Published at 7th of December 2020 09:52:36 AM
Chapter 113
Chapter 113
We took the requests officially from the Merchant’s Guild and tore the flyer off of the bulletin board . If I don’t remove it, we’ll end up with 40 more jobs of this kind, so I quickly removed it .
The rewards were 5 gold coins for [Cleaning the road with the rockslide] and [Exterminating ghost-type monsters in the abandoned village to the north] . It would have been several times the price if they requested it from the Adventurer’s Guild, so the merchants were grateful that requesting our company to do it was extremely cheap .
We went to the road with the rockslide first .
Velsa asked,
“Should we split up?”
“With us 3, if any one of us makes a mistake it could be fatal, so isn’t it better if we can spot each other?”
“That’s true . That way is better . ”
“Certainly, that’s true . ”
And so the three of us are going to quickly finish up the requests with all 3 people .
While looking at the map the Merchant’s Guild employee drew for us, we went to the scene of the incident .
The road was blocked with a rock about halfway up the mountain . There was also a little bit of sand . Using Search Skill, I could tell there were people on the other side, and there were also a few people on the mountain summit watching the situation .
For now I went to the other side of the rock to clear the people out of the way since it’s dangerous, and the investigator from the Capital, Branton, was there .
“Ah, hello . What are you doing?”
“Yo! You guys as well, what are you here to do?”
“Well, we took a request to clean the road with the rockslide . ”
“I see, since you guys are cleaners and exterminators . ”
Branton nodded in understanding, and continued to talk .
“Man, actually, this road has been unpassable for the past two days . There weren’t any investigators other than me that could come through . The business in East End is already over, so I think it’s okay though . But there’s guys who are too inflexible and can’t write an investigation report if they don’t investigate thoroughly . I was wondering what I should do . ”
“I see . Come to think of it, is your wyvern not here?”
“He is . There in the sky . ”
Branton pointed, and when I looked in that direction, I could see the shadow of a wyvern in the sun . It seems Search Skill didn’t pick him up since he was high up in the sky .
“Was it the East End guard that revealed I was a dragoon?”
The one who told us Branton was a dragoon was Fluden .
“That’s right . ”
“His lips are loose . Well, it’s fine . Did you see anyone in this area?”
‘No, I didn’t see anyone other than the people above us . ”
“Above?”
“On top of the cliff . Although I have the Search Skill, so even if I say I ‘see’ them, I just know how many of them there are . ”
“I see . How many people?”
Displaying the Search Skill, I counted the people on top of the cliff .
“12 people . ”
“Those are probably the culprits behind the rockslide . In order to rob people, they caused the rockslide to stop carriages . ”
“I see, are you going to catch them?”
“Will all of you help?”
Branton asked .
“No, we have work to do . ”
I resolutely refused .
“Ah… I see . ”
“Yup . Good luck . ”
We started the work of cleaning the road .
Branton and the wyvern touched down on top of the cliff, and as we listened to the agonized screams of the robbers, we lifted the rocks and tossed them down the mountain from the side of the road .
I thought of drawing a magic circle to fling the dirt and sand, but Ayl stopped me with, “You might make a hole again, so stop . ” It can’t be helped, so joining monster bones with tree branches, I made a rake-like item and raked the sand and earth to the side of the road .
Along the way, several robbers fell from the cliff above, so we brought them to the side of the road along with the sand and earth and left them, saying, “You’re in the way . ” Most of the robbers had broken legs and arms, so they were quiet . As for the ones were weren’t quiet, saying, “Do you even know who I am – bufo-” and “I’ll remember this – gyaa!” and the like, Ayl broke something or other on them . Like their pride .
“My bad . Most of them fell off the cliff . ”
Branton descended on a yellow wyvern in the dead middle of the road .
The wyvern had two of the robbers by the leg .
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“Will the wyvern going to eat the robbers?”
I asked, merely on curiosity .
“No, he won’t eat them . That aside, do you have something like rope to tie them with?”
I took rope out of my item bag and handed it to Branton .
Branton tied up the dirt-covered robbers .
For our finishing touches, we used tree branches with gravity magic circles drawn on them to press the road, getting rid of the level differences . I could only put in a little magic power at a time . It seems I’ll make a hole if I pour it in all at once, so I could only accumulate it little by little .
“Excuse me . Can someone go to East End and call the guards?”
Fluden asked without caring about the mood .
I thought about whether one person could manage or not, but 12 people is a lot, and most of them have bone fractures . Then I thought he could handle it if the wyvern takes them, but yeah, 12 people is a lot .
