Isekai Taneuma

The price of power

The crusaders, who left the village of Gargantuar, broke up into four units and headed north as they cleared the orcs. The eastern expedition was a backlash, or, as expected, there seemed to be a lot of oak flowing into the basin.

Nevertheless, why did the Oak take the confluence of the river, rather than lead the brave, north of one of the Empires? Think about the direction of the river, the brave leader is downstream and the north hits upstream.

Because Oannes has fish genes, as it is called, he may have the habit of going back to the river for breeding. With that in mind, Oannes will nod across the mountains to our river basin. I don't know what's going on with Neuroi right now, but Oannes went up the river looking for a place to calm down and give birth, and finally broke into the Wesen territory.

Orcs born of that oak also have the habit of going back up the river for breeding, which is why they went upstream. Well, that's just speculation, and it turns out that it was half wrong right away....

A week has passed since we entered the northern basin.

In the meantime, the crusaders always fought the Orcs once a day, transforming the march into a very slow one. Until now, it has progressed 20 kilometers a day, and there is still enough room, but now it is a pace of 10 kilometers.

This did not make the road difficult to walk, but Ningro and Kawara were so easy to walk, but it took time to deal with it after the war to fight orcs every day.

There was no need to make a grave for the demon body, and if left alone, the wildlife would break it down, but the Beasts were reluctant to leave it because they believed that the body would attract dirt.

In fact, we cannot deny the possibility that the bodies of the corrupted demons will contaminate the riverbank. They live in this forest and are sensitive to ecosystem changes. There are some words that say, "Follow your country," and if they say so, you will not fail to obey them.

That's why the crusaders gathered the destroyed orcs in one place after the battle, took out their guts and dumped them in the river, burning as many bodies as possible each time. That's what we're doing, so we should keep camping in the evening, but we had to sacrifice our march in the morning.

This caused another unexpected side effect.

That's why the main team going to the river was slowing down, but since Guillaume's search party was proceeding at the usual pace, they were much ahead of the main team when they realized that they were walking in a wide area.

They have never encountered an orc so far. But you can't say that anymore. Therefore, Guillaume's team was temporarily reunited with the main team, and Feng decided to create the first evacuation village near here. And while the battalion is moving forward, Guillaume will call in the evacuees they have found so far, and then bring the supplies here from the village of Gargantuar in the back.

Climb the high ground, repair the right place, drop the meteorite, inhale the flying dirt and sand into the kelly cation, and then level the ground that became a crater. Before I could see the miracle of the magnificent Phoenix, a voice of admiration arose from the face of the crusaders.

However, trouble always comes, and trouble happened again during this time. What a homogeneous feng suddenly fell down without any premonition.

Party members rush at a sudden event with bubbles. However, no matter how much I looked into it, I found no abnormality in Feng's body. The face of the crusaders headed right and left without grasping the situation, had no work to do on that day and spent no time at all.

I was worried about Feng's condition by the way, but it recovered the next day. According to him, who explains that he is sorry to be worried, he apparently caused the MP to expire.

"MP expired...? Ah! That way, when the MP runs out, you'll faint. Normally, people don't cut their MP, so I never thought of that."

Guillaume whispered her tongue and said she worried and lost it. Feng laughed bitterly.

"Actually, Kalukaion consumes quite a bit of MP. Look, there's been a lot of fighting here, right? I forgot it and accidentally cut it off."

"Manage your MP properly. You're just looking at the status, right?

"That's what I was going to do..."

Feng consumes a lot of MP at once because of his high INT. That's why MP was always Katsukatsu, but there was a constraint that I had to rely on drugs such as opium and morphine to recover it.

When there was almost no MP, it was like I was smoking it with pleasure, but when I used it routinely as a means of MP recovery, this became a troublesome problem. I tried to recover my MP, but using drugs doesn't change my addiction.

After all, MP recovers naturally, but even if I sleep overnight, it will recover about 60 times... This is only enough for Feng to use ancient spells once, and if there is a battle twice a day like now, the MP will soon run out. However, there was a danger that if I abused drugs to compensate for it, I would become a scrapper.

Feng groaned with a sigh.

But it must be MP. Ancient spells apparently use the energy of the fifth particle (Fifth Element), which comes from the high dimension, so I can understand that they use the brain, the receptor organ, severely. But it's kind of strange how dangerous drugs can be used to heal that tortured brain. Instead of recovering, this is what makes brain drugs abnormally secrete and activate them, right? That's why I'm a loser. It's strange to use that brain to heal it, so maybe MP is like paying for energy. "

"Even if I ask you that. Rather, it's a relocation. If you can't use the MP, you don't have to be in the main squad. On behalf of Mary, he wouldn't be addicted to drugs, would he?

