“Sorry for being late!”
This time, Priestess Eris came running. Adventurers were delighted.
“Oh oh···! Priestess is here…! Cool…!”
Adventurers who were hoarse from the cold welcomed her. I had already received divine treatment several times, but the cold did not go away, so I was sharing divine treatment.
“Ugh-! My nose is pierced! I think I will live a little longer!”
“But you need to get some rest today. It is already evening.”
The adventurers were bitter.
“No, but what about the inn where we’re staying for the time being?”
“It was hard to find an empty room when you came so late.”
“Besides, there are a lot of refugees, so I think this year will be a bit difficult.”
Crank, who freed Ariete, put on his clothes.
“I’m going to protest to Captain Cave, who is in charge of the Argon Merchant Merchant. If there are no vacancies, we should rent a warehouse and use it as a temporary accommodation.”
“Good. please.”
“yes.”
“I will follow.”
“I can’t take patients with me. You stay here.”
Ariete was crying, but Lotte came back just in time and put her mind at ease. Crank took that road to the southern city of Nibera in winter.
It is a place I visit every winter, so I walked quickly along the familiar streets and caught my eyes on the southern city scenery. Nivera was a bigger ark city than Argon, so there were many people as well as buildings.
There are many people in the city.
“Hmm, that pioneer village might have been for the purpose of dispersing the population.”
Crank paused for a moment and muttered to himself. I thought the size of the pioneer village was strangely large, but then it makes sense.
But what about fraud, how far is it involved?
Crank thought only that far and moved briskly.
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I went to the Argon Chamber of Commerce branch located in the warehouse area near the northern gate and met the leader of Cave.
“oh! crank! Good job! Thanks to you, we were able to come on time too.”
“Nothing to say, all of this was the captain’s judgment and choice.”
Captain Cave smiled happily. When we talked about accommodation, we decided to rent an empty warehouse to accommodate refugees at the request of the security guard, but he said that if it was good, we could stay together.
The next day, the adventurers and refugees who couldn’t find a place to stay moved to the warehouse vacated by the guild and unpacked their belongings. Crank’s party also settled there.
So now, in the warehouse area, something like a small village has been created. Nivera City Hall spared no support for the livelihood of the refugees.
“It’s amazing. In less than a day, the portable toilets, water fountains, and food were all delivered.”
The adventurers who unpacked their luggage in the warehouse and made friends with the villagers were amazed at the busy city hall staff and the supplies that kept coming in.
“It’s because it’s a special order from the lord.”
“Wow, lord Nivera is very quick at work, isn’t it?”
A city hall employee who had been looking around for a while approached and spoke lowly.
“The adventurer Panther is one of the few people who can move the lord.”
“wow-!”
Ching-!
Carrot, who woke up in the chair installed at the magic power station, removed the ring he was wearing around his neck, stood up, raised his arms, and squealed.
“Finished carrot charging!”
“noisy!”
Since the magic power charging station is a place where automatons and people in the city often come and go to recharge the magic stone, the manager was always there.
In the hallway lined with chairs, a large number of automatons other than Carrot were sitting and charging.
“What is your name?”
“It’s Carrot!”
The management staff member who was going through the list scratched his head with a pen.
“uh? Charged for 3 days? Even for combat, it’s usually over in a day or two.”
“Wow, have I been there for three days?”
“Uh, the charge is 300,000 liz. take it.”
The janitor took a coin out of the bag and placed it in Carrot’s tiny hand.
“This is the amount minus the charging cost from the advance payment. Wow, your master has charged three automatons?”
“You have to earn that much! right! Do you know where the refugees and northern adventurers are?”
“Do you know the city hall building? A makeshift ward has been set up there.”
“thank you!”
Carrot ran out and disappeared between the people walking on the boulevard. A female manager runs in front of him as he turns around.
“senior! Where did that little automaton go?! It was charging over there until just a moment ago!”
“uh? Did you just leave?”
“what! crying! I should get an autograph!”
“why? what? what’s the matter?”
The man who heard the story from his junior manager opened his eyes wide.
“Goddess doll? is that?”
“Rulululul~!”
I walked bravely to the city hall, but the eyes of the people passing by were subtle. It could have been because small combat automatons the size of carrots weren’t very common, so Carrot didn’t care.
