Chapter 314

I was surprised because I did not expect that Ekatrina, whom I regarded as a perfect warrior, would have a weakness, but I did not intend to play around with it, so I just tried to move on.

“I’m high, but I’m good at climbing. In Lovell...”

Yekatrina started making cute excuses hurriedly, as if she had been exposed to the worst of her past. Well, I climbed the tallest tree in Lovell’s Keel Mountains. Anyway, the stories were obviously out of the ordinary... It felt like it, so there was little inspiration.

She did not give up until after asking Visquente for an appropriate understanding and moved her seat, and only after adjusting to Ekatrina, who denied her fear of heights, she stopped speaking satisfactorily.

no wait Are you so confident that the excuse worked? After all, was the appearance of a civilized warrior often shown wrong? Seeing that, one day, when Yekatrina uses an aura, she wants to join Eldmia’s flying dragon diving and show off her spicy taste.

“Did the other people decide to ride the dragon?”

“No. I’m the only one here this time.”

“Huh? Weren’t you going to a party?”

When I asked back at the very unexpected answer, Ekaterina licked her lips and explained.

“Lellie originally stayed in her room for research in the winter, and Mr. Gin said that he helped out with an acquaintance’s workshop for circumstances. And Mr. Gaendal decided to go back to his hometown during this winter. A mountain village that is rarely visited. That’s why they often go down in winter to clean up the area around the village.”

Just as cities want to have adventurers in the winter, even small towns want adventurers who, if possible, can slay the monsters that attack the village during the winter. Of course, it costs a lot of money, so it’s usually hard to hire even a government official, but I never thought he would take care of his hometown that much.

“Hey, a town that uses enemy class adventurers as winter adventurers. I can brag about it anywhere.”

“Hahaha! Who said no? Anyway, that’s why I came here.”

It was a disappointing story, but it was really fortunate that Ekatrina didn’t go anywhere. To be honest, in the current situation, he was a more reliable colleague than anyone else.

“It’s really fortunate that Ekatrina didn’t have any problems. It didn’t look easy to deal with the orcs while protecting the village. Thanks to that, I was relieved.”

In the first place, when dealing with guys like Orcs, Yekatrina and Mr. Gin are the best talents. You can’t fall for the magician Lelly, but it’s not easy to protect the magician because they push and see with their bodies. Even if you burn dozens of them at the same time, dozens of them will step on the burned corpses and run after them.

For now, since we are working together with Visquente, we decided to discuss the details at a later meal, and returned to our seats after telling them the location of the hall. Then Visquente, who had been examining Ekaterina with great interest, implied a question.

“Could that be Catherine of the famous siege tower?”

“Uh... I think there was a nickname like that. How did you know?”

I was able to fully understand from the short amount of time that I was interested in rumors and stories, but did Ekatrina know? I wondered if he had a great interest in adventurers, but the answer was unexpected.

I was a little hesitant about something, but I decided to push it into my head somewhere with a shake of my head. It’s not like it hurt me or something. Even so, it doesn’t seem like they’re being chased by anything, so there won’t be anything bad about them.

Even if something happens, there is no turning back on a competent colleague who has no reputation.

After organizing my thoughts like that, time passed without much happening. The sun began to set before we knew it, just by welcoming the steady stream of adventurers and exchanging opinions on the current situation with Visquente from time to time.

“Then, this time, it’s a story that may have been caused by a gate that was left unattended or the demons arbitrarily installed.”

“It may sound like a far-fetched story, but personally, it is. From what I’ve experienced in the Empire, they even managed to build their own gates.”

The story of discovering the gate of the demons for the first time in the abandoned dungeon was strictly a secret, so I couldn’t tell it here, so when I took the example of the Empire, Visquente nodded with a serious face and took my opinion seriously.

“Then, I’d rather hope that the gate was installed by demons. If it was used in ancient times, it would be rather troublesome.”

“Can you tell me why?”

“As you know, now there is a limit to the distance of the gate due to the limitations of degenerate magism, but it wasn’t like that in the ancient times when it was shining brightly. As for the Orcs who have the greatest power in the steppe? The Orcs that Sir Ega discovered are only the vanguard.”

Visquente’s remarks, which keenly dig into things I hadn’t thought of at all, made me serious without even realizing it. To be honest, I have no idea how many green monsters live in the prairies beyond the Western Kingdoms, but Visquente didn’t seem like the type to worry about trivial matters.

Sure enough, he quickly erased his serious expression and spoke cheerfully, as if trying to lighten the mood.

“It is right to be vigilant over things that are not yet known, but I have learned that worrying is a problem. For now, it would be the right choice to wait for Asili-sama to return after scouting.”

He’s a smart guy indeed. After such a brief thought, we left our seats and headed for the hall only after the pilot who had disembarked from the last flying dragon notified that there would be no more adventurers today.

The number of adventurers who arrived today was about 50. Since only the red rank was thirty and the blue rank was twenty, it can be said that the power was replenished in an instant.

“The number of adventurers increased, and the Orcs were quiet...”

It was a day that was rightly called the eve of the storm, but fortunately, it was fortunate.

Thinking positively and thinking that it was time for Asilie to return, it wasn’t long before I stepped forward, but Asilie appeared like a ghost from a distance.

To be precise, I found it a little late, and it seemed that she had already found me from afar and was waving her hand first. At first, she smiled spontaneously at her appearance, but as she got closer, she realized that her face was quite serious, and she had a hunch that something had happened.

“Eldy! Orcs have increased!”

No matter where you go in the world, it seems that fucking clichés are inevitable.