Great time travel

Chapter 26. Daily life of adventurers

The seventh day that the great tomb of Nazarick came to another world, the fortress city.Lantel, the Adventurer's Guild

Although in terms of cleanliness and sanitation, the human city in this fantasy world is already much cleaner than those medieval European towns on earth where excrement paves the road, urinates in the streets, and everyone urinates everywhere, but compared with modern cities on earth, here The environment is still dirty.

For example, on the wooden floor of the Adventurer's Guild, there are food crumbs and dirty footprints of unknown origin everywhere; the walls are covered with all kinds of strange stains; Mysterious lumps of mildew... The air is always filled with the lingering smell of wine and sweat, echoing with all kinds of rude shouting and teasing, sometimes mixed with a few vulgar words swear words.

However, adventurers in this world are obviously very adaptable to the above-mentioned environment, and even like such a noisy atmosphere full of people.

——After experiencing a perilous fighting adventure, you can drag your exhausted and even scarred body, and the jingling coins in your purse, to come here to buy a few glasses of spirits that will make you forget your troubles, And a rough meal with a lot of weight, while bragging and chatting with your companions, relax your mind and spend a leisurely time.For those of them who lick blood all day long, it is already a kind of enjoyment.

As for cleanliness and sanitation, how can such big bastards like them afford to pay attention to it?
"... Sigh... It seems that there is no better job recently!"

The captain of the four-member small adventure group "Sword of Darkness", the silver medal adventurer, and the young swordsman Peter Mok, leaned crookedly on the wooden bench while drinking the wine mixed with water from the portable iron jug. He said boredly, "...but the price of the hotel has risen at this time..."

"...Yeah, I'm almost running out of money around me, and I'm still on credit at the tavern I often go to! So I don't dare to drink now."

The scout archer of the adventure group, Luklot Boerb, who also wore a silver medal, also folded his arms and sighed repeatedly. He was a blond man in leather armor, and his brown eyes were so thin that he felt a little joy.The body is thin, and the hands and feet are particularly slender, which feels like a spider.No extra fat.

After complaining a few words like this, Luklot suddenly rolled his eyes, and with a frivolous smile, he approached Captain Peter, "...captain, um... money is really tight now, can you lend me some money?" ? Not much, one gold coin is enough!"

"... Go, go, go, every time I divided the rewards before, I never lacked your share."

Captain Peter frowned, and pushed Luklot away, "... lending you money, isn't it the same as throwing bread to beat Goblins? I'm not talking about you, don't get paid every time, Turn around and immediately throw all the money on the girls in the brothel! You have to save some savings for the future!"

"...Hey, adventurers like us who drink in the city today and die in the wilderness tomorrow, if we can't enjoy ourselves in time, wouldn't it be too boring if we drink today and get drunk today? Could it be that the captain thinks that our business Is it possible for someone with a long life to live a hundred years?" Luklot rolled his eyes disapprovingly, "...I'd rather spend it on cute girls than let goblins and ogres take it away. .”

Hearing this statement, Captain Peter was also silent.Indeed, although risk taking is relatively lucrative, it is also a high-risk occupation.

——For those rural teenagers who work hard all day long but have a hard time getting enough to eat, they can become adventurers, leave the monotonous and poor villages, see the vast and wonderful world outside, wave their long swords coolly and handsomely to defeat monsters, and at the same time Harvesting wealth and honor is really a dream life that they yearn for.Many people, after inheriting weapons and equipment from relatives and elders, or accidentally picking up swords and armor on the battlefield, will rush to the Adventurer's Guild excitedly, wanting to register as an adventurer, and start their wonderful life of success from then on.

But in fact, most of these hipsters ruined their lives in the first few adventures.

According to the public statistics of the Adventurer's Guild, leaving aside those "high-quality talents" who used to be professional warriors, ruined knights, or magic academy graduates, half of the people who have changed jobs from ordinary villagers to adventurers are If you fail to upgrade from the lowest level of bronze to iron, you are dead.Another quarter of people give up halfway, and 15% of people will die in the process of being promoted from iron medal to silver medal.

