It was spring break and I decided to go back to Sierra Village.
Leaving Wangdu today, the next day after spring break, in time for the birth of his younger brother or sister who is to be born.
I told Charstena and the others we were leaving after the test and when we had a launch. It's my day off, and I don't care if you come to see me.
Gold said he would slow down a bit in the King's Capital before returning. I just want to do the same, but I may not be able to see the birth if I'm bringing it, so I'm going home today.
Starting next year, it might be a good idea to slow down a little and then go home.
The village of Sierra usually takes approximately two weeks to walk.
Today is January 15.
If we go normally, we'll manage to get there by February.
But if you're born while you're at it, it doesn't make sense to go home soon.
That's why I'm running through the mountains at a fast pace right now. Why the mountain, not the road.
That's because this is faster.
Between the village of Sierra and the Wang capital there is a large mountain, which usually takes a detour to that mountain.
Because it's safer, and there's a flat road where carriages can pass easily.
But.
I can fight to some extent, and I run faster than I travel in a carriage. Then you just have to push straight without detouring.
I'm not willing to go camping in the mountains at night on boulders, but as long as I move around, I'm sure it's fine.
But it doesn't work that well.
"Haaaa, you still can't pull it out..."
Stop your legs and take a short break. That's what I whine about. I was licking it.
I should have run through quite a distance already, but I never even get to the top of the mountain.
At first I felt mild and thought it would be easy to get out, but the guide, this mountain seems bigger than I thought.
The demon only meets goblins and oaks, but if it's such a big mountain to come, there might be a higher class.
In that case, you don't always win.
No problem with a C grade, but it would be dangerous if a B or higher came out. I've never met her before, so I don't know how much.
I spread out the map, compare it with the surrounding terrain I checked in my space exploration, and guess where it is now.
If the map is correct, it's finally something like the middle belly.
"I knew we should move on from here, detecting."
Expanding the space, it obviously captured a different reaction from goblins and oaks. I haven't seen it yet, so I don't know what kind of demon it is, but there are many if I do.
If you can find it, it will be a pain in the ass.
That's what I thought, and from here on out I decided to use space and blockade of signs to move on.
The enlarged space has a large amount of information flowing into its head, making it difficult to use it when moving intensely.
If it is short, it is still tough to keep using it while running for a long time. So compared to earlier, my climbing speed was much slower.
But still faster than bypassing.
It's only been about half a day so far. I can still afford it in time. No problem if it's a little late.
Use space, avoid demons as much as possible, and climb.
We fought if it was inevitable along the way, but it took about a few times.
It was the first demon I saw, but I guessed it was a cobolt because of its characteristics. On the contrary, it is the demon of a canine.
If the dog beast man lines up beside him, he might not know.
Cobolt is considered a stronger enemy than oak and goblins. For some reason, it's because most groups have leaders. There are such demonic flocks in goblins and oaks.
But that number is overwhelmingly low.
Few individuals can be leaders.
In that regard, Kobolt has many individuals who can be leaders.
It is said that this is because it is easier to evolve into a superior individual than a goblin or oak.
People aren't the only ones who evolve, apparently. They say demons can also evolve.
That demon, known as the Kobolt Leader, ranks one higher than the rest of Kobolt and is considered to be Class D.
The three Goblins, Oaks, and Cobolts are Class E, the weakest Monster Top Three.
These three are the only E-certified demons.
On the other hand, the goblin and oak leader classes, such as few individuals who can be leaders earlier, are called General Goblin and Oak General, respectively.
This one is smaller in number, but even higher than the Gobolt Reader, and is C-rated.
Once, it has been confirmed that there is an individual named Cobolt Road further up in Cobolt, but few have been found. This is a Class B demon.
They said some of the individuals reached A.
Well, few guys like that, so we're never gonna meet. If we ever meet again, let's get out of here.
I'll figure it out if I use my skills.
Walking around thinking about that, I went out to a slightly open place.
"Haku, shall we rest here?"
