Chapter 360 – 360. Meeting (1)
The speed of returning to Armitas territory was even slower than when it started.
Fatigue after the battle was not enough, and potions and first aid prevented the worsening of the wound, but the wound healed and the cut off skin tissue and blood vessels did not regenerate.
No matter how much Eunhyeon made an excellent potion by combining good medicinal materials and techniques, it would take a lot of time for the wound to regenerate.
Erin carried the injured prosecutor newbie’s rucksack on her back and continued the return march without difficulty.
As she continued her march, Erin felt a gaze behind her and opened her mouth.
“Do you have something to say?”
“Ah… That is…”
Another prosecutor newbie, who was not injured, hesitated at Erin’s question, who had been asking a question while slightly looking behind her.
After making up her mind, the prosecutor newbie finally opened her mouth.
“I wondered how you got so strong.”
“I just tried.”
“… If I try, can I achieve a gold rank within the first year?”
Hearing the prosecutor newbie’s question, Erin stopped his steps and looked at him.
“…”
For a moment, it sounded as if he had used some cowardly means to obtain a gold rank, but the newbie’s tone of voice and expression were infinitely serious.
The meaning of his question is simple.
-How can I grow fast and strong like you?
The youngest adventurer to achieve a gold rank in just one year since he started working as an adventurer.
The time it took to achieve it, and the age of the person who achieved it, are like new records.
As such, rumors about Erin’s activities, who had just become an adult, were spreading throughout the Armitas Territory.
“It’s not that I didn’t believe Erinn’s rumors. I had no intention of ignoring Erin. All I want is…”
I just want to become stronger and grow.
From the standpoint of newbies, they couldn’t help but admire Erin’s ability to easily deal with hobgoblins, high-ranking objects with a different size and majesty than normal goblins.
It is only natural that her skills, which had only been heard through rumors, were dazzling in the eyes of newbies.
Therefore, the emotions that the prosecutor newbie had are different, but they are strong desire and longing as a swordsman using the same sword.
“…”
Erin felt burdened by the gaze of such a newbie prosecutor, so she unknowingly avoided her gaze.
‘Even if you ask me how I became so strong… How am I supposed to answer this?’
She couldn’t find the words to answer her, so she couldn’t keep up with her words.
In her own case, she was very lucky.
She met a great teacher who harshly taught her childishness and whining and always took the lead, and she also had good advisers like Illyana and Gerard.
The reason why she was able to obtain more mana than others in her body was because she unintentionally inherited the power of her divine beast.
She only needed to faithfully follow the contents of the training imposed by her Eun-hyeon, and her Eun-hyeon prepared everything she needed in the process.
‘But they’re not.’
There is no one to guide you, and you have to provide the necessary things yourself.
As newbies, they can receive various support from the adventurer’s guild until they are promoted to the same rank after taking off the rookie label after a year, but that support also has a limit.
When she tried to advise someone, she wondered if she was qualified for it.
‘It’s because Hyun-i was great, not me.’
Erin sighed lightly, realizing how good the environment she had been able to grow in was not to be seen by her newbies.
Before long, she frankly expressed her feelings.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t think I can answer that question. I am… It’s just that I was very lucky.”
“…”
“But that doesn’t mean I came to where I am now without hard work.”
The training that Eunhyeon had imposed on her was so hard that she would die, and she was so trembling that she would not even want to die if asked to do it again.
However, there was a proud and enjoyable part of the experience that gradually accumulated through the training and the growth of the changing body.
“The day will come when you will surely be given a chance someday. Grab that opportunity and do your best.”
She regarded the hand that Eun-hyeon had extended to her as an opportunity, and she desperately held on to that opportunity and did not let go.
Erin smiled as she realized once again that her choice was right.
I am very happy with myself now.
“Thank you for your words.”
It was only a vague advice without any substance, but the prosecutor newbie bowed his head and nodded obediently and thanked him.
