Vol 3 Chapter 2 ~ The bottom of the adventurer

I woke up feeling thirsty. I wait for my consciousness to wake up, then take off my bartack and walk out of the room.

I went downstairs and asked the father of the liquor store for some water. He told me that there was a well in the back of the house and that I should draw some and drink it. It was a different father from yesterday.

What’s the point of having an old man as a substitute? It’s too disgusting.

We drew water from the well and put it in a nearby tub. Making a bowl with his hands, he scooped the water from the tub and moistened his throat. I exhaled and washed my face with the water in the tub.

The sun was directly overhead and he had slept until noon. No wonder I’d been drinking until the wee hours.

I have a schoolboy’s taste buds, so I can’t drink alcohol because it’s too bitter. However, I drank a lot of alcohol yesterday.

I don’t like the taste, but I don’t get drunk, so I always hated drinking. It tastes bad and it doesn’t make me happy. It’s like a punishment game.

With this in mind, I returned to the bar. As I was paying and eating my lunch, Gonz and three others came into the bar.

“Oh, Yajin! You’ve just woken up, haven’t you? You’re in good company.”

“I enjoyed Al’s talk so much last night that I drank too much.”

“I had too much to drink last night. You don’t have to call me Al.”

“I’ll call you Kimon.”

“Noooo, when did you guys get so close? Yajin! I’ll call you Gonz.”

“You can’t call me Gonz. I can’t call you Mr. Gonz, I have to call you “Brother Gonz”.

“Brother”? I didn’t mean to make you my brother, but if you want to call me that, be my brother. Ha ha ha.”

Gonz looked very happy, telling him to like it. Choro, too choro. If this is a beautiful girl, it’s a choloin frame. This guy is more gorilla than me.

Gonz, who is vulnerable to humor, is in a good mood. I decided that this air was okay, so I cut out the main subject.

“Gonz’ brother, please let me join your party!”

As soon as I said this, Gonz’s good mood changed.

“What? You want to be a parasite on us?”

Gonz glares at Girori and me.

“You’ve just registered as an adventurer yesterday.”

“If you raise the level, even a small body is okay… Also, I would appreciate it if you could give me a little share until I became a full-fledged person… If you become an adventurer without doing anything like this, you’ll be slammed right away. “

“I’m sorry to say that a little share is enough, if it’s useless, it won’t replace the parasite.”

“Let me work as a scout. I’m still good at spotting things, you know.”

When I said that, Kimon and Al, who seemed indifferent until now, also turned their eyes to me…

“Do you know what a scout does?”

“It’s not the job of tracking down enemy traces, searching the area for enemies, hunting them efficiently, avoiding surprise attacks and protecting the safety of the party?”

“Are you sure you don’t know what you’re doing?”

“Gonz. Yajin comes from a very rural area. Maybe he doesn’t know much.”

When Al said this, the stern stares of the others softened a little.

“What makes you want to become an adventurer, Yajin?”

It’s a great way to get to know the people in your area.

My grandmother was kidnapped and brought to this country as a slave. After some twists and turns, she was bought as a slave by the mayor of a rural village. My mother became a freed slave for her contribution to the village.

My son, I, lived normally while helping the village mayor’s work. When the village mayor died and replaced his son, he blatantly discriminated against me.

I was forced to do dangerous work and was treated unfairly. When my mother died, I moved out of the village. My identity is not certain and my physiognomy is unusual in this area.

Because of this, he is unable to get a decent job.

In the village, he was forced to track beasts and monsters in the forest. I decided to use my skills to become an adventurer.

When I answered that, Al asked me if I knew about the basic value or level barrier. I said no. I said I didn’t know.

How provincial were the Gonz? All the normal guys know about it. He was dumbfounded as he said this.

The tension in the air relaxed, and I was relieved. Then Gonz ordered lunch.

As we ate our lunch, Al explained to us our levels, skills and base values.

In order to find out how strong you are, you need an item called a treasure artifact. It is said to be a magical artifact with amazing performance that is rarely found in dungeons.

