I Said Make My Abilities Average!

"Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for accepting this request despite the poor conditions"

Early the next morning, a face-to-face meeting of the merchants was taking place in Central Square.

There are six carriages participating. There was one man each, and four merchants in all. The merchants seem to be friends of the old knowledge, and the purpose of the face-to-face meeting is to introduce each other to the hunters of the escort. Although escorts need not be very close to merchants, they need to know each other's strengths, stunts, etc. in order to collaborate and assign roles. If the odds of safety for the next nine days can be raised at all, it's not a loss to just take a little time here.

"Some of you were absent when you received the request, so I will briefly explain this request again."

Apparently, only representatives of the other parties negotiated with the client, and there are others in Lena who have not been directly briefed.

The client continued the conversation.

"We're on our way this time. Amros is four days each way, eight days round trip. For a day over there, you will all be free to move.

And as you've all noticed, this time the reward is 1.5 times greater than the normal escort request. The reason for this, as I'm sure some of my colleagues have already told you, is that a little larger bandits are operating in this area. "

Here, the merchant captain of this merchant company, the client, looks around at all the escorts, but no one is more surprised now. It was explained to Lena last night.

"But that's not all we're talking about. This merchant squad chooses loads not for expensive luxuries, but for special tools for medicines and craftsmen that are particularly important, and other 'not so expensive, but absolutely necessary' items for those in need of a drastically reduced number of merchants going out for the bandits. And it's also a critical mission to deliver those important goods, but there's actually another, important purpose. That's...,"

Again, the client looking around at the escorts.

"The bandits are dead."

Yes, that was the true purpose of this merchant squad, as my client told me yesterday.

"It still takes time for lords and nations to move. If you wait for it, your deal with Amros will be completely interrupted. For this reason, we move with a merchant squad that assumes bandit raids, if nothing happens, we trade as is, and if attacked, we fight for the annihilation of our enemies, not for escape.

While unconfirmed, there are expected to be more than twenty bandits. I am confident that a total of twelve hunters, one B rank and eleven C ranks, including magicians, will suffice.

For this purpose, I am aware that the rewards are low. But I couldn't really prepare any more. Forgive me.

It should be noted that, instead, we do not need to protect our merchants in battle. We stand in the carriage and hold our swords on the carriage. Positively advantageous, so you'll be able to about poke a bandit with blocked hands trying to get on the carrier, and not many of the escorts will try to get on the carrier while their swords are being waved. If we take you down, we can take care of you later.

So please all just focus on the annihilation of your enemies. If we're both taken hostages, you can ignore them. Even if you surrender, they will kill you later anyway.

Do you have any questions?

The escorts were pompous on the client's last words. Apparently, those who went to negotiate were also the first ears.

"... how do you get that far?

A voice of doubt was raised by one of the three parties escorted, the pre-twenty youth threesome.

"No matter how, I don't care...

Well, if I dare say so, is that we are merchants and Amros is an old customer... "

"... stupid! Stupid bastard!

Another party, of three men around the age of thirty and two women, a leader like man, was laughing heavily, but a penetration came in from a woman next door.

"So what do you say when you get that request?

"You've made up your mind. It's Big Fool!

Haha, and I laugh ridiculously, five of those parties. Apparently, the usual.

"So it's time to introduce ourselves and go. I'm Bert, the leader of this dragon brace. B-rank swordsman. There's no other B rank in this. Since we seem to have the largest number of people, I'd like to leave the overall escort plan and command during battle to you, no objections?

After a glimpse of laughter, the leader started talking back to his true face.

Everyone nodded as there seemed to be no objection, so Burt continued the conversation.

"It's our member, the Swordsman's column, Fergus the Spearman, Vera the Bow and Dagger, and Ginny the Mage. Ginny is good at combat magic, but don't expect too much from healers."

Subsequently, a threesome of men, about twenty years old, began introducing themselves.

"It's Brett, the leader of" The Flaming Wolf ". With Chuck over here, the swordsman. Daryl is a spear man."

"" "" Eh... ""

Some people accidentally leaked their voices.

I can't help it. Whoever thinks about it, it's too unbalanced.

There are also large areas if they are above the B rank, but the appropriate number of parties in the F to C rank is about 5 to 7.

If you're four, you only deal with low-level demons, or if you're good at it, you have no problem.

If there are more than eight people, they are training young people because they are about to retire. If not, they should include additional members in two parts. A party is dangerous if you have too few people, and if you have too many, you can easily rub them in the distribution of money and relationships. Because if it is not rewarded by the number of participants like this one, the higher the number, the less the share.

And regardless of the number of people, it is the balance.

A party of four aligned with swordsmen, spears, bowmen and magicians, and a party of four swordsmen, swordsmen, swordsmen and swordsmen. If you're asked which one looks like you can do well as a hunter, you won't even have to think about it.

From those, 'Flaming Wolf' was too unbalanced. And there's three people. Whoever hears it will wonder.

"... I know, about numbers and balance! Until a few months ago, there were bowmen and magicians and two girls!

"What about those two?

Miles asked casually. Others looked, ahhh, but it was too late.

"I was just switched over when I was called out by a party of four guys who were just cool guys.

So, I came back the other day and I said we'd organize together again, and I said no.

