「Your sword, my lord.」

The knight holds out the Duke’s Orichalcum sword to him, and the Duke takes it again and locations it at his hip the place it rightfully belongs. He then continues to stroll ahead in a rush. I comply with after them too.

The Duke doesn’t say any phrase till we return to Bode’s fortress from the from the foyer of the Earl of Selmar’s fortress due to the 「Area Walker」 utilized by one of many Duke’s Adventurers, which worries me fairly a bit.

「Lord Michio, initially, enable me to apologize to you. There’s an old school custom that the Earl of Selmar is upholding: a practice that the fortress of the Earls of Selmar has been construct with Protect Cement in an effort to forestall Adventurers from being allowed inside it. I’ve fully forgot about it, and I had no concept that he’s going to carry that up within the first place.」

After arriving again in Bode, that was the very first thing that the Duke complained about to me.

「As for the story about Lord Michio being an Adventurer, I believe that it’s probably that he heard about it from one of many maids which have been delegated to return right here to Hartz Duchy from my house. Fascinated about it now, I ought to have forbidden them from ever speaking about this to anybody.」

「It’s a little late for being remorseful now that the deed has been carried out, however I used to be positively careless as properly.」

「That may be true, however nonetheless, by no means in my wildest goals did I ever assume that the Earl of Selmar, my very own uncle, would provide you with this sort of harassment and discrimination in the direction of somebody whom he solely simply met.」

Cassia shares the identical opinion because the Duke, and whereas I do agree with them wholeheartedly, then there’s nonetheless one thing that I fail to know irrespective of how onerous I’m eager about it: what was even the purpose of this sudden accusation in the direction of the Duke and Cassia? The whole lot began going south from that time onward, however I fail to know why would he do one thing like that to his family? Even when they don’t like one another all that a lot, then shouldn’t relations help each other?

「Nonetheless, I used to be shocked that Lord Michio modified his job to Explorer. I’ve to confess, once you abruptly provided to have your Intelligence Card checked identical to that, I’ve damaged into a chilly sweat like I haven’t carried out in fairly some time.」

You and me each, man. You and me each.

「I assumed one thing like that may occur, in order that’s why I made a decision to try this.」

「It’s not not possible to vary your Job from Adventurer to Explorer, and truthfully, that may not be such a nasty concept when you think about the truth that there are nonetheless some locations and the aristocratic clans, households and homes that also abide by the previous customized of not permitting Adventurers into their aristocratic properties to the Adventurers being thought-about as 「unworthy」 of being in the identical place because the nobles. However, when you’ve got really foreseen that such a factor may occur, then I really feel that I need to congratulate you all of the extra. Properly carried out, Lord Michio, as anticipated of somebody as glorious as your self. If I’ll ask this of you, was that the rationale for why you didn’t come straight to the fortress’s foyer, however got here right here from the skin? Since you misplaced the power to make use of 「Area Walker」?」

The Duke is making his personal assumptions and drawing his personal conclusions, which truthfully works out completely for me. You see, that is a type of instances when my worrying does really repay, as a result of due to that and me worrying in regards to the worst-case situation, I ended up coming to the Bode’s fortress from the skin.

If I did arrive within the fortress’s foyer, that will’ve triggered the Duke and Cassia to assume that I used to be nonetheless an Adventurer, which might solely worsen my state of affairs in the course of the Intelligence Card examine. However fortunately, the worst potential end result has been swiftly averted.

「Whereas it’d’ve been by probability, finally issues did end up all proper in the long run.」

「That it did, and as soon as once more, we’ve got you to thank for it. By the best way, because you not have the technique of travelling anyplace you need by your self, then how are you going to return house? Ought to or not it’s mandatory, I can ship considered one of my Adventurers to take you again to Quratar if you would like.」

「Thanks for the beneficiant provide, however that received’t actually be mandatory. My mates from my Occasion are already ready for me exterior, and so they’re going to take me again.」

I correctly decline the Duke’s provide to show considered one of his Knight Adventurers into my private taxi.

Usually on this world, the method of adjusting Jobs must be carried out by visiting the temple of the Guild that focuses across the Job that you just need to purchase and praying on the temple’s altar. So if I modified my Job from Adventurer to Explorer and needed to vary it again to Adventurer, then I must do it on the temple belonging to the Adventurer’s Guild. I’m nonetheless not sure about probably the most essential factor: whether or not I can go to any temple in an effort to change my Job or do I’ve to go to a particular one in an effort to make that occur, however in the meanwhile, it could most likely be a very good factor to not let the Duke and Cassia know that worries like which can be what’s at present being on my thoughts.

「Now, as for the ring that you’ve got retrieved from Heinz the Bandit the opposite day, then it is rather like I advised the earl of Selmar: I took it to the Armor Store in an effort to get it appraised, and after the method was completed, it turned out that the ring was certainly a Ring of Willpower. We by no means agreed on the value that I might give you for promoting it to me, proper? So what do you say for twenty gold cash for it? Would that value be okay with you?」

「Sure, positively. I’m grateful on your consideration.」

Twenty gold cash? If he keen to supply me such a value so readily, then I suppose this ring should be extra invaluable than I used to be giving it credit score for.

Placing apart the potential of the Duke feeling further beneficiant resulting from how we have been in a position to wipe that smug smirk off of the Earl of Selmar’s face, I attempted to recall the costs of different equipment that I find out about and calculate the potential market worth of the Ring of Willpower, an all of my calculations are main me to consider that its common market value needs to be round 100 thousand Nars, in order that signifies that the Duke is providing me twice its value!

We didn’t have to attend too lengthy for a Knight with a drawstring bag to reach, nearly as if the Duke predicted that I’m going to simply accept the value that he was providing to me. The Duke took the bag from the Knight and handed it over to me after he inspected the contents of the bag to guarantee that not even a coin was lacking from it.

「Properly then Lord Michio, thanks for taking the time to go go to the Earl of Selmar with us at the moment. It didn’t precisely go as deliberate, however crucial factor is that it didn’t find yourself in an entire catastrophe.」

Once I obtain the drawstring bag from the Duke, Cassia expressed her gratitude to me in addition to she headed again inside to the fortress. I’m glad that I acquired to scent the candy perfume of her fragrance till the top.

「In that case, I’m going to be taking my go away as properly.」

「After all, and thanks on your assist at the moment. I hope to see you once more quickly, Lord Michio.」

Now that Cassia has left and returned to the fortress, there may be actually nothing left holding me down right here anymore, so I used to be additionally on my means, strolling till I left the fortress premises, however I didn’t cease there. Simply in case if I used to be being adopted by somebody, I made a decision to proceed strolling till I left the town of Bode after which made my means all the best way to Bode’s Labyrinth.

「How far has the exploration of this Labyrinth progressed?」

「As much as the tenth ground.」

I talked to the Explorer stationed on the entrance to the Labyrinth to achieve intel on how far did the Exploration progressed after which headed inside.