Chapter 27 Revisiting the guild. (2/2)

Luck

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He felt that in another half a year he would reach the threshold and become a blackso through a drastic change in professions Scribing runes and ether

‘I wonder…”

He took another glance at his skills His Rune Mastery Skill that was L4 at the moment It stood out like a sore thu runes, its role lied in co runic equip his scroll spells He had a sneaking suspicion that he would regret it if he didn’t get this skill up to l 9 before trying to switch classes

He was inclined to believe that therefor hiest problem with this skill was that it required hi spells out of co the shi+eld spell on hi erous He didn’t really want to wander into the woods alone as he knew the risks Even if the et him, he could very well be attacked by soet his secrets

He turned his thoughts towards the adventurer’s guild There was no dungeon here but that didn’t uild anize expeditions into monster-infested lands for various reasons He could join one of such undertakings as a support h this time period Which would increase his utility in a party

Theskill increased the ed to limit the scroll surface Which let him create more scrolls with fewerprocess increased several-fold though He needed to fit the co that was half the size of the scroll paper that he had been using

His airade spell onto a surface that was the size of a regular playing card He could then just flip through the the the size of an envelope This was already

Surprisingly even though he was using less ic ink on the smaller scrolls the runic spells didn’t drop in power It was like creating a sinal one didn’t have to be worse

There was a little drawback though, the ser ones The user had the option to insert their er but the smaller scrolls just couldn’t handle the increase in mana that well This wasable to handle it and not the rune diagram itself

‘Should I take a break?’

He had iin any time and had it placed in the contract as a clause He was allowed to take the weekends off He also had 25 days to pick as non-working ones throughout the entire year He could also prepare the minimum nuer break

His aim was not to level hiet it up to level 9 before hitting his cap He wasn’t sure if that was achievable but he was even willing to wait before he got it there Luckily he had already prepared by scribing some scrolls in his free time His social life became even more non-existent due to this, he didn’t even knoas happening outside any the people had coh he didn’t do any work for a year He would probably be able to find a spot in an expedition but it would take him away from here for at least a week Thanks to the increase in both his h int stats showed its worth at tio when he first started he could barely produce a runic fire arrow scroll in a day Now he could make five or six of them and even compact them onto smaller paper This wasn’t his only spell that he had He had bought out all the possible spell scrolls in Edelgard and also asked the rade or below

His scrolls were quite popular with the adventurers and were even getting shi+pped to other cities along with his signature The people ca persona Due to the red coave him names like ‘Crimson Comet’, ‘Red Star’, or the ‘Scarlet Runes soany runic weapons instead

He was known for only est factor to his popularity was that these scrolls were actually worth the coin that was spent on the materials and craftsmanshi+p they were deemed affordable

They were quite loved by support type classes that had higher levels of mana compared to the warrior classes Acolytes and priests could use theainst boss level ular spell scrolls once again ca ot his coat His workroom looked kind of messy, there were piles of research material, sketches, and his scribbles everywhere He still kept the h, as the rune scheirl how o for The answer made his eyes pop out, he could use them as a last-ditch effort if he really needed money but for now, it was better to keep theear slightly He earing a set of fine gambeson under his robe He spent et anything fancy like e as it was quite light while offering a lot of protection against regular attacks

He still had the heavy rapier that he received after the battle with that fencer Besides that, his shoes were loves He wished that he could get hiloves but they cost far too much There was also a problem with those items as they broke down after some uses

Just like the scrolls, the mana would corrode the materials, which meant that if he wanted a reusable resource, he would need ones that were at least made from mithril This silvery ear It ca below a large golden coindoors opened up and he could see the sun being still up Even though people were giving hi black clothes If he switched to red he felt like he would be sticking out like a sore thumb

He walked towards the adventurer house while looking at his old adventurer card He hadn’t really been using it since cooblin-infested forests frooblins proved to not be the best training as they were far too weak This is also the reason why he decided to take up a request froer expedition where he could kill er and offered uild open and was greeted to a fa were similar to the one in Carwen This also made him remeirls were up to after over a year had passed

He frowned slightly as thinking about the past wasn’t very productive HeThere were a large plethora of quests being hung up there So back the ears with him as they orth a couple of coins

‘Is there anything hile?’

There weren’t oblin forest was as far as he could go without getting into tooin the uninhabited lands further into the kingdom He reasoned that there should be some jobs that he could take and that wouldn’t keep hier than teeks

‘Let me see…’

Protect convoy froend

‘That one is a bit too far it would take a whole week and I bet the caravan would stop between the other towns’

He rejected that one, the possibility ofmonsters or bandits was questionable and he wanted to use up his spell scrolls to level up his skill

He started going through listings, they were all mostly protection missions placed by the merchants They were always happy to hire some extrafor exploration or for findingpeople or caravans His eyes finally stopped at one job in particular

“Investigate and clear out Manstos Grotto fro through this one The description stated that this Grotto was in fact an iron ore mine which also has some rarer h a wall and tunneled right into some kind insectoid monster nest There had already been some casualties and the mine was now closed off

Roland rubbed his chin, there were monsters he could kill there The only problem was that it was in some kind of mine shaft Hoide the corridors as unknown and if the whole thing collapsed onto hi

He wouldn’t be going in alone though, this was a large scale operation with e so he would be allowed to hang out in the back while the warriors took all the hits The risk et bonuses by killing ain but didn’t find anything hile This et there in a day or two He didn’t think that killing theeither He nodded and went over to the guild receptionist, he presented his card and told the person that he wanted to sign up for this expedition The h

His steel rank allowed hie also added to his worth He left soon afterward as they would be heading out in two days, he could use this ti eous He was also interested in testing some of his altered spells on the monsters

The two days of preparation passed in a flash He had gathered what he could, besides his spell scrolls he had so potions and so

When he arrived he saw a group of tough-looking adventurers already gathering up There were about twenty people here and they would be probably splitting into five or four parties There was also soirl that was apparently co with them on this adventure

Before he could ask about why they allowed a low-level adventurer like her to coirl’s eyes ide, then they narrowed She zoned in on hi hi This would probably be quite an interesting expedition, he hoped that the girl could at least keep herself safe this time around