Chapter 276 – Back Home and I Got a Daughter #4
What is Wendy thinking right now?
If you change her point of view and dig into her correct answers, Wendy had similar thoughts to Luke.
The next morning she sent Luke away and went to work at her adventurer’s guild, but she was still in this state of distress.
‘What is Luke thinking right now? Last night he doesn’t know what to think of work.’
This was Wendy Bright’s idea.
A veteran receptionist of the Adventurer’s Guild.
A widow who is raising her daughter, and a receptionist with the most beautiful appearance in the guild.
For male adventurers, she was a beauty that anyone could not help but admire at least once.
Even today she was Wendy, sitting at the reception desk and looking at her business with a calm expression, but only her appearance was calm.
Her head was full of complicated thoughts about the man she cared about.
She said, ‘I hope you don’t think she’s a promiscuous woman…’ .’
Last night, Wendy invited Luke, an adventurer from the guild, to have dinner with them.
She was an adventurer she had raised since she was a rookie, and a blonde young man who had recently made a name for herself as a wizard.
Should I say that we became close because we happened to go on an adventure together?
She once fell down with a bad cold in the Great Forest of the Principality of Morph, and it was Luke who took care of her terribly.
As a result of her friendship at that time, Wendy fell in love with an adventurer younger than herself.
She was going to confess her feelings yesterday over a meal together and a night together. Somehow, the story flowed in an erotic direction, and everything came to a halt.
‘I’m crazy… What were you thinking when you seduced Luke?’
You may not believe it, but Wendy knows that from the beginning she never intended to seduce Luke. The foods that are good for her stamina are made because she really cares about her body.
She already has three women whom she has chosen as her wives, so it is only natural that even a dreamer would have a weak body.
The drinking party in the middle of the night was only because she felt really lonely.
But when she gets drunk, what should she say?
Wendy’s sexual desire, which she hadn’t been able to resolve for a very long time, exploded.
At the age of 30, when she had risen a long way, she was an obscene desire that she had been quelling alone.
The moment the wall in her heart was broken down, she unknowingly seduced Luke.
‘I’m so pathetic. It’s worst when she loses control and tries to lay her hands on a younger man.’
As she was sorting through her files, Wendy let out a deep sigh without realizing it.
“Sigh.”
Don’t men usually like innocent women? She had been told by Wendy that even when she was a teenager, she was definitely popular with women of that style.
She was guessing Wendy herself, that she would never deal with a disgruntled widow.
“What does Luke-sama think of me…”
It was when she was thinking of the man she liked as she idly rolled her pen.
Suddenly, a man wearing a robe appeared at the entrance of the guild.
“…Kaak, twee!”
He is a madman who spits thick phlegm at the flower bed as soon as he enters.
However, no one was arguing with her man for doing her shit.
Rather, the guild staff bowed her head like a rat, fearing not to be noticed by her man.
Wendy knew why.
That man was a wizard who had recently appeared like a comet in the adventurer’s guild of Yoensu.
‘Kruger Blight.’
A second-class wizard who works as an adventurer.
The adventurer industry has always suffered from a shortage of wizards. Most wizards choose stable jobs instead of jumping into risk-filled adventures.
The very few wizards belonging to the guild were bound to be respected like nobles.
There were definitely wizards who enjoyed being treated like that and who made it a hobby to play with power.
The representative of that mage was Kruger over there.
‘Did you go to the guild to do something else today?’
Wendy let out a sigh as she secretly looked at Kruger.
Before he went on a long-term quest to the Principality of Morph, he was a man who had nothing to do with the guild headquarters.
When I came back after a long trip, Kruger’s affiliation had changed.
He used to be a wizard who worked in the capital of the Northern Kingdom.
The notoriety that Kruger had accumulated there was no joke.
Like assaulting a guild employee you don’t like.
He tried to abuse his fellow adventurers all the time.
If you go against your planting, something big will happen.
Wendy hoped that Kruger who appeared at the guild would quietly finish his work and disappear.
However, Wendy’s wish did not come true.
“There receptionist lady. I came here because I had a question.”
“Yes? You mean that, Mr. Kruger?”
Krueger had been talking to Wendy.
