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Chapter 29: Godrick's Party (1)
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The receptionist regained their composure and asked Godric.
“You’re including that Slime as a party member too, right?”
“That’s right.”
“...Is that really safe?”
“Can’t you tell from the way we carry it on our heads? Of course it’s safe. If anything happens, it’ll be our responsibility, so don’t worry about it too much.”
The receptionist thought for a moment before speaking.
“Understood. There are adventurers who tame animals as well... But please remember that you can be held responsible if a problem arises.”
The receptionist held out a sheet of paper.
“Please write your names here.”
The aspiring adventurers each wrote down their names on the paper.
Def wrote Tongtong’s name for the Slime.
“Let me confirm. Godric, Hawein, Seugol, Def, and... Tongtong. Five of you in total, correct?”
“Yeah.”
“Could you pay the registration fee? Ah, there is no registration fee for the Slime.”
“Here.”
After receiving the registration fee from Godric, the receptionist activated a magical device on the counter.
Vwooooom!
Click! Click! Click! Click!
Four ID tags popped out of the magical device as Mana gathered within it, making strange noises.
“Please keep your ID tags somewhere safe so you don’t lose them. There are cords here too, so you can thread one through the hole and wear it around your neck, wrap it around your arm, or store it somewhere else.”
“Hehe, so this is an adventurer’s ID tag.”
Once the receptionist confirmed that everyone had received one, they asked, “What would you like to call your party?”
“A name... Guys, got any good ideas?”
At Godric’s question, Seugol asked the receptionist, “Hey, we can change the party name later, right?”
“Yes, of course.”
“Boss! Then let’s use your name for now! We can change it when we come up with something good!”
“Tch... Well, sure. Hawein, Def. You two okay with that?”
“Heh heh, I’ll think of a cool name later.”
“Hehe, I’m fine with it too.”
“Then put us down as Godric Party.”
“Understood.”
The receptionist nodded and began a basic explanation.
“Your current rank is F. Once you complete three different F-rank requests, you will receive E-rank status. By completing a certain number of requests, you can advance as far as D-rank without an examination. From C-rank onward, you may advance by completing requests designated by the Guild.
“Now that you are adventurers, you may use the training grounds within the Guild. You may also use the rooms on the second floor if you wish. Please check the requests posted on the board. If you would like details about a request, bring it here and I will explain it. Do you have any further questions?”
“We can choose a request right away, yeah?”
“Yes, as long as it is available at your current rank.”
“Good. Guys, let’s go look at the requests.”
“Yes, Boss!”
Boing!
Attention gathered around the newly formed Godric Party.
“A Slime? Did they really form a party with a Slime?”
“I’ve seen all sorts of strange things in my life.”
“Is it okay to put that on your head?”
“Where was it... I heard some count’s daughter raises a Slime too.”
“I’ve heard of villages using Slimes to dispose of leftover food, but fighting monsters together?”
No one looked at them with hostility for bringing a monster into the Guild.
After all, it was a Slime, famous for being weak.
Instead, only curious and puzzled looks followed the Godric Party.
Meanwhile.
‘Wow! There are so many!’
The Slime happily looked around the inside of the Guild from atop Def’s head.
During the month it had spent in the count’s territory, it had passed by the Guild building there a few times while out inspecting the territory with Jessie.
But this was its first time actually entering a Guild.
The Slime was full of anticipation.
The humans it had just met.
They said it could accept requests with Godric and the others, fight other monsters, and grow stronger.
The Slime knew what adventurers were.
It also understood that Godric and the others wanted to undertake adventurer activities with it.
But what exactly did adventurers do?
While riding in the carriage, the Slime had asked its viewers.
▷What do you do when you become an adventurer?
▶Go around cracking other monsters’ skulls.
▶Clang! Clang! Clang!
▷Skulls?
[Jiggly Queen]▶Do not teach my kin such strange things!
[Jiggly Queen]▶My kin, there is no need to think so hard. You simply go together and defeat the monsters you encounter. If you think they are strong, you run away.
▶Ooooh, telling it to kill fellow monsters.
▶What are you having for dinner tonight?
▶Meat from monsters weaker than me.
▶LOL
Monsters did not feel kinship with creatures of other species.
Rather, to them, it was common sense that the weak would be eaten.
[Jiggly Queen]▶When you grow stronger, you can evolve and grow stronger again. And when you evolve, you can see more things!
▷Wow!
Hearing the Slime Queen’s words, a desire to evolve bloomed within the Slime.
▶You can move around more after evolving too, yeah.
▶Can’t you open the Shop too?
[Free Spirit]▶That has nothing to do with evolving. You need to build up some points to open it.
▷Shop?
▶Ahhh, what that is, is...
[Jiggly Queen]▶You can tell it when the Shop opens! Stop saying pointless things!
▶Knowing now would only make it impatient anyway lol.
The Slime could not learn much about the Shop, but it had gained a new goal.
‘Evolution!’
It would catch lots of other monsters with Godric and the others and evolve.
It would evolve and see more things.
That was the Slime’s current goal.
That was why the Slime, sitting atop Def’s head, carefully examined the requests posted on the board.
▶What does it say?
▶LOL I can’t read it LOL
▶Malangi, translate for us.
