Vol 3 Chapter 4 ~ First Subjugation Request

My peers around me are full of criminals. I had a hard time sleeping because of the horrible stories I was told.

I washed my face in cold well water, which was hazy from lack of sleep. I took off my clothes and splashed water all over my body.

I washed my body carefully so that my prey would not notice me by the smell. The water is cold and hard. Hot water is expensive, I have to save my money.

I would have liked to put mud all over my body, but the guards at the gate would have stabbed me with a spear. I have no choice but to give up.

We eat breakfast, which is included in the price of our stay. It’s a poorly salted soup with scraggly vegetables and bits of meat, and crusty bread.

I soggy the bread with the soup and eat it slowly. When we have finished eating, we check our equipment.

When I’m done, I go to the corner of the backyard where the well is, and do some stretches to relax. I slowly unwind, taking care not to sweat too much.

As I do this, the bell rings. I head for the meeting place.

The church has a time measuring device, and during the day it rings a bell to tell the time. When the bell rings, I go to the meeting place. That’s the way it’s done, I was told.

We arrived at the rendezvous point, but Gonz and his friends had not yet arrived.

After a while, Gonz arrived, looking sleepy, Kimon as usual, and Al, who was always well dressed.

After greeting Gonz and the others, I showed the wooden tag to the guards at the gate and went out. The wooden tag is proof that they have been commissioned by the guild.

If you show it to the guards when you enter the town, they will let you in without paying the entry tax.

The moment we stepped out of the town, Gonz, who had been walking dull and uncomfortable earlier, turned seamless.

I was impressed with his ability to switch from one situation to the next, as if he had been an adventurer for a long time. It’s not easy to be on your toes all the time.

However, the fact that we were in Gonz meant that we could relax in the town.

He has beaten back every adventurer who has attacked him, and there are few people in the town who would dare defy him.

The only person who seems to be above Gonz is the head of the slum, and Gonz says he’s not too proud of him.

As for me, I’m on the edge of my seat. I’m constantly aware of the need to conceal and detect signs.

Everyone I pass looks like an impostor or a robber. I’m the shortest of the adventurers, and the common perception among them seems to be that I’m a small fish parasitic on the gonz, and I’ve felt a few stares that send shivers down my spine.

I’ll help you out and won’t abandon you when you’re on commission, but other than that, you’re on your own. He told me that if I got into trouble, I had to deal with it myself.

I was so scared, I couldn’t relax at all. I was so scared that I didn’t feel relaxed at all, until I left the town.

I felt better, but outside the city walls is a monster-infested territory. We had to be on our guard and concentrate on spotting them.

If you see a monster along the way, don’t try to kill it. I was told to avoid them as much as possible, so I did as I was told and avoided them.

If you kill a monster on the way to a request, it will only be a burden, so you should avoid it. Relying on our sense of smell, we avoided the monsters and hurried to the village where the request was made.

If you use a carriage, you can move around while carrying your prey. I asked him if he didn’t use a carriage.

The carriage is equipped with magic tools to avoid monsters so that the horses will not be attacked. Due to the high fuel magic stones, it is only used by horse-drawn carriages for large numbers of people, aristocrats, and merchants who carry large quantities of supplies. I was told so. If you rent a carriage every time you request it, you will be in the red.

Wouldn’t it take longer to get there on foot? I thought so, but I forgot that the physical abilities of a level 15 are outside the bounds of modern Japanese common sense. We travelled at a considerable speed and arrived at the village by noon.

We decided to have lunch with our client, the village chief, who told us more about the project. As a result of the excellent negotiating skills of Gonz and Al, it was decided that lunch would be provided by the village and eaten in the chief’s house.

We were grateful to Gonz and Al as the preserved food looked disgusting.

The village lunch consisted of boiled potatoes and soup, but it was much better than the food at the inn.

Rather than the food at the inn being bad, the food included in the accommodation fee is bad. If you pay a lot of money, you can eat a good meal.

The food at the Guild Tavern is said to be one of the best in Rockcliffe, but we don’t have the money.

I listened to the chief, thankful for my good fortune in avoiding the preserved food and having a hot lunch for free.

The grey wolves are attacking the livestock. There are only five of them in the pack, but the villagers can’t handle them, so they need to be killed as soon as possible. This is the reason why we are here.

