Chapter 146 – An Unbelievable Haul
The heavy thud of boots echoed down the staircase as the guild manager came storming down, his face red with fury.
"You're telling me," he barked at the nervous clerk trailing behind him, "that one single party wiped out an entire orc village? Do you take me for a fool?!"
The clerk paled, wringing his hands.
"S-Sir, I wouldn't dare lie! Even I thought it impossible, but… b-but that man, he—he dragged back every single corpse. Nearly a hundred of them!"
The manager stopped in his tracks, veins throbbing at his temple.
"One hundred?! Do you think saying an even more absurd number will make me believe you? Idiot!"
But the stench hit him before he reached the backroom—the acrid, metallic tang of blood, so strong it curled at the back of the throat. By the time he pushed the door open, his anger had withered into stunned silence.
