Chapter 240: The Battle Above Ground When Tauro’s party reached the ground floor, they found the four companions of the sorcerer waiting outside the affected area. “What?! Did he fail?” The assassins’ shock gave Ankh the opening he needed. While charging up the stairs, he killed two with throwing knives, then closed the distance and […]
Chapter 239: Battle for the First Basement Floor Tauro freed everyone from their restraints and locked the unconscious Salk inside the cell. “Here are your real weapons.” He retrieved the equipment he had hidden in [Magic Storage] and handed it back to his companions. “Are we really leaving this piece of trash here?” Ankh asked,
Chapter 238: An Encounter with [Fa]ther Tauro and the others were bound on the spot and taken to a building constructed within the ruins of an old castle. “What are you doing here? Talk, or I’ll kill you one by one.” A man with a cloth covering his face, apparently the person in charge, interrogated
Chapter 237: Strategy Meeting Among the Experts—Continued Raiga’s inflexible response caused the assembled adventurers to exchange uneasy looks and arguments. “What if the boy’s report is true?” “Raiga is an A-rank adventurer. Surely he knows what he’s doing.” “No. We can’t leave the survival of every team entirely to another person’s judgment.” “According to the
Chapter 236: Strategy Meeting Among the Experts The morning after the meeting in Chloe’s office, Black-Gold Wings secretly left Dansas with the B-rank teams White Night and Zekei. They traveled for a day and a half to a remote forest near the border of Count Dareder’s territory, where the full strategy meeting would be held.
Chapter 235: Meeting in the Branch Manager’s Office Black-Gold Wings was officially given a day to rest after reporting to the Adventurers’ Guild. In practice, the rest existed in name only: Tauro and his companions spent much of the day in Chloe’s office with the B-rank teams White Night and Zekei. Both team leaders released
Chapter 234: A Sudden Turn After Returning to the Village After spending the night near the destroyed Assassins’ Guild facility, Tauro and his companions began the journey back to Dansas. The peddler who had submitted the request might have been connected to the Assassins’ Guild. He had appeared perfectly ordinary, which would make him an
Chapter 233: After Coming Back to Life Aeris, Ragune, and Ankh had fallen into despair when Tauro died, so his return to life felt nothing short of miraculous. They were reluctant to move him while he remained unconscious and decided to spend the night in the mountains. Because all their proper camping equipment was stored
Chapter 232: Death, and Then… Aeris, Ankh, and Ragune waited for Tauro to return from his reconnaissance. When too much time had passed, Ankh suggested that they proceed toward the village. After climbing the steep road, they finally saw the settlement described by the peddler. “Do you think Tauro already entered the village?” Aeris turned
Chapter 231: Death Strikes Black-Gold Wings left Dansas at dawn the day after accepting the request and headed directly toward the unnamed village. Because the quest was urgent, they pushed themselves hard, traveling late into the night and stopping only briefly to eat and sleep. No one complained; every member of the team had considerable