William is forced to become the comms support for Kiryo. This is to ensure a better chance to finish whatever he wanted her to do.
Thankfully, it seems like Kiryo have experienced being an technical support. So she taught him how to do it.
Along the way, she also told him that she is recording everything that is happening here. It seems like she have a futuristic body cam installed on her uniform.
The "Sensei" seems to have ask her to do it for this operation, so she can give more Intel about this place when she came back.
William can't really tell her to stop doing it. He only owns this guild and is not really a local on this place. So she can do whatever outside this guild.
Anyway, after being taught about the different gadgets needed for the stuff, she finally started going outside. Elio also comes along because, which she quickly allowed because the two of them are now members of his guild.
As fellow members, even if they originated from different worlds, they must take the time and be friendly to each other. It will be good for their long time relationship.
He told them about hunting monsters or harvesting herbs on the nearby forest. Though he didn't know what constitutes as herbs, so he prefers if they just look for monsters and hunt for it.
He told them that it is up to them if they will be the one going to the specialty shops to sell it or they will leave it to him to sell it. He just hopes that if they are the one going to sell it that they leave some of the money they got to him as addition for the guild funds.
With that out of the way, they are finally out of the place and is going to the direction where the gate out of this city is located.
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Beth is the second largest city of Bastion, and is also the place where Foxtrot Guild is located. Many strong guilds exist within the walls of this city, and they have a monopoly of most areas here.
Only weak and useless areas are public to those weak tier guilds. One of those areas is the nearby forest on the west of this city called the Green Forest.
The Green Forest only composed of goblins and spiders, with the occasional direwolves within. There are nothing special in it, and while spider monsters have some valuable materials, there are other places that have more spider monsters than this weak forest.
So only weak guild members from low tier guilds comes here to hunt for monsters and acquire a meager amount of sum from those they hunted.
Currently, Elio and Kiryo were walking on the shallow parts of the forest. Above them is a drone that is being controlled by William using the laptop that Kiryo have taught him to used awhile ago.
"Can't you control more drones, William-sama?"
["Come on! I can't just be a master of something for the first day!"]
William sighs at the ridiculous demand. The controls for the drones might be intuitive and is easy to use, but it will be pretty hard to control multiple drones by using the laptop and also take note of everything at the same time.
Now he felt more amazed at the supports from Insertia. They really take the burden of logistics by themselves.
"Please remember that I will need ammos when I run out of magazine."
["Yeah. I'll take care of that!"]
Yes, support operators are literally the logistics of the squad in the School City. They take care of the surveillance, resources, and other jobs that will make the operation more smoother for the frontliners.
There are many drones that he can use to take care of the many problems, and other tools for it. He just have to remember how to operate all of it.
Due to this, he is forced to control at least one for now. He didn't want to split his focus.
"So, what are these monsters?" Kiryo asked.
["Oh. Honestly, I have no idea. All I heard is that they are some sort of harmful creatures that are a bit more intelligent than a local animal. They also promulgate a lot more faster than normal insects, so it is suggested to always cull their number on a daily basis."]
Those are the only things that he heard from the people here. Monsters are inherently hostile to humans, and will always attack them without a question. They are also smart enough to group up, even when they were of a different species.
Monsters are born from the magical miasma that dominates the whole atmosphere. With the concentration of miasma from uninhabited areas, they form monsters. These monsters can also breed at each other, or by using females from the other race.
They are like pest. So exterminating them is the only option.
"So they are a spawn of the evil forces. Then all we need to do is destroy them!" Elio replied.
As they were walking and talking to each other like that, they felt a presence nearby, making the two of them stop.
["Oops! Sorry... I didn't see much from this angle... let me change the perspective to heat detection radars!"]
"Too late. They are already here."
William winces behind the screen at Kiryo's cold words. Her tone have a hint of disappointment with it, and it hurts his heart thinking about that.
He watches as Kiryo lowers her stance, with her white SMG at the ready and Elio just looking behind to cover her.
Behind the trees, small green skinned creatures emerges with a nasty smile on their faces. They are surrounding them.
'Damn! I should have been focusing more! What kind of Intel I am if I can't even do that!?' William thought in anger.
On the forest, the monsters are posturing. Seemingly trying to scare the two girls off. Though, it seems like the two are just looking at the monsters without feeling nervous.
"Hostiles confirmed. Initiating combat!"
After saying that, she showers them with bullets using her white SMG. Without being able to react to it, the goblins were riddled with holes by her pinpoint accuracy.
