(3rd POV)
「Have you heard about it? That the《Heavenly Eye》seems to have had an audience with the Emperor?」
The Adventurer guild in Fias. Rally, who had nothing to do after the busy ti during the early morning had passed, brought up such a topic towards her senpai Tia, who also had nothing to do.
「I heard about it, it beca quite the gossip in the streets, didn’t it?」
「Has it been seven years this ti?」
「It’s been eight years. As of right now, it seems that there isn’t really anything she needs to appear for.」
As Rally said, for lty the《Heavenly Eye》to co out, there was usually a calamity of a class such that it could be considered a crisis of the state. This fact was common knowledge.
When she appeared eight years ago, if Rally’s mory was correct, it should have been around the ti of the fight with the Vassal of the Seven Heavenly Kings.
Having made a resolution with the Imperial Army and the Adventurer guild to fight the dragon to the death, the《Heavenly Eye》suddenly appeared and challenged the huge dragon. With just two spells, she erased the dragon. That was still fresh in Rally’s mory.
Though, there was a reason the 《Heavenly Eye》couldn’t really take action that easily. Her fights’ scales were way too large and caused too much destruction to the surroundings.
That fight had ended with the least casualties, but the battle developed enough to burn up an entire field.
Thinking about how it could have created a second perma-scorchlands, Rally, who was only a normal person, could only shiver at that thought that sprouted from an unreserved impression of lty.
Though, to mankind, she was without a doubt a great hero. The na of the 《Heavenly Eye》was so great that there was even a religion worshipping her.
And then, she had seemingly gone to the capital after such a long ti. Even that rumor alone made the people grow excited.
「Even though they say that she is a mber of the guild, she is just basically letting us borrow her na for it. I’d like to see her with my own eyes soday.」
With a bit of a starstruck face, Tia sighed.
On the other hand, Rally recalled a mory that had nearly faded away.
「I...I have seen her once, actually.」
「No way! So envious.....Hey, hey, just what does she look like?」
「Her looks were like that of a normal vampire. Though, they were enough for a woman like to be chard, though.」
「I see. But still, with that strength of hers, I have no choice but to agree if you say that she is such a temptress of a woman that she can even charm won.」
Even Rally couldn’t vividly rember her mories from many years ago.
However, that beauty and strength, that impression had been seared into her mory.
And because Rally had seen that, she planned to beco an adventurer, and being unable to give up despite having no talent for it, she ended up becoming a guild staff mber.
「Hmmm, even so, I wonder why that person started taking action?」
「I think it’s because drifters had started appearing at the Town of Beginning, but....it seems that recently a number of Nad monster have been subjugated.」
「Wasn’t that Red Wolf defeated? I heard that drifters were existences that had gone beyond death, but to think that a drifter at the Town of Beginning defeated it...」
If one beca a staff mber of the guild, regarding knowledge, they far exceeded the amount known by the commoners or the adventurers laying around.
The existence of the Seven Heavenly Kings and the Nad monsters, the knowledge of them was common knowledge. That was why they knew what the existence of the Red Wolf ant.
Even so, having a monster that hadn’t been defeated get defeated, they couldn’t help but be surprised.
「According to the rumors, it seed to be a kijin girl.」
「I see, so it was a kijin. I wonder if they have registered as an adventurer?」
「If there was sothing like that, there should have been a notice though....」
「You’re right. If you’re talking about kijin, could that be the reason why Kohaku-san crossed over the bridge?」
「There’s a mistake, I think.」
Unlike the existence of the legendary 《Heavenly Eye》, the《Castle Crusher》Kohaku was a hero you could easily get close to.
With a calm and unshakable ntality coexisting with the total power of destruction.
Her hidden raging emotions within her were also a charm of her being a kijin.
Tia and Rally had actually t Kohaku, who had travelled in many places, and had interacted with her as receptionists more than a few tis.
Although still, Kohaku was soone who prefered adventuring alone. Her profile wasn’t detailed enough for them to determine why that was so.
And as for why Kohaku, who already had enough wealth to play around for the rest of her life, chose to continue being an adventurer, no one knew why.
「I have absolutely no idea what the God of Creation is thinking about.」
「You’re right. But still, they are that kind of god, after all.」
The god known as the God of Creation who reigned over that world sotis gave trials to people and sotis brought entertainnt, inviting drifters and giving nas to monsters.
With such seemingly illogical actions and such obscure motives, you totally couldn’t predict what the God would do next, but perhaps that one could be like that because they were the Highest God.
While Rally and Tia were sorting through the docunts and chatting like that, suddenly, they felt the guild had gotten noisy.
During this ti, the kinds of adventurers who were left in the guild were either those doing strategic etings, those who had been dead drunk since morning, or just those who had nothing to do. Basically those three types.
Either way, it was normal for there to not be many people. However, the disturbance that had made its way to their ears had gotten the two curious, and they peeked over the receptionist desk.
