It's all one flower.

394. Tuman Forest

Mulak, his partner, listens aloud so that he can't beat the voice of the cicada.

"Well, from here on out, it's the Kingdom of Lacrimalis. Where are we going?

"Where, we'll have to look at it from here in order"

"Yes, yes, as usual."

When the red-haired demon soldier Rubel answered unfathomably as he entered the tree, the brunette Mullark stopped by the side of the road to guard his surroundings for once.

From the middle belly of the Kublum Mountains, the Tuman forest, which stretches out at the foot, is also well visible to the naked eye. After the outbreak of war between Nemoralis and Artel in the winter, the only thing that passes through the mountain roads of the border is the war refugees fleeing the Nemoralis Republic and trucks carrying relief supplies from the Kingdom of Lacrimalis. The subject of vigilance were demons and warcraft living in the mountains.

Rubel casts a spell with a handful of backpacks under his feet, including water and food, camping ponchos, magic pills to heal wounds, and cloth bags containing collected materials.

"Hazardous Predator Eye of the Bee Horned Eagle (Bee Bear) Capturing the Enemy Escape the Enemy Eye of the Bee Horned Eagle (Bee Bear)"

It's the spell of [Flying Horned Eagle] Faculty's [Sovereign].

The art of expanding sight and so forth and searching for "enemies," but of course anything other than enemies can be seen with the naked eye and also with spiritual vision. Demon-mounted soldiers Rubel and other highly capable sentinels could see from the south coast of Nemoralis Island, but also from a distance to the southwest coast of Nenia Island.

If you're a sentinel above or on a lake with little shielding, you can handle that much super distance, but looking for something hidden in the woods requires a fine switch of perspective. The closest possible distance is easier to find with a small turnaround.

Rubel, the demon soldier, left his back to his dark-haired partner Mullark and devoted himself to the search. The southern exit of the Zakart tunnel is worn on the western edge of the Kublum Mountains in the hills.

At the end of a curved paved road, a deserted field was spreading.

Half a century of civil unrest turned ashes (kaijin), through the abandoned ruins of the city of South Zakart, and following the national highway, the city of Morniya, surrounded by city walls, can be seen as Potung long before. If his vision expanded with the art of [Sovereignty], even one of the earrings that fell on the roadside of the city of Maurnia could fit into his sight, but Rubel turned his attention to the East Forest.

... If that thing was going to the city, you'd be making a lot of fuss.

The Nemoralis army is gathering information from all sides, but so far, it has not been able to grasp the information like that.

After half a century of civil unrest, the Lacus Lacrimalis Republic split into three countries. From the north the Republic of Nemoralis, the Kingdom of Lacrimalis and the Republic of Artel. The island of Negna defined the Kublum Mountains as a border, which was occupied by the Republic of Nemoralis and the Kingdom of Lacrimalis.

With land surveys, we can travel with [leap] and other techniques. Neither country handed out a single soldier because it would not only not be helpful to place an examination or the like at the border, but it would be a source of criticism if it promoted discrimination against a powerless people.

There are also reasons for believing in Fraxinus together and for being able to re-establish a relatively good relationship, but it was also because it was impossible to tour the [leap] exclusionary junction that surrounded the island of Nenia in half.

Dark green trees descend a gentle slope leading from the Kublum Mountains to the southern plains, forming the Tuman Forest.

It's still dark under the tree, and there's a silly little demon that catches cicadas and devours them.

Demon Soldier Rubel sent forward the focus of [enemy] eyes one by one. Watermark the trees, and the vibrancy and living of the wildlife of this world - those who eat the leaves and fruits that grow blue and bush, those who catch brightly colored bugs that cross the trees, those who prey on grass-fed beasts, etc. - is also visible nearby.

Mulak, his partner's demon soldier, silently alerted the vicinity so as not to prevent Rubel from searching for darker chunks than the darkness of night.

