Legend

Late at night, sleeping in a given room, Ray wakes up.

It's not like there was any particular reason. Strongly speaking, I have a bad feeling about it.

Outside the window was a moon floating, and only its moonlight served as a source of light for the room.

While bathing in the moonlight, I still feel slightly drowsy because it was only about a few hours after I fell asleep, but I extend my hand to the pillow to activate the light magic item.

If this is a normal inn, then naturally no light magic items exist in every single room. But as you can see from Dusker's stay, this inn was for nobles and great merchants.

Thanks to this, there are magic items of light, not candle-like, in every room.

Either way, dazzling lights light up the room where there was only moonlight when you activate such a magic item.

As I narrow my eyes to that glare, I wrap myself in a dragon robe, put on my Slapenil shoes, and wipe my face with a cloth squeezed with water to wipe away the still slightly lingering drowsiness.

Having finally woken up completely that far, Ray asks what's going on out the window.

Fortunately, since this inn has the same structure as a regular inn, where the first floor has a room upstairs in the dining room, there was no difficulty in watching what was going on outside.

"… Is there anything unusual in particular?"

Not at all now. Bite those words to death.

More than disturbing people, as it was in information from Dwarub, who belongs to the Knights of this city... and the killing I felt on my way to the inn. Given those, this accomplishment was natural.

But something I felt when I was asleep would undoubtedly be a foretaste of the upcoming commotion. Ray leaves the room with almost certain thoughts.

"Oops... what is it, Ray? Don't come out of nowhere. Even so, what happened at midnight like this?

A knight who was just about to pass in front of the room asks with a surprising look on his face.

When it comes to what knights do, naturally they look around.

It is almost certain that something will happen, but rather to detect the omen as soon as possible, or to discover it as soon as possible if someone has broken into the inn.

This inn is currently rented out by Dusker, so there is no problem at all with looking around.

If this was an inn with other guests, it would have been somewhat different.

He let go of his hand, which was stretching out to the sheath of his sword because it was about the staggering, and the knight, exhaling in relief, asks.

But what came from Ray's mouth was a word that exceeded the knight's expectations.

"There's probably a raid within that distance. Whatever happens, you better make sure you can handle it right away."

A knight who hears the word stops picking and moving.

At the next moment, he opens his mouth with a sharp gaze toward Ray, not the surprise glance that floated until earlier.

"Was there someone outside?

"No. You didn't see it through the window. It's just that... I'm telling you, the adventurer is alarming."

An exploration as an adventurer. If it were normal, that wouldn't even be a joke.

Anyway, the guy at the end of the knight's gaze hasn't been an adventurer in less than two years.

But if that's Ray, it's not the same story. It's certainly not even two years since I became an adventurer, because I'm the man who rose to Rank B Adventurer all at once in that short period of time.

And he's also a man who can follow the Griffon of Rank A monsters.

Because he knew it as one who belonged to the Knights of Larks Borderline Uncle, the Knight sharpens his gaze and opens his mouth without uttering a futile word.

"Get ready for battle immediately. The rest of the rest of you will be awake soon, so Ray needs to go under Master Dusker."

"Okay."

After a brief exchange, he confirms the back of the knight leaving only for a moment, and then Ray follows the scene again.

It's the inn on the second floor, but it's the most special room available in the back.

In front of the door of that room stood two knights as escorts.

One of the knights notices the person approaching early enough and reaches for the sword of his hips...... the next moment he learns it is Ray approaching him and exhales a breath of relief.

One knight opens his mouth with another breath of relief as he tries to reach for the sword a little late for the next knight's actions.

"What's going on, Ray?

"I have a bad feeling about it. Something will probably happen soon. Please follow Master Dusker."

"... I see, that's why"

"Hmm?"

To the unexpected words uttered by the knight, Ray leans his neck unexpectedly.

The knight who sees it opens his mouth as he wants to grin at how he is not very but invisible to high-ranking adventurers.

"No, there's noise in the room. I must have been asleep by now."

"Heh."

Raises an unexpected voice of inspiration to the words out of the knight's mouth, Ray.

While watching such a ray, the first knight to react to the ray knocks on the door.

"Master Dusker, Ray is here, though. Something could happen."

"Okay, let me in."

"Ha!"

After a short exchange, the knight enters the room from the open door.

And I realize that there are elks, mins, and rodos in the room, and I'm convinced by the knight's words earlier.

(Right. How can the elk not notice that feeling?)

I know Dusker is also quite a handyman, Ray, but it is nevertheless true that he has to stay away from the actual battle beyond being in the position of Lord of the Larks Borderline Uncle.

It was obvious, of course, from the look of its stubborn body that it had not failed to train, but still the training and the actual battle were very different.

Such a dusker would be so ready because there was an elk who was staying in a room connected to Dusker's room as an escort.

"Ray, you too?

"Yes."

Ray returns words short to Dusker's words.

"You don't seem to mean my mistake after all."

"Sometimes I've been advised in advance about the area."

Elk nods and Min nods again as he agrees.

"Now, when will the problem arise... even if I say it soon, it will be very different in 10 minutes and an hour"

"Well, I know what Master Dusker is trying to say... perhaps"

Ray grumbled that far to answer Dusker's question, then. The door is inadvertently knocked hard.

"Dear Dusker, there's a noise breaking something from the ground floor!

This room is well equipped with soundproofing facilities only for the rooms where people like aristocrats and big merchants stay.

Now, I guess I didn't hear the noise that happened on the ground floor because of it.

"I didn't think this would come at the right time.... Dear Dusker, what do you want to do?

"Right..."

I think about Ray's inquiry for a few seconds once he stops talking.

