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Leaving Kerdick for Ontaria, the next city.

Ontaria.

With a huge lake nearby and easy access to quality water, the Plains of Mardaba between Kerdic and Kerdic had become a barn zone.

A barn zone that usually brings grace to people's lives. But now it has become a demonic nest. You can find demons hiding in tall plants just by scouting lightly from the sky.

Nothing has changed since a few days ago.

When I told General Holkes about it, it was decided to proceed as originally planned.

"We will bypass the Plains of Mardaba and head to Ontaria. From there, you should be able to use the waterway to reach the Imperial City."

"Um..."

The knight of the Gardis Imperial Army, who was at the meeting, raises his hand.

I'm not supposed to be a knight high enough to attend a meeting, but he was now in charge because someone of higher standing than him had fallen out of the house.

"Lake Ontaria is also famous as a serene lake with no demons. But given the current situation, isn't it possible that there are demons?

"It's possible indeed. But so far no demons have been identified on Lake Ontaria"

"Why not…"

"That's because this runoff is starting a labyrinth"

Getting out of the labyrinth caused the earth to overflow with demons.

Besides, the sea around the Gardis Empire now confirms if some of the labyrinth is connected to the sea.

There is also a demon as powerful as a dragon in the sky from a big hole drilled around the labyrinth.

Land, sea, sky - all filled with demons.

Except for the lake on the inside of the land.

"There are aquatic demons that can travel land like sahaggins. But it's hard to travel long distances from Ilkite to Lake Ontaria."

All I had from the beginning was a dear demon.

The numbers have decreased, but with a large number of soldiers, we can be prepared.

"According to reports, there are also many serene demons that come and go around Ontaria. It's safer to detour than to make a longitudinal journey through the Plains of Mardaba, which has already confirmed that there are numerous demons."

"... that's what I was thinking"

General Holkes looks outside the march with a drawn grin.

On the road to Ontaria. A bear-shaped demon emerges from the other side, which was hilly and difficult to see.

A bear whose only part of her chest grew white on her black whole body hair. It has the characteristic that the larger the white part, the more rabid it becomes.

"Fallen Bear……!?"

"How can there be so many S-ranked demons that I rarely encounter...!

Soldiers in the Glenvarga army tremble their bodies.

S-rank demons.

It is said that we must be prepared for the destruction of nearby cities even if only one is confirmed. Earn the time it takes for a valuable, existential S-rank adventurer to rush, at the expense of the city.

But there's nothing here that can be sacrificed.

And that's ten powerful demons. It was a sight that no matter how prepared the soldiers were, they could not help but remember their fears.

"Damn, you couldn't have noticed their approaching!?

"Shh, excuse me......!

Even the army was releasing scouts.

It was as close as ever, but I couldn't notice the proximity.

"That's weird."

"Yes."

My whining Sylvia reacted.

Across the hill where Fallen Bear appeared, he was releasing reconnaissance and kept watching. But I couldn't find ten more vicious demons hidden than Fallen Bear.

Sylvia, who was on guard around her, didn't even notice at all.

Appeared really abrupt.

"I'm just curious about the way you showed up. But now it's a priority to deal with Fallen Bear."

In the military, just endure it the best you can.

If we can do something about Fallen Bear, it's just us.

We all run and head to Fallen Bear. Fallen Bear seems to have seen us approaching as a threat, wary of upside down hair. Especially with half the chest in the deepest part of the herd. Fallen Bear is rolling hostility.

- Dokun!

"... what?

I stop by remembering the strange feeling.

"Mars?"

Worried Ira stops her leg.

Apparently Ira didn't notice.

"And Noel too?

It was Noel who noticed something else besides me. Rather than that, thanks to the connection between the labyrinth family and the witch, Noel's senses were conveyed to me as well.

"Ira, you go first"

"Are you okay?"

"This one's fine, so help the Sylvias who went first"

"Oh, hey......!

In secrecy, Sylvia pierces Fallen Bear's belly with a dagger. But not fatally wounded by the thick flesh of a bear. Even Fallen Bear, who was stabbed, realizes that there is Sylvia there and waves her hand down bigger than a person. Pulling through the dagger while dodging the waved hands draws attention, including Fallen Bear, who had the knife behind him.

Melissa's unleashed blade of wind and the ice columns produced by Illis tear Fallen Bear's body apart.

But that's the kind of demon designated as a disaster. Imminent with lots of blood and fierce signs.

"Ha!"

Fallen Bear's body, which was in the lead, is amputated.

There's nothing I can do about that Fallen Bear being turned into a straight two, either.

Me and Noel may be able to make you struggle with the loss, but the four of them alone may be okay over there.

We should make Noel a priority now.

"What was that thing now?

I look at the fox ear over my head as I ask.

During the battle, the fox ears pointing upwards with the pins are losing power and falling down with Petan.

"... there's something ahead"

"Something?

"Yeah. It's like it's looking at us."

A sign that only Noel felt.

Sylvia's failure to detect means a special presence that only Noel can feel from ultra-long distances.

"God?

Noel nodding.

Ahead - there is a God in Ontaria. It's also like a god who's hostile to us, where Noel gets scared just because he feels signs.

A large group of demons and gods.

Put it on the scale which is the more threatening.

But my previous experience immediately reminded me of the hassle of dealing with God.

"Maybe we shouldn't go to Ontaria. Suggest we take on an escort, but we break through the Plains of Mardaba..."

"A demon!

I noticed a demon flying out of the Plains of Mardaba by a soldier who was in the rear.

It's a bunch of killer jackals leading the way. There's a deer-shaped demon running further back.

"This......!

A knight with a shield and sword rushes to a soldier who was about to be attacked by a killer jackal and tries to receive a flying killer jackal with a shield.

But Killer Jackal jumps across and into the march as he scaffolds his shield.

"Shit......!

The aim of Killer Jackal is to disintegrate it from the inside out from the beginning.

At the very least, it cuts from the thought to the gray deer-shaped demon that was behind it.

- Gimp!

However, the increased radiance causes the sword to play on the skin that has changed from gray to silver.

"Silver Grey Deer (Silver Ashdia) ……! How could such a demon…!

He is usually gray, but has the ability to increase his defense by changing his appearance to silver when on alert.

At the same time, he had troublesome abilities.

"Silver breath......?

Silver breath exhales from Silver Ashdia's mouth. But that wasn't the kind of exhalation the dragon would spit for the attack.

"Don't smoke that!

"Heh...? Damn, ahhh...!

I cried out for attention but didn't make it.

Silver breath - the knight who inhaled the ashes could no longer breathe and fell and died like an algae scratch tormented in search of air.

"Hino!

Silver ash that you can see is dangerous at a glance.

Whoever inhales it dies with his lungs torn to bits. The leakage of air makes me have to seek air at the end of the day.

Soldiers fleeing the silver ashes.

"You know what?"

It will escape in the opposite direction to nature and the Plains of Mardaba.

Apparently, the enemy god wants to invite him to Ontaria where he is.

"Killer jackals can be handled with soldiers who are keeping a little calm. Looks like we're gonna have to make our way to Ontaria somehow."

"Yeah."

Noel, who is feeling ominous signs from Ontaria, agrees powerlessly.