Chapter 357 – 357. Newbie Education (3)
Unlike the bright eyes in the heart of a female newbie, it was very calm.
Calmness with calculations that boosts the listener’s self-esteem and flatters them through a tone and attitude mixed with respect.
In other words, what female newbies are showing now is prudence.
‘… What a kid.’
Short stature and cute appearance are appearances that arouse a desire for protection in many men.
The ability to instinctively act out the appearance and actions that can be loved by the opposite sex using that appearance makes Erin genuinely admirable.
Basically, the face of what she thinks is revealed as it is, a talent that Erin, who is not good at hiding her thoughts or acting, does not have.
She was a woman who was using the strengths of her body and face very well.
But that was purely admiration for her personality and ability.
She could hardly praise her intentions.
‘Do you dare to approach Hyun-i?’
Whatever his intentions, it couldn’t have been a good intention to get closer to Eun-hyeon by putting off such shaming.
Erin smiled brightly.
“Uh… ?”
A female newbie hardened her face.
Erin’s smile was very reluctant.
Erin stopped her steps and brought her face closer to her female newbie, whispering in her ear in a small voice that only she could hear.
“Wake up the dream.”
“What!?”
Erin: Her voice is so cold that one wonders if she could have made a voice like this herself.
The female newbie who heard the voice trembled her shoulders.
“He’s not someone you can approach.”
“…”
“I am saying this because I am worried about you. I’m glad you caught me. If you get caught by someone else, you…”
If Iliana or Eleanor got caught, then it was already over.
What is the end
Amidst various imaginations coming and going in my head, the female newbie who understood the meaning was unable to continue her words.
Gulp
The expression of the female newbie, who swallowed her saliva in her silence and hardened her complexion, was invisible to her fellow adventurers with her back turned.
“What are you doing?”
“Oh, no…”
Feigning her composure by forcing her smile, the female newbie reassured her own party members.
“… Mr. Erin. Sorry. I think I made a mistake.”
Fortunately, the female newbie immediately bowed her head and apologized to Erin.
She knew intuitively that there were people in the world who should not be touched.
“Huh. I would appreciate it if you could understand.”
Erin let out a small breath as she immediately understood the meaning of her warning.
Eun-hyeon wasn’t a man who could be made fun of by a woman like this, but approaching him didn’t feel that good.
“After… Right…”
The female newbie also let her relax and gave her a small sigh of relief.
At this moment, she was clearly aware of the gap between her Erin and herself.
As a female newbie, she shows her ideal side and is good at penetrating people’s hearts, so she has a quick mind as well as her eyesight.
She had previously gathered information about Erin, a ‘solo female adventurer who achieved her gold rank in one year’, to take care of the education of her party.
Her fame and rumors within the adventurer’s guild were already self-evident, so it wasn’t even at the level of information gathering.
Her skills as an adventurer, as well as her ability to form a close relationship with the guards at her checkpoint, and her natural ability to be liked by many people were amazing.
‘Tsk.’
A lot of people are kind to Erin and like her.
Looking at the attitude of the guards at the checkpoint, the female newbie was convinced.
People expect something from her, seduced by her abilities or the connections around her position, and do not hold Erin in her favor.
It is purely to be attracted by the female charm possessed by a person named ‘Erin Hersha’ and hold her favor.
‘He’s the type I hate.’
While the female newbie herself desperately plays the ideal type of woman who is loved by many men to gain favor, Erin is different.
It’s not acting, it’s a talent that attracts men’s favor even if it’s really quiet.
As soon as she first saw Erin, the three male party members stared blankly at her in awe.
Even when she formed herself and her party, she was the red point of the party, although she blushed and blushed.
Just looking at her reaction, as if she had found her destined first love, the difference between her and herself is obvious.
As it makes her jealous, she realizes that she is fundamentally different from herself, causing her an indescribable sense of defeat.
‘No, no. Let’s think calmly.’
There was nothing wrong with being friendly with Erin, who had connections with the powerful people of this territory.
Her Erin’s warning is not to play her tricks on her own teacher, her Eun-hyeon.
The moment she heard her warning and pulled her foot away, her Erin’s mood immediately softened.
She concluded that improving her relationship wouldn’t be too difficult, provided she kept this warning and didn’t play her crap.
‘Be careful, keep your distance and start over.’
The female newbie, realizing that she had gone too far and that she was about to do her big thing, moved her actions cautiously.
While walking to the location of her village where she applied for her request, Erin continued a brief instruction for her newbies.
Whether or not there are supplies that must be taken while adventuring, or equipment that is good to have.
What Erin noticed was the basic stamina and mindset of newbies.
‘It seems to be okay.’
Due to the nature of adventurers, they often work outside the territory, so it is basic for adventurers to move more and rest less.
Of course, it’s not like walking the distance for a day or two, as short as 4-5 days and as long as 1 month.
Long-term preservation food or homeless equipment that can last that long is one of the most essential elements as much as their weapons in an adventure.
The four newbies, carrying heavy backpacks containing the equipment, followed Erin without a single complaint.
It is a story that he has acquired the minimum basic knowledge as an adventurer through the proper use of magic and strengthening his body.
It also means that the adventurer’s guild of the Armitas branch is systematically putting a lot of energy into the education of newbies and raising their fever.
However, consuming too much stamina is not a very good option either.
When a battle actually takes place in earnest, there is nothing more stupid than that if you can’t reveal your skills by discharging your stamina.
“I am homeless here today.”
