The Guild Master of Demon Hunters that the Empire is Obsessed With

7 – Picking up an abandoned healer (1)

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I completely lost my strength and jumped off the body of the floating horse.

His slime is acidic, and if you leave it too long, the soles of his shoes will melt.

As I slowly swam toward Bo, border guards scrambled to catch me and pull me up.

“That’s amazing, Mr. Leonard! That amazing thing in one shot!”

Clemence, whose face was flushed with excitement, spat and spoke gibberish.

“Are you okay?”

Leanna asked, groping for my wet leather armor.

“I’m fine. I’m not hurt. A towel.”

As I was about to wipe my face with the towel Leana had taken out of her bag, the guards and maintenance staff started asking me questions.

“What the hell is that? There’s a devil like that?”

“You really were a demon hunter! But how did you jump that distance in one fell swoop?”

“What was that thing you threw into the water earlier? What made it make it explode like that?”

“So, the water reservoir won’t decrease any more? Could it be that he dug a hole somewhere and leaked through there?!”

“Quiet, quiet!”

Clemence waved his arm, stepping in between the border guards and custodial staff.

“Leonard has just returned from defeating a demon! We need to give him some time to catch his breath!”

Thanks to Clemence, I got away from people and threw off all my armor and even took off my underwear.

“Mom!”

Clements covered her eyes and turned away in horror, leaving Leana and her men wide-eyed in amazement.

Everyone reacts like that when they see big scars all over their body.

Some of them were original due to Leonard’s setting. Some obtained after possessing.

It is fortunate that, miraculously, there are no scars on his face.

While wringing out his underwear, he told people in detail about the characteristics and habits of the horse.

Everyone who heard my story was amazed and amazed.

“You are indeed a demon hunter. That’s great. But it looks like you’re taking some kind of strange medicine. What is that?”

“It’s an elixir to eat when hunting demons. It’s a mixture of various ingredients. It temporarily improves physical abilities and has various additional medicinal effects depending on the type.”

“Then can we know a little bit about that? As you know, the border guards risk their lives every day.”

“I can tell you about it, but you probably won’t be able to use it. It’s like a deadly drug to ordinary people. If you drink it, you’ll die right away.”

“Hey? Is it real?”

I couldn’t believe it, so when I told them the ingredients for the elixir one by one, the faces of the guards turned yellow.

“I’d rather apply it and use it as a poison arrow…”

I changed into the everyday clothes I had packed in my bag and picked up my armor and Night Rend.

“Mr. Clemence, then we’ll go down first.”

“Yes, Mr. Leonard. You have done a great job. I will collect the body at City Hall.”

“It’s unlikely to come back to life, but be careful as the slime is acidic. It will dissolve if left in contact with it for too long.”

Leana and I parted ways and went back to the guild.

On the way back, Leana continued talking about what happened earlier.

“It’s the first time I’ve seen a fight like that. I guess that’s enough to be able to hunt demons.”

“I got lucky this time. Souma is a non-creepy type of demon.”

“Isn’t that tricky?”

“Sumas were originally created for the purpose of depleting humans’ water, so they aren’t very intelligent. Just drink water. If they were a bit smarter, they wouldn’t have bitten the bait. Then, in the end, they have to dive and fight, but that’s too difficult.”

“That’s right. You got hit because you were stupid.”

Leah I nodded her head slowly.

“I’ll have to do some publicity when I get back. It’s the guild that slaughtered the devil who tried to ruin this year’s vineyard by sneaking into the Reservoir Reservoir.”

“Very good. To emphasize that there are guild members specializing in demon hunting.”

“And I’m going to hang the stuffed demon head I brought last time on the front door. That way people will come and say, ‘Ah, this is the demon hunting guild’, right?”

“Well… I wonder if I won’t come in because it looks too scary?”

“I guess so. Then hang it over the fireplace. But there’s one thing I’m missing.”

Leana looked back toward the faraway reservoir.

“If we could have brought back that beast’s head, there would have been more to display.”

“It can’t be helped. By-products are owned by the client.”

“I’ll ask Mr. Clemence later and bring it to you if I can. Leave it in City Hall, it will only rot.”

“Okay, then let’s decorate the headboard of your bed.”

“Very nice.”

Leanna giggled.

She is also a strong woman.

* * * * *

After returning to the guild, I immediately washed my body and repaired my equipment.

As with all professions, even for demon hunters, equipment management determines life or death in battle.

First, dry the wet leather armor and combat boots in a cool shade.

Clean up the cutlery you wore while drying the clothes.