Tracing the gazes of the adventurers, it seed their stares were faced toward sothing that had just co in.
Wearing a rust-colored kimono they hadn’t seen before and wearing a scarlet tal-made accessory, it was a kijin girl.
Carrying a tal club on her back as her weapon, it seed she didn’t have any baggage, but that was natural if she had a nu card.
Rally, who had just taken a glance at the girl, couldn’t tell what was so special about her, and then the girl ca toward the area they were in charge of.
「Excuse , can I have a bit of your ti?」
Towards that girl with such a floaty atmosphere around her, Rally thought sothing rather rude.
Sothing kind of along the lines of, ‘there was no “presence of the strong” about her.’ People who ca to the guild in Fias to register were mostly those kinds of people who wanted to beco famous and earn money. Even though the majority had foolish goals like that, this girl was so relaxed, as if thinking「I was a bit curious, so I ca.」
However, being energetic was their motto as receptionists. For Rally, who dealt with rough-looking n every day, just the fact that she would be dealing with a cute girl was enough to make her spirited.
「Welco to the adventurer guild! What might be you-.....that proof is!?」
Unintentionally, her smile broke, replaced by a look of shock.
The tal plate hanging on the girl’s neck was made of one of the greatest tals, 《Godsteel》, which was made with Orichalcum.
That was a Proof that showed the gods had recognized you. The Proof of Trial given to one who had vanquished a Nad monster alone.
For Rally, and even for her senpai Tia as well, it was their first ti seeing the real thing.
It was because they were talking about it just earlier that they knew.
That she, the kijin girl, had subjugated the Red Wolf just the other day near the Town of Beginnings.
「Ahaha....」
It seed she had already received this kind of reaction, the girl could only react with a bitter smile.
Even though she knew she had to do it calmly, because a bomb had dropped on her when she wasn’t focusing, Rally’s ntal state was quite agitated.
The reason the adventurers of the guild had gotten noisy was most likely because they had noticed that imdiately.
Once an adventurer had reached a certain ranking, they probably knew the threat a Nad carried and about the existence of that Proof.
Although this girl could easily be seen as not strong, with just this one accessory, her strength had been proven.
Moreover, right now she also had that hair ornant on. That was also made of 《Godsteel》, and its shine was terribly similar to that of hihiirokane......
Rally, making her head work even as it was about to explode, resolved herself to the core to do her work as a receptionist.
She was exerting herself to be calm. Be calm...While Rally was doing the explanation of the guild to the girl―― Sukuna―― Tia continuously and absentmindedly kept stealing glances and secretly was glad that it wasn’t her.
Fortunately, from how Sukuna looked during the conversation, she had a kind character. She didn’t say anything about Rally’s inattentive interactions and she happily went to choose a quest.
These strong adventurers sotis had large quirks as a set part of their personality, but then again, she might also be soone with a refreshing personality like Kohaku.
Looking at her as she was moving around cutely, changing her expression as she was glaring at the quests, she was a really cute figure. Although, kijin’s appearances did not always match with their age, so despite how young she looked, she might actually be significantly older.
For that reason, kijin hated being treated like children, so Rally would never say that out loud.
「Oh, this one looks nice.」
The one Sukuna had chose after flicking through the pages on the quest list was the Mysteria Rabi one, which was a quest concerning a rather troubleso to hunt monster.
From a certain source, it was set as a constant quest that must always be out. Although it was this particular subjugation, in reality, it would be a good thing if even one was subjugated per month.
Certainly, if one just looked at the quest description, then just defeating one monster and bringing a single piece of its materials was enough, and you would receive a large reward for doing so. It was a rather extraordinary quest just looking at it, but that was the troubling part about it.
There was no reason to doubt her strength, and Mysteria Rabi themselves were quite weak monsters, so there was no need to be worried for her safety.
It was just that, this monster was on a totally different path than strength, they were rather special. And so, after various considerations, Rally tried to stop her from accepting the quest, but Sukuna had a care-free face, saying things like, 「I have hunted them.」
While thinking ‘whatever,’ she recomnded an additional quest that should be achievable at least, but that was all Rally could do.
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And then, after just around two hours. It was lunch ti when adventurers ca to eat, making the guild quite lively, it was once again wrapped in noise. While Rally thought 「Aah, as I thought, it was no good,」she knew that Sukuna had co.
「Excuse ~」
「Thank you for waiting. Is it a quest clear report? Or is it a withdrawal of a quest?」
「Ummm, the clear report one.」
Fumu, it seed that she was able to clear at least one of the quests.
Well, you could get rabbit at from whatever rabbit you defeated, and regarding Kirabbits, if she was lucky enough to find one, that ti fra was sufficient that she could have found them all.
「If so, then please transfer the delivered goods over to this.」
「Hou~....that’s high tech.」
In the Adventurer guild, there was a special storage that could directly connect to the nu Card.
It seed to be sothing like the nu Card that the God of Creation had bestowed, but Rally didn’t really know the history of that.
