
I woke up when a lot of sunlight came in through the window. I haven't been awake in days, other than Sundays. Yeah, even if some of my body hurts. Waking up in the afternoon is best.
My door opened, someone came in.
"Oh, you're awake, Iky. Because you didn't wake up this morning, I went alone to the Adventurers Guild. Look, I came home just to tell you about this bracelet."
Andra came in her usual outfit, the only difference being the silver bracelet on her left wrist. I looked at him with my eyes still narrowed, scratching my left eye, I tried to remember something. At that moment my eyes immediately widened and prostrated towards Andra.
"I'm sorry!"
"It's okay. It's also my fault for not waking you up fast asleep. I'm just here to show you the bracelet. Let's start looking for a mission."
I'm getting ready to leave for the Adventurers Union.
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Andra and I were looking at the mission board to find our first mission as partners today, because the money from the mission would be split in two so I decided to choose a mission with a decent amount of money.
Hm...About what mission is perfect for us today?
'How about that one.'
Don't talk as if your hands can be seen.
'That's, the mission of killing the stone golems. The skill of the stone golem is good for defending from enemy attacks, the money earned is also good.'
I saw a paper poster that read Defeat the Stone Golem. It may be too late, but I just realized that even though the writing from this world is very strange, somehow I can still read it. The writing like this strange symbol is like the alphabet in my eyes.
Take the Golem Core as proof of the mission completed. His reward was 500,000 Upirs for a single stone golem. Suggested party of 3-4 people, is this okay?
'It's okay, just relax. With your [Water Shot], the golem's body will be hollowed out easily. And again now we have Andra.'
After searching for the perfect mission, I finally finished deciding. I suggested the mission to Andra, but she seemed hesitant.
"... Can't we just fight the tree monster from yesterday?"
"Unfortunately killing astral monsters does not exist in Adventurers Union missions because they have no physique, they only dwell in ordinary objects without value. Most often there's a mission when the citizens start being bullied and we're told to get them out of there."
"... I lack confidence in fighting monsters other than the astral type."
'Strange, the power of the stone golem should not be much different from the tree monster, it could even be said to be below it. Why is he so worried.'
If it's true that monster was level under a moving tree yesterday, we don't have to worry.
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We arrived at the location. Here quiet, there are only rocks and green grass, some even just dialasi land. My second mission as well as our first mission as a team, began.
"Iwii…"
Andra called out to me with eyes without blinking looking at the huge monster made of stone in front of her. The size of the golem was 3 meters and his eyes were blue, at first glance looking like diamonds. His face was only eyes, without mouth, nose, or ears. The monster emerged from within the ground like a zombie from a grave.
The chest part was engraved like a batik pattern. His blue eyes instantly lit up after his entire body finished coming out from within the ground.
"Finally show up, finish him off, Andra!"
After hearing my screams, Andra ran after the stone golem. Running without fear, no, he was frightened yet his face was still as calm as ever. Why didn't he fight her?
They kept chasing each other and being chased, with a slightly heavy breath from running, Andra said to me:
"... Iky, my legs are tired."
"Then ask for help!"
With hard work, I ended up killing the golem that was chasing Andra using the skill I had, shooting [Water Shot] right into his chest. I touched the golem's corpse and a write-up appeared about the golem's identity and skill list. [Body Hardening], [Earth Spike], and [Earth Trap].
It seems true that this golem has a useful skill, whether I should eat a stone from this part of the golem. I took out a stone golem flake and put it in the bag of pants. I'll eat after the inn.
"But why don't you fight it, Andra."
"... Actually…"
Andra told me the truth. Actually from childhood he had been trained to fight various astral monsters due to the preparation to face his curse. Therefore from the past until now he had continuously fought only astral-type monsters. In short he did not know how to fight against the physical monsters. His strength was also useless against physical-type monsters.
'Oh, so that's a strange feeling in my mind knowing the power of Andra who has the Inner but chose to be an Exorcist.'
What does it mean he's a human destined only to fight ghosts?
'It looks like so.'
Oi, oi. Now I know, the reason he didn't enter the Adventurers Guild from the beginning was because he had power.
"Where?"
"Where's what?"
"Are you going to get me out as a partner."
"Really, you don't have to give me money. Just take me to where Ganyuk is. What if I sleep in the paper tonight."
"That won't happen again, tonight we move to a more decent inn."
"... Make sure the next inn has a smooth floor."
"We'll sleep in the bed! Don't think to sleep in the paper again."
While arguing with Andra, another stone golem appeared around us. We made horses.
"Stranquilo, Iky. I have a plan. We're-"
Andra had not finished speaking, he had already entered into the [Earth Trap] that the stone golem had issued.
As the two hands of the golem punched the ground, the ground beneath Andra became hollow with a flash and was 3 meters deep.
Once again, I worked hard beating that stone golem.
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Me and Andra returned to the city of Edman with each of them carrying the Golem Core. The light blue colored stone that lit up was the size of a human head.
Andra's clothes were dirtier than mine, but she seemed to be indifferent to her own cleanliness.
We met the Union receptionist and gave the Golem Inti. Upon inspection, I was given a brown envelope containing 1,000,000 Upirs. Results I got for a full day.
"Let's go, Andra."
I took Andra somewhere. He was surprised and asked my purpose.
"Where?"
"Obviously, buy clothes for you."
"... You still want to buy it."
"We have promised, after all it is not good to have only one shirt. You may not be aware, but the smell of clothes that have not been washed for a long time is very pungent."
"... I'm surprised, you easily insulted me in public."
"I'm just talking about the truth. Let's go."
We walked to the shirt shop, while Andra occasionally sniffed her left armpit up close. The shop I went to was the same as yesterday, where I bought robes and hand guards.
His burly shopkeeper had also gotten more familiar with me, so it was easy to talk to him. Moreover, this place is complete, providing combat tools and casual clothes in one place.
"Thank you for shopping!"
Shouted the shopkeeper as we exited the store. Shopping this time was quite a lot, I brought a large shopping bag to carry Andra's clothes.
"Iky, let me just take the stuff."
"No need, 'cause I want you to buy us something for dinner tonight."
"Oh, what is it."
I doubt I'd like to ask you this, but it's worth trying.
"... Is there something here called rice?"
"uh? Looks like there's. I'll ask the people around."
"Good, in my country not eating rice is the same as not eating anything."
"... I haven't eaten rice for a year, does that mean I haven't eaten for a year?"
"No, that's a different concept."
Andra and I walked apart. I asked Andra to wait in the Adventurers Union if I finished shopping because after picking up some items in the old inn, I would rent a new one with better facilities.
Aye? Is this the alleyway to my inn, or the alley in front of her again, I forget. I better try to get in this alley first.
After entering the alley, I heard the sound of men screaming, the screams of people in pain. I immediately ran over to the voice, it seemed like he was in danger.
At the turn as I walked down the alley, I stopped running because I had gotten to where the screams had appeared. A city guard was sitting leaning against the wall with a stab wound on his right front shoulder, his knife was still stuck and both of his shoulder guards were off.
In front of the guard who was seen fainting were two people using a light brown hooded coat that was shabby so that their faces and bodies could not be seen.
One of the people in the coat was holding a knife. Realizing that I was looking at the incident, they looked at me, but I couldn't see their faces as they were covered in coats.
"Shashasha."
Ah, bad. It looks like I'm starting to interfere in this city's conflict.