Many of them cannot be manufactured or even analysed with modern technology. And there is a difference in the performance of the treasure artifacts that confirm the level.

If you just want to check the level, you can go to a church in a big city and check it. Of course, you will be asked to donate some kind.

If you use a more powerful treasure artifact, you can also check your skills. However, treasure artefacts of a certain rank that can be used to check skills are extremely rare.

For this reason, only certain noblemen and members of the military are allowed to use them.

As adventurers cannot confirm their skills, they can only understand them by feel. And only he knows the skills he has acquired.

I have a skill of 00. So, please let me join the PT. There is no way to confirm this, so you need to trust the person who says it.

Many adventurers like to hide their skills. Be careful when talking about your skills. That’s what Al advised me to do.

In the past, you could only check your level and your skills. In the old days, all you could see was your level and skill, and those two things were thought to represent your abilities.

But that common sense was overturned.

Five items are displayed. The lord of the dungeon city Maribel invested a huge budget to investigate the effects of numbers and their relevance to levels…

The treasure artefact found in Maribel displayed levels and skills and a numerical representation of a person’s abilities.

There were five items displayed. The lord of Maribel’s dungeons invested a huge amount of money to investigate the effects of the numerical values and their relation to level.

As a result, he found out the details of the values.

Strength Strength of the body

Robustness Physical sturdiness and stamina, resistance to abnormalities such as poison, paralysis and petrification.

Intelligence Magic-related (details unknown, as the nobility and the Church have a monopoly on magic-related knowledge)

Mental Resistance to mental aberrations such as magic, fear, fascination, confusion, etc.

Dexterity Affects the hands’ dexterity, the accuracy of the bow and the effectiveness of production skills.

It is normal for such knowledge to be proprietary. However, an incident has made this information widely available.

Three dungeons surround the dungeons city of Maribel. The materials from these dungeons have brought wealth to Maribel.

Each of the three dungeons has a different type of monster. The three dungeons, each with a different type of monster, offered a wide variety of biological materials, ores and medicinal herbs, and the economy was booming.

The lords of Maribel have been the descendants of the adventurers who discovered the three dungeons for generations. They were the descendants of legendary adventurers who had conquered the dungeons’ depths and knew them inside out.

The management of the estate was very stable.

Dungeons can cause stampede if they are not managed properly. A large number of monsters would overflow the dungeon.

The overflowing monsters run amok, destroying everything around them and causing terrible damage.

The dungeons city is a source of immense wealth and a constant risk of ruin. It was difficult to get anyone but a family of dungeon experts and the descendants of adventurers to manage it.

However, a dungeons city with too much power is considered dangerous. They were treated unfairly by the imperial capital, which forced them to take on impossible tasks and pay large sums of money.

It was probably to prevent the dungeons city from gaining too much power. Naturally, the lord’s family developed a growing hatred for the bureaucrats, nobles and royalty in the imperial capital.

It was then that the imperial capital ordered them to surrender their status data, which they had spent a lot of time and money to obtain, and their treasured artefacts.

Hearing this, the lord’s family finally lost their temper.

After refusing the Imperial City’s request, they released the research data to the public. I want you to make use of it in the fight against monsters, the common enemy of mankind. So, with a message.

I was surprised to hear that they opened it up to non-humans as well. I’d rather throw it all away than have it taken from me unreasonably.

Is that what they thought? The strength of the lord’s family’s anger can be seen.

The emperor was furious at the rebellion of the dungeons city. He dispatched an army to the dungeons city and tried to condemn the lord’s family.

Maribel, however prosperous it may be, is only a provincial city. Just when you thought that the emperor’s army was going to overrun the town, it did.

The family of Maribel’s lord made an extraordinary statement.

If they send an army to the dungeons city, they will cause an artificial stampede in three dungeons. He said that he would destroy the entire dungeons city of Maribel. That’s what he said.

