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You rejected a private commission from the Speaker's cousin.

"That's right, the guild has only recently reopened, and it is still lacking in manpower and energy. No problem, no tightness. ”

The Speaker's cousin left. Although he said that it was okay, he could see that there was a slight displeasure on his face. Silently, Hathaway jotted down a "-4" in her notebook.

I thought that this afternoon's adventurer's guild would also be a cold and wasted time, but unexpectedly, an adventurer came back early to hand in the task.

Rachel,

...... Rachel alone.

The midday sun shone on Rachel's back, causing her expression to sink into a cloud in the backlight. His feet dragged on the floor with a tired foot, and he was missing a shoe. The robe was wet from the crotch down, but the upper body was fine. Unable to tell whether it was just a return from a forest in the countryside or an expedition, Rachel pressed almost all her weight on the staff, as if she were staggering on three legs. Tired steps, embarrassed figures, messy short hair became dirty and sticky.

“...... I'm back......"

There was no glint in Rachel's eyes. There were also a few traces of congealed blood on her face and around the shoulders of her robe.

When Rachel put a pair of forearms in front of the counter, Fieltin's shoulders trembled: "It's hard, it's hard, is the task going well?...... No, I'm sorry! Look at what I asked......"

"In short, the mission is complete......"

"What's the blood on your face?"

"Max Usley's. ”

"Why didn't he come back......?

"Nope. Half a breath left, lying on the bed in the temple at the moment to be treated. I guess I survived. ”

Swallowing his saliva, Fieltin lowered his head and began to record. This is the first time she has faced the death of an adventurer since she took office as a receptionist. Adventurers are originally a high-risk profession, and people who work in guilds should get used to it, sooner or later.

As if squeezing out a few ounces of courage with all his might, Fieldin confirmed to Rachel: "Where are the new additions, Michael and Billy, now, where are they?"

Grief-stricken - Rachel has that on her face. She looked up and blinked desperately, eventually rolling down a tear. Tears were crystal clear, but they radiated coldness on the backlit face at noon.

"They must be with those goblins right now. ”

Was it taken away? Or was it dragged away?

In any case, it doesn't make much difference, and even if you try to save it now, I'm afraid it's too late. In such an atmosphere, Fielting really can't continue to ask for details, the correct thing to do is to wait for the survivors to calm down before recording the mission report - no matter success or failure, no matter how many people survive in the team, no matter how bleak it is, this is the duty of the receptionist of the Adventurer's Guild, and anyone should get used to it as soon as possible.

A small glass of wine,

Rachel seemed to regain some of her senses and began to slowly recount what had happened.

"Am I a good captain?" Rachel asked, covering her face.

Perhaps because she was a woman, but also because she was a mage to look forward to in the later stage, and because she also had the support of Max Usley, Rachel became the captain of this rookie team. Out of consideration for the team's vision, her first directive was to turn Billy into a wanderer, a thief class for adventurers.

A warrior, a marksman, a mage, they're just a wanderer, and there's nothing wrong with that decision. Here's the problem...... It wasn't until she left the city that Rachel said this. A veritable halfway monk, Billy didn't even have time to change his equipment.

"Captain, I declare now that you are already a loiter!"

"Wow!"

It was so happily decided. Billy, a wanderer with a false name, holds a shield and wields the abilities of a level 1 warrior. "You're in charge of making a fire for the stew!" and "Wow!" This kind of conversation usually happens only when the children go to a picnic in the countryside.

Hathaway muttered in a low voice, "Poor Billy. ”

Rachel continued: "We arrived at the village and the villagers were welcoming. We politely excused ourselves from eating and drinking, and went to investigate the goblin trail first. For days, these goblins would come out in the middle of the night stealing vegetables and raiding livestock, and they became even more arrogant. Vigil villagers have witnessed at least three goblins disappearing into the night with chickens in their arms. ”

"Michael and Billy both come from small villages and are familiar with their surroundings. Rachel said gratefully, "Now that I think about it, maybe I should have decided to ambush the goblins in the middle of the night near the farmland, instead of waving my big hand and shouting "Pursuit!" It just so happened that we found enough clear tracks of the goblins. So, we followed the trail in search of the goblin's lair. ”

Fieltin forehead,

Hathaway held her forehead.

"It's dangerous to rush into a goblin cave. ”

"Cave?" Rachel was stunned, "no, it's just a campground that's only half set up with a grass hut." ”

Hearing this, Fiertin breathed a sigh of relief: "Goblins often use caves as nests, and your luck is not bad yet. Without the initiative to produce them, their camps are probably very rudimentary, right?"

"There wasn't even a fence except for a burn-out campfire and a few piles of gnawing on the remaining animal carcasses. In short, I have prepared two level 1 spells - "Colorful Spray", "Sleep", oh, and level 0 "Arrow", "Flash", "Communication", and "Magic Trick". I've used up the "magic tricks", and I'm very popular with everyone, so I'm firmly on the captain's seat. Hey~!"

Hathaway was shocked. This little girl can still laugh in this situation?

