prologue
・Layla
Age: 16? (self-proclaimed)
Race: Half-human, half-halfling?
Occupation: Priestess
Skills: Holy magic
Once a saint who offered daily prayers in the Kingdom of Kiara, she was ordered to leave the country by the crown prince and went into exile.
She has fluffy chestnut-colored hair usually braided into two plaits, and green eyes.
Despite her claimed age, she looks around twelve years old.
・Raiga
Age: About 19
Race: Werewolf (Wolf-possessed)
Occupation: Martial artist
Rank: B-class adventurer.
In human form, he ties his somewhat long silver hair back and has green eyes.
When transformed into a wolf, his physique becomes noticeably larger.
・Stefan
Age: 22
Race: Human
Occupation: Swordsman
Skills: Enhancement magic (physical strengthening + minor healing)
A B-class adventurer with short blond hair and blue eyes.
【Kingdom of Kiara】
・Aidan
Crown prince.
At Archbishop Mikhail’s suggestion, Layla was made his fiancée, but since he wished to marry Hanna, he exiled Layla from the kingdom.
・Hanna
Daughter of a duke.
Blond hair, blue eyes. Aidan’s lover.
・Archbishop Mikhail
The head of the Grand Temple of the Church of the Light God.
・Jacob
A priest serving in a church located in a southern village of Kiara.
Even after other priests were summoned to the capital, he remained behind to continue praying.
He secretly harbors doubts about how the Grand Temple operates.
・Greg
Aidan’s escorting soldier.
After transporting Layla out of the country, he was assaulted by his fellow soldiers for it.
Nevertheless, he still seems to respect Aidan.
【Kingdom of Markov】
(Adventurers’ Guild)
・Natasha
Head of the Adventurers’ Guild in a western border town.
A female beastkin of the feline race, with leopard-like ears atop her head.
She has a human husband (Theodore) and one son (Noah).
Formerly a B-class adventurer.
・Sam
A member of the guild belonging to the smallfolk race.
Though he looks like a human child, he’s actually a middle-aged man.
・Theodore
A priest of the Church of All Gods located in the western border town.
His duties include healing injured adventurers and granting blessings before their departures.
Natasha’s husband.
At the church, he cares for several orphaned beastkin children.
He was once an adventuring companion of Natasha’s.
・Jean
A young swordsman who forms a party with Sonya.
A newly arrived D-class adventurer from the countryside.
(Mages’ Guild)
・Samuel
A mage affiliated with the Mages’ Guild in the royal capital of the Markov Kingdom.
・Lille
A mage from the Mages’ Guild dispatched to the western border town’s Adventurers’ Guild.
A close friend of Natasha’s, she also helps with the guild’s reception and clerical work.
A woman in her mid-twenties with long, beautiful black hair.
・Sonya
A mage of the Mages’ Guild who is currently working as an adventurer for training.
She has red hair.
Her grandfather is a renowned magic researcher from the City of Magic, and her family is quite wealthy.
(Others)
・Thames
A traveling cloth merchant who tried to illegally sell a fire dragon’s egg, but was caught by Stefan and the others.
Now works as a helper at the Adventurers’ Guild.
・Noah
Natasha and Theodore’s 12-year-old son.
Currently apprenticed to a master carpenter.
Possibly because he is half-human and half-beastkin, his ears grow at the same position as human ears rather than atop his head.
・Marquis Hobbs
The noble lord governing the western territories of the Markov Kingdom, including the western border town.
Maintains relatively good relations with the Adventurers’ Guild.