CH 236

The day after the meeting in the branch manager’s office.

First thing in the morning, Tauro and his “Black Golden Wings” secretly left the village of Dansas together with the B- rank teams “White night” and “Zekei” and went straight to a certain forest where the strategy meeting was to be held.

It was a day and a half away from the village of Dansas, and even within the Daredar territory, it was close to other territories.

“Even though our opponents are an assassination guild, it was far too prudent to have a strategy meeting in the middle of nowhere like this.”

The leader of the “White night” grumbled after confirming on the map that they were approaching their destination.

“…Because there is a possibility of being monitored in towns and villages.”

Suddenly, a man appeared from behind Tauro’s team and the teams.

Tauro and his team all put their hands on their weapons wary of the man.

“….. This is a surprise. I believe you’re Eikoku-san of the A-Team “the Golden Mane,” right? I didn’t expect to run into you at a place like this. ……”

The leader of “Zekei”, who is strong in search-and-rescue, was secretly moved to meet the target, a man dressed like a black-clad ninja in front of him.

” ‘the Golden Mane”! Why would a top-notch team do that?”

I was surprised that even the leader of ‘White night’ knew the name.

“According to the …… report, after “White night” and “Zekei,” there will be an E-rank team called “Black Golden Wings,” which I heard has information about the enemy, but who is it?”

The ninja man called “Eikoku” looked at Tauro and his group curiously as he asked this.

“It’s us.”

Tauro raises his hand.

“…… This is a surprise. The guys with the inhibition skills are in the E-rank band? They seem to be very competent though.”

Eikoku, the ninja man, may have appraisal .

On top of that, he looks at Tauro with even more interest.

“I can see your abilities in the appraisal are… No, I’ll stop.”

Eikoku, who was watching Tauro in the appraisal, noticed the unnaturalness of Tauro’s ability that was rewritten by “Appraisal Inhibition (Extreme)”, and speculated that he probably possessed a special inhibition-type ability, but stopped immediately, perhaps thinking that it would be bad to reveal it.

“All three teams, only the representative of each team should follow me. The rest of you will stay here.”

Eikoku said and walked deeper into the forest.

Tauro and the others hurried after him, while Aeris and the other team members rested in the shade of the trees.

As they proceeded deeper into the forest, they found that Count daredar’s elite troops were stationed there.

In the center of the forest stood a tabernacle.

In the curtain house, the captains of the troops and the representatives of each adventurer team were gathered.

“As you can see, only the best adventurers from the various branches of the Adventurers’ Guild in Count Daredar’s territory have gathered here.”

Eikoku explained to Tauro and the others, urging them to sit in the chairs prepared for them, and disappeared from the spot in an instant.

“!?”

The leaders of “White Night” and “Zekei” were momentarily startled by Eikoku’s disappearance.

Tauro was surprised as well, but even though he knew it was useless, he tried to search for Eikoku’s presence with his ‘Presence Detection’.

However, he could not detect it at all, probably because he had an inhibition skill.

I don’t know how he disappeared, but that must be part of his skill.

As expected of an A-ranked group.

After waiting for a while, people came in later and sat down on chairs as they entered the tabernacle.

Eikoku, who must be the leader of another team, seems to be leading the way.

Then, in front of the assembled leaders, a board was set up and eight men and women appeared in front of it.

Among them is Eikoku, who has moved on.

They must be members of Team “Golden Mane”.

“Let me just introduce myself. I’m Raiga, the leader of the Golden Mane, who was appointed as the commander at the request of Count Daredar. This is Captain Sam-dono, who reports directly to the Count, and second-in-command, Ram-dono. The rest are our members.”

The people who had been introduced to the group lightly nodded their heads.

“Let me quickly explain the plan. This time…”

“Wait a minute. I want you to listen to the information from the adventurers of our branch first, okay?”

The leader of “White night” raised his hand and stopped the A-rank team leader Raiga’s explanation.

”…If I remember correctly, you were the leader of the “White Nights”, weren’t you? I hear you played an active role in the Troll King subjugation battle, but can’t you hear what I’m saying?”

Raiga spoke a little intimidatingly.

“ I have important information about the assassination guild which is the target this time, so I just want you to decide on a strategy after hearing it.”

The leader of ‘White Night’ replied without flinching from Raiga’s intimidation.

“Speak then.”

Raiga grimaced and sat down in his chair.

Tauro stood up on the spot and, feeling everyone’s eyes on him, explained about the range instant death spell in the assassin’s village.

They all buzzed when they heard it.

“Are you serious?”

“If we rush in without knowing it, it’s dangerous information, isn’t it?”

“We can’t get too close…”

The leader of the adventurers crossed their arms and pondered.

“Quiet! Are you sure about that information? If there is such a thing, there is no way that Eikoku, who has infiltrated and obtained the information before us, would not have noticed it. What do you think, Eikoku?”

Raiga half-heartedly asks Eikoku about the information and confirms it.

“…I haven’t found anything like that in all the time I’ve infiltrated and searched, But it is possible that I may have missed something. In fact, I only briefly checked the underground prison and the treasury.”

Eikoku replied cautiously, and Raiga gave him a bitter look.

The strategy had already been worked out, and after explaining it to everyone, he was supposed to enter the scene to carry it out.

“I don’t think Eikoku would have overlooked something suspicious like that. He says this, but I want to believe in Eikoku’s achievements and carry out the operation as planned, okay?”

Raiga, the commanding officer, insisted on implementing the operation as planned when he said so.

This feels like a dangerous trend.

Tauro inwardly wondered what was going to happen.