▷Manticore! B-rank! Lesser Troll! B-rank! Red Wyvern! C-rank! Goblin! E-rank!
At the viewers’ request, the Slime simply read out what it could see.
[Noblesse Fire]▶What? Why is a wyvern ranked below a Lesser Troll with worse regeneration? Don’t humans know anything?
▶LOL the flying lizard got offended because someone said its relative was weak LOL.
[Noblesse Fire]▶Who are you calling a flying lizard?! Wyverns are not even relatives!
[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶Wyverns and dragons are clearly different. Starting with their intelligence...
▶But you got mad, didn’t you? You hated that, didn’t you?
▶Both flying lizard grandpas got offended LOL.
▶That foul-mouthed, human-faced monster is B-rank. It’s weaker than a fake flying lizard.
▶That bastard has weird tastes. It especially likes eating humans.
▶Ah LOL, is that why?
While the Slime answered the viewers, the Godric Party selected their first request.
“This seems like the safest one.”
The Godric Party chose herb gathering.
It was one of the typical F-rank requests.
Another F-rank request was Slime extermination, but since their party had a Slime member, they did not feel right about exterminating other Slimes.
Godric tore the request sheet from the board and headed to the counter.
“We’ll take this one.”
“Yes, understood.”
The receptionist told them where herbs grew nearby, then asked, “Have you seen these herbs before? If not, I can show you a picture.”
“We know that much.”
“Would you like to borrow sickles and baskets for carrying the herbs?”
“That’d be great.”
The receptionist bent down briefly, then brought out four sickles and baskets.
“Here you are.”
Since herb gathering was something every beginner adventurer went through, the items required for it were always prepared.
“If you lose them, you will have to pay compensation, so please make sure to return them.”
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The Godric Party each took a sickle and basket, then headed to the location the receptionist had indicated.
“Boss! Here!”
“Yeah. Good find, Seugol.”
The Godric Party crouched down and began gathering the herbs growing wild on the ground.
As Def picked herbs, he spoke.
“Hehe. This reminds me of the old days. I used to gather herbs near the village a lot.”
“Hmph, we did it plenty because that old apothecary woman made us.”
“No matter how hard we gathered, all she gave us was one piece of bread! That old hag! And if the herbs were even a little damaged, she’d give us knuckle raps! Thinking about it now makes me mad!”
Despite his temper, Seugol skillfully used his sickle to gather the herbs.
Like Seugol, the other members of the Godric Party also drew on their childhood experience to pull out the herbs while damaging the roots as little as possible, then placed them in their baskets.
Boing!
‘What should I do?’
The Slime, who had nothing to do except sit on Def’s head, bounced once.
“Are you bored, Tongtong? Sorry. But we can handle gathering herbs ourselves. Help us lots when we fight monsters instead.”
‘Okay!’
Boing!
“Hehe, but gathering herbs doesn’t pay much.”
“It’s an F-rank request. This much is reasonable. Besides, exterminating Slimes feels a little... wrong, doesn’t it?”
“Ah, Boss! Come to think of it, I saw another F-rank request besides Slime extermination and herb gathering! Great Rat extermination.”
“We are absolutely not doing that.”
All three voices spoke as one.
Great Rat extermination.
It was also called sewer rat extermination, a request to eliminate large rat-like monsters in the city sewers.
It offered the highest pay among F-rank requests, even more than ordinary E-rank requests.
The reason was simple. The request itself was unpopular.
There were no adventurers eager to enter the foul-smelling city sewers!
The more people did not want to do a job, the higher its reward naturally became.
Even with increased compensation, adventurers willing to exterminate Great Rats did not easily appear.
But the requests could not simply be left unattended. So, when reports came in that the Great Rat population in the underground sewers had increased, the Guild would issue mandatory designated requests that adventurers could not refuse.
After gathering all the herbs, the Godric Party returned to the city without encountering any monsters and headed for the Guild.
“Here are the herbs.”
“Yes, I’ll inspect them.”
The receptionist immediately checked the herbs in the four baskets.
“Oh my, you gathered them all very well?”
The receptionist looked at the Godric Party with surprise upon seeing the excellent-quality herbs.
A party consisting of a fat man, a slight man, a gloomy man, a somewhat fierce-looking man, and a Slime.
They looked like the sort of people anyone would believe were a bandit gang, so it was surprising that they had gathered herbs so well.
“We did it in the village when we were kids.”
“Ah, I see.”
There was no reason to doubt them, so the receptionist immediately understood and placed the request reward on the counter.
“Here is your reward for completing the request.”
“...? This is more than what was written on the request sheet.”
“It is an additional reward because all the herbs are of good quality. The original reward takes into account that there may be low-quality herbs.”
‘...Who would have thought the work that old herb woman made us do would help us now?’
The Godric Party accepted the additional reward and left the Guild.
“Heh, what we learned from that old woman came in handy right away.”
“Hmph! I’m still mad that she worked us so hard!”
“B-Boss! What should we eat today?”
“I’m not sure.”
They were walking through the streets in search of a decent restaurant when someone called out.
“Hey, you there, wait a moment. You lot traveling with that Slime.”
“What is it?”
A robed man stopped the Godric Party.
The man giggled, rubbed his hands together, and spoke.
“Any chance you’d sell that Slime to me?”
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