Hope in Another World 131

Title: Saving the Sword Maiden

The next day

“Hmm... American country’s military?”

Shun took a bottle of Coke from the refrigerator and used wind magic to clean the kitchen. He opened the Coke and sat on the sofa, listening to the news.

“Miyoshi Tougo, the Divine Eye? Being able to track and recover this matter, it seems the Onmyoji Agency has also been working hard to deal with it.”

“I understand. I’ll meet with Kurahashi Genji, but I have to wait until tomorrow.”

“I have something to do in the morning, and I plan to return the favor in the afternoon.”

Shun hung up the phone and didn’t even drink his favorite soda. His eyes were fixed on the Myriad Realms Roulette interface.

The wheel in his field of vision slowly spun, and as the cooldown ended, it bloomed with brilliance.

—Mixed World—

[Available Stay Time: 120 days]

[Check remaining 1 roulette point from the host to activate the True Spirit Reincarnation function]

“Only 1 roulette point left...”

Shun looked at the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan that needed to be upgraded.

[Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan (+++)] → [Rinnegan (++++)] → [Rinne-Sharingan].

“Otsutsuki Kaguya’s Eternal Body level, coupled with Izanagi that rewrites reality, is enough for me to activate the roulette and escape even if I face an uncontrollable crisis.”

Wanting to create a big wave towards America, Shun valued the roulette points very much.

“Set a small goal, at least get four roulette points.”

“There are some dogs. If I don’t break their legs soon, they will be forced to cause more trouble next time!”

He was very aware of the evil nature of the American country, drinking the remaining Coke in one gulp. As the empty bottle fell into the trash can, the room was already empty.

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Border Town, Adventurer’s Guild

It was said that this guild was founded by a group of people who gathered in a tavern to support brave men. The Adventurer’s Guild was different from other professional guilds. The Adventurer’s Guild wasn’t like a cooperative group and was more like a job agency. In the endless war against monsters, adventurers acted as mercenaries.

As he walked back and forth in front of the guild’s gate, Shun was attracted by this magnificent building and stopped first.

Then he walked towards the hall and saw that even though it was still morning, the place was already filled with many adventurers. Shun wasn’t surprised by this. The Adventurer’s Guild in the Danmachi World was like this before, and now this Adventurer’s Guild in this other world seemed no different.

He continued to walk inside and carefully looked at the Adventurer’s Guild.

A facility that looked like a combination of a large hotel and a tavern—although the two are often indistinguishable—plus an office. It was actually composed of all three functions, so it was only natural that the result was like that. There were humans wearing armor, and there were spellcasters with staffs and thick cloaks.

These men and women, of all shapes and sizes, from various arms, races, and ages, chatted and laughed in small groups.

What kind of strength existed in the Goblin Slayer World and how it was currently distributed was unclear to Shun, who had just arrived.

He continued to walk through the crowd. He didn’t know if these people were here to receive commissions, reports, or commissions.

“I heard that dragons often appear lately, and there’s also the terrifying Black Dragon!”

“Such monsters are too scary. It’s better to fight Manticore.”

“So, is the Manticore on the mountain profitable?”

“It’s not easy to make money. From the perspective of actual income, it’s better to dig ruins and the like.”

“Yeah, you’re right. But just looking at the ruins can’t be considered a contribution.”

“By the way, I heard that some Demon Gods or something have appeared in the capital recently, and this is a good time to make money.”

“If it’s a low-level demon, there’s still a way to deal with it.”

The adventurer carrying weapons was chatting with the adventurer wearing heavy armor.

Shun pulled his hood down, not paying attention to them, but walked straight to the Adventurer’s Guild counter.

“Hello, what are you doing today?”

After thinking about it, the queue was gone, and it was Shun’s turn to contact the counter clerk. She was an elderly woman with a gentle expression. She was neatly dressed in a clean uniform, and her light brown hair was braided and hung down.

Although she was the receptionist of the Adventurer’s Guild, just by looking at the lobby, she didn’t radiate the nervous aura typical of talented women, proving that she knew what her job was.

“I want to be an adventurer. Are there any requirements?”

When he said this, Shun raised his head, and as the face hidden behind the hood was revealed, the receptionist was immediately stunned.

“Ahem... Did you hear me?”

“Ah, yes... You want to be an adventurer, right?”

The receptionist immediately put on a smiling face and hurriedly took out an information form at the counter. She never took her eyes off Shun’s face and said:

“I understand. So can you read and write?”

