Published at 7th of December 2020 09:52:36 AM
Chapter 112
Chapter 112
We had to go get rocks and clay from a cliff on the north side of the town of East End to fix the holes in the prison wall and floor . I thought I could finish it fast with an earth magic circle, but I ended up destroying the hole in the wall more . My magic power adjustment isn’t very good, probably because of some level ups . While we were gathering at the cliff, the locksmith Fluden called came and fixed the door and lock . Of course we paid the repair fees .
We sealed the hole with the rocks and clay for now, but it looks shabby no matter how you look at it, with rocks jutting out and clay dripping down .
“I’ll call a contractor, so just leave the materials . ”
Fluden said as he sighed .
“Yes, if you would . ”
Paying the contractor’s fee, we left the guard station .
The sky is already ready, so we got a room at a nearby inn immediately . There were a lot of extra expenses, so we got a large room for everyone to stay in this time .
“Our luck’s been bad lately . ”
I said in the inn’s dining hall . There are a lot of fish dishes for East End’s meals . Shellfish soup, steam-baked shrimp so big they crowd off the big plates, dried herringfish and salad . All of them are delicious, but my face isn’t happy .
Next to me, Ayl and Velsa are also eating the food with a bitter face . Seth and Merumo are eating happily without minding it .
Since we came to East End, we’ve gotten caught up in trouble and thrown into jail . Ayl’s sword swinging destroyed a wall, and Velsa’s plant trap put holes in the floor . My magic circles failed for some reason, and was unable to fix the walls . Our company keeps making blunders .
“It’s all thanks to picking up that corpse . ”
Ayl said as she gnawed on a dried herringfish .
“No, that’s not it . ”
Velsa said, and then she continued with,
“All of our mistakes happened because we mistook our strengths . How are we gaining levels and skills?”
“Levels are from exterminating monsters . ”
I replied .
“Skills are from skill points from leveling up, right?”
Ayl responded .
“In other words, we don’t have enough actual experience . Even though we’ve gotten power and skills, we don’t know how to use them . ”
Velsa gave us her self analysis .
“But it wasn’t like this at Floura and Gnomefield . And it’s not like we did anything while we were on the boat . Why did it suddenly do this when we got to East End?”
I said .
“It’s not sudden . What were we doing on the boat?”
Velsa continue to say .
“What, that’s … fish?”
Ayl realized it .
Certainly, before we arrived at East End we were stabbing fish to death all night . Fish are monsters so I understand that we got experience, but .
“Then you mean our levels increased from defeating that mountain of fish? If that’s the case, then wouldn’t fishermen’s levels be a lot higher?”
“Fishermen don’t use sound to stun the fish . At that time, weren’t there fish monsters that are rarely caught among the ones we killed? If you assume that some of them are monsters with a lot of experience points, then wouldn’t it be obvious that our levels would rise? In the first place, we were using Naoki’s method that’s particular to exterminators . It’s an unprecedented way to defeat fish monsters . So I think it’s pretty possible . ”
Velsa said . Oh yeah, I remember there being some shark-ish ones . It was dark at that time, so I didn’t think too much about it and put them all in my item bag . ”
“Well, it is what it is . We’ll figure it out when we look at our adventurer cards . ”
Ayl said and took her adventurer’s cards out of her breast pocket, flipping it over to look . Her level was written on the back of the adventurer’s card .
“82 . It’s higher than it was in Floura . ”
“I’m at 60 . I’ve surpassed the hero from the past with this . ”
Ayl and Velsa said .
“I’m 38 . ”
“I’m 37 . The lowest . ”
Merumo and Seth responded .
I also looked at my own adventurer’s card . 115 .
“What’s with that!?”
Ayl yelled, peeking at my adventurer’s card .
After that, all my employees were saying, “Getting it to there is weird, isn’t it?” “Has there ever been someone with that high of a level?” “What did you do to get it like that?” and the like, looking at me with faces like, ‘Are you serious?’ It doesn’t seem like any of them are envious .
“How did this happen! The spirit’s are going to be watching me like this!”
I hurriedly made a large amount of revival misangas .
“So in other words, it’s like when a beginner adventurer makes a mistake and breaks the inn’s door knob?”
I asked after dinner, as I used Cleanup on all the company’s employees .