Rachel must have been promoted to level 2 after fighting a few slimes.

Maybe you're mistaken - Rachel's eyes gradually regained a little brightness, and she began to describe their epic battle with the goblin minions:

"It started out really well. We hid in the bushes nearby, close enough to get close. As the book says, day is night for goblins, and they seem to be sleepy, and there are eleven of them, including the leader, but only two of them are holding short spears. So, I started to use "Sleep Magic" on them, which was a time-consuming attack. One blow, sleep down three. ”

Fieltin blinked, as if somewhat surprised that the spell had succeeded.

"And then the orcs ...... No, Max Usley threw out the javelin with a whoosh, killing one of the guards. The other goblins were awakened, grabbed their clubs and daggers and jumped, and soon found that their heads were followed by the fiery tall and burly Masersley, and the battle officially began. The guy is not suitable for sniping and is bigger than the bushes themselves. ”

I still remember that Fierting once said when he was applying for a receptionist that he longed for the story of adventurers. She forgot her grief for the victims for a moment, and asked as she recorded it quickly: "What happened to the next, what was the leader like, and how tall?"

"It was a shaman who had been shot directly in the abdomen by Maxusley's second javelin. Rachel bowed her head as if in silence and as if she was admitting her mistake, "Sister, remind me to apologize to Max Usley another day, he's not a piece of waste, it's just that slimes aren't afraid of javelins." ”

"Dead?"

"Lie in the temple. ”

"No, I'm asking the shaman. How many levels are there to speculate?

"It's funny to say, that shaman wasn't dead, but he didn't know what he was thinking about and pretended to be dead until the end. It may be trying to sneak up while we're collecting loot, but luckily it's not involved in the fight, otherwise it would have been a nuisance. Rachel shrugged, she didn't know that cunning was in goblin nature, and at such moments, the first reaction was to decide to play dead, which is a common behavior of highly intelligent goblins, "I was so handsome at the time!" and shouted, "Brothers, give it to me!" The fight was a lively one, and there were three shortbow archers on the opposite side. The worst was Michael, who was in charge of the guard, and he withstood the attacks of three goblins himself, and he was about to die, so I helped him. I was so handsome! With a wave of my hand, I yelled, "Give me a rainbow squirt, bastard!"

Fieltin forehead,

Hathaway held her forehead.

Can anyone tell this little girl that the colorful jet brings a friend?

With Rachel's words, "Luckily, all four creatures in the fan range, including Michael, were hit." The two goblins immediately fainted to the ground, one was stunned and completely blinded, and Michael directly covered his eyes and kept shouting, "Oh my God, Captain, you give me back the sun!"

Silently, Hathaway wrote a note on Rachel's personal record - "Happiness is built on friendship", and silently, Fierting recorded the cause of Michael's death in the mission report - "As the vanguard of the four-man team, it is worse than one against three, one against six." 」

"So," Fieldin confirmed, "Michael's death from the other goblins' mending knives because of your friend's wounds, right?"

"What?"

Rachel froze,

Scratched his head,

He slapped the table with a bang and shouted, "Wait! Don't just write my team to death!" Felting crouched under the counter.

You can't figure out where Fieltin's voice came from, but you hear a female voice from the counter itself, "Could it be that Michael was captured by a goblin?"

"No, I don't. Rachel looked confused, crossed her arms and tilted her head, "He's in good time with the goblins, and so is Billy." Didn't I say that the mission was completed, and how could the team members be completed if they were captured?"

That is, it was not Michael, nor Billy, nor was it Max Usley, who was injured and bedridden...... So, who the hell died? You make sure there's a shadow under Rachel's feet.

Fierting grabbed the edge of the counter and asked shiveringly, "Cool, calm down." You mean, your team won the battle?"

"Isn't that a matter of course! We're future S-class adventurers!"

"But, why are you scared to pee?"

“...... Huh?"

Rachel looked down at her soaked pants, and immediately laughed, waving her hand repeatedly: "No, no, it's a river! Aren't goblins often ruining farmland, isn't there a river next to the farm?" Michael's eyes ...... Temporarily blind, Billy ran over to mend the three goblins, and Mesersley threw one of the archers to death, leaving only five. Two goblins with clubs and daggers, plus a short archer, set their sights on Billy and Michael, one on Mesersley, and the other on me. I, the captain. Who made me the captain, and there was nothing I could do if I was being chased by the goblins, so I ran away! The water is only thigh-deep. ”

Didn't you get your pants wet with a scared pee?

"What about spells?"

"I'm done. ”

"What about flashing, what about archery?"

"The other party has a bow! I don't run until I die? ”

Later, Max Usley went to help Michael and Billy, became an archer, and turned around to chase Rachel, but unexpectedly, a girl and a goblin ran away and chased after them quite quickly, until they were by the river. "At that time, I was standing by the river, and I thought that I would die this time, and I would definitely be miserable by the goblins. Luckily, when the bow and arrow came at me, Maxesley flew to block one of the arrows for me. Rachel didn't talk about Max Usley as he was talking about a teammate, boyfriend, or benefactor, but like showing off — look, there's a man who blocked an arrow for me, I'm amazing, right?

