Vol 3 Chapter 5 (1/1)

Without sound or warning, Bell extends her collapsed halberd and runs toward the e, silent strides across the clearing Before the yawning h above his head, with her halberd wound up zubashi+ Followed by going into a front flip, the axehead of the halberd slashes up towards the top of his chest, up the throat to the center of the neck, through the chin and exiting at the top of his nose Theface first just behind where Bell landedthe tip of her halberd into the corpse repeatedly as though it’s her parents’ killer “What the hell are you doing?!” Rick whispers coarsely over the PM, still within the darkness of the trees The felinoid stops roup “Oops…” “What oops, get the hell out of there! You justup, she sees a blood-red sword syh it doesn’t give off any lu pervert fro that she’sa racket, she immediately collapses her halberd and runs off to the nearest tree, beyond the light of the diof leaves “Hmm… what do you make out of this, boss?” “What do you h we rejected the First Princess’ quest, she’s sending us to the Third Princess instead and asking us not to tell her that she sent us What gives?” “Honestly, I’ve no idea, wish I knew douys ain’tit” “Pffft, we said we’d stop doing shi+t like that already, we ain’t no scuonna trick nobody and nobody ain’t gonna trick us again, this shi+t should be about adventure and uys feel the sa on the floor, didn’t you say you’d wait for us outside?” Three st the out of the diround One of thehly in the butt with the blunt end of the spear in his hand “Oy, Hendricks, ti body “What the fuck?! Defensive Formation!” The other two men shout “Defensive For over thehis spear as he looks into the darkness The others do the same, albeit with some confusion “What-” “Hendricks is dead” Before the question can be asked, the ave the answer Shortly after, 17their weapons as soon as they exit “shi+t, look at what you did! Kun is signaling that we should get out of here Let’s meet back at camp” Rick whispers harshly with a PM to Bell before disappearing, heading into a different direction from where they came from “Care to explain yourself, Bell?” Kun asks with a confounded expression, with his arh a roundabout route, lest they be tracked After scaring the sentry for a splitcampfire “I… have no excuse, the blood just rushed toin seiza [T/N: ”Sitting in a kneeling position” doesn’t carry the nuance necessary in this case, seiza (正座) is the respectful, for position, in this case, it shows repentance] “Pffffttt, it looked like you were slaughtering a boyfriend that cheated on you” Rick is chewing on a piece of snake jerky with both his hands behind his head, laying dohile leaning his back on sos “Do we have to put Bell-ne on a leash the next ti you tie to so too far” “Sounds uncomfortable” “It is” Kun turns away from the fox and focuses his eyes on the red sword above Bell’s head “First things first, we need to get rid of that” “Eh, what’s the rule for getting rid of it again?” Bell looks up as well, pondering “Let’s see~ The for in time Then 01-05 fixed deduction fro this time, experience lost as a result from death is 10 times the noretting this…? This isn’t in the help section…” Rick is poking and flicking his fingers into the air as he searches through the interface Likewise, Kun is doing the sa in an agura position [T/N: “Sitting in a cross-legged position” doesn’t carry the nuance like with seiza In this case, agura (胡座) is considered an unsightly sitting position since females aren’t expected to sit in this way Conversely, it’s also used to indicate Bell’s attitude In this case, either she doesn’t care for h to everyone to do this (or maybe a bit of both)] “Oh~! You just access the com in ‘browse -x -reame Just don’t share it with anyone~” ““AH!”” “Huh?” “Mm?” Rick and Bell exclaims excitedly as they open their own brohile Kun and Gui both share a du on It lasted for all of a second since there are pressing issues at hand “So there’s two things that we need to do: Bell has to lose that Murderer status We need to find out what’s going on with the princesses We have no idea what is going on with the First Princess, but those people mentioned the Third Princess… we definitely need ht have to break into that hideout one of these days, there’s a high chance one of us is going to die” Rick agrees while shi+fting a piece of jerky in hisher experience pointlessly, 10 tiht even lose a level? Although that does explain how Kun got so many levels from those crystals…” The felinoid makes a difficult face “Well, I’ve sorind some mobs and have the kids clean the carcasses…” “In that case, ill go back to Lilyhei his chin, “You know… I’ve been wondering… Rick, can you get me 10 pieces of Marsh Viper leather within 12 hours?” “Eh?” Rick uess it didn’t work…” “Ah, I see what you are trying to do!” Bell s on a snake jerky as well “Guess it didn’t work, too bad” “You are done repenting already? And what is it that he was trying to do, ?” The blond youth narrows his eyes as he slowly chews on thesilent as Bell and Rick banters After the youth got knocked in the head and backed away froht hand, pal her left hand over the right hand, clasping theet ated fruit within 12 hours, the reward is 1 silver” The piece of snake jerky falls out of Rick’s mouth, as he stares blankly at the transparentbefore his eyes Everyone turns their head at his sudden silence and stillness, even Bell’s expression cools down As though possessed by a spirit, Rick sharabs a round bundle of fruit and returns, dropping them into Till’s hand Both Rick and Till rub their eyes as they look at their respective s Afrom her waist-pouch and hands over a set this idea from~?” “EEEHHHHH!? It works?!” The realization of what just occurred hits the felinoid like a sudden squall on a sunny day kon “Shhhhhh! You want to wake up the kids?” Rick, in a reversal of roles, sured, since the students can use the ic we learned froht? And we all know the NPCs can do requests