Meticulously remove the special oil applied to the blade of the Knight Rend and check for missing teeth.

After that, run water and sharpen the blade on a whetstone.

This is the same as the dagger and javelin that were not used in this battle.

By the time the blade maintenance was over, the leather armor and combat boots were dry to some extent.

Check the damaged parts on the outside and clean the dirt meticulously.

Finally, coat the surface with a leather lotion that is properly mixed with oil and wax.

Demon hunters don’t wear separate shields.

There are almost no shields that can block the demon’s attack, so it’s better to get one more critical hit while you have time to block it.

I can also use a crossbow, but it’s good for dropping a flying creature, so it’s hard to give a particularly effective attack.

So I’d rather maximize agility with sharp weapons in light clothes.

He stood around for a while holding the armor and weapons he had trimmed.

Originally, it is a standard to have a storage stand to hang armor and swords, but the one in the guild is too old and cracked and split.

In addition, it seems like it will only break if I wear armor on it.

After thinking about it, I ended up just leaning it against the wall, and this time I lined up bottles of elixir and special oil on the desk.

The desk was also warped from being used for too long, and the bottles kept falling over.

The reason was that when Leana sold her guild, her interior furniture was not included in the price.

Let’s see then.

I need to replenish the ‘Freshwater Maeuntang Oil’ and the ‘Strengthening Elixir’.

How nice it would be to have a healer in a guild at a time like this.

If you receive a healer’s buff, you can subdue quite a few demons without taking elixirs.

But finding a healer is like picking stars from the sky.

Because most healers who use divine power are kidnapped by the church and taken away.

As for the private healers that do exist, calling them is worth it, so we don’t dare to invite them in our current circumstances.

I was going to have Leana buy the ingredients to make the elixir, but I gave up.

Leana is the guild leader on paper and also serves as the secretary.

I’m the nominal secretary, but Leana handles all the actual administrative work of the guild.

I don’t know much about it, but once a request comes and goes, there will be paperwork to do, but I can’t make them go shopping.

I wonder if I’d rather get a servant to do chores and cleaning.

Leana, who just went to the city hall, has just returned to the guild.

“I’m back, chief.”

Leanna set down some of her papers and her pockets on her desk.

Confirmation of request termination, request fee receipt, and money pouch containing the request fee.

“As you said, I charged and received all the elixirs and oil costs.”

“Good job.”

“They said they couldn’t give you a head of a sea horse. They said you should put it in when you report the results to the grand siege.”

“That’s right. It’s so big that it would have been difficult to bring it anyway.”

If you look at the head alone, it’s almost like a calf.

The request fee went directly to the safe in the guild manager’s office, and Leana will file the confirmation and receipt separately and arrange them in the archives.

“Okay, and this.”

Leanna smiled and undid her sack that she had slung over her shoulder.

The neatly stuffed devil’s head came out of Leana’s hand.

It was varnished so that it could be hung on the wall, and it was well attached to the luxurious wooden board.

There is a small silver nameplate at the bottom of the wooden board.

‘The devil in the vineyard near Schlesi. Leonard of the Lucas Guild. O month OO day XXX’

“It’s nice. Let’s decorate this over the fireplace as you said.”

Leah I leaned it against the fireplace, humming her song.

“And while I was at City Hall, I brought a new request. Would you like to take a look at it?”

With that, Leanna pulled out a poster with her torn edges.

“Did you steal this from a bulletin board?”

“Yes. Wouldn’t it be troublesome if someone intercepted it on the way?”

At that, she smiled and read her poster.

A request to catch the culprit, saying that livestock are being stolen from a ranch outside Schlesy.

This kind of work usually requires the guards or border guards to come forward, but it seems that there hasn’t been much progress since I’ve been asking for money like this.

It’s not a place where the border guards eat raw.

Still, it doesn’t seem like an ordinary job if it’s enough to make a personal request.

A monster?

On the contrary, if it was a monster, it would have left even more disturbing traces.

Maybe it’s the work of the devil.

Since the fall of the Great Demon, all demons have been in seclusion waiting for his resurrection.

It must be difficult to procure food to live on right away.

I had a hunch that perhaps this was also one of the hungry demons secretly eating livestock.

The guy I killed and became a decoration over there also had grape frost.

It could be the work of the same human, but I’ll have to investigate it after receiving a request.

“It’s a decent quest. Let’s do this for the second quest.”

“Yes, chief. Then, let’s go after dinner.”

Leana and I ate a simple dry bread with cheese and ham for a late lunch and headed straight to the ranch.

And there I met something very rare.