Chapter 285: Nominated Quest

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Chapter 285: Nominated Quest

A few days after returning to the Sanctuary, I came back to our house in Volton.

Long absences harm the house, after all.

And for the first time in a long time, I headed to the Adventurers Guild with Sophia to take a quick peek at it.

As soon as we entered the guild, Hans-san beckoned us over.

「It’s been a really long time.」

「Sorry about that, Hans-san. We’ve been really busy lately. How have things been?」

「Yeah, there haven’t really been anything problematic. With the completion of the city and forts aside from Volton and Wedgefort, business was good thanks to the traffic from adventurers and merchants from neighboring countries, and the adventurers wandering in increased as well.」

It would appear that Volton City was also booming. Even when it came to monsters, he said that there hadn’t been a need to summon high ranking adventurers.

「Takumi-kun, a nominated quest came from the feudal lord for you.」

「A nominated quest from the Margrave?」

What I learned from Hans-san was that it wasn’t a subjugation request, but a request related to this city from Margrave Volton.

「It would have been preferable if you heard it from the Margrave himself, but it’s about the expansion of this city.」

「An expansion?」

「Yeah, that’s right. You might have also noticed this, but the Volton as of late has been troubled with the lack of land because of the rise in population.」

「Well, it’s true that the influx of liberated slaves from the former Divine Empire of Sydnia are also affecting it too......」

I knew that with the fall of the former Divine Empire of Sydnia, the undeservedly abducted Elves, Dwarves, and Beastkin who were turned to slaves for being “subhumans” were being set free and that a large influx of those former slaves and refugees were going to the countries except for Triaria Kingdom.

The details of the request was to assist with the expansion of Volton City for its rapid increase in population.

Since he already knew about my Earth magic because of the construction of the forts and Wedgefort, his request was no mystery.

「It has been booming everywhere recently. We haven’t been able to gather Earth mages because of that.」

When it comes to expanding the walls of a city, it isn’t entirely impossible for normal mages, but it isn’t feasible with a small group. In that respect, those that could use Earth Magic besides me were Maria and Titan.

「And how big will you expand it?」

「Umu, take a look at this.」

Margrave Volton unrolled a blueprint onto the table.

「I would like for the wealthy district on the north to remain unchanged, the south side to expand 200m, and another 200m on the west side..」

It would expand quite a bit if the city’s south and west side each adjust 200m.

「Understood. Would it be fine to keep the structure of the walls as they are?」

「Yeah, that’s no problem.」

「Very well. I will start tomorrow.」

「Umu, I appreciate it.」

After a bit of chatting, we boarded the carriage that Xervus-san had prepared and returned to our Volton mansion.

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