Finding Avalon: The Quest of a Chaosbringer Volume 3 [Parts 1 to 5] by Akito Narusawa

Author:Akito Narusawa
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 6: Hungry for More

“Wow, it’s really here!” exclaimed Satsuki. “You were telling the truth!”

“I do like how quiet it is,” said Risa, “but it feels empty with nobody else here.”

“I can’t wait to see what bargains there’ll be today!” chirped Kano.

We were in the square outside the tenth-floor gate room. Satsuki and Risa had tagged along today so that they could change jobs. Kano had invited herself—she loved browsing the shelves of Granny’s Goods.

“Hello again, miss!” Kano called out.

“Oh, hello there,” replied Furufuru. “Have you brought...the goods?”

Furufuru’s shoulders slumped when she realized we hadn’t brought any accursed souls with us. She clearly had an addiction. I’d once asked her why she didn’t get them herself, and she told me that she could only travel to certain dungeon floors. So, she needed to get adventurers’ help when she wanted something. Unlike in the game, few adventurers visited this shop, meaning we were probably the only ones who’d ever defeated the Bloody Baron. She’d be on our case every time we visited, pressuring us to bring back more. We couldn’t bring an accursed soul each time we went to the store. Defeating the baron took too much effort, especially with all the preparatory work needed to gather the items to summon him.

I explained this to Furufuru. When I finished, she pursed her lips and thought for a moment.

“Just a second,” she said, disappearing into a back room. She returned carrying a cartoonishly huge hammer.

I recognized it as a magical weapon called a Boost Hammer. If you channeled your mana into the hammer, an explosion from the back of its head would propel the it as you swung it. The weapon also pulsated with a red glow, indicating a flame enchantment. The cost would be a thousand lir at least, much more than we possessed at the moment.

“This hammer will make short work of any undead on the fifteenth floor,” explained Furufuru.

“I’m sure it will, but we can’t afford... Wait, you’re giving it to us?”

Furufuru nodded and requested that, in exchange, we bring her ten more accursed souls. Her desire for those creepy souls knew no bounds...

I was happy to accept because it resembled a quest, except we had received the payment upfront. Now that we had the Boost Hammer, I could get my mother and father to raid the execution site earlier than planned.

　Trying my luck, I asked Furufur whether she could give us another hammer. To my surprise, she did, asking for another ten souls in return. She just can’t get enough, can she?

While I reformed my plans for our whack-a-mole raids, I heard a shrill cry from Satsuki from the other side of the shelves.

“That’s not fair!”

“Oh, you can bet they’ll all be bringing lots of help, especially Class A,” said Risa.

“But we’ve put so much work in... We’ve been training so hard... And everyone was so eager to do well!”

It appeared they were discussing the Battle of the Classes’ unspoken rule. Everyone kept it a secret from Class E, but the school tacitly approved the participation of outsiders in the event.

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