Vol 3 Chapter 6 ~ Stupid choice.

Since then, I’ve been working steadily as an adventurer. However, I haven’t been able to save any money. The reason is that it costs too much money to eat.

To give you a rough idea of the food situation in this world, the nobles eat wheat paid for by taxes.

Commoners use wheat for occasional luxury and barley and millet afterward. I also eat potato-like potatoes as my staple food.

Because the world is infested with monsters, it isn’t easy to raise livestock.

A ranch requires a certain amount of space. Also, it would help if you defended a large area because monsters will come for the livestock.

There is also the option of raising a small number of birds and pigs in the village. However, there is a risk of triggering goblin attacks for livestock. This is a big risk for a small village.

Naturally, the amount of meat sold in the market is small. Livestock meat is only available as a luxury food for the nobility.

The commoners eat the meat of wild animals and monsters that they hunt. This is because it is easier and less risky to enter the monster’s territory to obtain meat than to raise livestock while defending against monster attacks.

Monster meat is cheaper than farm-raised livestock. But it is still expensive. And vegetables are more expensive.

The fields grow wheat for tax purposes. Vegetables are usually grown in small quantities for each family to consume. Fast-moving vegetables, for example, are rarely seen in the market.

If you don’t eat too many vegetables, you will get sick. This is widely known, and everyone eats them as if they were an occasional medicine.

The tavern of the Adventurer’s Guild has a vegetable garden in the back. You can eat vegetables from the garden, but they are costly.

It costs a lot of money if you consider the nutritional balance, protein requirements, and calories.

According to Al, the menu I usually eat is the table of a nobleman.

But I’m an adventurer, and my body is my capital. I’m an adventurer, and my body can’t survive on light soup and crusty cereal bread.

The spices used for cooking are also expensive, which adds to the high cost of the food.

It is cheaper than other countries because it is a production area, but it sells well to the Megado Empire merchants. That’s why the supply is not keeping up with the demand, they say.

Al and the others didn’t say anything when they saw me spending a lot of money on food. Most adventurers are addicted to alcohol and women, but some are crazy about food.

They told me that I must have eaten a lot of bad food in the village ……. You indeed want to eat good food, but it’s more subtle than in Japan.

Even the most expensive food is unrefined and bad. The only thing that tastes good is steak.

The dressings taste horrible, and the vegetables are green and bitter because they have not been bred.

It is for your body’s sake that you should be particular about what you eat. With my knowledge of modern Japan, I know that a well-balanced diet is important.

I don’t know to what extent apothecaries and healing magic can cure diseases. I guess it’s better to take care of your health.

I’ve never seen an Asian face like mine in Rockcliffe. Because of my distinctive appearance, I would be spotted as soon as the guards started to move in for the mayor’s murder.

Why haven’t they arrested me yet? The information hasn’t reached me yet. I’ve dismissed it as the death of a nuisance, and so on. I can think of many other reasons, but as long as the guards haven’t come to arrest me, I guess I’m okay.

As a precaution, I have seen some things in the lining of my clothes. I have salt, spices, and money, the bare necessities of life.

Salt is necessary to sustain life. Spices that make meals tasty and can be exchanged for a high price. Gold, the most powerful transforming material in civilization. As long as I had these sewn into my clothes, I would be able to escape with only my body.

I was frustrated that I hadn’t accumulated as much money as I thought I would, but what could be, would be. I don’t feel like the guards are looking for the murderer of the village chief. For now, I’ll hone my skills as an adventurer.

Since then, I’ve completed several requests with Gonz and the others. I was able to coordinate with Gonz and the others more smoothly.

Finally, I was getting used to working as an adventurer. Then, Al came to me with a request.

It was the first request I received, a request to take down the Gray Wolf. The gray wolf was a nuisance, so that most adventurers would take on multiple parties.

However, Gonz’s group could complete the request with only one party, so the reward was huge. We unanimously accepted the request because it was the same as the one we had already completed.

After a day of camping, we arrived at the village. We talked to the village chief and headed for the forest. I wondered if time was looping. I asked if time was looping, and it was the same as before.

I guess that’s it. The flag has been raised. It’s a pattern of making people think it’s the same as before, but then a dragon or something attacks.

