Northerory, Winter City.

  A fifteen-year-old blonde girl walked into the adventurers' guild and headed straight for the reception desk in the hall.

  As the loud chatter of adventurers filled the air, the girl felt her nerves building up, and she gripped her staff a little tighter.

  She wasn't from a wealthy family but was merely an orphan raised by the churbsp;

  Like other orphans, she was set to leave the church at the age of fifteen to choose her own path in life.

  Uhe other children, this girl had received the blessing of the Holy Light from a young age, grantihe ability to cast holy spells by devoutly praying to the God of Light.

  Naturally, wheurned fifteen, she received an invitation from the church, askio bee a nun.

  However, the girl deed the invitation to bee a nun and stay in the churbsp;

  Instead, she chose to leave on her own and came to this world's adventurers' guild because she had a secret wish since childhood—to bee an adventurer.

  Approag the reception desk, the girl in her priestess robes hesitantly said to the receptionist, who had a gentle expression, "Um, I want to bee... an adventurer."

  The receptionist early helped the young priestess plete the registration process to bee an adventurer, finally handing her a por adventurer's tag.

  She smiled and said, "All set. I wish you great success in your future endeavors."

  Just as the receptionist finished speaking, the young priestess, who was about to check out the avaible quests, was suddenly called out to.

  She turned around and saw three young people—one boy and two girls—all wearing white por tags.

  The boy leading the group spoke first, "Hey, you're a priestess, right? My party needs someoh healing skills. Could you join us for an adventure? Sorry to ask so suddenly, but we've just taken on an urgent quest, so the more people, the better."

  "An urgent quest?"

  "Yes, it's to exterminate goblins."

  As the boy finished speaking, the receptionist showed a hesitant expression, but the boy tinued, "Those damn goblins have been attag vilges, stealing food and livestock, and even kidnapping girls. We have to save them quickly!"

  "Excuse me... you’re all white por-ranked adventurers, right? Are you pnning to go with just four people?"

  Hearing the receptionist’s sudden interje, the boy swordsman replied indignantly, "It's just goblins. Four people should be enough, right?"

  "But, if you wait a bit, other adventurers might e. It’s safer to have an experienced member for such a mission..."

  The boy swordsman, losing patience, finally snapped, "What are you talking about? The kidnapped girls are waiting for us to rescue them! We 't waste any more time!"

  Seeing the boy’s determination, the receptionist could no lue and watched as they left.

  Meanwhile, the young priestess, who had been somewhat fused about joining this party, felt a growing sense of unease.

  It was as if a dark shadow loomed over these novice adventurers, refusing to dissipate and only growing darker.

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  "Cut! That’s the end of the first se! Great job, everyone."

  Because the first se took ptirely in the adventurers' guild, filming it was quite simple.

  But the part wouldn’t be so easy.

  Soon, the crew arrived at a location in the Dark Night Forest that had been scouted previously.

  Although only those with roles were called to the shoot, many other adventurers, who were bored and curious about the filming process, also decided to e along.

  At the cave entrance, Belldia and Wiz, whom they hadn't seen in a few days, waved from a distanbsp;

  The pce had ged drastically sihey’d st seen it because Belldia and Wiz had been busy setting up the se and preparing props as requested by Edward.

  Even if they were zy, the area had been transformed signifitly.

  Due to the needs of the shoot, the area was also filled with several crew members provided by Guild Master Eliza, including the props team, lighting crew, a decorators...

  When some of the Northern adventurers, who were unaware of the situation, saw a certain Headless Horseman—who seemed to radiate fear—they became quite wary.

  Unlike in the South, Northern adventurers were alrepared for enters with high-level undead or monsters.

  While Southern adventurers might flee at the sight of a Headless Horseman, Northern adventurers would probably attack such a powerful undead immediately.

  Finally, after Edward expihe situation, filming resumed.

  The first se to shoot was about the rookie adventurers ign warnings and going to a goblin cave to exterminate goblins.

  Due to their ck of experiehey were all wiped out, except for the young priestess, who was saved by the Goblin Syer.

  She then joihe Goblio elimihe remaining goblins.

  While it sounds simple, filming this se was quite challenging.

  Many of the gruesome shots o be cleverly edited to avoid being too graphibsp;

  Fortunately, the inal story excelled in this aspect, with almost no direct depis of violence, so Edward only had to recreate the ses from the "Goblihat he remembered.

  The real difficulty y in coordinating the extras pying the goblins.

  While direg humans is feasible, getting moo follow instrus is as difficult as making your cat do twenty backflips.

  If it weren’t for Wiz telling Edward that a lich could use a spell called puppet magic to trol creatures with weak wills—and that she could learn it with some time—Edward would have had to resort to dressing people up in goblin es.

  Thankfully, Wiz's efforts over the past few days had paid off.

  Seeing the goblins lined up ly at the cave entrance, awaiting instrus, Edward felt that this lich could probably open a monster circus with Lawrence if she wao.

  With the goblin problem resolved, the final task for this shoot was...

  "I'm ready, Director."

  Saeki’s voice came out slowly from under his helmet.

  It seemed that being in such a rge group, bined with his worry about revealing his undead identity, made him appear nervous and stiff.

  However, Edward didn’t see this as a problem; in fact, the real Goblin Syer was a loner, so Saeki’s awkwardness erfectly fitting.

  Seeing this fully armored figure emerge from the side, the adventurers who had e along ahe script almost thought the real Goblin Syer had appeared before them.

  In any case, after making sure the new adventurers and Daphne were ready, Edward g the cave that had bee up to his specifications and announced, "Alright, everyoo your positions. 'Goblin Syer,' Se Two, get ready to shoot!"

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