“We have another place to be so we can’t take them, but we’ll send for athe guards so please wait . ”
“Th,thanks . That helps . ”
I contacted Seth with the communication bag and told him, “Tell a nearby guard that ‘The investigator from the Capital has captured robbers on the mountain road northwest of East End, so quickly go . ’”
[“Ok-ssu!”]
After some time, Seth called .
[“They’re coming now -”]
“Oky . ”
Cutting off the communication bag, I asked Branton,
“They’re coming now . We’re done with our job and going to the next place, so will you be fine alone?”
I asked
“Aah, I can flee to the sky if something happens . No, this really helps . Thanks for everything . ”
Branton gave his thanks .
Maa, I guess it’s fine . He also has a wyvern .
“See you . ”
Giving our parting words to Branton, we ran to the next place .
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“That ate up a lot of time . ”
Velsa said as we ran .
“If only the robbers weren’t there . ”
I replied .
“It would have been fine to bury the robbers . ”
Ayl produced a good idea .
“We always realize these things after the fact . ”
“Yeah . ”
Saying those types of things, we ran towards the abandoned village in the north .
I want to set sail with as much sun remaining as possible, so we’re hurrying .
Coming to the outskirts of the northern abandoned village, I used Search Skill and took a look at the situation within .
There are an extreme amount of monsters . The population density, rather the monster density, is high, the entire village is packed full like it’s rush hour in a fully packed train . Furthermore, it’s not like there’s quite nothing but monsters; there are a few people here too, it seems .
Confirming it by sight, I can’t see many more than a few people that weren’t ghost-type monsters, it’s at that kind of degree . I can’t tell whether the monster can leave the village or not, but there aren’t many signs of monsters in the area around the village . I explained this to Ayl and Velsa too .
As we were looking down on the abandoned village from on top of a hill, two large warriors came up to us from behind . One of those people was the berserker we met at the jail .
“Huh? What’s Nee-san and the other doing?”
Berserker-kun asked when he saw us . He looks like the older one, but he’s become Berserker-kun among us .
“Well, it’s work . They said that ghost-type monsters appear in the abandoned village over there so we’re exterminating them . Aside from that, you were released from the prison, huh?”
“Yeah, I was released today . Ah, This is our Guild’s Master, Jute-san . ”
“ “ “ Ah, hello . ” “ “
We greeted the Mercenary Guild’s Master, Jute-san . He looks super rugged, bald with a tattoo on the left side of his face . He’s also bulky and muscular .
“You seem to have been taking care of our employee in the prison, so please accept my thanks . ”
Saying that he’s grateful, Jute-san bowed his head . A polite, rugged man is the scariest .
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“So what are people from the Mercenary’s Guild here for?”
“Aah, it’s a bit of a long story . ”
Jute-san scratched his head as he began to tell the story .
“I think it was 20 days ago, but a self-proclaimed summoner old man appeared at the Mercenary’s Guild . He started saying that he would make a training grounds for us . It was when the Adventurer’s Guild was all excited over something, so we gave him money to try making one . ”
The Adventurer’s Guild and the Mercenary’s Guild were on bad terms, weren’t they?
“3 days after that he came saying he’d done it, and all he’d done was trap a number of ghost-type monsters in this village, saying, ‘This is a training ground . ’ We drove the old man who was picking a fight by making fools of us out of East End . I thought, well, at least the beginners can train in it, but we sent beginners in there two days ago and they didn’t return, so we came to get them . ”
“I see, so the abandoned village was turned into some training grounds? That’s why there are so many monsters . ”
“Are there that many monsters?”
“Yeah, it’s packed to the brim . Is it fine to exterminate them?”
“Yeah, thanks for that . Please do, Nee-san, everyone!”
Berserker-kun swapped in for Jute-san and replied . Jute-san said, “We will as well…”, but Berserker-kun stopped him .
I put recovery potion in the pumps, and the three of us embarked into the abandoned village .
It’s extremely difficult to see the monsters in the abandoned village, to the degree that we’re seeing shadows on the ground . It’s not really a problem since I have Search Skill . Ayl and Velsa are also spraying recovery potion from the pumps while sensing their presences .
The shadow monsters are properly ghost-types, so when they get sprayed with recovery potions,
“Gyaaaaa!”
They screamed, making it obvious that they’re being annihilated .
“This is good training for sensing presences, naa . ”
“These monsters are very rare . You can’t see their shadowy shapes, but they have bodies? It’s to the point where I want a sample . ”
Ayl and Velsa said whatever they wanted as the continued their work .
As we were doing that, there were people who seem like mercenary newbies collapsed, so we also sprayed them with recover potions . There were also undead monsters with skeleton heads, but they were all defeated with recovery potions .
We took a break but the well in the center of town when we had eliminated them .
When I took the pot and tea leaves from the item bag, a black smoke rose from within the well .