... live free!

Sometimes it's after noon when you get to the Adventurer Guild and few people are there. I saw what kind of requests you have on the bulletin board, but the requests that are stretched out almost only leave a resident request.

"It's after lunch and I can't help it."

I thought so. I took a crusade request from Goblin and Wolf and a request to collect medicinal herbs. Here's what I asked for.

Goblin's request is to kill five goblins and bring a demon stone. Three copper coins around one.

Wolf's request is to kill three wolves and bring a demon stone. Five copper coins around one. Bring back fur, meat, and nails to receive additional rewards depending on quality.

The request for medicinal herbs shall be made by collecting a minimum of five bundles of three sets of medicinal herbs in one bundle: three copper coins per bundle.

I will go to Elena, who was at the reception with such a request.

"This, please"

That's what I said. I gave Mr. Elena the request.

"Crusade request and herb collection. Do you know where we're going?

"I don't know."

"Well, I'll explain where you're going. First of all, goblins may be easy to encounter when you go there because they are frequently discovered in the woods around the corner from the East Gate. As for Wolf, there are sightings in the surrounding woods that went out of the West Gate and along the street for a while. However, they don't see much unless you're in the back of the woods. Good luck finding the herbs in the mountains. After that, here's the herb you want me to get."

She showed me the herbs, so I found out what kind of herbs to pick. I was curious about the contents of the herbs, but I was more curious than that.

"Thanks. So where are the East and West Gates?

"Oh, so you were just here yesterday"

Elena was laughing a little bitterly as she said so. Well, we haven't even been around the city yet...

"The East Gate, if you leave the guild and turn to your left,"

Listen to that. The East Gate is where I went when I entered this city. Speaking of which, could you have run into goblins a lot on the way to this city? I thought. I don't remember which neighborhood I was walking around, but there was a place where I suddenly encountered more goblins.

"The West Gate leaves the guild to the right and straight out into a large square. If you can take the biggest street there, we'll reach the West Gate."

"I see."

In the meantime, I figured out the general location of the West Gate at the East Gate, so I thought I'd ask you about the medicinal herbs next.

"... so you don't have a little more information about the herbs?

"Excuse me. If you're a person who specializes in saying that, you might know a lot more, but people like that, because they make money exclusively, get very little information out of their hands."

Wouldn't you not get a lot of herbs if you did that? And I thought so.

"Then you don't get much herbs... Doesn't the guild say anything?

"If you ask me for what I need in the guild, I haven't said anything about it because I'm paying it well."

"Can't you rub it with someone else?

"In guilds, adventurers don't basically interfere with each other's contentions. It's just that we do more crusade-based requests than we do herbs, and we often get more money, so we don't have a lot of problems with that."

"Really?

Maybe few adventurers can stop fighting each other...... No, maybe not many fools would do that because if they could rub it with the guild staff in the first place, it would taste bad in relation to the request. Besides, if I should do a crusade system request rather than collect herbs, can I even rub it so much...

"Yes."

"Is this enough to order the request for now?

"Is this all of it?

Elena seemed a little surprised that she had brought as many as three requests at a time. Could there be something wrong with that? When I thought about it, I actually thought the request might be due.

"... is there a deadline or something for the request?

"If it's a permanent request, I don't have one, but I want you to look at the week."

What am I going to do? When it comes to herbs and wolves, I don't know if they can be encountered or collected...... I happen to find it. But will it accomplish the request?

"Would that request be accomplished if it met the conditions even if it was not received?

"We can adapt that, but only if no one else has taken that request. You cannot adapt that it is a request received by another person. You will receive a reward for crusading, not as a request. But for some people, be careful because it can also be rubbing. Except for the resident request, which is fine."

I see. If that's what you're saying, why don't we just take Goblin's request? If it's a goblin request, it's gonna be over within that day. If we find a wolf or a herb on the way, should we hunt or pick one?

"Okay. Order only the Goblin Crusade"

"Okay. Give me your guild card."

That's what they said and when I gave them the card, they did some work and then returned it.

"Request accepted"

That's what they said, so we headed to the East Forest, where they said the goblin would come out quickly after the guild.