Chapter 264
"You mean those 『Swords Extremers』 would show themselves if we take on high ranking quests?"
"Simply put, yep . "
I head to the guild .
But . . . Iris calls out to me .
"But we're rank E aren't we? Can we even take high ranking quests?"
. . . She's right .
We were rank A at Raginia Federation .
But we're only rank E here at Eis Kingdom .
It's higher than our initial rank, F, at the beginning, but not high enough to take high ranking quests .
We can probably get our rank raised if we contact the king . . . But that would take time .
Probably will take around three days even if the principal is involved .
Raising our rank the normal way is probably faster than going through all that .
" . . . Alright . First thing first, let's look for a suspicious looking quest . "
"What if we can't take that quest?"
"Then we simply need to stalk the guys who do . We'll strike from the flank once the 『Swords Extremers』 bunch come out . "
We went into the guild while having that conversation .
And then I look towards the quest board .
"Unn . . . I have no idea which is which . . . "
"There's so many high ranking quests, it's hard to pick out the suspicious one . . . "
There's a mountain of quests on the quest board .
The guild's walls are stuffed full with quest tags .
There's fewer rank B and rank A quests as expected . . . But the number still rounds up to around 30 .
Guess it's only right for the adventurer city Haigia .
"We've got to look for suspicious quests among these?"
"Yea . . . Actually, I found one already . "
I point at a quest tag while speaking to Ruli .
The quest was first posted two days ago .
There's no better quest to lure out adventurers than this one .
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Type: General Quest
Quest Rank: A
Required Rank: A
Reward: 120,000 Elmi
Quest Spot: Senisye Plain
Subject: Subjugation of 10 『Giga Aegis』 monsters . Monsters' location will be informed once you have accepted the quest .
Client: Picas
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"Err, it looks like an ordinary quest to me though . . . "
"『Giga Aegis』 are rank B monsters aren't they? Rank A should be fitting if the quest asks you to defeat 10 of them . . . "
"Yeah . Neither the quest rank nor the subject have anything wrong . . . It's the client that's weird . "
Afterward, Alma and Ruli look at the client's name .
"Err . . . Picas?"
"The name doesn't sound familiar . . . What's wrong about it?"
"Would a commoner without a family name post a quest with 120,000 elmi as a reward?"
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" . . . Aah!"
Subjugation quests generally ask for monster exterminations .
The goals are usually to maintain public order or secure safe areas within a territory . . . But these kinds of quests are usually posted by either the guild or the noble who governs an area, not commoners .
And neither the guild nor a noble posted this quest .
A noble would have put up their house name on it .
In rare cases, there are some people who would post these quests due to personal grudges on monsters and such . . . . But the chance of them putting forward 120,000 elmi as a reward is pretty slim .
That amount of money would be enough to build a house after all .
"Excuse me, I need to take this . "
A guild receptionist came by before the quest tag and said that .
And then she peeled off the suspicious quest tag and took it with her .
"Where are you taking that quest tag?"
"We're going to raise the amount of quest reward as requested by the client . . . Although I don't think anyone would take this quest even with higher reward . . . "
. . . Raising reward money just because no one took it in two days huh .
It's looking even more suspicious .
The receptionist seems to know about the reason . . . I'll go ask her .
"No one would take it?"
"Yes, I don't think anyone would . I mean, it's right after that incident after all . . . "
"That incident . . . ?"
"It's the one about Relis-san, a famous adventurer, who went missing at Senisye Plain . That quest was posted by the same person as this one as well . . . "
. . . That'd be the first victim .
There's almost no doubt about it, Picas is a member of 『Swords Extremer』 .
He probably got this much reward money from the victim .
『No doubt about it, the enemy is at Senisye Plain . 』
『Then, our next destination is Senisye Plain!?』
『But Senisye Plain is very vast isn't it?』
Ruli is right, that plain is enormously vast .
The plain's circumference alone hold dozens of cities with more at the center .
Even just traveling from its end to end could take us a day at worst .
As such, knowing that 『the enemy is at Senisye Plain』 is practically the same as knowing nothing .
It'd have been simple if the guild would tell us about the client's info, but unfortunately Adventurer Guild has a strict policy on confidentiality .
We'd need the king's decree if we want to get info from the guild .
Doesn't seem like we can hope for someone to take the quest either--Guess we'll have to take on this quest ourselves in the end .