Kuro no Maou

The next day, as promised, I went with Lily to Sparda Adventurer Alliance headquarters and took the quest. After delightfully chatting with Wye, it was this who ordered it.

Quest Manticore Crusade

Reward - 30 million clans.

Deadline/until the 31st of the month of erythema

Client/Partier Hyram Lords Acting/Caiontas

Request Details - Manticore, nestled in the former northern fort of Hyram, is blocking the streets. When the streets stop at the Red Flame Moon, they are hit hard by commerce on Highlam territory. I want you to crusade me promptly.

"- Manticore, is it? As for Chrono's practice opponent, isn't it just right?"

Before noon, Fiona nods as she returns to the mansion and lunches.

"Does Fiona know Manticore?

"I've fought about twice. The first time I was a toddler and the second time I was a young individual who had not yet been able to become an adult, so I'm not even strong enough...... when I'm a complete adult, I'm pretty strong. I was wondering if you would be at the top of Rank 4."

Fiona, who graduated from St. Elusion's School of Magic through solitude, is a boulder's experience. I also fought various monsters in a manoeuvre experiment, but I've never had a manticore opponent.

So in taking the quest, I've done a good job of looking into it.

Manticore is a monster of the Chimaira lineage, characterized by the appearance of a lion's torso, the tail of a razor, unable to fly but with wings, on a human face. Upon adulthood, he said, it would be large enough to be round only, such as humans, and the length of the torso from head to head would exceed ten metres, and if included to tail, it would be even more than double the length. It is a size classified as a splendid large monster.

This decadence alone is enough of a threat as a monster, but the tough power and agility produced by the lion's body, of course, is pretty fast if you run. The tail of the sasori is naturally equipped with ferocious poison, which, if stabbed in the eye, can lead to the poisonous intermediate magic 'ferocious poison (viola poison)'. Besides, the poisonous spine in the tail grows bishly like hair on the tip, and he says it shoots like a machine gun. It is the earliest, splendid attack magic.

What is even more troublesome is exercising the magic of fire, thunder and earth by chanting from the mouth of man. Depending on the individual, only one type of subordinate can be exercised in a single attribute, or in the worst case, all three attributes can be exercised in an advanced class. From chanting and using magic, they also turn a lot of wisdom.

With its tough flesh, its magical powers, and cunning brains, Manticore will, I see, be a powerful enemy beyond complaining.

But not as good as' Chaossic Lim '. Unless other monsters are enhanced by parasitism or possession, like Slowsgill, on this manticore, they are not the enemies of the' Element Master '.

"But is the place Partier? That's a little expedition. Wouldn't it have been better if it had been closer?

Yes, this quest is not a sparda or avalon, but a Partier, the first country to go.

You heard the name of this country when you read in the paper that Chaossic Lim has had a face. So he ate the garuda, and carried on his body for a minute.

"I had a lot of quests within Sparta, but I thought I'd take this opportunity to visit other countries I'd never been to before."

"In a tourist mood... it doesn't seem like it"

"Maybe I can grasp the shadow of the 'Aria Monastery'"

This is a magical different world, but not far from the developed modern planet of the Internet in terms of information transmission. Even though it is difficult to gather domestic information alone, when it comes to foreign countries, it is the earliest unknown area from the general public.

So even if the Aria Monastery operates in a country far from Sparda, we can't even know that.

"If there's nothing, that's fine. So far, we don't even know how far they're reaching."

Seriously, to the extent that they are still only working around Avalon, and have recently shown up flirting with Sparda as well. So when we get away to Partier, there's still no activity for them, it should be...

"I don't know what they're after other than preaching."

"If you were operating in a remote country like Partier, you would most likely be acting with that mysterious aim."

"Well, even if I was really there, I'm talking about if I could find you well."

In fact, if they move for clandestine purposes, they'll try to cover it up closely. If I could see through that... could Lily's telepathic abilities?

"We want to see the whole country around here, not just Partier. Within the present."

"Well, next year, I wonder when the Crusaders will invade from Daedalus."

He's a crusader who suffered a huge defeat in Galahad, not so easy to rebuild. If you're going to lead all those big armies and set them up, it should be okay to look at a respite for another year or so.

If it is within that grace period, it is a decision that it is not a problem to stay away from the sparda.

"By the way, who's on this one?

"It's a Rank 4 quest, and I don't think they all need to come out"

"So, me and Mr. Chrono... that's past me, right?"

"I want the three of us to go."

