Legend

"What? Uh... I'm sorry, but can you let me hear it again?

To Ray's words, Lenora nods and opens her teasing mouth.

"Today's request will not be to harvest and bring Trento forest trees, but to transport trees harvested beyond"

When I decide that I still wasn't mistaken in hearing the words out of Lenora's mouth, I open my mouth like I was stunned.

"I think it was the guild's policy to keep people as close as possible to Trent Forest."

"Yeah, I hear that too... everything seems to be moving a lot up there. I was wondering if it was related."

"... I see"

To Lenora's words, Ray nods as he is convinced.

In the first place, there were many questions about the request to harvest and bring trees from the Trento woods.

Given that, where the content of the request has changed somewhat now, there is no particular problem.

No, I can tell you that just bringing home Ning Ro trees has made the request easier for Ray.

"So you have a small number of people in your guild today?

Ray comes to the guild during the busy hours of the morning...... that's when the requisition is posted on the requisition board and the adventurers are swarming for it too long.

It was the same again today, but there are some adventurers who are in the guild even during this time period if it is usual, but only today it seems to be a small number.

"Really...? For once, the Trent Forest is dangerous, which means it's a request with a limited rank... well, if the adventurers cut down their own trees in addition to the escort, it could be a delicious request in the sense that it will be put on the reward."

"I see you've decided to curb the forest spread of Trent in earnest"

"What do you think? Maybe they want more of the wood......"

To Ray's whining, Lenora returns it that way.

Next to Lenora like that, Kenny talked to Ray about it. He did so... but he hasn't finished collecting the paperwork for Kenny's work yet, and I was sure Lenora would be pissed off if I talked to him about it in the current situation.

"Either way. If it makes it easier for me to ask.... Oh, for God's sake, do you want to take the marinas too?

"... as a guild, I'd like Mr. Ray to go back and forth with the guild and Trent Forest again and again if he can"

"I mean, you didn't just go once like you've been before, you want me to go back and forth?

"Let me tell you something... it will happen"

To Lenora's words, Ray thinks.

Doing anything back and forth is fine in itself.

In the first place, the speed of travel of a flying ceto is about a few minutes one way to the forest of Trento.

However, it is nevertheless troublesome to store one felled tree at a time in mystering, and most importantly, travelling back and forth between the Guild and the Trento Forest means, naturally, that the process of entering or leaving the Guild must also take place without further delay.

Not to mention the hassle of having to travel to the guild again and again even after that process.

That, obviously, stinks of trouble.

"If the face of the guild is waiting in front of the main gate of the guild, and that means handing over the trees you cut there, I'll take it?

What ended up out of Ray's mouth was such a compromise.

Holding trees harvested in the Trento Forest in mystering is not a hassle that cannot be done.

I thought about the neighborhood and told him so...

"Hmmm... I can see Ray's request, but then I'm going to have to bring the tree in front of the main gate to the guild somehow..."

"Around there, if there's an adventurer, I can do anything... if you want me to bring it together at the end of the day?

"No, that would mean a lot of trees coming all at once."

You finish your paperwork, I tell Ray like Kenny's a little freaked out.

The only reason you get to go back and forth is because there are limits to the Alliance's warehouse.

Beyond that, as an Alliance, it was best to have them brought to the Alliance on a regular basis, little by little.

"Then... right, you're taking the trees you collected in the Guild's warehouse somewhere, aren't you? Then you don't have to put it in the guild. Why don't I just take it there directly?

"Hmmm...... if you think normally, you do. It's just that there are so many things going on up there."

"Things?"

"Yeah, I don't know the details about us.... Lenora, why don't you ask the guy up there? If you still can't make a decision, then maybe you should talk to the Alliance Master."

"... yeah, right"

I could understand why Kenny had said that as soon as I saw him smiling happily now.

Yes, while Lenora explains the situation to her boss, Kenny can talk to Ray alone.

I guess I wasn't after that from the start, but still, Kenny couldn't have missed it if he and Ray had a chance to talk alone.

(I'm acting with beauties like Marina and Vihera. I need to stay close to you around here, Ray.)

Marina and Vihera, with whom Ray is acting together, are very attractive opponents even from Kenny's eyes.

That's enough that even Kenny would fall in love if he realized it.

The only person who doesn't seem like a lover from Kenny is Beaune... but that wouldn't be salvation.

"Ha, looks like I'm out of work too, so I won't say any more... but if anyone comes to get a request, you're gonna take good care of it?

Even if you know what Kenny's after, you can't actually not talk to your boss in the current situation.

Lenora sighs when she has no choice but to take her seat and head toward her boss.

Lenora, too, supports Kenny's love... but that wasn't much of an attitude.

"Phew, it's been a long time since I've talked to you so slowly, Ray."

"Right. I've been busy lately."

The matter of the Spiel Chamber of Commerce, and that is the matter of the Trento Forest, which is currently involved in its progression.

