Vol 1 Chapter 10 (1/2)
Episode 10 Breakdown of Negotiation
It’s only my second tiuild leader roouild leader, Collard, and a probably 25 year old male adventurer ore leather armor before him
Collard had a hard face, but seeing me and Gald enter the room, his tension loosened a little
“Excellent, with this everyone is present”
The two guards ere at the door before weren’t there it seeht now since he said everyone was present However, it’s just 4 people here…I wonder why? The at though
“Please sit for now I have a bit of a complicated story to tell―”
While saying so Collard left his seat and sincerely poured a pot of black tea into the arranged cup and placed the cup in front ofthat Gald lacks, is this what it ht ish paper (Unlike the gah So like a relic) that was placed on top of the official desk
It looked like the laid out paper was aenvironment which played an important role for this town
It was quite a simplification and on top of that the terrain scale and the location was a bit off Maybe the measurement technique was underdeveloped, or it was on purpose because the real details were a military secret, I don’t really know about those circu
Although for ’ (The skill draws in a 500 at the spot the player was at The skill couldn’t be used on soai easily flew me around the area, the map was built up in my head almost like a GPS
Nonetheless, it is unnecessary to reveal what reat interest
“To introduce hi to this guild, and he is the leader of the adventurer group ‘Astor’…no, he was the leader”
While he was being introduced by the guild leader, this person whose naret
If I take a good look at his armor that is brand new, there were cuts all over it like scratches by some nails, part of his face and skin that can be seen have unusual color Seeic
“Frank-san, this young lady here is… an esteeht noe have a crisis, I asked her to be present here”
On that harmless and inoffensive introduction, Frank remained silent and stared at me suspiciously He bowed his head just because of the sense of obligation, however I pretended to not see hinored him
After all, what’s the point of a greeting and etiquette if there is no feeling attached to it? That’s useless right? It’s pointless doing so
While sighing because of unfriendly atmosphere between Frank and I, Collard conveyed the ht me here
“By the way, does the young lady know a phenomenon called a ‘stampede’?”
Ah… I don’t know any sta technique
Perhaps he already anticipated me, who tilted my head in confusion Collard continued on,
“Once in a while in this big forest, on average in an interval of every 15 years, so happens for a short time over several months, the massive monsters movement phenomenon”
Saying so he pointed on the map, at the spot in a north-east direction away froe of the map, there was a spot shown that was covered by a tree le was practically 7 times more eastern and the distance to the tip of the forest was 30km more than this map showed
“Hmmmn, is the cause known?”
“Yes, for the general cause there are 3 main reasons:
The first reason is because of food shortage There is a lack of food in the forest, and the population of
The second reason is because of the power struggle within the forest The losing powers are kicked out of the forest and attack villages or other things they find Well either of those tould surely be a disorganized e number, it’s on a scale that would not be a problem and could be defeated
But the probles forth an individual who leads the monsters within the forest”
“Leader? In short so like a field boss is it?”
“What’s that? The one who is the leader is not si a bunch of followers, it’s a deether, in other words that fellow is the ‘King’ In that situation there would be various kinds of monsters, but every last of theth
Actually when I was young, the reason the sta’ That bastard grew roots froround and sucked 100 adventurers of their blood at the sa his past
“Hee? You defeated that? That’s a great kill”
“To be fair the basis of that one is a tree monster after all Its main body’s unpowder and firelike ele, we can shave off the roots little by little froether at its main body and burnt it and, that’s all”
“H it At any rate since there is so like a field boss class, I think maybe you should leave it to soendary S rank adventurer”
“Youlike an S rank, but how many S ranks do you think exist in this world?! Just to merely summon them, how rily rebuke me
Oh, the S rank really exists! Look like this will be a bit more fun
“However, the opponent right now doesn’t have such a weakness, on top of that they havethis the worst trouble”
Really irritatedly, Collard clicked his tongue
Ah~ so it was like that
From the flow of this conversation, the ‘sta’ is born
“This probleo, it started when contact froe adjacent to the forest completely stopped”
By nature, the reiven attention at first, but when the peddler who departed froe also didn’t coe
Before long it escalated to co cut off, and as expected even the guild got their lazy butts in gear and dispatched 3 group of adventurer starting with Frank orked in the Astor group to do the field investigation
The result was this: everyone except Frank was annihilated
“…It was hell Even running desperately ot overtaken one by one by those reedily eaten alive… I was miraculously able to escape from them…”
Frank eyes lost their spirit; he narrated bit by bit, the situation at that time
“The ht be approaching tens of thousands It’s said that the ogre was in the center, I dare to say it’s the ‘Ogre King’ now”
Froa, is it?
[ED/TL note: Foreign joke here, she actually says onigokko(which is tag, the oni is in the center and tries to tag the rest)]
That’s the impression which came to my mind, but I won’t say it out loud since that would be imprudent
Or rather I should be saying…
“So, what I am here for?”
To say it bluntly, I don’t have anything to do with this discussion Even today I was planning to leave this town
My words azes uncomfortably
“…We want to ask for your opinion about this matter As for your advice, what should we do?”
Hearing Collard plead, Iht
“Maybe trya discussion with them?”