The four members of the "Sword of Darkness" adventure group are all silver medal adventurers. Although they successfully crossed this adventure path with a elimination rate as high as 90%, they also saw the death, injury and retirement of many adventurer acquaintances. I can understand: this is not a job that can be safely grown old.

After leaving the relatively safe cities and villages, it is no longer a human world, but a wild and dangerous environment full of dangers.

No one knows what kind of terrifying monsters they will encounter in their next adventure, or what kind of unlucky death situation they will encounter.And in a life-and-death struggle, a seemingly insignificant misfortune and the slightest mistake can cost the life of the most famous adventurer.

Therefore, out of fear of the unknown future, there are quite a few adventurers who are hedonists who are "drunk today".

"...Actually, a lot of people have died recently. In just over a month, several low-level adventurer teams in the city have disappeared collectively, and one adventurer group was killed to only one The man ran back, and the man had broken his arm and was crippled."

The third member of the "Sword of Darkness" adventure group, a burly and honest man, the silver forest druid priest Dyne Woodwanda, suddenly interjected, "... Although we are not lucky, I missed several missions, but at least there were no casualties, so it was a blessing in disguise."

"...What? So much was wiped out all at once?" Recently, he spent a lot of money on two girls and spent the whole day sleeping in the house, so Lukelot, who was not well informed, was taken aback immediately, "... ...Could it be that some powerful monster appeared nearby?"

"...It wasn't a monster, but a human! To be precise, it was a foreign knight!" Captain Peter replied, "...I have also vaguely heard of this, and the few adventure groups that were destroyed seem to be the successors. The missions in the nearby villages, or spontaneously sweeping up monsters in the outskirts, only to encounter the elite knights of the Bajas Empire attacking and massacring the border villages of the kingdom. Some of them escaped, but most of them were killed by the sword. ghost……"

(It is those guys who were annihilated in Karn Village before and sent by the Slan Theocracy to impersonate them.)
——Although in theory, adventurers should be regarded as full-time monster hunters and should not be involved in human internal disputes, but because they are in a chaotic country where princes are fighting and bandits are rampant, many adventurers are often inevitably involved. Into the internal fight among human beings.

And in most real battles, other humans are often more dangerous than seemingly terrifying monsters...

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"...It is precisely because of these terrible rumors that the captain has been hesitant before, not daring to take on tasks that require going out of the city." Dyne continued, "...the four of us have been promoted to silver medals not long ago, and even one horse You can’t even afford a horse, if you encounter a large group of Bajas Empire knights on the open grassland, let alone fight them, you won’t even be able to escape with your two legs!”

"...But in this way, if we can't go out of the city, wouldn't we have to take on tasks like drilling the sewers to fight giant rats?"

The scout archer Luke Luot curled his lips, "...The salary is too low to say the least, there are not so many giant rats in the sewers for us to fight every day!"

——In this magical world, mice will also mutate into monsters called "giant rats", and they like to live in the sewers of big cities.These oversized rats will not only dig holes and make nests without authorization, damage the sewers, cause poor drainage, but also spread terrible infectious diseases.Therefore, the municipal authorities must regularly send soldiers or hire adventurers into the sewers to carry out the task of eliminating giant rats, so as to ensure the safety of the citizens.

Of course, such missions cannot happen often, otherwise the city should have been occupied by giant rats long ago.

Moreover, due to the embezzlement and embezzlement of the city officials and the nobles in power, the rewards finally paid to the adventurers are pitiful. If it is not for the government to pressure the adventurers guild to force them to assign, usually few people are willing to take the initiative to go to the stinky Xuntian's sewers do this kind of dirty work.

"...There is no need to worry about this. Just two days ago, those imperial knights wandering outside the city were wiped out. It was done by Warrior Commander Gazef with an exotic magician he found somewhere. When that guy entered the city, I remember you went to see the excitement." The captain replied.

"...Uh... that strange guy who wears an ugly mask, has a large group of cats around him, and uses two cats to pull his cart?"

