Chapter 266

Chapter 266 Strongest Sage, Takes on Quests

"I'm this guild branch head, Dakufu . . . Baron Hildesheimr, we deeply apologize for our staff earlier . . . She did not mean ill will–"

I see .

I forgot that I'm technically a temporary baron .

My peerage should have been a temporary one for a duration of doll war–but the king seems to fully intend to make it permanent .

As such, I'm practically still a baron even though the doll battle is over .

"No, it's nothing to worry about . "

"We're ever so grateful for your generosity, Baron Hildesheimr . "

. . . Getting treated as a noble like this makes me feel all fidgety . . .

Though it may have its use in negotiations like I'm currently in .

"So let me be straight with you . . . I need to take on this quest due to a certain circumstance . And I'd also like to meet with the client of this quest . "

" . . . We're truly sorry . Even if it's a request by Baron Hildesheimr, we cannot just ignore the rank specified by the client . . . We're also unable to share client's information, even if it were the lord here asking . "

"What if I say that the client is a criminal?"

The branch head looked surprised when he heard that .

And then . . . he turns his sight at the client's name .

"Are you telling us that the client of this quest, Picas, is a criminal?"

"He possibly is . "

" . . . I'm sorry, but we cannot divulge client information just because of a possibility . We'd be glad to comply right away if you have evidence to prove your claim however . . . "

Well, I guess I'm pushing it without evidence .

If a noble who isn't even a territory lord could get information from the guild by simply saying 『The client may be a criminal』, no one would trust the guild anymore .

. . . Even if we catch the client, the one who posted the quest is probably someone hired by the [Swords Extremers] .

I don't remember anyone called Picas in that group .

Which means, what we need to do here is . . . to raise our ranks as planned .

"Then I guess we'll just have to raise our ranks to A . . . The demons we have defeated are counted in the rank up assessment right?"

"Of course . . . In that case, you need to get to rank C . . . I believe Mathias-san's party is able to take on a special test if you negotiate with the guild . "

Special test huh .

Something like that is possible even without the king's intervention huh .

" . . . How long would that take?"

"I believe it would take two days at the quickest . "

"Too slow . . . Might as well take on subjugation quests and raise our rank to C the honest way . . . It's 200 rank E quests and 500 rank D quests, no?"

Fortunately this guild has plentiful of quests .

We can probably complete 500 quests in a day if we just hunt monsters quickly and abundantly .

Doing the quests is still faster even if we count the time needed to recover our mana .

" . . . So it's faster to take on normal quests than the special test with Baron Hildesheimr's strength . . . In that case, would you like us to prepare the right quests for you?"

"Are you sure?"

I'd welcome it if he could get us nice quests for rank up .

"Baron Hildesheimr should have been rank A considering your strength . No one would complain even if you get to rank A in a slightly forceful manner . "

Then the branch head wrote two quest tags .

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Type: General Quest

Quest Rank: E

Required Rank: E

Reward: 100 elmi

Quest Spot: Senisye Plain

Subject: Subjugation of one Rank E monster

Client: Adventurer Guild

Remark: Multiple Acceptance is Allowed

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Type: General Quest

Quest Rank: D

Required Rank: E

Reward: 200 elmi

Quest Spot: Senisye Plain

Subject: Subjugation of one Rank D monster

Client: Adventurer Guild

Remark: Multiple Acceptance is Allowed

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"Please accept these quests . . . These are the simplest quests as far as my knowledge goes . "

" . . . We just need to defeat 200 rank E monsters and 500 rank D monsters if we take these quests huh . "

"Yes . As long as you get the rank right, they're terribly easy to accomplish if you have the strength to back . "

Normally, subjugation quests ask you to locate a specific monster among a swat of monsters and defeat only those type of monsters .

Moreover, there's no guarantee that defeating one of those monsters is counted as one quest .

However, we can simply defeat monsters randomly out there and these two quests would be deemed complete .

Only shortfall is that defeating rank F and below monsters won't be counted, but any simpler and these quests won't be approved as rank D .

" . . . Much appreciated . "

I took the two quests as I said that .