“That seems to be the case . Although my Monster Raising Skill went up when I wrote my thesis . ”
It seems like Velsa’s been checking her Skills . At some point, Velsa’s Monster Rearing Skill had grown, it seems .
“But wasn’t I normal when we went to look for the Prince?”
“Wasn’t the boat bouncing on the sea surface as if it would break?”
At Seth’s words, I thought, “That’s true . ”
“Only Naoki would make excuses for becoming stronger . ”
Ayl said as she laid down and rolled over on her bed .
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“Since getting stronger without being aware of it was the source of all the mistakes . ”
“In the first place, picking up a corpse thinking to return it to its family is mistaken . ”
Velsa said .
Seth and Merumo seem to think the discussion that’s been continuing since dinner was ridiculous and crawled into their own beds .
“I’ve become conceited before I’ve realized it . Just because I saved somebody at the desert and lake, doesn’t guarantee that I’ll be able to save the next person . I’ll have to remember that there are things I won’t be able to do even if my level goes up . ”
I said .
“Aah, for real . ”
“It might just be that your meddlesomeness just got worse . ”
Ayl and Velsa agreed .
“That’s right . We’re cleaners and exterminators . What we can do is cleaning and monster extermination . Let’s do our own jobs in East End tomorrow . ”
“Yeah . ”
“Then we’ll set sail at dusk . ”
“Oh yeah . Velsa, there’s someone protecting these bird monsters called gagapos on the southern island at the archipelagos . ”
I told Velsa about Shiose-san .
“Oh yeah, I didn’t hear about when you went to look for the Prince in detail . How was it?”
Velsa asked .
“Let’s see, there was a naked Prince, see, and then…”
Ayl began to tell the tale .
Although we were only apart for just one day, there was a lot to talk about for both sides and the 3 of us chatted it up like we were on a school trip at night .
The next day, waking up early in the morning, Velsa and I went to the Merchants’ Guild to give our greetings .
It seems we caused them some sort of trouble when we were thrown in jail, so we brought recovery potions in place of boxed sweets .
Ayl and the newbies also went to the Adventurer’s Guild with recovery potions .
“It appears we’ve caused you a great amount of trouble, our apologies . ”
Handing the recovery potions to the employee at the Merchant’s Guild counter, I reported briefly about the Prince’s kidnapping incident .
The staff member earnestly said, “Please wait until the Guild Master comes,” so we said, “We’ll come again, so we’ll give our greetings then,” and left .
We pasted a flyer about accepting requests on the bulletin board and left for a bit to eat breakfast .
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After eating something like minced pasta from the food stalls, Seth called us with the communication bag .
[“President, do you know about the monster flower apis?”]
“No I don’t . Why?”
[“There’s work to remove the nest of and exterminate flower apis out at the Adventurer’s Guild, but should we take it?”]
“Oh, that’s good . Let’s do that request in the morning . ”
Ending the call with Seth, I asked Velsa about the Flower Apis .
“Aa, it’s a bee monster that gathers nectar from flowers . It’s far smaller than vespahornets, that’s how big it is . ”
So saying, Velsa made a small circle with her forefinger and thumb and showed it to me . If it gathers nectar and is that small, then ain’t it a honey bee like monster? – I thought .
Finishing eating breakfast, we made our preparations and joined up with Seth and Merumo . It seems that when Ayl showed her adventurer’s card, she was asked to instruct the trainees and couldn’t refuse .
The request is at an inn on the outskirts of East End’s west side .
When we asked the innkeeper, it turns out that flower apis had made a nest in the stable the feehorses sleep .
If flower apis or similar monsters get in the feehorses’ ears or nose, the horses can go wild so they must be exterminated immediately .
Going out to the feehorse stables, I looked at the flower apis with the Search Skill . The nest was made in a corner on the ceiling of the stables, but the situation seems strange . Over half of them in the nest were in abnormal conditions, and a lot of the ones flying around are also in an abnormal conditions .
“Getting stung by the flower apis will hurt a lot . ”
At Velsa’s advice, I drew the sticky plank magic circle in openings on our clothing, sealing it all . I put on gloves, wore a bag that only leaves the eyes open, and sprayed myself with the pump all over with the dark green liquid that monsters hate .
