Chapter 136 – Don’t Fight, Be Nice!! (2)
Sleep refers to an act of having physical and mental rest by consuming 30% of the time in 24 hours. Of course, depending on the person, there is a deviation of about an hour or two, but anyway, people have to sleep. Staying up all night for one night can be a little tiring, but skipping sleep for several days in a row results in a massive accumulation of fatigue in the body. Therefore, even if the time of sleep is very short, going through the act of sleep itself is very important for humans.
Fuck!
“Ugh…!”
So Kurin, a veteran gold-ranked adventurer, was in a very bad mood when he woke up after being hit in the stomach by a sudden fist while he was sleeping comfortably for a long time. At first, she jumped up at the thought that a group of wild monsters might have attacked her tent, but she soon realized that she was not camping outside but staying at an inn in a city, and that the fist that attacked her was actually a temporary companion next to her. When I realized that it was the female adventurer’s nasty sleeping habit, I seriously contemplated whether to throw the sleeping adventurer out the window.
As a result, she couldn’t bear to hold her accountable because her actions didn’t have any will of her own. Kurin, who did not have the courage to fall asleep peacefully until morning, finally sighed, opened the door, and came out to the roof of the inn. In her place, there was someone who came before her.
“Huh? Mr. Kurin? What happened to you at this hour?”
“Then why aren’t you sleeping at this hour?”
“Ahaha… I usually sleep less, and since my colleagues don’t like this scent that much, it’s become a habit to wake up earlier than everyone else and smoke one.”
Shumi, the man who had been outside ahead of Kurin, shook the half-empty pack of cigarettes.
“…I also wanted to sleep more. Until I was suddenly hit with a punch by your colleague in the middle of a good night’s sleep.”
“Haha… Mika does have some nasty sleeping habits.”
“I don’t think that’s anything like ‘a bit nasty’. If you knew, you should have told me earlier. Ha, I’ll have one too. I’ll have to smoke some for a while.”
Shumi took out a lighter and tried to hand it to her, but when Kurin put her cigarette in her mouth and snapped her fingers, she didn’t even use the lighter, but the tip of the cigarette shot blood and caught fire. Of course, it wasn’t the magic that only the great sage could use.
“Oh… That’s a simple rune that can only be used by adventurers with a gold rank or higher, right?”
“That’s right. There’s nothing better than lighting a cigarette.”
“Haha…”
The adventurers belonging to the Desperado adventurer’s guild are largely divided into four classes. From the bottom up, there are Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum levels, and each level has different benefits from the guild. The technique that Kurin showed is a technique called ‘Simple Rune’ given to adventurers who have reached the gold level. It is a technique that allows you to use very simple magic without chanting by carving a rune somewhere on your body to trigger a specific action to use stored magic without chanting. . All gold-level adventurers enjoy it because it allows them to use various trivial but convenient magic, such as lighting a very small ember at the moment when a fire is needed or teleporting one’s body forward 1m instantaneously.
Of course, the power of magic that can be used is limited, and in order not to burden the user with magic, it is a method of collecting and recharging magic in the air, so it takes quite a while to use it again after using it once, so it is not directly used in battle Rather, it was simple magic that was only used for auxiliary purposes.
“I heard that Mr. Kurin is a veteran adventurer with a gold rank.”
“That’s right. The gold level itself was achieved a long time ago. However, due to the limitations of talent, I couldn’t possibly go higher than platinum.
It was 7 years ago that Kurin became an adventurer, and it was 5 years ago that she reached the gold rank. As soon as she entered the guild, there was talk of a prospect who rose to the gold level in just two years. At first, she was briefly talked about, but after not being able to enter the realm of the platinum level for more than five years, she was soon completely forgotten in the attention of others and is now just an ordinary adventurer. Became one of
“It must be very disappointing. I heard she was one of her favorites for platinum status.”
“That’s all a thing of the past. And it’s okay now. There are many benefits when you reach the platinum level, but there are so many restrictions. I’d rather be comfortable now.”
She said so, but in fact Shumi also vaguely knew. She realizes that Kurin has not yet let go of her attachment to her goal of reaching platinum status. The fact that she applied for this quest in the first place was proof that she still had regrets.
