CH 46

"A Report of the Request and an Explanation of What Happened At That Time."

Translated by Dawn

After returning to town, I immediately went straight to the Adventurer’s Guild.

Using physical enhancement, I hurried back to the town, but the time had already turned to night.

When I arrived at the guild, I found that adventurers who had already finished their reports were enjoying meals and drinks at the bar located there.

As I headed for the reception counter, I found Nicole, who had just been released from the peak of the request reporting period.

“Rolando-san, I see you’re late today.”

“Yeah, I need to report a request.”

“I understand. Then please present your guild card and the requested items to the table over there.”

For the time being, in order to process the requests I accepted today, I presented my guild card to Nicole and put the Dashboas and Forest Wolves materials on the designated table.

After a while, Nicole and several guild employees checked the materials on the table one by one, and the materials were carried out starting with those for which the checks were completed.

The confirmation process took less than 30 minutes, as it was a usual process, and after a while, Nicole called out to me.

“Rolando-san, thank you for your patience. Here is the reward for the request. Please confirm.”

“…certainly.”

I received four large silver coins as a reward for the materials for the 30 Dashboas and 40 Forest Wolves that I had hunted in the morning.

Incidentally, this reward amount was set higher than usual. I had previously asked Nicole and Mirian if it was safe to buy them at such a high price, but they had replied that there was no problem.

The company was told that even if they bought everything at such a high price, the volume of supply and demand has not yet caught up with the demand, so they would have no problem making a profit, including the profit generated when they wholesale from the Adventurers’ Guild to the commercial guilds.

After reporting the request and receiving the reward, my usual routine would be to return to the inn at this point, but that is not possible today, so I inform Nicole of the important matter.

“Nicole. I’m sorry, can you bring the guildmaster to the dismantling place?”

“The Guildmaster? What is this all about?”

“I’ll tell you the details when you come to the dismantling site. In any case, tell him it’s important.”

“Okay, I understand. I’ll go tell the guildmaster right away.”

She must have sensed something in my serious attitude, and immediately moved to talk to the guildmaster.

After confirming that Nicole was on her way to the guildmaster, I was about to head straight to the dismantling site when an unexpected person suddenly appeared.

“Oh, it’s the kid called the [Wild Hunt], isn’t it? It seems like you were talking about something interesting. Can I go and listen too?”

“Gyrmzak huh, perfect, you should listen to this too.”

“Ara, if you want him to go, I can go too, can’t I?”

When I turned around, there she was, Mirian, Nicole’s senpai.

Although she was smiling at me with her arms folded under her chest, it was obvious that she was just trying to be lighthearted because something interesting was about to happen.

However, I decided that she deserved to hear what I had to say, so I accepted both of their requests and headed for the dismantling site.

The dismantling site was crowded with monsters brought in by adventurers, and the dismantling workers were busy dismantling them.

And since we were here, that person was also working, and he spotted us and came up to us with a smile on his face and a set of white teeth.

“Oh, what an unusual combination. What are you three doing together, Mirian, [Heavy Kaiser] Gyrmzak, and the kid?”

“I won’t talk about it now because I’ll tell you the details when the guildmaster gets here.”

“I see. By the way, would you like to try your hand at some dismantling work?”

“Wait a minute, Bold-san? Don’t try to steal a competent adventurer right in front of me!”

“That’s right, Mister Bold. I think the Wild Hunt kid is more suited to be an adventurer than a dismantler.”

From there, a small battle ensued between Bold, who refused to give up on turning me into a dismantling worker, and Mirian and Gyrmzak, who stood in to stop him, but the game ended in a draw as Nicole and the guildmaster soon showed up.

“Hey kid, I got Nicole’s message from you. What is going on?”

“First of all, take a look at this.”

At the guildmaster’s question, I took out an Orc that I kept in my magic bag.

By the way, this orc is the one who sacrificed …… to help me come up with a method to exterminate the Orc herd, or rather, the orc who was kind enough to accompany me in my experiments.

When I took out the orc, everyone in the room gasped for breath, because everyone present shared the common understanding that while a C-rank orc was no big deal to Gyrmzak, an A-rank adventurer, it was no match for me, who currently belonged to the D-rank category.

