Chapter 4: Brass Lantern Base
Unfortunately, the moment Lance stepped into the Adventurers’ Guild the next day, before he even had the chance to say the line he had rehearsed all night—“I want to register”—
he was suddenly grabbed by a visibly anxious Nia and dragged straight behind the counter.
“Help! We can’t finish copying the task lists!”
And so, on what was originally supposed to be a day off, Lance was forced into even more frantic overtime work.
Amid a morning so busy that his quill nearly snapped from writing, Lance finally figured out why the Guild was so overcrowded today.
It was all thanks to the overly sharp-minded branch president of Graystone Town.
That shrewd old man, seeing the business revenue decline sharply over the past few months—and with the recent dungeon rampage causing drastic changes in the surrounding mana distribution—
took advantage of the situation.
A group of low-level monsters that had lived in the central region of Copper Creek Forest had been startled and migrated outward, directly leading to frequent monster harassment incidents in nearby villages.