see a group of people gossiping over while drinking some tea..

I moved from the bulletin board and went to the side of that group.

「Ano, the rumors…… May I ask you for a few more details? 」

The group of adventurers was surprised to hear my voice, and were once again surprised when they saw me, after looking at me for a bit, they started nodding though.

In the past, they would just look at me and say, 「This is not a place for kids」 or 「The receptionist is over there, were you looking for her?」, but as people got used to me here, I no longer heard this kind of thing.

…… Could it be that I’m looking more like an adventurer? Did everyone notice it, but didn’t say anything…? Fufufu, I’m almost 16 now!3 Have I been recognized as an adult?

Oto, I should listen to the story now….

「It’s not an important story though? The Tesla mountain is on a 6 days travel distance, northwest of here, right? I heard that a dangerous Thunderbird has appeared in it. A hunter that was nearby said it, but it’s unusual for Thunderbird to show up so much in the South, isn’t it? I heard from a Merchant on my travels, that the bottom part of it is pretty delicious too?4 Maa, a subjugation request will be sent soon anyway, won’t it?」

「Sou desuka? 5 Thank you very much. 」

By the w

ay, information is sold for money. Adventurers also understand this, so the talk doesn’t usually flow like this. Maa, if the story is near one of the main roads, disclosing the information is compulsory to ensure public safety…. If they’re rumors that haven’t circulated yet though, they are usually exchanged for money.

In that case, why did he tell me this easily?

「It’s a good thing. That it’s Thunderbird…. A request to defeat it won’t come as soon as it becomes well know. I don’t want to consider the trouble of going against such a dangerous monster.」

So, Thunderbird is an S-rank monster by the guild’s ranking. It is a monster usually found to the north, in the country of Soutins6. As the name says, it can call and manipulate lightning, emitting thunder from its body like an electric eel and using it to attack. It is quite a threat by itself, but it fundamentally lives in mountain zones, not really appearing in places near people.7 In other words, it is necessary to laboriously climb the mountain to kill it. And since the air is quite thing in the mountain zones, an adventurer won’t be usually able to exert their full strength in a combat against it.

Due to that, the thunderbird by itself is already considered S-rank, but adventurers treat is as something more troublesome than S-rank..

There are also other reasons that make thunderbird is famous.