River Valley Town, Adventurers Association branch.
"Hunting Day" had already been going on for more than ten days, and the association hall was still packed to the rafters.
Aside from the stairs leading up to the second floor, which were a little quieter, hurried adventurers could be seen everywhere else.
Some had not even washed the bloodstains off their bodies. With their boots caked in mud, they threw trophy pouches still dripping blood onto the front desk, exchanged them for a stack of Gold Coins, and before they could even catch their breath, ran back into the hall to take the next task.
As if delaying for even a single second would cost them several Gold Coins.
It was unbelievably busy.
Even the White Tit Tavern, which had always been filled with adventurers around the clock, had seen its business drop off quite a bit these past few days.
That let Xia Nan, who lived on the tavern's second floor, enjoy two good nights of sleep for the first time in ages.
Compared to the other adventurers in town, who seemed determined to earn an entire year's drinking money during "Hunting Day,"
the "Green Blood" party, which had originally counted as diligent and only rested in town for a day or two between tasks, instead gave off the illusion of being "leisurely."
Adeline regarded Green-skinned Goblins as her mortal enemies. After years in the trade, she only took Goblin-related tasks. She was extremely obsessive, but the fact that she had survived all these years, and even made something of a name for herself in town, proved she was no madwoman.
No matter how supple a string was, if it stayed taut forever, there would always come a day when it snapped.
Adventuring inside Thin Mist Forest was tremendously stressful. Rest