on our behalf like ere trying to isolate those two guilds Since we need information, we can commission help from the NPCs instead… no?” “Hohat, how are NPCs the same as us?!” Rick ray fox that disappeared at so on a piece of snake jerky as well Placing his head in his hands, he can only mumble a “nevermind” as he relishes the cool sensation fro into his face “Nyahahahaha, interesting! Interesting!” The felinoid suppresses her excited voice, as she repeats the word several ti the novelty of the discovery “But this was just between users, we need to see if it works with NPCs” Kun starts getting up “I’ to test it with the sentries” The blond youth’s head suddenly snaps up “Wait, if it works, I just got an idea Let me join you” “Idea…?” “Eh? So this is the place? Not bad, not bad at all” I roup of men that have beastial features In front ofwith activities in front of it Just behind, I can see nus of various sizes as well as various facilities “Welcome to Zinnia Academy, Master Barthos My name is Echo, I will be your liaison, if you have any questions, let me know” “Don’t be so stiff, ive the lean -like horses away “Ah, those are the other instructors, I take it?” I point at the various figures fighting vigorously on the field “That would be correct, they are the instructors Kun-sensei hired to help expand the Acadea at all Huh… what the hell… “No, s? Aside fro!” “H to explain all the details to this Echo, I run the several hundredEcho to chase afterall those Untouchables and even old Pabuilding in front of me “damn it!” I turn around as I wait for the liaison to catch up to ht behind s, we have to repair theht up froo” “Who’s the engineer responsible?” “Engineer?” “Who directed you to build theame’s simulation is too realistic for e to be building things here as well “There is none, we just built these buildings like we do during expeditions” “Expeditions…? Those are teht!? And this, THIS!” I point at the warped pieces of lureen-wood construction techniques! These buildings could be collapsing in weeks! AHHH!” [T/N: I had no idea wtf green-wood construction was so I decided to look it up Apparently fresh lureen wood) usually can’t be used to build things as is since it needs months or even years for the wood to season (dry up) to ensure stability, free fro of the species of trees involved, I can only surht up of ways to use fresh lu to wait for the wood to dry This also explains how they were able to construct Kun’s new facilities using fresh lumbers as well] “… Come with me, if what you said is true, we need to resolve this as soon as possible” The , with ht behind kan kan dokkan “God da went to hell!” “Stop co position after throwing out balls of ice to bludgeon so bitterly Bell, on the other hand, is desperately fending off users, non-users, and mobs alike A chaotic scene of aand the surrounding jungle area “We should have waited for Kun and Gui!” “Then ould have been too late!” “Bell-ne, duck~!” A blast of air hyuu over the felinoid who kneels down in the nick of tiroup of dwarves, who immediately dispatches hi Rick’s proclamation of a plan, Rick and Till went to Lilyheim to carry it out They first asked for permission to use the [Request Bulletin] in the town-square frouards had no objection, especially since they are affiliated with Kun, who brought the slavers in The request was sie and have a chance to win a scholarshi+p to Zinnia Academy attended by nobilities and Royalties alike! Each new piece of infordom’s First Princess, Third Princess, and the Royalties, will be rewarded with 1 silver and a lottery slip for the drawing! They stayed within the city to receive the inforeneral infor important appeared The idea to proood one, unfortunately, the fear of Lèse- of the third day, Till quietly went to the [Request Bulletin] alone and added so to the request [T/N: Lèse-nation of Royalties Punishments varies and can even lead to the death penalty] Quest: Show your scholarly prowess! Show your knowledge and have a chance to win a scholarshi+p to Zinnia Academy attended by nobilities and Royalties alike! Each new piece of infordom First Princess, Third Princess and the Royalties will be rewarded with 1 silver and lottery slip for the drawing! An additional draill be held for a [Blessing] from a Deity It’s the sao, don’t miss out! [ED: PUTTING THAT FERTILITY God TO USE] The initial response was like the last two days’, at least until the early evening when the lobby of the inn started to get a little crowded Servants of various nobles were sent to provide soards to the blessing Although the people of Feia kept their pro Rick’s secret, they couldn’t hide the celebrations, the births and the undeniable prosperity and vitality visible within the city-state Since Lilyheim and Feia trade with each other, news of these events are well-known Additionally, spies planted within Feia also reported the strange events, like the massive visit to the nearby [Forest of Illusions] by the top echelon of the city-state nobles being nobles, can detect an opportunity when they see one, and they see a chance to outdo their rivals The request triggered a ton of speculations, causing the people observing to ask, “why?” Fro to another, this led to the distorted notion that “A Deity is trying to save theFirst Princess and will reward those that save her with an even greater Blessing” on theof the fourth day Of course, Till and Rick tried to correct the false information, but that only added to the fire as others think they were trying to keep the ultihters, ether and tried to locate the presu soh the ie of the contracts from the First Princess and so forth, everyone prepared and rushed to the hideout on the oal, at the same time, everyone is also a rival … … … “Fall back for now! We don’t knoho our ene like this is pointless!” “darits her teeth and leaps over a group oftheh the tangledon a distant tree, away fro, as she expertly diverts projectiles away froh somehow…”