I’m an Adventurer! ~Musou Skill is Plane Magic~

Episode 22 ~ It was supposed to be a classic, but it was my first encounter ~

It is also the third day of the trip. The journey to this point has generally proceeded smoothly.

It came almost straight north from the village, but only one side of the wasteland continued. Looks like the boar damage is quite extensive. Was the outlook sweet?

I thought it was just the visible area. I tried to collect the soil with the flat bulldozer in the example and repeatedly consolidated it, but since it could not be heated and cleaned, I could only dig deep holes and fill them. I hope it won't be locust infestation again next year.

Is that what I am? While I was doing this, the carriage proceeded as planned. I can quickly catch up with physical enhancement, and I know where I am with signs. There is no need to delay your trip in vain.

And again this morning, I was able to gather the dirt and bury it and repeat it, catching up with the carriage that was resting around noon.

"Oh, you're back. Thank you very much. Look, I don't think there's any loose ends around here.

The village chief who welcomed me back said, dropping his gaze on his feet. As you can see, the wasteland is unchanged, but the weeds in the form of bamboo-like leaves grow everywhere. Because it is quite large, it does not seem to have grown after being eaten. Which means...

"That's good. You don't have to dig any more holes!

"Ah, well done.

The village chief can stroke your head. Because it is strong, it may be closer to being pinched.

"That was just right. I'm heading to the woods now, so it's a little dangerous to act alone.

Vincent drops in and mixes up with the conversation.

In the woods? It's dangerous. Why?

"If I go north about a day from here, there is a slightly larger river flowing, but if I go straight ahead, the river width and depth are quite large, so I can't cross it. The flow is not that fast. Because the forest is upstream, there is a shallow water that can be crossed by a carriage.

This forest is a forest at the foot of the Kurosanyaku mountain range that runs north and south on our eastern side. It is connected to the large forest to the south, so it is called the "Hokkaido Forest". However, for some reason, the monster is not as strong as the big forest, but it seems to be slightly stronger than other demons. It seems that the monsters of the Great Forest rarely move to the Peking University Forest. What do you got?

I see. But if there's a river, you can wash yourself.

I see. I also need to refill my drinking water.

I had plenty of drinking water in the barrel, but I was worried about replenishing it somewhere. About 40% has already been consumed. The temperature is getting cold, but it is still hot during the day. Refills and replacements will be necessary as water may rot.

As I approached the forest, I began to get caught up in a lot of signs. There seems to be quite a few monsters. However, according to the advance information, there are few monsters with strong signs. At best, it's about an oak in the big forest. It's as strong as a fake rock turtle that most of us have found before, even counting it with one hand. It's not a danger to me, it's not a playground.

Once you're in the woods, you move along narrow paths like the Beast's Road to sew through gaps in the trees. There are tree roots sticking out everywhere, and the carriage on it bounces like a rodeo. I thought it would be better to run side-by-side than riding with too much butt pain, and I decided to serve as a guard, but when I thought about it carefully, I realized that if I lifted the carriage in a flat plane, it would not only bounce but would not vibrate. Vincent and the village chief were surprised that the vibration suddenly disappeared, but when I thumped up towards Vincent in the podium, I smiled with a convincing face.

I'm not the only one parallel to the carriage. Anna and Ursula are running with the escort adventurers.

I'll introduce you to the other two escorts.

One of them is Lisa, a scoundrel and dagger, about 150 cm old. They don't wear armor and instead wear leather vests and trousers that look sturdy.

The other one is a bowman named Mass. Is she about 155cm tall and a little younger than Lisa? I still feel a little young. The armor is almost the same as Lisa's, except for the bra on one side, which is used in archery.

As I may have guessed in the explanation to date, these two are sisters. Lisa is my sister and Mass is my sister. They also look very similar, and both have black hair and dark green eyes. The facial expression is fairly good on the fine side, but the eyes are slightly thin and the same as the thread. The body is thin and the flesh is normal.... yeah, I guess it's normal. I don't know where.

They also seem to share similar personalities, and neither of them talks much with anyone but the party members. They are often together and often ear to ear with each other. It's a little creepy. That's why I haven't had a conversation with these two yet.

If you distinguish between height and equipment, Lisa's hair is short and Mass is long. It may not be distinguishable if the length of the hair is aligned.

I'm still running behind a carriage with two people in line. It's not supposed to be an easy road to run, but it doesn't look tired. Boulders are adventurers. It's not what I know about ordinary women in Heisei Japan.

