I’m an Adventurer! ~Musou Skill is Plane Magic~
Episode 16 - Cumming Out, But Safe?
Earlier the next morning, Mr Vincent and his escorts traveled north a day ahead of schedule. After selling the forest potatoes in the trading city, they quickly sell the Dantes and ketchup to see how they react.
They say there are no major ups and downs to the trading city, and there are grasslands, hills, and considerable forest areas. It is weaker than near the big forest, but it seems that monsters also appear. I don't feel very relieved. But the most frightening thing is the bandits.
Near the Great Forest is the border, but there are no bandits unexpectedly. Because there's no place to hide. There are fierce monsters in the woods, so you can't hide in such a place. If you were skilled enough to do that, you would be a great adventurer.
But somewhere far away from the big forest, you can survive with some skill. If it's a population, the chances of survival are even higher. That's how the gangsters are forming a gang of bandits. They say it's the biggest threat north of the Great Forest.
Bad security, actually?
After dropping off the wagon, he gathered and soaked the leaves of the daily paper tree, finished the salary distribution, and then headed to the field. Soaking and payroll have recently become my business. "I can't let you work in the fields or hunt monsters yet, but I'll try to help you." Yes, but if you use magic.
My father and I will take him out of the field. My father and I are going to look around.
The men in the village are rotating around in four shifts. Early morning to early noon group, day to evening group, evening to late night group, late night to early morning group. Two pairs during the day and two at night. A wife becomes a pair during the day. The village chief took care to have the whole family eat together. I've been thinking a lot.
"Beet, the western potato fields are just seed potatoes, so don't dig them up.
"I won't dig it up! But let's play in the Tomba field today.
"Oh, come home in the evening.
Go to the corner of the field in a loving conversation with your father.
But soon I felt something strange and stopped. Looks like someone is approaching the village. It's not from the south of the forest. From the north. Besides, I'm in a hurry. Don't get to the gate soon. You must have noticed the sentry standing on the sentry post.
Shall we go?
The visitors were Vincent and the others. But something is wrong. He's in a terrible hurry. Someone informed me that the village chief had arrived.
"What's the matter, Vincent, you're a bandit!?"
"I'm not going anywhere, Dantes!
It's not unusual for things to be tougher than bandits. Maybe a dragon!? One of the "things I want to do before I die in another world" will come true!?
"Hey, there's a swarm of pheasant and pheasant headed our way!
What!
It wasn't that close! This really sucked!!
A calamity beyond the power of man is called a 'calamity'. Earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, droughts, etc., are mostly life-threatening. And the invasion of sea urchins, the so-called "locust plague", is also classified as a natural disaster.
It's called a sea urchin, but it's not exactly what the original world calls a sea urchin. All large butterflies that can fly are called pheasant. Entomology is not that developed.
When locust infestation occurs, the damaged area becomes barren without any exaggeration. Humans and animals are bitten, but everything made of plants and trees, such as cotton, linen, thatched roofs, and house pillars, is eaten up. And what it causes is a fierce famine. Anyway, there's nothing to eat. There's not a single weed left. The locust infestation will not even be tolerated if the stockpile is cut down and managed to exceed one year and wait for the next year's harvest.
Lobster herds leave eggs before they die. The egg hatches the following year and becomes a new eel. In other words, large quantities of salmon occur the following year. And the following year, there will be another massive outbreak of locust infestation… for years to come. That way, no other creature can live in the land anymore. We have to throw it away.
Although it is a bug, it is locust infestation that is so terrifying.
Incidentally, the village chief taught me this knowledge. During his adventurer days, he saw a village that had been damaged.
He said he was hired as a food escort, but it seemed awful. Everyone was slimming and wrapping up a slight potato, saying that it was like a zombie listening to the story to fight ugly against a potato.
Such despair is coming to this village now.
Looking at the northern sky, I don't know what the reason is, but the area near the surface is red and black. That must be a herd of pheasants.
Is the distance about 50 km? It is likely that we will reach this village in a few hours as soon as possible. I don't have enough time.
"... evacuate... no, but where... to hide... temporarily bury? But time...
The village chief, who is always summarily executed, is unusually troubled. Naturally, there are no more options. We don't have enough time to escape or take action. There is no more way to leave the villagers or the village itself intact.
