Episode 24.1 (1/2)

The town is bustling.

It can be felt anywhere in the town.

The town lord Crimus Ulban has entrusted Chaney Company to construct a guest house where <Herb Saint> Guide Skalabel will stay at, and let him coordinate with the domestic affair officials from the royal capital to make the arrangements.

At first Chaney was thinking of calling Vantaroy's workers to work on the construction.

However, there's not enough days. It's just too short a notice.

There, the local workmen got mobilized instead.

After all, it's a facility where the most important of VIPs will stay. Even though the scale won't be massive, the building has to be of the highest quality. Same with its furniture and tableware.

Chaney decided to tackle this project without regards to profits. It will be a work Chaney Company is proud to work on for posterity. That said there is simply no time to lay the foundation solidly. It will have to be simplistic and modest. Nevertheless they plan to jam in as many work as possible and build a comfy building.

The supervisor on site is Chaney's grandchild, Winny.

Chaney himself is heading for Vantaroy to greatly expand his trade partners using Octocular Great Spider materials. He's also using the opportunity to purchase smaller furniture in Vantaroy for the guest house.

The town lord was extremely swamped with work to repair the highways north of Vantaroy. They gathered up people from all lines of work, stonework craftsmen, masons, carpenters, laborers from around Vouka to do the work but they had to call stonework craftsmen that can build bridges from Vantaroy.

A huge number of people come and go in Vouka every day.

The movements of those people enliven the town.

And another new hope also whirls up in the town.

Right after the envoys from Royal Capital went home, Eda was officially granted gold rank adventurer rank.

However, apparently she hasn't been showing up at the Adventurer Association at all lately.

She's been getting invited to many houses, learning how to cook and sewing, engaging in lively chats. And once every few days she would accompany Norma to make house calls and cast <Recovery>.

She would cast

on Lecan before going to bed at night.

She's also polishing up <Sleep> and <Detection>, following Shira's advice. She'd go to forest to practice sometimes.

Eda appears to really enjoy her current style of life.

Lecan too never showed up at the association, but Aira would come to their house bringing many quests for him.

He has no idea how she did it, but Aira quickly found out where Lecan and Eda lived. Then she'd come to visit in evening and talked about quests over tea. Of course Lecan declined all of it. Eda too isn't taking a quest for now. Saying that she won't accept quests if it's not with Lecan.

As for Lecan, he's spending half of his day learning magic at Shira every single day.

First he learned <Flash>. At elementary level, this magic merely emits a dazzling light, but since it's effective against Soul Ogres and Spectres, he's told to better learn it.

”And besides. Don'tcha underestimate how potent blinds could be in an interpersonal fight. It even work on some magic beasts like Ape Ogres and Oddmud. You got nothing to lose learning it.”

He managed to learn the spell right away. As it's capable of temporarily blinding opponent if the output is raised, this magic is actually pretty terrifying when you think about it.

And with that, he's told to have completed his Light and Heat type magic learning.