Minotaur, basilisk, vampire, and a banshee. Of the numerous requests, these were the four she was able to find characteristics on. Of the six books, one book had information on two while being very little. There were also three books that held very limiting descriptive language to describe the very basic physical features.

Being completely useless. Subjugation requests didn’t always come with an article 3F. They did always come with basic information such as identifiable remarks of the creature. This included details on the creatures' species. While not detailed, it was enough to be able to identify the creature you were hunting and redeeming qualities of its race.

For a normal request, this was enough. Most subjugation requests dealt with normal creatures that were known to inhibit the area. These creatures had grown overly aggressive or killed someone that shouldn’t have been killed.

Having time to ponder on it, it became abundantly obvious. Mercury City was surrounded by two pseudo-forbidden zones. While there was theoretically nothing else in the surroundings. There was, however, traffic.

Ignoring random people moving around the forbidden zone, for numerous reasons, but the most important was Mercury City itself. The city of literal monster slayers. It was the unofficial job description.

Adventurer’s Guild didn’t take on assassination requests. What they did do was kill unintelligent species. This would change, depending on where you were. In human land, it was seen as normal to kill low grade goblins that didn’t have any obvious connections between the goblin kingdom and themselves.

In part due to the type of species they were. While somewhat cruel, adventurers slaughtered humans in human territories. Monsters became the term for anything that attacked irrationally.

Marvin hired them to protect against monster attacks. Since Marvin was human, he added a clause pertaining to human attacks. Having talked to Claire and Jack, she knew that if for some reason they worked for a goblin. There might be a clause in it pertaining to goblins.

If one stopped to think about it, it was bloody and scary. Having become used to it, it felt dull. As a side effect, Jessica completely forgot that these people moving in random direction would make it so that there wouldn’t be random creatures wondering near Mercury City.

Leaving the east and west forbidden zones as the only location for subjugation requests to take place.

While article 3F could describe the creature in basic details, that left her with an issue. She wasn’t searching a forest, swamp, or even a plain. To adventure into a forbidden zone with only basic information on her target, without knowing detailed information. That was a death sentence waiting to happen.

She knew a little bit about banshee’s already. Therefore, there was no disappointment when all that was stated was a ghostly presence that is immune to the majority of physical attacks. It was a shame that basilisk was in the same book.

You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author.

Appearing briefly, all that was mention was that they were a creature that appeared similar to snakes or lizards. Combined with a deadly poison.

While very little information was given, it wasn’t completely useless. She didn’t have high hopes for hunting an aggressive banshee. They were difficult creatures to hunt, by means of finding them or killing. While, anything to do with poison was extremely dangerous.

With those two off the table, she focused onto minotaurs and vampires. She had heard of vampires before. Though what she heard wasn’t what she found in the books. They were the most detailed information she found.

Vampires were similar to goblins. While sharing similarities but vastly more diverse characteristics of humans. Both goblins and vampires were strongly reliant on bloodlines. Rather, they held any intelligence had to do with their parents.

Unlike goblins, a vampire hard a much harder time progressing their own bloodline. Thus, for an intelligent vampire to be born, it was most probable to occur from genetics than them evolving their own bloodline.

Their shared features with humans had to do with types. Humans had a large variety of different races. In the end they were all the same with very little differing factors.

A vampire would be humanoid in shape. That was to say they had two arms, head, torso, and two legs. This included the vampire bats. While there were a large line between bats and humans. From grotesque adaptions between the two.

Showing an illustration of a large creature with wings spanning ten feet across. The limbs attaching the wings were thick and muscly. The face was similar to a bat, while being the size of a human torso. The torso and legs of this creature appeared as thick as a cow’s body, with large hooves for feet.

Reading on, the book showed a second illustration, a dreaded high vampire that was human on the outside but a complete monster on the inside. From the drawing alone, the face had attractive features. Nothing about the man besides the words accompanying the drawing showed anything outside a normal human.

“Based on the descriptions of a poem from a previous epoch. Said to have been a noble in the south. Eccentric man that enjoyed hosting balls. Spoken as a highly regarded man with a small pasture, spending most of their wealth on parties. Famous for having thirty cows. For each cow, in a cellar below the pasture, was fourfold of intelligent creatures imprisoned and drained of blood regularly.”

The last lines caused her to shiver, “When asked, the man would always say his greatest accomplishments were not the parties he held. He had the most pride in his pasture.”

This information was gathered by the leftover bits of the damaged poem. In the end, she was left with a difficult choice. Replacing the books she took out, she returned to the long corridors.

Once back, she moved over to the desk to see the article 3F. Minotaurs didn’t have a large amount of information. Therefore, she looked at the information on the vampire first.

With a dark complexion, she crossed it off in her head.

Low vampire, mixed human sized bat. Missing right wing. Brown fur. Peak Grade E, border between first and second boundary. West forbidden zone. Habitat believed to be in a cave on a cliff next to a small lake.

Just peak Grade E was enough to cross it out. She had never faced a vampire before. While being a low vampire, it was peak Grade E, the very cusp of being a mid-vampire. Either its bloodline was that of a mid-vampire, or it was one of those legendary vampires that raised its own bloodline.

Neither of which were something she believed she couldn’t face. Both of them would have above average strength, meaning the strength of Grade D. Adding on the fact that it was not just at the border between first and second areas, it was also west area.

East had the dwarf territory that went from north to south. This meant they had cut off a large chunk of forbidden land. The size and thus the population and dangers of east forbidden zone was far less of that of the west side.