"That's right. Because the priests are super healed, at best they don't seem to be addicted or abnormal to their bodies just because they feel sick. It's not good, I'm struggling so hard... Even with MP consumption, Mary only uses half of my magic at once. The INT is lower than mine, but the difference is only four. I wonder why it's so different. I wonder if the priest is a body for ancient spells."

"That's why I don't know. Do that with Leo. Jijii would be happy to hang out with you."

Well, I guess so.

Feng shrugged his shoulders and accepted Guillaume's proposal.

In this way, even though Feng was severely depleted, the rearranged crusaders resumed northward again. Feng joins Guillaume's search party and Mary marches into a base that also serves as a military station, taking Lucy with her when the battle begins.

I thought nothing would change because I just swapped the two of them, and this is not surprising. That said, the crusaders used the chat of the Feng party to communicate between troops, but for some reason this chat didn't work between members other than Feng, so he always had to join the conversation as a relay.

As a result, the situation was only communicated even though the company was operating away from the main unit, so depending on the content, it had to be sophisticated. For example, let's say we hear that the Veterinarians are at war, and then we get in touch with Jeanne and the main unit. Jeanne and Mary both come back with an understanding... but once in a while, from around Mary,

"Sorry, spider. I can't find everybody. Where are you?" Tell her. "

If you can get in touch with, you can't stay or stand, and you're driven by the urge to fly right now.

At such a time, Guillaume was often angry at me because I couldn't see my surroundings.

"Hey, Feng. I don't know because I see the whole thing, but the leader does everything. If you wanted to, you wouldn't have had to separate teams from the beginning. If you let him go, trust him until the end. Otherwise, no one will act responsibly. Keep your leader in good shape."

There was no sound at all. Reflecting that Guillaume is right, focus on exploring while eating herbs.

Feng was exposed to such a pathetic appearance, but after the relocation, there was no particular trouble, and the crusaders kept going north. Though the casualties did not come out at all, the oak crusade was generally proceeding smoothly, even within the expected range. Incidentally, Anton was still alive, but now he was in charge of carrying the cargo in the main unit, not the front line, because he was getting tough on the boulders. He said it wasn't worth it, but the situation was getting worse than he had to decide no matter how sorry he was.

The number of fights grew steadily as the Enemy Clan went north. One or two fights a day were to some extent during the first days of entering the basin, but by the time it gradually reached the confluence of the river of destination, it had finally reached a situation where another herd would have noticed and come to the aid of Orcs.

I couldn't imagine how many demons were ahead of me. I don't think it will continue to increase to the boulders, but there are no signs of decreasing so far, so it will be suicide to keep going without taking any measures.

Feng said so, instead of heading this way, he suggested that the enemy should be attracted and cleaned up little by little. The plan was to set up the base as originally planned and gradually expand the scope of activities around it.

The adventurers agreed with me that it was time for them to feel the limits. I didn't hear any dissatisfaction from the Beasts, either, because by the time I got here, the bloodthirsty had been sacrificed. It is cowards who will survive forever.

The orc was never really far from the river, so Feng, who had joined Guillaume's search party, was able to fully recover his MP. That's why, as always, I was looking for a high ground to find the right place to build an evacuation village.

Spider! Something's wrong... just come up here!?

Such a chat broke in from Mary, who was up in the air to find the altitude. Looking up at what happened, Mary looked as small as a grain of rice, seeming to have gone up quite a bit.

I didn't want to waste MP, so I asked... I didn't have to go up that much, but as I was told, when I went up to the sky with the magic of television, she found such a phoenix, pointing in the northern direction while inviting me.

When I looked at the tip of that finger, did you see Feng? I felt uncomfortable. It looks like the forest is in a strange shape. And as he went up to the same height as Mary, thinking it was strange, he knew what the discomfort was.

He was hiding behind the horizon and didn't see it well, but as he went up to the sky, he felt as if he had been scooped up by a spoon and the forest was broken. It was no mistake, when he came up to the height where he could see the whole thing, he jumped into his eyes as if he had even crawled with a giant sea lion, with the trees of the forest ripped down and the bare ground peeping.

There were traces of the slug crawling along the river to the north, and it vanished beyond the horizon.