I walked to my destination, the forest, under such a stupid delusion.

Even in the town, I live my life with my sense of presence and sense of concealment turned on all the time so that I don’t get tangled up. Thanks to this, I can search for enemies while having strange fantasies in my head.

As a result of my continuous use of skills, I have unconsciously created a state of constant activation. I can now naturally ignore the information coming in from activated skills, except for important information.

Now, I even activate them when I am sleeping.

I guess people learn when they need to, even if they don’t want to. Thanks to this, I have never been involved in any trouble in town.

I did, however, get surprised when I talked to a shopkeeper after I forgot to deactivate my presence concealment.

I was so startled that I was also startled when he suddenly attacked me. That’s a different world. The customer service was also very punchy.

Normally, when a customer punches you, you’d expect him to apologize, but I was surprised when he turned on me. He said it was my fault for startling him. Shopkeepers in other worlds are too wild.

As before, I used a native herb to mask the smell. Follow the trail and track down the Gray Wolf.

We found the gray wolves were not huddled in their dwelling places but were spread out at regular intervals, watching the area.

There were five of them. The number of wolves was five, the same as the previous information. I went back to Gonz and the others and gave them the information.

As a result of our discussion, I volunteered to take the bait that the other scouts, the ones at the bottom, would accept.

There was an open space in the forest where we could use wild animals’ blood to lure the gray wolf into the open.

The forest was densely wooded and dimly lit, and I thought it would be risky to fight a gray wolf in such a place.

Gonz and the others were reluctant at first, but they were confident in their ability to walk in the forest. I’ll make sure you’re safe, trust me. When I persuaded them, they reluctantly agreed.

I wasn’t confident that I wouldn’t be discovered if I took the crass Gonz into the forest with me. Other monsters would have been fine, but the gray wolf was very good at searching for enemies.

I cut off the head of a squirrel I had caught beforehand and sprayed its blood to lure the gray wolf.

Lured by the scent of blood, I sensed the gray wolf approaching me with my sense of smell. I attracted it to some extent and ran to the place where Gonz and the others were waiting.

I was confident in my ability to run through the forest, but as expected of a wolf-type monster. They were much faster than I expected. A gray wolf was chasing me, and I just kept running.

Oh no, it’s going to bite me in the butt! The dense forest had poor visibility and was bumpy with tree roots. It was also slippery with fallen leaves.

I don’t think any other adventurer would be able to run at this speed. The life span of a scout acting as a decoy seems to be short.

I lured the gray wolf from quite a distance so that it wouldn’t detect the scent of Gonz and the others. It might have been better if we had been closer.

I was also deodorizing the Gonz. I don’t think they would have detected me even if I had been closer. I reflected that I had been a little naive in my outlook.

As I exited the forest just before I was supposed to, I shouted to Gonz.

“The Grey Wolves will be here soon. Prepare to attack.”

Immediately after I shouted this, a gray wolf jumped out of the forest. An arrow pierced the gray wolf that jumped out. It seems that he had been prepared for it.

Unlike in the cave, he couldn’t limit the direction of his opponent. It would take longer than before, but Gonz and the others had the upper hand in the battle.

They had killed two out of the five, and there were only three Gray Wolves left.

This is going to be easy. Just as I thought that I had successfully avoided the flag, there was a response to my presence detection.

One, two, five, seven, ten!

“Brother Gonz! Newcomers are coming from the forest. There are 10 of them! “

“Ten! What the hell is wrong with you?”

“Al, should we retreat?”

“No, Kimon. We can’t escape until we kill them.”

It turned out to be wrong. I shouldn’t have responded until a while ago … It’s my mistake as a repulsion. Do you abandon Gonz and run away? I was at a loss.

Don’t be so naive. Put your own life first. The demon whispered to me. After a moment of hesitation, I ran toward the Gray Wolf, where Gonz was fighting.

This situation is my fault.

I would never be proud of myself if I did something stupid like abandoning the Gonz here.

It was a stupid choice, I thought to myself. Even if I ran into them, the Gonz might use me as bait to escape. Even so, I had no choice but to run.

As if to twist away from my fear of death, I charged at the gray wolf with a yell.