Luklot immediately remembered, "...Tsk tsk, although it's a little strange, but most of the more powerful magicians in this world seem to be dressed in such a unique and strange way. Hehe, his cat He can still talk! I remember being shocked at the time!"

——In this world where occultism is prevalent, all kinds of magic really exist, and education is not popular enough, ordinary people generally have a high degree of acceptance of all kinds of novelties: there is a group of "Ainz the Great Magician" who wears a mask. Talking cats, this is indeed a new thing, but it is not so new that these adventurers who have been fighting with all kinds of strange monsters all day long are surprised and unbelievable.

After all, in the eyes of ordinary people, magicians are a group beyond common sense.Ordinary pet cats can't speak, but who knows if the great magician Ainz has figured out a magic to unlock the cat's intelligence, or is it simply some phantom beast summoned from another plane?
Since even angels can become conventional weapons of war in human countries, and the dead can also be summoned by evil magic to become undead soldiers, it seems that there is nothing serious about a few talking cats.In the remote wild forest, has anyone ever seen a big tree that can talk and dance!If you have to be surprised when you encounter something you haven't seen before, then these adventurers should have scared themselves to death long ago.People with poor psychological qualities cannot be adventurers. This profession naturally requires infinite courage and curiosity, and the last is proper caution.

So, after rambling on a few recent street rumors and the weirdness of the great wizard Ainz, Captain Peter of the "Black Sword" adventure group turned his head and looked at a person standing on the bulletin board. The figure called out, "...Nina, how's it going? Is there a suitable job?"

"...Sorry, Captain, I didn't see any suitable ones." Nina turned around and shook his head. At the same time, he left the bulletin board and walked over with his wand.
This is the fourth youngest member of the "Black Sword" adventure group, the magician Nina. He has dark brown hair and blue eyes. He is the youngest of the four, and he is also the most handsome in the team. , looks like a child who hasn't grown up yet, wearing a thick leather jacket, with a strange-shaped bottle and a strange talisman bag hanging from his waist, which are obviously the materials and props used for casting spells.

The entire "Black Sword" adventure group is composed of such four members.Although currently living in a fortress city.There are a lot of adventurers in Lantil, and it is said that there are at least a thousand people at ordinary times, but the size of a single adventure group is generally not large, and usually consists of a small team of less than ten people.

This is firstly because small-scale monster crusade wars do not require too many troops; secondly, because the main employers of adventurers, those villages that issue monster crusade missions and merchants who hire adventurers to escort convoys, usually cannot afford too much. A commission for multiple adventurers.

Then, if there is a large-scale wave of Warcraft that cannot be resisted by several adventure groups together, then it is already a major event that requires the local adventurer's guild to issue an overall policy, or dispatch the national regular army.And things like this usually happen only once in a few years.

Finally, although the nobles who rule the country cannot guarantee the safety of their territory due to their own incompetence, they have to rely on adventurers to resist monsters, but at the same time they have been guarding against this uncontrolled armed force in every possible way. They become too big to lose their tails...

In short, adventure groups that rely on accepting missions to survive are generally small in size, even the top-level adventure groups with a good name are no exception.

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"...Those Mithril-level and Platinum-level missions are not something us silver-level adventurers can take on. The silver-level missions were snatched up as soon as they were posted, and now there is only one mission to escort the caravan. The adventurers who apply are required to bring their own horses, otherwise they will not be able to catch up with the action."

At a round table in the corner of the Adventurer's Guild, the magician Nina vomited bitterness to the other three companions of the "Black Sword" adventure group, "...but we don't even have a horse, and we haven't bought a horse yet. There is no place to borrow horses...The next ones are all iron medal and bronze medal-level tasks, not to mention the reward of a few copper coins, which is not even enough to buy a loaf of bread. And we are already There are four silver medals, if you go to iron medal and bronze medal level missions and compete with those newcomers for food, it will also hurt the reputation of 'Dark Sword'!"