I think it’s perfect, but if it’s true, it won’t be fashionable.,m

The distance between the l dungeons city and the imperial capital is surprisingly close, and if all three dungeons were to stampede at the same time, the imperial capital would collapse.

On the contrary, the Megado Empire itself could be destroyed.

The imperial family fears the stampede. A big merchant who was doing business with the materials he could get in the dungeons city. The nobles received money from those merchants.

These forces opposed the dispatch of the army to the dungeons city.

The emperor, who had lost his influence after the Forest of Sanctuary incident, could not force his opinion through.

As a result of the discussions, it was decided that the dungeons city of Maribel would exist as a special zone with a high degree of autonomy.

For this reason, the relationship between the five kinds of abilities, which are not shown in the status, and the level is widely known.

Each of the five abilities has a base value. This value is determined at birth and is fixed at the age of 18.

This is the performance of the body when it is fully grown. The base value is fixed at birth and does not change even if you train during your childhood. This basic value is very important.

A person’s ability is determined by the number calculated by multiplying the basic value by a coefficient and the total number of basic values.

For example, if a person with a basic strength value of 10 has a level 2 Basic value 10 Coefficient 0.2 10 x 0.2) = 2

This 2 is the level correction. So 10 base values and 2 level corrections = 10 + 2 = 12

If a person with a base strength of 10 has a level of 2, his strength will be 12.

The amount of training you do will be added to this 12.

Base value 10, level correction 2, work hard to death 3, 10+2+3 = 15

So this person has a strength of 15. The benefits are low, but there is no harm in training.

The coefficients of the level correction increase as the level increases. It is said that only scholars know the details of the coefficients.

In other words, the higher the level, the more significant the difference in base value.

The higher the level, the more significant the difference in base value. It could be that base value = talent.

There are other ways to increase the five abilities. Yes, skills.

Skills such as swordsmanship and axe fighting can be used to increase strength and stamina values. Even if a person has the same base value and level, there can be differences in the values.

Although we have not been able to confirm it, could there be different skill levels? It has been speculated.

The level of skill in handling weapons is of little importance. This is because, even if a person has just learned skill and is considered to be of a high level, there is no change in his sword strength.

Even if you increase your skill level, it is faster to increase your level if your body is only corrected. The more you fight, the more your skill level will increase.

So, whether or not you have a skill is important, but it’s not as important as the fact that you may have a skill level.

What is important in this world is the base value and the level. However, it seems that there is a wall of five levels.

The walls of the levels are divided into categories called ranks.

To break the barrier of level 5, you need to kill a monster of rank two or higher to get over the barrier. If you’re level 10, you’ll need a rank of 3.

It is normal for adventurers to accept requests to kill monsters that match their rank. A monster of a higher rank is a different rank.

Crossing the level barrier is said to be a matter of life and death.

Apart from the status barrier, there is also a 15th level barrier. More than 80% of adventurers are stuck at the 15th level.

Why can’t they get past the 15th level barrier? The reason is very simple. It costs money, that’s why.

If you want to kill a 4th level monster, you can’t do it with iron weapons.

There is an ore called black steel, which is stronger and sharper than steel. If you don’t use a weapon made from this ore, it won’t defeat a Grade 4 monster.

Iron is very expensive in this world. First of all, it’s hard to get charcoal. Some monsters go to cut wood. So you need guards.

Because of the high cost of labour, the price of wood is high. The expensive wood is made into charcoal. The more expensive charcoal is then used in large quantities to refine iron. The smelted iron is then processed to make iron products.

The high cost of fuel and the labour of the craftsmen. Considering these factors, it is easy to imagine that iron products become expensive.

Black steel needs high heat to be processed, and requires high-quality charcoal. And there are few skilled craftsmen who can do it. This is what drives up the price.

Adventurers make more money than ordinary people. That’s for sure. But even so, it’s not something you can buy easily.

There is a rank system for adventurers. It seems that Gonz and his friends are 6th level adventurers. In the adventurer’s guild of this world, the tenth level is the lowest and the highest in the first level.

