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The receptionist woman asked and Ryan, who happen to hear the receptionist's statement and as he was about to introduce himself when the black hooded woman speaks for him.
"New. Going on a mission with him. Unfamiliar and troublesome."
The black hooded woman said, and Ryan make face as he stared at the woman's back because of her statement.
'O-okay? What a unique introduction, indeed!' Ryan thought sarcastically.
The receptionist is well-acquainted with the black hooded woman as she understood her statement since the receptionist knew that the black hooded woman isn't fond of speaking that much.
Every adventurer that has been acquainted with the black hooded woman knew this and she is not surprised about this kind of situation.
However, what surprises her is that the black hooded woman would take this young man on her mission?!
'Am I dreaming or something?! This woman is famous for being a solo adventurer and never take a companion nor join or create her own party, to begin with!'
Yes, as it stated. The black hooded woman is a famous solo adventurer, and she never took a companion nor join or create a party on her own as she prefers to do missions alone.
Usually, adventurers could do solo missions on menial tasks only such as collecting some herbs, doing some trivial errands and such, without any required of any strength.
If the mission tasks required party members, the adventurers wouldn't have any choice but to abide by the rules that were implemented by the guild.
However, the only exemption to these rules is none other than the black hooded woman in front of her.
The receptionist left the two as she needs to retrieve some of the records about the said undetermined mission leaflet that the black hooded woman got at the mission board and for some reason, this left the receptionist to be bothered because of this predicament.
If this undetermined mission job would be left to handle by the black hooded woman, then, the receptionist would be at ease since she knew that the black hooded woman would take care of this unexpected mission on hand.
However, even if the black hooded woman would mostly take care about this matter, as a receptionist, she needs to investigate this furthermore.
For now, she needs to focus on retrieving some information back at the archive before she could do her own investigation.
After a minute had passed, the receptionist came out from the room where the archives had stored in and she brought back some files from the archive room as she laid them in front of the black hooded woman and then, the receptionist flip open the files and start her report.
"According to the information written here, the Fordel Village is situated at the mid-border of Silveria Empire."
The receptionist started as she flipped another page, and she continued to explain.
"There is a record about a month ago, the village experience a flood and then the villagers happen to find something beneath the village area."
As she stated, there is a sketch leaflet that is posted in one of the reports and the black hooded woman took that sketch and observe.
The sketch is not that clear and the black hooded woman frowns as she observe even more.
"Since none of them are experienced adventurers, the village chief put up a request on this one as they are worried about something that is beneath on their village."
After she finished explaining the mission details, the black hooded woman frowns even more because she felt that something is odd.
"The mission leaflet. When?" – She asked in a few words and the receptionist knew what the black hooded woman was talking about, and she flips the records to check when this mission had been issued in their guild.
As she manages to find the records, the receptionist frowns as she said; "J-just this morning?"
She had a puzzled looked as she read through the section when the mission leaflet has been issued and the black hooded woman had a deep thought about this mission.
'Something is not right. It was issued just this morning but the information about the village having a flood just a month ago. According to the sketch details, there is something beneath the village area that even the villagers didn't know? What kind of setup is this?'
The black hooded woman thought, and she couldn't think of anything else what could be odd about this mission, aside from the fact that it was just issued this morning but the information about the flood was a month ago.
When Ryan heard about the Fordel Village information, he suddenly remembered something.
"W-wait a minute! I happen to spoke with someone here in the Capital city yesterday when I just got arrived here."
As soon as he speaks, the black hooded woman looked behind her back when she heard the man speaks something that catches her attention and raised an eyebrow at him.
The receptionist saw this and she interprets what the black hooded woman meant to say; "She said go on."
At first, when Ryan saw that the black hooded woman raised an eyebrow at him, he is quite perplexed.
But when the receptionist interprets the gesture, he understood right away what the black hooded woman meant.
Ryan; "The person that I'm talking about is a young man who happens to be from the Fordel Village. According to him, the Fordel Village is not a village at all but a mass graveyard during the war happened years ago."
As he stated the information that he had, the black hooded woman looked at Ryan with a questioning gaze.
Ryan saw this and he didn't know what the black hooded woman meant by her gesture. He couldn't help but sigh.
'How am I going to understand this woman? Do I need to pay some gold coins for her to speak?'
He thought and while Ryan was lost on his own thoughts for a moment, the receptionist noticed his struggle and she couldn't help but felt pity for the said man.
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