I’m a Rookie, but I’m an Experienced Professional - Chapter 89

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Chapter 89

“You’re just getting back now?”

When I returned to the office, an unexpected person was waiting for me.

Sturdy arms and legs, dark brown skin, and that distinctive beard.

“Sola”

It was Sola, the dwarf.

“What brings you here?”

“What brings me here? I came to see you.”

As I exchanged friendly greetings with the dwarf, the City Planning Department employees looked back and forth between Sola and me with curiosity.

“Eileen, you seem to be on good terms with this dwarf.”

Anton Brown asked while gauging Sola’s reaction.

“I had some business to help him with during my last business trip. We became friends then.”

“Getting close with not just elves but dwarves too. That’s impressive.”

Is this really that impressive?

“Eileen, I brought what I promised last time.”

What Sola pulled out of his bag was the plane I had asked him to make similar to mine.

On the surface, it looked almost identical to the plane I had given him.

“Can I try using it?”

“Of course! Go ahead and try it!”

I brought over a wooden board that was lying nearby. Then I placed the plane against it and pushed with force.

Swoosh—

With a smooth sound, the wood surface was shaved thin. Even without applying much force, it moved smoothly with consistent thickness.

“What is that? How fascinating.”

“Right. I’ve never seen anything shave so smoothly before?”

The employees who were seeing a plane for the first time were all equally amazed.

“You really made this well.”

I felt the same way. This was even better than the plane I had given him.

“Selecting the materials was a bit tricky, but the shape itself was simple, so it was nothing for me.”

Sola rubbed his mustache smugly.

“But did Sola come all the way here personally to deliver this? You could have sent an errand boy.”

While not as much as elves, dwarves were also a race that didn’t particularly like humans. Naturally, they rarely came down to human villages.

“I don’t like having something I made delivered by someone else’s hands.”

Sola spoke firmly and glanced around, then added in a voice small enough for me to hear.

“And I also have something to ask of you.”

“Of me?”

“Yeah. A troublesome problem came up and I want to discuss it with you urgently.”

I’ve seen this pattern many times before.

[Chapter 4. Main Quest Open.]

[4-1. Please solve the dwarf Sola’s consultation problem.

[Reward: 200,000p.]

Sure enough, a new Main Quest opened.

‘Solving Sola’s problem right from the start.’

There’s no way Chapter 4’s Quest would only have this one.

I was already worried about how difficult the next Quest would be.

‘But I have to do it.’

If I don’t clear the Main Quest, I’ll receive a penalty. And seeing that Sola came all the way here, it meant he desperately needed my help, so I couldn’t ignore it.

“Let’s go to the meeting room over there and talk.”

I took Sola into the inner meeting room.

“What would you like to drink? We have chamomile, Earl Grey, Darjeeling, peppermint… and fruit juice too.”

“Don’t you have beer?”

Ah, come to think of it, dwarves are said to like beer.

“Unfortunately, this is an office so we don’t have alcohol. I heard there’s a delicious beer house in Belheim, so let’s go together later.”

“Good. Let’s go right this evening.”

I didn’t mean to go today…

Sola said anything was fine if there was no beer, and I placed a teacup filled with warm Earl Grey in front of him.

“So what did you want to ask of me?”

Sola took a sip of the Earl Grey tea, then grimaced and pushed the teacup away.

“A commission came in from the Temple.”

Temple. The moment I heard that word, my brow furrowed involuntarily.

It was because I recalled what the priest named Silas had done at the outskirts inn a few days ago and the stories Anabella had told me.

“Why do you look like that? Do you have bad feelings toward the Temple?”

“No, it’s nothing.”

I took a deep breath and smoothed my furrowed brow.

“So what kind of commission came from the Temple? Actually, before that, do you take commissions from humans too?”

“I don’t take personal commissions, but I do accept commissions from the Temple or the Royal Court.”

Sola made a circle by touching his thumb and index finger together.

“Those places pay a lot of money.”

Money is the best regardless of race.

“Besides, we often get injured while working, right? At times like that, nothing is as reliable as the Temple’s healing arts, so as long as they don’t make unreasonable demands, we generally cooperate.”

“I see.”

“But this commission that came in is quite tricky and complex.”

Sola continued while frowning.

“They asked us to create a sacred space with an altar where they can worship the gods.”

“A sacred space? Do you mean a temple?”

“Not that, they said about the size of a reception room in a nobleman’s estate would be fine.”

If it’s that size, it doesn’t seem too difficult?

“The problem is they want something special, completely different from existing styles.”

“Something special?”

“Yeah. They said they’d like it to clearly express the devout heart of worshipping gods and the sanctity of the temple.”

It was such an abstract request that just hearing it made my head throb.

“So did you agree to do it?”

“At first I was going to refuse. But then they said if we accepted this commission, they’d give us priority access to monster bones and hides from monster extermination. So I had no choice but to accept.”

Sola let out a deep sigh, saying he shouldn’t have done that.

“No matter how much I think about it, I can’t figure out how to make it. That’s why I came to ask for your help. Since you came up with such a brilliant idea like the lattice bridge, I thought you might be able to find a solution this time too.”

Sola looked at me with expectant eyes.

‘Ugh, this is burdensome.’

Moreover, this commission was closer to interior design than architecture, and I was completely hopeless at that sort of thing.

‘Though it’s not like I have no ideas at all.’

The brilliant temples of ancient Greece. Marble columns extending sleekly without excess, the perfect stability created by golden ratios and the reverence provided by open spaces.

Since temples of this era were generally closed-off yet ornate, designing in the Greek style would probably meet the Temple’s requirements to some degree.

“From your expression, it looks like something already came to mind?”

Was my expression that obvious? I rubbed my dry cheek.

“I do have something in mind, but…”

“Really? I knew it was right to come to you!”

As the excited Sola jumped up, I quickly waved my hands.

“You should listen to people until the end. I do have something in mind, but it’s not certain, so it’s awkward to tell you right now.”

“Just tell me anyway. No wait, would you like to speak directly to the client?”

“Me?”

“Yeah. Rather than me listening and then explaining it, it would be more reliable if you explained it directly.”

“That may be true, but… don’t we have to go all the way to the Temple to meet the client?”

Not only did I not have time for that, but there was no way Callix Crowbell would allow it.

“No. The client came along too.”

“What? A Temple person entered Belheim? Did they get permission from the Lord?”

“Huh? Was that something they needed special permission for?”

At my question, Sola tilted his head with a puzzled expression and asked me back instead.

“As far as I know, clerics of intermediate rank and above have passage rights that allow them to freely enter and exit territories.”

So there was such a law. I was learning this for the first time.

“Other places might be like that, but not Belheim. The Lord gets furious at the mere mention of the Temple.”

“Really? Humans generally like the Temple, so he’s quite an unusual human.”

Sola shrugged his shoulders.

“We have to meet that human anyway, so we might as well get permission while we’re at it.”

Would that man really give permission? I was more worried that even Sola might get kicked out.

“Still, just in case, would you like to meet the client first before getting permission?”

Perhaps Sola was also anxious deep down, as he casually suggested this.

“Well…”

Since I had no good memories of meeting Temple people, I wasn’t particularly eager.

“It’ll just take a moment. And the client said they were close to you, so you’ll probably be happy to see them, right?”

“What? They’re close to me?”

There’s no one I’m close to among Temple people… Oh, could it be?

“By any chance, is the client’s name Anabella Rizeren?”

“Oh, you know right away. So you two really are close?”

I had hoped I was wrong, but the original female protagonist really was the client.

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