Poor Noble Nod's Adventure Volume 1 Chapter 3

After registering as an adventurer, Nod received a request every day at the Adventurer Guild.

It was a job that he couldn't even think of as an adventurer jobs, but it give hime some money every day.

If you use it for food expenses, it will disappear immediately, but if he uses his own money to buy food for himself, his family also can have more portion food for them.

However, for his big family, it's still like burning  coal in river (doesn't make any difference).

In less than a week, Nod got his rank up. Now he become the 1st rank normal plate adventurer.

Finally, he reaches the starting point of an adventurer, but he feels that he has grown up just by changing  his wood plate guild card into a proper stone plate guild card.

As the name stone plate implies, it is a plate made of stone, but unlike the guild card imitation made from wood, the stone plate one seems to has been processed magically.

After this normal plate adventurer cla.s.s, even if you do rank up, the material of the guild card will change, but the basic design and function will not change.

Even slate cla.s.s adventurers will be treated as fine adventurers.

The normal plate adventurer is a low-ranking adventurer, but he can accept request  for adventurers like  the subjugation request.

Naturally, the monsters that are the targets of those subjugations are at the adventurer own responsible. It is the they made such a rash decision, and there is a risk of injury or death in the subjugation request.

Nod is feeling the cold stone plate of his new guild car and  renewed his mind.

One of the daily lives of the adventurer's guild that Nod has become accustomed to within a few days is the battle for searching request for work.

Requests with high rewards, requests for rare tool items as rewards, or requests with good payment.

There are a wide variety of request forms posted on the request board quest board, but of course there is a good difference including rewards and conditions, in other words, there is a good difference between request.

Everybody wants to get a request that feels good, and everybody avoids a request that doesn't. Well, there are some "weird people" who take orders for specific jobs—those that aren't really good request for adventuer—except for those peculiar adventurers.  Because it is a thing, the request is a matter of nature for those weird people.

Adventurersusually is strong , so the demands for the adventurer is big.

According to the old man, the adventurer have 3 strong enemy.

That is ──

Most adventurer don't seem to win the third enemy.

Talk closed.

Until yesterday, Nod could only receives a free board request, so he was just looking at it. But today is different.

Even on the 1st rank normal plate adventurer, there is definitely a "delicious" request that can be received.

As you aim for the next rank, you can earn money more efficiently if you can earn money as many as possible and get a good equipment.

Of course, that's what Nod wants, so he decided to throw himself into the morning battlefield.

There was a single request form in Nod's hand who finally pressed and grabs one of the request form.

It was "Defeat the Dungeon Monster".

In the world, there is a place called dungeon, and many monsters live inside it.

However, these monsters are known to have unusual properties.

What this means is that if a normal monster loses its life, it will leave its remains on the spot. Unless it rots or eaten by a slime, it will remain in the dead.

But another thing happens in the dungeon.

In other words, if a monster loses its life inside the dungeon, the corpse disappears as soon as it is absorbed into the dungeon, and a crystal of magical power called "magic stone" is left there.

Magic stone is a substance that crystallizes magic power, and it can be produced outside the dungeon, but it is extremely rare, and it has long been a mystery why such a strange phenomenon occurs in the dungeon.

However, a while ago, this mystery was elucidated by a study of Kingdom Magic Academy.

The Kingdom Laboratories said that the dungeon is a kind of magic that produces a "shadow" of monsters. By creating a dungeon in a special place where the magical power called the "magical power pool" naturally grows, you will be able to produce "shadows" of monsters with magic stones as the core.

Since the "shadow" of the monster is a "copy" of the original monster, their strength is the same. It seems that this hypothesis also proved the reason why the strength of the monsters inside the dungeon is the same as that of the "outside" monsters. (This story was taught by big brother Albireo)

The dungeon has been found all over the Irva continent, and it is known that a great deal of treasure is sleeping deep inside the dungeon.

Apparently, this labyrinth dungeon is a treasure chest created by ancient wizards, and in the theory is that the monsters are their defense mechanisms.

And, this is important, but the researchers at the Kingdom Magic Academy have noticed the thing of producing the monster - and eventually the core magic stone.

Originally, many magic stones produced from dungeons have many uses. For example, the magic stone candlelamp in the Ferris family. The candlelight lamps shine using the magical power of magic stones were very convenient because there was no smoke or odor and there was no fire hazard compared to those using oil and normal candles.

There are other magic tools that use various magic stones, such as firewood that doesn't use fire, and boxes that cool food and make it difficult to rot.

These magical tools are very convenience, and there was no doubt that they are in wealthy n.o.ble houses and large merchant mansions. (Unfortunately, there was only one magic stone candlelamp in Nods house)

However, the magic stone is no longer can be produced when the main boss of the labyrinth protecting the treasure is defeated deep in the dungeon.

As a result, the number of labyrinth dungeons held by the kingdom was reduced one after another, and the production of magic stones in the country was also declining, but the kingdom's magic academy will revive the dungeons and succeeded in it.