There must be a separate receptionist, but I don’t know why.
I can’t help but think it’s just bad luck.
“Krueger’s receptionist must be someone other than me… If you have any questions, why don’t you visit him. The record of consultations with adventurers is also important for receptionists.”
“What’s the matter? I have a question, but if you’re a guild employee, you should answer. Does the wizard look funny right now?”
“I’m sorry, but I didn’t mean it that way.”
Every time we talked, it felt like we were eating a whole sweet potato.
Wendy opened her mouth, trying to keep her sales smile.
“So what are you curious about?”
“I was wondering why they didn’t upgrade me to platinum status.”
“Yes?”
“Platinum level. I’m starting to get tired of playing at the gold level. I’m a mage, so can’t I benefit from the guild without having to go through promotion? Why do you keep a talent like me rotten? Ask me to raise it to a higher level.”
She was talking nonsense bullshit.
The adventurer’s guild’s promotion system is purely based on the adventurer’s quest performance. Even if you were a mage, it was impossible to raise it to a higher rank at once without sufficient performance.
Because other adventurers will make a fuss about it because it’s unfair.
Now Kruger is making unreasonable demands.
Wendy tried to get her to say no in a soft way.
“Adventurer rank is determined by adventurers’ achievements. It’s not an area that even Lady Bugil can tamper with. It’s the guild’s rule that promotion must be done on a strict and fair basis. I couldn’t build it. It’s only been a year since you joined our guild in the first place.”
“It’s a very strict rule.”
“…”
“I really don’t like it. Isn’t the guild to survive only when we take care of mages like us? What’s so important about fair standards?”
Kruger glared at Wendy as she frowned.
The expression is not very good.
She tried her best, but Wendy’s response did not ease Kruger’s feelings.
Only the wizard of language can defeat this arrogant wizard with his tongue.
“Huh, I want to blow them all away with magic.”
Fortunately, Kruger did not cause any more riots in the guild where many people were watching. She just walked out of the guild with her expression distorted. She couldn’t help but feel Wendy’s annoyance at his rough steps.
‘Could I have been filmed by that person?’
While working as a receptionist, I have dealt with many truths, but there are some of them. The truth that magicians use is on a different level from ordinary truth. She was already Wendy, starting to worry about her commute to work tomorrow.
‘Shouldn’t we deliberately change our business hours and run into each other?’
However, she concluded that it was impossible for Wendy to avoid Kruger.
That day she immediately went home from work because Kruger appeared in front of her.
It was very fast.
*
That afternoon, while walking on her way from work, Wendy was surrounded by a group of adventurers. The leader of the group of adventurers was none other than Kruger. She appeared for Wendy when she was walking down a deserted street.
‘I didn’t expect that person to come to take out his anger so quickly.’
Wendy, who was immediately besieged by several adventurers, could not even find a way to escape.
No matter how you look at it, she was in a predicament.
“Your receptionist, what did you say to me earlier? That your performance isn’t good enough for platinum?”
Kruger said to Wendy with a fishy expression.
“You still think so? Hehe.”
“What are you doing! Let it go quickly!”
“I can’t do that. Stress builds up because of the tight guild. I need to take this opportunity to relieve some stress. There won’t be a guild that abandons a wizard just because a receptionist gets hurt. I know that because I’ve done the same thing in the capital city.”
Kruger was sincere.
He’s a madman who thinks of violence against Wendy, barely to relieve stress. She couldn’t help but feel that her luck was so bad.
“Take care of that woman. I promise to take you guys to the next subjugation quest.”
“Yes, wizard!”
A group of ten adventurers crept up to Wendy, clutching wooden sticks. She, of course, doesn’t just get frustrated because she’s Wendy.
The time has come for her to use her Spirit Art, which she has learned for self-defense.
“Respond to the call. Children with dew.”
The moment Wendy uttered her spell, her magic power was sucked from her body, and water bodies sprang up all around her.
These are the lower water spirits, the Undines.
The Undines thoroughly covered Wendy’s surroundings.
“What, what. Were you able to command that female spirit?”
“I’ve never heard of a guild receptionist learning spiritism.”
