New quest

I gave a sigh and decided to drop the subject.

"So did you two find a quest that we can do?"

"We found a few quests but all of them are at least F ranked. Even the herb gathering quests are not in safe areas." answered Turek.

"What do you mean that they are not in safe areas. Most of the north side of the city is quite safe as we saw yesterday. There is not a single quest on that side?"

"There are a few but they are quite far and we will need to make camp for at least 1 night to get there. Since we don't have any camping supplies, we didn't think we could do those quests."

"Sigh… so what are the quests that we might be able to do?"

Cleo replied "There are 2 that seemed the safest but still not as safe as yesterday's quests. One is on the west side to hunt a wild boar that keeps attacking people that go out. This one is the closest but the problem is that we might have to search for the boar."

"That's the problem? Isn't the bigger problem hunting a wild boar itself? We don't even have any weapons! I lost the only knife I had bought the day before yesterday."

"Well we should be able to kill it with a stick right? I mean it's just a boar." said Turek and looked at me in puzzlement.

I frowned at him. Kill a wild boar with a stick? What are you saying Turek? I didn't know how to say that without hurting his feelings when Cleo continued.

"Well… it's not going to be that easy but it was the only one I think I should be able to do. I thought I might use a sharp stick to kill it. The other jobs are much more dangerous and most of them are about hunting monsters, not wild animals."

Monsters were something I had only heard about and never seen. Wait wasn't the direwolf that attacked me considered a monster too?

"Ok, what about the second quest that we could do?" I asked Cleo.

"Well the second one is in the southern area. Guild hasn't had any reports of any dangerous monsters recently but it is not unknown for monsters to show up unexpectedly. We have to gather Winterroot herb in the forest and the minimum quantity required is 10 roots."

I started thinking about this and Cleo was right. Both quests are not very safe and it was hard to choose between them. After thinking a bit more I finally said "Let's do the herb gathering quest in that case. While its in a risky area, the quest doesn't require us to actively kill a crazed animal. We can go cautiously and run away if there is a dangerous monster there."

Cleo shrugged and said, "I think we will be fine in both quests. We can do the herb quest if that's what you guys want."

Turek thought and said "Ok, let's do the herb gathering quest."