Me, Lily and Fiona. He is the first member of the "Element Master".

"No, you don't have to. Mr. Chrono and Mr. Lily, you two go ahead."

"Okay, I mean, Fiona, aren't you caring about something weird or something?

"Even if you expect me to take care of you, I'm not too sure."

So you said you and me and Lily could do it with vegetables? No, it wouldn't be relational enough to believe that from the head.

"So, what are you going to do?

"Until I somehow thought I should do that this time. Strongly, let's go with me next."

Why the vague reason is the best and the second one is clearer.

"Right, right. Do you like that?"

"Me and Lily have a lot to do with Sparda."

Fiona can study in the witch's workshop, and, in fact, she made me show off all the things and their achievements in the battle with Lily. Needless to say, Lily's job. Whatever, you'll want to go back to Distinyland and study it again.

Um, maybe it's me who's free the most. Then...

"And sleep with me tonight"

"The departure is tomorrow morning. What, uh, soften your hands."

So on the 6th of the month of Red Flame, me and Lily left Sparda.

This time, Fiona and Saliel leave a message. Sariel wants two newcomers, Sebastian and Lotte, and the same homunculus, to get along.

Now, the destination, Partier, is just south of Sparda and beyond two more countries. In terms of distance, it would be the best outing ever.

"I miss running down this road."

Oh, my God, I accidentally crush Lily and I as we fly Merry for two, looking at the Ischian hills stretching along the street.

When we first ran down this road, Mary was still a normal horse. I urrowed down the Ischia hills looking for Gleedgore, but I couldn't find it in the end, and I was tangled up in the Phalen bandits on the arrow I tried to return to, and I came crushing it.

That time, even after crushing the Bandits, if you keep searching for the Gridgore, you might have been pinned down before Slowsgill parasitized you, or before he created an army of monsters.

What a thought, because it's all past events.

This Mary also made me feel hard about becoming an immortal horse, but the Ischia Hills is a land of good memories for me because I crossed the trials, saved my friends, and got fame and rank 5 status for Omake as well.

"I miss you!

"I miss you."

Like the old man, blossoming in memorabilia that hasn't been a year yet, we finally step across the Ischian hills into our neighbor Farren.

Sparda, Farren's border checkpoint was like a fort with a large gate to seal off a whole street. No, actually, it would be a fort. I also feel it's a pretty nasty facility, but there are some monster outbreaks and so on in this world, so it's natural to keep these places quite solidified.

If I presented my guild card too, I could get through it in one shot. Is it unusual for a Rank 5 adventurer on a boulder, though I was a little surprised by Farren's guards.

Speaking of which, all the guards were dark elves.

I had heard that Farren was a dark elf country, but alas, with silver-haired soldiers lining their brown skin with unevenness, it was an exotic or otherworldly sight. Plus, seeing that coloring reminds me of nature and Ursula.

Will that child be doing well? I wish I hadn't broken my heart and been saddened by the loss of Leki and my departure too. Besides, Pioneering Village has also been successfully rebuilt... if it is rebuilt less safely, though that would mean that the Crusaders' occupied territories are developing well, so in the big picture it would be a bad situation.

Running through Farren with such complicated thoughts.

This country is larger than Sparda if only for its land area, but the majority of the land that spreads eastward is covered in deep forests, with only a very small part of a person's living area. From the capital on the west side, it gradually becomes rural as we head east, and in the depths of the Great Forest, there are no villages of the Druid clan that perform sacrificial rituals even in modern times...

Anyway, such a vast farren, but this time we just get through. If I had an eye-catching quest request, I would like to go to the capital as well.

We'll take a day and a half to make our way west of Farren, and we'll get to the next country.

City State Turkis.

Compared to Sparda, Farren, it's a small, literally territorial country worthy of the name Urban State. It is a small but flourishing port town of maritime trade facing the Lemurian Sea.

The Lemurian Sea refers to a sea area that stretches through the centre of the continent of Pandora in such a large way that it cuts from the western edge towards the east. As for the geographical shape, would it feel similar to the Mediterranean?

The easternmost coastline of the Lemurian Sea is Sparda territory. Serene, the port town of Avalon, where the knight selection opens, faces the north side of the eastern Lemurian Sea, and the Torquis I came to is located to the south opposite it. So, an island floating in the middle of the Lemurian Sea, almost halfway between this Serene and Torquis, is the Rune of the Earl of the Red Wing.

