Jujutsushi Wa Yuusha Ni Narenai

Episode 256: Over the Mountain (2)

Beyond the sixth, it was a little like a forest again and the greenery was increasing. But tall trees are inconspicuous, mostly just thin trees.

It's the terrain itself, not the trees, that blocks our way around here.

"Apricot, there, please"

All right, let's go.

With a light hanging voice, the large rock stuck in front of me collapses away as it melts.

Then the gravel-like ground solidified and hardened.

"How about this?

"It's gonna be okay."

The earthly mage Apricot takes the lead and opens up a difficult place to go straight through.

If I hadn't done this, the terrain around here would have been terrible enough to move on.

Of course, my legs stop only for the amount of work I do on rocks and the ground to pass through the road with dirt magic. The pace to proceed is falling... but you are blessed because you are falling, to the extent that it is done.

I didn't have any apricots. Seriously, I was packing them here. With a skilled earthly magician, it is a tremendous ability because it also pushes the roadless path through it.

Then, grilling plainly. Grimgore was also easy enough to get the rocks off or even the ground a bit because it is a soil attribute mons. Just step with the doscene, and the place where the rocks gobble is flattened in one shot.

"Ye Shan, how are things back there?

"We're all following you. You can't even see the monster."

We climb down the mountain without a single shepherd.

Good luck, I just want to cross this mountain by the end of the day.

Aim is the summit of the mountain...... but nothing is wacky you have to get up and down to the highest point. It is only fine if we can go beyond this mountain to the other side, so it is not the summit of the mountain that should be exceeded, but the ridge.

Among other things, route selection becomes important because the lowest ridges are aimed at, but some cliffs converge.

"Rem, is the direction this way?

"... over here, scratching, uneven"

"Apricot, let's go a little further to the left"

"Ok"

What you can count on is a lem with the eye of a flying acorn bald tack.

Apricots can't get ahead of me any more than they can if they don't make their way. Only a lem can use a bald taka body that can fly in the sky to see ahead.

Rem doesn't look like a toddler, but I'm not sure his intelligence is the equivalent of a toddler. If previous experience is fully alive, it is possible to judge and choose for oneself the path to proceed with the human foot.

So I decided to leave the road ahead of me to Rem.

"Good luck, guys. We're almost over the ridge."

"Hey, let's eat there when we get up there"

"If we're served salamander, we'll be in trouble, so we can't stop until we get further down."

"Uh-huh."

We are finally approaching the ridge as we sip Hayama, who is in the mood for a mountaineering excursion.

"Uh-oh, it's cold..."

"Of course it's snowy, but some places are invisible but freezing, so be careful"

"Evil. No, I already fell."

For some reason I say with a kime face, it is Ye Shan, who fell on his back.

Near the highest peak is covered in bright white snow. The area around the ridge we're after hasn't reached that altitude, but it doesn't seem low enough to spare the snow. I can see the snow.

When we come around here, we are completely out of plant greenery, and we are turning ourselves into a wasteland where martial bone rocks roll. With black shades of rock and sparse snow, we climb up near a ridge that is still like black and white.

"----" The Great Mountain Wall (Terra Lampert Defan)" Eh!

At the end of the day, like a high wall, the earth magic of the apricots bursts on the cliff.

Advanced Range Defensive Magic for Earthly Attributes since being used when climbing Yamatano Orochi rock mountains and securing excavation points.

This is the biggest way to act on a large and wide range, and the only way to open the cliffs that soar along this ridge was to use this magic.

"Okay, I'm through!

"You did it, Apricot. That's the biggest difficulty I've ever had."

Rem's reconnaissance had found that the ridge continued to be a difficult cliff to cross anywhere.

Normally, it's impossible to get over the terrain... but with Apricot's earthly magic arm, even a cliff can open its way through.

Really, it's good to have civil engineering all over Yamatano Orochi.

"Guys, hurry through!

Not if you are relaxed and impressed. We're moving quickly in line to get through this dangerous place, but --

"Pugg! Pugga!

Pin your long ears out and the kinaco makes a sharp scream.

"Hey, could Kinako..."

When I turned my gaze to Ip Shan waiting for the translation, he immediately replied.

"Shit, Peach River, they're coming!

The Lord of the Mountain arrived as Ye Shan told you the worst with his expression of war.

Gwowwwwwwwww!

A huge roar roars like a rocking mountain.

And at the next moment, there was a broken feeling of bumping into me... and this was a flighting acorn bald taka hit.

The moment Rem also perceives it, he begins to transform into a black knight, wrapped in shadows.

Which way does it come from?

When I looked up, a big shadow crossed my head.

