Chapter 470

Yui, who had become the weakest link in the entire team, was not discouraged—only furious.

As the top student in the basic courses at Isuka Magic School, she had never held anyone back in any activity, not even in combat exercises she was not good at!

(For a mage, the most important things are not spellcasting ability, but a clever, clear mind and abundant, practical knowledge.)

Remembering the headmaster's teachings, she gradually calmed down.

"I think we should sort through the resources and intelligence we have again," she suddenly said. "We may run into enemies very soon. It can't hurt to make preparations in advance."

"There won't be any enemies." The apprentice warrior, young in years but with a beard already covering the lower half of his face and a remarkably rough appearance, said, "When I accepted the mission, I asked about it. This old castle is only haunted; there's never been any case of ghosts attacking people here."

"But under normal circumstances, nobody would enter this dilapidated castle anyway, right?" Yui was not so easily refuted and immediately pointed out the gap in the information. "Then who exactly discovered that this place was haunted? And why were they willing to pay adventurers to deal with the problem here?"

Everyone fell silent, looking at one another without knowing how to answer.

After several seconds, the apprentice warrior said uncertainly, "There's no information about the client in the mission details, but judging by the reward... could it be that the uneasy villagers scraped together fifty gold coins to hire us?"

"If you were a villager, would you pay fifty gold coins just because a castle at least two miles from the village, where nobody had lived for ages, was haunted?" Yui asked in return.

"Of course not!" the young apprentice knight,