--Rattling, rattling, rattling.

The horse's hoof knocks up pebbles and dirt and runs through a pavementless beast path.

The time is still early in the morning, and it is a little depressing that the sun's light that came out of the face illuminates us from the side of the horse.

"How many?"

It's about twenty-six.

Synchronize your Enemy Sensing skills and maps while answering Hannes' short questions and constantly deploy them to the edge of your vision.

Follow the blue dots that indicate yourself and Hannes, and count them again as you watch the red dots indicate your enemies move in a semi-enclosed motion.

As far as the enemy's movements are concerned, they are moving on a platoon of two pairs of two-man cells in one team.

You can see the pairs helping each other and the other pairs covering each other when one of the pairs is wounded and leaves the front.

With about four enemies moving together, it was easy to see and calculate.

I'm a little worried that the platoon has six more teams, and that there are about two more behind us, Commander.

"There's the Fairy Tree Forest up ahead.It is a so-called lost forest gimmick that must destroy the glowing mushrooms that dot in a set order. "

"I see, you're going to destroy it while you're splitting it up."

"It's helpful to talk quickly. After we destroy the first mushrooms, we can alternate every five seconds if we run the norm fastest."

That's what Hannes sent me in a private chat with a sketch of a map of the 'Fairy Tree Forest' field.

Each one is numbered, and perhaps this is the mushroom to break and its order.

While Hannes destroys the first mushroom, it seems that I will go under number two, and Hannes will go under number three so that he can go ahead.

And if we don't mess with each other and destroy them as fast as we can, we can destroy our place in ten seconds.

Five seconds after Mr. Hannes destroyed the first one, I destroyed number two, and five seconds after that, Mr. Hannes, who was ahead, destroyed number three.

And as soon as I break number two, it'll take me about ten seconds to get down to number four... and if I repeat this, every five seconds, the mushrooms will be destroyed.

The route written on the map also seems to be well developed, so you can attack Gimmick without signaling to each other or stopping while being chased by a chaser.

There's no need to communicate at all... just focus on destroying it within ten seconds.

"Look, don't fuck with me, okay? Never stop."

"If we stop, we'll be surrounded."

Tilt your neck slightly as you look at the icons of enemies that are constantly closing their distance.

Are these people looking for Hannes, too?

"Is Hannes on the bounty, too?"

They're on the other side.

I see.

I mean, they're going to take advantage of this to kill Hannes, too... because they got caught up in a fight with me, and now you can make as many excuses as you want.

Is that so? Is there a time when a bounty can be multiplied by people from behind the scenes?

Well, even if...

― ― You've been licked.

Ugh, that's not true.

Even though they look down on me, it's not interesting where they think it's okay to reach out to other people at the same time without just saying that.

Hannes laughed ridiculously and agreed to my murmur.

You set me up.

I checked back and forth to see if I had enough distance, or if I saw them on horses like us throwing axes all at once.

Ponko-san ― Sniper

As they throw the axe, we'll let Ponko take the form of a gun and then shoot at only what hits us straight.

It was at the same time that a burst sound like tapping a Japanese drum in the ear echoed around the ear, and a tall sound of an axe being played reached the ear.

"... no, you said you got the stuff."

You're counting on Hannes, too.

At the same time as the chasers feel the signs of upset, they see the forest in the direction of travel... even though it was an open place just now, it looks like it showed up suddenly.

Is this the hallmark of a field called the Lost Forest?

"If I blink, I'll break up."

"Meet me in the Boss Battle."

Shortly after that brief exchange of words - Hannes magically activates a small sandstorm in the back.

Break it up into the woods with a signal, run the shortest route, and rush to the second place to destroy the mushroom.

"... let's get a little frustrated."

Running through the woods with a horse, the steel thread is stretched between the surrounding trees, obstructing the pursuer's path.

I have prepared a particularly thin object in the dark forest, so it would be easier for one or two people to fall off now.

Well, there's no such thing as convenience, and I can't shake it off for the shortest convenience of traveling to a specific place.

Depending on the route, there are some places you need to turn back.