The nu Card was normal for Rally and had been ever since she was born, but in the past, it seed that there wasn’t anything like it.
The elderly of the long-lived races sotis didn’t have nu cards. Rally had even heard that lty, the 《Heavenly Eye》who lived for an eternity, didn’t have a nu Card either.
If you had one of these, the concept of carrying baggage would be overturned. It was a rather convenient tool, but because of that, they needed to be treated carefully.
She didn’t understand the aning of Sukuna’s words, 「high tech,」but it seed that she had certainly been impressed.
Operating the card to receive the goods from Sukuna’s nu Card, Rally imdiately checked through the battle records.
On the nu Card’s battle record, it would record the number of lives she had stolen from her opponents.
Since it differentiated monsters killed since the last confirmation, it helped defend from scamming, but when checking it for registration, it only checked the number of 「people」killed, so she hadn’t seen the detailed battle records yet.
If she had been able to confirm that earlier, then she could’ve confird the number of Mysteria Rabi Sukuna had subjugated earlier. However, Rally had been so tense that she had forgotten to do so.
「10 Dekarabbit, 11 Kirabbit, 7 Carorabbit.....5 Mysteria Rabi.....5 !?」
Looking at the displayed battle records, Rally unintentionally let out a loud voice.
Since the record from the previous confirmation was preserved up until this point, it had truly been that she had hunted these ones in two hours.
Even though high-ranking adventurers would chase Mysteria Rabi around for several days to defeat them, a re level 40 adventurer had defeated five of them in just a couple hours.
It was abnormal. It was obviously abnormal.
The girl standing in front of her had the sa floaty atmosphere as usual, which you couldn’t really glean anything from. You really couldn’t see her as soone who had enough ability to defeat such numbers of Mysteria Rabi.
Sohow calming down her surprise, since she still needed to calculate the reward, Rally started the calculation.
「Thank you for waiting. This is the 500k Iris reward.」
A huge sound was produced as a bag full of coins was placed on the counter of the receptionist desk.
If you used the nu Card, it could be imdiately stored, but a display like that was important.
Rather than a tasteless transfer, adventurers preferred this kind of showy way of passing it on.
「Oooh~....aweso.」
Actually seeing Sukuna’s eyes beco round in reaction to it, Rally felt a small sense of achievent.
To be clear about it, Mysteria Rabi materials were mostly sought after by nobles.
Even though there were comparatively a lot living in the area around the capital, the circulation of their materials were just too few.
And naturally, since the supply and demand couldn’t synchronize, their value only skyrocketed. It was not unusual for soone to defeat a Mysteria Rabi and be able to get hundreds of thousands of Iris from it, that was how valuable Mysteria Rabi were.
And so, among the constant quests, its reward was incomparably high compared to the others, and successful completion would greatly increase the evaluation of one’s ranks. Moreover, your na could be brought to the attention of a noble.
On the other hand, to not et the requirents would lead to a hopeless disappointnt. If an adventurer accepted it by chance and failed, their careers would take huge damage.
And so, as it was a quest from the nobles, adventurers who put even a little thought into it would refuse to take it. Since the general understanding was that in the end, it was better to just pile up the simpler things.
By the way, just by looking at the selling price for Mysteria Rabi, it was not really a wise choice to deliver the goods to the guild.
Delivering to the guild had other rits, which were ntioned before, and with the processing fee already included, doing so had gotten a bit cheaper.
「Then, I will co again.」
「Yes, please be careful.」
Rally, who saw Sukuna’s big smile as she left, collapsed onto her chair with a big sigh.
「Good work. She was just like a storm that ca and went, wasn’t she?」
「She really was.....but still, she is the kijin girl that defeated the red wolf right? But even so-....」
「She has no aura, is it?」
The one who continued the sentence that Rally had let vaguely trail off had cut in with a deep voice.
Behind Tia and Rally, before they noticed it, a man in his pri had appeared. The two of them, who had slackened their postures a bit, straightened up right away.
「Master! I’m sorry, we have slacked for a bit.」
「No, I don’t mind. Since it will beco busy soon after this, after all. But still, an interesting one sure visited us.」
The man in his pri, called as ‘Master,’ looked at the direction Sukuna had left as he said so.
(Fumu, so that was the oni girl that 《Heavenly Eye》ntioned, huh? It seems to be true that Nad are being defeated in many places. So that ans that, after having been hundreds of years, there is a possibility for the stars to fall, is it?....Fufu, the drifters sure are as prophesied, I wonder if they can turn over this world?)
Rembering the words of the Hero of the vampires who had suddenly visited several days before regarding the incoming future, the man had a smile within.
The drifters who suddenly appeared. The actions of the 《Heavenly Eye》who had broken her eight years of silence. The kijin who had defeated an aspect of the Seven Heavenly Kings. The Nad monsters who kept getting defeated one after another.
The acceleration of the world, it was still just starting to begin.
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