[Silver Ash] - Become The Strongest In Another World
CHAPTER 62: Demand (1)

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"So, let me ask you one thing."

The voice of a man echoed in that quiet room.

In front of the man was Noelle's group sitting quietly on the sofa, showing expressions as if they were innocent.

"Okay, what's that question? "

Noelle asked politely to the man in front of her. The man, however, he just smiled stiffly and sighed resignedly at Noelle.

"The question is, why did you freeze all the rooms in the restaurant? "

"It's not our fault."

"And? Why that? "

"There's a bastard who always blocks us when we're about to leave here, you should be grateful that we didn't make you wait here too long."

Noelle said confidently and made the forehead of the man in front of her bring up the veins in annoyance.

"How could I possibly thank you while you caused such a huge loss that the guild had to compensate … "

"Eh? "

The man said as he massaged his temple and made Noelle suddenly let out a confused voice.

"From your expression it .. It seems you don't know anything … "

"Mhmm, please explain."

Sighing for a moment, the man then nodded his head.

"Alright, the damage you caused due to the ice magic did not cause any significant damage at all, but .. There are some equipment and other decorative items that do not have high resistance to magic, but, so ... When you spontaneously remove the ice, the stuff is also immediately damaged .. That's why we have to compensate for the damage."

"Acst … "

Noelle's smile instantly stiffened and she tried to hold her face in order not to show a terrible reaction, but the hand hidden in her suit pocket was clearly trembling.

Cryll beside him without bothering to hide his terrified expression towards something to come.

"I should have sanctioned you for creating a problem involving the guild, but .. You have had many achievements and will be sent to the next mission so that the sanctions can still be withheld."

"Wait a minute there old man, what do you mean by 'will be sent to the next mission'? "

"As I said before, in exchange for the suspension of your sanctions, I decided to send you on a mission."

" … Tch."

Noelle was only able to click her tongue. After he thought of all the possibilities, he had absolutely no right to reject the man in front of him.

It would be better to complete a mission than to have to lose his adventurer license.

(Aahhh fucking .. )

Ruffling her hair for a moment, Noelle looked back at the man and asked him.

"Well, what mission do we have to accomplish to redeem those sanctions? "

"Thank God you'll take it."

The man smiled at Noelle.

"After all we have no other choice, tell us what to do quickly."

Noelle impatiently asked the man to continue.

"Alright, I'm glad you want to cooperate .. Then let me introduce myself for a moment."

(Ahh, yes .. )

After she thought about it, her group did not know the man sitting in front of her at all, but Noelle naturally understood that the man in front of her was a powerful figure.

"My name is Terneth zava Gurazzud, almost as you think, I am the guild leader in Eisen."

(Gh .. )

"Haha, I understand your hesitation, however, my appearance is really no match for that rude post."

" … No, not really. .. This is much better than the guild leader of the Suiren branch who is a seductive woman."

Noelle replied after a moment of silence.

In appearance, Terneth did not seem like a strong person, but rather an intellectual type, which is why Noelle hesitated a little when she thought Terneth was the guild leader.

Based on the information he got from many sources, the branch guild chairman was chosen through the electoral system by voting for civilians and adventurers related to the branch.

Terneth seemed not very strong, but he was able to become the guild leader who directly showed his ability as a leader and appealed to the public.

It was much better than the guild master of the Suiren branch who was a mature woman in an evening dress who always teased Noelle whenever the opportunity arose.

"A-ahaha .. I understand how you feel, but .. Lynn is actually a very talented and skilled woman in fighting, she said, he was also so competent in terms of administration that the majority of the people in Suiren supported him to become the new guild chairman."

Terneth smiled wryly.

Noelle and everyone who listened to the explanation would inevitably ask if the two of them knew each other.

"You call him Lynn so intimately, do you guys have a relationship? " asked Noelle curiously.

"That's how I, Lynn and a few others used to be in the same party until we finally retired and went on to other jobs, even though I looked weak like this, she said, I'm very confident in my abilities as a witch."

