Book 1: Chapter 24
What I stated was just a hypothesis. However, my hypothesis was adopted because there were no other strong ideas presented at that moment. The submaster was reluctant to the very end, saying「Are you really going to listen to a child?」But Joseph-san shut him down with,「Do you have another idea? And this goes without saying, but you will take full responsibility for it, right?」
It seems that the skill orbs unearthed from Six Mine are transported to and sorted in the city. I’m not sure if the dragon can detect even the skill orbs already absorbed by humans, but it’s better to hold down the place where a large number of skill orbs are stored for now. Therefore, the adventurers headed to the government office known as “Skill Administration Bureau”.
It was a dull three-storey stone building, but the windows were fitted with iron bars, which made its atmosphere quite imposing.
Soldiers were guarding the entrance. When Joseph-san informed them,「A dragon is approaching! There is a high possibility that this building will be targeted!」they just laughed him off.
「Are you drunk?」
「Oh yeah, you said that your nephew saw a large snake in the city, right? Perhaps this guy mistook it for a dragon?」
「Hahaha, that must be it.」
Although the adventurers were seething with anger towards the soldiers, Joseph-san still calmly tried to persuade them.
It would’ve been helpful if either the guildmaster or submaster were present, but the guildmaster was absent, and the submaster gave a shitty reason saying, “It is my job to keep the guild in check when the master is absent,” and avoided going to the place which might turn into a battlefield.