“Are there any crabs!”
People stare at you as you open the front door of the city hall and enter.
“uh? Where are the refugees and northern adventurers? I heard you are here?”
“I was transported to the storage area in the morning. Who are you?”
“Ah, I am the automaton of an adventurer named Crank. Did everyone move away after coming back from Chungcheong? Then, have a good time at work.”
As I was about to turn around, a female employee ran behind me.
“Ho, is your name, Carrot, by any chance?”
Carrot, who looked away, turned and looked up at her respectfully.
“Yes, I am Carrot. What are you doing?”
“oh my god! The doll of the goddess has arrived!”
“Eh?”
People who worked at City Hall came out and cheered around the doll of the goddess of rumors. Carrot, who had heard the rumors from people, smiled ehehehe and waved his hand.
“Ai, what kind of burdensome nickname is that for an automaton?”
“Now you guys are very famous. They are dolls that have created miracles.”
A middle-aged man said, pointing his finger.
“Steam Lady, a knight wearing a steam cloak, a small doll in the mist sent by the Earth Goddess, that is your prestige now.”
“Oh my! Prestige! cool! It’s a world apart from a rabid hamster!”
After chatting with the people at the city hall for a while, Carrot waved enthusiastically and turned around and headed for the warehouse area. I knew the way because I had often visited while escorting the corps.
The streets of cities with more population than Argon were crowded with people.
“Wow, how many people are there? Is it work time?”
Unlike before, many people were coming and going in the warehouse area. In the meantime, in a secluded place, I found a few people throwing Molotov cocktails at the stone wall of the castle wall, and I ran to that first, like people I knew.
“If you guys play with fire, you pee at night!”
“oh!”
Ariete ran first and hugged Carrot.
“Carrot is back!”
“It’s like meeting a separated family.”
Crank and the priest, Eris, also welcomed them and approached.
“I went to the city hall ward and they said they had moved, so I asked them and came back.”
“Even if it wasn’t, I was about to go find it, but it worked well.”
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“But what are you doing?”
Carrot, who was being held by Ariete, opened her eyes wide to see what they were doing. When Crank looked at Priestess Eris, she burst into tears.
“Hey, is this pretty heavy?”
“Hold on.”
“Ooh-!”
Krank caught Eris, the priest who was playing with the children, and hung a bag containing an oil bottle.
“Let’s do it again. Ariete, throw it.”
“I get it. Suck!”
When Ariete threw the bottle she was holding, it flew quite far and fell to the floor, breaking and spilling the contents.
“Eris. It is now.”
Eris raised her hand and bounced it.
“Tinder!”
Whoa!
Black smoke rises along with bright red flames. said Carrot, who had been sniffing.
“Oh wow! It smells like burnt mackerel!”
“It’s fish oil. It’s near the sea, so it’s easy to find. It catches fire very well.”
Carrot’s eyes twinkled as if she understood everything.
“wow! So what! Is it the birth of the fire priest!? The priest lights the fire! In short, skinny! this is good! It will work well when catching monsters!”
Crank nodded, but Eris, the fire priest, was crying.
“Set a fire? me?”
“Isn’t it better than stomping your feet while watching your comrades in danger? Flames are effective for defense as well as offense. Most creatures are afraid of hot fire.”
An adventurer who happened to come out and watch what they were doing joined in.
“Priests with combat abilities are very popular. So, why don’t you come to our party?”
“yes?”
Then Crank glanced at Carrot and pointed at Eris, and Carrot quickly hugged her around the waist.
“Since we also developed our abilities, it’s our party now! I can’t let go! You should earn a share! Khehehe!”
The adventurers told Eris their names and asked Eris to talk to them at any time, and priest Eris was taken aback by the sudden popularity.
The cold wasn’t over, but since we couldn’t just rest, the adventurers got ready and joined the winter hunt from the next day.
It’s morning, but it’s winter, so the sun rises late. The adventurers who were warming themselves by the fire in front of the castle gate begin to move slowly.
“Open the gates!”
Eventually, the door opened, and the automatic armored vehicle of the security guard began to crawl forward, followed by adventurers and automatons.
Aye ae ae ae-!
A groaning noise,
A large number of monsters are already frozen in the open field on the other side of the Nivera Castle Gate. It was something that had been disposed of the previous day and had not been collected.
