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Chapter 61 – The Guild Had a Ton of Requests

Translator: Kell | Editor: Ryunakama

The Guild Had a Ton of Requests

「I won’t run into any Hungry Ogres if I don’t enter the forest. I’ll make sure to fight right outside.」

「True, there hasn’t been any Hungry Ogres that wandered out so far. For some strange reason, there have been a lot of deaths in Elias. Even outside the forest. A number of parties that should have been able to defeat Hungry Ogres have been killed. You should not go there.」

I see. If there are casualties outside the Hungry Ogre outbreak zone… maybe monsters that were driven out are flocking outside.

That’s actually good news for me. Fighting local monsters one by one is not really worth it, but if lots of them are gathered in one area, it would be a great hunting ground.

「I’ll be careful. Thanks for the warning.」I said, moving onward.

The guard looked stunned. And as I was getting farther, he called out.

「…If it gets too dangerous, turn back immediately! You’re no good dead!」

「Got it! I’ll turn back if it’s dangerous!」

It seems I’ve got a nice hunting ground. I’m looking forward to it.

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After a while, I arrived at Elias without any trouble.

Considering the increasing number of casualties, it was rather anti-climactic. Since monsters have been driven away from their habitat, I thought they would show up on the roads as well. Maybe adventurers took care of those monsters that wander on the roads.

I entered the town and a guard called out to me.

「Are you an adventurer? Are you here to take requests?!」

「Yeah.」

「Thank you! We’re short on people lately. It would be great if you took on requests – anything will do. Don’t push yourself too hard though!」

This is how they welcome an adventurer in town? It sounds like there’s really a juicy hunting ground in the area. I made my way to the guild and entered the building.

「Whoa… that’s a lot of requests.」I muttered to myself as I stared at the requests cramped together.

Papers were posted on top of each other. With no space left for more, the rest were posted on the wall near the request acceptance counter and the bathroom doors.

Just from my field of vision alone, I see fifty kill quests for『Wild Scissors』, a D-rank monster. Choosing a request will be tough. It would be great to consolidate the requests that require the same target. While I stood there overwhelmed by the sheer amount of requests, the receptionist talked to me.

「Mr. Adventurer, are you having trouble choosing a request?」

「Yeah. There’s just too many. I don’t know which one to choose.」

「Then for you, I recommend this!」she said, handing me a request form.

Its contents were brief.

Kill Anything Request
Target: Any Monster
Specifics: Just kill monsters and bring body parts for proof of your kill. After that, the guild staff will pick out the appropriate requests for you and mark them as cleared.

The desperate tone of the request showed just how hopeless the guild’s situation was. They probably want adventurers to just kill all the monsters they can find instead of wasting time finding their targets.

「Are there that many monsters out there?」

「Not many… More like, their behavior had gone strange. Monsters that normally stay put in the forest have wandered out and are attacking people. Maybe they’ve run out of food because of the Hungry Ogres.」

「So you want their numbers reduced as much as possible.」

Under normal circumstances, you can just ignore monsters that stay in the forest. But if they go out, they give people no choice but to kill them. And as a result, they have this mountain of requests.

「All right. I’ll take that one. No matter what I kill, it’ll count as a request completed, right?」

「Every monster that have been spotted in the area. The request we’ll pick as completed will be “whichever has the highest reward by the time you return”. So if you have requests you want to secure for yourself, then you have to formally accept them.」

I see. So it’s first-come-first-served. If I can find the request with the highest reward in this mountain of papers, I should secure them first.

「Yeah… no.」

It seemed the guild staff, with no space left on the walls, have posted requests on the ceiling as well. I’d rather use my time hunting than waste it sifting through all this one by one and comparing the amount of reward. I’m not going to level up by doing paperwork.