Volume 2 - CH 7

Chapter 7 – The Beginning of An Adventure

As Eto and his party arrived at the entrance of the guild fully equipped, the attention of the adventurers and guild staff in the building instantly gathered at them. That’s because the rumor that Eto is a strong man who defeated a Wyvern alone has spread among them. And such a man just formed a party with his slaves, of course that would attract people’s attention.

The last time they showed up in the guild, they wore very little equipment and just went into the training ground. That made people think that it would be awhile before Eto’s party starts their work as adventurers.

However, here they are, fully equipped and having different expressions from the last time. Thus, when they headed to the request board with Eto in the front, people avoided them and paved a way, as if it was a natural thing to do.

Receiving such treatments, Eto felt like he was the Hero for a moment, but when he recalled the real face of the Hero, he became disgusted. Because for Eto, Ronaldo’s existence is a stopper that prevents him from becoming arrogant. With such thoughts, they arrived at the quest board. Eto exhaled quietly and carefully checked each request.

In the adventurer’s guild, as long as there is a C-class adventurer in a party, that party is allowed to take a C-rank request. However, if the other members of that party are E or F-class adventurers, the C-class adventurer will have to be fully responsible for their safety. If by chance a low-ranked adventurer is critically injured or even loses his life during the request, the C-class adventurer will be the one who gets blamed by other adventurers. In addition, it also has become a custom for the said adventurer to be urged to give some compensation for the family of the deceased adventurer. In this way, the Adventurer’s Guild uses the rank system and the custom among adventurers to prevent newcomers from dying because of recklessness1.

Although Eto, who was a C-class adventurer, was the highest rank in their party, before becoming a slave, Amou was a B-class adventurer who was said to reach A-class in terms of combat power. And there is no way Kohaku was lower than D-class. In addition, although she wasn’t an adventurer, Sorano’s abilities are most likely B-class or higher. In conclusion, Eto’s party had members of relatively high levels.

Eto then accepted several requests from near the royal capital at the guild receptionist. Requests such as subjugation of a small settlement of Goblin, investigation of a piece of information that said there is a group of Orcs near the royal capital, collecting medicinal and poisonous herbs, collecting various potion materials, and escort requests for caravans leaving for the neighboring town, which will depart the day after tomorrow. He took those requests because he judged that those requests definitely won’t make his party members encounter a dangerous situation. Because Eto thought that in the end, they’re a new party. So, it was important for them to get used to completing requests first.

That day, Eto’s party destroyed a small settlement of Goblin and ended the day with collecting various herbs. The day after that, they investigated the group of Orcs and destroyed the already half-finished Orc settlements.

Then, while Eto, Amou, and Kohaku skinned the Orcs’ corpses, Sorano went to the guild to report and requested support for skinning and transporting the corpses. Yes, the number of Orcs has exceeded twenty, meaning that Eto’s party has gained quite an amount of profit.

The next day, without showing any sign of fatigue, they went to complete the escort request. They stopped at the neighboring town for a night, then took another escorting request of a caravan heading towards the royal capital. On the way, thinking that the quest went too smoothly, Eto told his party members to be careful, but in the end nothing happened and that marked the start of a new adventure for his new party.

Eto decided that the day after returning to the royal capital would be a day off. He also distributed the rewards, where Amou and the rest got 5% of the reward to free themselves from slavery, as Eto promised before. Meanwhile, the 50% of the reward will be used for party expenses such as equipment maintenance or renewing, purchasing consumables items such as potions, and living expenses such as inn’s fees and food. And of course, the remaining 35% will be Eto’s share.

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When Eto asked his party members about equipment, Kohaku said she wanted some throwing knives, while Amou and Sorano said they needed a dagger for skinning. And he also needs to replenish Sorano’s arrows. In the end, they decided to spend their day’s off together shopping at Garm Weapon Store.

From afternoon, Eto had given the three some money for food expenses before they went their separate ways. The three have been forced to spend boring days as slaves, after all. So, they must be quite happy having some money that they can spend freely, even if it was just the same amount of pocket money. All in all, it seems each of them was able to spend a relaxing time after a long time.

Eto was satisfied that his party members were able to properly complete the guild’s requests. That also made him feel that his current party was quite promising.