I was attacked by a monster as soon as I entered the forest. I knew it was coming, so I was able to intercept it calmly.

It was the classic fantasy goblin that attacked me. I was a little excited about the first goblin of my life, but I was instantly chilled by its ugly appearance.

Seeing a "small old man with bald, naked, dull green skin rolling an improperly sized groin creature and dripping his saliva toward him in a group", he couldn't face it, though it was very small.

Even the same little old man was in love with Master ○ Daka's face at least... no, Akane. Naked.

All eight of them were killed instantly, and after removing the magic stone less than 1cm, they were carved and buried. I don't like eating goblin meat on boulders.

It hasn't taken 10 minutes since the encounter to fill it. After all, I thought the goblin was a miscellaneous fish, but the four guards were stuck behind me.

"What's wrong? Goblins are miscellaneous fish, right?

"It's true that Goblins are weak among monsters, but that's when they were one. If you're a group, you're going to have to go to an intermediate adventurer party... but a wizard is really a sham.

Anna spilled a mix of astonishment and fear. Ah, you did it again. You seem to be too far removed from the common sense. We need to gather some information during this trip.

When I thought about what happened, the village chief who was thinking about something in the same way spoke to me.

"Beat, do you know if there are any Goblin settlements around here?

Anna and the others are happy with the words.

I was attacked by a group of Goblins, so I noticed the possibility of a settlement if I thought it was normal. And the fact that there are settlements means that they breed (...).

Goblins in this world are biologically impossible. It's a species with only males. It doesn't turn sexually like a bear flea. Females of other species are used for breeding. Attack, grab, rape, get pregnant. This means that there are definitely other species of females in the settlement.

However, that is not yet a major problem. Sometimes they grab oak and lizardman scalpels. As long as it is between monsters, it can be said to be natural.

The problem is the appearance of the "bald little old men" of the Goblins earlier. The Goblins mate with a variety of species, but only slightly inherit their maternal traits. When I was a child with the orc, I had a slight pig's surface, and when I was a lizardman, I had a slight scale. And thin body hair is a characteristic of people born by mating with people.

... is that bad? Onechan's been grabbed!?

"Yeah, I'll try!

Use Signal Detection to the maximum extent. I feel dizzy about the amount of information, but I'm patient here. Those who have been seized must still be experiencing pain unmatched to this. We have to get him out of here!

... Hmm? I've spent about three minutes exploring the surrounding radius of about four kilometers, but there's no sign of it. There are a few herds, but they are not goblins in terms of movement speed and signs. Probably a werewolf monster. It looks like there are no other Goblin herds.

"Hmm, I don't think there are any other goblins around here.

"... I see. Then it's fine. Thank you very much.

The village chief seems to be worried about something. I just don't know what it is or I'm not sure. I was going to move on while I was holding something naughty.

It's a river.

Is it close to the upstream from the middle of the river in Japan? The river is about 20 meters wide. There is a large rock rolling and angled, with clear water flowing vigorously, but only a portion of it is like a cobblestone laid flat, with water flowing slightly gently over it. I think I can cross by carriage with this.

I was able to float the carriage on my plane, so it took a little water splash. The humans also proposed to carry it on a plane, but since everyone was reluctant, they crossed on their own skywalk. It's easy.

There was a slightly flat gravel area ahead of us, so we decided to camp there today.

So, after I finished tenting, I went into the woods to collect firewood and find food. The village chief is with us. So I asked about the goblin earlier.

"Hey, there was something wrong with that goblin earlier?

"Hmm? Oh, that's right... if it's hard to get over it.

"What do you mean?

"The first thing I thought was strange was the weed.

Inago?

"Oh, the pheasant came from the north. And as I followed it, the traces suddenly disappeared in the wasteland without any eccentricity. First of all, this is strange. It's not a meadow or wetland that generates lots of sea urchins. Why did they have to do this?

Mmm, if that's what they say. Where there is no water field, there is no grass that can reproduce large quantities of sea urchins. The conditions for large quantities of sea urchins are not in place. It's as if they showed up there all of a sudden.

"And that's the goblin. Obviously a herd from the mother of the tribe, but there are no settlements and no other herds. It's like he showed up all of a sudden.

Did the village chief feel the same way? But...

"So, what do you mean?

"... I don't know. There are a few things I can think of, but I just don't want them to hit me very hard. It seems that you were right to go to the city this time to corroborate it.

You still don't have enough puzzle pieces. It's about a trading city, so it's easy to gather people, things, and information.

Well, in a sense, this journey was inevitable.