A confidential urgent quest from Guild Master Jeong Si-woo. Without giving any details, the quest rewards were varied and questionable. Even so, the number of people who applied for the quest was considerable, but many adventurers’ eyes were turned away because there was a ‘Gold level or lower adventurer’s level up immediately after clearing the quest’ in the list as a reward for completing the quest.
The adventurer’s guild accepts requests from the adventurers it belongs to, and receives a portion of the compensation offered by the requester as the cost. As the rank goes up, the share of the quest rewards that the person can have increases, and they can receive more risky but lucrative quests, and gold-level adventurers can even enjoy useful benefits such as the ‘Simple Runes’ that Kurin just showed. Can Of course, it was very difficult for her to raise her level as an adventurer.
In order to raise your rank, you must complete a number of quests, build up your performance, and pass the grade test that is conducted periodically. No matter how good your performance or outstanding skills are, you can’t raise your grade without taking the grade test, and you can only go up one grade at a time, so it’s safe to say that it takes at least a year to raise one grade. However, with the story that you can immediately raise your rank by completing just one quest, many adventurers applied even though they did not even know the contents of the guild master’s quest. The silver-level adventurers who were currently in charge of the quest, Shumi and the three party members, and the veteran gold-level adventurer Kurin were no different.
“Still, it’s amazing. Gold rank… It’s still a long way for our party, which has just reached the silver rank…”
“Shh. That story ends here. Don’t forget what we came to such a far place for.”
“Oh, yes. It was.”
Shumi, the party members, and the guild master’s quest, which Kurin took on, was an investigation into the existence called ‘Sensei’ in the abandoned city of Landfill. To collect and return as much information as possible about the identity of the teacher, where he resides, his purpose, and how much power he possesses. That was the reason they came all the way from their original home, Desperado, the city of adventure and freedom.
In addition, Landfeel is currently facing a major integration. Tomorrow morning, the organization Acid Family, which governs the eastern area where the airship dock is located, and the alliance of four other organizations will collide head-on. Landfill, which had been torn into five by each organization, will be united again tomorrow.
Although Landfill was a lawless area where people who were exiled or abandoned because they were regarded as problematic in all cities and countries were not paying much attention to other places, the story changes if they are grouped into a single force centered on one leader. People from all over the world, whose powers or ideas were deemed dangerous and refused to accept them, united around just one human being. It’s an absurd story, but it’s also something that’s currently being done.
Because the humans who are trying to unify Landfill are the ‘teacher’, the goal these adventurers came to this Landfill.
Currently, Landfeel is in a strangely calm state ahead of a huge battle, literally the night before the storm. In this chaotic situation, it was very obvious how the locals would look at the adventurers who came to the central figure, ‘Teacher’, for business. Especially if, just a few days ago, a man who called himself a member of the Desperado adventurer’s guild had stabbed the teacher at a bar. Therefore, Kurin and the adventurers decided to write a setting that ‘they were eventually expelled from the adventurer’s guild because they did not have conflicts with them’ while staying here so as not to be suspected by the residents.
Shumi asked again if the people of Landfill weren’t stupid and that such a ridiculous excuse would work, but surprisingly, the residents of Landfill didn’t doubt their introduction at all. Rather, thanks to the fact that there were quite a few such people before, the quest of the adventurers who arrived at Landfill to investigate the teacher was proceeding quite smoothly.
“Large-scale protests between the organizations that lead Landfill… By tomorrow, there will be a very big uproar.”
“Ah, but it’s just a gang fight between thugs, right?”
“That’s a story you can tell because you don’t know the situation here.”
“Yeah?”
For this junior who lacks observation, Kurin decided to tell her what she learned from what she saw and heard in this city today.
“The struggle between organized gangs is different in scale and quality from gang fights between gangsters in the neighborhood. Most bullies unilaterally harass those weaker than themselves, and it only happens once in a while that they clash and fight with other gangs. And above all, Bullies don’t know the weight of responsibility for what they’ve done. They’re cowardly bastards who unilaterally inflict violence on those weaker than themselves with a light heart. But thugs are different.”
In the scenery across the back alley she passed by, Kurin recalled the clash between the swarthy men with red patterns on her face and the group of people wearing swords around their waists.
