"Er, six goblins... two goblin mages"
"What will you do, Mr. Cece?"
Out east of Gaddis, there was a great forest called [Elsian Ancient Forest (Furugi)]. There are numerous demons living there, dotted with ancient ruins and remains behind the woods.
Inside the ruins, where dangerous demons are nested, there are also artifacts that can be sold at high prices if sold, and it was one of the common requests to adventurers to unearth them.
Therefore, this [ancient forest of Elsia] is the next place for new adventurers confident in their arms to go.
There was no leak in the example, and Cece and the others were requested by this forest.
Hiding in the bushes, Irene observes a square in the woods.
In the square were goblins with branches growing from all parts of the body on green skin, and goblin mages wrapping the robes that held the branches like canes and made of knitted leaves.
Cece and Elios, hiding behind Irene, looked at each other.
"It has nothing to do with the request, but I think we'd better take it down now if we were to run into each other later and fight."
"Right. Goblin Mage is a pain in the ass."
The request received by Cece and the others from the [Keith Chamber of Commerce] was the collection of [fire sucking flowers] growing near the ruins of this forest. [Fire Sucking Flowers], as its name suggests, is a strange plant that has the nature of sucking fire into petals, and used to put this [Fire Sucking Flowers] petal on fire when the fire broke out and quenched it.
Nowadays it is treasured as a pack of gunpowder and grenades, exploiting the nature of accumulating fire. When you dry and rinse a petal that smokes plenty of fire, it becomes superior gunpowder.
However, there are few native places for [fire sucking flowers], which are still only available in collection. So from time to time the request to the adventurer to collect it turns.
"Goblin Mages can take the lead, too. Now we can take them down before they use magic."
Seeing the goblins in front of me, Cece put her hand on the axe sword on her hips.
There is still a little distance to the site where [Fire Sucking Flowers] are said to be native, but it is not necessarily that the goblins in front of you will not come to the site. It's better to fight now that we can take the lead than we can fight during the harvest. Cece decided so.
"Me and Ellios approach the gap by striking fire magic with preemption. Reede keeps supportive witchcraft warm to cover Irene."
Cece quickly assembles the tactics. As Ledo told me, we will look again and again for ways to achieve maximum results with the minimum amount of movement required. It may be premature to use Irene's witchcraft here, but leaving the goblin mage exercising witchcraft alone is troublesome, and most importantly, it could call a companion.
If so, it is better to beat it all at once without giving it that gap.
Returns words as Ellios nods.
"Agreed. I can get the most out of this now."
"Just one suggestion. Why don't we turn this place into a cold sorcery, not a fire sorcery? Fire is certainly powerful, but it makes smoke, sounds and stands out. I don't think it's a good idea to attract the demons around us."
Irene calmly tells Cece.
"Yeah, you sure do. I'm sorry. I wasn't thinking that much."
Cece nodded deeply and apologized.
"No, I don't think Mr. Cece is wrong just because he chose fire as a sure way. But I'm sure Irene's right."
"Right. Irene, can we go?
Irene bowed at the same time as returning a luscious grin to Elios's inquiry.
"" I am a lonely moon, descend, manifest, dance, sprinkle with frost, feathers. "
"GUELGUEGA!!
Goblin Mage, who notices the exercise of witchcraft, puts up a cane and issues vigilance.
A blue, clear arrow appeared in Irene's hand, and Irene led it to the bow.
At the same time, Cece and Elios jump out of the bush.
Irene's arrow passed over the two heads and landed in the middle of the goblin mage and the goblin surrounding them.
A wind swept through the ice shards around the landing point.
"GUARE!!
The skin of the goblins is frosted and torn. At the same time that the ice wind stops, Cece slashes in.
Twist and rotate your body at the same time as you slap Goblin's head in front of you with an axe sword in axe condition.
Two more goblins die from the rotary slaughter of the Axe Sword, which has become a sword with shaken centrifugal force.
Ellios advances with a shield from its side. It bends in a direction without a goblin's neck and a small body blows up. Ellios stuck out the cross spear as the momentum of that rampage remained. The blade of the cross rips the neck of the goblin in front of him, and the tip hits the head of the goblin mage in the back.
Goblin, who was in a position where Cece and Ellios were not lucky enough to hit, swung a crude wooden stick and ran to the Irenes in the rear, but set up a sickle as Reede slowly walked next to him as if he were taking a walk.
"Gah?"
Goblins suddenly fall forward with a flash of slashing. It passes as if Reede had nothing to do with Stasta.
Irene struck the neck of the goblin on the ground, severed by Reed's sickle.
"Ggggggggggggggggggggggggg!!
The only surviving goblin mage wand tip emits light. Fireballs are generated, but each fireball is slashed with the slashing of a sheath, falling to the ground as it burns, and falling. Ellios' spear stabbed him in the head and stopped moving.