“I can.”

“Then please fill out this information. If there’s anything you don’t understand, please ask me.”

It was an adventurer sheet. The gold-plated text stood out on the light brown parchment paper.

Name, gender, age, occupation, hair color, eye color, physique, skills, spells, magic...

“Ah, please leave the adventure history column blank, because we need to review it there.”

“Yeah.”

Shun handed over the filled-out record sheet, and the receptionist nodded and checked it one by one, then picked up a silver-tipped pen. She used this pen to engrave gentle words on a white porcelain plate.

Shun looked at the sign given by the other party and found that the same content as the adventure record sheet was written on it in small words.

“Although it also serves as proof of identity, this is what’s called an ability review.”

After speaking, she added slyly. Honestly, the above can only say things that can be judged from his appearance. Seeing Shun blink repeatedly, the receptionist smiled and said, “In an emergency, we will use it to compare identities, so don’t lose it.”

The other party’s words with an annoying tone made Shun think about it for a moment, but he soon understood. When it was necessary to compare identities, that was when death was so sad that one couldn’t bear to see it a second time.

“But, is it easy to become an adventurer here?”

“That’s right, becoming an adventurer is very simple—“

The receptionist put on an ambiguous expression.

“If you want to advance, we have to review the monsters defeated, social contributions, and personality. Is this strict enough?”

“Character review?”

“Sometimes, there are people like this. The kind of guy who thinks, ‘I’m so strong, so just leave everything to me!’”

After saying this, the receptionist continued:

“All commissions are posted there. The basic selection method is to choose according to your own rank...”

As she spoke, she pointed to a large corkboard embedded in the wall.

Although the papers pinned on the corkboard became very sparse because they had been read, torn, and taken away by a large number of adventurers who had just stayed...

But the need for such a large bulletin board meant that the commissions were very numerous.

“If you plan to immediately accept a commission and start an adventure, you can go and see the bulletin board there. All commissions are posted there, and new commissions will be updated every morning... By the way, accept commissions according to your rank, we won’t accept missions beyond your rank.”

Shun nodded noncommittally. This rank-appropriate restriction was set to protect the adventurers. Although it couldn’t be said to completely avoid the death of adventurers, it could indeed greatly reduce the elimination rate of adventurers.

“So, how is the rank division here?”

Shun asked the most concerning question.

If he knew the rank division here, or the power distribution, he might be able to figure out which plot he was in in the Goblin Slayer World.

“Basically, every country on this continent has its own ranking classification. As for our country, this mainly depends on the ranking classification of adventurers. Basically, from high to low – platinum, gold, silver, bronze, ruby, jade, sapphire, steel, obsidian, white porcelain.”

The receptionist continued to explain this kingdom’s levels and answered questions about other kingdoms from time to time.

Among them, the platinum rank was the highest rank that could only be achieved by legendary heroes chosen by God. Throughout the history of the kingdom, only a few people had achieved it.

The gold rank status was equivalent to a grand nobleman. Commissions were no longer issued through the Adventurer’s Guild, but were issued by the king himself, and all the most difficult national tasks were completed.

The highest rank that ordinary adventurers could achieve was the Silver rank, which was also the highest rank that the Adventurer’s Guild had the right to grant.

Bronze rank and silver rank were both leaders among adventurers. Ruby, sapphire, and jade were the backbone of adventurers.

As for the white porcelain rank... based on the difficulty of registering for the Adventurer’s Guild, it was basically equivalent to armed civilians.

After hearing this, Shun roughly understood the Goblin Slayer World now.

The initial estimate showed that each plot, power distribution, and power system were mostly inherited from their own kingdom, with different patterns and characteristics of the kingdom in the region.

Shun lived in the kingdom where the protagonist was revealed. Every time a certain period of time passed, the Demon King attacked, and a hero was born to help the people of the kingdom.

At the same time, the entire border of the country also experienced troublesome problems from goblins.

“Excuse me, where is the Goblin Slayer? If possible, I want to meet him?”

“Goblin Slayer? Is there such a person?”

The receptionist was clearly confused.

This time, Shun was also surprised.

“He’s just an adventurer who only kills goblins all year round, wearing low-quality armor, and never showing his face. He might already be at the Silver rank.”

“Um... maybe you’re remembering wrong.”

The receptionist said: “Actually, in recent years, there have been no poets singing about adventurers who only kill goblins. The characteristics you mentioned have never been heard of either here or throughout the border of the kingdom.”

