523 521 What is a commercial fleet?

After Lane's stall, we were on our way to the Adventurer Alliance. But I'm also concerned about that eyelid girl on the road.

"That girl, did you realize I used the appraisal?

"Lane?"

"Oh."

I thought it was my mistake, but something still catches on.

"Then it's amazing"

In the first place, we were training on that plain, considerably enhancing our covert and cover-up abilities. Signs of activating the appraisal are also suppressed more than before.

If you don't have a high level of appraisal detection, you're confident that you won't be taken into account.

Anyway, I wouldn't have noticed if even Amanda hadn't been too focused. Besides, when I say I realize it, I'm like, "Did you see it? was to such an extent as to cause discomfort."

From what I've seen, Lane wasn't that strong. Even when I said the senses were sharpened, the movement was to the extent that the amateur had hair, and the magic was low. As an adventurer it should have been about rank F or E.

To be clear, I never thought I'd be taken into account. In fact, she didn't have the skills to be perfectly aware of the appraisal with her skills, and she should have been in a status where she never somehow noticed it with her thoughts and senses like a mighty man.

I was supposed to...

"... I'm gonna lose confidence."

Appraisal is a very useful skill. Daily training is also necessary to use it securely in times of need.

I practiced scattered on my warcraft opponents on the plains. Even those with high sensory abilities are becoming proficient to such an extent that few signs of appraisal are noticed. So now I was in the middle of practicing on a human opponent.

That said, I don't exactly use it for kings or guild masters. Using them are the average person in town who is unlikely to notice the appraisal, or travelers on the road who are not going to be this depressed if they use the appraisal.

No, there's still a slight chance they'll notice. That would be the possibility of having an appraisal detection skill by chance. But if I said that, I'd be scared to use my appraisal skills.

It would be too dumb to seal this skill for fear of being able to use an appraisal and fail at times of need. All I can say is that's retarded.

No, I wouldn't fail if I just activated the appraisal. But it takes a lot of practice to use it in conjunction with covert skills to suppress the signs of a skill activation.

It's a world with game-like systems, but it doesn't work the same way whoever uses it, and if you train it, you just improve it.

Same goes for appraisals. I have to use it to make it better.

You didn't forget what Diaz said, did you? I was just advised that if I set up an appraisal on the royal family or something, I might be guilty of disrespect. I wasn't told not to use appraisals. Rather, it was advice to use it well.

I was going to follow that advice, use my appraisal on the cheap pie-like opponent as much as possible, and practice......

I still care about Lane. Do you refrain from practicing appraisal on your human opponent for a while?

If I had thought about that, I would have seen the Adventurer Guild sign in no time.

"Though."

"Yes, welcome to the Adventurer Guild!

When I enter Kiarazen's guild, the receptionist's sister greets me with a smile.

"Request - isn't it?

"I've come to see your request"

"I knew you were an adventurer. Are you alone?

"Mmm."

"Is that it? But that's crazy."

"What?

"You didn't stick to the commercial fleet, did you?

"Shigyushin?

"Don't you know? Could it be foreign born?

"Mmm."

"Oh well. Commercial fleet."

Your sister explained it to me. A commercial fleet is a large fleet travelling around Lake Vivian. Yeah, Lake Vivian means this huge lake.

They say there are a number of large towns and cities on the banks of lakes that are bigger than small countries, and the fleet regularly tours those locations.

Their work is diverse and deals in purchasing and selling specialties and more. The feet of adventurers and travellers travelling. Fishing and purchasing materials in the central part of dangerous lakes. They even offer entertainment such as circuses and bards, and even regular health check-ups by doctors and others.

"So many, can you get on the boat?

"Because it's not one ship. Otherwise, they wouldn't call you a fleet, would they?

"So the ship is full?

"Yeah, that's a lot. I don't know the exact number, but there are more than 10 big ships. I wonder if there were more than 50 small ships."

"Ho."

That's awesome. There 'll be more people there than a little village when we get there.

"We've been going around this lake for hundreds of years now, haven't we?

"Heh. Who started it?

"That's funny. I don't know if you're lying or not, but this Lake Vivian used to be a sea."

"The ocean turned into a lake?

"Originally there was a small lake, and the lake and the sea combined to make it a big lake. Lake Vivian says the name of that little lake has been taken over."

"What do you mean?

