A Chronicle of Life in a Different World

The ground shakes like a wave.

It was not the first earthquake Reurus encountered in the world, as far as I can remember.

"Hmm, what is it!?

"Something's really shaking!?

As Eliza and Sarah, who had revealed their surprise, caught sight of her jump, Reurus looked around.

Unlike yesterday's heavy rain, there were some clouds, but the sufficiently clear sky pattern illuminated the surroundings brightly.

Surrounded by the forests from which the Reurus came out, the caves where they stayed last night in the rain, and the mountains that follow from the cave to the top. It doesn't look like a volcano like Veos, it looks like a normal mountain with lots of trees.

― ― If it wasn't a mistake of Reurus, I felt the magic near the top of the mountain or beyond.

"... something's going on. Let's hurry up."

Reurus has no purpose, and if he's just traveling and passing through, he's ignoring it.

However, the purpose of Reurus is to have Dwarves build weapons. And I ran into a dwarf last night, and I can't ignore it if something is happening in the mountains that I think have a dwarf nest.

From afar, something was heard - a roar that seemed to collapse in the sand, and the ground felt as if it was shaking in the mountain or beyond, even a massive collapse, Reus added.

I don't know how many dwarves there are around here. But suppose there's only one dwarf we met last night, we need to make sure it's safe as soon as possible.

― Caloric Release .

It's more a waste of time now than a loss of magic. Reurus, who decided to do so, hugged Eliza and Sarah from the surprise after performing "caloric release."

"Run with all your might. Don't bite your tongue."

That said, Reurus ran up the mountain road at once. The mud drifted off the slope due to heavy rain last night, and there was a lot of lukewarmth, but I don't mind.

Mountain roads are steep, and ordinary people would slip their feet into the mud. However, when using "Caloric Release", the reuse is far from ordinary people.

While choosing a place where scaffolding looks as good as possible, Eliza, Sarah, and her luggage continue to run along the mountain path. Five meters in one step, ten meters in two steps. If the scaffolding is bad, it jumps further and runs away with the wind.

Sarah!

I'm already searching! Er... that way! Up diagonally, to the right!

I relied on Sarah because it was difficult to feel the magic accurately while I was running. Then there is an immediate response, and Reurus fixes the path without killing the momentum.

Reurus!

What!? Something wrong!?

Responding to Sarah's screaming voice, Sarah looked back while being held by Reurus.

If Reurus slips his feet, he'll slip down to the cave just now!?

I'll throw you out!

Apparently, Sarah is Sarah under any circumstances. Even though I thought so, it was a realuse that turned a little behind me, but when I was told, it was true that the gradient was too steep for the mountain road.

Combined with the moisture on the ground, it looks like Sarah is going to slip down to the foot like a slide.

(I didn't realize because I was running up, but it's really sudden... no, isn't it too sudden? If it were so sudden, just a little rain would probably cause a landslide....)

Even with such doubt, I can't stop my feet. Running up the mountain path at the speed of running on the flatlands, Reus climbed to the top in less than five minutes - an unexpected climax.

Reurus, who climbed to the top, saw a basin that rounded through the top of the mountain. It's like a crater in a volcano, but it's not like lava is peeking into your face.

The basin is large enough to allow one village to enter.

Rather, there was something like a village.

There are wells in the fields, trees like fruit trees. There are no houses, but dirt roads are built, and fields are neatly built beside the roads.

But Reurus didn't die because there was a village. Because there was a huge “something” in the middle of the basin.

"Hey... I don't know. What the hell? A snake?"

The visible “it” was, at first glance, a snake. Skin tone is strangely glossy and reflects the sun's light.

He jumped out of the ground or his torso was buried in the ground - the most eye-catching thing was the size of it.

A body as thick as a giant tree is more than one meter by sight. However, the total length is nearly twenty meters as far as I can see, but I don't know the exact place because the bottom of the torso is buried in the ground. At least twice as many.

"Eh, eh... snakes like that? Somehow, don't you feel sick?

"Uh-huh... I've seen snakes many times in the mountains I used to live in, but they didn't have that kind of color?

Eliza and Sarah looked at each other as if they were displaying a sense of repudiation, but they agreed with her as a Reurus. It doesn't look like a snake from the outside, but it's called the mucus that shines through your body, and you have a physiological disgust.

(No way... Mimis?

The appearance will be closer to the worm than to the snake. I wish I could meditate on its enormity.

"Hey, Reurus! Isn't that bad?

Sarah shouted impatiently, pointing to the distance rather than the giant worm monster. When Reurus looked at it, he saw something like a cave that had collapsed. It appears that the ground shaken earlier was caused by the collapse of the cave.

If there are more problems, there are dwarf-like groups around the giant worm. I don't know what's going on, but they're trying to intercept the giant worm that attacked us.

Each dwarf has a hammer and an axe, but the size difference is clear compared to a giant worm. I don't feel that much magic from giant worms, but even a simple physical difference would be quite unfavourable.

"... Reurus, what are you going to do?

"You know what to do... I wanted Dwarves to make weapons for me. Aiming for that dwarf."

Reus lowers Eliza and Sarah and puts the luggage she was carrying on the ground. And when I pulled out the great sword, I looked at the giant worm.

"... my enemy."

While activating 'Caloric Release', Reurus ran away.

"Goddamn it! Why are there colibos in this place?!

"Knock it off! If you don't kill him, we can't go rescue him!

Small but muscular men - dwarf men - grab giant wooden hammers and metal axes in their hands and venture into giant worms.

The dwarf was powerful against its tiny size, small for intermediate monsters, but also magical. For this reason, each one uses "Enhancements" to swing around tall objects and attack a giant worm called Coribo.

Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

However, there was no sign of the Dwarves attacking him, and the giant worm roared to intimidate him. The tip of the giant worm also has a huge mouth, which is about the size of a dwarf and is likely to be a drink.

"What a shah! Die now!"

Somebody get me some oil! Burn it! "

"I've got all the oil, you idiot!

As the dwarves shook their gains while scolding each other dirty, they slashed into the torso of a giant worm and slammed into the blow. However, those attacks did not appear to have injured the giant worm.

Of course, not all the pain is gone, but every time an attack hits, it twists its huge torso and spares its shock.

"SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

"So what's shah ah, Temee! Tear your mouth off!

Once again, the roar echoes and the dwarf screams back, but the roar is not from a giant worm.

― ― With the roar, the upper body of the giant worm leans heavily.

Because of the basin, the downhill slope now runs down the reus, and the momentum continues to leap.

While the dwarves were attacking his torso, he jumped high and struck the sword with all his might.

"Hmm!?

The slash that Reurus unleashed was also very powerful with its momentum. Even Vanier's scales could have been torn apart if he had the weapon.

--But it's not slashed.

Whether the shock passed or the upper body of the giant worm leaned heavily, the blade of the great sword was soft and sturdy skin of the giant worm, and the momentum was offset by the mucus covering the body surface, and could not be slashed and ripped.

It feels like a sturdy bag stuffed with water. Still, the blade tip slips because of the mucus covering the body surface. If you cut it badly, the big sword will be useless.

Of course, giant worms aren't intact either. Whether the upper body is a large tilt effect, the “lower body” buried in the ground also moves greatly, raising the ground with each earth and stone.

"What the hell!? Where the hell did you come from?

"You're not human! How did you find this place!?

If you can't cut it, you'll have to beat it till you die.

It was a realuse that landed with that in mind and tried to chase the giant worm, but the dwarves shouted surprisingly.

Neither the voice nor the sword was friendly, and instead of saying that reinforcements had arrived, I began to prepare my weapon.

But Reurus ignored the Dwarves' reaction.

Sarah!

"Yes, yes!

Try something and call out to Sarah, who ran after Reurus. Sarah perceived Reurus' thoughts and turned her hands towards a giant worm.

"We couldn't fight together when we were in the Vanier! My arms are ringing! So... burn it!

Cute screaming - the flames that are unleashed are vicious. A whirlwinding flame, like a tornado, was thrown into a giant worm in a straight line. Judging by the magic you can feel, the power will be affordable and intermediate.

Giggle!?

But there's no reason to strike it straight. With your body peristaltic and your head pointing to the ground, you try to lurk on the ground while avoiding the vortex of the flame that Sarah emitted.

Hiya, I said.

After seeing such a giant worm, Sarah pointed her hands out to the ground. Then, the vortex of flame that was rushing in a straight line bent and landed on a giant worm that had been avoided.

Giiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!?

It was a deafening noise. Reurus leaves the scene with Sarah picking up the nearby dwarfs as she unleashes a flame vor, then leaves the distance and goes down to the ground.

Once again, the dwarves turned their heels before opening their mouths and rushed to the giant worm.

I don't know how much firepower there was, but the mucus that was wrapped in the giant worm evaporated. The giant worm was wandering around the ground trying to extinguish the flames that covered her body, but Sarah wouldn't be able to name the Spirit of Fire if the flames just disappeared.

Eliza!

"--The Spirit of Lightning! Shoot through his enemies! Run! Lightning strikes!

Subsequently, Eliza, who caught up with Sarah slightly behind, fired a thunderbolt along with "Chant." The power was lower than Sarah's flame magic, but the massive worm that was struck by the electric shock stiffened her torn body.

That was enough.

"Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Reurus roars from the bottom of his belly and kicks through the ground. Then he squeezed the pattern with a force that was close to breaking, and waved down his big sword by the body of a giant worm whose mucus burned out.

The torso of the giant worm that was hovering around the ground was just high enough to swing down from the top. And no matter how much you twist your torso to escape the shock, there's more to it than just wandering around “on the ground”.

Hardness and softness that Reurus has never felt before. I wonder if this is how hard rubber can be ripped apart, and so on. It is a very heterogeneous response in the corner of my head.

Still... it was ripped apart.

The big sword, which was struck with all its strength, devoured the skin of the drying giant worm and “cut it apart” while making a noise. At the same time, red blood erupted like a fountain.

Giiiiiiiii!? Giiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!

A giant scratch raised his sad voice to the pain of a blade that had seventy percent of his torso torn open. However, Reurus did not move his eyebrows to the scream of such a giant worm and put his strength into the big sword that he held with both hands.

And finally, I'll sever your torso. However, Reurus did not stop there, swinging his big sword and flew the blood attached to his sword before jumping.

Despite being torn apart, giant worms are moving. Therefore, Reurus pierces the tip of the great sword into the head of the giant worm with all his might.

It feels like a mixture of body and the same hardness and softness. Break through it with the tip of the big sword and put your weight on the ground with the intention of burying each big sword in the ground.

Was it correct on the head, or was it a fatal wound that cut my torso? When the giant worm twitched once, it stopped moving as if it was relaxing from the body.

"Phew... this is another big prey. I have food."

Reurus murmurs as he moves the daggered sword to the left and right to see if he's dead. However, I remembered that there was a dwarf on the spot, and I looked towards you and smiled.

"Oh, I'm sorry for the sudden visit. Reurus, a junior adventurer from the abandoned city of Laval. I don't know if I saw the dwarf yesterday, but could you listen to me?

Before that, we need to check the caves that collapsed.

The dwarfs looked at each other in response to the revulsion they added.