Therefore, the kingdom had several artificial labyrinths that were revived by Magic Academy. After that magic stones were produced again, and a useful resource called magic stones could be supplied stably.

Unfortunately, the magician at Magic Academy can only restore the dungeons that have monsters.

It seems that the dungeon is still being researched at Magic Academy, but they only can only "restart", and he heard tha they haven't succeeded in reviving  the "settings" inside the Dungeon.

After all, the task of subjugation of the labyrinth dungeon accepted by Nod was a minor job of defeating monsters in the artificial dungeon and collecting magic stones.

"Subjugation… eh..?"

I was worried by the adventurer's guild staff when I went to the counter to ask for a dungeon subjugation request.

It 's not impossible.

At the moment, Nod looks has cotton pant, a tunic, and a leather vest on his body.

It 's too much for him to buy an armor. Rather, it is completely out of his reach for now.

Speaking of Nod's equipment that adventurer usually have it was a sword on his waist.

"At least get more equipment"

──Collect some money  and buy a decent equipment..

To the staff of the adventurer's guild who advises me in rounabout way.

“It's all right, there is no problem”

Nod responds with confidence.

Nod's confidence was supported.

In the first place, it is a labyrinth dungeon that is difficult enough for normal plat adventurer. The strength of monster in the dungeon is not a big deal.

However, even a demon that is not a big deal will become a threat if their number increases.

Fatigue acc.u.mulates while fighting for a long time, and concentration is interrupted.

In that time, he got a fatal blow from monster he can dies just like that.

That is the first reason adventurer die in the dungeon.

Especially among the new adventurer who have little battle experience and low response to the situation. Furthermore, because they don't have good equipment , it is stilldangerous even if the enemy is weak.

So why did Nod receives this request for subjugation? That is for simple reason.

Holding a dagger in its hand, the green small monster or goblin is slashed with a sword by Nod.

"Gya" scream the goblin that dies  and its corpse disappeared into dungeon.

Without looking at the situation, Nod swings up his sword vertically. Then he cut a giant monster that attacked from above: the giant bat.

The dead body disappeared, and two magic stones were rolling on the ground.

Nod then defeats dozens of monsters.

When he tries to collect the magic stones to bag containing the magic stones tied to his waist, a shadow strucks Nod from his blind spot when he was exhausted from the battle and lost his concentration.

"Gigya!"

The ident.i.ty was different from the goblin that was dead. The goblin who shouts suddenly attack Nod with its dagger.

However, Nod receives the unexpected back attack was very calm.

Nod who notices the surprise attack didn't try to counterattack, but only protected his own weak point, such as his neck,

Gaki

“Gi !?”

Indeed, the dagger in Goblin's hand–tattered and rusted–was blocked by the armor worn by Nod.

Nod did not take the shock of receiving the dagger, and slashed the goblin that showed with a big sword swing.

This time, Nod has confirmed that there are no enemy shadows will collect the goblin magic stone.

Nod 's confidence with the equipment he is wearing now.

Steel plate protected his torso.

Armor that covers the whole body with braided chains that protect the body from the blades without obstructing joint movement.

A request for subjugation to the extent of a normal plate adventurer is certainly dangerous, but it is not a big threat if someone wear a solid armor.

Like Nod who was attacked earlier, you can leave it to the armor to receive enemy attacks and attack it back.

However, such a tactic cannot be applied to ordinary normal plate adventurer who are fully prepared to use partial armor made from leather. No matter how many years the request is received, even the torso will not be fully protected.  Because armor that wraps the whole body is expensive.

Due to the effect of armor, Nod's first subjugation request is a great success.

After all, it is great not to be damaged by enemy attacks.

The magic stones earned in one day were just sacked, and the price was reasonable at the buying place next to the dungeon.

This armor tactic is moderately powerful, but it can only be done for a limited time.

Because this armor is not the armor his own armor, but the armor of the Ferris family, and more specifically, it wa Albireo's armor, the next head of the Ferris family.

He was on vacation, and during that time Nod is borrowing Albireo's  armor under a contract to use his brother armor.

Rental fee is moderately high, and if you subtract your food expenses from the reward, you'll get a little profit, but this is unavoidable.

Armor will wear out when used, and repair costs are high if damaged.

Rather, the one who think something risky like that is Albireo, it was his big brother's pa.s.sion for the him who became an adventurer that his big brother lent  his armor.

However, Albireo from military school knew that armor could not be damaged by a monster in the low level dungeon.

This is because Albireo originally taught this tactic to Nod, and the source of that knowledge was simply how the knight apprentices earned money at military schools.

 However, he didn't tell Nod about the armor could not be damaged.

Author Note:

Are all the poor people strong?

By the way, Nod gives priority to equip the armor for a while.

Until he has at least the leather armor, he will spend his own money for that.

So far, if The Ferris family just eat, they can do it. (But it seems that their debt will increased.)

TN: the chapter keep getting longer and longer and makes the translation longer too

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