Enough to leave until the opening ceremony.

Then they say it takes forty minutes for the participants to go into the woods, so it actually starts fifty minutes later?

The audience was also now filling most of them. … the seat immediately next to the right remains vacant.

………

Belgrette looks around, just overwhelmed.

Waves of people gathered to gather. We can't possibly grasp the full story from here, but we have a 30,000 audience.

Even as a girl knight, this is not the first time I have participated in such a venue. Still, this heavenly banquet is hugely different in size.

This enthusiasm. A festival to name the country. Strong men assembled.

(Lugo......)

This huge buzz pushes me away with great anxiety as it is. No matter how much he is, whether or not he can fulfill and decorate the victory so well.

Until this day, Belgrette was researching the heavenly banquet, but rather the anxiety had increased.

Indeed, drift protection exhibits unparalleled strength if it is one-on-one.

But this is an encounter where and when you don't know who to bump into. If someone else takes down a strong enemy and targets him where he's worn out. If a user like Dino or Enrokaku comes under attack by two people. Demon warrior Maygus and others have already been found to compete in as many as eleven. I am used to the heavenly banquet itself, and some would specialize in strategies that draw on experience.

Though it's a duen non-participation, it's by no means an insult.

(... I...,)

We need to hurry up and get a lot of money for Myol to get top treatment. The only way to construct it is to aim to win a prize at the Heavenly Banquet. Above all, with a reward for fulfilling a wish, we must demand that the doctor arrange it. And the only way I can do that is with drift protection. And now he's a Raindeer guerrilla. It is unacceptable to have the result of applying mud to the name of the country.

There is too much on the boy's shoulder.

(... I know)

Everything, I know.

Still, be safe... nothing, I want you to come home.

- If Lifeguard will return safely. Because I lost straight away, and I don't mind.

(... ugh!?

Shake your head and strike down the thought that came to mind.

(Now............ to......)

That's a paranoia like flipping all the numerous anxieties.

Some drooling clutter, like it's not my own, like it's been overflowing from the depths of darkness.

It's as if an invisible evil spirit has been whispering.

(... me, what...!?

I felt confused and angry at myself for having such thoughts in my brain.

... Are you starting to get tired of staying in an unfamiliar exotic country...

(..., I need to be willing and supportive!

I tapped my cheeks gently with both hands and tightened my feelings.

So - next to the right that was empty, someone sits down. At the same time, a bottled beverage rolled over to Belgrette's feet. Must have been something dropped by the person sitting next to you.

"..., um... this, have you been dropped?

"Oops......, sorry. Thanks."

If I picked it up and talked to him, it was a young man who received it with a smile. Young...... but ten would be above Belgrette.

Light dark skin and habitual dark hair. Many women are attracted to a face that feels tough and accomplished. He is dressed in charcoal grey courtesy, and his legs are smooth and long. A handkerchief or silver bracelet wrapped around your arm peeking through your chest pocket is an obvious luxury item. They also look good without dislike, and I can feel the elegance in standing. Could be noble.... but because of the color of the skin and the facial makeup, I'm not supposed to be a refeit person -

It was a work pattern called knight, a bellgrette that quickly confirmed the character of the opponent.

"……………… Hmm"

More than that, the man was seriously observing Belgrette.

Ugh, the young man, who noticed the frightened Belgrette, says haphazardly.

"Excuse me. It was someone too beautiful, with"

In response to your praise,

"... no, I'm afraid"

The Girl Knight still clouds her tea with a gavel that is set. But the man still talks about it.

"And that's surprising. From what I've seen, it looks like one of you... a woman like you is watching the Heavenly Boom Banquet without her company?

"Because my friend is out there..."

I smelled them and tried to break up the conversation. but the man speaks without hesitation.

"Cheng Cheng, it's an odd encounter. My men are out there too... Huh, don't be so vigilant. I'm here for work, so I'm not going to give you a break. [M] I regret that if I ever met such a beautiful woman, I should have come on a personal matter..."

"Ha... You're good."

At that time, a low sound sounded like Jiji from the front...... Immediately afterwards, the surrounding audience boils wacky.

Belgrette said something about turning her face forward.

A huge black mirror set in the front row of the spectator's seat. There, the light-emitting letters were floating.

Figures from 001 to 189. Below each number, the letters are engraved short.

That's a name.

All one hundred and eighty-nine participants. The number assigned to each ring to be worn and the name of its owner.