"Mm-hmm. I don't know about that either, but it seems that a natural mutation connected the lake to the sea, and then some of the ground flourished and separated it from the sea, forming what is now the shape of the lake, right? At that time, a merchant from the fleet said it was the beginning of a commercial fleet of trade ships left by the lake to protect themselves from demons."

"Are you staying in the lake the whole time?

"'Cause you can't leave the ship alone, can you? Wouldn't it be surprising if you stayed put?

Ships are expensive things. That's all a fortune. If it is also a trading vessel capable of navigating the outer ocean, it is much more expensive than loading, etc. I don't know if the captains of the trading ships were owners or hired, but I guess they didn't have the option to leave the ships and return to the country.

But you have to work to live. I don't know if they had a conscience just not to be lake bandits or if they had less prey and couldn't run a bandit, but they thought of lake villages and such as harbors and started trading.

Well, you wouldn't earn a hectic income just by touring the villages that were on the banks of the lake, and you figured out different ways to make money. Transport, fishing, escorts, entertainment, trading. As a result, it was not surprising that it had taken the form of what is now known as the commercial fleet.

"So, there's a lot of rushing adventurers around here in the commercial fleet. I have a safe job like carrying loads, and I can see and learn from the work of senior adventurers."

Around this lake, it has become so common sense among adventurers that the rush will first train in a commercial fleet, he said.

"That's why quite a few adventurers your age say it's a commercial fleet?

"Heh."

A place with lots of child adventurers may be unusual. However, if life was less dangerous and senior adventurers could be mentored, it might not have been a surprisingly bad place to work.

"The fleet will be happy to welcome you."

"Really?

"If you sell your favors first, you'll be good at the commercial fleet when you grow up, won't you? You can hire me as an escort if you grow strong. Supported by adventurers is a big weapon."

Going that far, it feels like the Grand Chamber of Commerce moving over the lake. Whether I ride or not, I'd like to see it for once. They say Fran feels the same way.

"Its commercial fleet. Where can I see it?

"Oh, you interested?

"Mmm."

"Oh yeah. I think the main unit is in the east this time of year. You don't know exactly where it is. They call it a detachment, if you're a merchant group going around the village on a few small boats, you come here once a week."

"Okay."

The town is just south of the lake. From here to the east, it also matches the direction where the school of magic we're headed.

They say the School of Magic is away from the lake, but the autonomy around it also borders the lake. This may give you a chance to worship the Great Fleet.

"Hey, are you from the Kingdom of Kranzel by yourself?

"Mm-hmm. But how did you know Kranzel?

"Well, there's nothing adventurous about Reids. Then the only foreign adventurers around here are from the Kranzel kingdom."

"I see."

"I've never seen a child your age come alone, though. But I think it's a good idea to be part of a commercial fleet. In a year's time, you'll be a full adventurer."

"Hmm? I don't belong to anything"

"Is that it? Didn't I interest you?

"I just want to see"

"Uh, you know what? But it's not life-threatening, and I would definitely recommend it. There are branches of the Alliance in the commercial fleet, so you can rank them up."

Branch of the Alliance in the ship? Awesome. Instead of a moving big chamber of commerce, they said it was a moving town.

"Even a Rank G or F kid can get one rank up in a year if it works. We've built up the know-how to raise adventurers, so we can grow safely."

So you're saying you're going to step in and assign me a job to raise an adventurer? That could certainly be a good system. It will become a string for the commercial fleet, but that cone would rather be a plus if it were to operate in this neighborhood.

"Exactly when you're a high-ranking adventurer, they're going to run out and get off the ship,"

"Then I'm good"

"Oh? Why?

"This"

Fran shows his guild card to his sister who obviously thinks Fran is running out.

…… The usual black cards and colors... "

Adventurer cards are G, F is copper, E, D is black. In the case of C and B, it becomes silver. Hi, they only have Adventurers below Rank D in this guild, and they don't seem to be used to seeing the Rank B Adventurer cards that Fran put out.

"Yeah? Ho, real? It's real, right? Yeah, real! It's real!

"Shut up."

As soon as I finally found out this was real, my sister exclaimed. Immediately afterwards, it becomes upright immovable.

"Also, thigh, I'm sorry! I licked it. I was licking it. Ah!

"Hmm?"

"Shh, I'm sorry. Ah!

Could it be ex-Jan? And it seems terribly feared. You've never reacted so violently from before, even without showing strength.

"Oh, wow..."

You are easily upset. This wasn't going to be a decent conversation.

"... hmm?