Chapter 172 – The Promotion Test (5)
“A four-armed ogre killed orcs and left?”
Upon hearing the story, Tirshi spoke as if it were difficult to understand.
Is it hard to believe even if fresh oak nose is submitted as evidence? It wasn’t anything I didn’t know.
Did you think we were able to collect all the quest items in one day because the orcs ran after us when we came to the village? Even the receptionist wouldn’t believe it if he reported it to the guild.
“Yes. Still, it’s a fresh nose, so I think I can just take a few days off and go back. Of course, I’ll have to see and hit the ogre.”
I said that while quenching his throat with the water that Tyrsi poured out.
Considering the round trip time, Oak Nose would not skip eating even if it had been left for four or five days.
Also, I think I mentioned it the other day, but there is magic to “Find out what kind of wound has occurred and how long it has been” In the investigation of magic in another world.
For example, is there a hole in Tirshi’s room? If you use that magic, you can tell how long it has been since the hole was made.
It would be easy to understand if I said it was a different world version of luminol solution.
Perhaps that kind of magic would also be used for the Silver class promotion test. In the form of examining whether or not the test takers commit cheating with the oak nose they saved in advance.
‘If you cover it with mana, you won’t be able to test it, but it’s not like we put magic on this nose.’
Just like wiping fingerprints, the investigation magic can remove traces with mana and take countermeasures.
In other words, it would be difficult to inspect if I fired a cryo beam at the orc’s nose.
Of course, in order to do this, you have to rub mana really maliciously, so doing that would of course be a disqualification. Just like a kid who wears a smart watch to the exam center will be kicked out no matter what excuse he makes.
I put down the glass of water and said.
“What are you going to do? If you share it with other test takers and ask them to keep silent, you will be able to pass.”
“… You said you couldn’t find the other orcs, right?”
“Yes. I looked it up with 〈 Animal Conversation 〉, but it seems that all the orcs left in the forest are the owners of this nose. If the guild doesn’t give you a chance to retest, you’ll have to give up this year.”
I roughly recited an estimate.
If the orcs were subjugated by adventurers and did not breed properly, it would be difficult to find 8 orcs even after searching the forest.
‘Besides, there must be ogres.’
Since it was a large forest, there was a high possibility that if we went deep into the forest—even if it wasn’t an ogre—the monsters we couldn’t catch with our party would appear.
Is it one of the adventurer’s skills to determine “How much risk to take” In order to complete a request? It was like a different world-style test at the fucking opening.
‘But should passing through luck like this be regarded as a foul?’
For adventurers, luck is also skill.
If the applicants who were unlucky enough to find an orc were to be rejected, shouldn’t we, who were lucky enough to get it, also be looked at? When I thought about that, Tyrsi said.
“I have no intention of giving up. Nord helped me, but I don’t want to pretend to be clean.”
Tirshi, who called me from his room dressed lightly, curled his white eyebrows. He would laugh
“And I’m not such a good kid either. Picking up fallen coins isn’t a crime, is it?”
“Heh heh. I like that Tyrsi is flexible.”
“Whoops. While working hard at the wizard guild, I only gained more tips.”
“Good tips, what. Everyone becomes an adult like that.”
So we decided to wipe our mouths and get free quest items.
Depending on what you fucking think, if you had arrived just a little faster, wouldn’t you have almost been attacked by an ogre while trying to catch an orc!
So it would have been good to say that this was a legitimate risk pay.
“Still, it would be better to give the chief a little hint. Also, I have to stay here for a few days in order not to incur annoying suspicion from the guild.”
“Yeah. You can’t claim to have hunted them by finding them right away when you arrive in town. If you said you borrowed a horse, wouldn’t it be okay to stay for a day or so?”
“Okay. We leave tomorrow morning when the sun rises.”
Tyrsi and I agreed that we didn’t want to stay here for days.
Damn me to stay in this town with those trollers? I don’t like looking back on that.
‘If an ogre appears in the village while idling around, shouldn’t I have to fight with those bastards?’
Having recently been through a chain of shitty things, I can no longer do that. I didn’t have a bad idea to do it.
I noticed this year, but I have a constitution that causes trouble.
If you think about it, isn’t it normal to be unlucky at the point of coming to another world? There would be no other guy like me who had both good times and bad times.
In other words, it meant that from the moment I felt this fucking premonition of misfortune, I had to be prepared.
I would be blown away in the blink of an eye if I was acting like a poop-gut in the fall, asking if a fucking ogre kid would appear in front of me.
I never meant to fight soul-to-soul by harassing troll puppies.
If an ogre and a troll go head-to-head, the ogre wins.
I don’t know if it’s anywhere else, but it’s set like that in Korea. This is because in the beginning, the god of fantasy set the troll power to be 〈 ogre power.
Fucking trolls are nothing more than potion ingredients.
