Chapter 91: Innovative Technology Can’t Be Stolen Marches agreed to coordinate with the craftsmen while they built a refrigerator prototype. Once it was complete, they would take it to the Merchants’ Guild and register the invention for patent protection. Tauro had devised a safeguard for the magic circles drawn between the two boards. One circle […]
Chapter 90: The Box of Secrets The day after returning from the kobold-subjugation quest, Tauro sat at the Resting Pavilion (Ikoi-tei), sipping miso soup with his breakfast. “Ah… This is so comforting.” He savored the familiar flavor in quiet contentment. Every few days, Tauro made a batch of miso at the Resting Pavilion first thing
Chapter 89: The Team’s Ability A pack of kobolds and Mad Dogs had established a settlement in the forest near the client’s village about a month earlier. They frequently descended on the village and ravaged its crops. According to an adventurer from one of the E-rank teams who possessed [Scouting], the settlement contained forty-one kobolds
Chapter 88: A Team Quest Tauro and his companions were reasonably well known at the Dansas branch of the Adventurers’ Guild as specialists in gathering medicinal herbs. Once the promising Aeris joined them, however, the group began attracting a different kind of attention. Even before that, the sight of two adults following a child had
Chapter 87: A Moment with the Team After asking Chloe to handle the registration, the four accepted only a medicinal-herb gathering quest and left the guild. On the way to their destination, Tauro proposed how they should operate in the future. “We’ll leave the rear guard to Aeris. Since I have [Presence Detection], I’ll scout
Chapter 86: A Team Is Born? Aeris stopped appearing the following day. Tauro was disappointed because she had struck him as a hard worker, but perhaps she had simply returned to Dareder. Shin and Rumeya were surprised as well. “She seemed to have plenty of determination.” “She had a sharp tongue, but she wasn’t a
Chapter 85: How an F-Rank Adventurer Fights While teaching Aeris how to gather medicinal herbs, Tauro asked why she had come to the village. Her answer was surprisingly well considered. She had concluded that items were essential if she wanted to master the role of a rear guard. Whether she used healing magic as a
Chapter 84: A Troublesome Girl The boy before her claimed to be an adventurer, but the girl didn’t believe him. She was utterly convinced that she was the world’s youngest adventurer and that everyone around her held high expectations for her future. “You’re still a child! There’s no way anyone younger than me could be
Chapter 83: The Promise of a New Encounter The Damaski Company’s wrongdoing became public through the testimony of the major Garfish Company and the deputy manager of the Merchants’ Guild branch. Ed had invited the guild official to discuss the opening of the Marches Company, only for Marman to arrive by chance and dig his
Chapter 82: The Traveling Merchant’s Narrow Escape Marches remained dazed, his mind still blank, so Tauro briefly explained the entire situation in his place. “That is… conduct unworthy of any merchant.” Ed was appalled by what he heard. “However, if a trading contract exists, it would be difficult for us to interfere without justification. The