"Pi."
It had already been about two hours since the earlier break, so I decided to take a short break.
Remove the water and cup from the bag and prepare your own portion and that of the hack.
"Probably almost to the top of the mountain. We'll try harder later, Huck."
"Pi. Pi?
"Come on, what do you think? If we make it, we'll be able to get through the mountains by the end of the day, but if we can't, we'll have to get through the mountains all night."
Haku asked me if I was in Nojuku today, so I darkly replied that Nojuku would not.
"Pii!"
Said Nojuku wouldn't do it. Haku said he had complaints about me. You think I don't like anything all night? It's a selfish dragon. Really.
"Nothing. You should have slept in my bag. Looks like there's more demons in this mountain than I thought. It's hard to go wild."
Haku can sleep enough in his bag, so I don't mind Haku sleeping. But they don't think I can sleep.
There are many demons in this mountain. Twice as reactive as ever.
I don't know if this is the characteristics of the cobolt or if it is unusual again. but now that there's no one but me to watch over, there's no way I'm going to sleep.
If you're going to sleep, it's dangerous if it's not an open place where you can at least make sure you're safe.
Until then, you can't fall asleep, you get tempered and start going down the mountain road again.
I just walked for about an hour and another demon caught in my space that I didn't know about.
Space is very convenient, but all you can see in space is movement, shape, and size. I can't search space exploration until I've met him once.
So I have to figure out what that is myself and come up with an answer.
Now what my space captures is shaped like a cobolt.
But muscles come in different ways and sizes.
Not even with the Cobolt reader.
"... I didn't know you were really there.... Haku, unfortunate news. There's Cobolt Road ahead. Besides, if we don't get through there, we're not gonna make it to the other slope of the mountain."
I could reassert that the flag would never be betrayed. Let's be careful in the future.
I figured it out. I got a hit that the demon was Cobolt Road.
Probably for sure. Good evidence of a few cobolt leaders around and taking a regular gobolt.
The top of the mountain is lightly like a cliff, and if you don't pass where that cliff is cracked, you won't be able to get to the other side.
Cobolt Road sits in formation at the crack.
"Pii?"
"Sure we'll get there sooner...... I knew it was still dangerous for you to grade B"
Huck asks me if I'm going to fight.
Answer no to that even though you are lost. Not yet, it's dangerous.
I've only fought demons up to class D.
What happens if I fly a C like that and try a B-grade Cobolt Road...
"Pippy."
Haku still told me to fight. Maybe I should run if I have to.
"Sure. Can you escape if you break a cliff?"
"Pii?"
Haku asks me again if I'm going to fight.
"I get it. You just have to do it. Instead, if you decide it's dangerous, you run away, so get in your bag and come out."
"Pii!"
Haku went into his bag when he sounded happy.
Looks like Huck wants to get out of this mountain soon. And you want to get some sleep in the city soon.
I gently tied the mouth of the bag so that Haku wouldn't fall out of the bag. Keep the air in properly.
When I pull out the sword on my back, I shake it gently, and when I stand sloppy, I squeal to confirm my purpose.
"Well, let's start the Kobolt Road hunt"
In the vicinity of the Wang capital, there is a mountain called Cliff Mountain, which rises there.
This mountain is made of two mountains. That doesn't mean it's going to be like a wave. It means the two mountains overlapped.
It is said that God sent down a rocky mountain as a divine punishment in a city made to the top of the mountain.
It is true that the mountain takes on a very distorted form, although it is not so certain as to be true or false.
At the top of the first mountain rises a cliff, stretching into the sky as if it were a tower.
That cliff holds back what comes and doesn't pass.
But there was only one fracture in that wall that seemed impossible to get through at first sight.
That is tearing the wall in two as if it had been torn apart by a sword.
The crack now served as if it were a place of detention. Arranging at the barracks is a human-shaped creature with a face that is little too ferocious for a dog.
Around it there are roughly 100 organisms with similar faces. It's the Cobolt Road and the Cobolt Leader that follows it, the Normal Cobolt.
