From Desk Job to Death Beam: In Another World with My Almighty Lasers, Volume 1 by Nekomata Nuko

Author:Nekomata Nuko [NUKO, NEKOMATA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2024-09-20T00:00:00+00:00

Act 4: The Plan to Reach Rank A

It had been two months since my transmigration. Using my usual combo of Stick and Jet Beam, I was flying high above a range of rocky mountains, searching for the target of our suppression quest among the jagged peaks.

“I’m not seeing anything over here,” Oltea said.

“Nothing on my side either,” added Frieze.

“Nothing this way,” I said.

Each of us was looking in a different direction as we flew and made our reports to one another. This time, we had been charged with slaying a wyvern. Wyverns were great reptiles with wings sprouting from their backs. When first I glanced at the wanted bulletin, I’d thought I was looking at a dragon, but the receptionist had explained that this beast was not the same.

According to her, wyverns and dragons could be differentiated by their ability to attack at range. Dragons were variously able to strike from a distance by breathing fire, poison, ice, and even lightning. Wyverns, on the other hand, were limited to the offensive options afforded by their claws and fangs. Even so, their scales were harder than even the ophidian’s, and they flew far faster than one might imagine looking upon their massive forms. Up until now, it was the highest-paying contract we’d taken.

Our monster was not where it was supposed to be. That being said, where it was “supposed to be” was the mountains. A wide search area to say the least. To make matters worse, our mark could fly. We hadn’t searched the entire mountain, and it wasn’t out of the question that the wyvern had left for a while to go hunt, but we had taken the task on yesterday. For nearly five hours, we had scoured the mountain until retiring to spend the night in a nearby town after the sun had set. Today we had started in the morning and had spent, by now, eight hours on our search. Still, we’d seen neither hide nor hair of our target. A month ago, I would have assumed we had just overlooked it, but...

“Maybe it’s already gone?” asked Frieze.

“I was thinking the same thing,” I said.

“That’s getting more and more common,” said Oltea. Today was not the first time we had failed to find a monster. In fact, it was the third. Since the start of this month, we’d been forced to return from hunts empty-handed once each week. I wondered if adventurers were being double-booked, resulting in other parties scooping up our kills before we arrived. Thinking this, I’d inquired with the receptionist, who had put us in touch with the Adventurers’ Guilds of a few other towns to look into it.

Even in this world, there were telephones. Strictly speaking, since phones converted the sound of a voice into electrical signals, the communicators used here didn’t fit the definition, but they did the same thing. Using the devil stones of monsters with the capability to communicate telepathically, the devices were able to connect calls within a fixed distance.

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