Tree sea northwest of the border town. Cities in nature inhabited by numerous races, including elves, fairies and dwarves, have long been deeply involved with adventurers.
Because demons tend to lean in when the development is not progressing. They themselves don't crusade the demons that have come close to the Tree Sea Capital, and they frequently chase it away, but they also want to take the hands of adventurers more often.
Then the opinion was also raised from the outside that we should change residence or develop it like a city outside the woods, but the elves have the biological habit of living beneath grass flowers and wings, and are unfamiliar with stone houses and cities, because of the stereotypes inherent to the longevity species of those living in the woods.
That's why they hire adventurers to cope with the growth of demons as temperatures rise. Many are instant by their adventurers and become adventurers themselves, stranding the continent and raising their names.
The S-rank winged race, the highest rank of adventurers, is the S-rank of the Trinity, the first dwarf adventurer in history and the only exception to all adventurers, the Little Ghosts.
The fact that other top-ranked adventurers are being drained from this sea of trees will also play a role in the depth of their engagement with the Alliance of Adventurers.
"There he is! We're on this crusade!
In the middle of such a bio-rich tree sea. Two miles from the capital of the sub-races, Cood quickly throws a demonic sealing ceremony carved into a red brown crystal in his left hand, sharpened with a dagger in his right hand.
"KYAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!
The moment the crystal hits a sole wrapped around a giant tree characteristic of an unexplored sea of trees, it's beefy!! and discharge it with a loud noise.
Seeing a grim scream that stung his ears and start traveling with countless legs as he sputtered his saliva out of his mouth opening and closing left and right, Leia shouted, aware of the goosebumps as she stood up her bowgun.
"Oh, already! I haven't fought all these creeps lately, as it was during the previous giant gossip (Giant Bug)!?
The weapon is a silo thing that is said to be evil from an elf, but half of his own blood belongs to a race born with a bow genius. An iron arrow engraved with the unleashed rune lettering was worn by a gap in the black crust… slightly exposed flesh.
The effect of the electric shock must have also affected the slowing of the movement, but her skill in shooting the three-fired iron arrows in different dimensions as she twisted her entire body is a gift of her talent and training.
"That arrow is engraved with a loon of paralysis...... I'll take the lead, Kyle!
"Roger!"
Then Kyle, with his shield and mace, rushes out towards Sole.
"" Body/Strong "... plus," Flames, Shocks, Enhancements, Additions "!!
Physical strengthening magic, Physical Boost, increases the power throughout the body, chanting a chant consisting of four verses as they approach each other with explosive acceleration compared to normal, emitting so much heat and flame that the tip of the mace turns red that a membrane of light appears that covers them.
"Kura eh!!
"Gwaaaaaaaa!?
Kyle's altered witchcraft, which adds heat and shock enhancement to his own blow, made him the strongest means of attack, named Flamesmite, hit the demon's head directly.
The smell of burning an organism irritates Kyle's nasal cavity. Previously it was a blow to the head of the bear, but still enough to put it in the head of the enemy.
"Or... stiff...!
"Back off, Kyle!
The tip became needle-shaped tactile, trying to poke Kyle's body and send him poison, but sooner than that, the "Stonewall" protects his companion, a magic that creates stone walls from the ground, activated by Cood so that he can enter between Kyle and the demon who jumped behind him.
"That's definitely not a muckade! When I hit him on the head, I thought he hit him on the rock by mistake!
"Plus the juice dripping from the tip of the tactile melts the ground... that's definitely poisonous"
"Besides, the first paralysis is starting to unravel... what is it now, that creepy bug?"
Giant killer sentiment peat with a scientific name. The vicious and ugly demon crusade commonly known as the Great Hundred Legs is a request undertaken by three E-rank Adventurers this time.
It's a huge muckade about ten meters long, but its ferocity is not comparable to the muckade that Kyle and the others know, and what a carnivorous insect that runs from livestock to people and eats and kills them.
"I was going to crack my head with the first must-win, but I can't believe I just had to... I don't think I'm going to be confident"
In addition, the crust covering the entire body is also stubborn. Obviously out of the hands of ordinary people, monsters whose crusades are entrusted to the hands of adventurers, but above all the rejection and disgust that precedes them.
"Uh-huh...! Look at that, my touch is uneven, my legs are waspy and disgusting... I want to escape now"
"It's not better than when I fought before...?
"What if it's a mess!
Constructed of hundreds of black eyes of giant mukade, the double eyed looks straight at the three of them. Around a bug with no facial expression change, but feeling eloquent killing and anger, the first coordinated attack would have been quite overwhelming.
"Coming! Both of you, spread out! Plan two!
"Oops!
"Leave it to me!
Disease walking. Penetration. Its speed, which hits the body as it moves at a high speed, is still a military horse. Deciding on the ground, the three instantly jumped to the side, waiting for the approaching hundred feet to shrink to a distance they could not change direction as they snapped through the trees.
"Stone Wall, Expansion, Trilateral"!!
"" Water Droplets/Droplets "!!
