Chapter 212: D-Rank Adventurer Party (4)
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Adventurer.
It may appear like a job that is overflowing with romance, but it is actually the furthest away from romance.
For starters, they aren’t citizens of a city or farmers in a village. They have no home. They are barely able to make a living by taking care of the requests occasionally given by civilians.
Take care of a monster den that had abruptly appeared, bring me a rare ingredient necessary to create a regional product……. In other words, they were the city’s subcontractors. They don’t have to pay taxes since they aren’t citizens, but they are only seen as parasitic vagrants because they don’t pay taxes.
Adventurers mostly consisted of displaced people and orphans. Someone who was unable to endure the tyranny of the lord they lived under and were barely able to stay alive as an adventurer……. This wasn’t an uncommon tale. Their origins were extremely doubtful. They weren’t trustworthy.
“It’d probably be better to leave a herring to a cat than leave a request to adventurers.”
This was the general notion that people held about adventurers. They were basically unreliable.
Different from the modern era where laws and public order have developed, ‘trust’ was abnormally crucial in this era. It wasn’t surprising that anyone would doubt adventurers since they had unknown origins.