The other goblins behind tries to sneak out, but Elio is prepared as she whirls her arms and moves her hands for a bit.
"Water Blast!"
Besides her, water quickly forms and whirls on a point before shooting at one of the goblins. The burst of water is enough to pierce through the flesh of the goblins, the high pressure being too much for them to endure.
It is unrelenting. The beam of water moves slowly to the side, hitting the goblins trying to get closer to them.
On the front, Kiryo is shooting the goblins with three to two shots. All of her shots hits the vitals like the head or the neck, sometimes the chest area where the heart is supposed to be.
It only took a few seconds before they wiped out all of the monsters. The two of them didn't get a sweat at the fight.
"Hmph. Good thing they are stupid enough to not look for a cover." Kiryo muttered to herself.
["Good work everyone. Also, sorry for letting those monsters slipped up from my attention..."]
"It is fine. You have already admitted that you are new to this." Kiryo replied with a dismissive shrug.
She might have said that but it still hurts him. It's like he is just becoming a burden to them.
'I'm already letting them go and risk their lives for some money. I shouldn't be a deadbeat and let them do everything!' He thought to himself with a grim expression.
"Anyway. You said you need these monsters for some money. Do we need to get all of these corpses back to the city?" Elio asked.
["Well. I heard there is some sort of orb within their body called the Magical Core. I don't know where it is located specifically, but I know that those are sellable. Not sure about the body of these goblins."]
"Then, let's just pick all of these corpses and go back."
"Wait, we're just going to stop here?" Elio asked.
"Yes. We can only carry so much, so we can't move forward." Kiryo said.
"Then let me take care of the dismantlement. I have experience on that!" Elio said before going to the corpses of the goblins.
Deciding to trust her, the two of them waited for her.
'Wow... I didn't thought she can do something like that?' William thought in amazement.
After waiting for awhile, she is done cutting out their guts and taking the orbs hidden beneath their flesh. It seems like it is specifically located between their lungs.
The magical orbs on her palm are small. They are as small as a marble. These orbs have a murky dark color within. There are a total of sixteen that they killed, but there are only ten orbs that they got.
It seems like the six others were crushed, likely due to the unfortunate gun shots or the high pressure blast of water. This also indicates that the magical core were a bit fragile and they have to be careful for it.
"Good work."
Elio just nodded at the wolf eared girls compliment. Then the wolf eared girl looks at the drone.
"Can you get the supply box. We will be putting it there."
William tries to process what she is talking about before he recalls about it and look at the controls.
["Yes! Wait for a bit!"]
With that, he created a new panel to control the second drone. This one holding a box that is a fourth of his size. This drone have an option that can unleash a grappling hook below it, which can grab any objects using it.
He operated it while the other drone for surveillance has been put on standby. The drone passed by the window without any problem and flies through the skies. The people on the surroundings just looking at the place where the drone passed by curiously before continuing on their day.
It took a bit of time before the supply drone finally arrives on their location. He uses the controls to slowly let it land. And then he switches controls so only the grappling hook are the only thing he can control while the drone hovers on that position.
He let the box gripped by the hook slowly to the ground before unclasping the hook using the controls.
With a practiced movement, Kiryo moves to the supply box and takes the tarpaulin covering it out. It is just an empty box where they can put whatever they want in it. The interior of the box is clean and it seems like it have some sort of system that can put the interior into room temperature.
She picks something on the back that she is carrying behind her back. The thing she picks is some sort of sealing wrapper. She covered the magical orbs with the sealing wrapper and then tied it with some sort of string that also came to her bag before putting it on the supply box.
After that she goes back to the corpses and slash an ear of one of the goblin corpses before using another sealing wrapper to it and tying it with a string. Then she goes back to the supply box to put it together with the magical orbs.
William is not that surprised. He have already heard that the Central Section Operatives are interested in this world. He thinks they might be looking for any samples that came to this world.
It seems like objects can pass through the door so long as she is holding or is in possession of it so they might have made a conjecture that even a dead cell or something can also pass through the mysterious door so long as she is holding onto it.
"Thank you Elio-san. With this, we have more time to hunt for more monsters." Kiryo said with a bow.
"Well, that's preferable. We can spend more of our time slaying more of these foul creatures and helping the civilians of this world!"
It seems like that was what Elio truly wanted as she says that.
The two of them continues on their trek to the forest, going a lot more deeper to hunt for more monsters. This time, William also focuses on his job to help them.
He didn't want to hear Kiryo's disappointment. It will feel like a disgrace to his pride.