Chapter 264


Chapter 264 Strongest Sage, Notices the Oddity


"You mean those 『Swords Extremers』 would show themselves if we take on high ranking quests?"


"Simply put, yep . "


I head to the guild .


But . . . Iris calls out to me .


"But we"re rank E aren"t we? Can we even take high ranking quests?"


. . . She"s right .


We were rank A at Raginia Federation .


But we"re only rank E here at Eis Kingdom .


It"s higher than our initial rank, F, at the beginning, but not high enough to take high ranking quests .


We can probably get our rank raised if we contact the king . . . But that would take time .


Probably will take around three days even if the princ.i.p.al is involved .


Raising our rank the normal way is probably faster than going through all that .


" . . . Alright . First thing first, let"s look for a suspicious looking quest . "


"What if we can"t take that quest?"


"Then we simply need to stalk the guys who do . We"ll strike from the flank once the 『Swords Extremers』 bunch come out . "


We went into the guild while having that conversation .


And then I look towards the quest board .


"Unn . . . I have no idea which is which . . . "


"There"s so many high ranking quests, it"s hard to pick out the suspicious one . . . "


There"s a mountain of quests on the quest board .


The guild"s walls are stuffed full with quest tags .


There"s fewer rank B and rank A quests as expected . . . But the number still rounds up to around 30 .


Guess it"s only right for the adventurer city Haigia .


"We"ve got to look for suspicious quests among these?"


"Yea . . . Actually, I found one already . "


I point at a quest tag while speaking to Ruli .


The quest was first posted two days ago .


There"s no better quest to lure out adventurers than this one .


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Type: General Quest


Quest Rank: A


Required Rank: A


Reward: 120,000 Elmi


Quest Spot: Senisye Plain


Subject: Subjugation of 10 『Giga Aegis』 monsters . Monsters" location will be informed once you have accepted the quest .


Client: Picas


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"Err, it looks like an ordinary quest to me though . . . "


"『Giga Aegis』 are rank B monsters aren"t they? Rank A should be fitting if the quest asks you to defeat 10 of them . . . "


"Yeah . Neither the quest rank nor the subject have anything wrong . . . It"s the client that"s weird . "


Afterward, Alma and Ruli look at the client"s name .


"Err . . . Picas?"


"The name doesn"t sound familiar . . . What"s wrong about it?"


"Would a commoner without a family name post a quest with 120,000 elmi as a reward?"



" . . . Aah!"


Subjugation quests generally ask for monster exterminations .


The goals are usually to maintain public order or secure safe areas within a territory . . . But these kinds of quests are usually posted by either the guild or the n.o.ble who governs an area, not commoners .


And neither the guild nor a n.o.ble posted this quest .


A n.o.ble would have put up their house name on it .


In rare cases, there are some people who would post these quests due to personal grudges on monsters and such . . . . But the chance of them putting forward 120,000 elmi as a reward is pretty slim .


That amount of money would be enough to build a house after all .


"Excuse me, I need to take this . "


A guild receptionist came by before the quest tag and said that .


And then she peeled off the suspicious quest tag and took it with her .


"Where are you taking that quest tag?"


"We"re going to raise the amount of quest reward as requested by the client . . . Although I don"t think anyone would take this quest even with higher reward . . . "


. . . Raising reward money just because no one took it in two days huh .


It"s looking even more suspicious .


The receptionist seems to know about the reason . . . I"ll go ask her .


"No one would take it?"


"Yes, I don"t think anyone would . I mean, it"s right after that incident after all . . . "


"That incident . . . ?"


"It"s the one about Relis-san, a famous adventurer, who went missing at Senisye Plain . That quest was posted by the same person as this one as well . . . "


. . . That"d be the first victim .


There"s almost no doubt about it, Picas is a member of 『Swords Extremer』 .


He probably got this much reward money from the victim .


『No doubt about it, the enemy is at Senisye Plain . 』


『Then, our next destination is Senisye Plain!?』


『But Senisye Plain is very vast isn"t it?』


Ruli is right, that plain is enormously vast .


The plain"s circ.u.mference alone hold dozens of cities with more at the center .


Even just traveling from its end to end could take us a day at worst .


As such, knowing that 『the enemy is at Senisye Plain』 is practically the same as knowing nothing .


It"d have been simple if the guild would tell us about the client"s info, but unfortunately Adventurer Guild has a strict policy on confidentiality .


We"d need the king"s decree if we want to get info from the guild .


Doesn"t seem like we can hope for someone to take the quest either--Guess we"ll have to take on this quest ourselves in the end .

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