There was no particular sign that something would come out, even though Irene and Riede would be vigilant around them.
"Over, I guess?
"Oh."
Cece and Ellios remained armed, but de-alerted.
"Mm-hmm. Cold air magic, good for stopping, but powerful."
"Mr. Redo says it's hard for a fitter to be powerful in cold magic."
Reede comforted Irene, dissatisfied with the power of her own magic.
"All right, let's move on. The ruins are almost there, according to the map."
Everyone nodded at Cece's voice and proceeded through the woods.
Moving on for a while, he went out to a place where his eyes opened pompously.
Above that square there are no branches of trees stretched out, and the sunlight plunged in. In the center there was a leaning tower-like wreck quietly complaining of its existence.
"That's the one."
"Yeah. That means it's blooming around there."
"[Fire Sucking Flowers] Right. Then let's split it up and collect it. Without failing to be vigilant."
Copy that.
Around the decaying ruins were bright red flowers. Six small petals are shaking in the wind.
The sheaths put the picked petals in the leather bags they brought for collection.
"It's strange how this sucks fire..."
"I was taught that these flowers bloom where terrible [flames] have occurred in the past."
Reede answered the sheath staring seriously at the petal as she picked the petal.
"[Flames]? What's that?"
"I'm telling you the teaching of [the Golden Church], when the Demons still lived normally on the ground a long time ago and were at war with our ancestors, the battlefield trail was always a burning field. That's how it sprouts on the earth that breathed fire and blood...... they say this [fire sucking flower]. You think the bright red petal wasn't just about fire, it was about sucking blood?"
"Heh, I've never heard that before."
"There seems to be similar rhetoric everywhere...... I don't know if it's in Bail"
Hearing Reede's words, Cece kind of suddenly seemed like this adorable flower was an ominous thing.
Sucking fire and blood and sprouting...... I knew that was a little creepy.
As they were vigilant, the four of them went home when they finished collecting each leather bag until it was breaded.
Along the way, he encounters several demons, but repels them without jeopardy.
Everyone was familiar with the demons that came out and how to deal with each one, and how to communicate with them, as Ledo told them.
Redo said to these sheaths with a mouthful of sourness.
“Look, share the information with everyone. Avoid situations where only people know, and you don't know who they are without. Let the risks spread. So... I failed. I let you fail.”
The words sounded heavily to Cece and the others.
I'm sure something happened. Even though Cece and the others realized it, no one tried to hear about it.
I don't want anyone to touch me. I have a past. That was well understood by Reede, Irene and Elios. There was no mention of the fact that the innocent sheath would surely speak to me one day, only to keep it in my heart.
"Is it time to get out of the woods?
Cece had already assembled in her brain how she would move back into the city. First, go to the [Keith Chamber of Commerce] and deliver it, then...
It was at the same time that Cece noticed the anomaly because she was thinking about it.
"Huh!! That's... what's going on?
"What...?
"I don't like how you look at me!
"Hurry anyway!!
Cece and the others couldn't believe the sight that spread in front of them. Because when I came out in the morning... this wasn't happening.
Run to the city while everyone thinks so.
In their eyes - red (...) lotus (...) showed (...) eh (...) and (...) yes (...).
The border city of Gaddis.
"Fire awakens when the Great Lighthouse lights up"
"Fire awakens when the Great Lighthouse lights up"
"Fire awakens when the Great Lighthouse lights up"
Or in a dark alley, or in a room, or on the street.
The men, the women, whine the same phrase.
They all had warped balls in their hands in the shape of ovals. The central part swelled and was thinner as it went ahead, the tip pointy. It emitted red and disappeared as if it were smoked (dull), and when it emitted, it repeatedly disappeared.
They were just staring at the big lighthouse.
As if to find something there.
"Fire awakens when the Great Lighthouse lights up"
"Fire awakens when the Great Lighthouse lights up"
"Fire awakens when the Great Lighthouse lights up"
The wording chains up as if it were a curse.
People passing by look at them like that in surprise and leave.
Some of them could speak to a suspicious Metropolitan Police officer, but no matter what they asked, they only repeated the same words.
Even when they were about to be arrested, they just stared in one direction the whole time.
Whether it's walls or buildings, I'm just staring at the big lighthouse.
Perhaps the tourist was the first to notice the anomaly. The Great Lighthouse, the best spot in the harbor district. Tourists coming from all over the country to see it at a glance were staring at its enormous buildings single-handedly with drinks and street food.
And - from the top of the Great Lighthouse, the firepillar rose with the roar.
Whoever saw it screamed, or slapped his hand as to whether it was some sort of afterthought.
But he (...) et al. (...) were (...) different (...).
"[Kneeling]
"[Kneeling]
"[Kneeling]
They raised their voices of joy, and stabbed their oval balls - into their own chests.