DUNGEON CREATOR
Ch.22
Entering the mansion, Sora and the guild master are being guided into a room and told to wait, while the guild master is sitting in the sofa and wait as being told, Sora is admiring every decoration inside the room while sometimes muttered ‘hmm’ or ‘hoo’ while admiring detailed work of a small sculpture a knocking sound can be heard coming from the door and without waiting for a response the door swung open.
“Good morning.”
“Good morning.”
“Good morning.”
The guild master and the other two who just enter the room greets each other, following them all Sora also greet them.
“Good morning.”
“Let me introduce you to each other.”
“Ashford, Ajax this lady over here is Elris.”
“Elris this is Baron Ashford and the man standing next to him is General Ajax.”
The Baron is a man in his mid 40’s while Ajax is look much younger since he’s a man with stern face in his 30’s. Getting tense after seeing General Ajax face Sora awkwardly greets them.
“…..Nice to see you.”
“Likewise, and please relax yourself.”
Following the Baron hand Sora sit on a sofa pointed by him, with Sora and the guild master sit facing the Baron and the General they start their conversation.
“Do you mind if we skip all the formality?”
After seeing Sora face fill with tense, General Ajax suggests to skip all the formality during this meeting to the Baron.
“Yeah I don’t mind. What about you lady? Are you fine with that?”
Considering Sora as a noble breed, Baron Ashford asked for her agreement.
“I don’t mind.”
“I will get straight to the point then.”
“Lady Elris, do you know why I called you here?”
“Is it related to the army of undead?”
“Yeah you’re right, Three days ago one of Ronald adventurer managed to spot an army of undead marching here and after we send our scout to confirm it we found out they’re around one thousand strong, but there’s something strange about them.”
“Strange?”
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“It’s the miasma and the equipment I told you before.”
Instead of the Baron it was Ronald who answer Sora question and Ajax added.
“We have around 3000 man to deal with them, and will begin to move to intercept them in couple hours.”
“So in that regard lady, I as the Baron hope that you will help us during the battle.”
“I have prepared some gold as a reward of course.”
“You hope us, adventurer to fight alongside your army?”
“Isn’t that going to break your formation?”
Sora questioned the Baron his reason for hiring adventurer in roundabout way.
“You know your stuff lady.”
General Ajax chimed in.
“Well, I did plan to fight the undead with the army, I hire the adventurer just to guard the city if some of the undead manage to break from the front line.”
“And while we plan to make the adventurer guard the city, we could use some strong individual like the B-rank party and you lady, even if you join the battle several people can’t break the entire army formation so it’s okay.”
“…”
While thinking for excuses to get away from the battle, unexpected words come out from General Ajax mouth.
“Are you strong lady? You don’t look like one.”
“Would you care to find out?”
“I’m sorry, Its not my intention to offend you, but you really don’t look that strong to me.”
“That’s why I said, would you care to find out?”
Irritated because what the General says, Sora answered him rudely asking for a fight.
“Hooo….. interesting, a General from the capital, and F-rank outskirt adventurer I would very much like to see how the fight goes, I would even pay for that. Hahaha.”
Remember the one sitting beside her is the guild master, Sora asked him.
“Can I refuse his request?”
“Of course you can, but if you refuse a request it will ruin your reputation.”
“I don’t care about reputation and I don’t intend to be an adventurer anyway.”
“Huh….?”
“So Baron, I’m sorry but I can’t accept your request to join the battle.”
“What do you mean you don’t want to be an adventurer?”
The guild master confused because Sora remarks.
“No, I sign up in the guild just because the legal office is closed.”
“What….? So you sign up just for identification?”
“As the guild master I can’t turn blind eyes on this lady, I demand you return the card to me.”
Ronald furiously talked to Sora as he stand from his seat and pull out his hand asking for the card back. Confused about what happened before them the Baron and the General keep silent.
“Sorry, but I can’t give you what already mine.”
“Wha… you.”
When Ronald tried to reach out for Sora pouch the door suddenly slammed open. Surprised all of the man insides the room look to the door except for Sora, she’s busy tying her pouch to the other side of her waist. The guard who slammed the door gave his reason for interrupting.
“Sir the undead can be seen from the eastern tower.”
“What…. It’s too early it supposed to be around mid day the earliest they arrived.”
A huge bell sound can be heard coming from the east, and when Sora realized all the faces inside the room turns grim, and General Ajax tell the other.
“Let’s go to the eastern gate.”
“Lady, if you don’t join the fight I won’t give you your ID.”
The Baron added in frustration.
“Then I won’t tell you where those undead come from.”
Suddenly all the people that tried to leaves the room looked back to her.
“You know where they come from?”
“Yeah, and I won’t tell you before I got my identification card.”
With a hesitation face the Baron says to the other.
“You guys go ahead I’ll talk to her a bit.”
The other three leaves the room and rode their horses to the east.
“Now lady, if you please be kind, would you tell me where those guys come from?”
“Nope, I’ll tell you when I get my ID, and If you give me a house I’ll guide you there myself.”
“Rufus.”
A moment later a man wearing butler outfit came into the room.
“You called master?”
“Yeah, tell Ruben to open the legal office.”
“Yes master.”
The butler left and the Baron urge Sora to tell where the location of the undead come from.
“Now I already told them to open legal office, can you please tell me where they came?”
“How many times do I have to tell you, I’ll tell you when I get my ID, did I have my ID now?”
“Ugh… Fine, I’ll see you when you get your ID.”
“Hmm…. I don’t feel like making them now, I already have adventurer card anyway.”
“Damn…. Fine I’ll make them for you, I’ll tell you when it’s ready.”
“Good, now be a good lord and deal with those undead and protect the city.”
“Thanks for your hospitality. Oh I won’t be joining the battle, so good luck with that.”
Sora leave the room leaving the Baron with some curses come out of his mouth. Already decide what she’s about to do she head for the western gate.