——Adventurers who join the guild are classified according to their level.When accepting a task entrustment, you must choose a task entrustment with different degrees of difficulty according to your own level.A rookie with a bronze medal can only take on bronze medal missions that are not very dangerous, but the rewards are also very low, and it is difficult to even maintain food and clothing.Only after you have proven your strength and raised your level, can you accept advanced tasks of the corresponding level.

According to the guild's regulations, low-level adventurers cannot accept high-level tasks that exceed their own level. In a sense, this is also a kind of protection for them.In case these rookies with low skills are greedy for generous rewards, they will rashly attack monsters that are far stronger than themselves, or take on jobs that they cannot do. Poor employer.

But the reverse is also the same. Although there is no clear regulation, according to the established practice, high-level adventurers generally will not accept tasks lower than their own level.Because doing so not only appears to be a loss of value and identity, but also considered a lack of self-confidence. I think you guys are doing low-level tasks regardless of your status because you are too timid to take risks. It really makes people feel sorry for you. shame……

——By analogy, if the 007 spy dared not go on a mission, but cameo as an urban management to catch illegal vendors on the street, what kind of attention would it attract?

And for adventurers who need to rely on their fame to make a living, once they are considered to lack courage, their personal future will be dark.Come to think of it, even on modern Earth, if a security company's mercenaries are known for being cowardly, who else would hire them?

Therefore, the four members of the "Sword of Darkness" adventure group would rather sit around doing nothing than do these low-level tasks.Because it won't make a lot of money, but it will also attract contempt, damage one's reputation, and even make people question one's own strength, which is not worth the candle.

"...Well, since I can't find a good job in Ye. Rantier, why don't I go to another city to try my luck? Uh, no, let's forget it. Just considering the travel expenses along the way is not worth the loss. Besides, If it is replaced by other cities in the kingdom, I am afraid it will not be as good as here!"

Captain Peter muttered casually while considering the next step, but immediately realized that he seemed to have said something stupid.

——Fortress city.Rantel, a border city directly under the royal family, although it is located in a desolate border area, looks like a remote village, but it is actually one of the most prosperous commercial cities in the entire kingdom.Because in.The Kingdom of Yestij, the Kingdom of Slan and the Empire of Bajas border on this place, and there is no other land connection except here. The import and export trade between the three countries must pass through the fortress city.Lantil came to do it.

In this way, travel to and from Jesus.The transnational caravans in the city of Rantel are naturally continuous throughout the year. These caravans not only effectively prospered the economy of the fortress city, but also allowed the royal family and local government to obtain a large amount of tax money, which was returned to the adventurers here. A large number of job opportunities are provided.

If it is replaced by those small cities in the hinterland of the kingdom where commerce and trade are not well developed, then there will be much fewer employers who can afford to hire adventurers, and the competition among adventurers will be more intense. Fortress city.How easy it is for Lantil!

So, let’s continue to boil for a while!I believe that this market downturn should only be temporary.

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"...It's decided. Let's disband and go back today, and then continue to rest in the city for a day. If you still can't find a suitable task in the guild tomorrow, let's go out of the city together with equipment and dry food! It's not good to just sit and eat like this It’s a matter, and people will gossip about it. In our adventurer business, the most despised is the coward, and the second is the lazy.”

After pondering for a moment, Captain Peter slapped his thigh for the last time, announcing this to his teammates.

"...Wait, if we haven't received the mission, why are we going out of the city?" The magician Nina blinked his eyes in confusion, and then his face changed suddenly, "...Could it be...to do that kind of work?" 'A job that's not a job'?"

"...Yes!" Captain Peter nodded bluntly, "...as adventurers, isn't hunting monsters our job?"

"...Although the remuneration is not proportional to the hard work, at least I can still make ends meet..." Druid Dain also echoed.

——Although the job of an adventurer is to be a monster hunter, in fact, regardless of those fledgling young people, the truly seasoned senior adventurer is not willing to find trouble for nothing unless he is entrusted or offered a reward. Fighting with monsters in the wild.

