Chapter 136: CH 135

Posted on October 23, 2022 by Kangmin

We had made it through the Bandits’s raid, but we were still walking more cautiously than before.

The formation was relatively dense, with Loloi and Burgess focusing their ears and eyes on noises in all directions.

“I haven’t been very useful since yesterday.”

Then Clarice started to say something like that.

At the riverside, Clarice was unable to get to grips with the slime or destroy the shell of the mashura. In the forest, she was almost mortally wounded by the beastmaster’s ulfes, and she was almost overwhelmed against the bandits.

“Fighting monsters is a matter of chemistry, and interpersonal combat is seriously dangerous. I hate to say it, but it’s too dangerous for a first-year swordsman like Clarice, with her haphazard swordsmanship, to engage a real bandit in a proper fight.”

This is Burgess.

This consolation would be no consolation at all.

It is quite insensitive.

“I was also just watching, so don’t worry so much.”

And my follow-up was probably not a follow-up at all.

It is an undeniable fact that Clarice is several steps below Burgess and Loloi in combat.

“Albus is a merchant and I am his bodyguard, we are not the same. But I realized that I was only a novice swordsman.”

And Clarice seems to know exactly what we were facing.

No matter how well he is able to defeat Ulfes and Goblins without any danger, the bandits are naturally much stronger than such beginner-level monsters.

They are not the kind of opponents that Clarice would aggressively go forward and fight.

Understanding this, Clarice honestly dropped back to the rear guard, leaving the vanguard and middle guard to Loloi and Burgess, while she stood by my side as a last line of defense.

In fact, Clarice had done her job well by taking out a few Ulfes that had slipped through.

Still, the overwhelming difference in combat power between her and the other two was probably still a concern.

“Compared to me, Loloi was amazing. Hey, brother-in-law Albus. Sooner or later, please buy me a weapon with a skill like [Range Attack (Slash)].”

Clarice is surprisingly deft in acting the part of a sister-in-law only at times like this.

But ……

“Skills like that can’t be mastered unless the basic melee combat skills are high. Loloi is very strong in melee combat, which is why she is able to use that kind of fighting style as an application of her skills. Also, that kind of skill can only be activated if the secondary attributes match, so it can’t be used on Clarice.”

“I have no secondary attributes. ……”

Clarice shushed again.

‘Secondary-attributes’ refers to the abilities required to use that attribute’s armament skills, magic books, etc.

According to the research of the necromancer’s guild, the “secondary attribute” is the innate talent of being able to “generate in the body” the “magical power of each attribute” necessary to activate each attribute’s magic.

So, in a sense, it would be like an innate skill.

Incidentally, “main attribute” refers to the magical attribute that can be activated as magic by itself among the “secondary attributes. This is also a natural talent.

For example, if a person has the ability to generate “fire magic power” in his/her body, he/she has the attribute of fire as a secondary attribute.

And if it has the ability to release and maintain the “magical power of the fire attribute” outside the body by itself, it possesses the attribute of fire as its main attribute.

Burgess has “fire” as its primary attribute and “earth and light” as its secondary attributes.

Loloi has “none” as her primary attribute, but “fire, wind, and darkness” as her secondary attributes, allowing her to launch a remote attack with the wind attribute of the Holy Fist Aluminas.

On the other hand, Clarice and I have “none” for both main and secondary attributes.

Therefore, we cannot use weapon skills that require matching attributes, and no matter how hard we try, we cannot use magic books to activate attribute magic.

Incidentally, you can easily find out about these secondary attributes at the Adventurer’s Guild.

“Well then, in the end. I guess the only way for me to get stronger is to improve my swordsmanship skills while increasing the number of combat- and body-strengthening skills I acquire.”

When Clarice blurted this out, Burgess smiled with satisfaction, “You finally understand.”

“But it’s still frustrating not being able to defeat the slime. Slimes can be defeated even by novice adventurers if they have the means to attack with their attributes, right?”

You are reading story A Merchant With Zero Combat Power Who Was A Baggage Handler In A Hero Party (Me), Was Finally Banished And Wants To Be A Steady Merchant. at novel35.com

Saying this, Clarice’s shoulders slumped.

