They Don't Know I'm Too Young for the Adventurer's Guild: Volume 3

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-7183-0872-5
Verlag: J-Novel Club
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten

Reihe: They Don't Know I'm Too Young for the Adventurer's Guild

Kiri, Liluetta, and Yune are ready to settle into life as a real adventuring party, but doing that in the bustling port town of Hiriyenka is a serious challenge. Liluetta and Yune want to live independently, but between tight budgets and rowdy neighbors, things get complicated fast.

Their search takes a turn when they discover where Kiri has been sleeping this whole time, and it's not exactly what anyone would call stable housing. Suddenly, party finances become everyone's concern.

Just as they begin to sort things out, a dazzling new face arrives on the scene: Peridot, the leader of the elite adventuring party Seabird Tempest and self-proclaimed 'Bearer of the Radiant Sun.' He's theatrical, he's sharp, and he seems very interested in Kiri. But is it all just part of his eccentric act, or is there something more behind the shine?

Volume 3 brings new characters, housing headaches, and the first glimmers of what it really means to call someone a comrade.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kame

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ox

Drzka, Sheldon

Leseproben

Slaves almost always did grunt work, and people who were capable of managing the front desk of an adventurer’s guild generally didn’t end up as slaves. If a slave like that did exist, they’d cost a fortune.

“Master Barque, here’s a word of advice: Try not to tank your reputation by chasing a bargain. After all, this is the very establishment frequented by yours truly—Peridot, Bearer of the Radiant Sun!” With a dramatic huff through his nose, the young man swept his bright green hair back with one hand. His armor was so well buffed, I could use it as a mirror.

“Haven’t seen you in a while,” I muttered. “Done with your mission?”

“But of course.” He smiled. “Quite the satisfying assignment, I must say, and flawlessly executed as always! Care to hear the tale of my latest glory? Of a forbidden love with a mermaid on a hidden island wreathed in coral? Of how I received a blessing of tears and plunged into the shadowy sea to infiltrate a floating gambling den? Of how I smote the wicked threat looming over our fair Hiriyenka from within the very depths of corruption?!”

“Don’t embellish your report. Old Badger told you how to sneak onto a boat, and you did.”

“The people for stirring stories, Barque.” Peridot winked.

I sighed loudly, then pinched the bridge of my nose. Talking to this one gave me a headache, but I couldn’t just brush him off. He was no ordinary man, and that had nothing to do with him acting a fool.

“Come now, Master Barque. Aren’t tales of my heroic deeds free advertising for the guild? You don’t have to worry, for I am a generous man a champion of the people! Ah, yes—I am the Sun of Hiriyenka, the unstoppable lancer astride a dazzling white steed! Before you stands Peridot, Bearer of the Radiant Sun and leader of the highest-ranked party in the guild, Seabird Tempest! Of course I don’t mind if you use my name to promote the Raging Kelpie’s Tail!” Peridot struck a ridiculous pose with his arms crossed in front of his face.

I shook my head. “I’m enablin’ your desperate need for attention.”

Adventurers were an odd bunch, with each one more eccentric than the last. Now and then, one of the truly bizarre ones would manage to climb the ranks. I didn’t know if that was good or bad for the guild, but it definitely meant more headaches for me.

“What about the rest of your party?” I asked.

“Oh, we were together until partway through the return trip,” Peridot said with a wistful shrug. “Two of them ducked into a tavern along the way, and the other one vanished before I noticed. But does that matter? The report’s covered as long as the leader’s here, no?”

“Not if that leader’s .” I sighed for what felt like the twentieth time this morning. So the Seabird Tempest crew hadn’t changed a bit. “Payment’s pendin’ confirmation from the lord. You’re free to go.”

“Such a cold reception. But very well.” Peridot flung his arms wide and gave an exaggerated shrug.

He was an eccentric weirdo, but he looked the part of a beautiful warrior, and those damn poses actually suited him a little. That alone made him more trouble than he was worth.

Maybe Peridot didn’t notice me silently willing him to get out of my sight, or maybe he just didn’t care. Either way, he stayed put despite finishing his business and let his gaze wander over the still-empty guild before he looked at me. For once, he wasn’t trying to show off. He seemed earnest—unpolished, even.

