Chapter 397 – Assassination Family Raven 4 (18)

My hidden purpose was very easily discovered by Princess Rosette, so I decided to head towards the Ernian Mountains as originally planned.

It’s very rare for the Adventurer’s Guild to receive a mission worth 30 gold.

Originally, such a mission could be said to be difficult enough that 30 adventurers of a certain level of skill would have to form a party and risk their lives to solve it, but I believe in my own strength.

I am confident that I can kill about a hundred adventurers of a certain level of skill and escape in broad daylight.

It’s a bit difficult when fighting monsters like demons or angels, but killing people is easy.

Also, the fact that Harpies fly in the sky is not a problem, but their defense is on the low side.

‘If you throw a shadow raindrop, it will be enough to kill a harpy.”

With that in mind, I boarded the warp gate to Garret territory, where the Ernian Mountains are located.

As soon as I arrived at Garret Territory, which leads to the warp gate of Raven Territory, I immediately realized why killing a horde of harpies was a mission worth 30 gold.

‘This is why hordes of harpies are a problem.’

The roofs of most buildings in Garret’s territory were broken.

When I think about the large and small holes and the swarm of harpies, it seems that the roof was destroyed by dropping something heavy from a high place. It reminded me of Dark Wing, who I fought in the ranks of Choi Xian, whom I had recently possessed.

Although he can attack using his wings, he seemed to use a similar method to the villain who took people to high places and then fell to their deaths in order to instill fear in them.

There were very few people walking around outside, and the ones that were visible were repairing the roof with ropes attached to their bodies.

If a harpy appears, it seems like he’s wearing a rope around his body to avoid getting caught. Wouldn’t it be very dangerous to get stabbed by its sharp claws?

With that in mind, I headed to the Adventurer’s Guild in Garret Estate, which was so large that it had a hole in the roof.

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“Isn’t there someone who can use a bow?! There used to be harpies in the Ernian Mountains!”

“Heavy armor! We need heavy armored warriors who won’t be captured by harpies!”

“Request support from the Magic Tower!”

The adventurer’s guild was in turmoil trying to recruit a party to deal with the hordes of harpies.

“Huh?”

As I opened the door to such a noisy guild and entered, a man let out an incoherent sound.

The eyes of other adventurers who heard that sound turned to me, and the adventurers who were in the process of recruiting a party to defeat the harpy became quiet for a moment.

The silent adventurers cleared the way for me, so I was able to quickly reach the reception desk.

The receptionist at the Garret Adventurer’s Guild that I met as I walked forward was a slightly younger woman who seemed to have barely become an adult.

It seemed like he was crying and shaking his shoulders, but as I was about to open my mouth, the adult receptionist next to me switched places with the younger receptionist.

“What brought you here?”

The voice seemed to be trying to remain as calm as possible. It seemed like this receptionist could have a conversation.

“Cian Raven, I’ve come to take on the mission of killing the Harpy. I don’t have the level of the Adventurer’s Guild. Is there a problem?”

“Really Raven?!”

“That’s right. Me… Assassin!”

When I said my name, the adventurers who had become quiet said a word, and the adventurer’s guild became noisy again.

In the slightly noisy Adventurer’s Guild, the receptionist answered while covering her ears and closing her eyes.

“This is a mission that requires at least an A-class adventurer as the leader. Even if you are an assassin from the Raven family who plays within the laws of the empire, you must not break the rules.”

The receptionist said that and breathed heavily.

He didn’t say a particularly long or difficult sentence, but he looked very tired.

It was to the point where it felt like my wrinkles were increasing with each word.

The receptionist said what she had to say and slowly removed her hands from his ears.

I answered the receptionist who was ready to listen in the adventurer’s guild, which had become quiet again.

“Then all I have to do is find one A-class adventurer to guide me?”

“Uh… Uh… In principle, yes, but… How about meeting the guild master?”

It seemed like I was leaving the job to the guild master, but it was the most obvious solution.

The receptionist looked upstairs while talking to me, but I immediately turned around and headed up the stairs.

I went up to the second floor without a sound and knocked lightly on the door of the guild master room.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

“Please come in.”

Even if he was not the guild master of a large guild, he seemed to understand what was happening down there even after the door was closed.

When I opened the door and entered, I was able to meet the Adventurer Guild Master of the Garret territory, with white hair tied in a ponytail and an eye patch.

The adventurer guild master of the Garret territory, who looked experienced and had a strength that I could understand at a glance.