To become a 5th level adventurer, you have to be at least level 15.

Gonz and his friends are said to be the strongest party in Rockcliffe, and earn more money than most people, even at the sixth level.

But while being an adventurer is lucrative, it is also expensive. Weapons are expensive. If a weapon breaks in battle, the adventurer is left with a deficit. The maintenance of equipment is too expensive. And then there are the consumables, such as potion.

If you get injured, you can’t work until you heal. If you fail in your request, you have to pay double the request as compensation.

It is said that some clients intentionally hide information or tell lies to get compensation for the failure of their request.

In the most vicious cases, the adventurer’s guild staff and the client are in cahoots. If that happens, there’s nothing you can do.

Even if it’s not that bad, many clients deliberately under-report the size of their monsters to save money.

Gonz and his friends were once framed by a vicious client and almost became debt slaves because they could not afford to pay the penalty.

Of course, if a client is too vicious, they will be blacklisted by the Adventurers’ Guild. This is why there are few extreme cases, but it seems that the most powerful clients are always on the edge of the line.

No matter how careful you are, there is no escaping this kind of trouble.

It is not uncommon for the stress of fighting monsters for their lives to lead to drinking and women. After a fight, they are in a high state of anxiety and want to have a woman.

Through all the trouble they go through, they put up with alcohol and women, and desperately try to save money. Despite his efforts, he often loses his life easily due to stress and fatigue.

Buying a party’s worth of black steel weapons is an extremely difficult task.

Unless you are in a position to receive financial support from the start, such as a rich man’s hobby or a nobleman’s bastard child, many common adventurers languish because they cannot afford black steel equipment.

We asked them if they could use their wits and ingenuity to aim at the eyes with iron weapons or trap them, but it seems to be very difficult.

The monsters above the fourth rank are literally exceptional. Very few adventurers have ever tried to fight them without the right equipment.

So many adventurers languish at level 15. That’s what Al told me.

What does this have to do with scouts? I wondered. I could see it on his face, and he explained it again.

The higher the level, the more important is the basic value. But even at lower levels, the difference in base value is huge. Most adventurers stop at level 15.

So the difference in base value is directly related to the difference in ability. If you have a base value of 15 and a base value of 10, there is no extreme difference in the level coefficient.

However, because the base value is 1.5 times higher, the total value is completely different even if there is not much difference in the level coefficient.

Even I’m not that smart, I can understand that. You’ll be able to get a lot more out of it. That’s what he told me.

Muscle strength is directly linked to attack power, and stamina is important.

There is no space-time magic or item storage in this world. There are magic bags, but they are dungeon treasures and artifacts that you can’t buy unless you are a great lord or a great merchant.

This means that you have to carry your hunted prey by yourself. The creature is so heavy that it requires a lot of strength and stamina.

The more muscle power and stamina you have, the more game you can carry. That’s how you earn your living.

Al said, “Here’s the thing. So he said.

“As a result of verification, people who are naturally well-built tend to have high basic values of muscle strength and toughness.”

I see, there are many big guys. About 20 to 30% of adventurers are women, but they are all tall. I’m probably the shortest in the Adventurer’s Guild.

I’m 170cm tall. In Japan, that’s about the average height, but the other guild members are over six feet tall.

Short adventurers are not allowed to join any party. They’re either forced to go solo and die in the field, or turn themselves into bandits.

But there is another way to join a party. It’s called a scout, and it’s a decoy. They use themselves as bait to draw monsters to them.

They are useless in battle, so they use their own lives as bait to attract the enemy. But because they can’t contribute in battle, they are mocked by adventurers for being parasites.

”The bottom rung of the talentless adventuring ladder is ironically called a scout.”

Al said awkwardly.

Wow, that’s why Gonz and the others have that kind of face… If you ask me to use me as a repulsion, you’re all the villainous parties who implicitly use up the coarse fishing, right.

I’ve done it, what should I do? I held my head in my hands.