Legend

Having returned to the guild after a brief forest survey, Ray goes through the process of entering the guild and heads to the guild with the marinas waiting outside.

"So, what was the forest like?

"Right. In a nutshell, an anomaly. I guess you deserve that word."

You didn't expect words like that to come out of Ray's mouth, marina moves that shapely brow with surprise when she asks how the forest looks.

That was the same with Vihera, but this one is pointing a delightful gaze at Ray with battle expectations.

"What was the anomaly like?

"Well, if you're a dark elf marina, maybe you'll feel just like me if you go to that forest. Anyway, I couldn't find a single animal in the woods. It's not hidden either, probably not one really."

"... it's..."

As a dark elf, and above all for Marina, who should also be called the Witch of the World Tree, if what Ray is saying is true, it was even a forest that cannot be called a forest.

Not very much, but you won't be able to admit it's a forest.

"No monsters? It's the woods, Trent or something like that?

Unlike the marina, Vihera sounds like a pity that if there are no monsters present, you can't expect a fight.

But Ray shakes his neck to the side of such Vihera's words.

"A fellow woman like Sleisha was attacked by something, so you're pretty sure there's something there.... Well, I don't know if that's Vihella's satisfying enemy."

The Rays keep going while we talk like that.

Several people tried to talk to Seto, but I guess they understood that we were talking serious from how the Rays were doing.

I stopped calling, just staring at Seto.

When the line thus arrives at the guild, Seto leaves without Ray having to say anything, and the Rays enter the guild.

There are few adventurers in the Alliance because it is already close to noon.

Instead, there were quite a few people in the tavern eating lunch.

(Oh, you're hungry. After the report, I wonder what we'll eat.... Ah, udon? Meatballs and pizza too......)

Ray turns to the counter, conscious of the smell that stimulates his appetite, drifting from the tavern.

As usual, I would tell receptionists like Lenora or Kenny that neither of them look like me today.

But instead, there was a receptionist who came to make a request to the Marina Mansion, so I'm moving closer to you.

The receptionist must have noticed quickly how Ray looked like that, too. Turn your gaze to expectations.

And the first person to open his mouth was Ray.

"I've accomplished my request"

"Really? Okay, here you go. Because the Alliance Master listens directly."

To the receptionist's words, Ray nods without saying anything more and goes inside the counter.

That's how we head to the back, up the stairs...... just where we've been through so many times before, I don't have any particular hesitation.

At that time, they were marinas walking behind Ray.

"Excuse me, Guildmaster. Mr. Ray and the others are back."

"Really? Then let me in."

A worker's voice sounds from across the door and the receptionist opens the door.

(That being said, this is the first time I've been in this office since the workers became guild masters)

It was Ray who went inside the office thinking that way, but I'm just a little sorry.

Because it hasn't changed much compared to when the marina used it before.

"Please sit down. The report...... oh, can you get me two Mr. Luno and Mr. Sleisha? They'd better hear Ray's report."

"Okay. Right away, then."

A deep salute and the receptionist leaves the room.

Dropping it off, the worker, who was organizing the paperwork, smiles and opens his mouth.

"Until the two of you get here in the meantime, please also sit down and rest on the couch there. It was so sudden, I must be tired of everything."

Ray just rode Seto back and forth between the woods and Gilm, and stayed at the marina's just waiting in front of the main entrance.

Not to mention, until the receptionist arrived earlier, I was resting myself slowly in the garden of the Marina Mansion, so I can't possibly get tired of that.

Still, there's nothing in particular to do, so the Rays sit on the couch.

And the first person to open his mouth was the marina.

"Hey, worker. You haven't heard about the reward this time because you're in a hurry?

"Oh, if you say so, you did. Sorry, I totally forgot about that."

The marina smiles small at the words of the worker, who raised his face from the documents.

If from the marina...... and if that story hadn't come out of Ray, he was probably going to put it behind him about the reward.

He was only partitioning the guild's outpost near the dungeon, and the worker has a very cynical feeling about the reward on the back of the good per capita.

Nevertheless, from the standpoint of being an Alliance Master, there would have been no failure to pay the reward.

"Mr. Ray, don't you want something like this?

That's what the worker put on the desk while he said it was a barrel of wood.

However, it is a small barrel about 10 cm high.

"Is that booze? I'm sorry, but I don't drink..."

There's nothing I can't drink, but Ray, who isn't very much but doesn't think drinking tastes good, tries to say no.

In the first place, it is a barrel about ten centimeters tall, so I can easily imagine the amount of alcohol.

That would be enough booze to drink up in one bite.

That's what I thought...... the worker shook his neck sideways at Ray's words like that.

"No, don't worry. This isn't booze."

Did the paperwork also come with a paragraph, the worker moves toward the couch with that barrel?

That's how I opened the barrel placed on the table, wondering that Ray wasn't booze... and stopped the move.

"Oh, man. Could this be..."

What was in that barrel is a substitute that Ray also remembers seeing several times before.

However, compared to what Ray has seen before, it is quite fine.

That's what I've seen before… there were some red ores, but what we have here is a few sizes about the fingertips, otherwise they are as fine as sand.

"Flame ore, huh?

The worker nods back to Ray, who checks in on things like this.