It struck them suddenly, still acting as walls there today. All of a sudden the light was blocked and the area where the Kobolts were located darkened.
Many Cobolts looked up.
Above was a mighty rock as if a cliff had collapsed.
That was falling towards the Kobolts. The cobolts rushed to escape the scene, but the resistance was vain, mostly underneath the rock, ending its raw.
Only a few Cobolt leaders and the whole Cobolt Road survived.
"... did you take it off? But, well, I could do quite a few, so let's do it."
I learned from the information coming from my space skills that I missed Cobolt Road.
However, you can assume that the miscellaneous fish could have struck as hard as it could have been called total annihilation, so they could have played a role in the pre-emptive attack.
Do you want to do the rest in person?
Where I am is the entrance to the crack of the wall.
I broke my rock skin from here and crushed the Cobolts.
But those hands will never work again.
It hurts not to be able to do Cobolt Road in a pre-emptive attack, but when avoiding it, speed was confirmed.
In that sense, it was thought that the physical ability was about Dick, who wrapped and enhanced the light.
"You're just the right guy to know how strong I've been since then."
I uttered what I felt fortunate to have met an endangered species in the demons, so to speak, Cobolt Road.
Seven for the rest.
Except for Cobolt Road, it's no problem, but it's a hassle to finish at the same time.
From my position to them there is a straight line and a distance there.
Then shall we magically defeat them before they come here?
"Fireball"
The Cobolt Roads noticed me at about the same time as the ball of fire appeared on the 12-ball.
I turned my buddy's murdered anger into a howl, and he stuck it exactly the way this one wanted.
Interpretation is a demon. No matter how unfavourable this one is, this is not a problem if measures are devised. All but Cobolt Road of the seven remaining bodies were food for the spheres of fire.
Only Cobolt Road was cleaving my magic with that claw-wrapped light.
Definitely. That's full of magic.
I didn't know demons had skills too...
Is this Class B. Isn't it as easy as usual on boulders?
"Gwo on."
I opened my mouth wide to intimidate him, and I thought it rang, and I saw a ray of magical light gathering in his mouth.
A few meters away, I put magic through my sword as well.
And the distance between me and Cobolt Road is gone.
Cobolt Road's attacks were claws and fangs reinforced with magic filling.
This attack is sword and magic.
The numbers are almost mutual. But I'm the one carrying that fight in my favor.
I've been on a lot of levels since then, too.
Thanks to that, it works as well as Dick did back then.
Without using enhanced skills.
I once drew on Dick because I didn't have the physical ability to do this. Now that I have comparable physical abilities, I didn't need to use enhanced system skills for Cobolt Road.
The cobolt load, which gradually begins to be pushed, takes a distance once.
I was watching the situation with vigilance.
I thought it was to use another move that I took the distance from in a disadvantaged situation.
That's why I decided not to pack the distance and watch it sideways.
Cobolt Road gave himself up and took a position that seemed to jump straight at us. And the body was covered in light.
Having intuitively felt the aim of Cobolt Road, I set my sword on the upper stage with both hands and activated the Fire Sword.
Often stiff state. It was suddenly broken by Cobolt Road. As I predicted, Cobolt Road stretched his body all at once and turned it into a bullet of magic.
Wave that bullet straight down the sword and take it.
The swords and bodies reinforced by each other's magic fill bumped into each other.
I heard a sound that I didn't think had taken the sword with a very body named Kin, and the bullet was killed the momentum.
Eventually the momentum stopped altogether, while its body was engulfed in fire.
The magic of Cobolt Road has lost the competition.
My magic beat the magic of his body, and that body, which lost its protection, was to be wrapped in the fire that transformed my magic.
That doesn't end there.
My sword cannot be stopped by a body that has lost its protection. Cobolt Road was split in two as it was wrapped in fire.
Even after the split, it burned completely out with a fire that never lost momentum.
I saw the fire go out and then I put my sword away and exhaled gently.
