[Location: Dragon Bone Grassland, Grace's Home]

"Dongdongdong~"

There was a knock on the door, followed by hurried footsteps, and the girl's anxious voice:

"Dad, is that you?"

However, what I saw after opening the door was a cold suit of armor.

"Huh?"

Alice appeared from behind the armor, holding the scabbard and shaking her head.

"I'm sorry, Grace, but we found no trace of your father after we cleared out the dryads at the border."

The bright stars in the girl's eyes dimmed.

But she still tried to cheer herself up, opened the door and welcomed them in.

"Grace, is anyone coming over?"

A more mature voice was heard from the corner, and a peasant woman came out from around the corner of the farmhouse.

Grace whispered, “Mom, it’s the adventurer who came to our house today.”

Then he added: "They are willing to help us search for Dad."

The middle-aged peasant woman who was walking towards them glanced at Louis and his group with half belief and half doubt.

Grace looked at Louis with careful scrutiny.

"Mr. Caesar..."

Louis stood there like a steel fortress, saying nothing.

William said in a deep voice: "We wandered around the border and only found a herdsman who had turned into a living dead."

Grace panicked and lost her grip on the basin, causing it to fall.

Before he landed on the ground, he was bitten by a dark shadow.

Louis reached out and grabbed the basin held by his tail, handed it over and said, "The living dead are not broken legs."

What I mean is, it’s not your father.

Grace raised her eyebrows, with a look of embarrassment as if she had been seen through. After a moment, the embarrassment turned into pity.

Grace's mother came over and glanced at the team of three.

Seeing Louis in armor, a hint of fear flashed in her eyes.

Seeing Alice, the big wild cat who seemed ready to scratch people at any time, he frowned again.

It wasn't until she saw William that her expression improved, and she said nervously, "Excuse me, didn't you find my husband at the border?"

Louis turned around and finally said:

"No, we ran around carefully, and we didn't even see any wild animals at the border of Dragon Bone Grassland, let alone living people."

It was already late at night when Louis and his companions returned from the border.

Dragon Bone Grassland was neither big nor small. After running around it, they finally completed the sweep in the afterglow of the setting sun.

After searching in vain, Louis and his party had no choice but to turn back.

The ground dragon, which has always had outstanding endurance, has been pulling the carriage for a whole day and is now sticking out its tongue and rolling its eyes outside the house.

William asked Grace's mother for some water and was feeding the ground dragon.

The dragon lowered his head and drank guzzling wine for a long time without raising his head.

Grace's mother said worriedly, "There are always some wild animals on the border. Her father used to like hunting there."

"Now that wild beasts have stopped showing up, there are also zombies. This kind of weird thing hasn't happened in Dragon Bone Grassland for a long time."

Hearing this, Grace turned her head away and shed tears silently.

She was so worried about her father's safety.

Louis looked at Grace quietly and whispered, "If we want to conduct a larger search, it will not be enough to rely on just the three of us."

Grace said reluctantly: "I, I know, but thank you anyway, Mr. Caesar!"

Their family is just an ordinary grassland herdsman. The remuneration for such a search and rescue job, which requires a long journey and a large number of manpower, is simply not something her family can afford.

Finally, she could only let out a long sigh:

"Great God of Glory and Justice, please keep my father safe!"

Louis shook his head and uttered a word from his dull armor:

"Instead of praying to God, you might as well pray to me."

"Grace, I have a way that may be able to save your father, but I don't know if you dare to do it."

The looks several people gave Louis changed subtly.

What a saying: "Instead of praying to God, you might as well pray to me."

There are true Gods in this world.

What Louis said was somewhat disrespectful.

But, this is indeed Grace's life-saving elixir.

"It's simple. Come with us to the capital tonight. Tomorrow morning, I want you to do this..."

Everyone looked at Louis, their eyes full of surprise.

William finally couldn't stand it anymore and shouted:

"No, Your Highness, this is absolutely not possible! When the time comes..."

"William." Louis said in a deep voice, "Do what you should do, and then trust me..."

William looked at Louis with a complicated and heart-wrenching look.

Even Grace looked at Louis with astonishment.

late at night.

The carriage did not stop for long and continued running day and night towards the city of Tino.

Only this time, there was another girl in the carriage.

…

[Time: November 14470 of the Star Calendar]

[Location: Adventurer's Guild, Enser Empire, Imperial Capital Tino]

Along with the dull sound of armor colliding, the bell at the entrance of the Adventurer's Guild shook slightly.

"Welcome to the Enser General Assembly..."

Seeing the armored warrior walking towards her, the receptionist's eyes lit up.

The adventurers gathered in the guild secretly looked at this man who was so well-equipped that he seemed to have difficulty moving.

He was wearing grim armor and an iron helmet, and at first glance he looked more like a knight than a shabby adventurer.

Most importantly... there is no adventurer level listing.

In other words, a complete newcomer.

I'm afraid that this is some young master from an unknown family who was fooled by the bard's boastful words and stole the armor from his home and wanted to go on a great adventure.

Every year there are a few idiots like this in the Adventurer's Guild.

They successfully entertained the adventurers' boring afternoon with their actions and even their lives.

"Mr. Caesar! Are you hurt?"

The smile on the receptionist's face bloomed like a flower under the warm sun.

The male adventurers in the guild were even more annoyed with this guy.

Louis ignored the indescribable expressions on everyone's faces.

Using the alias of Adventurer Caesar, he said in a deep voice, "I need to make up for a few quests."

"No problem."

The receptionist said eagerly:

"Would you like me to make you a cup of tea?"

"No, I'll tell you, and you listen."

"Oh, okay!"

Louis took out a bag of materials that had been sorted into categories.

"First is the mission of the giant sewer rat."

"When we were training in the sewers, we were attacked by a mixed group of sewer rats and prairie rats."

"These are the left ears of the 72 giant rats I killed independently. Please settle the mission."

The front desk lady's expression gradually changed from confusion to astonishment:

"Eh? Were you the one who cleared out the giant rat in the sewer? I thought it was Lady Alice."

Facing everyone's surprised gazes, Louis said, "It's me."

"Okay, honorable White Porcelain Adventurer, under the witness of the God of Contract, please be responsible for your words and actions."

The receptionist seemed to be afraid that he didn't know the process of completing the task, so she smiled and said, "This is a method of borrowing the power of the God of Contract to confirm that what you said is true. This is the process of the guild."

Louis understood and nodded, saying, "I am willing to take responsibility for my words and actions."

The receptionist shook her ponytail with great energy and prepared to go backstage. "Authentication completed. Due to the abnormal abundance of giant rats in the sewers, the difficulty of the mission has been increased from white porcelain to mountain copper. A total of 7 settlements, 10 silver each, a total of 70 silver. I will help you get it..."

"Don't worry, there's more."

"Huh?"

Louis took out the left ears of 5 goblins, the front legs of 5 nightmare spiders, the heads of 11 evil centipedes and the fangs of 2 wild boar princesses, and finally put the wooden core of the tree demon that had not yet withered.

"Let's settle these again."

Receptionist: “Huh?”

“Hey!!!”

(End of this chapter)