“By the way, will Old Badger be coming by soon?” he asked. “He’s always an early riser. I’d very much like to thank him in person for his guidance with the gambling ship operation.”

***

“As I was saying,” Liluetta said, holding her finger up in the air, “beneath the earth runs something called a , a river of aberrantly concentrated mana. It’s a raging current of magical essence so devastating that a human falling into it would likely never make it out alive. Some even call this torrent of mana the lifeblood of the world itself.”

I listened to her explanation as we walked along the stone-paved street at dusk. She sounded dramatic and used complicated words I never expected to hear during a casual chat about gathering herbs.

“When magical energy overflows from a spirit vein and reaches the surface, it transforms the land. The mana becomes far more concentrated than usual, and the area turns into something extraordinary. Rare plants grow there. Strange creatures settle in. Sometimes the very terrain itself changes. These especially dense spots, where mana seeps out of the ground, are called .”

I frowned a little as I walked beside her. I thought.

“I thought a mana pool was just another name for one of those places. But now I’m not so sure.” Liluetta bit her lip, clearly annoyed with herself. She seemed a little deflated compared to how she’d been this morning, and her steps were slower too.

I couldn’t blame her. It was safe to say that today’s outing had ended in failure.

“Wellll, I also thought it might be a spirit vein,” Yune added.

Yune had her arms crossed as she walked beside us. She was wearing her usual loose-fitting outfit, and her soft brown hair bounced gently with every step. Even though she had a slight furrow between her brows, her gentle air made it hard to take her seriousness too seriously. It made me wonder if she really understood what we were talking about.

Then again, out of the three of us, I was definitely the one who understood the least.

“So you’re saying a mana pool isn’t the same as a spirit vein?” I asked.

“Probably not,” Liluetta replied. “Spirit veins don’t suddenly move or disappear.”

I still didn’t really get the difference between a spirit vein and a spirit hole, but Liluetta seemed to be back to her usual self with the way she answered my question with confidence.

I thought with a wry smile.

Today’s adventure had been...well, kind of a bust. No one got hurt, nothing horrible happened, and we didn’t lose anything important. But we also didn’t find much of anything.

I thought back to how we had started the day. Our plan was simple: Go gather herbs. After what had happened last time with the goblins on Sherzon Mountain, though, we all agreed not to go back there just yet. So we figured, why not use the opportunity to explore somewhere new?

Our destination was one of the mana pools Old Badger had told me about on that rainy day, when he’d shown me that old map. It was still a bit early in the season to expect much, but we wanted to scout ahead and check out the site before it was time to harvest. So we left through the northern gate, followed the town wall for a bit, then veered into the forest along a narrow animal trail none of us had used before.

“I should be able to detect mana with a spell, as long as it’s dense enough.” Liluetta’s words brought me back to our conversation. “That’s how we found the Sherzon pool. The same method should’ve worked this time, but my detection spell didn’t react at all.”

She placed her hand on her cheek and continued mumbling to herself in a stream of hushed words. I hadn’t started reading the magic textbook Sheya had given me yet, so most of what she was saying was beyond me. But I could sort of follow the gist, and it basically came down to this: The area we scouted today just didn’t have any mana-rich spots nearby.

“Maybe it’s a place where the mana only gets dense during certain periods. Like, the land sort of stores it up? Could it be seasonal? We had thought the special herbs grow because there’s lots of mana, but what if that’s wrong? Maybe mana only builds up when those special herbs are ready to bloom. If that’s true, it might even be possible to artificially create mana-rich zones, at least for short periods, but then we’d need a way to grow those herbs ourselves...and I don’t know how.”

She kept muttering as we walked, her questions and ideas straying far from herb gathering into the realm of full-blown magical theory. The intensity on her face was kind of scary. Yune looked a little freaked out too.

Eventually, Liluetta seemed to reach some kind of conclusion. She nodded to herself and declared, “There’s still a lot to consider, but I’ve at least learned one thing today. Mana pools might not show up on detection spells unless it’s the right season to harvest the herbs that grow there.”

In other words, we couldn’t track them down in advance. I thought.

“So today was basically a waste of time, huh,” I said. “Sorry. It was my idea.”

“Nooo, don’t be sorry.” Yune smiled softly. “We made it back safe and sound,...