Because the real world is different from online games. Players in the game can collect treasures by fighting monsters, exploding equipment along the way to drop gold coins, and make a lot of money.But in the real world, after defeating goblins and ogres, adventurers will hardly gain any financial gain except for accumulating actual combat experience: the stinky meat of these humanoid monsters cannot be eaten at all. No one wanted their furs, and the ragged clothes and rough weapons they peeled off were almost worthless, and it was almost impossible for that goblin to still carry gold coins and gems when it came out to rob houses...

Although it is not completely uncommon to get a lot of precious loot after killing monsters, but overall it is still as rare as winning the lottery.However, the dry food eaten by the adventurer along the way, the arrows shot, as well as the potions and scrolls consumed, all have to be paid out of their own pockets.Weapons and armor damaged in battle also cost money to repair.A careless one may even be injured or even die
In this way, if someone did not offer a reward or pay them to kill monsters, adventurers would not be able to voluntarily run around in the wilderness for a long time with a sense of justice and dedication, and lose money and life to kill monsters. Not even a sage could sustain such voluntary labor for long.

However, clearing out the monsters in the suburbs and expanding the living space of human beings is, after all, the common duty of every human regime.For this reason, the rulers of each town issued reward standards for hunting monsters through the Adventurer's Guild.Anyone who can hunt monsters and bring back some corpses as proof, the guild will give adventurers a certain amount of bonuses based on the strength of the monsters and the number of hunted monsters.

The government can also take the opportunity to reduce the dangers of the domestic hinterland, to ensure the smooth flow of commercial routes and the normal payment of tolls, which is the so-called win-win situation.

From this point of view, it seems that adventurers can finally fight monsters and upgrade all the way, and finally marry Bai Fumei, and embark on the victorious life of a legendary brave man, right?

But the problem is that due to the official financial constraints, the standard for this kind of reward is set very low. If the adventurers specialize in hunting monsters to exchange for money in the guild, the amount of money gained may be far inferior to normal guild entrusted tasks, which is more dangerous. Sex is much higher.

In fact, after spending blood and sweat to buy equipment and defeat monsters, the little official rewards they get from the Adventurer's Guild, if they can make ends meet and barely make ends meet, it is considered pretty good.If you can't make ends meet, it's also common.

Therefore, even with the above-mentioned incentives, the enthusiasm of adventurers to organize groups to go out to fight monsters is still not very high.Only when there is really no way to get entrusted tasks with high pay, will you do this kind of "job that is not work" and earn a little money to make do with it for a few days.

In short, after confirming the next plan, the four members of the "Sword of Darkness" adventure group packed their things together, got up and left their seats, and prepared to leave the Adventurers' Guild and go back to rest.Unexpectedly, they just got up together, but they saw a large group of adventurers gathered in front of the counter at some point, and an old man dressed as a noble butler was standing in the center of the crowd, talking to the Kanban lady of the Adventurers Guild across the counter. What are you talking about...

...In such a situation... Could it be that another guest came to release a new entrusted task?

Thinking of this, the four members of the "Sword of Darkness" adventure group slowed down a little, wanting to see what was going on.Immediately afterwards, the guild kanban lady behind the counter noticed the group of four people who had been wandering around for a long time, and quickly stopped them.

"... Excuse me... is this Mr. Peter from the 'Sword of Darkness'? Please come here quickly! There is a task entrusted to name you!"

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PS: A long-lost complaint: There have been a few hilarious news recently. Some devout Buddhists first released poisonous snakes in the park, and then released mice and foxes in the countryside. They were beaten to death by furious villagers.While being beaten, these guys scolded the villagers for their lack of benevolence.

Afterwards, many chickens and piglets in that village were killed by foxes, and the snakes released in the park almost bitten children.

Hey, can such a frenzied method be called releasing life?It was clearly a terrorist attack by a biological weapon! !
If you don't care about it, these lunatics may one day release a mad dog infected with rabies virus downstairs in your house.

In addition, it is said that some people released snapping turtles in the pond of Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou, and they ate up all the ornamental fish in the pond...