However, they quickly understood that the fact that a silent orc was here meant that I, a D-ranked orc, hunted an orc that was ranked higher than me in terms of rank, no matter what the circumstances were…….

“R-Rolando-san! What a crazy thing are you doing?!”

“D-don’t tell me you hunted a C-rated orc all by yourself, kid?”

“N-no way. This is unbelievable-”

“This is the most exciting thing that happened that I’ve heard in a long time.”

“Hoo, as expected from the Wild Hunt huh.”

Seeing the orcs, Nicole first shouted accusations at me, and in turn, Guildmaster, Mirian, Bold, and Gyrmzak each expressed their impressions.

After a while, when their amazement had calmed down, I explained what had happened today in a matter-of-fact explanation.

“Let me explain this step-by-step. First of all, I found a lone orc attacking a group of goblins.”

“Is that Orc this guy?”

“No, it’s not. Listen to the story to the end. I saw that the orc who had finished with the goblins was heading somewhere, so I went after him. And where he was headed, I found the hideout of a group of about 30 orcs headed by an orc general.”

“W-what!?”

“So, did you just run away and come back here?”

……Good grief, why don’t these people here listen to the end of the story? Well, it’s understandable that they lose their cool because of what I’m telling them, but then again, I wish they would listen to people a little more.

“No, I don’t. That is why you have to hear me out. So at first, I was going to run away and tell the Adventurers Guild about this, but finally, I decided to fight.”

“””””…”””””

They all clammed up as if they couldn’t believe what I was saying, but I didn’t care and kept talking.

“Then I experimented to find a way to get them to scatter, catch a stray orc, and eliminate them altogether. And this is the orc I used in the experiment.”

“So, what happened after that? Did you fight after all?”

While the others were listening in silence, the guildmaster asked me on behalf of the others. I continue the conversation to answer his question.

“I had a plan to win, so I went for it. As it turned out, it worked, and I managed to annihilate all the orcs, including the orc general.”

“””””Haaa.”””””

A sigh of relief escaped everyone’s mouths when I told them that I had annihilated the orc herd.

I guess they were relieved that I had returned safely from my reckless action of fighting a herd of 30 orcs, even though I was a D-rank.

At the same time, however, they were all astonished. They were surprised that a single adventurer had managed to annihilate a pack of orcs, but they were most surprised that he had single-handedly hunted the monster known as the Orc General.

Usually, an orc general is an entity that can be competed with at least two parties of four B-rank adventurers and is not an opponent that can be won by a single person.

Moreover, the orc general was likely to be surrounded by a crowd of orcs, so three parties of four B-rank adventurers would be needed.

Regardless of the means I used, it was difficult to believe my words when I claimed to have done it all by myself, and it was inevitable that everyone would look at me askance.

“The fact that I defeated a pack of thirty orcs and an orc general is not important at this point, but here’s the main issue.”

“””””No, no, no, no!”””””

It was a perfect combination of “no”. Well, it might be a big deal to other people, but to me, it’s just a trivial matter of ” I’ve done it, so it’s good enough.” The important thing is what may happen in the future.

“Listen. After I had annihilated the orc horde, a question came to my mind. “Why were they using this place as a base?” I asked myself.”

“Wasn’t it just a coincidence?”

“Or maybe they were running away from something?”

I shake my head in reply to the beautiful girl Nicole and the beautiful Mirian’s answer.

“Probably not. If they were just using that place as a base at random, the number of orcs the Orc General had with them was too small.”

“That’s what I thought. But that is exactly what happened when they lost the turf war with the monsters that were a threat to the orcs, right?”

It is common knowledge among adventurers in this world that the number of Orcs an Orc General can command is at least fifty. If there are only less than that number of Orcs, the general conclusion, with few exceptions, is that they were attacked by other monsters or were involved in some kind of natural disaster.

“But there were no wounded orcs among them, and the place where they were based seemed to have been recently settled. That led me to a possibility.”

“W-what is it?”

Bold asked me with sweat on his head at my words. His head was glistening with sweat and it was slightly annoying, but I ignored it and decided to answer as I went along.

“It’s possible that they were sent as an advance force for territorial expansion under the order of a higher being than the Orc General. In other words, I have come to the conclusion that the existence of the Orc King is behind this Orc General.”