"Yeah, because I heard about Mr. Ray collecting flame ore before. I've been interested in flame ore for a long time.... It's just that when that flame ore becomes a big thing, it's very expensive. But..."

The worker's gaze is directed at the barrel Ray has.

"Almost sandy as it is in that barrel... no, is something like powdered right? In that state of things, it's pretty cheap. … I would, naturally, pay a certain price more than flame ore if I said it would be cheaper."

To that word, Ray turns his gaze in the barrel again.

Ray wants flame ore because he mixes it with the fire whirlwind he uses as his wife's hand to make it more powerful.

To use it that way, there should have been no problem with small ore, not large ore.

"What about this reward in that barrel?

"... you've been so excited"

It was Marina who voiced doubts about the worker's words.

In fact, even if it's like a flame ore in a barrel, if you're going to buy it, the price is right.

At least as a reward for a reconnaissance that can't even be described as a reconnaissance carried out by Ray this time, I'd say it's broken.

Ray did it because he just checked to see if there was really a forest, checked the size of that forest, and went down on the ground to see what was going on in the forest.

"Yeah, I think Ray needs a lot of other moves on this one... oh, come on in"

The door knocks on the way the worker is talking.

Coming inside the office with permission was Luno, an adventurer I also knew for Ray, and the first woman adventurer I saw...... Sleisha.

"You've come a lot. Have a seat first."

In those words, Luno and Sleisha were on the couch - because they had no place, they were in line - and when the receptionist decided that his role was over, he bowed his head and left.

After confirming that, the worker opens his mouth again.

"Well, let me introduce you first. What if? I say workers who are guild masters of guilds. She let me know about this one, Mr. Sleisha. And rescued Mr. Sleisha, Mr. Luno."

That's it, and the next thing the workers' gaze was pointed at, the Rays.

"They are... No, maybe in numbers they should say, they are the wings of the Red Lotus at Rank B Party"

Asked to be a Rank B party, Sleisha opens her eyes wide.

Sometimes it's the first time I've actually seen a high-ranking party with its eyes, Ray in a hood, Marina in a party dress that doesn't fit the place, Vihera, who only looks like a whore or dancer, and Beaune the kid.

Seeing these four, I guess I didn't think they were high-ranking adventurers.

If Sleisha had been a little more skilled, he might have felt the strength of the Rays, but unfortunately Sleisha is still only that much strength, even if he is called alone.

Luno's already knows more than enough about the Rays' prowess, so naturally, he doesn't even expose his surprises.

"Now, shall we get to the point where we have also finished our brief introduction? First of all, it was in the woods reported by Mr. Sleisha, but Mr. Ray asked me to go scout."

"Huh?"

The missing voice between Sleisha's mouths probably leaked because she noticed a discrepancy between the distance to the woods and the time since she arrived here.

But I guess the worker also understood Sleisha's attitude like that. Open your mouth to calm down.

"Mr. Ray is turning Griffon into an obedient demon. Haven't you ever heard of the alias Deep Red?

If asked about that alias, Sleisha is convinced too... to stare at Ray in the hood of a dragon robe.

Naturally, Sleisha is more than an adventurer, she also knows the alias Deep Red, who was active in the war against the Bestian Empire.

But...... I have not participated in the war itself, nor have any adventurers I know participated in the war.

No, there were precisely those who participated, but is it more right that they lost their lives in that war?

That's why I didn't expect to see you like this all of a sudden, even though I know about the deep red... Ray.

"This man is... deep red..."

"It's Ray. Greetings."

"Huh? Oh, yes! Best wishes!

Higher verbal butts, but if you think that the Rank D Adventurer met with an adventurer with an alias, this would be a natural course of action.

Ningro, Ray likes not being insulting in his appearance.

"Well, let's talk... Mr. Ray"

"Oh."

Ray, prompted by the worker, concludes in his mouth.

"First, there was the forest. That was also the last time I saw it... maybe last fall. In a position I didn't see that fall. That's pretty big too. Not very much, but I don't think it was done in a few months"

Ray continues his explanation, recalling the size of the forest he saw over the ceto as he rode.

"If I could do that much forest from a place where there's nothing... that's decades... I think I'd need a hundred years worth of time if I did poorly"

"Is that about right?"

To Ray's words, the worker squeaks.

Sleisha also reveals a surprising look.

In fact, it was night when it was about what kind of forest I was attacked... and most importantly, I couldn't figure it out because I was confused to see my people being killed one after the other.

So it would be natural to be surprised if people were to hear that it is actually just that much forest.

"And..."

Whimpering, Ray takes out all kinds of luggage that had been left on the camp site from Mystering.

"You recognize this package, don't you?

"Ah, yes. My... it's our stuff."

I guess that word reminded me of my people. I was about to be depressed Sleisha, but still quickly regain my mind.

Because I understand that this is not the time to be sad.

Still, there are thin tears seeping through the ends of my eyes.

"So... first, I want to hear this. I heard you say it was outside the woods that you camped, right?

"Ah, yes.... but when I saw him on his way out of the woods, the trees were already..."

"I guess. I found this luggage a few minutes after I went into the woods."

"... Huh?

Neither did Sleisha think the forest was spreading that far.

I also forgot that I was crying a few seconds ago and leaked a few missing voices.