“Speaking of which, if you use a weapon with an attribute-imparting skill, you can handle attribute attacks even if you don’t have any attribute magic power.”

Although the power is said to be lower than that of a weapon with a secondary attribute, such a weapon would be able to inflict effective damage on a slime or the like.

“I hope you’ll buy me that ‘weapon with the attribute-imparting skill’ sometime soon, Brother-in-law!”

However, if you want to put an attribute attack through a slime without a secondary attribute, you will probably need a skill with a rating of about [large].

In other words, it is ‘reasonably expensive’.

Moreover, when Clarice, who has no secondary attributes, uses it, it can only be used to deal with slimes after all.

“Alright, soon.”

“That reply. You’re never going to buy it, aren’t you?” she said, and glared at me with icy eyes.

→→→→→

Again.

The headquarters of the Merchant Guild of the Western Continent, the office of the Guild President.

“Damn! Damn! That group of useless bandits I originally thought were “strong supporters who joined the ranks”!

“Well, looks like the beastmaster has been defeated.”

“Shit! Send guards to destroy that group of bandits later! Don’t forget to keep their mouth shut and collect the mana and equipment they’ve accumulated.”

“Yes!”

With that, Jahar, the secretary, left the room.

“I can’t believe how useless they all are!”

Wagons, fallen wooded areas, and wild thieves raiding the area.

This means that Albus has now broken through three of the traps that Marcus and his team had prepared.

In the small room left alone, Marcus looked impatient.

Lord Kudrin, a Kilket nobleman, had assigned Marcus the task of “unseating Albus, the merchant”.

By doing so, Lord Cudlin seemed to be planning to finally own the Mistoria Theater.

To settle a personal grudge and to gain a practical advantage. To satisfy both of them at the same time was Lord Kudrin’s ultimate goal this time.

However.

In disqualifying the merchant, who was believed to be under the influence of Gilbert Warren, Sir Kudrin was at any rate cautious.

He was determined to avoid being outed himself, and he demanded that Marcus use all possible leno techniques.

Therefore, Marcus decided to use his authority as head of the guild to force Albus to do the impossible.

He had Albus accept a quest that at first glance did not appear to be that difficult, under the misapprehension that he could do it.

He would then make Albus’ reputation suffer by making various accusations against him for failing to complete the quest that he had set his hand to. And then, he would have him disqualified.

This is the strategy that Marcus is currently playing with Albus.

He let Albus leave with very little information.

Furthermore, in the three months since the auction ended, Marcus intentionally made it difficult to communicate with Poppo Village by using fallen trees and activating monsters with scent bags. Marcus intentionally made it difficult to exchange information with Poppo Village by using fallen trees and activating monsters with scent bags, making it difficult for various information to get through.

Therefore, preparations should have been complete.

My concern was that Albus had effortlessly overcome all the sub-measures that I had prepared just in case.

“Even if it was just a fluke, it was enough for me to conquer the Earth Ruins.”

He thought he underestimated his opponent a bit.

“But I don’t think they can handle the situation in Poppo Village right now. ”

Remembering this, guild leader Marcus chuckled to himself in his dimly lit room.

You can find story with these keywords: A Merchant With Zero Combat Power Who Was A Baggage Handler In A Hero Party (Me), Was Finally Banished And Wants To Be A Steady Merchant., Read A Merchant With Zero Combat Power Who Was A Baggage Handler In A Hero Party (Me), Was Finally Banished And Wants To Be A Steady Merchant., A Merchant With Zero Combat Power Who Was A Baggage Handler In A Hero Party (Me), Was Finally Banished And Wants To Be A Steady Merchant. novel, A Merchant With Zero Combat Power Who Was A Baggage Handler In A Hero Party (Me), Was Finally Banished And Wants To Be A Steady Merchant. book, A Merchant With Zero Combat Power Who Was A Baggage Handler In A Hero Party (Me), Was Finally Banished And Wants To Be A Steady Merchant. story, A Merchant With Zero Combat Power Who Was A Baggage Handler In A Hero Party (Me), Was Finally Banished And Wants To Be A Steady Merchant. full, A Merchant With Zero Combat Power Who Was A Baggage Handler In A Hero Party (Me), Was Finally Banished And Wants To Be A Steady Merchant. Latest Chapter