Mapping: The Trash-Tier Skill That Got Me Into a Top-Tier Party: Volume 5 E-Book

Udon Kamono

• Herausgeber: J-Novel Club
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Serie: Mapping: The Trash-Tier Skill That Got Me Into a Top-Tier Party
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

Mapping: The Trash-Tier Skill That Got Me Into a Top-Tier Party: Volume 5

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The Journey From Here

Fame, fortune, magic, wisdom... Endless treasure and bounty lay within the otherworldly depths of the land—depths yet to be conquered that beckon people with the intangible power of curiosity. Be it in the name of hopes and dreams or greed and self-interest, adventurers from all walks of life risked everything to challenge the dungeons.

One of many daring groups was the Arrivers, my former party who once held the remarkable claim of being the closest to actually clearing a dungeon. With five top-tier adventurers in their respective fields and me, our navigator with Mapping, we conquered one impenetrable floor after another. We soon broke the record for furthest floor reached in the Dungeon of Puriff... yet our smooth sailing was doomed to come to an abrupt end.

Jin, the backbone of the party, lost his life in a tragic turn of events on floor 21. Our party leader and our team mage left town afterward, halving our numbers. The Arrivers thus promptly fell apart. Even I gave up on my dream of vanquishing the dungeon. I decided to abandon adventuring altogether and left town with Roslia, our paladin, to set out for a peaceful, ordinary life in the capital.

But as the weeks passed, I found myself feeling restless. I slowly came to realize that I wanted it all back. I wanted a second chance at my glory days with the Arrivers. As it turns out, there are just some fires you can’t extinguish, no matter how hard you try to put them out.

So, it had now been over half a year since the Arrivers disbanded, and I’d finally resolved to get our former party back together again. With that goal in mind, I’d boarded a horse drawn carriage to go find everyone, but...

At present, the carriage ride was something of a precarious situation.

“Look! There’s a flock of swans over that lake!” Roslia exclaimed, pressing up against me as she eagerly pointed out the window.

Roslia was the angel who’d stuck by my side when I was in the throes of grief after Jin’s death. She’d been with me in the capital all this time, and she’d even agreed to play along with my selfish whims and get back into adventuring with me. And while her excessive physicality wasn’t anything new, she was pushing the limits even further than usual today.

“Do you think those two are a couple?” someone whispered. “They look awfully close, don’t they?”

Roslia clung to my arm, sliding from her seat over into mine. She was so close that her breath tickled my ear. I normally would’ve been flustered by her suggestive sighs and the soft sensation against my arm, but right now my heart was racing for a different reason.

“Ugh, gross. I can’t believe I have to stare at your stupid-looking faces the whole ride,” groaned the girl sitting directly across from us in abject disgust.

Her half-elven ears poked out from her silky, golden hair. This was Miya Line, my childhood friend who I’d grown up with in the small village of Changs. We’d both left town at fifteen to become adventurers together, but shortly parted ways after a fight and only recently reunited.

We’d happened to cross paths by chance at the adventurers guild in the capital. One thing led to another, and we ended up working together for a time. That dredged up the bad blood between us but, through a long series of events, allowed us to finally settle our differences.