The gaze is directed at two of Ray and Elk's greatest battle forces in this setting.

Keep your gaze on Ray and open your mouth.

"Ray, I need you to take a look downstairs with Rodos. If it seems to be rampant, I want you to suppress it."

"With Rhodos?

I just thought they were exactly going to tell me to go alone, Ray, with a surprise look on his face and a gaze at Rodos.

With such a gaze on his face, Rhodos is silent without saying anything in particular, even with a slightly dissatisfied look on his face.

It was silence because I understand the difference in strength with Ray.

For a moment, Ray and Rodos gaze at each other like that, and eventually Ray nods back to see if he's convinced of something.

"Okay. Okay, if you're on the ground floor, we'll take care of it here."

"Oh, I'm sure the knights are here, so there's no reason they're short of hands."

"Yes.... elk"

"I know. I don't care what you set me up to do over here. So you should just go upstairs.... ask for Rhodos"

"Rodos is also a Rank C Adventurer. There's nothing I can do about it. Right?"

To some teasing sounding inquiry, the person of the moment returns angrily.

"Naturally! I don't know if you're a disturbing molecule, but I'm going to prove to you that you don't even have to annoy your mother or father!

To that word, I thought on the inside that Min would be first, Ray, but here I turn back my heels without saying anything in particular by deciding that the noise I don't need if I put it in my mouth just gets louder.

Rodos also goes after Ray.

"You don't have to worry, but be careful."

"Ray, Rhodos. It would be helpful if they could capture some of the ramblings downstairs. I want to know who's pulling the thread on this one."

Elk and Minn, with each word on his back, Ray and Rodos leave the room.

"I heard the story. Good luck with that."

"We protect this place, so don't worry about Master Dusker... but you don't need us when Elk is around."

Ray, smiling small and waving gently at the knight who hangs his words that way, opens his mouth without even looking back at Rodos behind him.

"We're gonna run. I don't want to do much damage to the inn."

"Oh."

Listen to the response from Rodos. No, no, Ray running straight out the hallway.

Sometimes if you run for real, the hallway breaks, running somewhat out of strength, which is why Rhodos stays at the speed he can manage to follow.

Still, if you try to be a normal person, it's the speed at which they leave you completely.

Arrive at the location with the stairs without hanging for 10 seconds.

I guess quite a few people have already entered the inn. In front of the counter, a knight brought by Dusker was battling a large number of intruders.

That said, that battle is one-sided. The intruders also wield swords, spears, sticks, or agricultural tools and thoughts as they raise their anger, but the knights prevent everything, and when they take a blow like a counter, they collapse on the spot.

Against the Knights of the Neighbourhood, where there are many powerful monsters, intruders… No, there is no way that just a mob can do anything about it.

Still antagonizing, probably because of the high number of thugs.

Even if one loses his mind, his buddy pulls right away and another one comes forward.

While watching the mob and the Knights continue to fight like that, I understood why they were so thoroughly defended.

It is in front of the stairs that the knights are present, cementing their defenses so that they are not raised upstairs.... I mean, I can't move off the spot.

(Where are the other knights...... no, I see)

Ray, who quickly looked around on the stairs, is immediately convinced.

He said it was not only around the stairs but also from the dining room that he was hearing the call for battle.

(The knight I met when I got out of the room informed the knight who was resting in the dining room about this... I hope so. No, don't you have time to think about it now)

After checking the surrounding conditions in seconds, Ray reaches for the railing upstairs as he sees a blow of the sword still stuck in the sheath wielded by the knight guarding the stairs smash the man's torso.

"Rodos, you are the support of a knight guarding the stairs."

"Whoa, Ray!?

Rhodos screams unintentionally at Ray for lightly getting over the railing while giving instructions.

The height of the first and second floors is superior to 5 m.

Of course, if you're a normal adventurer, it's mostly the height you can jump off without a problem.

But now we're in the midst of a brawl with countless mobs gathering downstairs. Given that, Ray's actions only seemed far-fetched.

But Ray, who flied out into the air, activated Slapenil's shoes on his way down to the ground floor. Keep scaffolding the air for a few steps and land on the ground floor with little noise.

"Oh, my God!

To Ray, who suddenly descended next to himself, one of the mobs was surprised for a moment and the next moment he waved the stick he was holding in his hand...

"Whoo!

He wields a stick, but therefore protrudes a dagger that was silently removed from the mistering toward a torso filled with gaps.

The lucky thing for the man would have been that his dagger was in the sheath.

Although it is a cheap dagger for the demolition of monsters, the cutting-edge wrapped in a sheath is buried to the dovetail of a mob man and instantly reaps consciousness.

Most of the mobs have not noticed Ray because they are still focused on fighting the knights guarding the stairs around them.

A handful of people who are aware also decided at first that it was easy to give from Ray's appearance, but they probably felt a sense of crisis when they saw the mob crash to the floor in a flash of interaction. Nothing in particular was like doing something.

I guess the story would have changed again if I knew the person in front of me was deep-red, but in the excitement that he was attacking the inn, those who saw Ray's face walking all over the city are nowhere near remembering it either.

Ray looks around, keeping the mob down on the ground.

But no one comes at me, and I turn my gaze upwards for a moment.

What was there was the look of Rhodos with some frightened look on his face.

When Ray realizes that his gaze is directed at him, he quickly turns his jaw toward the dining room and signals him to go.

Ray, who nodded small at Rhodos like that, rushes through to the dining room with his shoulders low so he can't be found in the mob's gaze.

... while having subtle feelings that you may not be happy or happy when it is convenient for you to have a small back of your own.