CH 22

[Father-Daughter Relationship is Troublesome as I Expected]

While going south in the Glide Grand Canyon, we used magic to exterminate monsters such as Black Horn Goat, Sleep Sheep, and Fire Eating Chicken that we encountered.

They’re not an opponent that I can’t defeat only with a sword, but as expected, I can also attack them from a distance if I use magic, the risk will drop sharply, and my choice of attacks will also increase, so it was easy to fight.

“Frick-sama can deal with the enemy with your swordsmanship even when they approached, and can also specialize in attack magic with your excessive magic power, it’s envying. In my case, if a monster approach, I will definitely be defeated because I don’t have any close combat ability at all, to not let them approach me, I use Protect Guard and at the same time I use Wind Barrier to avoid flying object, so the magic consumption is ridiculous.”

Noelia, who was watching me killing a part of the group of Sleep Sheep that managed to slip through my magic with a sword, muttered so.

“Noelia is a platinum rank, so have you been working with someone until now?”

Normally, many mages are unable to engage in close-range combat, so they often worked with someone.

Noelia also has no close combat ability at all, so she may have been working with someone.

“No, I’m a solo adventurer. I’m the daughter of the lord, so other adventurers are reserved.”

Certainly, Noelia is the daughter of Frontier Count Lloyd, the lord of Youg Hannotes, so I can understand that the adventurers who are commoner are feeling a bit daunted to make a party with her and take requests together because of their social position.

However, while having such a circumstance, she managed to pile up a lot of achievements and even reached the platinum rank as a solo adventurer mage, I think she is a really great mage.

“Reaching platinum rank as a solo mage…once again, I can feel Noelia’s greatness.”

“Fortunately, although it’s not as much as Frick-sama, but I have more magic power than average mage, I also have some magic knowledge, and there are many kinds of magic that I can use… I freely us those and when I continued to subjugate strong monsters to research magic on practice, I became a platinum rank.”

Noelia indifferently speaks about amazing things with monotonous voice as usual.

It seems that she reached the platinum rank not because she received various requests, but simply because she completed many difficult monster subjugation requests.

Her appearance is immature and looks younger than me though…

Her true strength is genuine.

“It’s awesome to be able to defeat monster with a pre-emptive attack without letting it gets close. I can’t clear my habit of fighting at a sword distance, so I can’t think of using magic to defeat it like that.”

“Frick-sama has both talents after all, and I think it’s better to fight at our own comfortable distance. It’s not necessary to fight like a mage just because you can use magic. I think it’s okay to use magic as a mean to attack enemies who are out of your sword distance.”

“Is it like that?”

“It’s like that. Frick-sama has a rare talent to use both magic and sword, so you don’t need to imitate my way you know.”

Noelia said, and she started to cut the wool of the Sleep Sheeps that I killed to take them back as proof of subjugation with a knife.

As a magic swordsman, I have no choice but to find a way of fighting that uses both swords and magic in a balanced manner.

I kept Noelia’s words in mind, and I immediately took out a knife and began to help with the work of cutting the wool of the Sleep Sheep. I can’t just let her do it alone.

After that, we smoothly progressed on our journey south on the Glide Grand Canyon, and arrived near our destination, the Yasuba hunting ground by noon.

Ahead is the foot of Mt. Yaweha, left of it is Yasuba’s hunting ground. It was a beautiful place with rolling hills and grasslands.

In the back, I saw a glimpse of the Demon Forest that I went to with the investigation team a while ago.

“This is Yasuba’s hunting ground, huh. It has a nice view.”

“The water gushing out from the foot of Mt. Yaweha is too abundant, so the trees can’t grow, most of them are wetlands or grasslands, there are also many watering holes. There is a different reason why this place is called a hunting ground一一”

When Noelia was about to close her mouth, I heard a roar in the distance.

When I turned that way, a dragon was flying over the sky.

I wonder if that is a winged dragon, Wyvern… it’s quite distant, but at this distance it has a pretty big size.

It has something on it’s leg.

Ahh, it’s a monster that has became it’s food, huh.

