Legend

"What? Cut more trees? No, well, as for this one, it's not that hard either... why again?

"Come on? You don't even know if I ask. I just got that order from up there."

At the counter in the guild, Ray tilts his neck to Kenny's story.

As usual, I get a request from Lenora in charge, but unfortunately Lenora seems to be busy with a lot of things today, and Kenny was handling Ray.

While delighted with the matter, Kenny nevertheless acted properly as a receptionist.

Most importantly, it was natural for me to be an Alliance employee.

"Trent's forest trees are huge, and it's hard to bring them, isn't it? Isn't that why I'm asking you, Ray? If you have an item box, you don't have to worry about weight or anything."

There's something in Kenny's words that I'm comfortable with.

But still, Ray questions.

In the first place, it's true that it's hard to bring all those trees.

In the case of Ray, he travels with Seto, so the journey takes only a little time, but if he normally travels by carriage on the ground, he needs a lot of time.

Not to mention, it would naturally take longer than that if we were to walk around.

Even with that understanding, Ray wonders.

In the first place, I wondered if that tree was worth that much.

From Ray's eyes, that tree is not so different from a normal tree.

Of course, considering it gets bigger overnight, there may actually be a lot of differences... but still, it's not that important to Ray.

"Well, if you're gonna pay me, I don't have any particular complaints, either."

"You're an adventurer, aren't you?... Then I'll take care of it over here.... Did you hear me say that? It's Guild's policy to attract more adventurers, right?

Kenny continues his conversation with Ray as he writes paperwork about the request.

I have to write the paperwork, and at the same time I want to talk to Ray.

I thought so. It was Kenny's act, but I have done so many times before.

Therefore, both could be reconciled without any particular difficulty.

"More than now?... Why?

I was just thinking about doing the request Ray, but I guess Kenny's story attracted my interest. That's what I ask.

If you had a face like Marina, Vihera, or Lenora on this occasion, you would have just gone with Ray to ask for it, or slapped Kenny on the head with paperwork.

But sometimes the busiest hours of the morning are over now, the number of adventurers in the guild is low, and the only adventurers who decide to rest today without making a request are just making a scene in the morning at the tavern.

That's why the receptionist's job wasn't too busy, and the other guild staff missed Kenny's act to some extent.

... In fact, it will be significant that deepening relationships with high-ranking adventurers is one of the important events for the Alliance.

"Come on? They just made me smell somewhat from the Alliance Master, so it's not really a clear decision yet... maybe there's some big move"

"Still, gather a lot of adventurers? That's why, even if something actually happened, I feel like Guild could handle most of it right now."

Ray's words, whining so, were true in some ways, but wrong in some ways.

In fact, the number of adventurers in the Guild is high, and their quality is on average high.

But it is only adventurers who can change their base to other cities and villages if they feel comfortable.

Few, of course, imitate Gilm so easily from nowhere else as an adventurer.

If you still want to impose something, it was certain that fewer adventurers would leave the guild.

As Guildmaster of the Guild, there's no way the workers don't get it, and thinking about it would mean gathering adventurers for some reason.

"If that story didn't come out of nowhere, what could be considered as a reason is that we've been planning something for a long time and it's going to be executed?

"Hmm, what do you think?

"I don't think that Trent Forest has anything to do with it."

"Mr. Ray!

When I utter the word Trent Forest, I can speak as if I had been waiting for its timing.

Turning his gaze to those who spoke, what was there was the woman adventurer Ray had seen before...... what Sleisha looked like.

"Uh, it was Sleisha, wasn't it? What's the matter with you?

"I heard Mr. Ray was headed to the Trent Forest. Please take me with you."

"... even if they say so"

When Ray heads to the Trento Forest, he rides the Seto and moves.

Naturally, then Ray is the only one who can ride Seto.

The three of us, Marina, Vihera and Büne, have our own errands today, so Ray is the only one heading into the Trento Forest... but the way we grab onto Seto's feet and move seems a little difficult for Sleisha.

Ray also had the problem that he had just met Sleisha and didn't trust her that strongly.

There are various problems with the means of grasping at a flying ceto being, naturally, not a somewhat believable opponent.

If you do a strange imitation while you're flying, let Ray... and because Seto has limited countermeasures available to him.

That's why there was no option in Ray to take someone he barely knew with him, like Slasha.

"I'm sorry, but I'm acting with Seto. I don't want to take someone I'm not very close to with me."

"Oh no... do something about it there. I want to know the truth. Why did that happen in that forest... in Trent's forest, and if I could, my people's revenge..."

He was Sleisha, who tells him that in a squeezing voice, but Ray shuts up and shakes his neck to the side.

One of the major reasons I didn't take him was that he never put it to words, but that Sleisha was never highly skilled.

So far, Ray has never been attacked in the Trent Forest.

But we don't know when we're going to be attacked any more than those who were attacked like Sleisha's people actually exist.