“Is that a sign?”
Arrieta raised her hand and pointed at the place where an arrow tied with a yellow ribbon was stuck in the back of the fallen ogre.
“I am going to embed it into the monster I knocked down. You don’t know who did it when you get into a melee.”
“This is where the dispute will arise.”
“It is, but that is possible after the hunt.”
Ariete nodded. Crank, who had been walking ahead, looked back.
“Soon we will start shelling the city.”
As soon as the words are finished, a shout is heard from the top of the castle wall.
“Fire the catapult!”
Tung-! Tung-! Tung-!
A large, ignited stone flew through the sky and landed on the left side of Mist. thump-! thud!
Hey hey hey hey hey!
Avoid the stones flying by the mist and slightly turn the direction of travel to the right. The captain of the guard, who was looking at it through a telescope, suddenly shouted.
“now-! Detonate the magic crystal bomb!”
Take-!
As the waiting soldier tore the scroll apart, a bright flash flashed in the fog of mist, causing a massive explosion.
“Right! Did you guide them near the bombs they buried ahead of time!”
Since there was quite a distance, the sound came after a while.
Kwong…!
“It exploded!”
The fog disappears with the explosion and monsters pour out of it. There were many large monsters that generally lived alone and insect-type monsters that couldn’t stand the cold.
“let’s go!”
Along with the armored vehicle, the automaton stood at the forefront, followed by adventurers.
“Quooo!!!!”
The ogre swings a club. Ariete, holding the longsword and dodging it lightly, burrowed into his arms and stabbed the longsword into his heart.
“It’s great!”
Covering his bleeding chest, the ogre mustered his last strength and raised the bat in his hand.
Surprised, Ariete drew her sword, let go of her hand, and ducked back to avoid the bat.
bang-!
Carrot jumped up, holding a folding ax open at the exhausted ogre’s head.
puck!
As the split-headed ogre fell backwards, Carrot landed on its chest. Then, he pulled out his longsword, swung it once to bleed the blood, grabbed it upside down, and held it out to Ariete.
“good job!”
“Right. I can see why you brought four swords.”
“If you are in an emergency, throw it away and aim for the next one. Don’t risk your life on something like a sword. It is expendable.”
Ariete nodded and ran for the next target. Over there, Lotte was helping other adventurers hunt a large scorpion.
“Eris.”
“Yes, yes!”
Crank pulled out a bottle filled with oil and tossed it vigorously.
Hong Hong Hong-!
Pachang!
“Tinder!”
A wall of flame rose in front of the feet of the praying mantis approaching from the side, targeting the adventurers who were fighting the scorpion.
Whoa Whoa!!
“Cherrure!?”
Longswords and ax blades rained down on the head of the mantis, who was embarrassed by the flames. Even otherwise, the 3-meter mantis, which was sluggish from the cold, fell down easily.
“I saw this guy often in the West.”
“I heard that some wizard made it while experimenting, right?”
“It is true. made several So I was permanently expelled from the guild.”
An adventurer who was reloading the bullets of an automatic crossbow nearby chimed in.
“It is said that most of the monsters in this land were born as a result of wizard experiments.”
“I-I apologize on behalf of the wizard. sorry! Whoops!”
“No, I wasn’t talking about you.”
“ah! Why are you ringing again!”
Carrot laughed ahahahaha while watching the adventurers soothe the sobbing fellow wizard while scolding the leader.
“Molly was so weak at first. But can’t you see the Molly Wizards? Where have you been?”
“Molly Wizards?”
“It’s an adventurer party you know.”
While chatting, the scorpion hunt was over. The adventurers who were greatly helped by Lotte were grateful.
“hey! thank you! I’ll give you this automaton share!”
“That’s fine. If we are in danger, please support us.”
“That’s good too! hahahaha! what’s your party name? We are the Blue Beards of the Nivea Adventurers Guild.”
“The Carrot Tigers of the Argon Adventurers Guild.”
Carrot bursts out laughing.
Ariete tilted her head.
“Carrot Tigers? Was our party called that? I knew it first.”
“It doesn’t matter what the party name is. Let’s go next.”
“I like it! ha ha ha! The Carrot Tigers are out!”