Disciple of Immortal

Act 2: Chapter 27: Return to Magic City

After we swept away the second wave of the Ragnos, Pomera used white magic to heal Rosemonde who was still in a dumbfounded state.

Though she was alive, her body was bitten all over the place by the Ragnos.

Philia and I gouged out the eyes of the Ragnos which we defeated as subjugation proof while waiting for Pomera to finish her treatment on Rosemonde.

I laid a mountain of Ragno eyes on the ground in front of me.

My hands were drenched in Ragno blood.

But, the young spirited Philia didn’t seem to mind the blood on her hands.

「Kanata! This eyeball is huge! Lookie lookie, it’s at least ten times bigger than the normal one!」

Philia spoke as she showed the bloody eye of the giant Ragno.

… Yeah, it’s big indeed.

「And that’s all of it… that’s the last Ragno’s eye.」

At first, we defeated around sixty Ragno before Rosemonde came back and pulled another forty Ragno with her, making a hundred of them.

There were three giant ragnos in addition to that, but one of them turned into charcoal after burning so thoroughly by Pomera’s thunder magic, and another one had the honor to become the rust by the 《Hero Sword; Gilgamesh》.

Though I could extract the eyeball of the charred Ragno, it was turned into charcoal due to Pomera’s magic.

The only one which was beautifully preserved was the giant Ragno which was crushed to death by Philia.

Though its whole body was turned into a meatball, its eyeball was safe.

I stowed the harvested eyeballs into my magic pouch while counting its exact number.

「Since there was around a hundred of Ragno, I estimate that we earned around two and half million gold at the lowest.」

Moreover, we might get even more from the subjugation of the giant Ragno.

I could expect an additional 100k to our reward.

I was elated.

This commission literally allowed us to get the cash needed for my experiment.

We might be able to harvest even more eyes if we go even deeper, but… I guess this was enough for today.

Let’s not overdo it. Nothing good would come to me by being too outstanding after all.

「Come to think of it… Rosemonde killed a few ragnos too, right? Show us the place of their corpses, we’ll escort you to go to that place.」

「… It’s okay. I just want to go back and hit the bed right now…」

「I see….」

Rosemonde seems to be completely exhausted.

… For some reason, she looks smaller than when we first met her. Must be just my imagination.

Well, her heavy, detachable armors might play a big part in making her look big but that might not be all of it.

Rosemonde herself doesn’t seem to be willing to talk to us. She just followed along.

Well, I still couldn’t predict what would happen since she discovered Philia’s 《Dream Sand》. But, despite her slightly hot-blooded nature, I don’t think that Rosemonde was a loose-mouthed person.

I felt her genuine gratitude toward us after we saved her life, thus I knew that she wouldn’t sell us out that easily.

「… But, those three giant Ragno… maybe were heading towards the magic city. Shall I stay and fight, or flee. But considering my monetary situation…」

Rosemonde muttered by herself.

Just like that, we left the forest and returned to the magic city Manarak.

We were heading straight toward adventurer’s guild after we parted ways with Rosemonde upon arriving in Manarak.

「With this, we’ve raised enough funds to start 《God’s Blood; Ether》’s experiment.」

「Fufufu… Pomera’s glad that you’re happy, Kanata-san.」

Pomera added while smiling delightfully.

「Yeah, we can do another leveling session in 《Distorted World of Cursed Mirror》 once we’re done with the experiment after all.」

「… Ah, you’re right.」

How strange, Pomera’s smile stiffened upon hearing my remark.

「Philia wants to try it too! Nee, nee, Kanata! Is that ether delicious?」

「It’s not sweet but, well… uhm, it’s delicious for sure.」

… Anyhow, according to my estimation, pure 《God’s Blood; Ether》 without any substitution would be sold for dozens millions gold each.

「I see… understood! Then, Philia will also do her best to become stronger inside the mirror!」

… Maybe it was for the best if Philia didn’t get stronger than she already has.

I mean, if worse comes to worst, I’m afraid that not even I might be able to stop Philia’s rampage.

Since I don’t know the limit of her 《Dream Sand》, she might be able to instantly make her level far higher than me.

「W-Well, I think it’s okay for you to drink it even if you’re not training to raise your level.」

「But, Philia, Philia wants to train inside the mirror along with Kanata and Pomera…」

「U~hm… I see, let me to think about it.」

「YAAAY! I’LL BE WAITING! KANATA!」

C-Crap, what should I do now?

W-Well, it should be okay as long as I become even stronger too… right?

「… We’ve arrived. Let’s quickly submit our subjugation proof and get the reward.」

The moment I touched the door of the adventurer’s guild, I realized that the inside of the adventurer’s guild was more boisterous than usual.

For some reason, I felt that another troublesome matter was coming at us.

Come to think of it, I felt it was strange that neither the guild, Pomera, or Rosemonde felt something was wrong with this abnormally exploded population of Ragno.

Upon opening the front door of the adventurer guild, I saw a crowd had formed in the center of the adventurer guild. And standing in the middle of that crowd was a pair of man and woman.

A handsome man with long blonde hair and a female adventurer with short blue hair.

「If I’m not wrong, they’re…」

「… You must be a big fan of Alfred-san, Kanata-san.」

Pomera spoke with a bored voice.

「I’m not a fan of him…」

Yeah, they were the A-rank adventurers Alfred, and his attendant, Sarah.

It seems they just came back like us.

「Why in the hell is that wanderer trying to show off in this magic city Manarak…」

「A-rank adventurer my a**ss. Doesn’t he know that this city’s examination is stricter than the other cities? I mean, I’d already have become an A-rank adventurer if I went to another city right now. Rosemonde is definitely much better than him.」

「How many Ragnos did he hunt? We’ll know his true ability once we see it.」

Many adventurers around them were quite pessimistic about Alfred.

Especially the male adventurers. They looked at Alfred with a mix of anger and envy on their face.

It seems Alfred gained too much ire from the members of the same sex as him.

Moreover, he is also doing something akin to challenging all the adventurers in this city right before his departure to subjugate Ragno.

The surrounding adventurers said he was a fool when he said that he would hunt more Ragno than any adventurers in the city.

Alfred, looking around at the surrounding adventurers, pressed the palm of his hand to his forehead as he heaved a sigh.

「Good grief… you guys sure love to make a fuss everytime I hunt monsters. You guys were adventurers too, right? how about you put more weight to your own achievements than other people’s achievements?」

I felt that the air inside the adventurer’s guild became even colder the moment he spoke those words.

The noisy adventurer’s guild was silenced at once.

「K-Kanata-san, don’t you think that this place suddenly filled with killing intent?」

「One’s own achievement more than others, huh. Sure enough, you can say that he’s right…」

I nodded twice, agreeing with Alfred’s remark.

I mean, an adventurer has failed for being one once they’re overly worrying over other’s achievement over his own.

I mean, it doesn’t matter if it was only passing by. It wasn’t like we’re profiting from it either, self-improvement was the actual key.

I mean, overly worrying about it would only make us neglect our own achievements, which might prove to be fatal.

「… As I thought, the point you admired is really strange you know, Kanata-san?」

Pomera was glaring at me with a despairing look on her face.

「I’ve told you right, you’re mistaken… wait, I might never actually told you what I really mean…」

「Even if you try to fix it with your argument, shouldn’t you first mind about time and place, Kanata-san?」