Chapter 170 – The Promotion Test (3)
What I saw, experienced, and felt.
It felt like the job of an adventurer involved more time wandering around than fighting time.
“Ouch…”
Upon arriving at the entrance to Agros Village, the alcoholic dwarf fell off Hamal’s saddle.
That person vomited from the first day at the speed of Hamal, who had awakened as a riding pet, and stopped drinking after that. It was an unexpectedly positive effect, but now that he’s in town, he’ll start drinking again.
“I am a little tired. I’d better get a place to stay.”
Tirsi said as she got off Hamal’s back.
We ran for two days sleeping in the meadow. Since there was time until the test was over, it was correct to recover the consumed stamina while moving.
“Rome. It was a good drive.”
“The pestilence is small.”
Leading the babbling assholes, Tirshi checked in at the inn.
By the way, I wanted everyone to share a room, because even the men were bothered by other people’s snoring and tossing and turning during camping, so they were getting annoyed.
Now that we’ve booked a room, it’s a strategy meeting.
Tyrsi warned the party members.
“Many of the orcs have excellent senses of smell. I’ll cast a 〈 Clean〉 spell on you, but please wash yourselves by tonight. I’m planning to start reconnaissance in earnest tomorrow morning——anyone have any objections?”
“If it’s the wizard’s strategy, it’ll be better than our thousand. Do that and let’s break up.”
Arthas was distracted by the beer the inn guests were drinking. Tyrsi made an impression.
“I know. Dissolve with this. But did I tell you? I’m going on a reconnaissance tomorrow. Please refrain from drinking.”
Haha!! What do you see me as? I will!”
With a big laugh, Arthas disappeared into her alley.
Tyrsi stopped and covered her face. An alcoholic who hasn’t had a drink in two days comes to town and doesn’t drink? You should wish for it.
When he disappeared, Vegan also ordered food.
“Master! Give me the meat stew without the meat!”
Crazy guys
Tirshi and I came up to the second floor as if losing our hands. It seems that it is a national rule even in a different world that super-special ranks are always taken as team members whenever there is a promotion match.
‘Let’s wait until the work is over.’
I’ve encountered kobolds on my way here, and those bastards did their part when they went into battle.
But that was no fucking comfort.
‘Orcs are lower-level Silver class monsters.’
Of course, the adventurer’s guild’s classification of monsters was also messy, so it wasn’t very reliable.
Still, the fact that the silver class is set means that the average Btak-gi doesn’t fight that monster!
I have to catch 8 orcs like that, but I’m an idiot in the crew. How can I exhaust this without holding my sigh? I tapped my shoulder with the window and said.
“I feel like defeating Dduka, but I’ll hold back.”
If the party members cause trouble among themselves, the evaluation is reduced. Professor Bram Marton was also criticized for this, he wrote in his book.
Normally, I would have already rolled my eyes and steamed all over my body with a spear, but the fact that it was a promotion match and a test for Tirsi kept me sane.
“I’m sorry, Nord… Now I really have no one to trust but you…”
Tirshi, visibly depressed, wrapped his hand around me and said.
I tapped Tirshi on the shoulder. To be honest, as soon as I saw the appearance of those bastards, it was nothing to do with the two of us.
“Well, wouldn’t it be very difficult if you just figured out the location? Let’s assume that those humans are the role of filling the number of heads. They will take care of themselves.”
I patted the mask in my bosom and said.
“I will patrol in moderation. Please rest.”
“Yeah. I’ll buy dinner, so don’t be late, Nord.”
“I’m going to get a free meal for this. Let’s go.”
So I came out of the inn. Deciding to take a test with Tyrsi, I had a few… Should I call it an operation? I had a plan like that.
The arrogant action I’m taking right now was for that purpose.
‘But first, search for information first.’
As I was walking around town, I noticed a nice-looking young woman.
If you spread flyers on the street, you get all of them, and when religious people disguised as university students ask for your signature, you will be a father and an enemy.
He seemed a little too busy to ask, but that could have been better.
“Excuse me. Miss.”
I put the spear behind my back so it wasn’t a threat and started talking.
Even though weapons are no different from everyday shoehorns to the people of this world, the first impression would be an asshole if you talk to them while sticking a shoehorn into their shoes.
“Yeah? Yes? What are you doing?”