One. No, two.

"Salamander, and there are two of them"

Is it your turn? Or parents and children? They were both big enough to seem like adults, so it's still your turn.

"Kotaro!"

"I can't take it down. We just have to run. Apricots are in the lead, pave the way down!

The other side has a similar topography anyway. It's a road situation where you can't even get around properly if you just pop up.

And I'm not optimistic enough to cut through this period without sacrifice.

"Roylopoise and Grim 2 are to be turned off. Hayama-san, stay away from me."

"Wait a minute, Peach River"

"What?"

I'll take care of it.

"... I can't give you much time."

A contingency to contend for a moment, but I thought I'd bet on you.

Even he is not stupid. I don't think I'm going to think about Nashi in this earthquake.

And most importantly, if you follow my instructions, it's unclear whether you'll make it through. Rather than that, the minutes are pretty bad.

You said Ip Shan because you found it to be my limit now to give such instructions.

Then I'll take care of it. At least as much as you want to do, you can check.

"Please --respond, you dirt spirits!

Ye Yama-kun kneels on the spot and hands together as he prays. No, you're actually praying.

And the effect of that prayer soon appeared.

"It's not dirt magic, but the sand is moving"

From all around us, things gush up like tinkles and sandstorms, like enclosing everything in the line.

"Apricot, step back and stop over here for a second"

Seeing him manipulate the soil besides himself, he returns to this side as the apricots chirp rarely and carelessly. Now it's all in the form of a sandstorm caused by the earth spirits.

"Ip Shan, what are you going to do from here?

"... keep it quiet for me"

With your eyes closed and concentrated expression, Ip Shan says. From his forehead, a large grain of sweat tells him that he looks quite out of magic.

Honestly, just because this sandstorm is swirling, I don't think I can stop Salamander from coming in for real...

Wow, wow, wow, wow!

Before long, the howl of the salamander echoed in the mountains.

As the sandstorm subsided, he saw two salamanders flying away across the sky.

"What, you missed me?

"Oops... there was a time in the woods before when Salamander found me. Even then, I asked the Spirit to hide."

I see, so he said he seemed to be able to get through the same way this time.

But this is obviously more like something you missed than hiding... but could it be possible to negotiate directly with a monster via the Spirit?

I don't think it would be strange to be able to do that when I watch you deal with Beni about Kina.

"I wish you'd told me first if I could"

"Uh, no evil, I can't do it without a lot of spirits, and I don't know if you'll listen to me. Come on."

"That's kind of inconvenient, isn't it, Ip Shan? Your spiritual art"

It is an ability with high uncertainty.

But this time, that ability cracked me up perfectly. After all, spirituality is a performance that can be a trump card, right?

"Hey, while I'm flying away, let's get out of here."

"Right, let's hurry. Anyway, thank you, Ip Yama-san."

"I mean fine. Sometimes I have to be active!

Ye Yama-san, with a really refreshing smile, exchanged high touches with Pern before we followed Apricot.

Thus, we succeeded in successfully avoiding the salamander on the summit, which was our greatest concern, and we crossed the ridge safely.

"Ahhh, I'm tired..."

It took me nearly a week to finally end the mountain crossing completely, and I threw my hands and feet out and fell asleep.

Hayama, thanks to you, it was a good thing you got through the salamander and over the ridge...... then a bunch, a bunch, a bunch of monsters attacked one after the other all down the mountain.

The red dogs, the raptors, the bugs, the ones I've seen, they're swarming there, and they're coming at us. Why is there so many demons on this side only?

They're all monsters we've fought before, but in a streak after a streak, we're exhausted and worn out. There were some occasions when the jarjah I was using as a riding beast was preyed on or quite dangerous.

Had it not been for the two Grimgores, surely someone would have made a victim. Not so long ago, we were pushed in. Wavy attack that shows up like a separate herd tried, seriously stop me...

When we were so tired that we couldn't afford to chat, we finally got to the foot.

Thus, after three days of rest and replenishment at the foot, we finally set out for the destination, the dungeon entrance.

"Hey Kotaro, do you know the way from here?

"The shortest entrance from here is only the destination location. So it's OK on the compass."

To the front of the mountain crossing, the Magic Formation Compass points in the direction of the route that defeated Large Skeleton. Because you're closest.

But if you get this far across the mountain, you'll be responding to the entrance to the Magic Concentration Environment 4 that I'm after.

The direction indicated is roughly as planned, so this won't be a problem.

So we spent three more days going through the woods.

Compared to over the mountains, it is largely better to go through flat forests.

