Chapter 415 – Growth
“How on earth does Lord Hestia leave the mercenary who spread such rumors alone!”
“Young master, that… Doesn’t seem like a made-up story.”
Escort knight Grant informed the cruel truth.
“Is that true?! That’s unacceptable!”
Grant thought, “What if you can’t tolerate it?” But he calmly comforted Franz.
“…I looked closely and found out that Sir Hestia and the mercenary do not have a very deep relationship.”
“Phew… That’s right!”
Franz sighed in relief at Grant’s words.
“But if not, will there be smoke in the chimney?”
“Sir Grant…That, what does that mean?”
“The story that Lord Hestia approaches the mercenary with interest seems to be true. He has been seen eating together several times.”
“…”
Franz pursed his lips and grabbed him by the nape of his neck.
“…This lowly mercenary dared to eat a meal that passed Hestia, which even I couldn’t? He must have spread rumors. He told me not to even look at trees that I can’t climb!”
-Stupid.
The handle of the chair he was holding on to exploded.
“This humble mercenary exceeds expectations for Lord Hestia’s mercy! Sir Grant! Catch that reckless mercenary!
“Young master. Well, I guess it’s better not to…”
“Why?”
In response to Grant’s objection, Franz frowned and asked.
“I know that Sir Hestia often seeks him out. If he is caught, there is a very high possibility that Sir Hestia will investigate the matter. What are you going to do then?”
“That, that’s…”
Franz was speechless.
Hestia, a Holy Knight of Terra Church, is not a person that even a lord can do carelessly.
No, he was an existence that even the king of Raun Kingdom could not carelessly do.
There were even rumors that Hestia was a sword master. Then, even if she cuts the head of Lord Crea, the Kingdom of Laun will not be able to say anything.
“Sir Grant. Then, what would you like me to do?”
“Invite Lord Hestia and her mercenaries to the party.”
“A lowly mercenary to the party?”
“How about embarrassing that mercenary in front of Sir Hestia? If you do, Sir Hestia will be very disappointed in him.”
Hearing Grant’s words, Franz immediately widened his face.
I don’t like inviting a lowly mercenary to a noble’s party, but I was able to sacrifice that much to get rid of the bugs attached to Hestia.
“But there is a problem.”
“What is that. Young master?”
“Sir Hestia has never attended my party.”
“That’s… If you talk about the mercenary attending, Sir Hestia will probably attend too.”
An expression of jealousy crossed Franz’s face.
“Whoa… I’m starting to hate him. All right, Sir Grant. I’ll leave this up to you.”
“Thank you for accepting my opinion. Young master.”
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Karen nimbly avoided the orc’s crude axe.
Wearing light leather armor and carrying a spear, she now looked quite like a mercenary.
I watched Karen and Orc fight from a little further back with arms crossed.
There are five or six dead orcs around.
For Karen’s training, I entrusted her last remaining orc to her and created a 1:1 situation.
From D-class mercenaries, you could receive a request for an orc that is bigger than a goblin.
It wasn’t a request to subdue the village like the goblins.
It’s a simple Orc subjugation request.
Subjugation of the Orc colony is not as easy as that of the Goblins.
The orc colony was deep in the forest, and it was not an easy task even for a lord to subdue it completely.
If the lord is going to subdue the Orc colony, he must prepare with determination for at least the Battle of the Territory.
Even if you subdue the Orc colony like that, there will be a significant loss of troops. Of course, the lord would be reluctant to leave the military history blank.
So, most of the territories were using a method to reduce the number of individuals by sending steady requests to the mercenary guild.
It also served as a warning to the orcs not to descend beyond a certain range.
Orc subjugation was also the most requested request from the lord of Crea to the mercenary guild.
Orc hunting is originally a request that requires four or five mercenaries to gather together… But I was doing it with Karen and the two of us.
He also trained Karen in spearmanship.
A spear is a pretty good weapon.
It is difficult for ordinary people to find a weapon as effective as a long-reach spear.
Well, I didn’t teach them great spearmanship.
It is a spearmanship learned on Earth.
The basic skills of spearmanship had been decided anyway.
I also have the ability to teach the basics.
Ignis would be better than me if it was a higher level of spearmanship, but she was premature for Karen, who had just started learning spearmanship.