Of course, those Trollers who didn’t have a healing factor were sure to be crushed like ripe persimmons by the ogre’s fist.
‘I want to leave right away, but the night is too dark.’
If you run moderately and it takes about 5-6 days, you won’t get caught even if you hit Gara.
To be honest, if the guild had done a proper research beforehand, we wouldn’t have gone this far, but the guild wouldn’t have anything to say since they sent gins to this place.
Going into the forest where crazy ogres roam to catch orcs was something that even a young snail with parasites in its brain wouldn’t do.
If we tell the story to the village chief and inform the guild, we have done our duty as adventurers.
“I will call the others.”
I came out of Tirshi’s room and called the trollers.
They didn’t give a damn, but when I called them, they made an expression saying, “Why are you doing that? They’re busy,” But when I showed them a fresh orc drop item that still had blood on it, they quietly followed.
“What happened?”
Arthas said it smelled like alcohol, but she didn’t look very drunk.
Maybe, as Tirsi said, he adjusted the amount he drank according to his standards? I said as I put down the bag containing the orc nose.
“When I was scouting, I accidentally found that the orcs were being massacred. I asked the villagers, but it seems that the other adventurers didn’t come. Maybe today, the monsters in the forest hit each other.”
“So you cut your nose off?”
Grieved at the death of the orc, Vegan asked. It was an idiotic thought and language, but I understood the words.
“Yes. But other than these guys, I found little sign of the Orc’s life. It seems that the few remaining orcs have been completely annihilated. It’s dangerous to enter the forest, so I’m thinking of taking a promotion test with these, what do you think?”
“You’re lucky! Let’s do that!”
“Rome!”
These cute bitches. I knew that.
Thinking about the accident when they go up to the silver class, I feel a little pricked by my conscience, but I can’t stop these bastards from shitting.
Please let’s hope these trolls live within their means.
It was when I was about to share the oak nose with that thought. Arthas, a drunken dwarf, clapped his hands as if he had suddenly remembered something.
“This! But will you be okay? The examiner will be watching the process. Shouldn’t we pretend to walk around the forest?”
“A test tube? Nope. According to Nord’s investigation, we are all the people who came to the village.”
When Tyrsi said that, I nodded. Unless the village girl got it wrong.
But Arthas wrinkled his nose as if it were nonsense.
“What do you mean? Didn’t I say that only the promotion test was the fourth? The examiner will be in town first. Didn’t someone from the guild come and take out the baby while I was gone?”
“Yeah? Did no one come?”
“… Is that true?”
Arthas groaned as he stroked his beard. The vegan, who was struggling to understand our conversation, raised his hand.
“Wait a little while, won’t you come to the village? You can say that we caught it first because we didn’t know it well then.”
“Sounds stupid! Prior to the exam, the guild hires adventurers or silver class receptionists who are hired by the guild!”
As if nothing had happened, the 5th Aquatic Arthas insisted on what he had learned from taking her test.
“They have to come and investigate and send out a message that there are orcs, so this place is chosen as the test site! No matter how busy they were with the discovery of some strange ruins or something, do you think the Audumla guild skipped this important process too!”
“Wait. Mr Arthas. Did you mean that you chose this place as the test site and sent us because the examiner sent you a copy of the approval?”
Said Tyrsi. She asked if her understanding was correct.
“Is the examiner who sent the checkbook staying in town to teach us how to take the test?”
“Yes. I got tired of it, so I left it to the party leader and went for a drink. I learned that the process is the same anyway, and only the party leader needs to listen to the explanation.”
“But really no one came. Even though I’ve been waiting at the inn today.”
“Okay… I don’t know.”
We kept our mouths shut over the unknown situation.
You mean that human being called the examiner is a guy who yolos his life like the trollers here, so he hit and dodged things in the middle?
‘No, he must have faithfully carried out the process of sending the electronic mail. That’s why this place was selected as the test site.’
This is a different world with no way to communicate in real time.
After the examiner had blown the pigtails and before he came out to greet us, something had happened to him.
I drank water, wet my lips and said.
“They said no one came into town except us. What if the examiner did his research in the forest before entering the village?”
“You did the research first, what do you mean?”
“They changed the order. We decided to take a night off and work, but couldn’t the examiner be the type to rest after work?”
In the world, if there are people who take a break after finishing work, there are people who work after taking a break first.
It’s a fucking important test for us, so I tried to move after resting my body, but what if the examiner had the mindset to rest after finishing his work because it’s a skillful job?
“The examiner didn’t find an inn, went to the forest, found an orc, and sent a bill of approval to the guild——but didn’t he end up in the village?”
So what if we were the only ones in town?
“In that case, the person called the examiner…”
In the quiet room, Tirshi muttered something trembling, but he couldn’t finish what he was saying.
Then Arthas tugged at her beard and accepted her words.
