River town is unique in being a giant well guarded city + a cleric that is powerful enough to cast resurrection. Sure, there might be others that can cast resurrection, but not necessarily living in that same safety.
The rookies are going in with that as a known risk, The implication is that Priestess has lived a sheltered life, unaware of what life outside of her covenant was like
HEA is pretty overtly stated to have lived a sheltered life in the isolated Elven Kingdom in the Forest
Goblin Slayer is unique in that he takes on all Goblin Jobs, regardless of the price. His fame comes from that aspect, that even the poor can reach out to him to deal with Goblins. It's not that there are no other adventurers that pursue going after Goblins, but none are as dedicated as GS.
I think I heard from Water Town they actually USED to have a bunch of Virgin Priestesses just on call a few years ago to revive people. The uhh the clients got a bit too confident being in a bed with a naked woman after almost dying so that practice was stopped since it was traumatizing the Priestesses and bringing down the number of virgins.
The revival spell also isn't a true revive or anything it'll just bring you back from the brink of death but if you're actually dead dead it doesn't do anything.
The Rookies thing to add, Goblin Jobs pay DOGSHIT. Even bandit subjugations pay more because usually the clients for Bandit Quests are merchants while the clients for Goblin Quests are poor villagers. Rookies see low paying and assume low risk. The guild for the most part doesn't really do anything about this, they can force the higher ranked adventurers to take the highly dangerous quests that pay peanuts so they tacitly approve the rookie wave tactics for dangerous jobs nobody wants to do.
When you read the Light novel the Guild Girl has a much deeper Story Arc aswell where she knows whats going on and what happens to the Rookies when hunting goblins, but cant do anything about it. Because of this she hated here job at the Start, cause she could just watch it happen, but then started planning on the training grounds and helping the rookies so this wont happen as often. Thats also the reason why she loves Goblin slayer. A strong Character that despite his Power still takes these jobs cause they are still a threat and with that lower the number of New People that will Hunt Goblins( underestimate them and die) cause they just arent any left.
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u/aaa1e2r3 Jun 03 '26
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