Son of the Hero King

Chapter 461 CH 422: ADVENTURE GUILD

[Adventurer Guild]

The adventurer guild was a mysterious place. It had many branches all over the mortal realm where the adventurers could come and take a rest or take up missions and receive the corresponding rewards for said missions and they were extremely fair and rigorous.

Being an adventurer was no different from obtaining a free pass to different countries as the adventurer guild ran all throughout the mortal realm and was more or less an independent organization of sorts.

Obviously, one of the main centers of the guild was placed in the Capital of Lustbutg but for various reasons, it was one of the places that the adventurers very rarely visited.

The first reason was that the quality of the missions available in the Capital’s branch was either extremely low class or extremely high class. The missions stood on the extreme ends of the difficulty spectrum and there were no in-betweens available. The definitive reason for this phenomenon was the presence of the vast quantity of soldiers available in the capital as they could take care of the majority of problems that plagued the city and its surroundings.

The second reason was that adventurers were a rough bunch but in a place like the Capital of the kingdom, there were many people far rougher than them who wouldn’t hesitate to throw them in prison if they caused any sort of ruckus. And adventurers, as they were by nature, were not able to go without causing chaos in their wake which made the capital extremely unsuitable for their kind.

For all the reasons above, they generally tried to avoid this place as long as they didn’t have an escort mission or anything of the sort that forced them to be present in this region.

Currently, though, there was a great influx of adventurers from all sides of Lustburg that were flooding the branch building.

War was a great calamity for normal citizens. But for adventurers, this was a period that could greatly increase their revenues and accolades. There was no way in hell any sane adventurer was about to miss a situation like this one.

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The interior of the adventurer guild was fused with a large tavern and the crowd was as rowdy as always.

Gulp~

“Kuh. Gotta say, nothing better than a beer after a hard day of work, innit?”

Sitting close to the main reception area, a dwarf with a thick beer guffawed in pure pleasure after downing a large mug of beer down his throat.

His stocky face was rosy from the alcohol and he wiped his mouth with the back of his hand in a vulgar display of manners.

Happiness could be seen plastered on his face as if drinking was the most beautiful thing in the world for the short-sized creature.

Sitting next to him with a bored expression was a tanned woman of average height. Her brown and alluring skin made a certain contrast with her long white bunny ears that made her an exotic sight to the beholder.

She was carefully wiping her set of daggers and grimaced as she heard the exclamation coming from the alcohol-craving dwarf.

“Stop talking so loud, will you? We know that you love beer more than you love your own life. No need to shout it every time.”

“...Can the prince's words be trusted?”

The promise he made was too tantalizing to just ignore but there was always a small doubt in the back of their minds.

“Well... After facing the prince, I believe that he isn’t the kind to lie. Rather he would be too arrogant to lie.”

“Facing?”

The dwarf chuckled at the words of the woman, “You mean after he trashed us like we were ragdolls?”

She could only cough awkwardly.

The four of them had fought the prince for his coming-of-age ceremony in the coliseum.

But the fight lasted only a few moments. Nothing they could do even disturbed him, and he completely destroyed them in a few moves.

His following fight with the Gladiator queen showed that they never had any chance of even beating him.

“Ahem... Well—”

The door of the guild suddenly opened.

One person entirely clad in obsidian black armor from head to toe followed by four women all wearing black featureless masks entered through the door.

The atmosphere they spread was eerie. As if a reaper followed by a few ghosts were walking their way in.

They didn’t know why... But each time they took a step, the atmosphere slowly began to change, becoming heavier and heavier as people stopped chatting and some even started reaching for their weapons.

Even though they didn’t know who those people were, they could all feel it instinctively.

Those people were dangerous.

But out of them all, the ones who showed the greatest surprise were none other than the four adventurers who were previously chatting by themselves.

Even though they could not see his face, they recognized his aura in an instant. After all, they had been in the first row to receive it. Furthermore, they could recognize the blue hair and the wolf ears above the head of the woman who had a sword on her hips.

The four of them had the same expression as they wondered the same thing.

What the hell were the prince and his bodyguard doing in this place?

(AN: Those dudes appeared in ch 52. Well, they were also gone in a flash.)Fiind updated novels at novelhall.com