The next morning after meeting with Yayoi-chan.
I woke up early for once and reached the guild sooner than usual only to find a crowd by the counter.
[What’s going on?]
“Did an interesting request come up or something?”
Curious, I also went towards the counter.
At a single glance i could tell that atleast 20 people were gathered by the counter. Even the receptionist herself was not going closer.
Since it couldn’t be helped, I gave up and decided to wait till things calmed down.
Thinking about confirming the request I’d do today, suddenly my shoulder was patted on.
“You’re here.”
“Hm? Yo, morning.”
There, the elf I had been partying with recently was standing.
But, somehow he seemed really tired.
His gaze lacked the usual vigour. Also, there was no sight of the bow he usually carried.
“My bow was broken. I’m having a new one prepared for me.”
It seems my expression gave away my thoughts as he explained about his bow.
But, broken? Did he have some quarrel with some humans or did he suffer a defeat against some monster?
I’m well aware of this Elf’s ability. Even though the monsters in the Forest of Magical Energy are strong, in the end they’re still just goblins and such. I don’t think he is weak to be defeated by them.
“Did something happen?”(renji)
“Yeah. A little problem has occured.”
“Problem?”
[fumu….sounds interesting.]
I can only get a bad feeling about this though. I answered Ermenhilde’s word like this in my mind.
If possible, I want to avoid anything troublesome. Also, dangerous things as well.
“is it related to that crowd over there?”(renji)
“Pretty much.”
[What happened?]
“……What happened? It’s rare for so many adventurers to gather like that at the counter.”(renji)
Either the reward is great or it’s something very troublesome. If possible, please be the former one.
Those who came to the guild after me are also looking towards the counter wondering what happened. Also, since the crowd is big, they’re also simply standing by the side like me.
As expected, that big of crowd will attract anyone’s attention, I guess.
“Don’t you feel that goblins have been appearing a bit too much recently?”(elf)
“Goblin?”
Now that I think about it, yeah.
Yesterday, we did get attacked by a bit too many of them.
Certainly, that wasn’t normal. Without any objective, for so many goblins to gather was weird.
“The abnormality has appeared in the Forest of Magical Energy as well but it seems that the situation is the same even in the plains to the south of the Magic City.”
“So, goblins are appearing in large amounts both in the Forest and in the Southern plains of Ofan?”
[That’s strange. The number of Goblins here shouldn’t be that big since adventurers hunt them regularly.]
If there was a special reason behind it, the guild would have received intel on that by now.
If there isn’t any, means that these goblins are appearing like that naturally. There are two ways how monsters are born.
Well, there may be others I don’t know as well, but I am aware of only two of such ways.
The first is simply to give birth to a child with a partner of the same race. It’s only natural, or rather, if there’s a male and a female of the same species, it will happen.
The other, is through creation by the Demon God. That guy could really, as long as he had magical energy, create infinite number of monsters. Though there were some restriction/conditions to it—-we don’t know what they are.
Even after the Demon God has been defeated, the fact that the monsters haven’t disappeared is also a reason behind it. Neither humans nor the Demi-humans have the resources to go around exterminating all the infinitely created demons. Well, they won’t be created infinitely anymore but the number of monsters is still very big.
And currently they continue to increase by giving birth to children normally.
Adventurers, soldiers and the demihumans are also killing them continuously but I wonder how much the amount has actually lessened in this one year after the Demon God was killed.
“So, is the guild planning to perform a large scale sweeping force or something?”(renji)
“Yeah. They are currently recruiting members.”
I see.