“Is that so... Maybe I’m remembering wrong.”

Shun responded with a smile.

Sure enough, in a world like this, he was worried that he couldn’t think according to the plot of the original work.

But now he’s arrived, let’s kill some goblins first.

“Then, I want to ask if there are any Goblin missions.”

“Eh?!”

Shun’s words made the receptionist’s smile freeze.

“You mean... Goblins?”

The receptionist confirmed this repeatedly.

Goblins were green-skinned humanoid monsters the size of six- or seven-year-old children and looked ugly.

In many other world stories, creatures like goblins were at the bottom of the ecological circle. Their threat level was only higher than slime and rats. Often, their role was for the protagonist to leave the novice village to provide cannon fodder experience.

But the goblins in the Goblin Slayer World had completely overturned ordinary people’s perceptions of these weak creatures.

They didn’t breed and specialized in robbing travelers and lone villagers in the wild. Men were eaten as food, while women were taken back to the lair to become goblin baby mothers.

When their population reached a certain number, these green-skinned evil creatures would attack villages with weak defenses, plunder livestock and food, kill all the men, and steal all the women to continue a new round of reproduction.

The most frightening thing was that besides being naturally cunning, they were also very good at learning. As the number of escapes increased, they would become smarter, and they would even improve and evolve into Hobgoblins, Goblin Shamans, Goblin Kings, etc. Powerful species comparable to high-level human adventurers.

Those who had been harmed by goblins could only place their hopes on those skilled adventurers.

However, adventurers were not noble people, and it was undeniable that some of them did it to make their names famous, or just out of interest, but most of them were just a group of mercenaries who traded their lives for money.

Killing dragons brings fame, exploring ruins yields treasures, killing monsters can sell materials... Even if you defeat bandits, you might still find looted wealth.

Only commissions involving goblins were selfless tasks.

No matter how hard you fought against such weak creatures, you would only be laughed at and bullied by other adventurers.

As for additional income…

If you’re lucky, you can pick up some cheap, rusty armor and daggers. If you’re not lucky enough, you might only find some crude stone axes and wooden spears.

The mission salary alone sometimes wasn’t enough to cover the cost of consuming medicines and repairing equipment.

Therefore, although there were many commissions, high-level adventurers would choose to turn a blind eye to the task of subduing goblins. Only novice adventurers who were not high enough to receive high-level commissions would volunteer or jump in out of necessity.

Shun was wearing expensive clothes, fair-skinned and handsome, even his black sword was clearly of high quality, and he was clearly a noble child, the receptionist wasn’t surprised even though the other party came to ask about a dragon-slaying mission.

But unfortunately, the other party actually asked about goblins, which was too down-to-earth.

The receptionist’s expression was a little subtle.

“By the way, there was a mission about killing goblins before, but that mission was taken by a group of rookies ten minutes ago...”

Speaking of this, the receptionist felt a little uncomfortable.

“Honestly, I don’t recommend ordinary people to take goblin-killing missions for their first missions. Talking to you, I feel a little uneasy. If possible, can you help them?”

Hearing this, Shun’s face looked a little serious.

“Quickly tell me about the mission location and map, and is this rookie team a very active young swordsman, a female boxer with long pigtails, a bespectacled mage girl, and a blonde priest?”

The scene at the beginning of the first plot appeared in Shun’s mind.

“That’s not right. This team consists of three girls, two swordsmen, and a priest. The priest does have long, fine golden hair. She’s a very beautiful 15-year-old girl, but she seems to be holding a scale sword, a follower of the god of justice and law.”

Wrong again.

But this time, Shun suddenly realized why something was wrong with the Goblin Slayer plot!

A long-haired blonde priest, holding a scale sword, 15 years old. She killed goblins for the first time. She was still a group of rookies, and there was a high probability that the group would be wiped out.

After combining this series of keywords, Shun suddenly remembered the tragic Sword Maiden in the original plot!

‘So that’s it! This timeline is ten years before Goblin Slayer.’

‘The Sword Maiden who just became an adventurer failed in the initial plot of goblin extermination and was blindly burned by the goblins. After being rescued by the hero team, she grew up with the hero team and defeated the Demon King and became a gold-level adventurer in the kingdom and the high priest of the Highest Temple of the Water City.’

‘And today is the source of the Sword Maiden’s tragic fate change!’

“Please give me the mission location and their map.”

The remaining wind elements suddenly appeared in Shun’s body, and even the Eight Gates were opened one by one.

“I have to save them.”