âAre there any hunting quests for flying monsters?â
I asked Airia the receptionist after entering the guild.
As I had been talking to her recently about the previous quest, I thought it would be easier.
âUhh⊠A flying monster? There is one such quest⊠But itâs quite dangerous, you know?â
âWhat kind of monster is it?â
âItâs a Cockatrice. The location isâŠthe Iriarch Death Ravine where you killed the Cannibal Tigre. It is rank C⊠But the ravine is such a bad place to fight monsters. The overall difficulty is much closer to a B-Rank quest.â
That placeâŠ
The footing was indeed terrible, but itâs not like I had any other options.
I would just have to pray that I could befriend it.
HoweverâŠthere was one problem.
âWould I be allowed to tame it if itâs a hunting quest?â
âTame⊠Do you mean to tame the Cockatrice!?â
âYeah. It probably wonât work, but I want to try.â
âUhâŠthe purpose of a hunting quest is to remove a threatening monster, so it will still be filed as completed if you successfully tame it.â
I see.
So I donât have to kill it in order to complete the quest.
âStillâŠyou definitely should not be attempting such a thing as taming a Cockatrice. After all, the town will be thrown into a panic if you brought one backâŠâ
âI could just tie it up outside?â
âIf you brought a Cockatrice close to the town, theyâll send out an extermination team⊠It is a great and wild monster with strong poisonâŠâ
âŠI didnât know it was that dangerousâŠ
Well, perhaps that was what you should expect if you were going to take on a C-Rank monster that could also fly.
From what I was hearing, it did not seem like a monster that was fit for taming.
But if it was my only choiceâŠ
âAll right. Iâll just accept the quest and see what happens.â
âPl-please be careful! I know youâve survived the place before⊠But that ravine really is dangerous!â
âYeah. Iâll be wary of my surroundings and retreat if things look bad.â
âGood! âŠAnd please be careful that you donât get poisoned! It will be a great loss to the guild if you are killed!â
She said as she saw me off.
I suppose it would be good to check if I have any anti-poison magic.
Though, I had used magic before to help people in Rikardo who had gotten carbon monoxide poisoning, so I could probably just use that again.
An hour later.
I had returned to the spot where the bridge had been destroyed.
âAre you all ready?â
âIâm ready!â
âYes!â
I made sure that the Proud Wolf and Slimes were prepared.
We had to be careful in such dangerous territory.
âOkay, letâs go!â
âUnderstood!â
âOkay!â
âLetâs find it!â
And with that, with all of us on his back, the Proud Wolf began to descend into the ravine.
Then I activated Shared Senses and borrowed the slimesâ vision.
There were many trees in the ravine and it was hard to see.
On top of that, we were moving at a great speed, so human senses were practically useless.
It was times like these that âShared Sensesâ were all I had to rely on.
âWhich way should I go!?â
âJust keep going until you reach the bottom!â
âUnderstood!â
It was likely that most of the monsters were down on the floor of the ravine.
So I was guaranteed to find something if we went down there.
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