Walking in Another World

osts five hundred gold coins.

“I want to check the quests for now.
And I want to check where medicinal herbs grow if I can.”

We enter the adventurer guild together, and it’s relatively empty since it’s past noon.

In any adventurer guild, it’s hard to get the good quests if you’re not here in the morning.

I check the quests, and for some reason I see a lot related to security.
I guess all sorts of trouble can happen when so many people gather for the advent festival.

“There aren’t that many hunting quests.
Ah, but there are a few picking quests.”

Says Leila.

They pay the normal price.
I can earn more money picking medicinal herbs and using them to make potions.

Even if I work hard completing these picking quests, I’ll only get a few gold coins.

“Sorry, but can you just ask them where I can pick herbs?”

“You got it.”

Leila walks to the reception desk, and I stay here looking at the available quests.

Most of the hunting quests are about hunting goblins and wolves.
There’s one aimed at higher ranked adventurers about hunting a tigerwolf.
It says it was sighted on the main road to the republic…

Then there’s one about hunting killer bees, and collecting honey.
Honey is used for various things here.

As for get-rich-quick quests… Dragon hunt? Now that’s fantasy.
There wasn’t a dragon attack or anything, it’s just someone after materials.
It pays a platinum coin per dragon, and it was put up by the alchemist guild.

“What are you looking at?”

Asks Leila as she peeks over my shoulder.
Too close, your face is too close.

“This quest about hunting dragons.”

“Ah… This.
These quests are pasted in every large adventurer guild.
But if someone actually takes down a dragon, they’re going to put it up for auction.”

“Really?”

“Yes.
This level of reward might be profitable if the dragon that’s being hunted is a mini or a subspecies.”

“I see.
Have you ever seen a dragon?”

“I haven’t, but there are records of dragons being sighted in the lower levels of the dungeon.
Although I don’t know if that is true.”

So there are dragons in the dungeon.
Is there something like a dragon floor or something?

“Anyway, I asked about medicinal herbs.
That could be a problem here, so let us go back to Yor’s home first.”

Yes, I guess asking for an outsider could be bad for her.

I follow Leila out of the adventurer guild.

“What are you going to do in the time until the advent festival?”

“For now, my plans are to pick medicinal herbs.
Also, can you train with me too?”

“Train?”

“Yes, I want to get better at fighting with a sword.
You’re good at that, right?”

“Not good enough to be a good teacher, but I suppose we could do some mock battles.
It would be better if you fought not just me, but the others too.
Fighting someone else is bound to be a good experience for us as well.”

“Then let’s do it when you have the time.
You have homework to do, right?”

“I sure do.
And I can’t help but lament how better off I would be if I didn’t.”

Apparently the academy assigns homework on long breaks.
Being a student sure is tough.
Yes, it sure was.