Volume 2 Chapter 25 (1/2)

Volume 2 Chapter 25: Road to the Survey Site

After stuffing the supplies that were provided for the survey by Lilac, into the transportation bag. I was walking on a narrow woodland road, northwest of the City of Water, Sylvestre, together with the two adventurer siblings, who I was supposed to observe and support.

As very few people usually pass here, the road was rough.

There is a rocky coastline past this area, so large rocks that are taller than me, can be found scattered in this area. In addition, the forest is quite dense, making visibility a bit bad.

However, with the smell of the sea breeze that could be felt, this road was a bit different from those around the City of Stars, which I found a bit refreshing in a way, then—

「Axel-san, how are you holding up, stamina-wise? Since a while ago the terrain turned quite bad.」

Cecil who was walking ahead of me with George, asked such a thing while tilting her head.

「Well, I can manage this much. No problem, Cecil.」

After I said that, she opened her eyes slightly wider and then—

「Yes… That’s good. As the head of Marine Guild said, you are a first-rate carrier.」

She smiled, breathing a small sigh of relief.

「Hm? How did you arrive at that conclusion from this exchange?」

I didn’t particularly help in any way and didn’t do anything special. Thinking so, I asked Cecil—

「Because an ordinary carrier, who doesn’t have that much endurance, would’ve already exhausted himself and asked for a break after walking through the bad terrain, while constantly being vigilant of the surroundings for one hour . I’m very sorry, but having combat jobs both of us walk pretty fast.」

As she said that, Cecil scratched her cheek and smiled wryly.

「Every time we hired a support introduced by the adventurer’s guild, they would start getting tired already and ask for a break, but you are showing no signs of exhaustion. You are the best carrier among those we have had to team up this far.」

「Oh, is that so? As for me, I’m just normally following after you.」

「Having a carrier that doesn’t require frequent breaks is already a good thing for us, combatants, who have a lot of physical strength, Axel-san. It will be a problem if the sun were to set before we reach the survey area.」

As she said that, Cecil shifted her sight back in the direction we are going. And so she walked forward while glancing over the surroundings. George next to her was the same.

「And so far… Well, there are some small monsters, but no powerful magic stones or strong monsters.」

「That’s to be expected, Cecil. Since the goal of our investigation is that rocky area on the coast.」

「I’m just making sure. We received a detector for magic stones anyway.」

With a faint smile, Cecil looked at a small jewel on her wrist.

That was a special magic tool provided by Lilac to the adventurers that undertook the investigation request. It’s supposed to glow in the proximity of magic stones.

Using this we are to conduct our survey but—

「But, I also wanted the hero-sama to oversee us…」