It had been two weeks since he registered as an adventurer.

　Every day, Harto and his friends have been coming to the Adventurer's Guild in Glendale's royal capital to receive requests.

　Today, Hurt and his friends will take the test for promotion to E rank.

　The lowest rank, F, is the grade that checks whether or not you can make it as an adventurer, so the guild points required to move up to E are low, and it's relatively easy to take the promotion exam.

　If they received the right requests and accumulated guild points smoothly, they could take the promotion exam in about a month or so.

　Thinking about it, Hurt and the others were a bit early.

　It was because they had received many requests that gave them more guild points in exchange for less monetary rewards - mainly requests that were avoided by other adventurers.

'Finally, we're graduating from being the lowest-ranked adventurer!
It's not easy being an adventurer, is it?
Yeah, I didn't expect it to be this hard either.

　Meldy, Luke and Ryushin were reflecting on the last two weeks.

　The reason they thought adventurers were so hard was not because they had to fight strong demons. Rather, if they only had to fight demons, all of them here would be good enough for an A-rank.

''Cleaning up the underground canals of the royal capital..........That thing, I definitely don't want to do it anymore.

　Rifa shuddered as she remembered.

　'The day before yesterday, Hurt's order to clean the underground water system was quite traumatic for the whole family.

'I violently agree with you,'
The smell was particularly disgusting.
Mm, I thought I was going to die.

　Yoko and Shiro, who have an excellent sense of smell, seemed to have a particularly hard time with it.

'But I feel like I've got the underbelly!
That's right. I'm walking down the street and I can tell instantly if a flower in bloom is selling or not.

　It was Sylph who responded to Luna's words.

'I found this on my way here today.
Oh, Luna. That's hazy grass!　You can buy me out for 300 spinars.

　Sylph, the Wind Spirit King, remembered the purchase price of the weed, which was less than the cost of one meal.

　He was able to judge whether it was a weed or a medicinal herb that could be bought back.


''Even Silf-sama has become familiar with medicinal herbs. Was this what Master Hurt wanted?''

'Hmmm, I didn't mean to go that far but I guess I'm glad you guys are getting to know so many things.

　The Elnor family had many royalty and special races, and because of this, most of the members were unaware of the common sense of the human race.

　If it was Halt's companions, they would have been able to take the promotion test even faster if they had defeated the demons, since F-ranked demons and the like were equivalent to dust to them.

　But I figured that wouldn't make any sense.

　Common sense for citizens and low-level adventurers that wasn't found in the Magic Academy's textbooks or grimoires.

　Hurt wanted everyone in his family to remember that kind of knowledge, too.

　That's why he had completed the various requests that were posted to the guild without fail.

　Hurt was satisfied with the results.



''Mr. Hurt. Finally, today is your promotion exam!

　The receptionist of the adventurers' guild approached Hurt.

　She and the rest of the guild's staff all had a good feeling about Hurt and the others because she was able to digest more and more requests that the other adventurers didn't like and wouldn't accept.

''Yes. I look forward to working with you.''

I will escort you to the testing area. Everyone follow me.

　The entire Elnor family followed behind the receptionist, followed by the entire Elnor family.

　This scene, too, was accepted by the adventurers as commonplace in the adventurers' guild in the royal capital.

　It was because Kikyou brainwashed the adventurers and guild staff a little more every day.

　Thanks to that, the three men, Harto, Luke and Ryushin, did not get into any major trouble even when they were walking around the guild and the vicinity with Tina and the other sixteen beautiful girls and girls.


　─ ─ ──***──.

　We got to the testing area.

　It was a circular, reasonably large arena.
　In the center of it stood a burly, skinheaded man.

"You must be Hurt and his friends. I'm Johan, a Class B adventurer. I'm going to be in charge of overseeing your examinations for advancement as a senior adventurer. A pleasure to work with you.

Nice to meet you.

　Johan held out his hand and Hurt shook it with him.

You just became an adventurer, but you're very polite, and I hear you'll take the initiative to do requests that other newbies don't like. You guys have a great reputation.

Thank you.

'And I've already received reports of multiple goblins killed in the defeat of demons. As far as I can tell, you guys have that much power... so there.

　Johan threw the scroll in his hand on the floor of the arena...


　Five slimes appeared.

　Johan used the 'Scroll of the Sealed Demon', which can seal up previously captured demons.

This is a special service. If you defeat these slimes, you will be granted a promotion to rank E.''

Are you going to take down the slime?
It's so lame!
A more powerful demon could do just fine.
It's too easy to be a slime.

　Meldi, Hakua, Yoko and Ryushin were licking the slime that was pulling in front of them.

　It's quite natural for them, who can even defeat a demon, to look down on the slime (the weakest demon).


'Well, well, well. It's a good thing Johan-san said all you have to do is defeat this. Let's give it our all.

　Then there was a man who grinned at him.

　The only person who noticed the smile was the one maid who was always concerned about him.

　The maid was curious about the man's smile and somehow probed into the slime's magic.

　Then she noticed.

　The slime has been strengthened by the man's magical power.


　In fact, these slimes had been tamed by the world's most powerful sage and strengthened to an unbelievable degree.

　A man (a wise man) who had obtained information that Johan would be coming to capture the slime for his promotion exam, ordered the slime to be captured by Johan.

　The man's magical power was cleverly hidden in the slime's magic.

　Only this maid, who had been exposed to the man's magical power since his childhood, would probably be able to notice it.
　
　The maid decided not to attack this slime.

　If she didn't defeat it, she wouldn't be able to pass the promotion test, but if it was strengthened by the man's magical power, it couldn't be an ordinary slime.

　I decided that I should take a look at it.

(What on earth is Halt-sama thinking about?　You say you want to get to S rank quickly, but you're raising the difficulty of the promotion exam by yourself...)

　Despite the maids' doubts, Johan signals the start of the test.

I'm going to see how you work as a party, so let's see how you do. If you can, all of you should participate in the attack. Then....let's begin!

　The battle against the strongest (weakest) slime has begun.