“I see, it means the wyverns food hunting ground, huh.”

“Yes, that’s right. It seems that they named it so because wyverns came from the Demon Forest to hunt monsters that gathered at the watering holes. There aren’t many people of the bronze rank who go deep inside. The risk of being attacked by a wyvern increases the deeper you entered after all.”

I have a memory of the time when I was struggling against a wyvern using just a sword together with Alfine.

Since it can fly freely in the sky, it is hard to land an attack with a sword.

However, I don’t think it’s a frightening existence anymore, because I have magic now.

If I can knock it down to the ground, it will be an easier enemy than a Dragon Newt.

Although, that doesn’t change the fact that it is a dragon species, and bronze rank adventurers will not approach the place where such monsters fly.

If I go to such an inappropriate place, normally, the Adventurer’s Guild side should stop me though…

I have no memories of being stopped.

“Rebecca didn’t stop me from going to Yasuba’s hunting ground.”

“For those who have returned from the more dangerous Demon Forest, there is neither danger nor anything here. Frick-sama can reach platinum rank with just his sword’s skill after all, in addition, you also has magic talent, so the Adventurer’s Guild of Youg Hannotes have also started to take notice of you.”

Ahh, is that so?

It seems that the Adventurer’s Guild side did not stop me because they’ve heard about my battle in the Demon Forest from Frontier Count-sama and co.

“I see…”

“Because my father is actively recruiting skilled adventurers and appoint them as knight, the Adventurer’s Guild of Youg Hannotes has a serious shortage of monster subjugation group of platinum rank adventurers. So people with high battle prowess may be promoted faster than Adventurer’s Guild of other cities. Because of the excessive shortage, the knights acted on their behalf to complete the subjugation requests of high level of difficulty.”

“So there’s a reason why the escort knights who were accompanying us were not unfamiliar from actual battle, huh.”

“Yes, even now, the knight corps are being requested by the Adventurer’s Guild after all.”

Unlike the Royal Guard Knight Order, it seems that the vassal knights of the Frontier Count Lloyd were requested to subjugate monsters as adventurers even after they became knight.

However, the Adventurer’s Guild side would be in trouble if the adventurers with excellent abilities were poached one after another, I wonder why they aren’t say anything.

I tried to ask the question I thought to Noelia.

“Is the Adventurer’s Guild not saying anything about Frontier Count-sama poaching?”

Noelia showed a little thoughtful gesture.

“I think the Adventurer’s Guild of Youg Hannotes can’t complain because father is it’s largest and only investor.”

“Uhhhh, is Adventurer’s Guild of Youg Hannotes the property of the Frontier Count-sama?”

Noelia nodded.

“When father became the Frontier Count, he invest the reward given by the King and made the Adventurer’s Guild of Youg Hannotes became an organization under direct control of the lord. He said that the purpose was to gather personnel for the “Great Invasion”.”

“That still continues till now.”

“Yes, father is prone to worrying about the “Great Invasion” to an abnormal level, so I think he will not stop stockpiling supplies and appointing knights in the future.”

I have known from the visit to the mansion yesterday that Lloyd has always been prepared for the “Great Invasion”, but I didn’t think he even had purchased the Adventurer’s Guild to prepare for it.

His daughter Noelia said that he is prone to worry about it to an abnormal level, but there is no guarantee that the second occurrence will not occur.

I heard the story from the surviving adult, but it seems that the “Great Invasion” occurred without any warning.

It hasn’t occured for 20 years, but it’s not weird to have it occur tomorrow.

“Frontier Count-sama, he’s a great person to be able to continue to prepare for 20 years without faltering.”

“I also respect father for that.”

“Although it’s good if you could say that to the Frontier Count-sama.”

“… Well now, time is running out, let’s end the talk here and head towards Gawain’s workshop.”

When Noelia turned away from the topic, she dropped her eyes on the hand-drawn map drawn by her father and walked toward Gawain’s workshop.

Noelia has various things to think about, but she still respects her father after all.

If they are honest with each other, they wouldn’t be so awkward.

Father-daughter relationship is troublesome as I expected.