It was an early day when the sun hadn’t even set yet, but after assessing the stamina of the newbies who were sweating profusely, they decided to stay homeless.
“All right!”
When Erin’s declaration of rest fell, the newbies immediately began unpacking their backpacks and preparing for camping.
Under Erin’s direction, the two warrior newbies each set up two small tents, while the wizard newbie built a bonfire and the archer newbie and Erin each prepared a meal for five people.
“Does Erin-sama know how to cook?”
“Because when you’re promoting solo, you have to get used to these things to some extent.”
“Okay.”
A female archer newbie who calmly nodded, she no longer played a woman with a pure and lively concept like she did in the beginning.
I don’t know how she noticed it, but when she saw that Erin had caught on to her, she decided that nothing good was going to happen.
As expected, she was a newbie who was quick to calculate.
After the tent was set up, the four newbies, including Erin, sat in front of the campfire and had a simple dinner.
Erin opened her mouth as she ate the soup from her bowl.
“The contents of this request. Who remembers?”
Erin simply spoke to the newbies following her to change the subject.
One of the three male newbies, a wizard newbie, raised her hand and answered.
“This is the subjugation of the goblin lair.”
“Huh. And?”
Wizard newbie put the information she had gathered in advance with a nervous expression into her mouth.
“The search for the missing adventurers.”
Their mission is to search for the missing adventurers together with Erin, and at the same time complete the quest they received, ‘Subjugating the Goblins’.
It was a decision made by the adventurer’s guild, who had already lost contact with the adventurer’s party for three days, as they judged their mission a failure.
“Then what should I do?”
“…”
The wizard newbie was deep in thought.
It is to organize the thoughts that have popped into my head and explain them properly and coherently.
The two swordsman newbies and the female archer newbie quietly waited for the mage newbie to speak.
“It is information gathering.”
“Information? Hehe. Keep talking.”
“This is information related to the goblin subjugation we need to complete. For example… Why did the adventurers who accepted this subjugation request stop hearing about it? Same…”
Erin nodded her head in satisfaction at the fact that the answer was decent for newbies on their first adventure.
“That’s right. Information doesn’t matter. How many goblins had to be subdued, the location of the lair, the composition of the goblins, and whether there were any other risk factors. Etc.”
“It’s just subjugating the goblins. Should I care that much?”
The prosecutor newbie grumbled with a slightly troublesome expression.
Before Erin can say something of hers, it is the wizard newbie from the same newby party who refutes his words.
“It was just a goblin subjugation, but the adventurer went missing. It is not something to be taken lightly.”
“…”
“The missing adventurers are a party of 3 newbies like us. Even though the number of us is one more, can you be sure that we won’t go missing like that party of adventurers who went missing due to a completely unexpected variable?”
“That, that…”
To the wizard newbie’s question, the prosecutor newbie couldn’t answer properly and stuttered her words.
Rather, she hardened her complexion as soon as she heard that she might disappear, with life and death unclear.
‘It’s amazing.’
Erin was genuinely impressed by the mage newbie’s opinion.
For the first request you receive as an adventurer, the way you grasp and think about the situation is very cool.
It makes me wonder what he was doing before his job as an adventurer.
However, Erin did not dig deeply into the newbie’s personal circumstances.
Among the adventurers, they didn’t like to talk about their past, and Erin wasn’t that curious either.
“That’s right. Gathering information and quickly making judgments appropriate to the situation are essential skills as an adventurer. In the midst of situations that change quickly and bloody from time to time, if you make the wrong judgment, the damage will grow out of control. Be sure to keep that in mind.”
“… All right.”
The prosecutor newbie bowed his head and accepted the advice of Erinn, a senior adventurer and gold dignitary.
“Once you’ve finished eating, let’s clean things up. I’ll set a night watch as soon as I’m done cleaning up.”
The next day after taking a break and going through night shifts in 3 shifts, I greeted the morning at the end of the line.
Erin and the newbie party arrived at the entrance of the ancient ruins where the goblin den was written in the contents of the request.
“Ruins…”
It is not a dungeon, but an ancient ruin.
Gulp
The newbies standing in front of the entrance to the basement were holding their breath, swallowing saliva.
“Let’s go in.”
Following Erin in the lead, the party slowly descended into the basement of the ruins.
“… Uh?”
While exploring the inside of the underground ruins using a torch to light up the dark vision.
Erin spotted a figure lying on the floor and stopped her steps.
The four newbies who were walking behind also noticed the figure of the person Erin had discovered.
“Suck!?”
Disgusting smells from rotting flesh and organs.
The feast of worms and maggots twisted to devour the flesh was too stimulating for newbies who had just started their adventures.
“Ooh, ooh!?”
She swallowed her breath and covered her nose and mouth with both hands to stop the disgusting smells from entering her nostrils.
She wasn’t shocked as much as the newbie, but the reason even her Erin stopped her and hardened her expression was that she, too, was embarrassed by the situation.
Because the face of her rotting corpse was the face of a man who existed in her own memory.
“I thought it was a newbie party with three people…” She said. .”
Erin never thought that the newbie party would be this one.
A cruel male newbie infested with maggots and bugs.
She was a student who attended the same Aither as Erin, and the end of her classmate, who turned to the path of her mother-in-law as her aristocratic family collapsed, was very miserable.
“Then the remaining two…”
Erin had a party with the male newbie in front of her, but she found two female newbies from former aristocrats who were anxious to eat her.