Most creatures present in this world move in the direction in which their faces are facing. Cood is the same sorcery that activated him earlier, three before and left and right of the big hundred's face by chanting alterations, then expands to inhibit the way he goes, followed by a sorcery that allows Leia to locally rain heavy rain like a waterfall, and wet the big hundred without losing it with Fall Rain.
"Whirlwind, Cooling, Snowstorm!!
A tremendous cold air wind winds from Kyle's hand without getting his hair in there and freezes the water that wets the surface of the bulk. Ice Primary Magic, White Force.
"Okay, hardened!
"Hit me inside now!!
"Don't forget to snap your legs and sharpen your mobility too!!
Newbie adventurers who deal magic, iron arrows, daggers and a blow of mace to their opponents who seal their movements. It's a sight that looks more pathetic at first glance, but from them, if you don't do this, you won't win.
Bug, bug, bug. I'm guessing from the sightings that my strength, strength, physical strength, and stubbornness are all opponents going up. Then there can't be any pride in using all the hand tags you can hold and all the means you can use to smash them. That is the teaching of the esteemed leaders.
"Don't move it! Magic makes you as weak as you can! If it's possible, I'll take it down as it is!
"I know! Don't give me orders!
Cood and Leia continue to bathe the White Force in a hundred legged torso, not to mention as long as the magic and potion continue while fighting as usual. A short distance from those two, he was arraying by the stone wall surrounding the head of a hundred feet.
"" It's a whole burn - keep it up - burn it out "!!
Words and chants are uttered simultaneously, fireballs are ejected from Kyle's palm… Fireballs are ejected and a hundred heads are engulfed in flames.
"Piggaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!
Screaming, he's a hundred feet swinging his head left and right as he hits the stone wall, but Kyle shoots a fireball in a row just saying he has no mercy.
It was understood in the first blow that physical attacks, starting with melee attacks and the like, are not effective… rather than simply lack of power. Heavy duty mace attacks on the brain are also as hard as they fit.
We'll have to attack with flames and cold air that bugs don't like all of the time. If this is Asterios or Shirley, the hard crust will be slashed as if to break paper, but the hate-relying predecessors are not here.
Adventurers who know that allowing their opponents to fight back will greatly increase the risk of death. Something unexpected happened from them the moment I took the bottle out of the porch to drink up the potion of magic restoration that I now have in mind.
"Cuwaaaaaa!!
"Wow!?
"Ahhhhhhhh!?
I wonder if the whole body of the great hundred feet has trembled, the shock wave spreads toward all directions. The invisible blow hit his entire body hard, and the New American adventurers rolled down the ground without understanding what had happened.
"Guh... Shit, I got his restraint lifted...!
Ice and stone walls also crushed hundreds of feet stare at this one with a burnt face. Adventurers who get their bodies up trying to get back on their feet quickly. But in such a big way, the hundreds of feet suddenly ran in the wrong direction in anger.
"Piggyyyyyy!!
It would be the result of an earlier intensive attack. The hundred feet, whose feet have been slowly pressed and broken, start hitting their heads against trees and rocks as they run with Yotayota. If you look closely. The black eyeballs had carburized and the tactile sensation had burned.
"Ah, thanks to the attack on your head, you managed to help."
"But that, how do you stop stabbing me?
Around, he broke the surrounding trees and broke the rocks. We know the melee battle is tough with less skill, but there is no potion if there is no magic to attack from a distance. An earlier shock wave broke the bottle.
"For now, the potion stained in this porch, do you want to squeeze it? Looks like they haven't seen us yet."
"The question is, who drinks?"
The amount of magic that can be restored will be insignificant. Reusable magic can be used once at most, or the most specialized in sorcery attacks -
"... Kyle, please. Make up your mind in one shot. If we don't make up our minds, we'll lose any other effective means of attack."
"Ugh...... yeah"
Tension erodes Kyle's body. If we take this off, this request will end in failure. That is a loss of trust as an adventurer, just the blow that took the fate of the party.
Next to Leia, who distances herself from the rampant hundred feet and squeezes out the potion toward the empty bottle, Kyle holds her hands down trembling in tension to breathe.
What comes to mind at times like this is the back of a white swordsman who is a goal and an aspiration itself. If she is as beautiful as a flower just standing and putting up a sword, she will not be afraid to face any monsters who will forget me and go wild.
Then let's face it ourselves. Even in any difficult phase, if there is a frontier ahead of us, we can take one more step forward.
On his way back from the tree sea to the border, Cood said with a rare face.
"So, how long have you been facing each other?"
"Ah...... yeah, sorry"
The request was successful. The flaming blow, Flamesmite, was a brilliant, massive blow to the seared brain weather, appreciated by the Tree Sea Capital and a row back to the borderline city, but for some reason Kyle's expression, a winning actor, doesn't float.
"Something about the last Big Foot attack."
"That went well. One blow to the head where the opponent is raging and tired and gutted! You're right on target."
