I went straight ahead to the adventure guild and there, the adventures started to greet me one by one, and all of the male adventures are asking the same thing
"Could you tell us more about Rafiah"
"Man,Rafiah is pretty, how about introduce her to us"
"Our party can always need an additional female member"
"Yeah. No. I get this feeling that all of you are just desperate" [Ash]
"True that" [Mimi]
"But I must say, Rafiah is a beauty. Couples that with her shy and feminine personality, it's no wonder they're all this excited" [Female Elf adventure]
"Come on now, at least let us talk to her. That ghost butler of your been blocking our romantica path to be with her"
"Such poetry, but no, and I'll be sure to add an additional function to the training hall so you desperate adventure won't bother her too much" [Ash]
"Man, we're just joking"
"I don't think so" [Lin]
As we're talking about Rafiah, Ram's daughter who works in the guild call and guided me to Ram's room. Just as she's about to knock the door, Ram looks like he's heading out somewhere and ask me to follow him
"Castle?" [Ash]
"Yeah" [Ram]
"Refuse?" [Ash]
"No!" [Ram]
"Joking..." [Ash]
"Good" [Ram]
"What just happened?" [Ram's daughter]
""Nothing"" [Ram, Ash]
"Sigh... men" [Ram's daughter]
Yeah, just how many times have I went to the castle. Well, It's not like I will refuse this invitation as I myself need to hand over the crystal to King Estel himself, that's why I'm just joking when I refused to go, but Ram take it seriously. Well, I still haven't familiarised much with the system inside the castle but I'm sure that one have to give a solid reason not to attend when he or she is summoned by them.
"How about we use your bus golem?" [Ram]
"Sure" [Ash]
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When the castle guard notice my bus golem, they immediately start to inspect it. Well, I'm sure King Estel and Diana don't have any problems with me using it, but last time I bring the bus golem inside the castle, I dragged the worker from Duke's household alongside me, so it's no wonder they have to check it thoroughly before giving me the pass
"Teacher Ash!" [Liyana]
"Liyana, what are you doing here?" [Ash]
"What do you mean? Us noble and knight attend our education inside the castle" [Liyana]
"You don't know that?" [Ram]
"First I heard of it" [Ash]
"What about you?" [Liyana]
"Get summoned by the King alongside him" [Ash]
"I see, the king and Princess Diana must have taken a liking on you, to invite you so frequently" [Liyana]
"Maybe" [Ash]
"Well, you should go to your class now little miss, don't want to disturb you for long" [Ram]
"Right! Hmmm..." [Liyana]
"Sure, today's fine. And if I'm not there, you can just wait inside the mansion. They're all excited to see you" [Ash]
"Thank you!" [Liyana]
"Welcome, good luck on your studies" [Ash]
"Thanks!" [Liyana]
And when she turned around, she collided with Diana, with Qis just beside her, for which she apologized like her life depends on it
"Liyana, it's fine, really" [Diana]
"I'm sorry..." [Liyana]
"Well, Princess Diana have already told you it's fine, so how about you went to your class first" [Ram]
"I will" [Liyana]
And thus, the four of us went to the sudden meeting room. There, as usual, a number of nobles and also high knight look at me in disgust. No, this time, it's not only me, their gaze is also directed towards Ram. If I'm not mistaken, Ram is a former noble, I wonder why his status been striped
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"Tch... that traveler again"
"And him. Just why did the fallen noble like him getting the same treatment as before"
"Must be nice, getting the favour from the king"
"Wow, I'm surprised they are still the same. Honestly speaking, I thought they will learn their manner about formal meeting, but they prove me wrong. Then again, I'm also breaching the etiquette here, so please forgive me" [Ash]
"It's fine. Just take your seat first" [King Estel]
"I will" [Diana, Ram, Ash]
My designated place is just beside Ram. I'm glad. Well, not all of the Knights and nobles here have the same looks. Some of them are actually quite nice. I'm glad. As I look across the room, a knight caught my attention
(Isn't he the one that I met yesterday on the 20th floor? What's he doing here?) [Ash]
I can ponder a guest here, he is from Malsia and according to Jacks, Malsia is struck with the same problems, so I guess he must have been called to brief us about what's happening in Malsia and compare it with Estel situation
After an additional ten minutes of waiting (for which I get to know a few nice nobles who treated me well and seems friendly with Ram), the meeting started
"Good morning, as you all know, this meeting today will discuss about the sudden appearance of the ghosts monsters last night. Here, we have a knight from Malsia, who originally come to send a letter from Princess Haliza to my daughter, he will be joining us today to share his opinion regarding this matter" [King Estel]
Just like what I expected. The knight begins his briefing regarding the attack that been happening on Malsia. From the sound if it, there's a strong grim reaper there that causes the problem from day 1 itself and that grim reaper spawn other monsters by turning the soul of those who it killed into a monster. From the description, I can guess what we're dealing with, but the question is why does it suddenly appear
"You said that monster is called as Grim reaper right? How do you know about it? As far as the guild concern, this is the first time such monster been detected" [Ram]
And all of the attendees looks at me, guess I should explain
"Well, these grim reaper, they're all the personification of death itself. The highest, being God of death itself, and followed by other personification of death like grim reaper, angel of death, lady of the holy death and more. From the sound of it, the one that have been appearing over there might be a corrupted Thanatos, an S rank monster" [Ash]
~Gulp~
I can hear the other gulping. Hearing an S rank monster suddenly appearing inside a country is no joke.
"Well, as for what causes it to appear, sincerely speaking I have absolutely no clue about it, but if I am to hazard a guess, that will be the same reason as to why The King Behemoth suddenly appear inside the open field dungeon" [Ash]
"A possibility" [Diana]
Not just Diana, even King Estel and Ram are on the same page
"Could the same S rank monster appear on Estel as well?" [King Estel]
"Unless it escapes from my radar last night, then I'll say it's unlikely the Corrupted Thanatos will be here as well. I say that, but they're some area that I did not covered last night, but still, mana from an S rank monster should be clearly felt even from afar, and in some cases, even without using the search magic. Still, it makes me wonder why there's one at Malsia but none here" [Ash]
"Judging by what have been told by the knight, could the Corrupted Thanatos has some sort of stealth mechanism?" [Nice noble]
"A possibility, I did encounter a stealth megalodon back in the dungeon, so an S rank monster employing the same tactic should be considered as well." [Ash]
"Wait, how did you know all this?" [Qis]
"My master had told me about it" [Ash]
Yeah, Goddess Achalasia blessings sure comes in handy in this case
"Sorry, but are you by any chance, The Behemoth Slayer?" [Malsia's knight]
"Been called that a lot recently" [Ash]
Huh, I'm surprise he knew about me
"Haha, you see, originally Princess Haliza send me a letter, and as we're discussing among ourselves, I mentioned to her about you and when they're being attack by the ghosts monsters, she sends him here to request help, asking us whether we can send you there to investigate the cause of the attack" [Diana]
"!" [Ash]