Volume 1 - CH 6

Chapter 6 – New Start

The next morning, Eto, who was sleeping in the inn’s stables as usual, was awakened by the clerk in charge of taking care of the horses.

“Hey, you. Aren’t you the chore guy in Hero-sama’s party? Your party members have already left, is it fine for you to sleep?”

“… It’s fine.”

After answering the guy, Eto went out of the stable and stretched his body, circulating the blood around his stiff body.

“Ah, what nice weather. Looks like it’s going to be sunny today.”

The sun has not yet crossed the city walls. Even so, Eto, who sucked in a deep breath of the refreshing morning air, felt really fresh as if he had just been reborn.

That was naturally because he was finally released from the Hero’s party.

‘From now on, I’m going to live as I wish. I’ve had enough of a life where my head was pressed down from above and being forcefully evaluated as a useless person.’

For the time being, he has to return to the royal capital and report to the royal castle that he has left the Hero’s party. After that is done, then truly, he will finally be able to regain back what he had lost.

After washing his face with the water from the well and getting dressed, Eto went to the Adventurer’s Guild to earn money for the traveling expenses to the royal capital and also for his living expenses.

In fact, it has been two years since Eto joined the Adventurer’s Guild. But at that time, he just only finished the registration procedure before heading to the royal capital because he was chosen as the Sage at the church.

Naturally, he started from F-rank. Although his rank keeps increasing from subjugating monsters while he was still in the Hero’s party, for the past year, it has become common for him to accept requests alone for the sake of earning living expenses and replacing his equipment or items.

Thanks to that, he is now a C-rank adventurer, which is the rank when an adventurer is finally recognized as a full-fledged adventurer.

When his rank went up from E-rank to D-rank and from D-rank to C-rank, the rewards he got from completing requests was also increased. Thanks to that, he was able to get out of a life where he could barely eat, little by little. To be frank, if he wasn’t even working in the Hero’s party, Eto will be able to live a relatively good life as an adventurer.

Eto then accepted several requests around the town that he could complete at once, and completed them one by one without facing any danger.

Then, after subjugating a small settlement of Goblins with other adventurers, Eto took a break while remembering something that happened two years ago. It all started when a church official came from the royal capital to meet Eto and Lana, who were born in a small village in a remote region.