The Peerless Kobold - Chapter 205
While Mirea’s suggestion was a good option, no one could just prepare an effective poison so conveniently. Currently, there are 3 Gold Adventurers in the city, but even if they worked together, it would still be difficult to completely exterminate them.
While it would be better if there were at least one Scarlet Gold hero and one Platinum-ranked Adventurer per country, the highest-ranked adventurers that could be normally found are Gold Adventurers.
The ratio of these Gold ranks are less than 3% of the total number of adventurers, followed by Silver at around 7%, then by the general Black Iron at about 60%, and the Iron adventurers who are considered fledglings at 30%.
The proportion is the same in the city of Warren, and the distribution of at least 60 adventurers currently staying in the city is the same. In other words, most of these adventurers are the same rank as Muriel’s party or are a rank below them, so it would be difficult to subjugate monsters that are at the level of a Valley Ant Queen and her Imperials.
That’s why everyone present couldn’t hide their anxiety, but… at the same time, they couldn’t leave the monsters alone either.
“… But if we don’t exterminate them, a stampede would occur, right?”
Muriel faced everyone with a determined look.
“Yes, but there are also a lot of people who can’t help…”
“We know the extent of our abilities, Riberto.”
Mirea responded while being mindful of the serious man, but Riberto knitted his brows as he looked at the painful traces of her treatment. While Mirea claimed that the injury was a battle scar, it was still probably too much for her to bear.
As she watched the interaction between the two, Muriel recalled how the situation had started.
It all started when they met four adventurers who were fighting several giant ants that were 1.5 meters long and at least 1 meter tall near Grau village on their way home after fulfilling a request from the Nees Trading Company to deliver some valuables to Douglas city.
“… Should we help them?”
“Hnn, it would be bad if we just ended up getting in their way, but… that looks dangerous.”
Although they had already brought two giant ants down, it seemed like the healer’s magic had already run out and the man and woman in the vanguard were still fighting and protecting the rearguard even though they were injured.
“If that’s the case, then shouldn’t we be helping them!?”
Mirea grabbed three arrows from her quiver, grabbed her bow, and fired three shots in succession.
“Gih, gigi!?”
The giant ant who took two shots on the abdomen and one on the head stiffened for a moment and headed towards the archer who shot it, but it fell halfway through and died.
“Hnn~, it doesn’t have much stamina, so it doesn’t seem to pose much of a threat.”
But while Mirea muttered to herself while looking at the fallen giant ant, another one noticed her and crawled towards her faster than expected.
“Tsk!”
She jumped back with a click of her tongue and a lightly-armored warrior wielding a saber took her place and lowered himself as he approached the monster.
“SEIYAAAAH!!”
“KISHAAAA–!”
He swung at the attacking giant ant from the side and created a deep wound in its head to kill it, but its forward momentum didn’t stop and it fell forward.
“!? Uwaaah!”
Riberto fell on his b******s as the giant ant’s corpse pushed him down.
“Ow…”
“You’re so clumsy, Riberto.”
“That’s harsh, man.”
Riberto looked a little sulky as Ares held out his hand to help him stand.
“Are you alright?”
“Yes, I’m fine… but rather than that…”
It seems that while they were killing the two ants, the other party was also fighting two more giant ants. The exhausted adventurers waved as they walked towards them.
