Poor Noble Nod's Adventure Volume 1 Chapter 9

The request to collect herbs and deadly battle with the goblin was successfully completed, and Nod returned to the capital to continue to receive requests.

One day he collected magic stones in the dungeon, one day we collected magic stones and subjugate monsters.

Fighting monsters always carries the risk of death or serious injury, but he also can joins with Genius party that has he becomes friend with through death fights with the goblin, or you can partner with another normal plated adventurer when he takes a request.

And

It is the day when he comes home after completing the mission to subjugate a Giant Boa.

"Congratulations. Now that the contribution has reached a certain point, Mr. Nod can be promoted to the second rank."

When he goes to the counter to report the completion of the request, the guild staff tells him so.

After the first expedition, contributions seemed to have increased thanks to the fact that he continued to be actively finish the request he took.

Ranking up to the Stone Adventurer, the second rank, will further expand his work.

The adventurer's guild handles a wide variety of work, but there is a type of request called "Escort Request".

Literally it is a request to escort caravans and important peoples, but this request often has conditions for receiving orders. For example, if the client needs to take a route that is likely to be attacked by a monster, he must be "Above the XX rank and have experience of subjugating the monster that appears in it".

Supplied conditions are specified by the client and may be added by the adventurer guild.

And for any simple escort mission, the minimum requirement that the guild adds is "beyond Stone Adventurer".

In addition, there are many missions that require "being an adventurer of a certain cla.s.s" or more, such as [Delivery Request] and [Research Request].

This is because it is not only the difficulty of achieving the request but also the reliability. Because there is  a possibility of adventurer betraying the client or running away with the delivery?

The key is whether the guild can be commissioned with confidence or not.

You can easily be promoted to a normal plate by doing a simple job that anyone can do. The only thing that makes it easy to do the job first is to try to do the minimum (whether it is a low-paying job or not) and train the way (especially the procedure) in the adventurer's guild.

[The escort mission] requires "strength".

Since the client requests adventurer to protect them, the adventurer may accept the request, but it is not a funny story if “The client has been annihilated”.

And Nod was recognized by the adventurer's guild that he must have the minimum strength by achieving several subjugation requests.

However, it is the acc.u.mulated contribution that makes the standard easy to understand, but the contribution itself is also used as a ruler to measure other things.

It is "contribution" to the adventurer's guild or society.

The request given to the adventurer's guild is something that the people of the world, in greater or lesser, have been in trouble with, so-called troubles that exist in the world.

Among them are requests such as "There are few rewards and adventurers have little taste, but the difficulty is high" or "I can not give much rewards, but I need to do a lot for social stability" Iis also present in adventurer guild request.

There's no point in guilds paying additional rewards or encouraging them to make a request to the lord of the country or its region.

In order to solve the problem, the Adventurer Guild has created a system that makes it easier to challenge the next rank by setting a high contribution instead of reward.

However, with this system alone, adventurers with high contributions but low combat power will be promoted to higher rank ranks.

The missions given to the higher rank adventurers are all powerful monsters, enemies or other things that are expected to be waiting for difficulties.

The adventurer's essence is [Strength], and there is no reason to allow the rank promotion to anything without that strength, no matter how high is their the contribution is.

Therefore, the Adventurer's Guild may issue a promotion quest for those who meet the promotion requirements.

This is a system that allows adventurers to accept request with a difficulty sufficient to admit that it is appropriate that  an adventurer can be promoted by the adventurer's guild side. If you are able to finish a higher rank request, you will be promoted.

“How do you do it?”

The contents were explained by the staff of the adventurer's guild, and Nod asked what kind of request he had to do now.

This is because there may not be a request for a difficulty level that is just right in some cases. There is also a problem of orientation failure.

"This is the currently approved rank-up promotion request."

The staff took out one spelled file from the counter. Then Nod read the request from.

 Nod's line of sight was poured into the contents of the request form.

The request is a monster subjugation request.

90% of the promotion request quests are for subjugation requests. This is because there is nothing as easy to understand as demon subjugation to show combat power.

The request form says "Please get rid the Rock Wolfs!" is written.

Rock Wolf is a monster that lives in the mountains of the eastern Irva continent. It is a kind of wolf-type monster, and its form is the same as a standard wolf such as Forest Wolf.

However, they have something like hard rock armor with changed body hair and looks like a wolf with tiles attached like armor.

The young individuals have thin armor and narrow armor, but when they become the leader of the herd, the armor covers most of its body.

It seems that it is information gathered from Stone Adventurer at the tavern.

There is other information that Nod gets from the drunks adventurer.

He is able to hears a lot of other information such as rock wolf's favorite food, rock wolf mimics the rock surface, be careful its armor is super hard.

Nod writes the information he gathered in a notebook with a leather binding. This notebook describes Nods adventure, what he saw and experience in it, and so on.

At first, He wrote down the tips for collecting herbs so that he couldn't forget it, and he wrote down what happened when he received a request, like a diary. Monster information, Eventually, a wide variety of contents such as cooking recipes learned from adventurers were gathered. They were Nods adventure, and his notebooks could be called simple memos and adventure records.

 A new page containing information about Rock Wolf has been added to the notebook.

Nod looks the Rock Wolf page of the notebook and understood why Rock Wolf was designated as a rank-up quest.

As a knight, he has not changed his fighting style since he has been trained as a knight. Wrapping the whole body with armor, preventing enemy attacks, and slashing with swords -it is a basic and orthodox knight fighting method.

In particular, the shield purchased additionally with the reward obtained from the request and the defense power strengthened by the long-awaited chain mail will not lead to a fatal blow with the same monster attack, so even if surrounded by lot of monsters he is able to deal with it.

Even when a party was formed, Nod fought with his defense capabilities. He received the attack of the enemy as a shield for the party, and he responded back. His defensive power, which is considered exceptional among normal plate adventure was often used to completely to tank enemies with low threat levels throughout the adventure.

Because Nod fights like that, he understand the troublesomeness of Rockwolf.

Among the subjugation requests that Nod takes as a normal plate adventurer, there was a subjugation request for Forest Wolf, a wolf-type monster similar to Rock Wolf.

At that time, he tasted a "coordinated" battle that was different from the monsters that could only be pushed by numbers like the goblins.

Wolf monsters hunting in a flock always work together to attack.

Goblin has "number" as its strength, and Forest Wolf has its strength as "cooperation".

And Rock Wolf had an extra strength that Forest Wolf didn't have -an armor.

It seems that Rock Wolf is looks like a gray wolf that have armor made by something like stone plate.

The ident.i.ty of the stone armor plate is the body of Rock Wolf. As Rock Wolf grows older, the hair ends change so that they become intertwined and gradually become harder. The armor with gray body hairs gradually increases in thickness and looks like stone. The thicker the armor, the darker the armor, and the mature Rock Wolf armor is said to be unsophisticated and super hard.

What is the threat of monsters having an armor and fighting together?

If you harden your armor, you will fight against equal opponents from unilaterally hunting opponents. That was the decisive difference between a normal plate adventurer and a stone adventurer.

TN: this is way shorter than the usual length lol

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