Arrows are poisonous,

Although it is a low-level toxin made indiscriminately from poisonous weeds and feces, it is still effective. If it were someone else, I am afraid that I would not have been able to make it back to the temple for a long time, but fortunately, the people of Mesersli are tall and large, and the poisoned rat and the poisoned elephant must require different doses. In a word, he could be alive? She was alive too?

Fielting was confused and ticked off and deleted from his register, seemingly rewriting it many times. Finally, she confirmed, "So, are Michael and Billy alive after all?"

"Sister, how can you, as a receptionist, always hope that the adventurer will hang up, this is not good. ”

“......”

Gradually, you give up on spending more brain cells listening to Rachel continue, turning your face to Hathaway, expecting her to understand for you, and then sort it out more clearly. You may look expectant, and Hathaway looks like she regrets becoming secretary.

Rachel and the four successfully defeated the goblins entrenched in the forest near the village. These goblins should be defeated in the turf struggle and expelled from the down-and-out clan with nowhere to stay, otherwise they would not have been reduced to stealing vegetables and chickens and sheep several times, and it would be better to attack the village directly.

Michael was a blessing in disguise, because he was blind and covered his face and screamed, but he was not regarded as the primary target; Billy was decided to be a wanderer, but he was impossible to change as a level 1 warrior, but he had a shield in his hand, and it was more than enough for one person to deal with two embarrassed melee goblins who could not eat and sleep well, and he could even ignore minor injuries; Max Usley was hit by a poisoned arrow in his arm, which was actually not serious, but because no one in the team brought an antidote, he walked back to town on foot, delayed treatment, and now he was only half a breath left; Rachel was unharmed.

Now think about it......

The reason why Rachel looked tired when she first entered the door was because she needed to hold Max Assley along the way. Fortunately, she is not short, otherwise ordinary women would not be able to support her at all. The stupid big guy who staggered, which made Rachel suffer a lot and lose her strength. The dried blood on her face was actually splashed by Messeusley when he pulled out his arrow. The messy hairstyle was due to the fact that as he approached the town, Max Usley's legs became weaker and weaker, and Rachel fell to the ground.

Fiertin also has a temper!

She clenched her little fists, pursed her lips and frowned, and roared in a voice slightly louder than a mosquito, "Then why did you say that Michael and Billy were "with goblins" in the first place, such a vague statement?"

"Facts. Now they're also with the goblins. ”

"Then why were you crying just now?"

"I'm blinded, look at my dirt!"

"Where's the shoes?"

"Throw it out and try to smash the goblin chasing me. ”

"Isn't this a perfect task? Why do you say, "Let it be done?"

Ahh Didn't the shaman play dead, and Mesersley and I ran all the way to the far river, and only the two rookies were left. ”

There's a super rookie in front of you who is saying that someone else is a rookie.

"Originally, those two rookies were doomed, but there was an adventurer senior from our guild who came to the rescue in time. The mage seemed to be on a mission to get rid of the goblins, and he heard "a girl's cry" from the side...... I didn't cry, I was a strategic and active retreat...... Then he rushed over and captured the goblin shaman alive. He was very satisfied, and he also saved the two rookies. That's why I said "let's do it", and I was very helpful. "As a token of gratitude, Michael and Billy are now helping the senior mage escort the goblin captive.

Who?

You look at Hathaway, who shrugs her shoulders, indicating that she doesn't know where the adventurer predecessor came from either.

Fieltin angrily taught Rachel a lesson, saying that he ran away without reporting on the previous slime mission and didn't understand the rules. At that time, Rachel arrived at the team, and when she was happy, she forgot about it, even forgetting the task reward. In that time with the slime, Max Usley was also injured in order to protect Rachel - when Rachel smashed the slime with a staff, it happened to splash acid, but fortunately Max Usley protected his girlfriend's face at the cost of his left hand.

In short, peace is good.

Silently, Fiertin crossed out the cause of Michael's death. Silently, Hathaway crossed out Rachel's note and changed it to "Idiot who can't even report a mission, as an adventurer she needs to learn from scratch." Later, you learn that the phrase "that man has already shown a dead face" refers to Maxusley, but fortunately, divination is not what Raumi is good at, otherwise she would not have been so surprised to see her little brother killed by the black cat.

Fieldin needs to officially register Rachel's squad names for the four of them.

"Well...... which sister thinks is better, "Golden Crown", "Golden Blade", or "Golden Phantom"?" Rachel actually answered the question with a question, and Fieldine was of course embarrassed and noncommittal.

What are you going to do?

A, suggested that she take the name "Golden Crotch", God knows if she was scared to pee and washed white by the river.

B, I suggest that she don't keep making a fuss around the word "gold", and change her thinking, called "brain-dead crown".

C, suggesting that she start all over again from the team members.

D, suggested that she should be named "Golden Survivor", hopefully to the occasion.

E, silent.