The Usurper Appears in the Dead of Night – Part 08

When Lavia arrived at the Adventurers Guild in Ville Zentra, it was as quiet as ever. Like the guilds in other cities, the building was sturdy stone, but this one reflected its port-town character by having an enormous fish skeleton decorating the wall. It stretched nearly from one end to the other. Apparently, a group of guild adventurers had teamed up to bring the creature down, and afterward they all ate it together, which felt very much like something adventurers would do.

Behind the guild was a butchering area. It was equipped to handle forest animals as well, but its primary function was processing sea monsters.

Scales nearly a centimeter thick and skin covered in magical energy could not be cut without special tools, and some monsters even had venom sacs that were harmful to humans, so butchering them required special skill. Lavia had seen the process the last time she