“An assassin from the Raven family is coming to do a mission for the Adventurer’s Guild.”

‘This is something I often do while hiding my identity.’

The Raven family assassin has many forged ID cards in his name.

Among them, the easiest one is an adventurer, so he has various levels of adventurer ID cards.

This time, I deliberately did not use that ID and came to the Adventurer’s Guild to take on a mission as an assassin for the Raven family.

“There was a problem with what I was trying to do: kill the harpy swarm and determine the cause.”

“The condition is that an A-class adventurer must become the leader of the party, and that’s one thing, but you also have to prove your skills. I know that among the Raven family’s assassins, Cyan Raven, you are in a unique position…”

“If you mean not being able to use shadow magic.”

Plop, Plop

I threw two raincoats of shadow on the guild master’s desk.

Bido, who was thrown using only the strength of his fingers, went through the desk and became stuck on the floor.

Even without applying any force to break through, the shadow was so sharp that it easily penetrated a wooden desk.

“Hmm. You definitely have a means of long-distance attack. If you can promise to quietly step down if you fail to find an A-class adventurer to go to the Ernian Mountains with you, you can go to the Ernian Mountains with your companion downstairs at the Garrett Adventurer’s Guild. I grant permission in the name of the Master.”

“I will. I think there will be at least one person down there to go with me.”

Actually, it would be easiest to go alone and return alone, but since I had to earn gold, I decided to compromise to some extent.

When I opened the door to the guild master room, the downstairs became quiet again.

I don’t swing my sword carelessly unless it interferes with the mission, but it seems like everyone has a tendency to get stabbed.

I came down to the first floor and spoke, so the adventurers could hear.

“I am looking for an A-class adventurer to lend me his name. I plan to wipe out all the harpies in the Ernian Mountains within two days, so I will also recruit porters to transport the corpses.”

There was silence in the adventurer’s guild for a moment.

Then they started partying among themselves again, but no one cared about me anymore.

After all, is it difficult for an assassin to be welcomed? I sat at an empty table and saw adventurers working hard to recruit a party.

While I was watching the adventurers, thinking that they were still full of energy despite the hordes of harpies that were difficult to deal with, a guy approached them.

“Assassin, it would be very difficult for an adventurer to find an adventurer willing to join a party with you. If you’re a dog of the Empire, you just have to do as the Empire tells you, right?”

I looked at the adventurer in silence.

It’s been a while since the Raven family began to take its own path after the matriarch Terrance Raven killed the two princes of the empire, but there are still many people who don’t know.

If it weren’t for his unique fashion of wearing black clothes and a long black coat with shadows sewn into his black hair, you wouldn’t believe he was an assassin of the Raven family.

“Unless you plan to continue increasing the damage to the territory, I think it would be a good idea to have all the adventurers gathered in the Adventurer’s Guild go. Unless you plan on hiding in the Adventurer’s Guild because you are constantly looking for a party, go with one assassin who is intent on moving right now. It’s not bad either.”

“Hmm… To deal with a flying enemy, you need to form a proper party. It’s not like a goblin with both feet on the ground. It’s an opponent you can’t do anything about with the numbers and passion of an adventurer.”

I waved my hand because I had nothing more to say to this adventurer who was only trying to come up with reasons why he couldn’t come forward.

Then the adventurer frowned and walked towards me and said.

“An assassin who secretly targets people? It’s different fighting non-human monsters!”

“There is no difference.”

If you were Cyan Raven when I first possessed you, you would say it was difficult to deal with strong monsters, but it is different now.

I once went to a dungeon where I had to fight 100,000 ogres and defeated quite a number of them, as well as an incompletely revived Suzaku.

I was clearly aware that if it had life, it could be killed, so it was just ridiculous for that adventurer to say something to me.

“Then can I take you with me? If I solve it quickly, won’t I be hogging the money for the mission?”

A man with a sad expression said as he grabbed the shoulder of the adventurer who was saying something to me and pulled him back.

The man didn’t actually look young, but his bright appearance made him look younger than his age. He had a sword on his waist and a dagger on his thigh, making him look like a seasoned adventurer.

“There are three A-class adventurers in Garnet Territory, one of them is Sagrun. Cyan Raven, why don’t you go straight to the Ernian Mountains?”

I turned my head towards the receptionist and the receptionist who made eye contact nodded to me, indicating that she was Grade A.

“Good. Let’s leave right away.”

“Ah. Let’s do it half-and-half instead?”

“Are there some idiots who are half-hearted with the guide?”