Chapter 296

Chapter 296 Strongest Sage, Heads to Deserted Guild

"For the time being . . . Let's report our quest . "

"Yes!"

"Oh right, we took several quests to raise our rank . . . It's all over before we did though . "

Then Alma skimmed over her guild card .

We're currently Rank E . . . Beginner's rank .

We were trying to raise our rank straight to A to take on a quest [Warmongers] posted in their quest for challengers . . . But since they ended up coming to us themselves, we didn't need the Rank .

"Yeah . . . Well, since there's no disadvantage in having better rank, might as well take what we can . "

There might be time when we need guild ranks in the future after all .

Let's just take all the rank we can take .

We took quests that would get us straight to Rank A and all .

We went into the guild while talking .

However . . .

" . . . It's deserted . "

Not a single adventurer was inside the guild .

There's a lone receptionist who looks completely unoccupied .

Rather, she's dozing off .

The time is currently a bit before the sun goes down .

Though it's not exactly the time when the guild is usually crowded . . . but would it even be this empty .

This city is supposed to be a city of adventurers–where many adventurers reside and with a prosperous guild .

Something must have happened to make it this vacant .

I should go ask .

"Can I have a bit?"

"Yes . Anything I can help you with?"

The receptionist raised her sleepy face when I called her .

. . . This . . . doesn't seem like an emergency that necessitated adventurers to assemble has occurred or something .

"I don't see a single adventurer in the guild . . . What happened?"

" . . . Ah . You mean that . . . Those adventurers are currently scrambling for spoils! . . . Aren't you going to participate?"

"Spoils?"

. . . Wonder if some monster with rare pricey parts have appeared around here .

I didn't see any monster like that on our way back here though . . .

The receptionist replied back while I was thinking .

"A little while ago lights fell down the sky . . . Then monsters in many cities suddenly died out! Didn't you see it?"

Lights falling from the sky, monsters suddenly dying . . . ?

. . . Ah, they got caught in [Genesis] huh .

When I used [Genesis] to defeat the surrounding monsters, I had it set on default preset–in other words, its range was 100 kilometers in radius .

Since this spot is less than 100 kilometer apart from where the [Broken Star] was, all monsters around Haigis must have dropped dead .

And . . . since [Genesis] only destroy souls, the parts of those monsters have remained as is .

Magic similar [Genesis] were also used in the past whenever one wanted to preserve monster's parts .

"I see . . . So they're all competing to collect those suddenly dying monsters . "

"Yes . No one has any idea as to what just happened . . . But we're very lucky! It's the best time to make a killing!"

" . . . Glad to hear that . "

Thanks to getting back the sensation from the past, I inadvertently killed all monsters within range .

Since monster occur naturally in nature, their numbers should go back up in time . . . I'd feel a bit bad if the excessive amount of dead bodies caused trouble .

Of course I don't plan to claim ownership of the monsters I defeated, so I don't mind if people go and pick them up .

"Since even high ranking monsters seem to have perished as well . . . Adventurers have been running all over for a chance to get high ranking materials without fighting! . . . We have even set up a temporary purchase counters at the city's entrance so they can focus on gathering materials!"

Looks like the guild is supporting the gathering as well .

This probably has turned into a bit of treasure hunt .

. . . You could live leisurely for a while if you managed to get your hands on high ranking monster parts after all .

I probe the surrounding mana .

And found out that there was a crowd of people near the city's entrance .

We didn't notice since it was a different entrance from the one we took to get in .

"We're not here for selling but to report subjugation quest completions . . . Can we do that here? We'd also like to sell parts of monsters we defeated . "

"Ah, you're here for quest! Of course, it's okay! . . . Rather, we're thankful for bringing those parts here . "

"Is that so?"

"Yes! . . . Since we're storing the monster parts bought at the temp purchasing counters to the warehouse behind this building . . . We're even employing townsfolk to help transport those parts to our warehouse!"

Now that she mentions it . . . I can sense mana reaction coming and going between the city's entrance and the guild .

Since it's moving slowly, they must be using carts of some sort for transportation .

Looks like the guild is having it rough during this busy time .

So that's why there's only one receptionist left here .

All other staff must have gone to handle the temporary purchasing counters .