It is the country and the lords who are responsible for protecting the territory. Additionally, the state and the lords strive to fulfill that responsibility by organizing and managing the knights themselves. However, as a practical matter, the Knights can only crack down on bandits and criminals and wipe out weak monsters. This is because individuals with outstanding power usually become adventurers in search of freedom and higher rewards. Because of this, the country, the lord, and the adventurer’s guild in the territory have a contract with each other, and when a vicious monster that exceeds the danger level B appears, the adventurer’s guild will deal with it on behalf of the knights.
……This seems to be the position of adventurers and adventurer guilds in this era.
It is very different from my previous life. At that time, adventurers were more of an underdog existence, and they were used to be hated by the country and the lords so it was impossible to build a cooperative relationship.
“Wyverns live in the mountains of the north, and they should not come down very often….. But there is also the matter of that orc forests…. It looks like we will be busy for a while…”
Upon receiving the report that the wyvern has appeared, Ilia sighs. This is also a case that the guild should deal with after all.
The wyvern’s danger level is said to be B+. There are only a limited number of adventurers who can handle this, and even fewer are those who can fly and have no problem with fighting in the air. It seems that it is difficult just to arrange someone for that task.
By the way, in my previous life, when the knights learned that a wyvern had appeared, they immediately went to defeat it. But most of the time, the adventurers were intercepting it. Wyvern materials sell for a lot of money after all. In short, it was a scramble.
(……However, I think there were a lot of knights and adventurers who could defeat wyverns easily.)
『Master, the humans of this era may be somewhat weaker than they were then.』
That’s something I was vaguely aware of. Well, maybe this city is special, and there is a shortage of human resources. Luckily, Ilia doesn’t have to worry about it this time. Because on my way back from the forest, I encountered that very wyvern.
“Uhm… Hey, Ilia-oneechan.”
“??, What’s the matter, Reus-kun?”
“If it was a wyvern, I probably have killed it.”
“……Eh?”
I pulled a huge body out of the subspace.
“Hiiii!!! Wa-wa-wy-wyvern!?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“What do you mean that’s right!? What’s going on with this!?”
“I saw it on the way back so I killed it.”
“Did you just say you killed it!? Wyverns are flying in the sky so it’s not easy even for a seasoned adventurer to defeat them, you know!?”
The adventurers around fearfully approached the wyvern’s corpse.
“It’s huge…”
“Is it really dead…?”
“I don’t see any external injuries…”
I shot it in the brain from its mouth. They wouldn’t see it from the outside.
“Oi oi oi, I thought it was quite noisy so I came over, I thought….. w-what is this?! Isn’t this a wyvern? Is this thing real!?”
“Guild Leader!”
The person who came at that moment was the old man, the guild leader.
“Well, actually…”
Ilia explains the situation.
“I know he’s a strong one, but… I never thought he’d even defeat the wyvern by himself…”
The guild leader looks at me with a horrified expression on his face.
“But no matter how strong you are, it’s not easy to defeat a wyvern, and with the looks of it, there is no damage whatsoever… How the hell did you kill it?”
“I fly in the sky.”
I used my flight magic on the spot. I could fly without Lindwurm’s assistance, so I just spun around and over the guild leader’s head.
“You use it without hesitation huh. But you know, it’s difficult even for a seasoned magician to fly freely like that…”
The guild leader looks dumbfounded. I went down to Ilia’s chest and stopped on the spot. Then, instinctively, Ilia hugs me.
Okay. I will continue to use this hand in the future.
“Seriously, he’s such a ridiculous baby… It wouldn’t be strange that he’s already an A-rank…”
“Guild Leader, actually, that’s not all…”
“Is there still more?”
Then the guild leader, who was told the matter about the orcs, said,
“No, it’s not even A-rank anymore, is it?”
Since I had just taken ten orcs with me, I decided to keep the wyvern in the subspace for the time being. Right then, the guild leader personally gave me a special request.
—Investigate the orc outbreak and kill as many orcs as possible. I was also told that if I by chance saw a new wyvern on the way, I should kill it.
….Isn’t it a little harsh to a baby?
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“Guild Leader, no matter how I think about it, it’s not a request that should be given to a baby…”
“No, you got it wrong Ilia. No matter how I think about it, he’s not on the category of a baby…”
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com.
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