The pack comes from the forest in the east. We haven’t seen any other monsters. We find out what we need to know.

On the surface, Al was polite and asked questions, trying to find out if the chief was contradicting his story or lying.

After we had finished talking to the chief, Al gave us a brief description of the grey wolves that we were to kill.

The gray wolf has a habit of forming packs in multiples of five, ten, and so on, and they hunt in cooperation.

That’s like the Qin Dynasty of the First Emperor! It’s an army! Monsters are to be feared.

Revenge as an adventurer with half-hearted ability. Al said so, but he looks horribly annoying.

After the meal and the meeting, I rested until my stomach felt better. After the break, we headed for the forest where we thought the gray wolf might be.

I’ve been told beforehand that I should only be on the lookout and not take part in any combat. The other side moves in tandem, and it is dangerous to have a slow learner.

When we reach the forest, I tell Gonz to wait for me and the others. If they spot the enemy, they will return to report. With that, I walked into the forest.

As I walked into the forest, Kimon said to me, “Let’s see how good you are.

“Let’s see what you’ve got.”

Kimon, a hunter, had probably been acting as a scout until now. If you don’t satisfy Kimon, you won’t get into the party.

We went into the forest to look for herbs with a strong smell. Since we couldn’t wear mud, we had to use the scent of native plants on our bodies. This is to blend in with the forest.

Being a wolf, he must have a good nose.

Soon after searching the forest, we find mint. I don’t know if it’s exactly the same as mint, because it’s a different world, but the flora and fauna of this world is similar to that of Earth.

Is it similar because it is a world reincarnated by that god?

Mint is very fertile and grows everywhere. After collecting a certain amount of mint, I rubbed it on my body.

If the smell is too light, it will not mask the body odour, and if the smell is too strong, it will be unnatural. This sense of balance was acquired over a year of living in the wild. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a skill outside my skill set.

I pay attention to the sound of footsteps and use my sense of presence to the fullest. He activates his sense of concealment and searches for his target without being detected.

The sign detection is that “the sign of a living thing can be felt vaguely”, but just as I have the skill of sign concealment, monsters may also be able to use sign concealment..

Without overestimating my skills, I use my eyes, ears, nose, taste of the air, skin and literally all my senses to search for anything unusual. After walking for a while, I smelled a slight odour of animal dung.

I’ve heard that carnivores make their cocks smell bad. I wondered if the opposite was true for herbivores. When I was in primary school, I became a keeper and looked after rabbits.

The rabbits did not have a bad smell. I wondered if it was because they were herbivores.

I followed the smell and found their droppings. I looked at the footprints near the droppings. Indeed, there are multiple tracks. I follow the footprints and look around.

From the position of the hair on the tree, I can estimate the size of the animal. We are told to be careful, as sometimes there are grey wolves in the mix.

Grey wolf grey wolf leader is one size larger than the other, and if there is only one deep footprint, there is a good chance that there is a leader.

The bigger they are, the heavier they are and the deeper their tracks are. Fortunately, there was no leader in the pack we were tracking.

We followed the footprints and found the entrance to a cave. The footprints lead to a cave. The cave didn’t seem to be that deep, and I could sense the presence of five of them.

I quietly walked back the way I had come and told Gonz that I had found the grey wolf. Then I took the Gonz to a mint field.

Gonz didn’t want to rub the mint on them and said he would do it himself. When I explained that it was difficult to get the right amount, he said, “You’re a faggot! Don’t you dare touch me!

When I was in trouble, Al persuaded me to do it.

I don’t want to touch a two metre long axe skin either. So I rubbed the mint on the gonz

At first he was unhappy, but then he said, “Oh, it smells nice and refreshing. This is going to make me more and more popular with the girls. He laughed and laughed.

What if the Grey Wolves find out? I thought about it, but if I complained, an axe would fall on my head. I held my ground.

I approached the cave as far downwind as possible. The gonz were making a lot of noise, and I was scared that they would notice me. We manage to reach the front of the cave.

We’ll take it from here. Al said, and we headed towards the front of the cave.

At last, we were going to see a battle between the self-proclaimed strongest party in Rockcliffe. I’m going to see a real adventurer fighting a real monster.

I hold my heart in my throat and hide in plain sight.