Urban states in similar port towns, including Turkis, have established many along the coastline of Lemuria. There seems to be a historical history of developing through maritime trade and each continuing to maintain an independent urban state.

It has come in relation to one held by trade, so this area is called the group of central urban states, but it would not be a very precise nomenclature in modern times, as some countries, like Avalon and Sparda, have expanded so much that they cannot be called the earliest urban states. Fortunately, there has not been a decisive dispute between the great Powers, so they are still united in a strong alliance to keep peace.

One of the major reasons for maintaining relations would be that the ambitious country of Daedalus, which targets the most developed central region of this pandora from behind Sparda, refrained from doing so. The best way to tie together is to create a common enemy?

Now, rather than political matters, the harbour town of Torquis is a delicious sea delicacy, which for me is now the center of interest. I missed it when I was Serene.

Since the boulder is not intended for sightseeing purposes, lunch is appropriately decided just where I see it, without carefully selecting the store.

"I'll have it."

"Here you go!

The main thing is the sashimi served on a large plate. I'm complaining this morning that I only serve fresh things that have been watered down in the harbor, but apparently there is no lie or falsehood. Clear white, lean with fat. Many kinds of sashimi are served beautifully, and from the Japanese who know the delicacies of raw fish, it looks like all you can expect anymore.

Most of all, the tuna, the brie, the cuttlefish, they're all fish from different worlds with different names and appearances. Even if the sashimi appearance is similar, it is a different question of how far the taste is similar. Along with expectations, it is also slightly anxious.

At the same time that the sashimi fish were a mystery, the drug flavor that followed on the set was also seen several strange objects.

In the meantime, I know two things: wasabi and radish grate... what is that purple paste?

Also, I have proper soy sauce as basic equipment, but I was able to choose other mysterious sauces such as red or blue. Dodgy blue sauces like this potion don't seem like a bit of a challenge to me.

"... oh, it's usually delicious"

"Oh, Lily, I like this."

If I didn't adventure weirdly and ate it on soy sauce for the most part, it wouldn't literally taste bad.

"Wow, it tastes almost as good as I imagined. Other than that, it tastes unexpected."

"Lily, this is Kiraya"

Much like my familiar Japanese sashimi, they all taste pretty much the same. Other than that, the sashimi with an appearance that I have never seen, which seems to be unique to the other world, has a unique flavour unlike any I have ever tasted.

But, yeah, I'm cool with this. I see, they're all so distinctive and savory that you want to eat them as sashimi. At least you can believe the taste sense of the cook in this store. Enjoy cooking until you're comfortable, without having to freak out extra if you have weird things.

Whoa, corners, it has a drug flavor too, so let's use it. Would it be straightforward and rusty first?

I can usually eat wasabi, right? My sister couldn't do it at all - what a moment she reached for the drug plate while bringing back a small memory.

"This green cream looks delicious"

With that said, Lily softly creaked with a spoon from a pile of wasabi, then released on top of a sashimi taken on a small plate. On top of the tuna-style lean, there's an amount of wasabi on top of it, like the punitive game we played on a variety show a long time ago.

Oh, come on, you're lying, no way.

"Stay, Lily! Sole is..."

"Ahem."

Shortly after stopping, Lily opened her big mouth and threw in Wasabi Sheng Tuna.

"Wow, Lily, don't bite, don't eat, spit it out right away!

"Hmm?

"Look, pep, pep!

"Pee, pee."

A desperate mother like a toddler who accidentally put it in her mouth even in an eraser, and succeeded in letting it spit out somehow. Miraculously my tongue didn't have to touch the wasabi, Lily's expression doesn't make sense as to why I have to put what I ate back, but for now, she listened to me because it's what I'm saying, it feels like.

"Are you okay, Lily, in your mouth, isn't it hard?

"It's not hard, is it?

"Right, but next time don't eat with all this mass on board. It's a very spicy spice when it comes to rust."

"It's not hard, this is a wannabe"

"Wannabe?"

"Yeah, Wannabe"

What's that patchy smelly name.

No, wait, it's hard to imagine Lily lying. Fairies don't lie.

No way, it looks like wasabi. It's completely different.

"Oh, my God, it's not hard at all."

I can't feel the spiciness that comes with that unique toon at all when I try it in my mouth just a little bit. On the contrary, it has little flavor. If I'm going to give you something strong and close, avocado, is it? It is not a delicious wax on its own, but a flavor that enhances other flavors.