“They don’t just get together and lightheartedly unilaterally bully those weaker than themselves, but they mercilessly beat the opponent from the start, and if they ever need to kill someone, they can have a distinct murderous intent. And most importantly, Solidarity between organizations. Beating a group isn’t the end, but the colleagues behind them retaliate later. That’s what a violent organization is afraid of.”
“Ummm…”
“So, please don’t forget the purpose. Our purpose is to acquire information about ‘Sir’. This is not Desperado, where there is an adventurer’s guild, but Landfill, the lawless zone of those violent organizations. Don’t know what will happen.”
“Hmm, I’ll keep that in mind. Ah, it’s already dawning.”
Shumi shook off all the butts on the floor, yawned and stretched.
“Umm… Then I’ll wake up my colleagues and prepare. Mr. Kurin…?”
“Today, I’m going to act separately from you guys. I went with you yesterday, and if I go with you today, I might doubt your excuses.”
“Okay. Then I’ll leave first.”
While Shumi went back down to wake up the party members.
“…Thank you for waiting for him to go down.”
Kurin stared into the darkness and spoke quietly. Right after that, a man quietly descended behind Kurin.
“I just didn’t want to make unnecessary sacrifices.”
“That’s why I’m thankful. I didn’t have time to worry about you and that guy.”
Kurin pointed her long spear, her own favorite bottle, at her man. The man had no weapons in his hands, but he didn’t need them. His weapon was not a blade like a knife or an axe, but his two legs on the ground.
“I’m not considerate of you. Today, when we have to unify the landfills, I didn’t want to waste more energy than I needed to deal with the Acid Family, so I just waited until the number decreased.”
“So, since when have you been suspicious of us? I thought you fooled me well.”
“From the beginning. To think that we would have trusted so easily someone who suddenly came from outside in this chaotic situation means that we are being ignored too much.”
“Oh, I see.”
The smoke from Kurin’s cigarette changed direction. She meant that the direction of the blowing wind had changed. And now, the wind was gathering on the legs of the man standing in front of her.
“It’s strengthening the element by wrapping it around your body… It looks like magic similar to the one I’m using.”
“Magic? Magic… Well, people seeing it for the first time can misunderstand it like that.”
Moisture forms on the tip of Kurin’s spear aimed at her man. Accordingly, the wind, which had been quietly entwined around the man’s legs, was now spinning so vigorously that the sound could be heard clearly.
“This is not magic or magic. The power given to us by the teacher, our hearts… The power of imagery that brings desires, wills, and wishes into reality. It is ‘deliberation’.”
“Hmm… I don’t know if it’s an image or a deliberation, but it doesn’t matter. I just need to destroy you and interrogate you to get information.”
“If you can, try it.”
Further conversation was unnecessary. Today, when the landfill must be unified from a man’s point of view, Kurin is a suspicious person who has invaded from the outside with a purpose, so he is excluded from doing troublesome things before doing important things, and from Kurin’s point of view, the quest goal is Sensei’s aide. The purpose was to capture and interrogate that man, who seemed to be, to dig up information about the teacher.
The moisture condensed at the tip of Kurin’s spear gradually increased and became a stream of water, and as the flow of that water increased, it became a wave.
“[Sea god style spearmanship 1st type-torrent]. Where, if you can get it, try to get it.”
The violent flow that bloomed from the tip of the spear ran rampant with ferocious force, as if it would rip off a fair amount of armor like a piece of paper. And…
“…It’s a little embarrassing to say in a situation like this, but isn’t it a bit embarrassing to name your technique and form it…?”
“…Fuck.”
Hearing such words from the enemy, and even before the fight, made Kurin lose his composure. It was because what he said reminded me of the gossip of girls my age who don’t become adventurers but just office workers, earning a small but safe salary, “It’s really funny how adventurers fight while shouting the names of their special moves.” And in the moment of battle, that moment of inattention brought about great results.
Without any warning, the man suddenly rushed in, and Kurin tried to block his approach by stepping backwards and throwing a spear to take advantage of the range, a unique advantage of a spear.
“Caught.”
“Ugh…?!”
There must have been no one behind her, but a huge steel hand that appeared from somewhere strongly grabbed and pressed her shoulder, so the spear that adventurer Kurin had fired pierced the air. An intense kick hit Kurin’s stomach directly. That was the last memory of Kurin, a veteran gold rank adventurer, before she passed out.
