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Calling from Adventurer Guild.

Being a high-ranking adventurer, we sometimes get nomination requests.

It has the advantage of sticking it out on a bulletin board and not knowing who gets it. Unlike a normal request, you can designate a specific adventurer to take it on. It has the disadvantage that because you are asking for a specific person, the reward is higher because the client's position is really lower than normal.

Our party doesn't receive frequent nomination requests.

That's also because it's a party with five A-rank adventurers, many clients want to nominate considering the rate of achievement of the request. But the reward is huge because it's too much. For this reason, we need the financial strength of a senior aristocrat or so to make a request.

A month after I came back from Savona.

I got a call from the Adventurer Guild.

Apparently, a nomination request. The officials at the use didn't know the details, but apparently they have something to ask for in the Adventurer Guild.

High rank adventurers benefit from a variety of guilds registered at the base. For this reason there is urgency, the requests judged by the Alliance must always be taken on. That's the mandatory request.

All the high-ranking adventurers who were in Alistair had to take on because the Kimyra crusade, which was a month ago, was also a compulsory request.

Easy to ask, they're close to a mandatory request, albeit a nomination request.

"Excuse me."

"Welcome, Mr. Mars, Mr. Iris."

When you enter the Adventurer Guild, your representative, Luti, will be the first to greet you.

This time, I was asked to come about Illis because of my errands at the Adventurer's Guild. In other words, other members are unable to come because they have a lot to do at the mansion. Recently, Illis has been on the sidelines due to family circumstances.

"You're talking about the nomination request. Will you follow me?"

Mr. Rooty guided me to a private room behind the guild.

This room is used to talk to clients individually or when they take on confidential requests.

"What I'd like to ask you to party with, Mars, is to crusade the demons of the Northwell Mountains on the northern edge of the kingdom."

To the north of the kingdom there is a huge mountain range.

It's not suitable for people to live in rock-skinned mountains. Besides, plants mostly wither because freezing winds blow from the ocean across the mountain range. It was considered a barren earth.

"But that must have been a demonic nest over there"

The only Ilis who has ever been to the Noswell Mountains within the party squeaks.

The mountain range has long been a nest of hundreds of monsters. There is always a demonic territorial dispute, and weak demons are eliminated by strong demons.

And some demons are only in such a place. There are only a few adventurers who try to hunt and earn a fortune because such demons are valuable.

"I visited the Noswell Mountains because a request was made to the Adventurers Guild when a nearby village was about to be attacked because of the overflow of demons in the Mountains. Did it happen again in the demon flood?

"No......"

Mr. Rooty whispers.

That's all the current situation is pressing.

"Not yet, just sightings, but a demon could have appeared in the mountains"

"A demon?

Yes, it's a dragon.

……

Dragon, and Iris was surprised to hear.

On the other hand, I didn't know how to react.

- A dragon is that dragon, isn't it?

Imagine wings growing on a giant lizard.

Not only are they strong, but they are also highly intelligent, so they sometimes entrust the control of the hierarchy as boss class demons in the labyrinth.

"But the dragon should have been in the Northwell Mountains too"

It goes pretty far back, but Illis had confirmed that the dragon lived there.

"Yes, there was nothing wrong with the dragon if it was in the depths that adventurers rarely visited."

"Maybe..."

"Yes, I even came to the village at the foot"

It was an ordinary villager who witnessed it.

The dragon that came out of the mountains turned back to the mountains without doing anything when it glued over the village.

There was no damage to the village at that time.

But the villagers, who only saw the dragon as an object of fear, became anxious "at some omen..."

Therefore, a request for reconnaissance was sent to the Adventurer Alliance.

"Come scout on us," he said?

Indeed, if the opponent is a dragon, he needs the power of an A-rank Adventurer.

However, questions remain as to whether to make a request to the adventurer of Alistair, who is on the other side of the kingdom of Métis.

"Of course not. Reconnaissance is already done by local adventurers"

It was the information obtained by the reconnaissance that was at issue.

"According to the scout, dozens of dragons were identified in the mountains."

Dozens of bodies.

That's an unusual number.

A single, powerful dragon will require nearly ten A-rank adventurers, even the weakest ones, to crusade. That's all the dragons are strong.

There are dozens of dragons that strong.

No longer is one Adventurer Guild alone out of hand.

"The number is a problem, but there's more to it than that."

The dragons in the mountains jumped toward the village at the foot.

What the inhabitants of the village next door saw were dragons flying in a controlled way, like the army.

The dragons slaughtered the villagers one after the other who simply fled through the village with a few dragons so that when they surrounded the village with dozens of bodies, the villagers could not escape… so that they could kill them instantly even if they fled.

And after a few minutes, the dragon left.

Then a village survey was carried out at the hands of the adventurer, but the building was dyed with friendly blood, and no one could confirm who it was. Those who were at peace in the village were to fit into the belly of the dragon.

A similar situation to the village of Dayton, but it was more troublesome than that.

The dragon had no intention of letting anyone escape and had surrounded the village before raiding it. Moreover, a village survey revealed that the dragons that attacked the villagers from their footprints were smaller individuals than the dragons that had been taken in.

Apparently, he was letting a child's dragon or a weak dragon practice hunting.

Those who command the dragon have the intelligence to bottom up the power of the entire herd.

That's all that's troublesome.

"The Adventurer Guild, which took a heavy look at the situation, sent out an urgent request to a highly-ranked adventurer"

Dragon crusade.

It doesn't matter in any way. I wanted them to crusade a little more dragons because I could work with other parties, and they were giving me a circular when I bought out dragon material for a higher amount than normal.

The request was also sent to the neighborhood.

The Adventurer Guild, which still decided it wasn't strong enough, decided to give a voice to the A-rank Adventurer, even far away.

That's how we got our request.

"Will you take it on?

"Of course I don't mind"

It's not a compulsory request for us.

For that reason, there would be no penalty for saying no, but I was attracted to a place called the Dragon Crusade. The dragon has so much magic in the flesh itself. If you sell it, you'll get a lot of money, but if you [magic convert] more value than that, you'll get it.

Above all, I just want to be sure that there is a presence that can lead the dragon.

"However, I consult with my buddies for a moment before deciding"

This is no different than a dangerous request.

As a result, all of his family members are willing to follow him, so he demanded that Illis put the answer on hold just a little bit.

"Of course I'm fine. But if you're going to take on the request, you better hurry."

Already nearby adventurers are waiting on site.

In our case, we also need travel time from here to the site, so by the time we arrive, we can assume that it was all hunted at the hands of local adventurers.

You should leave by tomorrow morning at the latest.

I heard what you asked for, so I'll leave a private room with Mr. Rooty.

"That's why I want you to tell me where Mr. Mars is!

"... hmm?

Entrance to the Adventurer Guild - I hear yelling from the receptionist counter.

Besides, my consciousness is drawn to you unexpectedly by the fact that my name has been called in a voice I have heard.

"... Dia?

"Mr. Mars!

The girl who found me runs over.

He was looking for me in Alistair, where there shouldn't be Dia, a Theodore girl living near Savona.