"So yeah .. Instead of that, why do you call her Lynn instead of her real name? " Noelle asked curiously.

Neither himself nor Cryll were at all skilled in dealing with the guild leader of the Suiren branch so they always hoped to escape from every meeting.

Noelle thought it possible that if she listened to Terneth's advice, she could gain the ability to cope with the woman.

"Well, actually it wasn't a deliberate thing at all .. Her real name was Luna, but we once accidentally called her Lynn during a fight against a giant insect monster."

"Giant insect monster? "

Noelle had never found such a monster at all, so she had no idea.

He tried to ask the others by looking at them, but neither Cryll, Stella, nor Charlotte had seen him at all so they just shook their heads.

Noelle confusedly imagined the monster's form while she felt a gentle pull on her sleeve.

"Mmm? "

"Noelle .. Didn't ask me? "

Olivia looked at him from the side with an innocent face, and Noelle stared back at him.

"For what? We've been together for about fifteen years, if you see that kind of monster then I'll see it too."

—There is no point in asking that to someone who has always stuck with me since birth.

That was what Noelle wanted to say before she finally shut her own mouth at the sight of the pouting Olivia.

Perhaps he had stepped on a mine, so he could only willingly accept whatever Olivia would do to him.

However, a little unexpected, Olivia did not scold him or anything, but just turned her face red.

" …? "

"If you're done, can we continue the conversation? "

"Ahh, please."

Noelle immediately nodded as Terneth asked them to continue the conversation.

"Relating to the giant insect monster I mentioned earlier .. Actually that's the main reason I called you here."

(Even he didn't bother to cover it up, yeah .. )

Everyone in the room except Chloe easily saw Terneth's extremely high self-confidence.

Terneth bluntly revealed his true intentions as he invited Noelle's group into the guild chairman's room.

Using the damage Olivia caused in the restaurant was just the part that perfected her 'crucifixion'.

Closing his eyes for a moment, Noelle then asked to be sure.

"In short, you want us to go over that giant insect monster, is that right? "

Although he was smiling, but his eyes were emitting a resolute light as if telling everyone that he was a powerful figure.

"Is there any further information? It was hard to accept this very vague request."

Yet Noelle remained unaffected by his gaze and spoke casually.

Seeing that, Terneth smiled.

"Even after a lot of time has passed, there is little information that can be obtained from this monster, the monster was too strong to be crippled so inevitably we could only destroy all parts of its body without leaving anything behind."

Terneth spoke with a disappointed expression and made Noelle close her eyes again.

" … At least ... Can you tell us the shape of this monster? "

"I knew you'd ask me that, so I've drawn it."

Terneth gave a piece of paper that looked shabby to Noelle.

Noelle and the others tried to look at the picture on the paper and were made completely shocked afterwards.

"H-hey .. Is his opponent really this creature? "

Noelle asked nervously to Terneth. Terneth however simply smiled wryly and nodded with depression.

Noelle would not want to believe it.

On the paper, it looks like scribbles are made with arbitrary and neat.

The graffiti clearly and in detail describes the monster that will group Noelle opponents later.

Even the image also explains its size that looks like a building in the modern world.

It was a gigantic monster that had an appearance very similar to a praying mantis-type insect.

Aside from its shape and size, Terneth also wrote down some of the monster's abilities that he already knew.

One of them is that the monster is able to issue a giant light shield that is able to protect it from all kinds of attacks, be it physical attacks or magic.

The upper body that looked like a claw was so sharp that the monster used it as a weapon like a giant sword.

The monster also had a very high resistance to heat so any kind of attack that resulted in 'burning' would absolutely not be able to resist it.

His body was also so hard that sharp weapons were almost useless against him.

"What the fuck is this .. Isn't he too strong? "

"Are you kidding me? My Sword Geist attack will be completely useless since its lightning has a hot element that will cause burning! I'm totally useless here! "

"His austere body would be a problem for Centipede who possessed a brute force based on thorns"

" "We both gave up." "

Noelle frowned while Cryll and Charlotte also voiced their displeasure once seeing the monster's superiority that clearly became the counter of their attack.

