After getting my grades for the semester and starting my summer vacation, I decided to focus on collecting materials for awakening and evolving.
This time, the destination was a dungeon near the royal capital.
There are two reasons why I chose the dungeon as my destination instead of the island of self-determination.
The first reason is that I know that the owner of the dungeon near King's Landing is a demon that can be used as a material for the awakening evolution of [Mechanism].
This was told to me by Plex while I was spending time with the members of Knuth's Arrow Hope on Self-Determination Island.
Of course, Plex himself hasn't conquered all the levels of the Labyrinth Lord, but based on the pattern of demons appearing in each level of ...... he mentioned, it's very likely.
The last time I went to the Island of Self-Determination, I encountered gold horns, silver horns, and lignum baida golems in rapid succession. ...... No matter how many times you go to the Island of Self-Determination, it's quite a stroke of luck to have encountered them with such frequency.
In addition to that, considering the fact that there will be a lot of evolutionary materials from the monsters that we will encounter in the future, ...... the efficiency of collecting evolutionary materials on Self-Determination Island will drop drastically in the future.
In such a situation, if you can find a dungeon where you can get awakening evolution materials that you don't have yet.
It is far more efficient to go there.
The second reason is that Azathoth's corpse can be used as a material for the awakening evolution of [Power].
I don't want to consume Azathoth as a material if I can help it. ...... Still, it's true that he can be a material.
And if you take that into account, the acquisition of the awakening evolution materials for the [Mechanism] this time will mean that we will have all the awakening evolution materials for all six species.
That's quite reassuring.
That's why I'm choosing to attack the dungeon instead of the island of self-determination.
Well, that's the thing.
I'm planning to do something on the way to the capital to get to the dungeon.
In order to prepare for this, I decided to stop by the Merkel's Adventurer's Guild on the way to the capital from the Elite Academy.
It's Mr. Valerius!
When I entered the guild, it was ...... deserted, perhaps because it was before noon, and the receptionist who had fallen ill when she saw Knuth's Arrow Hope waved at me.
The receptionist, who had fallen ill at the sight of "Knuth's Arrow Hope," waved at me.
"No, I had no idea it was such a great party. ......
I didn't expect it to be such a great party. ...... Well, maybe you've never seen it before, Mr. Valius. ......?
When I turned to look at the direction the receptionist pointed, I saw a portrait hanging on the wall of the ...... guild.
The portrait depicted the leader, Plex, Ragham, and Tyrion in a very realistic manner.
Come to think of it, I hadn't really paid attention to the wallpaper.
I wonder if a legendary party would make something like that.
I hear I'm going to have an audience with the king in the near future. ...... Maybe I'll be asked to make a portrait.
While thinking about this, ...... I decided to get down to business.
I'm not sure if there are any requests for escorts to King's Landing right now.
Basically, escort requests are not posted on the board.
This is to prevent bandits pretending to be adventurers from seeing the posted requests and finding out the travel schedules of nobles and merchants.
Therefore, you need to ask the receptionist directly if there are any escort requests.
"Well, ......, how about this?
The receptionist took out a sheet of paper from the stack of documents and showed it to me.
The request was for an escort for a merchant.
The request was for 10 C-ranked, 3 B-ranked, or 1 A-ranked adventurers.