Preparing the smoke-type sleeping drug, my company’s employees that were there went to seal the room of the stable the nest was in with planks .
Sealing it up to some extent, we put in the smoke type sleeping agent and waited for a bit . During the time we waited, I could tell that the flower apis within the stables were flying around at an unusual speed .
There are also ones that came out through the cracks in the boards, and the stung many places on top of the coverall . They can’t reach my skin so it’s not a problem, but their stingers are stuck in the coverall . The flower apis that lost their stingers flew in a figure 8, then fell .
Velsa picked up the flower apis that had fallen to the ground, observing them thoughtfully .
“What is it?”
“Ah no, I was just thinking that they flew in a weird way as they died . Normally when they sting, they lose their stingers and die just like that . ”
“Half of them were already in an abnormal state before we put the sleeping agent in . ”
“I wonder what it is . Did they eat something weird?”
All of the flower apis inside the stable are in abnormal states, so I undid the boards and entered . Borrowing a stepladder, I peeled off the nest that was shaped like a peanut that was stuck to the ceiling and put it in a bag . I swept together the large amount of flower apis sleeping on the ground, put it in the same bag as the nest, and tied the bag shut .
Finally, I used Cleanup on the stable and the job was over .
We got the innkeeper’s signature and headed to the Adventurer’s Guild .
We reported that we completed the request at the Adventurer’s Guild . We received the reward and waited for Ayl, who was training people .
While we were waiting, honey began to soak through the bottom of the bag with the flower apis in it . The flower apis inside the bag drowned in the honey . All of the flower apis were dead, so I put it in the item bag . I’ll put the honey in a bottle later .
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“The flower apis larva are delicious pan fried . ”
Merumo said . It seems like Merumo had eaten all sorts of things in the plains at her parents’ home .
“I’d like to investigate the flower apis corpses a bit, is that okay?”
Velsa said, so it turns out that I’ll hand the bag to Velsa when we return to the ship .
Dripping with sweat from the Adventurer’s Guild’s training grounds, Ayl intrudeced us to the Adventurer’s Guild’s Master .
East End’s Guild Master is a middle-aged woman, and it seems she was a magic user when she was still in active duty . She was wearing a robe with a lot of belts .
“It was quite the calamity . ”
“Yes, thank you very much . ”
She’s a polite woman, so we also gave our thanks naturally .
Finishing with our greetings, everyone went to eat lunch . Before our lunch arrived, we talked about our plans for the afternoon .
In the afternoon we’ll go to the Merchant’s Guild and take requests if they’ve come in, and we asked the newbies to go shopping . Food is the basic necessity, and by asking Seth and Merumo, these two should be the most knowledgeable of what ingredients we don’t have enough of . We stocked up on the daily necessities in Floura, so we shouldn’t need to get them . I left them with the request to buy a lot of salt for Shiose-san .
When we went to the Merchant’s Guild, our request taking flyer had attracted a lot of attention .
Merchants were gathered in front of the bulletin board, and the Guild’s receptionist onee-san was troubled, her eyebrows making a ハ sign .
When we called out to her, she introduced us with “It’s these good people . ”
“Is there something you have a problem with?”
I asked the merchants, and,
“Just what are the extents of this cleaning and extermination you’re talking about?”
The question came flying at me .
“What extent? It would be something like exterminating bagroaches from houses and restaurants and cleaning them . We sometimes exterminate and clean on a larger scale, though . ”
I responded .
“Can you do something like cleaning the road of a rockslide? Our wagons can’t get through . ”
“There are ghost-type monsters coming out in the abandoned village to the north, but can you exterminate them?”
“There’s rumors of there being an Assassin’s Guild and Thieves’ Guild, but can you exterminate them?”
Questions flew one after another from the merchants .
“We can clean the road with the rockslide . Please tell us the location . We can also exterminate the ghost-type monsters at the abandoned village . We don’t know anything about the Assassin’s Guild or Thieves’ Guild . Please make that request to the guards . ”
The merchants raised their voices, saying, “Oooh-, then let’s pool our money together,” “I’m submitting a request!” “So there’s such a niche job . ” “N~ So it really was impossible . ”
So we ended up taking the requests to ‘Clean the road with the rockslide,’ and ‘Exterminate the ghost-type monsters from the abandoned village in the north . ’