"It was just the last minute ..."

"Oh, anyway, I'm glad I made it."

Five days later-the day of Stampede.

When I woke up in the morning, the town was surrounded by a green barrier.

"It looks like the barrier has been triggered."

"Yes ..... I see for the first time the barrier to stampede countermeasures. Can I really prevent stampede?"

"Oh, the barrier does not prevent the monsters from attacking themselves, but covers the town with special magic that Stampede's monsters do not want to approach. Then the monsters turn back."

The BBO has seen this type of barrier at stampede events.

The appearance of the monsters coming back to the place where the barrier was stretched at once was just the highlight.

When thinking of such a thing, the barrier disappeared suddenly.

"Is this barrier going to disappear?"

"No, it shouldn't be ..."

Talking to Milia, I saw a fuss in a nearby guild warehouse.

Certainly-that warehouse was where the guild barrier was.

Apparently, there was something.

"Hey, what happened!"

"The guard who should protect the barrier has broken the device!"

"This guy ... I'm a fake!"

When we arrived at the noisy warehouse, we knew the situation.

Apparently, the guild's guards were missing a fake.

It seems that the barrier has disappeared as a result of the impersonator breaking the device.

There is no choice but to say sloppy management ...

"That's what ... Is it possible to fix it by Stampede?"

The Guild Branch Chief, who arrives shortly after us, asks the guild staff.

But ... the staff shook his head.

"Repair is possible, but ... even if you can fix it, the start-up work is redone."

"In other words, it takes five days ..."

The expected time of stampede is from noon today to tomorrow morning.

Of course, not in time.

"Call the residents to evacuate! Abandon the town and flee!"

The chief of the branch was quick.

If you can't protect the town, escape alone. It's a cool decision.

Are we going to evacuate too?

Thinking so, I looked at the impersonator of the guard.

The impersonator had already died, being pierced by another guard's sword.

――The familiar tattoo was dug around the neck of the guard.

It is the emblem of "The desperate miniature garden".

Looking at it, I realized that the damage did not end with this town alone.

There are innumerable evils in which Despair's Hakoniwa worked. Damage varies from large to small.

However, as this time, the story will be different when the desperate miniature garden disposes of its members.

This time, absolutely terrible damage will occur.

I don't know about the desert miniature garden, which does not dispose of its members to the point of destroying one city.

That's not because Desert Miniature Garden is a friendly organization, but simply because it's inefficient.

Do your best to destroy humanity. That's what I know, the desperate miniature garden.

Perhaps if you leave this stampede alone, it won't help just to escape.

A possible pattern would be around a major earthquake caused by stampede shaking underground magic.

At the BBO, there was an event where one continent was destroyed by the earthquake caused by Stampede.

In that case, I who escaped cannot be safe.

… It is necessary to stop stampeding at all costs.

I don't have time anymore. I need to hurry.

"I can't seem to get away from it."

With that said, I ran towards the forest of death.

"... What happened suddenly? If you enter the forest of death, you will be involved in stampede!"

Milia calls out to me, who suddenly starts running.

But there is no time to stop. I run and answer Mirlia's questions.

"I'm going to stop that stampede!"

"Stop stampede ... ?? The number of enemies is ten thousand units! It is impossible to stop stampede, no matter how eld!"

Milia tries to stop me.

But I had a chance.