[interesting.]

[Very interesting. Despite what is said about the towns resurgence. The resurrection of the town was not because of businesses.]

[The city to the west is experiencing a severe flooding problem because of weather? But why do a few mana scientists say otherwise.]

[The Savior foundation is recruiting workers. In particular they're looking for special personnel to perform special tasks.]

[Huh? Beware of the Savior foundation? Now why would the aristocrats say that.]

[The security of the town north east of here is notoriously infamous for being too strict? Why is that.]

[Hehehe...my what bright four full moons~]

[Hehehe...huh? Oh...]

Hmmm...?

What did the system discover?

Oh, oh my...

This city, is not a city.

It's...

[This is...disturbing.]

...

"Yawn...! That felt great, never a good rest can't fix. Ready to go gem?"

"..."

'No.'

"To bad, you coming anyways and going to be my talking buddy."

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"..."

'...ugh, whatever.'

[...]

"So then, let's head to the mercenary outpost first. Let's see what adventure we taking next. The branch headquarters must have some good ones here."

...

In a large hall dozens of teams and solo mercenaries are talking with one another or by themselves as they look at a glowing blue orb suspended besides them.

These orbs carry information of all the quests and recruitments asked by mercenary outposts in different towns. Some to be taken after a long time while others requiring a teleportation to reach urgent matters.

Thousands of these orbs are here giving out quests.

And our trio just came into the hall.

"Let's see. Ah there is a free one."

"Hmmm...what kind of job do you think we should take gem."

"..."

'A job that requires little to no action, pays a lot, and it can be done quicker then half an hour.'

"Gem if such a job exists. No one would leave it hanging here."

"..."

'fine...look for a job that requires herding.'

"Herding? That's odd why...oh I see."

"..."

'Yes, specifically guiding highly aggressive uncooperative monsters.'

"Hmm...your in luck. There are hundreds of job requests that meet your requirements."

"A lot of the easier ones like handling sheep are queued up and almost full. They don't seem to pay well and require log shifts."

"..."

'Then pass over those.'

"There are some monster herding ones. Pays high but the risk of getting bit is also high. The hours however are extremely long."

"..."

'too much time, what about the others.'

"Hmmm...Oh. found some. Uh, pay is extremely high and you get a portion of the total profits too. You only work for a few minutes. Free teleportation services, Guaranteed unlimited food and free lodging."

"..."

'Sounds great. What's the catch.'

"The job title is...live bait. You and several others must distract a monster herd as the main party tries to kill them off one by one from behind."

"There is currently 780 people signed up and the party will set off when 1,000 people are gathered. The monster herd is consisted of mostly low creatures between level 1 to 25. With level 25 being the leading beast, level 20 on average being the 2nd in command of the hoard, 15 being the charging leaders to guide the hoard, 10 and below being regular beats."

"..."

'Perfect.'

"Uh, are you sure you can handle this? I don't want to risk my life if you can't control the monster."

"..."

'System? What level of monster can I control.'

[...]

"..."

'Been awfully quiet lately.'

"..."

'I am not sure what level I can fully control.'

"Well...we can figure that out right now. They have facilities for that."

"..."

'oh?'