“Today we will camp here. How are you feeling?”
Erin immediately asked her injured newbie.
“As long as it’s not overcrowded, it’s okay to move simply.”
“Night watch, is that possible?”
“Yes.”
The newbie, who suffered from a side injury, replied with a nod of his head.
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“Ow, lady! Isn’t that what you look like!?”
As soon as she arrived in front of the castle gate leading into the territory, her guards laughed as she saw Erinn and the others being checked.
Erin and her four newbies did not hide their tiredness after not washing for the past five days.
Their clothing, stained with the blood of demons splashed while fighting the goblins, was a medal that could not be laughed at by adventurers.
It was because such adventurers’ scruffy flirtatiousness meant that they would successfully complete the request and return to the territory.
“Didn’t you roll the newbies too harshly?”
“Who rolls the rolls!”
Erin shouted, blushing at the mischievous guards’ jokes.
“Haha! Great job! Come in!”
Fortunately, Erin and the newbie party were quickly inspected.
Although strict inspection is the basic rule, the entrance of Erin, who was already popular with the guards, was almost at the level of a free pass.
The newbies who entered the interior of the manor, saw the row of buildings in the middle, and the bustling procession of people were only able to realize that their first request had been successfully completed.
“Sah, I lived ah…”
Looking at the archer newbies who sat down on the floor as if their tension was relieved, and the other newbies who let out a small sigh as if they had relieved themselves, Erin smiled lightly.
It was because she was similar to when she started working as an adventurer and returned to the manor after completing his first request.
“Well, the request hasn’t been completed yet. Just like this, go to the Adventurer’s Guild and report…”
The time when I was trying to talk to them to go to the adventurer’s guild while comforting them.
“… Huh?”
Sensing her familiar scent on the tip of her nose, Erin instinctively turned her gaze toward the interior of the manor.
“Why are you like that?”
“No, that… A familiar scent…”
“… Scent?”
The only smell the archer newbies smell is the stench from their bodies and equipment that have not been cleaned for a long time and have been covered in goblin blood.
I couldn’t understand the meaning of the word ‘scent’, not the smell.
What the hell did Erin smell and was she only looking in one direction?
“Ah!”
Seeing that Erin sighed loudly as if she had found someone and started laughing broadly, the archer newbie also moved her gaze in the direction Erin was watching.
Eventually, among the countless crowds, I found a man who stood out.
“… ?”
The archer newbie narrowed her eyes and took a closer look at the man in her field of vision.
White hair and red eyes.
The appearance of a man showing off his outstanding presence among many people seemed unusual.
I don’t know why, but I’m sure the reason Erin’s expression suddenly brightened was because of that white-silver-haired man.
“You’re back!”
Erin shouted with a voice mixed with joy, and ran towards Eunhyun carrying backpacks for the two of her, including the newbie’s.
Even though she was carrying two heavy backpacks, her steps seemed very light as she ran.
“What, what… ?”
The newbies were taken aback by her sudden change in Erin.
“Hyeon… Oh!”
Eunhyeon, who noticed Erin running towards her from a distance, also smiled.
She soon hardened her expression as if she realized something, and when she saw Erin, who suddenly braked her running speed, she put on a puzzled expression.
Erin surveyed her own state by her pale complexion.
She hadn’t washed her face for a long time, and she belatedly realized her sloppy face and her own outfit with goblin blood splattered all over her clothes.
‘Me… Doesn’t it smell so bad right now… ?’
At the very least, she let out a sigh of relief at having managed to hold back the fact that she almost jumped at Eun-hyeon without even thinking about it.
Soon, Eun-hyeon, who was slowly walking towards her Erin, smiled and greeted her Erin.
“Great job.”
“Yes…”
Watching Erin’s face shyly blushing and avoiding her gaze with a complicated expression, Eunhyeon continued her words.
“Erin is a newbie education. Erin is all grown up now.”