Hayama-kun has also risen a lot in his previous marches, so that when fighting a herd of miscellaneous fish mons, he can stand around in jeopardy.

Besides, Lem and Kinako, who are both avant-garde, are already breathing. You seem to be getting along pretty well with all those scared corpse dolls.

Our collaboration is not bad either. Step by step, I realize you're starting to be a good team.

That's how we made it across the woods, and we finally got there.

"Oh, wow, that was real, the entrance!

Hayama-san, you didn't believe me? I just wanted to say, but I've been found safe, too, and honestly, I'm upset.

It was a small valley with cleaved cliffs, and the entrance to the ruins opened its mouth like digging a cliff in the middle of it.

The magic team's compass also undoubtedly points to this back.

"Fine, guys. The dungeons here aren't the kind of neighborhoods where skeletons have urchins. Whenever a living armor or Christaurus-like guy shows up, it's not weird, it's gonna be a high-risk place."

Unlike over the mountain, the difficulty simply increases in the sense that there are more dangerous monsters.

In this face of lack of offense, it is very dangerous to deal with people who are hard on living armor and Christaurus-like. But there will be times when it is inevitable.

Above all, can this member destroy the Bosmons arraying in this area of Magic Environment Concentration 4?

There's no end to anxiety, but we've come this far. I'm not going to leave, and I'm going to keep pushing until I catch up with my classmates at all costs.

"Well, then, let's go"

So we dived into the dungeon again.

Near the entrance, a well-known stone corridor continues.

Fortunately, the width and height are there, and the two Grimgores and Roylops, who have been totally taken care of on the road, can be taken straight through. Now everyone has an attachment to the triple corpse doll Mons.

"Whoa, stairs... dude, this is pretty deep"

"Wow, I can't see the bottom"

It wasn't Fairy Square that got there, it was a giant spiral staircase.

Is this like a super big tower? The center of the spiral staircase is hollow and boasts a height so high that you can't see the bottom if you peek in.

"Guys, let's stop by the wall and get off"

Just in case we stop by the wall, we start to come down in a row of columns.

Keep your railings and fences on properly. What's going on? Ancient building safety standards. Come on.

"Kotaro, I can't get this down there yet"

"Actually, you think we're looping this, don't you?

"There's no trap like that...... and I'd like to think"

Unfortunately, I don't have any bandit-based skills, so it's actually more likely that even if you're into traps, you won't notice.

But when you say you've been starting to go down for ten minutes now, it'll be enough reason to feel anxious that you never see the bottom. How deep is it here?

"Hey, isn't it cold?

"Well, hey, you're getting cold"

"I didn't know you'd be wearing fur again."

Going further, it has cooled down quite a bit, as Apricot said.

Once we stop, we put on each fur jacket equipped over the mountain.

"Hey, this is really cold and it sucks..."

"Oh, man, this breath is white."

"It's not good, you're going to chill out so far..."

The exhaling breath is white and, if you look closely, frosted on the wall. It's pretty cold. It would be a normal level of snow temperature. Could it be negative?

"I have a bad feeling about this area."

Snuffing, I took the pine lights out of the luggage on the Roylops.

I don't know what's going to happen, so I didn't know I was going to use it just to get warm, although I was going to use a light source other than Cherry Blossom's Cantera.

We each hold a pine light in our hands and resume the spiral staircase descent as we warm ourselves with a burning flame.

"Look, we're finally at the bottom!

Hiccup, Ip Mountain runs down. [M]

I know how you feel, but I wonder if you'd like me to refrain from acting up to that kind of death flag.

"Oh, hey Peach River, you suck, the door is tight here!?

Ye Shan, who just went down the stairs, is screaming.

The door's closed, so I took the time to get down here, and I'm not kidding. Smash it, but I'll open it.

"Guys, step back for a second."

The doors are both open and do not seem to be a sliding style characteristic of ancient monuments. Something like a hinged, normal door.

Yeah, this would suck, you could also disassemble and remove the hinge place with smelting.

But it's a pain in the ass, so do your best first.

"Yes, someone proud of their power, put your hands up"

"Pugaga!"

"Gugga!"

He is a vigorously raised kinaco and a black knight lem.

Yeah, I'm glad I'm really jerking off.

Well, Grillin, please.

"Puga!?

"Guga!?

A fierce roar will unfortunately unleash its power as a medium-sized carnivorous dinosaur, with Grimgore's inflexible flesh hitting the door.

Van, and the two metal doors together, blew off the hinge and opened the entrance leading outside.

And the other side of the closed door,

GOOOOOOOOOOO!

White, the snowstorm was blowing.

"Wow... it's a snow area here..."