I, a mercenary, became a beautiful silver-haired boy

Three days later, Elena did not return home as he did before after coming out of the blacksmith shop.

Today, someone from the Adventurer's Guild contacted him and said that he had finally obtained the bronze medal adventurer status.

The fight bear's subjugation proved that the investigation of the forest anomaly was successful, and most importantly, the large number of commissions Elena completed, all of which became his achievements in being promoted to bronze medal adventurer.

From this moment on, Elena has become a backbone of the Adventurer's Guild and has completely entered the world of adventurers.

Unlike when he first entered Shipai, Elena now has the confidence to call himself an adventurer outside, and others will recognize his identity as an adventurer, instead of being rejected like a newcomer.

Although Elena has no sense of reality, he seems to have become the chief adventurer of the backward South City District.

It's not that the South City District is so destitute that even bronze medal adventurers are quite rare, but there are very few adventurers like Elena who are still young, active and have a bright future.

This time, the guild came to him, in addition to telling him about Elana's promotion, the most important thing was that he had a task to perform.

This task was not the first time Elana had come into contact with it. In fact, he had seen this commission on the day he met the White Dragon Queen, and Elana also wanted to deal with it at that time.

A small village outside the city of Brooks was attacked by monsters. There were strange noises at night, and villagers disappeared when they woke up.

The priority of this commission was not very high, because everyone had always believed that after the change in the forest was over, the monsters that invaded the village should return to the forest.

But the fact is that the change in the forest has ended, and most of the monsters have returned to the forest, but people in the village are still disappearing.

There were even rumors that a monster's nest was seen outside the village. The monster that invaded the village seemed to have built a nest and lived there, completely treating the people in the village as delicious lambs.

The information was quite scarce. Except for the villagers who heard the sound of heavy objects being dragged late at night, no one could tell the characteristics of the monster.

The only clue was that there was some strange mucus occasionally near the village, which seemed to be the secretion of monsters.

But no one was willing to collect the secretion and bring it back for analysis, so it was not clear what monster was attacking the village.

It was difficult to determine the degree of danger of such a commission. To be on the safe side, the guild could only ask Elena to take action. After all, compared with those newcomers, he was much more reliable.

As for those real masters, they were unwilling to go out before confirming that the commission required high-level adventurers like them to take action.

At first, Elena did not want to accept this commission. After all, he was very worried about the situation in the orphanage. During the days when Stanford left, he was alert to the other party's arrival every day.

But it has been almost half a month, and there has been no movement from Stanford. Elena can't stay in the orphanage waiting for him all his life.

Sitting back and eating up all the money is the stupidest choice. Elena had to consider returning to the life of an adventurer.

It is impossible that Stanford will take action as soon as he leaves the house, right?

Elena didn't dare to think too much, fearing that he was raising some strange flag.

In short, he had already accepted the commission to investigate the monster behind the village. He didn't have to fight against the other party. If he confirmed that it was a monster that he couldn't handle, Elena could go back to the guild for help.

Of course, if he had the ability to solve it directly, Elena would just kill it directly, and he would get more rewards in the end.

Soon Elena came to the village mentioned in the commission, which was almost close to the wall of Brooks City. The distance between the two was probably only two or three kilometers.

Hearing that there were finally adventurers coming to investigate, the gray-haired village chief greeted them excitedly, and he was very excited with a group of young and strong villagers.

But when they saw Elena's young face, their expressions stiffened instantly, and the so-called enthusiasm was extinguished at once.

Although he was still saying all kinds of polite words, Elena knew that these villagers didn't trust him.

This made him helpless. He couldn't teach these villagers what it meant to be a person's appearance, right? Judging people by appearance is a phenomenon that exists everywhere, and even he sometimes judges people by appearance.

He doesn't care about these villagers who are hot and cold. All he needs to care about is how to investigate the unknown monster.

Fortunately, although the villagers think that Elana is unreliable, they still try their best to tell him what they know.told Elaina.

Although there were a lot of junk messages, a large paragraph of them was full of meaningless nonsense, such as his farmland was destroyed, and the dog in front of his house huddled up and dared not roar.

Only the information that the secretion of the monster was found in the west was useful.

Hearing this, Elaina came to the west of the village, and indeed saw some traces of dragging on the ground, as well as some inconspicuous transparent liquid.

The young men in the village who said they wanted to help were standing far behind Elaina at this moment, holding shovels and sickles in their hands and observing the surroundings nervously.

Not wanting to care about these villagers who didn't help, Elaina squatted down and touched the transparent liquid on the ground with his hand.

It was quite sticky and felt very disgusting to the touch, and it kept emitting an unpleasant fishy smell, like some kind of plant fluid that could repel mosquitoes.

The body did not react. These liquids were at least non-toxic. However, if the density was too high, these viscous liquids might restrict people's movements. It was not impossible to wrap weak people and completely trap them.

Looking for other traces nearby, I don't know whether the monster deliberately concealed it or because it rained outside the city recently. There were not many traces left. The traces of dragging could only be seen from a distance.

This was not good news. First of all, it would be more difficult to find the location of the monster. Secondly, this proved that the target monster might have a certain degree of intelligence.

If it was the latter, then this monster would definitely be quite difficult to deal with. A monster that knew how to avoid human tracking was not a weak person no matter how you thought about it.

The traces of dragging were very shallow and long, and there was no fresh one at all. It seemed that the monster had not continued to attack the villagers recently.

After asking the men who followed far behind, he also got the information that no one had disappeared recently.

Hearing this, Elena frowned even deeper. He didn't think that the monster wanted to "raise pigs" or was tired of eating.

The two most likely reasons that could cause such a greedy monster to stop hunting, besides hibernation in certain seasons, are reproduction or evolution.