>>6032892“New quests are now posted! Everyone, please go to the notice board to start picking them out!” The guild clerk shouts as her eyes nervously dart towards you and back to the board pretending she isn’t doing that. Does she think you’re going to make a scene? What the Hell? you haven’t even done anything!
Elric quickly retreats with his party to the board as other parties approach you and badger you for your assistance seeing as you’re of such a “high rank.” You’re given offers that include taking most of the share of the loot, helping to protect the innocent, and a witch even tries to seduce you with her body. You sigh and rub your temple, a headache coming on. Worst part is that situations like this aren’t even that uncommon when you enter a Guild. Sometimes you hate the world you ended up in.
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“Um, sir? What’s a bark beetle?” The party priestess asks you after you finish your small lecture. Everyone in the four-person group looks confused. You decided to join as basically a chaperone to a young and inexperienced copper party, the Holy Hopefuls, for fear of their safety when monster fighting. You almost joined the copper party going after a Goblin Warren, though not to the extent that some anime show goblins are still rather dangerous, but you decided against it when you saw the warren wasn’t raiding but just causing a stink in the city. That party left with a goblin ambassador to most likely solve whatever issue the warren’s having before returning.
“Never mind,” You say as you divert your eyes in embarrassment, “This isn’t a sign the drake is around here, so we should probably look around some more.”
“Uh, okay, sir!” The party leader, a young “Hero” says before he leads the way deeper into the overgrown forest. You probably spend a bit too long explaining the habits of the particular insect that killed the trees in this region, but at least your degree in conservation and resource management still has some merit in your current life? You sigh. You shouldn't fool yourself, but hey at least you can tell what is and isn’t caused by drake fire.
You’ve been searching the temperate rainforest outside the city for a few hours now and you haven’t seen the hide or tail of the beast. Seems you need to work on your tracking skills sometime in the future. At least the journey has given you plenty of time to look at the beautiful forest around you, with magical anti-insect wards on your clothing of course, and appreciate what the world was like back in the Middle Ages. Pretty is the word you land on to describe it, the world was pretty back then.
“Everyone hold, I think I see something,” The party's elven ranger says as she shushes everyone after a bit of walking. She puts her long ear to the ground before whispering to the plants around her, “Yeah, the drake’s up ahead. We should charge-”