At that time, if you're facing Ray and Seto, or Marina or Vihera, it's still hard to move if you have a Rank D adventurer Sleisha.

If you imitate something like sheltering a foothold…, you may also take a lag.

And it was more than likely that the forests of Trento themselves would be deadly than unknown.

"... I'm sorry"

Doesn't do anything to put the reason in his mouth until the end, Ray tries to put the spot behind him... and stop that leg.

"With that said, what happened to Luno who helped you? Luno would be an armed solo adventurer, and I think he'd be able to help you."

Luno is known only for his demonic eye, the eye that sees magic, but he basically stands up just because he says he's working solo.

Solo in a guild is only because you are either not familiar with excessive confidence or you really have arms.

Ray also worked solo before forming Red Lotus Wings with the marinas, in which case he had a partner named Seto, even solo.

With that in mind, I would say that on the guild's system it was solo or not actually solo.

"Mr. Luno, that... helped me, because I broke up there after listening to him in the Guildmaster's office..."

Seeing Sleisha in a depressed way, Ray also understood that he probably would have liked to work with him if he had.

"Right.... but if you're asking for it, you should ask Luno, not me. I don't know, Luno's a good guy to take care of."

"... but I hear that Mr. Ray is one of the leading arms handlers in the Guild. Besides, I am now more than actively taking requests about Trent Forest..."

He wants to work with you, too, so he wraps up the words.

I didn't even know what Sleisha was trying to say, Ray, but I still can't take it on in the current situation.

"I'm sorry. I'll do whatever I want."

"If it's a reward... if it's a reward, we can have some."

Ray soon found out where the reward came from.

Because Ray was the one who found traces of Sleisha and the others' parties camping, and Ray was the one who brought the luggage that was left there.

(Well, the ownership of that package rests with Sleisha more than the party has been wiped out. I could have gotten it, but if it was a Rank D party, it wouldn't have been that rare)

So even if Sleisha makes the decision to replace that package with gold and give it to Ray as a reward, she won't do anything to blame.

I don't think there would have been a better use for it...

At the same time, there is an admiration as to whether it was so important for Sleisha to have lost a companion.

"Sorry, I don't have that much room right now. The money, that's what you'd better spend hiring around Luno."

At the end of the day, he groans in case, and Ray leaves the guild without worrying about Sleisha any more.

Sleisha unfortunately drops off Ray like that.

But still, I don't see how I gave up, because I expected that it would be impossible to gather Ray's information in advance and possibly take him with me.

I would have liked to act with Ray if I could, but I guess that was only hope.

(First of all, we need to find an arm-written adventurer... in that sense, this is where you got lucky in the guilm)

Where Slasha's party was previously active, there were few skilled adventurers.

... There were quite a few people who called themselves handymen.

Sleisha and the others came to Gilm for a reason around it.

So it's not that hard to find an arm-writer in a guild - in the sense that his arm is above Sleisha.

Of course, some of them will try to fool Sleisha.

Anyway, Sleisha, the archer with the bow as his weapon, will need an avant-garde no matter what he does.

If you're a better armed archer, maybe you can work alone as an archer without an avant-garde... unfortunately, Sleisha hasn't reached that far.

(Trent Forest...... I will not die until I have resolved about that forest. Absolutely with this hand......)

Revealing her determination, Slasha moved to find her companion.

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

As before, Ray and Seto were on their way to the Trento Forest, but Seto accidentally raises his sharp voice around the area where the Trento Forest is visible.

"Seto?"

While questioning his partner's condition, Ray makes Seto like it.

Because I understood that Seto couldn't possibly do a strange imitation in this situation.

You felt Ray's thoughts like that, Seto descends straight to the ground.

However, Seto is on his way to a place quite far from where Ray has been several times before.

It is a fairly large forest, so the place where Ray has been active will naturally be narrow.

... even in the sense of finding out exactly how much the forest is spread, though that may be natural.

"... that's..."

And closer to the ground, Ray also realizes what Seto found.

Something that reflects the light of day, visible between the trees.

It was a sight to remember a sense of ready-made vision somewhere.

Yes, like when Sleisha's party found traces of camping.

"I had no idea this was gonna happen."

What happened in the woods?

Ray, who understands it, whines small.

Coming to this forest is not something that is forbidden by the Alliance.

Still, it has been made public that there are no monsters or animal species in this forest.

Even if I make a crusade request, I don't have any prey.

If it's a sampling request, I think maybe...... but I don't know if there really is any kind of plant there for the purpose than it is a forest that has suddenly appeared recently.

If you come to the Trento Forest and can't find the kind of plant you were asked to collect, you just wasted your effort.

If so, it was certain that it would be better to go to the plants and mushrooms to be harvested from the beginning and to other forests where anything else was growing.

(The name Trent Forest might have been a failure. Sometimes I come to this forest looking for Trent.... those are the same guys that were in that camp?

Even while I was thinking of it that way, Seto was a little further away from where he thought the camp site was... landing on the outside of the woods.