In other words, this crocodile doesn't add a very small amount like wasabi, but a drug flavor that eats with plenty of wasabi like radish grate?

"I have wasabi over here."

Knowingly and naturally, with a face like that, Lily took the vessel of medicinal flavors that had been in her seat since the beginning, and opened the lid, and there was plenty of light green paste, real wasabi, that looked like a wannabe. Even if you don't say it, the scent that tickles your nose tells me this one is real.

"Seriously, I didn't notice at all"

"Eh heh, Lily will teach you!

Indeed, this meal may be a little dangerous to challenge with Japanese preconceptions. Let's sweeten up to Lily, who is good at sniffing her nose here, and ask her to teach us about the drug flavors of different worlds - what an arrowhead I thought I was a radical grater and ate with plenty on board, there could have been incidents where I peeled my white eyes off with wasabi spices, but more or less, I had a delicious and enjoyable, good lunchtime. That's the thing, let's keep it.

We passed through Turkis safely, even as we lost our depression in the gourmet. For now, countries with urban state alliances can travel without so much trouble.

Well, an easy trip for two with Lily has also passed a week, the 13th of the month of Red Flame. Finally we arrived at Partier, our destination.

Partya is a country of Centaur, with vast meadow areas making up the majority of the national territory. Although the capital, Babylonica, is a large city lined with buildings of quite different architectural styles than Avalon and Sparda, it seems that the general public live a nomadic life that takes advantage of the vast meadows. Is it like Mongolia?

Although I am interested in a country with a completely different culture than I have seen before, work comes first. This request begins with a meeting with the client that he is staying in the capital Babylonica. This was specified in the request form, as the wishes of the client himself. She also wants to explain the situation in detail.

It's my first visit to the city of Babylonica, but I also have a proper Adventurer's Guild so I have nothing to worry about. He promptly contacted the client when he showed the guild card and requisition form as a set at the contact point.

Me and Lily just had to wait a lot while we ate slowly.

"Nevertheless... you're building a restless room."

The building is splendid, as the room passed by the Alliance is reserved for Rank 5 Adventurers at the Partier Adventurers Alliance headquarters. It is decorated with paintings depicting the magnificent prairie of Partier, as well as goldsmithing accessories that look like traditional craftsmanship, and is quite gorgeous as well.

But it's Centaur who lives in this country, yes, a subrace of horses with a lower body and a human upper body. In other words, buildings are built to match the bodies of their horses, and the doors, passageways, stairs, etc. are oddly wide. It is quite uncomfortable when it is a normal feeling.

This is alle, you feel similar to when you saw a small house in the village of Iles that matched the goblin.

It doesn't bother me because living in Avalon and Sparda is made by human standards, but when it comes to countries and regions where other sub-races are at the centre, there are also big differences in these places. It was obvious when it came to the obvious, but if I didn't experience it, I wouldn't know what it really felt like.

While feeling strangely uncomfortable, wait about two hours while cooking stir-fried lamb and vegetables like Jingiscan, which will be lunch.

"I'm sorry I kept you waiting. I'm your client, Caiontus."

It was a young man with the same dark hair as me who showed up. My hair is tied like a ponytail for a long time. Was this haircut a testament to the Knight of Partier? It's like a samurai.

The hairstyle and the green and white uniform worn viscidly on a person's upper body, the steel foot attached to the black haired horse body that touches his lower body. The long sword I lowered to my waist, I can tell from a glance at Pa that it is a good piece of rice.

Surely the request said that the representative of the lord will have the corresponding identity?

"Nice to meet you. I'm Chrono from the Element Master, a Rank 5 party."

"It's Lily."

"It's an honor to meet a hero like you. When I heard you took on my quest, I doubted my ears."

Not flattery, but genuine gratitude, Mr. Caiontas, who makes his expression shine like that. What, am I becoming famous even in Partier?

"Why are you talking about me? I've never been to this country before."

"The chaossic limb that you crusaded in Serene... the warcraft also caused great damage to our country."

"I see, so"

"Yeah, plus I was in the crusade, too. Unfortunately, in this immature body, I couldn't do anything."

No, it would be enough to have met him and returned safely.

"Neither do I. I don't think I could have defeated him on my own. It was thanks to the cooperation of many of our friends."

"Oh, my God, he is humble against appearance. Rumors don't make you an athlete."

Hey, wait a minute, what kind of guy am I in Partier? And don't say anything against your appearance.