“I must be dead. Even if you got injured and couldn’t get out of the forest, there’s no chance you’ll survive in a week. Aren’t you killed by the same monster that killed the orcs?”
“… Fuck.”
I ended up spitting out six letters. The Honey Test, which seemed like it would end easily, suddenly turned into a freaking mystery mystery play.
“I’m going to save you!!”
─Wandangtang! Vegan knocked over a chair and stood up. He brought up the idea of rescuing the examiner with a defiant attitude, befitting a cub who shouted respect for life.
“The test tube is alive! Lives are really important!!”
“Arthur. In my opinion, this test was also bad. If you go to get it, I won’t stop you, but I’ll take it off.”
Arthas clicked his tongue and said.
“Tsk tsk. I was about to give up after falling 5 times, but am I destined to live as a bronze class adventurer?”
“Goes!! Short legs!! You too!!”
“You said quitting. Humans and monsters only have one life. I’ll have to drink some more.”
With that said, Arthas left her inn.
Vegan raised a vein around her neck and sighed. She felt as though Arthas had betrayed her.
“Female party leader!!”
“… Mr. Vegan. Britannia does not put a feminine particle before titles, and female is not a feminine particle in the first place.”
“Party leader!! Aren’t you going!!”
“Even if I go, it’s tomorrow. It is too late at night.”
At first glance, it seemed like a cold answer, but I, who was sitting next to me, saw Tirsi holding the hem of her skirt so that the back of her hand turned white. At that, Vegan snorted.
“Tomorrow!! I’ll ask for an answer again tomorrow!! I will first hit that short-legged dwarf with words——!!”
Vegan stormed out of the room excited like a gorilla. He’s probably thinking of going to convince Arthas.
─Kik. Sigh. Tirshi stared at the shaking door that couldn’t close and asked me.
“What do you want to do with Nord?”
“I think it’s better to quit.”
Tirshi’s eyes widened. I had a feeling I never thought I would say that.
“I am grateful to Tyrsi for saving me, but we are not the ones who take risks to save strangers.”
“… I thought I would go to Nord.”
“Perhaps the abductee didn’t come here because he wanted to, or someone I know might have.”
Not to mention his wives, he would have moved if Dorca or Clara had gone missing.
Because there must be something I can do.
“But didn’t the examiner come knowing the danger? It’s best to save it if you can, but we think it’s enough to raise the alarm to the villagers and the guild.”
I said so without pretense.
It’s not like I saw the victim’s pain vividly like the last circus incident. It didn’t stimulate my PTSD like when I saved Tirsi and a consensus was created.
“It’s a monster that doesn’t know how strong it might be. ‘Poor’ is not enough reason to risk one’s own life.”
Even when I lived in the 21st century, I pitied the African children on TV, but I did not go all the way to a faraway country to rescue them.
If I had that kind of personality, I would have chosen a doctor rather than a veterinarian.
“Yes. Yes. I was the first to say that I didn’t want to count it as a hard-to-value emotion like favor.”
Saying that, Tirshi seemed a little downcast. I was a little taken aback by the look.
“Tirshi. This is a little over the top, but I believe that in your relationship with me, even a certain amount of cheeky words can be undone.”
“… Please speak.”
Tyrsi said as if she was afraid of what to say.
I sounded out a very cheeky opinion to such a tirsi.
“This is not Romania, and we are not nobles. Please do not take responsibility without rights.”
“… Ah.”
At those words, Tirshi muttered as if he had realized something.
I opened my eyes wide and greeted the dazed Tyrsi and closed the door to the room.
I went back to my room with a confused mind.
There is an old saying that eloquence is silver and silence is gold. But where is the spear I use?
Of course, I’m not a talker at all, but I thought that a silver coin I had on hand was better than a worthless gold coin when I had to spend it personally.
─Click.
With that thought in mind, I went back to my room and opened the door.
“… Damn you.”
But as soon as I opened the door, I had to go out and hit my forehead at the fact that there was a guest in the room first.
I entered the room with half surprise, half unhinged, and asked as I slung my hips on the bed.
“Damn, why are you so ignorant? In my dreams and in reality, they always pop out of nowhere.”
【That’s what I’m going to say. Didn’t I tell you to stay in Sargadis? If it wasn’t near the Holy Beast Forest, where the moving magic circle is located, the roads would have crossed.]
“Meow-. (Sleepy—.)”
Said the little colt with a cat on his back, lying on his stomach on the floor of her inn room.
Is this cat, the one who came back to life after being killed by a clown with two legs in Haysbent? He was a little surprised that he was still with him.
I crossed my legs and said hello.
“Yeah, hello anyway. It’s been a while since I’ve seen it in person. That colt mode.”
【If you lift the curse, it will look like we’ll say goodbye forever.】
Saying that, Veronica chuckled.