"Phew, I can handle the information. Huck, you can come out."
Untie the string that was tied to your bag and let Haku out.
"Pippy!"
"Well, I was surprised when I've been using my skills..."
"Pii?"
"You've been using magic packs."
I had no idea there was a demon coming to use his skills.
I thought demons usually throw up fire, but maybe that's actually a skill too.
They also evolve, and maybe demons and people aren't much different. Huck won't attack us. No, Haku wasn't a demon, he was a warcraft. I don't know the difference...
But if demons can learn their skills, can Haku remember them?
"Hey, don't you have some skills, too?
"Pii......"
They don't know.
I don't know what skills I'd have without a plate, either.
"Right. Well, I'll see when I get my appraisal skills."
"Pii!"
I don't know when.
"We're here! He's back, Huck! Whoa, whoa, whoa. I miss you. Nice!
"Yikes!"
The day after we defeated Cobolt Road, we made an odd noise at the entrance to the village.
That mountain used to be like a mountain with a lake like Dad's.
I thought you'd seen something before and I was down the mountain, and there was a lake.
It was already dark by then, but it wasn't particularly problematic for me with night eyes and space exploration.
I was glad to find the lake and shortcut it more than I thought, and came back all night to Sierra Village.
By the way, the drowsiness is gone, and the tension between me and Haku is a little strange.
Not enough to scream at midnight...
"Huck! Let's get to the house!
"Pii!"
The village at midnight is quiet. That's enough to hear about the other three neighboring nights.
This is of course what happens if you raise your voice in it.
"You can't do that, Cora!
"Don't make a scene in the middle of the night!
"Long time no see, kid!
"I'm glad you look good, you son of a bitch!
Some of the voices are mixed to celebrate our return home, but the noise is no different, so we quietly went home.
I'm glad I didn't have to activate the angry witch.
"Ha, you home?
"Pi?"
Slowly open the door of the house and peek inside.
Of course the lights in the house are out.
I guess we're both asleep. Quiet inside so I don't wake you.
They were asleep after all.
In a futon with me, sleeping holding each other naked.
I gently closed the door.
"What is this..."
"What the hell..."
"Whose fault is it..."
In the morning, the men of Sierra Village were watching what stood in front of them and stopping their movements. Trying to get to work as usual, when I walked through the square, something was built that I didn't have until yesterday.
"Hey, somebody call the village chief!
Someone said as the men wandered.
Whoever heard that voice and went to call the village chief came back a while later with the village chief.
"What the hell is morning...... what is this? ⁉ *"
"Come on? This is what happens when I wake up in the morning and come to the square..."
"I don't know who built a castle like this."
Yes, it's the castle that's building in front of them.
Wastefully artistic.
If a first-year student at Royal College saw it, he would know who did this.
"Hit me..."
One man gave a voice with a face saying no.
"What do you have in mind?
The village chief, who immediately heard the voice, asks.
"I don't know... Ray came home last night."
Upon hearing the nostalgic name, the village chief and the villagers looked convinced and so on shortly afterwards.
"Is he the killer?"
"But why a castle..."
"Let's just go to Redick's house"
"Let's say the eagles go"
And he went to the house of Ray, where the chief of the village would have Ray, and all those who were gathered went to work, and the place was broken up.
"What? Ray?
"Goodbye."
The village chief nodded lightly to Redik, who spoke a dumb voice, and told him to call Ray.
"Jizzy, are you getting bogged down? Ray's studying in Kingsville right now, right?
"Bogus Torah, not yet. Someone saw Ray come home yesterday."
Redik worried about the village chief's bokeh, and the village chief told him Ray was back.
"Isn't that a mistake? We haven't come back..."
While Redick tilts his neck, he also asks Mullah for confirmation.
"Yeah, he's not back. Mr. Mayor, was that really Ray?
"I didn't just ask you. Just..."
"Just?"
Mullah, who took the confirmation again, urges the continuation.