Though I had a lot to catch on to, I didn't dare go into it and went on talking to my client without difficulty.

- So, Kay, I'm talking about work.

After a long conversation, I asked sweetly because the salutation was omitted to make it easier for me to talk and I could call it Kay nicknamed it.

"There's something wrong with putting out a quest as a lord's deputy, isn't there?

From the beginning, there was a catch.

In the first place, if the streets are so obstructed that the Knights should move instantly. The quest coming around to Sparda means that the Knights of Partier didn't move, and even the local adventurers didn't challenge them.

What can be resolved in that country, naturally, is that the Knights or Adventurers of that country will cat it, so the request won't even go around to a foreign country in the first place. Still, the quest is coming, is there a corresponding circumstance or a big guy that can't be solved locally?

"As for our Knights, unfortunately, we decided not to crusade Manticore."

"No way, a Knights of a Nation won't win, it's a Rank 4 monster"

"Yeah, the crusade itself is not impossible. But we must also be prepared for the corresponding sacrifice."

"But that's what knights do, isn't it?

"It was a bad time. Chaosic Lim raids caused less damage to elite troops. We spared the boulders total annihilation, but some still do not return from the temple with treatment. Under such circumstances, the main force of the Knights is the overlapping of other urgent crusade tasks…"

"Results, lack of manpower and"

"Truly, I'm ashamed"

"What about adventurers?

"Some parties have tried, but it's not like we're going to talk."

So if we raise the order terms to Rank 4 or higher, he says there's no one to challenge this time.

"The reward is a critical amount that can be given to me, but as for the high rank quest, it seems to be an unthinkable amount"

Indeed, from Rank 4 Quests, 10 million units is normal, and it is not uncommon for a 100 million unit quest.

If you are a high-ranking adventurer with a smaller absolute number, you will see better requests for rewards. With a small reward, it's not right to undertake a dangerous quest.

"But that's why you can leave me alone? It won't be an issue Kay undertakes personally."

Kay's identity has already been heard.

His real name is Caiontus Hyram. I mean, he's Lord Hyrum's son.

He said he was studying in the Knights of the Capital Babylonica in the midst of an elite education to become his next lord. So Kay's current identity is nothing more than a knight at the same time as he is the son of a lord.

"It's safer to leave this case alone."

"Really?

"Manticore is, in the first place, a monster living in a forest zone. I'll be gone before it's too far away."

"Then why are you sitting here?

"I don't know how it happened, but unfortunately, a female laid an egg there."

The occupied old fort is used as just the right nest, meaning it has an absolute defensive structure until the eggs hatch.

Therefore, if all the eggs are hatched, they will return to the forest where they originally lived with Hina.

"Well, it's certainly better to wait for him to leave in silence than to force him to defeat you."

Although there are economic losses from the blockade of streets, it cannot be the lives lost by crusades. If the opponent is also a manticore, the danger is commensurate. Do you mean that you see idiots better when you hand them out poorly?

Neither will Manticoa leave the fort, which is a nest, so he will not even venture into a nearby village.

"So it's just my personal wish to get rid of Manticore right now"

"Why do you want to knock out monsters that will be gone on their own until you knock on a lot of money again?

"For a long time, my hometown, Hyram, was in financial difficulty -"

and to be told memorabilia of Kay's poor Lords family in such a way as to hear, tear, talk, and so on. You think the knight's gear you're wearing now has also had a hard time getting all the pieces that no one else can just lick?

I can't imagine at all what kind of food a gelber is, the days of cutting food costs to save money and eating only water and gelber with the inhabitants go on...

Anyway, in an effort to do something about this poverty, Kay's father worked so hard that, at last, he succeeded in developing specialties that seemed profitable.

"- This year, this Red Flame Moon is the business opportunity to regenerate death!

It's this time of year to sell that specialty to the capital, Babylonica, and if it goes past the Red Flame Moon... bankruptcy under all circumstances, maybe, like.

"I see what's going on. Very well."

"Asking a noble adventurer like you is an embarrassingly small and selfish reason… for me, my father and, above all, the inhabitants of my Highlam"

"As for this one, it's enough to see that there are no weird suspicious back situations. Besides, it would be a fine reason to think for your hometown."

Quite a story, isn't it? If you're excited about this, you're not a man.

"Leave it to me, I'll take Manticore down."

"Oh, Master Chrono...... thank you!

I exchanged a stiff handshake with Kay, and my will to fight increased.

"... ku"

Lily, on the other hand, slept full.