While Chloe and Stella compactly withdrew from the fight because they both would be completely useless against the creature.

"Nn, his resistance is terrible, but since he has a high resistance to heat, there is a chance that he is weak against cold."

Although that was only an estimate, the possibility of the monster being able to be defeated with Olivia's ice magic was not zero.

But still it's a difficult thing. Allowing Olivia to use her ice magic on an opponent that has not even been identified is too risky, and Noelle will vehemently reject it.

Of course there was still another way, that was to rely on Langen's special abilities.

Based on what Anastasia had said and judging from her experience all along, Langen's black sword had the ability to 'cut everything'.

Noelle wanted to try that possibility, but she immediately closed her eyes and thought of some solutions that could be useful.

" … Hey, you said you and your partner fought him in the past, right? How did you beat him? " Noel asked seriously.

Terneth closed his eyes and frowned with a displeased expression as he thought about the annoying past.

"It was pretty hard, you know? Since we can't cripple him, we have to deliver an attack that will destroy all his body until it's not left."

"And? Whatisit? "

Noelle asked impatiently. Cryll beside him also began to advance his body to listen more clearly.

"We fired a high-powered magic cannon at the expense of all the magic energy that I, Lynn, and some of the witches in our group back then, all the witches in our group instantly fainted for two whole weeks."

"Magic Cannon ... What is that kind of magic 《Nuclear Cannon》 .. Or others? "

" … I won't ask where did you find out forbidden magic like 《Nuclear Cannon》 that should only be known by certain circles, but … The magic we used was not elemental magic at all."

Cryll, Stella, and Charlotte wonder what she means, but Noelle and Olivia have guessed the answer easily.

Cryll looked at Noelle with a confused face and asked for an explanation.

Noelle just sighed and started explaining about her guess.

"Their group gathered all the magic energy of everyone into one and fired it at the monster so that the monster was instantly destroyed nothing left."

"What an amazing guess, and it's entirely true, you're really as amazing as the rumors tell you."

Noelle's ears perfectly won everything Terneth said without missing the slightest bit of info, so she asked with a twitch.

"What do you mean by rumors? "

This time Terneth looked surprised as if Noelle had just said something crazy.

"You ... Never heard a rumor about yourself? "

"I never even knew that such rumors began to circulate in society without entering my ears in the slightest."

Terneth sighed.

"Forget that rumor for a moment, I got the idea."

Noelle suddenly stood up and smiled.

"The idea? "

"Mhmm, hey, can you make me something like this? "

Noelle quickly drew something on the paper.

The person who saw him seemed to not understand.

"With our current blacksmithing ability, it's not a difficult thing, but ... Why would you want that item? "

"I will explain when the item is finished, for now you should prepare the item first, ahh .. If you can, I want to make two new sword sheaths, use this as a model."

Noee took out a long sword from his spatial storage.

It was a normal sword that could be found anywhere, Noelle gave the sword as an example because it had a shape that was very similar to both of her star-shattering swords.

(My previously worn sword sheath .. )

"A strange item, and two new sword sheaths .. How about the outer design of the sheath? "

"I'll send it to you later, tell me where the blacksmith you chose to work on it."

"Alright, let's just say your request is done, you can wait about three to four more days."

"Mhmm, we'll wait if the time it takes is just that."

"Then, I as the [Eisen Guild Master] will officially thank you all for accepting this urgent request."

Terneth bowed his body and with a friendly smile thanked Noelle.

That made Noelle a little uncomfortable.

"Ahh, you don't have to thank me like that … "

Terneth smiled when he saw Noelle's discomfort, but he still did what he had to do as a leader.

Formal gratitude is also important in maintaining relationships.

"Hm hm .. Then please cooperate, Mr. [Sword Star] Noelle Lynneheim and Mr. [Thunder Sanctus] Cryll Light."

" "Alright, please cooperate—What did you say? " "

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