We're not taking pregnant women into battle, and we're not going to raise other men's children. "

"Soudesca..."

The silence came, but the air could be read there, Mavis.

"Wow, I'm the swordsman, Mavis, leader of The Red Vow. This is Lena and Pauline the Magician, and Miles the Magic Swordsman."

"" "Magic Swordsman?

A voice of doubt rose from three people in "The Flaming Wolf".

Apparently, the face of 'Dragon Breath' has seen the graduation test and not the 'Flaming Wolf'.

It makes sense, 'Is this what this request serves for such a little girl!' I shouldn't have been told.

Apparently the client was also watching the graduation test. Otherwise, he would have hesitated, or perhaps refused, to let the 'Red Pledge', which looked like a minor, take this request.

"Oh, yes, magic can be used there, and swords can be used there. You don't have to worry about water on the road!

Yeah, I saw "Flaming Wolf" with a slightly worried face, and the faces of "Dragon Breath" were bitterly smiling. Maybe, 'Don't worry, I'm stronger than you guys!' But you would think.

"Lena is good at attack magic, Pauline is good at healing, and she can go to the crowd with supportive magic and attack magic. It's universal..."

"What? That would help! All the young girls. I wondered why you were packing, but you're going to be quite useful."

That's what the spearsman from "The Flaming Wolf" said and was smashed by the leader.

Mavis just laughs bitterly. We have a sense of what we look like from the others.

Then, after a bit of exchanging information on magic and stuff I was good at, I set out.

All the escorts get on the carriage too. That increases the speed of travel, and I'm not talking about the guards being tired when they attacked me. Normally, they will also stand out to appeal to the presence of escorts, but this is not the only time.

Of the six, three of the 'dragon braces' on the leading carriage and the remaining two on the second carriage. Three 'Flaming Wolves' on the last carriage. And The Red Vow was all on the fourth carriage.

This is the position of dealing with the initial if attacked from the side and going immediately to support if attacked from the front or the rear.

Those who are forward and rear cannot rush as soon as the other side is attacked. That is not because the place is away, but because it is the usual means of bandits to strike also from the other side at the gap that has concentrated their power on one side.

It was probably Bert's concern to place the girls together in the safest central part of the country that placed the 'Red Vow' there. It is the instinct of a man to think of pre-adult girls as safe places, no matter how much in his mind he thinks (maybe stronger than the 'Flaming Wolves' people).

The face of 'Flaming Wolf' was just an adult man, even before he was twenty years old, and he never complained about it.

On the first day, still close to the King's Capital, no bandits or demons were to leave, and the camp was to be welcomed safely.

The merchant sleeps round with a blanket in the narrow clearance of his carriage. Even if it is narrow, it is much more so than sleeping outside.

Outside, he lays one blanket, and sleeps on the other. The same applies to the hunter of the escort. When it rains, I sleep under the carriage or under the trees.

But the Miles say...

"Oh, hey, what is that..."

"Eh, regular tents, cushions and blankets..."

"Where were you loaded, that stuff!

Nor can it be compelling for the 'Flaming Wolf' young man to question it. The carriage is tiny with loads, and the merchant can sleep inside, because everyone else gets off to sleep outside. I couldn't afford to be loaded with such personal effects.

And when you're ready for bed while it's still a little bright, it's finally dinner.

A meal on the move will be prepared by the client side, but there was not much choice when it came to preserving it well, light and not tense and cheap. Yes, in the familiar sturdy bread and a piece of dried meat, the ingredients of the soup are melted in water with dried scum vegetables. The quantity, too, is far from full.

Miles are poor, so I'll take whatever I can get. So I got some sturdy bread and dried meat, but everyone gave it to Miles to go to the item box. And then Miles disappeared fluttered and came right back. Raise two horn rabbits in both hands.

And Mavis scowls with a knife that Miles puts out of nowhere, and sears with the incendiary fire that Lena caused. It spreads a delicious smell...

"How are you all?

At Miles' invitation, the escorts, who were far-winded and watching, arrived.

Incidentally, Mavis started using knives instead of daggers when cooking because for some reason, I felt like I could hear sobbing from nowhere when I used daggers for cooking, and miles creeped me out.

Horn rabbit meat ran out of everyone's too much to eat, and Miles removed some of the example burnt rock lizards and oak meat from the item box.

"Nah, shu, storage?

This was how surprised not only the "Flaming Wolf" but also the "Dragon Breath" faces were. I didn't show it on the graduation test, and the storage holding is scarce, so it was normal.

The merchants, who were on the side of serving the meal and did not come to get the meat in their possession, all stopped by to see it and finally couldn't stand it.

"Do you have storage! Nice......"

Merchants who make a heartfelt, enviable voice. Indeed, it would be an admirable ability for a merchant.

"May I wear meat..."

The other merchants finally took the meat, and they all began to follow the meat one after the other.

This time, I used the magic of gathering particles of smell to prevent demons from dropping by because of the smell, and I told them that so that everyone could feel safe.

And those who wished to do so were served hot showers.

Two women from "Dragon Breath," Vera and Ginny jumped, of course.

And Burt muttered those words, which many had already spoken before.

"How convenient, you guys..."