At the same time as understanding, huge ripples unfolded over the sky. The voice of a woman who often passes sounds.

'Yes, hello everyone! This time, I will be in charge of audio, this is Scenomea Faffett, thank you! Now all participants have completed their ring fitting. I think the name and number of the player is currently displayed in the blackwater mirror. Please check with me. If there are any defects in the display, please contact the attendant at HQ.'

Earlier than they said, Belgrette was running his eyes in turn from 001. Along the way, the names you know are in sight.

022, Gonder Shrimp Seal.

085, Digos Akelone.

099, Enrokak.

Not many other contestants can see it, but this man didn't show his last name. Don't you have a last name, or didn't you dare name me at the time of registration?

106, Dino Gailroen.

"... ah"

And I found it.

124, Lugo Aliumi.

... Finally. I'm ready. It's in order.

All you have to do is wait for it to start.

"… 079, or"

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, I heard blurring and whining from next door to my right.

Speaking of which, the man in this courtesy said his men were going to compete. If Belgrette keeps up with those numbers...

079, Chav Dapperve, and. Naturally it is a name I do not know.

"What about the lady?"

and a man turns his face toward Belgrette at such a predictable time.

"Your daughter... who do you expect to win?

…………

Moments, bothered me.

Follow the flow anticipated by many in the world and cut off the story, even in the name of the magician Maygus. But I'm sorry if I joked about pushing the people who made Myol look like that.

"Thirteen Musketeers" without difficulty?

If it is meant to be, you should not leave the shelter. Above all, a name nobody knows unless it's around the King's Capital in Raindeer.

"Huh, I guess it's hard to predict. This time, the most powerful warrior in the refe is out. If you try it on the participants, it might be an easy" win "but... from the viewpoint of the audience, it could be something a little lacking in excitement."

In response to that phrase, which seemed a little discouraged,

I'm Lugo Aliumi.

Reflectively, I was answering.

To a decent courtesy gentleman,

"I'm Lugo Aliumi, number 124. Who wins?"

As I tapped into it, I was reciting it.

The man, who had a surprised look on his face, immediately breaks his face.

"Huff, right. Your friend about competing...... no, is he your boyfriend?

"He... it's not the same. Well, who do you think is going to win?

I panic and try to get off topic and return questions that connect conversations. You're bothering to put your men on the field, so it's supposed to be an answer you don't even have to ask.

- That's right.

But the young man with his hand under his chin,

"Invalid Match" No Contest "

"... Huh?

"The winner is not here. The warriors have all fallen, and no one has stood until the end - how amusing is that?"

…………

To the thin grin of the man with his narrowed eyes, Belgrette somehow felt something zorky.

"Then a total of one hundred and eighty-nine warriors will be admitted to the Garden of the Infinite!

In a clear sky, an easy-to-hear soprano woods the spirit.

Surrounded by a river around thirty metres across the outer circumference, the 'Garden of the Unlimited' is bridged only in two places, north and south, and this is the only point of entry and exit. The contestants are randomly split in half and enter the woods from each bridge.

"Shit..."

Liquid protection accidentally hits his tongue as he crosses a long bridge across the south side alongside Gonder.

He was an exodus who had thought to tail after Dj Foul, but much of that man and the devil fighter Maygus had been assigned to the bridge on the north side. While people are drinking and traveling, they have also lost sight of the rest of the people entering from the same south side.

"Don't go away, Lord Lugo. Either way, they should act harder. Setting up that number of people early on isn't much of a plan."

"... oh, so is that"

In this case, we just have to hope they survive until we hit it with ourselves. It's the most 'corner of the winning candidate', so it won't disappear easily, I think ironically.

The drift guards also crossed the bridge and finally stepped on the soil of the 'Garden of the Infinite'.

Twenty minutes is enough time for each of them to scatter into the garden. Acts of violence are forbidden.

"... I see... Oh,"

Look around and squeal unexpectedly.

Depressed and lush branches as covered. A slight light from that gap engraves a neglected sunspot on the ground. Or threaded bends in distortion, or rigidly standing thick wooden trunks and roots that creep to erode the earth. All of which would fully serve as a shield in the event of a rash.

The woods, where huge trees of unimaginable age glide together, provide a sense of oppression to the point of breathlessness. Something's going to pop out of the servant in front of us now.