There are no goers or comers on paved roads in the mountains, and besides cicadas and birds there are no other voices of creatures. At the side, the red-haired rubel only seemed blurry looking at the trunk in front of him, but his eyes explored the interior of the forest a long way away.

... I was wondering if you could cross over to the Lake West region on the other side.

Lake Lacus, where the island of Nenia floats, is the largest salt lake in the world.

Its West Bank region was devastated in the battle against the demons of the Three Kingdoms, and all the nations that existed at that time were doomed. After thousands of years, demons and warcraft attracted by their temper spread, and the country still does not exist.

From time to time, there were those who sought ancient relics, resources, etc. and set foot in his land, but few returned alive.

Time passes to stretch your gaze into the back of the woods without exchanging words. The cicada's voice stopped.

"That?

"Did they find you?

Mullark listened in momentum.

"No... I'm not here"

"What... then what?

To the discouraging Mullark, Rubel answered with her eyes gazed into the back of the forest.

There's no such thing as a monster.

"Miscellaneous demon? How about that..."

The sun is already tilting, and the darkness beneath the trees is deeper. Miscellaneous demons surge anywhere if they are not sanctified. The presence that eats and multiplies him, but does not even have a fixed form, is rare; without spiritual vision, it cannot be seen, and disappears even if it is only exposed to the light of day.

To the two who are magical warriors, they are not enough to take, but to those who have no power to fight, they were annoying (rough) beings, sufficient and threatening to those who do not even have the power to protect them.

"Are you sure you don't have one?

"You can't see."

In the Lacus Hunan region, from time to time, half-vision - the one without spiritual vision - is given birth to a people without power. Otherwise, people saw the miscellaneous demons as normal beings.

"Well, after all..."

My partner's voice brightens up to expectations. Rubel said as he carefully circled his gaze.

"I don't know when you went through, and you shouldn't expect to find me that soon."

If anything, [jump] back to North Zakart City to report. You don't have to take turns in ten days. During the search, he procures water and food on his own and lurks in the woods.

No matter how many Nemoralis soldiers are known to be operating in the territory of the Kingdom of Lacrimalis during the fighting with the Republic of Artel, even though there are borders.

In order to pretend to be a warcraft-derived material collector, he came in magical armor disguised as ordinary clothes, not military uniforms for demonic soldiers.

"I'm already murky today. It's time to get ready for camp."

Rubel, the demon soldier, spoke to his partner and solved [the enemy] 's technique.

If you're in the Zakart tunnel, you don't have to worry about getting attacked by demons, but it's troublesome in case a car or walking passerby comes. The two split into woods and headed to where Rubel laid eyes during the search. Place your luggage at the root of the oak tree.

"This circle of heaven, the six stars, the whole star, the inner realm of the circle, the walls of the stars, the walls of the earth, all the uncalled for walking away, the hundreds of millions of insect repellents, the cluttered demons."

A circle is drawn around the oak (kashi), and the demon soldier Mulak lays a [simple junction]. In the meantime Rubel gathered ripe fruit from the nearby tree-rolled crawl.

By the time I had finished dinner with only firm bread, fruit and water, the sun had completely set and I could see the stars blinking from the gaps in the periphery.

You can also hear the sound of bugs and the sound of small animals such as mice treading grass and deciduous leaves, the howling of beasts slightly from afar, and the barking of warcraft. There were no signs of people in the woods at night.

The two wrapped themselves in a poncho for the camp and deposited their backs in the oak trunk. I gaze into the darkness, but I can't see the Miscellaneous Demon.

"... I knew you weren't here."

"Ah......"

Rubel returned the affirmation to her partner and thought about what it meant.

Miscellaneous demons surge everywhere. If I had been there, I would have seen the figure captured by spiritual vision floating in the darkness.

There is no entity, and it has no fixed form. Grow up eating the filth of this world. In the woods, they come in large quantities from worms, animal carcasses, decaying trees, etc., but they weren't here.