It was a village girl who looked at my appearance and answered. I bowed down—by the standards of a person from another world—and greeted them with dignity.
“No. I spoke to you because I wanted to ask you a question, but you seem very busy. If it doesn’t bother you, can I help you a little instead of asking questions?”
“Eh, help me… ?”
A village girl with wide eyes. Rural people are wary of outsiders. So it’s Operation Give and Take, Teacher, Teacher.
The village girl, perhaps noticing that I was an adventurer, lost her guard and said,
“Then, by any chance, could you find our puppy?”
“Do you mean puppy?”
“I’m looking for Samri, who used to watch over the chickens in our yard, since I haven’t seen them since morning. I am very worried because he is only a few years old.”
“So you were holding her breasts. Good. I’ll help you. If you can’t find it in a while, please come back here.”
I accepted the village girl’s request with the feeling of receiving a sub-quest.
‘It’s a bit like chewing gum.’
The village of Agros was so fucking small as it was in the countryside. To me, a request like this is easier than eating the cake.
“Woof woof!! (Person!!)”
“Wong. Al Arr panting. (Oh. Let me ask you something.)”
I went around the back alleys with a decent amount of beef jerky and asked questions to stray cats and stray cats, looking for a dog that looked like Samri.
After waiting for about 10 minutes at the place where I was before, a village girl who couldn’t find the puppy came running to her brightened face.
“Sam Lee!!”
“Ki-ing! (Nunna!)”
-Wack! A puppy that escapes from my arms and is embraced by a village girl.
At the thrilling family reunion, the pre-cum in the heart flows. The village girl hugged Samri and bowed her back.
“Thank you! I didn’t expect you to find me so quickly!”
“What. Samri seems to have been bored, so it would be okay if she showed me the way back home.”
I recited what I heard from Samri Bongyeon.
The eyes of a village girl who trusts with the feeling that she has passed everything now!
It was almost a feeling of envy. She seems to know why she said on the internet that she had to be friendly with a dog to coax a self-taught woman.
‘Fuck. It’s like before you’re married or popular.’
It’s not disappointing, but something felt empty.
Anyway, even among the people of this world, the people in the village were really flamboyant. This is why they seem to be wary of outsiders in order not to be fooled by peddlers and the like.
I decided to ask only what she needed, feeling that I would also tell her about her village granary.
“My name is Nord, an adventurer. This time, I came as a charity project to defeat monsters in the Audumla Guild.”
“Ah, that’s right! You are wonderful!”
“Uh. Looks like you’ve already noticed this. Are you smart?”
“Hi-Hi. I often hear that I am smart.”
The reaction is good when you apply gold lacquer in moderation. I took out the plate on my neck and showed it.
“So that’s the point. Have adventurers like us visited recently? If there are friends who come first, we have to say hello and divide the zones to clear the monsters.”
“Are you adventurous? Nope. I know it well, but the only outsiders who have come to town lately are the Nords and their party!”
“Isn’t anyone here alone?”
“Of course! It was completely peaceful for a month!”
It says so. I got one, but I won’t lie about it. I seriously nodded.
“Well sir. Enough then.”
“Ah! Thank you! Be careful!”
“Yes.”
I broke up with her and had her typed in her elite her coccyx.
─No personnel dispatched prior to the test.
─Nothing to compete with other adventurers.
—No damage from monsters yet.
‘Okay.’
Preliminary research should be this.
The examiner is also a human being, so he must have stayed overnight in the village. If no one came, no one would be watching us.
In other words, it means that even if I go around poking around with Dokgodai, I won’t get a deduction!
‘Is it because it is a test that also includes image management? It seems that every village that requested a subjugation in the past had a candidate party.’
It was a so-called A/S service.
This is a satisfactory research result.
‘There are no competitors, so I can move slowly.’
It’s over if you imitate the druid as usual, just like you found the girl’s puppy in that village. It should be easy to find out the location of the orcs.
─Sabaksabak.
I left the village and entered the forest.
The rune of ᚲ (Kenaz) was carved on her forehead and a mask of ᚲ (Kenaz) brought was placed on her face.
“──Transformation.”
After a while, he even poses, and Beast Return is also ON.
This is the completion of Vector-Assassin Nord.
‘Shall we turn around lightly?’
I took my spear and the food to fish for the animals and ran deep into the forest, the habitat of the orcs.