“No, don’t make fun of me…”
“I, uh…”
As she smiled as if she was having fun and stroked the shy Erin’s hair, the newbies who had followed her belatedly noticed her and cautiously joined the conversation.
“What about you?”
“Well, we are an adventurer’s party that Erinn-nim took care of her education!”
The archer newbie, embarrassed by Eunhyeon’s question, hurriedly answered, chewing his tongue on the tip of hers.
The foolish behavior made her laugh at Eun-hyeon’s face.
“Hey, maybe… Are you Su-eun?”
A prosecutor newbie with a stiff face full of tension put Eun-hyeon’s nickname, ‘mercury snake’, into her mouth.
“That’s right.”
“And…”
Here in the Armitas Territory, Eun-hyeon is a person who is as hard to meet as a person from the duke’s family, the owner of the territory, and whose real name has not been revealed in detail.
They couldn’t come to their senses and put on a dazed look at the fact that they had come into contact with the real thing, not other people, but themselves, who had just started their adventurer work.
Eunhyun moved her gaze back to Erin and started talking.
“Did you finish the quest well?”
“Huh. All you have to do now is look at it. Did she come back at all?”
“Uh. He came last night.”
“Lily sister… Are you okay?”
Eunhyun shook her head and gave her an answer.
It was Eun-hyeon’s consideration, not wanting to go into detail about Lily’s personal history in front of others.
“Because you work so hard. Take care of me when I get home.”
“Huh. But were you waiting for me?”
“That’s right.”
Eunhyun glanced at the newbie party members behind Erin and spoke to them.
“For some reason, if the rest of the schedule is only for watching, I want to take my student with me, but is that okay?”
“Ah yes… Yes Sure!”
The newbies, who hastily received her fellow newbie’s backpack from Erin, nodded her head two or three times.
“Hyunah, what’s going on?”
“I heard you organized a guild that scammed newbies this time? I heard it from Eleanor.”
“Ah, that.”
Recalling the incident of destroying the iron sword guild with Erwin, Erin tilted her head.
“Why?”
“Illyana and Eleanor kept insisting that we should reward Erin this time. She asks me to come in after receiving presents, eating, and having fun outside.”
“… Really?”
Her unexpected good news made Erin’s face brighten to the point that she wondered if the fatigue accumulated in her body had gone away at once.
“Ah, for now…”
It was necessary to wash her body, which had not been washed close for five days, and also change these clothes, which were stained with goblin blood.
‘Thank you! Miss Illyana! Miss Eleanor!’
Erin’s feelings begin to rise after realizing the intentions of Illyana and Eleanor, who are blatantly pushing her.
“Give me the backpack.”
“Huh. I want to wash my body first at home!”
Her clothes can be bought new from a nearby store, but the smell from her own body is like a chimney, wanting to wash it off and deal with it as soon as possible.
“Is it that good?”
“Hehe, of course it’s good!”
The newbies who saw Erin in full bloom as they smiled and felt Eunhyun’s hand stroking her hair, had no choice but to open their mouths at the sight of Erin, whom they had never seen before during her request. There was no
“That is completely…”
A female archer newbie made a subtle expression after reading the subtle air current flowing between them.
The relationship between a student and a teacher is too sweet and overflowing with pink.
If you’re too immersed in it, it’s safe to say it’s a romantic relationship.
But let’s take a more explicit expression as an example.
“… It even looks like a pet dog that shows affection to its owner?”
She rubbed her eyes to the point where she was mistaken that she was looking the wrong way.
Erin, who was chasing after Eun-hyeon, was not a gold-tier adventurer who showed off her majesty by mercilessly killing a number of hobgoblins, but a woman in love.
-Wake up the dream.
– He’s not someone you can approach.
The female archer newbie clearly drew a line for her and belatedly recalled Erin’s warning to her not to cross this line.
“That’s what it meant…”
The archer newbie felt a little relieved as he recalled his judgment for quickly withdrawing his foot.