Karen absorbed my teaching like water from a sponge and grew rapidly.
She was talented
Compared to the days when I was working as a non-awareness hunter, my skills are growing faster, so it would be right to have talent.
Above all, her strength is that she has no fear.
Karen is dealing with the orcs alone.
If she were a normal woman, she would have been in a situation where she would have shivered, but she was very calm.
She lightly stabbed her spear, and Karen, who was exchanging her karate with the orc, stepped forward with her right foot and stretched out her spear, as if she had found a gap in her.
The tip of Karen’s spear dug into the orc’s eye. The tip of her spear, which broke and pierced her eyeball, churned her brain inside her skull.
The orc stopped as if under a spell.
As soon as the spear that penetrated his eye came out, the orc fell forward.
Karen’s breathing was a little tight, but she seemed to be breathing regularly and undisturbed.
With that level, it was a skill that could easily deal with a tolerable third-rate mercenary.
The problem is the talent for Aurors…
Dark magic has already settled in her heart.
And that black magic was sealed by me.
Although Karen’s dark magic was insignificant.
For her future, she had to do something with dark magic.
I decided to ask the magic experts Liliana and Verna about this after logging out.
It wasn’t just Karen’s training.
My avatar also raised its level quite a bit by hunting orcs.
[Level 10]
[ID: Bark.]
[Race: idiot.]
[Strength: 20]
[Health: 35]
[Agility: 20]
[Magic attribute: 10]
[Stat point: 00]
[Skill: Blood magic. Intermediate seal.]
10 levels.
I can’t see it as a level up that fast.
It was much easier than leveling up my body.
After reaching 30 stamina, it seemed that she had enough stamina to satisfy Karen Jeong-don.
I didn’t raise the blood magic.
I didn’t even raise my magic stat.
I couldn’t even use blood magic, so I thought there was no need to raise it.
Blood magic can be said to be the main skill of the demons, but since Hestia is hovering around with her eyes wide open… I only raised the seal skill with the thought that safety is the first thing.
If the demons who enjoy Pantera saw it, they would have called it crazy.
As the blood magic grows, the avatar will become stronger, but the threat of the Terra Church also increases.
My purpose was not to conquer Pantera, but to connect with Terra, so it was something I could do.
As I raised my sealing skill like that, it evolved into an intermediate sealing skill at level 10.
It also has additional abilities.
[Intermediate Seal: Possible to bind objects.]
When I tested it on Karen, it seemed that I could do something similar to hold magic.
The problem is that even this takes time to seal.
After all, it seems that the trash skill is right.
Will something change when you become a senior?
Don’t expect too much
The hopeful thing is that if this is enough, even if you go to the temple, you might not find out that you are a demon.
‘Wouldn’t it be okay if I raised at least one blood magic now?’
Even if I raised the skill, it didn’t seem to become as explosively strong as my body, so I thought it was worth a try.
-Good luck…
As I looked at the status window and thought about this and that, Karen pulled out the molars of the orcs and came back.
Orcs are paid for subjugation according to the number of molars. After the subjugation, I had to take care of it.
If you return empty-handed, there is no evidence, so they won’t believe you.
Karen was a decent assistant who did everything without being asked to do so.
“Let’s go home today.”
She said as she stroked Karen’s hair.
We returned to Crea and headed to the mercenary guild.
“…Thank you for your hard work. You have been promoted to Class C because of this.”
The receptionist said it was nice to see him for the first time in a long time.
In the meantime, it seems that he has been promoted after being recognized for doing quite a few orc subjugation requests.
C-class mercenary.
If you were another mercenary, it would be something you would enjoy running around.
Now it can be said that he has taken the first step as a proper mercenary.
From grade C, it is accepted even if you go to another city.
The range of accepting requests has also become wider.
“Karen. Today is a dinner party.”
It’s just a sound.
Anyway, I eat what I want to eat.
Let’s enter the Margana Inn.
“Howdy!”
Hestia greeted us by raising her hand.
Be tough.
I think the time to give up moderately has passed…
Hasn’t it been about a month since you met Hestia?
She seemed unwilling to give up.
He would often leave for a while to see if he had something to do… But he would still come back when he returned.
It’s good that the price of rice hardens, but…
I wish I could just give up now.
