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Either way, we could try discuss stuff like say, why the people in this damn world doesnt realized the problem of the goblins and just being too damn lax with things.
If the newbies doesnt knew about the gobbos strength and the guild does knew and yet didnt stop them or tried hard enough to make them change quest, that's worrying.
From what I heard about the later parts of the novel you find out that the gods keep reviving demon lords to wreck havoc on the world for fun and require platinum and gold ranked adventurers to defeat who are essentially equivalent to the protagonist and his party members from RPGs. The country that the story takes place in is also in a bit of a political crisis, with two opposing kingdoms looking to invade it and the king being placed in a precarious situation because if he sends kingdom troops to subjugate goblins it will be seen as a sign of weakness.
As for the adventurer problem, it has more to do with the fact that adventurers are glory-seekers and mercenaries. They go where the money is. Goblins don't pay much because they mostly seem to attack poorly-defended self-sustaining villages in remote locations who can't afford to hire adventurers.
You are talking about a world where things like wearing a helmet or practical armor seems to be a mindblowing idea, as opposed to wearing a cool outfit.
A large number of named characters wear full plate though. Others wear hard leather jackets.
Plate armor is actually pretty difficult to procure for an average person nevermind a dirt poor mercenary just starting out with no funds or legacy to their names. Fighter in volume 1 has a breastplate, which was usually a piece of armor reserved for the upper echelons of society if we're using 13-14th century Europe as a basis. He is the second son of a farmer, so how he is able to afford a breastplate at all is nothing short of a miracle. In the LN artworks he does look to be wearing something akin to a quilted jacket of some sort as well and padded gloves for hand protection. Is that not practical armor? Almost every high ranking adventurer who is a melee fighter wears some form of full plate armor because logically they can afford to buy and maintain it.
Some adventurers can't afford helmets. Other adventurers want to be like folk heroes and run around without their helmets to sell their image. The manga also shows us adventurers that can afford and do go out of their way to wear helmets. Heck the anime has a panning shot of several dudes wearing breastplates and pauldrons.
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