Legend

As was notified by Alliance officials, the number of people gathered to some extent appears at the dismantling site of Giganto Turtle when it is almost noon.

I guess it's a big deal that some of them look unhappy because it's still a hassle to come this far from the site of the additions.

Originally Gilm was big enough to remain in doubt to call it a city.

Among other things, it is in the back among the guilds that we are doing the additions.

Getting here from there, naturally, takes time, and I'm tired.

... Still, I don't directly complain because I'm surprised I saw Giganto Turtle being dismantled right in front of me, and above all because I know it was Ray who asked the Alliance to dismantle this Giganto Turtle.

If you're going to say dissatisfaction in such a situation, let alone be tyrannical...... no doubt, because Ray is coming out.

Alternatively, some might have spoken directly of their dissatisfaction if Ray hadn't been here, but now there are still Ray and Seto, Vihera and Bühne.... Most of all, Büne is not watching Giganto Turtle dismantle, but fighting Kobolt - you can call it ravaging.

"Oh, you've come a lot. Now, quickly, but break up with dismantling and crusading, please, each one of you."

To complain about someone who has said that, I can't imitate anything like that more than wearing an Alliance uniform.

In the first place, many of those here chose not to dismantle the less rewarding Giganto Turtle, but to crusade the Kobolts who could make a little money.

I have no money and will continue to receive requests from the Alliance, but I can't possibly imitate selling fights to Alliance officials.

(Is that it? But on second thought... if you give me Giganto Turtle's demolition, I'll split some meat, so wouldn't it be more rewarding to sell that meat to a butcher and get rich? Besides, you don't have to fight unless you're a demolition escort)

Even now, Ray thought only of it, but in fact, those who participated in the crusade against Kobolt decided that they would be rewarded more if they defeated Kobolt in large numbers. … some of them did not want to sell meat.

"With so many more people, the demolition will be over pretty quickly, won't it?

"I don't know. Given the size of Giganto Turtle, I don't think it makes that difference."

The word water on a burning stone is probably used at times like this.

While I think so, Ray answers Vihera...... Think about one thing about Kobolt.

When I first heard about Kobolt, I was wondering if if putting Seto at the site of the additions would scare Seto and not even make a Kobolt raid.

But Cobolt, who must have come attracted to the smell of Giganto Turtle's blood, never imitated things like escape or fright even when Seto was here.

That bothers Ray.

If you're a normal monster, that's not strange to escape as soon as you realize Seto's presence.

Or will you be frightened of Seto's very existence and unable to move?

Nonetheless, Kobolt, who came here, doesn't look like that at all.

(I'm pretty sure it's not a regular cobolt. But... for that matter, it's not particularly strong.)

At the end of Ray's gaze is the figure of Kobolt, who is lightly killed by Büne with a white cloud.

That one-sided battle was a monster with such strength that he did not have to be frightened by Seto's presence… it was an unexpected existence.

"Hey, Vihera fought Kobolt, too, didn't she?

"Huh? What? Suddenly.... Yep, we fought. It was just a regular cobolt."

"But why do you think there's no escape at all when there's Seto?

"... Huh?

In the words of Ray like that, Vihera once again sees how Seto is a little further away.

For Vihera, too, Seto was the perception of being a party member, and that's why I didn't seem particularly concerned when I saw him doing this on this occasion.

But that's what it seems to be because it's Vihera, and it doesn't mean that you wouldn't normally notice Seto's presence.

Not to mention, if that's a monster, it would be even worse.

"With that said... Ah, but monsters other than Kobolt are here too. Maybe because Seto didn't mean it in the mood, he didn't even notice Seto over there? Or is the smell of Giganto Turtle's blood that appealing?

"Hmmm... well, I can't say it's not possible..."

If it could also be the smell of the blood of a high-ranking monster with so many giants, it wouldn't be strange if the other monsters that sniffed it changed the color of their eyes.

But even if they say that, Ray doesn't understand it, he's not convinced.

Rationally, I know that's likely, but there's still something like subtle discomfort.

"Then why don't you take Seto to a place where he's working on the addition next time?

"I thought about that, too. It's just that taking down Kobolt is not enough money to go outside the city to ask for a crusade, or a place to make money for them to dress up because it's too much trouble moving around in the snowy outdoors, right? I was wondering if you'd take that away from me."

"... I know that, but what would you do if you stayed like this forever? Not now. Since it's winter, no additional construction has been carried out. But after a little more time, in the spring, there's gonna be a whole new building going on, right? If the Kobolt raid continues, as it does now, construction will surely be delayed, right?

Vihera's words were an undeniable fact.

Regardless of the adventurer who can protect himself, it's not an adventurer or anything to work on the additions, it's also a fact that those who come to earn money are sure to make a lot of money.

It is impossible to ask such people to work in places where they do not know when the Kobolt raid will take place.

No, I would refuse to do my job if I heard one thing about Cobolt before then, that my life was more important.