“Don’t be scared! Even so, it’s a low-class spirit! If it’s Undine, you can reverse summon it by detonating a nuclear nucleus.”
Thanks to the unexpected power revealed, the adventurers were taken aback for a moment.
However, as an adventurer, he knew how to attack the spirits, so he did not appear to be greatly intimidated.
The adventurers calmly fought the Undines.
‘Eww… The spell to summon an intermediate level spirit takes too long.’
Although she had bought her time, Wendy still felt threatened. If she were just an ordinary adventurer, she would have somehow spawned her lower spirits to tie her feet and seek an opportunity to escape. That’s because the spirit magic he was learning from Luke had a surprising effect on subduing people.
However, if it was Kruger, he could easily wipe out the lower spirits.
“Huh, did the receptionist learn spirit skills? Actually, spirits follow mature women well. They’re annoying.”
Kruger chanted an incantation and created a blazing ball of fire above his hand.
“Crimson Sphere. Swallow the enemies who stand in my way.”
[Flame Strike].
It is an attack spell that corresponds to the intermediate level among the fire world.
As soon as the thick fireball fell to the ground, a pillar of fire rose and released hot heat. The lower spirits caught in the pillar of fire were summoned back screaming at that moment.
――Kyaaaaa
Although his personality was dirty, he was emitting overwhelming firepower befitting a second-rate wizard. If he continued to cast attack spells like that, all lower-ranking spirits would be annihilated. However, it was impossible to summon a mid-level spirit on this spot.
‘There’s no way I’ll leave it alone until you summon it, right? The other side is the same wizard.’
It takes a total of 10 minutes to summon an Intermediate Spirit.
It’s not a summoning technique that can be used without someone protecting it.
It was an embarrassing situation in many ways.
The lower spirits were summoned one after another, and the adventurers got closer and closer to Wendy.
“Got it!”
One of the adventurers aimed at Wendy, swinging her wooden pole. The moment her thick lumber flew at her head, Wendy managed to duck her body and avoid her attack. However, even though she avoided the attack, all of her undines were reverse summoned.
Left alone in an alleyway, Wendy fell into despair.
“Whoa, don’t blame us. We’re all doing this to make ends meet.”
“You have to look good to the wizard to open your way to success.”
It was the moment when the adventurers raised their clubs.
Thousands of thoughts ran through Wendy’s head like a kaleidoscope.
‘This is why I wanted to learn spiritism. Was it meaningless after all?’
The continent of Midgard is a barren world for the powerless to live.
Outside the walls, monsters were infested, and inside the walls, all kinds of superhumans tried to dominate the people. Over the long years, Wendy has been able to experience the injustice of the powerless countless times.
‘I’m fed up with being treated unfairly.’
‘I want to gain strength and at least protect Mary and my body.’
That was probably the biggest reason why Wendy realized her magical talent and became obsessed with her elementalism.
However, her elemental magic, which she had mastered at best, seemed futile today.
She said that if Wendy died, she would mean nothing.
Wendy got the idea that she really was a fucking world.
A continent ruled only by the strong.
The powerless people are just washed away powerlessly by the whim of a superman who came up one day.
Just like what happened to Wendy right now.
“Yes, be sure to surround them well so they don’t escape.”
Kruger approached Wendy with a smile on his face.
A flame made of magic was floating around in his hand.
“I’ll torture you step by step with my magic. People outside won’t be able to hear it. I put a barrier magic around me. Hehe.”
The flames loaded with heat aimed at Wendy.
The moment her hair was about to be burned by the flames.
A familiar voice echoed along the wall of the alleyway.
“What are she doing to Wendy now? Listen.”
A blond young man in a robe appeared from across the alley.
The moment she saw the young man with her horns, Wendy couldn’t believe her eyes.
Because I didn’t know he would appear here now.
“… Huh? What are you doing! Did you break through the barrier you set up?”
“What kind of barrier are you talking about? Are you talking about the mana mass that was on the road over there? I didn’t even know it was a barrier because the spell was so crude.
Luke appeared out of nowhere and was staring at Kruger’s group.
Seeing him holding the quarter staff, Wendy couldn’t look more confident today.
