But since Eruya took all of ‘Tenmu’s payment for himself, he could make up for the losses quickly if the quests went well. Thus, he didn’t care if one of them died after he got tired of them.
Next time, I should get one with larger breasts.
Eruya thought that while looking at the back of the elf who slowly walked forward.
I like how they scream when I squeeze their breasts hard.
Because this quest was a joint operation between multiple teams, he couldn’t bed the elves for a few days. No one would have grounds to complain if he did, but jealousy could trigger all sorts of unpleasant events. Eruya had enough common sense as a worker to realize what kind of loss in profit the problems might lead to.
Eruya’s pent up lust made him harbour alternative thoughts.
No, maybe I should get someone like that woman.
The one who came into Eruya’s mind was a member of “Foresight”. The half-elf who had looked at Eruya with hate-filled eyes.
She was truly an annoying woman.
There was a small girl beside her in that party, but Eruya could understand that the small child couldn’t help but look at him with open hostility. It was common for women not to understand men’s desires, and especially for someone of her age, it would be understandable for her to have a certain disdain for sexual acts. But it was not acceptable for lower life forms to look at humans with such eyes.
Just the thought brought out the anger in Eruya’s face.
I want to beat that annoying face until it can’t resist anymore…
For elven slaves, they were broken with all kinds of methods before being delivered to the customer. There was no way elf slaves would show much resistance.
On the other hand, if he targeted that half-elf, she would resist like a mad beast. For Eruya, it won’t be hard to break and conquer the beast, but he wouldn’t be unscathed and he didn’t have much confidence in his ability to subdue his prey alive. While he was imagining slapping Imiya around in his head, he didn’t notice that the elf who was leading the way had stopped.
“Who told you to stop? Keep walking.”
“Sob…! I h-heard a noise from there.”
“A noise?”
Eruya concentrated on hearing while frowning at the elf. The silence was almost deafening.
“…I don’t hear anything.”
Normally he would have beaten her, but elves had superior hearing than humans. Even if Eruya couldn’t hear anything, there was a good chance elves could hear something. To confirm, he asked the two beside him.
“What about you? Do you hear it?”
“Y-yes. I can hear it.”
“It-it’s like the sound of metal clanging against metal.”
“…Is that so.”
There was no way a metallic clanging sound occurred naturally. There must be someone making that noise. In other words, his first chance for battle since entering the tomb. He became excited at the thought.
“Let’s go towards the place where the sound’s coming from.”
“Y-yes.”
With the elf slave leading the way, he headed towards the place the sound was coming from. Soon, Eruya could hear the metallic sounds as well. It was accompanied by the sound of something hard striking some other hard material and the shouts of battle.
“Well, I guess it’s just the other workers. The tunnel didn’t seem to bend at any point, but I guess we’re going to run into another team.”
It was as if someone poured a bucket of cold water on his excitement. He sighed as if he had lost all motivation.
“Well, I guess it doesn’t matter. I can fight as their reinforcement.”
When Eruya reached where the sound was coming from, he had a strange feeling. It was abnormal for a battle. It was like—
His curiosity was answered when he turned the corner.
It was a fairly large room, big enough to have tens of people run around freely. Inside were ten lizardmen wearing magnificent armour. They all wore collars around the neck, each with a broken chain hanging off it.
They were swinging swords at each other. They struck with screeching shouts and exchanged blows filled with resolve. It was occurring everywhere in the room. Despite having an appearance of a fierce battle, Eruya could tell this was just practice.
He confirmed it since they stopped swinging their swords when Eruya’s party entered the room.
One of the others in the room was a hulking figure with a gigantic tower shield, wearing black full plate armour with decorations that looked as if it were covered in blood vessels. And the last person was— no, the last thing would be more accurate.
It was a gigantic beast covered in silver fur, with wisdom gleaming out of its eyes.
“You have finally arrived, intruder-dono.”
There were a lot of annoying monsters amongst the ones that could speak. Magical beasts tended to attack using physical strength, but the intelligent ones often used magic.
Eruya knew he was a genius swordsman, but he wasn’t so confident in magic. He strengthened his core and resolved his heart to counter magic.
“And you are?”
There was no need to ask. If it was waiting here, then it was something that would be defending the tomb. The only question was how strong it was.
From the appearance, it could be the tomb’s master. If he took down this beast, his would be the top contribution. It would mean his team would be the best out of all the worker teams. Since ‘Tenmu’ was pretty much Eruya by himself, it would mean that he was the best worker. Even luck was an important quality for a worker.
“This king was ordered to face you here. I was suppose to test out this and that… but you don’t seem to be much of an opponent.”
He felt disappointed and annoyed at the same time.
Disappointment at the fact that the beast was nothing but a watchdog and annoyance from the fact it was underestimating him.
“To think it would be like this even before we exchange blows… You.”
“Y-yes.”
The elf trembled when he called her with a low voice. Eruya felt satisfaction at the sight. That was the kind of attitude something should show towards him. Even though it had only been a few days, after spending some time with Momon, whom everyone looked up to, he had become more generous.