In the end, the means Kyle took was the safety measure of smashing his opponent in the head where he was raging and tired and weak. Ranged attacks that do not stabilize their aim are difficult, so they cannot be approached.
The only thing Kyle could do that didn't have the skill to scratch a rampage that scattered irregular attacks was attack far from the ideals and goals he had drawn.
Instead of choosing means of uncertainty in situations where there is no need for urgency, calmly choose means of safety and certainty. It was a blow praised by many adventurers, but as Kyle, thanks to the difference between reality and ideals, I honestly can't be happy enough to accomplish the request.
"Hang on, I knew there wasn't a guy who could make up his mind about deciding who we are right now."
"That's right...... I end up relying on magic for hard opponents, and there's nothing I can do about it if I lose my magic and potion. Some of your daggers aren't powerful."
"Some little arrow, too."
"".................. Huh!
Buy words for sale. Cood attacking Leia with a facial eagle (iron claw) and Leia booting across Cood's tibia yelled as they spit at each other.
"It's bad that you lack melee power! Even in the meantime, you broke your dagger pockingly and threw a melee round at Kyle! You suck!"
"Temehe is the one who has too little magic power! That's what happened earlier, but the Fireball only burns when it's thin on the tree!? Match stick!
"Hey, hey!? If we both stop!
Kyle walks in and stops between the two of us starting a fight for a partnership at the usual rate.
"Either way, if we don't solve this problem, it might sound like a promotion review, or we might have a new buddy."
The Adventurer Guild holds regular review boards to apply for rank advancement. For example, if the E rank is to be promoted to the D rank, the ability and the number of requests to achieve the D rank are questioned, as well as the personality.
Although it is an unexpectedly rigorous scrutiny, with heterosexual related and personal life problems affecting them as they are, none of the three of us have any particular problems with this. If there is a problem, the ability screening as a party.
It is clear that the high incidence of trouble in front of enemies with high body strength, like this one, has a negative impact on the review. There is no denying the lack of firepower with two supporters and Nakamitsu alone.
"Now I hope Mr. Asterios is here."
"You can't help not being here."
Asterios, who coached me when I first signed up as an adventurer, is currently off the party and hits the coaching of the new America I signed up for this summer. There is also a reason why high ranking adventurers will always be at the party because it will hinder Kyle's promotion.
"…… I mean, it's hot"
"... I didn't care because the sea of trees is full of shade, but walking on the plains like this is hell"
"... Ugh, I want to be able to ride a dragon (Rangitz) soon... but I don't make enough money to ride every time"
Three people bothering my head about what's going on, but I can't get my thoughts together at all in such a blaze. It must be refreshing to go away on a low dragon that runs like a wind cut, but unfortunately none of the three of us have the skill to run a dragon ride, and we don't have the money to borrow or buy it out every time.
"We'll be in the woods on the way soon, so let's take a break. There's a lake over there."
"Agreed ~"
Between the bordering city and the tree sea there is a woodland with smaller lakes. He walks with a squeeze of energy because it's never far from here, replenishing the extra hydration he brings. Thanks to Shirley's advice, I don't think I'll have to have a heat stroke.
"Ya, we're finally here."
"I can't stand it anymore, I'm gonna jump in!
The lake in the woods, which was reached in footsteps like a zombie, is transparent, and the wind stroking the surface of the water cools the lit body.
Swimming is the biggest entertainment of the summer. Just saying that the three of them were no longer able to stand the heat of the falling sun, they tried to jump in with their clothes on, but just before that, Kyle notices something odd.
"Wait a minute, both of you."
"Huh!? What!?"
"I want to jump in fast!?
"No, that."
Kyle pointed to a deep place close to the center of the lake, out of reach of people's feet. Bashabasha and water splashes are rising there.
I was wary that aquatic organisms were rampant and maybe even demons lived there, but if I stared and looked closely, it was the hands of white people peeking from the violently rippled waters.
"... I'm not drowning!?
"Ugh!?
"I need to help you quickly!
He jumps into the lake in his clothes and swims to the water splash in a hurry. All three of them often swim in springs and lakes in the summer, showing swimming so exceptional that they don't think they're wrapping a water-smoked cloth, but Kyle has one of those heads pulled out.
"Are you okay......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
"Keho... Keho..."
As he raised the upper body of the drowning person on the water in the form of leaving Cood and Leia behind, Kyle noticed that this person had long, familiar gray hair.
Hair that is wet in water and reflects light and skin that deceives snow highlighted by black swimsuits. And looking straight at the pale and red eyes slowly looking up at this face in his arms, Kyle realizes that his intuition was right.
"... Huh? Kyle,? Wh, why are you here............!?
Shirley's brilliant beauty, an admirer at close range. Thin, supple yet soft limbs. And Kyle lost consciousness the moment the feeling of a busty chest crushed by his own chest plate was transmitted to his brain.
"Wow ahhh!? Ka, Kyle's here! Kyle!!
"What is that complexion!? Are you breathing!?
The screams of the adventurers wooded in the summer sky as the lake, which was transparent, was dyed red as I saw it.