Except for one.
"Village chief."
I had a surprisingly calm voice.
"... a beat. I'm sorry, but I don't have time for this right now. Later.
Of course you're coming. But we can't pull here. Because it's a crisis in this village, in this village where I was born and raised. That's why I keep going.
"Mayor, I might be able to do something about it.
"... beet?
"Mayor, I can use magic.
I finally revealed it. I thought it would be revealed one day, but it was like a bad read cartoon when the village was in danger of survival. If it's a serial series, I'll cut it out in two volumes.
"Beat, what are you saying...
I thought you wouldn't believe it, so I put out my right hand and tried to create a transparent ball shining on my palm. We just set up a transparent material that is refracted on the sphere and put a point light source in the center of it. It is registered in the library as a "false fortune-telling ball", but I thought I would not have the opportunity to use it. I can't believe I actually use it.
"This is it! You, really!?
Not at first glance. Normally, the chief of the village looks at my balls and my face alternately and makes my eyes shine. Not only the village chief, but Vincent, Anna, Dad, and Dent didn't seem surprised enough to say.
"I'll use my magic to stop that pheasant. The village chief fell trees out of the woods among the villagers. As much as you can.
"... can you do it?"
"I'll do it.
He nodded with cockroach. Probably no problem, but I can't say for sure because I haven't done it. Believe me, no, I'll do it even if I can't. Someone said that in my last life.
Nothing is impossible in the world. There's just something I haven't done yet.
I'll do it now. That's all. The decision seems to have been conveyed to the village chief.
"Okay, I'll take care of the pheasant. You heard him! If you can fight, prepare for battle, otherwise prepare for felling and go to the woods! We're running out of time, get ready and gather at the gate!
"" "Yes!
As soon as the village chief gave the order, everyone rushed to prepare. Except for Dad.
"Beat, man... no, nothing. One of them came. I'll take care of this.
"Dad... yeah, I'll do my best!
Dad slaps himself in the chest and runs to prepare. I have a lot to say, but you won't say it now. Yes, now (...).
After all, my father is handsome inside. Seriously, God, isn't it too much?
I'll run north from the gate after I've seen my dad get ready. I want to deal with it as far away from the village as possible. I'm afraid of the aftermath, but I run with my strength fully open. It should be fast enough to run 100 meters in nine seconds. It's a seven-year-old. If there were an Olympic Games in this world, would it not be an unprecedented record on parade?
Was it about five kilometers from the village? The red and black clouds are approaching. When you get close, you can pull back a little on its prestige. A horror movie where a swarm of zombies gather together? Fear is more directly stimulated than that. After all, red and black walls approaching at speeds of less than 20 km/h, about 3 km east-west, about 80 m high and too thick to measure. Inago sounds like a wave, and there's no sense of intimidation.
"Now, let's get started.
It was probably because of tension that I murmured without telling anyone. Because what I'm going to do is challenge my limits.
The easy thing to do is to 'build and push a big wall'. Except that the wall is unprecedented in size. I've never had the opportunity to build a wall more than three kilometers wide.
Breathe deeply and calm down a little, then practice your magic more carefully than usual and build a wall. The size is still about 3x3m. The thickness is extremely thin as usual and the material setting is colorless and transparent. If we don't know what the other side of the wall looks like, we don't know how long we're gonna keep going. Zoom this out vertically and horizontally. Just in case, it will expand to about 100m and 4km on the left and right. She took a little more magic than usual, but she didn't use 10% of it. There seems to be no particular problem. Keep your position fixed and never let them get near the village.
After about three minutes, I heard the sound of something hitting the wall. It looks like you've finally arrived. I saw a slightly dull black butterfly crawling across the wall. The size is about 4cm and only the eyes have a strangely bright red color. It's like a black Showa Rider. Had it not been for this, I would have gladly caught you. Oh, is that why you look like a red and black cloud?
The sound is getting more and more. Each sound was neglected enough to be heard, but now it can only be heard by noise.
Then I heard an ominous noise mixed with the noise. It sounds like it's a gish or a mischief.
No, no, wait, wait! There are many planes that can afford to be attacked by giant claw bears, but only insects!? It's been less than 30 minutes!?
While you're wobbling, the tingling begins to intersect.
No, seriously!? Akan, come on!!