Especially in the case of the Trento Forest, the forest erodes at night… above all because of its activity as a monster, Ray, who has a high fighting power with a flying ceto, was in the form of a half-time.

But there will be many other adventurers out there at the request of today.

(A request with a restricted rank means that unlike before, a powerful adventurer is going to the Trent Forest.... Well, I don't know what party stuff I found yesterday)

That's what he thinks, and Ray, concerned about yesterday's luggage, turns his gaze to Kenny and opens his mouth.

"Did you find out which party the package I found yesterday belonged to?

"Oh, about what Lenora was looking for.... No, unfortunately not yet. Sometimes I'm busy with Trent Forest, and it's a big deal that there wasn't anything in my luggage that I could personally identify."

"Right. Well, if it was an guild card, I guess it was something else..."

"Right. But basically, because guild cards are often worn by the person. Thinking about the area, it must be hard to say right away if there's nothing distinctive left."

That's what Kenny saw while saying, Ray.

Ray wore several magic items, like mysteries, Slapenil shoes, and other than that, Nebra eyes and crescent moon rings.

With all these characteristics, it would be easy to find out who was wearing them.

… but it would be difficult if they were to pick up the magic item and honestly deliver it to the Alliance.

"Ray, it sounds like you've been to the Trent Forest many times, but you've never seen any monsters or anything?

Even when we were talking about the missing party, I guess you decided that the subject was just going to get dark. Kenny changes the story.

So it's not a completely irrelevant story. It's about Trent Forest, I guess, because Kenny is still concerned about Trent Forest as an Alliance employee, too.

Currently the most legged of the guilds about Trent Forest is definitely Ray.

This would mean that no one is more familiar with the Trent Forest than Ray.

... Although Ray doesn't know that much about all kinds of plants, there are only a few things that can be answered even if asked.

But if he still asks if he encountered a monster in the Trent Forest, Ray confidently shakes his neck to the side.

"No, you haven't encountered a monster at all. Considering Slasha and the luggage I found yesterday, I'm pretty sure there 'll be monsters out in the Trent Forest at night..."

I can't see shadows or shapes during the day.

Kenny tilts his neck to Ray's words telling him so.

In fact, that's a funny thing.

There is no reason to say that a monster will be activated at night, but disappear at noon.

It may be that the movement was dull or asleep, but nevertheless it should not have misled Seto's five senses, his sixth sense, or even his ability to feel magic, including the smell.

"I see. Then..."

"Thank you for waiting"

Just before Kenny says anything, Lenora comes back and speaks out like that.

Kenny turns his disgruntled gaze against Lenora for interrupting his fun moments... but you know he originally dealt with Ray only while Lenora was gone.

There's nothing to complain about, and I refuse to accept it, but I shut up.

With such a glimpse of Kenny, Lenora opens her mouth to Ray again.

"I've asked the Alliance Master, but he's got a lot of confidentiality about this one. So he wants you to refrain from taking the trees that Mr. Ray has individually felled."

"... So what do you want me to do?

"They're sending people, so they want you to hand over the tree."

"I see, will that happen in the end?...... yeah?

To Lenora's words, Ray feels uncomfortable for a moment.

He says he'll do people, but to the point that it's not exactly where it's dispatched from.

(Well, if you normally think about it, are you an Alliance employee... or an adventurer?

I was only uncomfortable for a moment, but still soon forget about it.

"What's up?

"No, it's nothing. Then, once again, when I confirm today's request, I head all the way to the Trent Forest, where I store the cut down trees. And then you just have to turn it over to the person at the entrance to the guild, okay?

"Yes, it will. If you are asking for a fee, does that mean it will vary depending on the quantity carried?

"Oh, that doesn't matter. I just want you to pay for it with flame ore."

"I hear about that area from the Alliance Master. Whether it's flame ore, money, or whatever Ray likes."

I guess the worker also understands that he's forcing Ray to do a lot about this.

That's why I'm pretty sure this is how Ray prepared the reward he wanted.

... but Ray himself has no idea what he's doing.

In the first place, I've only worked for a certain amount of time before, such as whether it would take an hour or not.

It's just a fact that Ray is the only one who can do that.

"Right. Okay, flame ore, please."

"... such magic metal, what do you use it for? Isn't money better?

Kenny, who was listening to Ray and Lenora, asks strangely.

Even though I've heard about Ray using a tornado of flames, I don't know how exactly to do that... let alone imitate him pouring flame ore into it to increase his power and killing ability.

If I didn't know about that, it wouldn't be strange to think of flame ore as something that blacksmiths and alchemists would use.

And in Ray's case, he's not a blacksmith or an alchemist.

Or I can understand wanting flame ore as a material to bring in when you ask me to make something.

"For me right now, I'm happier with flame ore than gold. Especially if it's like right now…"

Use Fire Whirlwind to burn the Trent Forest at times of need.

For Ray, who thinks so as a last resort, flame ore was a substitute, no matter how many it was.