"However, when I woke up in the morning, a castle was built in the square."
………
"... it's Ray"
"Uh-huh, well slept ~"
It's a bright morning.
Is it because the room is still great?
I woke up in a dorm room, not to mention my parents.
I woke up in a castle room.
Outside the castle is the castle town, the village of Sierra.
Last night, when I got home, there was no place for me, so I decided to make a bunk.
In the meantime, I built a homelike object with dirt magic, but it was a strange tension in the middle of the night. I wasn't convinced by it, and I stumbled on to build another castle.
That's the third one.
The castle still has a stunning appearance.
Approximate shapes were made of earth magic and later sharpened with swords and hands.
Haku's doll also stuck to the heavenly side of the castle.
Maybe it's time to think about the flag.
"Ray, come out! You must be there ⁉"
When I was decorating the room, I heard him calling me out loud from the outside.
"Ah, Dad! I'm home!"
Out of the castle gate, I told my father right away.
"Not right now! What is this? ⁉"
"This? Oh, this. This is a castle."
Don't you see?
"That's not what I meant! Why did you build a castle?
"Huh? Because... when I go home in the middle of the night, I get annoyed"
I couldn't possibly say it was because my parents were holding each other naked. I was duly deluded.
"That's... maybe... you don't have to build a castle"
Was it because I remembered yesterday that I had some free time?
Even for my father, if I thought about being back then, I guess it's because I couldn't tell him to come back.
"Ha ha, something made me want to make it a castle"
Laughing and I say the right thing and delude.
"Right. Then I have no choice."
My dad seems to have misled me with this because he's the one who forgives me for everything I say he wants to.
Well, it's good because it's not a complete lie.
Even if you just wanted to build a castle in the middle of the night mystery tension...
"I'm home, Mom."
"Ray! Welcome home, didn't you catch a cold or something?
My mother holds me while she shelters her grown stomach.
It's that big yesterday...... let's not.
You shouldn't touch a parent like that.
If you touch it, you'll both be lost. It's the world's stewardship.
"It's gonna be okay."
I'll go through and give it back. Don't give your mother any opinions on what she does.
"How did you get back?
"Yeah, over the mountain...?
"Mountain? No way, Ray, are you saying you've come over Cliff Mountain?
I can see that.
Now my mother smiles, but the contents are that she is an angry witch.
While I was sweating cold, I returned my predetermined answer.
I was prepared for this one.
My mother treats me like a seven-year-old, so she gets angry when she does those dangerous things.
But this is your chance to see your brother or sister born.
Maybe this is your last chance.
I didn't have the idea of missing it.
So don't you honestly seem pissed off today?
I'm thinking of excuses not to be duped properly.
It shouldn't be a problem.
I still can't stop trembling because I'm traumatized?
"Oh, yeah. Because if we don't cross that mountain, and we may not be able to see the birth... I really wanted to see it. How I was born."
It's a troubled excuse for late years.
Half true, but the other half was just a hassle to come all the way around.
"Is the due date next month?
"Huh?"
"Huh?"
Just a proclamation.
That? You figured out your pregnancy in April, didn't you?
Isn't that roughly three months before you figure that out?
Then I thought it was about January, counting backwards...
Oh, my God.
Something was wrong right now.
I know I was distracted. But why would my father react the same way?
Also, you forgot?
"There's something missing from Ray, too.... Redick, I told you the other day, didn't I?
"What, no, that, what?... I forgot."
To my father, who scratched his head, my mother turns a cold glance and then turns back to me.
"Ray, you can't cross the mountain this time, can you?
"Uh, yeah."
"Shall we make a sumptuous dinner today? Look forward to it. I'll have it for two (...) properly."
"Huh? Um, what about me?
"Is that you? Are you there? Why don't you go to work?
My mother gives it back cold to my father, who is told in the dark that he is not eating.
"No, I'll do it today..."
"Ray, can you tell me what you did at school?
My mother walked into the back with me in her arms.
Leave one father behind.
... poor father.