Guild Boss's Ambition

Just then, an adventurer came straight towards us.

"Then I would like to ask Miss Lan Nong to identify the task for this guest, okay?"

He raised the teacup in his hand, saluted me in a lukewarm manner, drank it first as a sign of respect, and finished the cup.

I nodded slightly, agreeing to his proposal, and turned my gaze to the adventurer in front of me.

The first thing to do is to use identification to determine the level of this adventurer.

Name: Lev Robin

Sex: Male

Level: Gold Level (Lv41)

Occupation: Human Archer (Lv41) / Stalker (Lv30)

(Look further down for detailed information on equipment and skills.)

"Hello, how can I help you?"

"Good morning, Miss Lannong, I'm back to take on a mission."

Mr. Robin is one of the few adventurers who did not quit the guild. The main reason is that he was lucky enough to escape the wrath of nature. When the town was blocked, he happened to be performing other adventurer tasks outside Mopolis. It was not until peace was declared in this city that he sneakily reappeared in front of us and reported to the guild.

Or maybe in Mr. Robin's heart, he was a coward for not coming back to serve the guild.

But in fact, he just made the most correct judgment.

Although the death rate in the city was only about 30%, the number Corvina gave was correct.

The average annual death rate of adventurers is 50%, and this time it has risen to over 75% due to the targeted attack of the high elves. Unlike our stone house, other surviving adventurer guilds are almost only left with a few elite troops, and the combat power of silver to black iron levels is even more desperate.

As a blessing in disguise, as long as we can show the actual survival rate to the newcomers, it will not be difficult for us in Stone House to invite high-quality newcomers. The most annoying thing at the moment is that our Stone House guild itself has an invisible upper limit on the number of adventurers, and we have no way to fully absorb this influx of people.

However, recruiting new people is Meng'er's task at the moment.

My current goal is to become an excellent task assessor.

After being distracted for a moment, I immediately turned my attention back to the adventurer in front of me.

"Mr. Robin, do you have any special requirements for this mission?" I asked with a smile.

But at this moment, Mr. Robin looked back and forth between Nanbert and me, and asked suspiciously while rubbing his head, "Um...excuse me...where is Mr. Hai? Is he on vacation today? It may be a bit rude to say this, but I still feel that the old man's appraisal is more reassuring──"

Hearing this, I glanced at Nanbert next to me, and saw that his face was still calm and composed.

He feels like a nice guy who doesn't know how to get angry.

At that moment, I suppressed my inner melancholy and introduced Robin, "Grandpa Hai has unfortunately passed away in the last wrath of nature, so our guild hired this new task appraiser. His name is Nanbert, and he is also a qualified professional appraiser. He used to work for the platinum-level guild Water World──"

“Oh…I see…I’m sorry.”

Mr. Robin, who was in his early thirties, half opened his mouth awkwardly and deliberately changed the subject to business: "Since that person is gone, I can only entrust my life to someone else. So, it must be the new Mr. Nanbert, right? I want to find a short-term silver to gold-level mission, and the scope of the mission should not be too far from Mopolis City."

"Okay, I understand what this guest wants. So, Miss Lannon, what do you think?"

Mr. Nanberd did not answer. He passed the question to me as he had originally proposed.

"Please wait a moment—"

Since I have only just returned to this position, I will take a moment to review my latest to-do list.

"Short term..."

"Silver..."

"The mission location is in the area around Mopolis City..."

Before the Wrath of Nature occurred, Hai Lao had been organizing the information in the task list very systematically. As long as we use the appropriate methods, we can quickly find the required tasks through the various index tags in the task book. Nanbert, who came to this position one step earlier than me, has obviously figured out Hai Lao's old system, and successfully classified many new tasks.

From the beginning till now, Nanbert's performance has been impeccable.

I quickly found several tasks that might be suitable for Mr. Robin.

These are "herbalist protection", "thunderbird subjugation", and "underground cave exploration".

I listed the three tasks in front of Nanbert, and especially displayed the task of defeating Leiwu separately.

Archer Robin picked up the parchment scroll of the subjugation mission and immediately smiled confidently.

"Fighting the Thunderbird? It's a tough monster, but I should be able to handle it on my own."

"Yeah! And the place where the Thunderbird appears is the Liligen Forest. You can make good use of the terrain of the forest."

"With the spring forest as cover, there won't be any problems!"

"Even so, we can't be careless!"

"Yes, dear Miss Lannon."

I glanced quickly at Mr. Nambert and he nodded to me in satisfaction.

In this way, I passed Nanbert's test and became his apprentice.

……

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3. Mr. Nanbert (Little Blue)

(Ulu-Lannon)

On a regular working day, Mr. Nambert completed his work efficiently.

He is better than I thought.

According to Adventurer Weekly, the mortality rate of the Water World adventurers for whom he was responsible for assigning tasks was 4%, which was about the same number as that of the old Ebi. The decisions made by Mr. Nanbert on this day were exactly the same as my impression of Ebi, but this did not make me feel any nostalgia.

I understand myself...

I am rejecting Mr. Nanbert who replaced Ebi.

I want to find the flaws in his work to highlight his past excellence.

This is a very stupid idea, but it's what I was thinking at the beginning of the day.

The final result was that Mr. Nanbert replaced Ebi's functions without any hindrance. Reality proved that the world can continue to function normally without someone.

