Chapter 401: Arc 6, - 17: Country Roads
"Come to the Northervint Lakeside Tower, behind the overgrown chapel. Experimental mushrooms have mutated to be more sentient and have destroyed research equipment.
Eight gold per mushroom kill. May keep the mushrooms to cook, brackets, they’re safely edible," Jotou read one of the commissions in the guild.
"We’re heading to Casten Castle, not wherever that is," Fumeko corrected with a cup of coffee in hand. The guild itself was waking up into a morning stupor yet was still functioning as busy as it was last night.
Rays of morning light gleamed from windows up high as if the heavens themselves smiled on all those who walked in here with the most boisterous and shiny adventuring attire; which was odd since in no way would the sunlight hit the small building like this from the outside...
"Well, it’s slightly northeast from Casten Castle," Hotaru pointed on the map she had laid out on their table beside the commission board. "We need to go northwest from here, but none of these roads are the least bit straight."
"What if we just go through here?" Asobi pointed with her wand and made a straight line from their location to the castle with five illusions marching on it. "It’s just a lot of trees and there’ll be a village nearby through too."
"Nay, the perils that skulk within these untamed lands shall sooner rend our bodies asunder than any order of traversal that one may be able to accomplish.
Tis a domicile not only for undergrowth and greenery that yearns for the heaven’s heights, but as well as all manner of beasts of savagery. What lies more, the fiends, the lusus naturae, the monsters of old tales and fables," Tiffany disagreed.
"Hap! Claimed!" some young man with spiky brown hair and a circlet ripped the commission sheet from behind Jotou; another of the same poster appeared out of thin air right behind it, replacing the tear.
"Yeah, we weren’t claiming that buddy," Jotou paid no mind.
"Sooner if nightfall reveals its visage, one may find their ire to be plenteous," Tiffany continued.
"Hey couldn’t help but overhearing," the young man budded in. "You lot’re heading northwards through the woodlands? Friendly advice, might not want to do that. Lot of problems, especially at night."