Chapter 121 - Talk about Investigations and War (1/2)

Ch. 121: Talk about Investigations and War

There was a rumor that a few villages had been destroyed.

It wasn’t something unusual.

Villages appeared and disappeared all the time, so it wouldn’t grab any attention whatsoever.

But this time it was different.

There was also a rumor that it was due to a vampiric calamity.

Vampiric calamities referred to disasters caused by vampires.

A vampire appearing in a village, converting a few people into its slaves, then those lesser undead would attack others, and after continuing that bloody cycle, all the humans would be replaced with undead.

It would result in a horde of undead that the nation couldn’t ignore, so even though it was a rumor, the government launched an investigation in case such a situation would happen.

“I don’t think they would find a horde of undead anywhere, though.”

Looking at Lapis, who chimed like it was none of her business, sitting in front of him, Loren tilted the cup of liquor in his hand and swirled it slowly.

As Lapis had said, there was zero chance that a horde of undead would be found.

It wasn’t that Lapis had received a revelation from the Knowledge god.

A little while before, Loren and Lapis had received a job straight from the client, instead of through the Adventurer’s Guild.

It was during that job, that the villages were turned into undead, resulting in an undead horde, that was used to attack them.

But the horde, along with the True that caused the vampiric calamity, were completely wiped out.

Loren hadn’t reported this to the guild.

It was because he thought that if they wanted to know, they should ask the Elder that caused all of it.

Apparently, the Adventurer’s Guild was a powerful organization, and had connections to monsters that could converse with humans.

If not, there was no way the guild could get their hands on some of the information they possessed.

In any case, the job was a direct contract from their client, so he and Lapis had no responsibility to give the guild any information on what had happened during it.

If they didn’t report and the Elders didn’t say anything either, there was nothing the guild could do about it.

Even if they knew something had happened, they couldn’t carelessly aggravate the Elders, and if they tried to do something to Loren and Lapis and they found out about it, it could offend them as well, so there was nothing they could do.

That was why Loren thought that the guild was letting them move around freely.

“I feel sorry for the people investigating.”

No matter how hard they investigated, they wouldn’t find anything.

The Elders had all left, and the undead horde, which was the main point of the investigation, most of them were defeated by Loren and the sunlight and were back to being immobile corpses.

Loren thought it was harsh to send people on an investigation which nothing would turn up, but since it was still a job they would be paid according to the number of days, so Loren hoped that the adventurers that he didn’t know the names or faces of wouldn’t think of it as wasted time.

“Well, that’s the least of their worries.”

Loren said quietly as he looked down at the notice from the guild that was spread on the table.

It was a form that the guild used to spread important information far and wide throughout the adventurer community.

The contents were so shocking that it almost made Loren forget a lot of things that were on his mind.

“They’re skirmishes, but still an official war between nations.”

Unlike Loren, Lapis wasn’t interested in it at all.

On the paper that Loren was looking down on told him that the Kingdom of Wagenburg, the nation that Kauffa resided in, was warring with the nation of Schoenbryn, which was located to the northeast, and the battle was going on in an unnamed plain on the border.

The reason for the war wasn’t specified.

Loren thought it was a pathetic reason anyway.

Wars never started with a good reason, and many were started over the smallest of things, but rather than that, because of them, the circulation of goods got slower, people were drafted from cities and villages, and because of that, there would be less soldiers policing areas, leading to increase in crime.

“The guild always remains neutral, though.”

Even though they were neutral, they still had to receive jobs from both nations.

In fact, most of the jobs on the board were straight from Wagenburg.

They spanned from recon missions to guarding important people to guarding bases and fortresses.

It was probably similar in Schoenbryn, and because of the influx in jobs, the guild was quite packed.