The stone house can be built without shrimp.

I don't want to admit this situation.

I masochistically wanted to make myself even sadder, and wanted others to also realize the importance of Ebisu and feel sorry for losing him. How pathetic I was to have such thoughts. Nanbert, who was being watched critically by me all day long, was the most innocent. He did his job well and should not be treated unfairly for it.

At work today, I questioned a lot more than necessary.

I think Mr. Nanbert himself should have noticed my unusual mood a long time ago.

But he didn't say anything special, he just patiently explained to me every decision he made.

Mr. Nanbert is a very gentle gentleman.

I feel ashamed of this.

At the end of my work, I finally let go of my unnecessary prejudices.

I have never been one to apologize to others easily. Unless I really realize that I have done something wrong, I will usually argue with them. As a member of the service industry, this is a huge shortcoming, but my personality is as stubborn as that of an eel. Even if the sky falls, I will probably not change my bad habits for the rest of my life.

But I know I owe Mr. Nanbert an apology.

When he picked up his staff and was about to leave, I made up my mind to stop him.

He looked at me defensively, and I bowed to him sincerely.

"I'm really sorry about all the day, Mr. Nanbert."

"It's okay, tomorrow will be better."

I raised my head slightly to apologize, and above my sight I could vaguely see his consistent gentle smile.

Mr. Nanbert is a man who knows how to behave himself.

Probably anyone who becomes a task assessor is an outstanding social elite.

Then he invited me to dinner.

I said yes to him.

This was the first time I had dinner with my own task appraiser. The old Hai Lao was a lone wolf who liked to do almost everything by himself, but this Mr. Nanbert was the opposite. He was a social animal and the type who was good at socializing. Except that he seemed to be a little afraid of dogs, I couldn't find any shortcomings in him for the time being.

"I feel like he's a man with good luck with women──"

I thought so as I walked out of the stone house with him, and immediately I couldn't help feeling a chill.

Walking with a handsome guy like this, doesn't it seem a bit ambiguous to outsiders who don't know the situation?

"No, no, no, considering Nanbert's age, even if they are misunderstood, they will only be considered father and daughter, right?"

"Wait a minute, I don't have animal ears, so no one would mistake us for father and daughter!"

"..."

"A handsome 40-year-old man and a 12-year-old girl, what kind of combination is this?"

"She'll be considered a helper, right? She'll definitely be considered a bad girl, right?"

With all the imagination comparable to that of Gu Shan Loli, the eyes of passers-by were subjectively tainted with a hint of malice by me, but the elegant Mr. Nanbert naturally did not have so many shameless thoughts. He said he knew a good restaurant, but with a gentle smile on his face, he chatted about some interesting anecdotes along the way and brought me to the front of a small restaurant.

This restaurant has a resounding name - Dog Food.

It turns out that Mr. Nanbert brought me here to eat dog food.

Well, I’ve eaten dog food before when I was on Earth, and some of it was pretty good.

Or should I bring Spot along?

Then, just as we were about to step through the door──

Woof woof woof woof! Woof woof woof woof! Woof woof woof woof! Woof woof woof woof!

Woof woof woof woof! Woof woof woof woof! Woof woof woof woof! Woof woof woof woof!

We were surrounded by hundreds of dogs on the street!

"Has my mysterious affinity grown to this extent?!"

"Gala!"

Just when I was feeling extremely desperate, a domineering female voice erupted from the small restaurant. I saw a rabbit woman wearing a black apron, holding a broom majestically. She grinned and skillfully drove all the dogs back to the dark alley behind the shopping street with the posture of sweeping fallen leaves like a whirlwind, and easily resolved the crisis between me and Mr. Nanbert.

"You bastards! Don't let me see you again! If you do that again, I'll cook you and eat you!"

The mad rabbit girl yelled and cursed loudly, and then as if she realized something, she gave us a very gentle and forced expression. At first glance, it seemed that she and Mr. Nanbert knew each other.

"Sigrid, you can't eat dog! Eating dog will give you diarrhea!"

"My dear! I am not really that bad! I just wanted to scare them."

"Okay, okay, let me introduce you. This is my boss and junior in the new guild - Miss Lan Nong."

"It turns out to be Miss Lan Nong. It's a pleasure to meet you. I hope you can give me your guidance as my husband."

Judging from the current situation, Mr. Nanbert should be a married man.

Moreover, Mr. Nanbert's wife seemed to be extremely strict. Even though I was just a twelve-year-old girl, she was still 200% ready for battle, as if if Mr. Nanbert and I showed any intimate behavior, the broom in her hand would blow us both into outer space.

However, Mr. Nanbert, the person involved, seemed completely unaware of his wife's jealousy.

He introduced me naturally, "This is Sigrid, the hostess of this restaurant."

So, I followed normal social etiquette and shook hands with Sigrid, the rabbit woman.

then……

HP-5

I was shocked to feel the powerful "wife power" from my opponent's hands!

This is absolutely no joke!

This bunny girl is a complete ruthless character who would get serious with a twelve-year-old girl.

I felt deeply sympathetic for Mr. Nanbert's marriage life and silently withdrew the little hand that had turned slightly red from being held.

For the rest of the time, Sigrid arranged a special table for the two of us to dine at.