It also seemed like a characteristic of a place called the Spirit Ground or an atmosphere similar to Dealey's Cave, which I visited on my first assignment. The air is then surprisingly clear and I even feel comfortable that my body and mind will be washed.

It was a strange space, with the impression of a mixture of evil and sacred.

(... this... doesn't seem easy)

Hard to grasp the signs Spirit Forest. I don't know when or by whom. Heavy pressure.

The burden on the spirit should be unimaginable. That is no exception to drift protection. It was Tyzen's story that around twenty people would surrender each time, but the boy was convinced that it was not impossible either.

Seven hour time limits are in place, but that won't be the first thing to prolong them.

The communications for the headquarters seat, which had been heard earlier, had already been deafened. That also seems to be a characteristic of the spiritual field, and this' garden of the infinite 'blocks sounds from the outside.

A forest that cuts off outside interference to an unbelievable atmosphere. It was like a separate world in isolation.

"All right... well, Lord Lugo"

Gonder stopped his leg as he walked next door.

"Let's say we break up here. Pray for good luck. The protection of Cure Renaissance."

"That way."

We poked each other's fists and broke up with each other. Drop off the back of a misty ice magician leaving.

- There was also the means to fight with Gonder.

The anger toward Maygus, the demon martial artist who hurt Myol, is the same. The guys are a bunch of eleven. If this one is also about the two stray guards and the gonder, the burden should be lighter.

In fact, we had also received offers of joint fighting from the person in question.

"Do you want to fight with me to put down the hammer on the magician" Maygas ",.

But the shield turned this down.

Gonder Shrimp Seal, once a fog ice magician who saw Mami as an enemy.

I understand the more powerful it is, and since coming to Lefe, I have been asked to provide a room to take care of it. Now, I don't doubt him in strength or personality.

- That was last night.

In preparation for the heavenly banquet, a grand dinner was behaved at the inn. Gonder said it was Shimodo, but the appearance commemoration made the guests drink and quickly crumble.

His father, the innkeeper, said, poking at the table and staring at the sleeping gonder.

"This idiot son, I've been dreaming about going to heavenly banquets since I was a kid. Come on. Good luck tomorrow, too. If you meet this idiot, don't hesitate to beat him down. '

A heavenly banquet is a stage you can admire if you try it on the men of the refeit. Such, my first participation in the martial arts festival I dreamed of. I wanted Gonder not to be held hostage, but to fight whatever he wanted.

Stream protection is different.

Winning a prize to treat Myol is also the reason, but it can be said that the desire to give back interest to Maygus, the magician who created the cause in the first place, is the driving force.

(... I don't know... I guess I'm halfway there...)

If it was meant to be, I guess we should fight together, no matter what. But as a drift shield, I'm also serious about winning. Assuming we fight together, we defeat all our enemies, and there are only two left...... at that point, we have to be hostile to Gonder. I felt like I was just using it and throwing it away, and I didn't like it. Gonder, I got stuck thinking "I would think too much."

Any boy who chooses to fight alone walks a narrow beast path through the woods. I took the map out of the bag and checked the current location.

(I just went into the woods... and now I guess around here)

The interior was richer in ups and downs than I thought, and there was also a scattering of gradients, snug slopes, and a few cliffs.

Along the river near the outer circumference, there also appear to be plains without trees. Positionally, you'll see the whole thing from the audience.

According to the map, there are also cliffs and small lakes at a height of nearly twenty metres in the heart of the "garden of infinity".

Between the trees, I saw a shadow. You noticed this one over there, too, and you hide it sassy.

... Although direct combat is still forbidden, the struggle has already begun.

Find the right place to hide. Find an easy point to snipe. Create a trap. You should use this twenty minutes and be carefully prepared.

... but.

When it comes to drift protection, there's actually not much to do.

I want to avoid being found hiding in a bad place and getting shot unilaterally.

If I can't use the Divine Chant "Oracle," I don't have the knowledge to create a trap. At the end of the day, all I can do is wave these two fists.

What I am currently aware of is that I will not encounter strong enemies - especially Dino - at an early stage.

As for stray protection for the win, I wanted to put the fight against the opponent, who would be the most drained if he clashed, behind as much as possible. I haven't seen that yet, either at the opening ceremony or on the road so far. If you came in from the north side, it would help a lot.

- Would it have been about fifteen minutes since I walked with that in mind?

Shaking the bush ahead, the man appeared.