─ Ah, there it is.

As Hannes said, a mushroom the size of a hug was emitting a pale light in the dark forest.

Shoot it right through and manipulate the rope to change course to the right.

When I suddenly turned around and tried to catch up with me, I was chased diagonally by one of the fewer chasers.

"... would you like to reduce the number a little more?"

After "marking" the horse, he stood on the back of the horse and jumped with the thread wrapped around the branches of the tree to move right in front of the chasers.

You can see them suddenly stiff from the eyes that you can see over the mask.

There is no advantage in waiting for them to be resurrected in that state, so they kick those who remain close and land on the back of the horse.

"Kill me..."

"--Shadow Transformation"

One of the confused commanders will perform a short shift by Mr. Yamayama just before giving the order, perhaps because he was watching the situation the most backward.

At the same time as jumping out of the shadow of his horse that he had marked beforehand, he shot through and destroyed the fourth one, which was just nearby.

Shortly after I shoot through the mushrooms, I hear the explosion of explosives planted on the enemy horse just before I escape in transit, and I see the enemy's icon with my horizontal eyes.

"Hyi, fuu, myi... it seems that there are a few dropouts."

He passes by cutting the mossy soil, jumping over the roots of the trees, and lowering the branches of the trees above his head.

While doing so, you can see a chaser who doesn't try to hide his anger and killing, throwing an axe while tearing the bursting smoke.

Unlike my Ponzo and the poison needle, the throwing of an axe with a center of gravity at the tip flys like an arc, so it seems that you can target while avoiding the trees in the forest.

It also has the advantage of not requiring a lot of movement when throwing, and being able to do it easily while riding a horse.

Properly sprinkle powder balls backwards on hand axes that appear to spin and burst from behind surrounding trees.

The axe trajectory is deflected by the explosion caused by a small series of explosions.

Then he threw a dagger at one of the axes that had changed course and destroyed the sixth mushroom.

"They're doing the same thing."

With the battle sounds that sometimes resonate from a little distance, Hannes realizes that he is also doing the norm with a chaser.

"I can't lose either."

I switched from Ponko to a dagger, and after getting Yamayama to turn it into a large dagger, I cut off the appropriate trees and branches, and wound them into logs with thread.

By sucking a dagger that has been released from the large dagger state into his mouth and turning the logs connected from the thread with both hands whispering a wind chip sound - throwing in a timely manner, the thread, which acquired the center of gravity of the logs at the tip, flies in all directions while drawing an arc.

If the thread gets caught in the surrounding trees and branches, the logs suddenly change their route and angle, hitting their heads from behind, and one person is seen falling.

Shit!

Regardless of the tongue spanking that you can hear from Kochira, the thread thrown backwards winds up like winding up the branch of the tree behind you, and the logs cut through the wind from above the chaser's head and poured down.

If the thread is caught from the top against the branch, it will fly from the rear, and if it is caught from the bottom, the mass of logs will approach from the front.

I wonder if they gave me a sense of intimidation and tension there.

"― ― Ha-ha-nam (eighth)"

Cut off the thread from each finger and take Ponzo again to shoot through the mushroom.

Holding the rope with the other hand, he starts the assault by turning back into the middle of the chaser.

Once again, I changed my weapon from Ponko-san to a dagger and gathered more shadows by holding it in the upper stage, which Mr. Yagami had made into a large dagger.

Shortly afterwards, surprised at me who suddenly turned back towards them, they were immediately drawn to the big dagger I held, making their eyes peek out of the mask.

If you don't want to die, leave.

The moment my declaration overlaps with the enemy commander's order to scatter - I shake through the Dagger.

――

Mr. Yamayama's "Shadow Concentration" increased the density and sharpness of the blade by ejecting it through the "Spring Dagger" skill's "Spring Dagger" without stopping.

It seems that the chaser is chasing us so that we are surrounded by the left and right, not the rear, but as far as the icon is concerned, it seems that there are more dropouts.

"Now, shall we force them to join the boss fight?"

We should be able to pave the way to the boss in a few moments... unless Hannes is haunted.

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