Even adventurers who can defeat Kobolt are hard to deal with if it means they will be raided by Kobolt on the way to building more... if they get the kind of accidental blow.

"I see. I'm fine now, but can't we just stay the way we are forever? Then…"

So once the words were cut, Ray speaks to the guild official, who is a little further away... who is shaped like the one in charge in this dismantling of Giganto Turtle.

"Hey, you got a minute? I need to talk to you for a second!

I guess I heard that voice. Alliance officials rush to Ray's when they give instructions to several of their nearby subordinates.

"Yes, what is it?

"Where I'm busy, I'm sorry. I'd like to ask you a few questions about the Kobolt raid."

"What? Ha, I don't mind that"

I guess I thought they were going to ask me something about dismantling Giganto Turtle. He was an Alliance official with a slightly unexpected look, but immediately erases that surprise and waits for questions from Ray's mouth.

"Now Kobolt is raiding the guilds every day, every night and so on, but considering that's when it's spring, isn't that a lot unsavory?

"It's not good."

Alliance officials who say so softly and without a moment of hesitation.

That attitude demonstrates that the situation is by no means good.

Still, I guess it doesn't look like it's stuck with cutting feathers because we still have some time until spring.

Hopeful observation that this matter is resolved by spring.

Though... Gilm's adventurers deserve to be called handymen most of the time.

Many people are now difficult to call handsome in one of the construction additions, but it's not surprising to think that if Gilm's adventurers get serious in this one, they can solve it without a problem.

"I think we should think about it from now on so that we don't rush for time.... someone resented me... wait a minute"

That's all I said, Ray, I notice.

This one case is delightful to the goldless adventurers so far.

But if, objectively speaking, this is happening for some man-made reason, this is undoubtedly an act of obstruction against Gilm... no, you can call it hostility.

Though to the extent of a cobolt, it calls monsters in large quantities into the guilds, so I guess that's natural.

"What's up?

A guild official asks wonderfully to Ray, who suddenly cut the word while he was talking.

Ray asks the guild staff just in case.

"I'll ask you once, I'll just pick Kobolt and call him to the Guild. Do you have that kind of means, ritual, magic items, magic, that sort of thing?

"Huh? Erm..."

To Ray's sudden question, Alliance officials think a little.

Guild clerk in Guild...... as it is also entrusted with this one case, this man is in a pretty high position among Guild's guilds.

Speaking of, you can say Lenora or Kenny's boss.

So I know a lot of information I don't even know about Lenora or Kenny... shake my neck right away.

"No, unfortunately you've never even heard of that. For once, even the guilders have checked the area on instructions from Master Dusker since this one started, so it's obvious."

Only a guild on the periphery has more knowledge stored in that guild than a regular guild.

Instructions from Dusker, whether there is no such thing. I checked that out with almost everyone on the guild staff, so I could say I wasn't confident in Ray's questioning.

Most… and guild officials continue their words.

"It's not strange that there are technologies, magic, and magic items in the world that we don't know about, and it's not strange that there are alchemists who made such magic items. Not to mention, if it's a dungeon or something, there could be magic items that we don't know about."

"... I guess. And if this happened artificially, you don't know exactly how it happened?"

"Unfortunately, it will. And... someone with a grudge against Gilm isn't like ten or twenty people."

Ray can't help but be convinced of that explanation.

Gilm is on the periphery, therefore, rare materials, ores, demonic stones… it is easy to obtain a variety of objects.

I envy that, or it's the city ruled by Dusker, who leads the Neutralists... and now I'm working on additions and trying to further scale them up.

Given the neighborhood, it's not surprising that the number of people who have a grudge against the Guild, who want the additions to fail, is, as the Guild officials said, in units of ten, twenty, hundred, two hundred.

"If it's not anthropogenic, you can have it around the superior or rare species, but there's no such thing, is there?

"Yes. So far, you don't have any reports of that kind. Several adventurers with excellent enemy skills have also looked into it..."

Couldn't find it, and a guild clerk shaking his neck sideways.

When that happens, we also have to think about the artificial method, not the superior or rare species, as Ray.

(Or is there a superior or rare species with the capability like Seto's optical camouflage?... personally, that would be more helpful)

If there are monsters with abilities like optical camouflage, defeat it and get the Demon Stone, then Seto's level of optical camouflage increases.

Ray knows that optical camouflage has a very great effect in playing combat in the battles he's been through, and it's definitely a variety of user-friendly skills outside of combat.

"In the meantime, you can probably think that obstruction of the aristocracy... is different"

In a situation where Elaine is in the Guild immediately, this kind of imitation is tantamount to suicide.

Most importantly, that's only if Elaine finds out, and there's nothing she can do about it if Elaine doesn't know about it.

"There's more..."

That's how he thinks, and Ray remembers those who kept causing disturbances in the Guild before going to Anesis.

"With that said, what happened to those redcloth guys who were making a commotion before I went to Anesis? I haven't heard from you since you got back here."

Yes, I asked.