I’m an Adventurer! ~Musou Skill is Plane Magic~
Chapter 85: Darkness One Inch Ahead, Darkness One Inch Ahead
Is that good? He's in a hurry. I have to finish my client's Magic Stone Gathering, first Noran, then Jarkin.
The hunting in the big forest is going well. Already, up to three monsters can be dealt with together. Each of the three avant-gardes attracts monsters, and the rear kicker uses a bow and magic to take care of each one. As the number decreases, the available avant-garde turns to other support and concentrates on defeating one by one. In the world, it is said to be a owl. Oh, wow.
Instead of being avant-garde, Daisy didn't even have any combat experience, but thanks to the preview he expressed, he was able to move as a "shield of avoidance". It's a pretty good shield, too. Not yet enough to dive into the big forest alone, but it may be possible soon.
Samantha does not take part in the fight. My physical strength is not yet smooth, and I don't have much magic. I'm worried about putting him on the front lines. Now I have been trained to hold my weapon and activate my physical enhancement as I carry my baggage.
"Kh, I'm so tired of just standing there... is everyone fighting like this?
"It's painful because it has extra power. When you get used to it, your body gets lighter and you get better even if you feel a little sick.
Yes, I recently discovered that physical strengthening has some healing power. If it's a mild sprain, I'll be happy in about half a day if I keep strengthening my body. Probably because metabolism and self-repair have also been strengthened. Thank you in this world without healing magic.
In fact, there is no healing magic in this world, but there are healing potions. That said, it doesn't have much effect. At best, the injury heals a little faster. It is not an ointment but an oral medicine, so it may contain ingredients that are active in metabolism. The raw material is a cedar plant, not a spice.
The last of the giant spiders falls with their heads pierced by Christella's fine sword. Today, I have killed six of them, but no one is injured.
This monster, a big spider, is at best a mid-sized dog, and it doesn't move that fast. A monster who basically ambushes on a tree and jumps down when the prey arrives and bites with paralyzed poisonous teeth, a snake style ambush hunt. They are often in groups of several. If you paralyze it, pull it up onto the tree and eat it if you want to stop by. Is paralysis poison eaten alive? I don't want to imagine.
However, there is no ambush in front of me. They found out that he was lurking. All we have to do is chop off every branch that's lurking and destroy every single one of them that falls on the ground. Nothing but a duck, to be clear. No, it's a spider.
Magic stones are large due to their strength, and things that are close to 2cm in size are not uncommon. After all, will the monsters at the top of the food chain grow larger than the magic stones they have? Even though it's winter, it's not hibernating, and there are many mysteries about monsters in the big forest. But it is a good fit for this requisition & training. Now the number of Magic Stones from the other day is 14.
The presence of a giant spider means that the monster that feeds on it is also nearby.
Looking for signs, there were still nearly 30 monsters a little further away. From the quality of the signs, it looks like a pig man (oak). They're everywhere. Besides, I'm building a pretty big settlement.
The Pig Man's Magic Stone around here is about 1.5cm in size, and some of it is less than 1cm in size. It is not a very efficient prey to hunt for this request. But I had to hunt because I found it. I'm a pig anyway.
Because pigs are big eaters, they usually split into several groups and look for food extensively. Otherwise, they will immediately eat up the food around the settlement and starve the whole herd. However, the situation is different only in winter this time of year.
Winter around here is rainy season, and it rains a lot. No matter how far south it is, the winter rains are quite cold, and if they are hit, they are deprived of body temperature and their activity is reduced. Many monsters do the same, and in winter they don't go out much of the nest. Only pigs.
In winter, pigs drag themselves into the settlement and barely go outside. Eat in harvest autumn, save fat, and stay hidden until spring. It's the same as a bear nest.
And in the spring, they resume their activities with the momentum of eating up everything around them. To satisfy the extreme hunger that has increased during the winter.
After eating all around the settlement, they start attacking people in search of more food. Maybe it's safer in the woods than in the woods where there are strong monsters. It's troublesome because wisdom turns in half.
Had it been a normal year, no settlement of this size would have been built. There must have been more adventurers than intermediate. This year, however, the adventurers have gone to battle, so there is no way to exterminate them. I didn't know there was a war going on here.
We'll have to do this. Otherwise, the city will be attacked in spring. It's an adventurer's job, too, but it's troublesome.
The only salvation is that pig meat tastes good. Shoulder loin.) It is delicious. Salted rose meat is also delicious when broiled and added to the soup. Dashi soup, oil and salt taste like salted ramen. I wonder if you can eat ramen.
"Looks like there's a pretty big pig village up ahead. There are so many of them, I'll do it alone. Some of them might run away, but we just have to deal with him.
I haven't fought today. I just dropped a spider on a tree. I want to move my body a little, so I'll do it alone here.
That's why everyone is waiting in the woods near the settlement. You can escape somewhat, because the pigs are a forest ecosystem. It's fine if you don't come near people.
I'll "wait" for Woo-chan, and keep it on everyone's side. You might get hurt in a riot.
There are several poor huts built in the settlement. They all seem to be packed with pigs. I may be lying down and getting warm. There is no pig walking outside.
Turn off the footsteps, hold the magic, and I'll infiltrate the settlement. The biggest sign is going to be the hut where the boss will be. I'm going to crush your head first.
Around the hut, there is a unique smell of pigs. If it smells so bad, the predator will know where it is soon. I want you to keep it a little clean.
As you approach the hut, you can hear multiple snorings from inside. Looks like he's asleep. I sent a camera in to check that there were five pigs lying on the fur inside. It's full of gaps.
You can send in a flat spear and assassinate him like this, but that won't be my training. I need you to resist flashbacks at best.
With that in mind, I was trying to open the fur curtain that was hanging at the entrance of the cabin.
What?
Suddenly a feeling of levitation and a feeling of your body rising. But it wasn't floating.
It was falling. The ground at my feet leaves my shoes' toes. It's sinking all over the ground. No, it wasn't just at my feet. The whole neighborhood of the pig cottage is sinking.
"Whoa? What is this!?
He hurriedly made a flat cube (hexahedron) under his feet to escape the fall, but it had already fallen about 3 meters. Quite above the line of sight, you can see the border between the rounded curved ground and the cloudy sky. Looks like he's fallen into a circle. Is it about 50m in diameter?
Looking down, you can see the roof of a shack crushed about five meters down, and the pigs that crawl out of it. Even if the boulder rots, the monster in the big forest, and falls close to 10 meters, it doesn't seem to be seriously injured. How sturdy.
We need to get up there and see what's going on. I made a staircase on Skywalk and went up. You can hear the pigs from the bottom, but ignore them. I'll deal with you later. [M]
Zuzu Zuzu...
I can hear some kind of noise. Maybe an earthquake? Looking around, the upper ground and sky boundaries were moving. What is it!?
The sky that seemed to draw a circle became smaller and smaller. With it, no light enters, and the surroundings are getting darker and darker. Looks like the edge of the hole is about to be closed.
No, no, no!? You're trapped!?
I hurried to the center of the round sky. It's no joke to be trapped in a hole like this with a pig!
But, mercilessly, by the time I got there, the hole was already only a few centimeters in size, and it was impossible to get through. A few centimeters of holes will close in a few seconds, and the area will be wrapped in darkness.
Well, I could've been trapped. I don't know.