***
“… Keen? (No?)”
When I roamed the forest like a ninja and asked the beasts questions.
I was dumbfounded when I heard such an answer from all the animals.
“Arrureung. Kekeng. (Nothing scary.)”
The stray dog, unable to abandon the wild and pounced on me, turned over and said so.
He’s not big enough to be called a wolf. Roughly like a wild Pomeranian. I felt sorry for hitting him, so I grabbed him and raised him to the height of the plane about 10 times, and he calmed down.
But damn, that’s not what’s important right now.
‘No Orcs? WHY?’
I knew I was busy with the ruins, but was Au-Dumla again ‘Audum-Ra’ again? I felt a headache, so I hit the masked forehead with the palm of my hand.
‘What a plague… If there isn’t even one real one, isn’t this the guild’s fault? Will you let me take the test again?’
No, it felt a little too early to think of this.
As if the size of Agros village was a lie, the forest where the orcs appeared was vast.
How wide is it? It is wide enough to fit two manors.
It must be that monsters like Orcs come out because it’s at this fucking level. In this forest, dozens of monsters were still filming wild documentaries from another world.
‘It could be that he stopped coming to the village because he was subjugated.’
They are collectively called monsters, but each type has a different intelligence. Orcs would have the same intelligence.
For carnivores that hunt other animals, there are not many guys with heads. Except for those who only believed in fertility, such as kobolds, advanced rats.
Why didn’t Hobgoblins even use magic, even though their level was low?
I would have thought that it was dangerous over there if the people of Agros had been beaten up.
“… Krreung Keng. (Go see.)”
“Al-al!! (Yes!!)”
Thinking so, I released the wild dog.
This is the beginning of the forest, if done well. If you go further inside, there might be something happening that you don’t know at the level of wild animals.
‘What is it?’
Shall I go in more?
Or should I get out of here
‘──Let’s go.’
After weighing a few conditions, I decided to go a little deeper.
Since I can hide, I won’t be noticed. Considering those idiots, it would be a continuous battle with a full party. Didn’t the thief say it was more comfortable to move alone in this situation?
Of course, I will follow Fran when he goes on reconnaissance.
-Shashak.
Almost silently, I leaped up and down the trees like an acrobat.
The skills learned from Ralilura are always useful.
To the point where I thought about buying some snacks next time.
As I hid in the shadow of a tree, looked at the map, and moved forward, a familiar smell caught my sense of smell.
I stopped playing Ninja Dash on the Tree and got a raise.
‘… The smell of blood?’
This is a forest where all kinds of creatures eat and eat.
So, you could say it was a fucking natural smell.
However, the smell was still too strong. I folded the map of the forest, put it in my bag, and came down from the tree.
I’m not even a monkey, but for a muscle macho with weight, stepping on the ground rather than on top of a tree was more advantageous for stealth.
Approached with silence.
Arriving at the place where it smelled of blood, I hid in the grass and found the source of the smell.
‘… Mother.’
A primitive village full of shabby tents that seemed to have been built by a person with only one hand!
In that village——there were a lot of orc corpses rolling around.
‘Thirteen, fourteen—fifteen?’
It was only the number of corpses that could be seen. I checked their noses.
There was no sign of a broken nose. As I heard in the village, other test takers did not come here.
Yes, ‘Oops. I wasn’t an idiot and a jerk to the extent that I thought, ‘I passed the exam.
Tension stiffened my back.
Like an Assassin who has found a target, I held my breath calmly and stealthily. There might be someone around who turned the young working-pigs into fertilizer.
I checked the signs with the tips I learned from the other world of the bugs.
There were no moving objects——.
I was concerned because the corpse looked fresh, but the assailant who swept over it seemed to have finished his work and returned.
If this is the work of a wild monster, it’s perfect.
Even if I passed the test, no one would say anything. The fact that I don’t have to struggle with those troller pups makes me eager to support this hypothesis.
But here, you shouldn’t turn your eyes away from reality.
Although scholars start reasoning from hypotheses.
Because now I’m not here as a scholar.
‘If it hadn’t been so long since I died——’
I cautiously made my way to the area where the corpses of the orcs were strewn about, and carved a rune into the ground.
“──ᚨ(Ansuz).”
The souls of the orcs who couldn’t leave for the underworld rose from the corpses.
