Legend

A man and a woman watching as the two and one approached their hiding place.

And the hearing, forged as a shadow, moves Pickles and cheeks as the man learns how to find their place.

To be honest, I was in the mood for tongue-beating, but Griffon exists somewhere not so far away. Given the possibility that the tongue-beating noise would tell us where we were, we could not imitate that.

(No, I got this far just with my sense of smell. Perhaps you should see that we are already known to be hiding around here. But what do we do? It would be harder to hide perfectly anywhere in this city than following this far from the raid place with a sense of smell. Then……)

A man reaches for a metastatic magic item in his pocket.

(2 are transferable...... many are 3. When that happens, don't be abandoning these guys.... but our biggest goal is to bring information back. Given the total annihilation on this occasion, you don't have to think about the best option)

A man who turns his gaze to a woman who is his own deputy.

Take that gaze, and the woman snorts just knowing everything. And do the conversation with just the movement of your mouth without speaking up.

"I lead the others to draw their attention. Captain, use the metastatic stone in that gap."

"... Excuse me, please. I'm not saying go home alive. Do what you have to."

A man who makes bitter decisions while frowning. All that is in it is not the grief of losing those who are subordinates to nothing. A first-rate shadow, or spy, naturally spends a lot of money on its development. Only those who have been raised with that money and have been recognized as outstanding will be shadows. Nearly 20 shadows. Given the funds and effort required to nurture it, I would say that this matter is a great damage to the Bestian Empire. And if you ask me if the information I got after all that damage is worth that much, I have to put a question mark on that too.

In other words, given all the action taken against the city of Gilm this time, it was clearly nothing but a deficit… and nothing more than an oversized deficit.

(Damn, that and this is all because of that adventurer named Ray. More than this happened, I'll make sure to take back to the Empire the information on the guy I gathered here)

"If you guys set him up and make a gap, I'll use the transfer stone to get out of the city. I'll leave all my men here, you take command."

"No. The captain's escort is mandatory at times of need. Please take about two people with you. If you get attacked when you're trying to use a metastatic stone, you might end up taking a guy like Ray to a location that you're securing for your base."

The man is reluctantly convinced by the woman's words and gives short instructions with a hand signal to his men lurking in other buildings. And it took less than 10 seconds to get ready for the raid. The move was certainly not an exaggeration to say the most elite.

(I didn't expect to consume the best of them here. how this affects next spring's war)

That's how the man thinks, while he pokes the other gap and takes the metastatic stone out of his nose so that he can transfer at any time. Later, all you have to do is wait to rendezvous with two of the armed men in your unit as your own escort.

(The other side is attacked, deal with it, and that's where the rest of them show up. That moment I was distracted by my vigilance over there. try to activate the metastatic stone without missing that gap)

I guess I made sure you were ready. Put up a knife to Ray, whose woman is approaching from the outside... and throw it quickly. At the same time, several of the remaining shadows on this occasion threw knives, as did the woman.

But what happened the next moment was an incredible thing to do, being a man who was watching where his actions went. Somehow Ray took the knife out of his nose. No, because he literally manipulated it at an unstoppable speed and struck down all the knives that flew to him.

"Good luck, Captain!

……

The woman says a short goodbye to her own boss and jumps outside. At the same time, the other men who were watching will also show up from the hidden building and surround the Rays.

And the man didn't miss that momentary gap when Ray's gaze was directed at his men. When the woman and her men showed up but moved in confusion to meet with the two men who, in an instant, completed the communication of their will and tried to beat the magically flowing transfer stone to the ground.

"Captain! Avoid it!

The woman's screams echoed around her, and at the same time she was struck with the sound of destroying something, and in an instant she was unconscious.

The man was definitely right in his judgment. If it's a normal adventurer you're dealing with. Or if it was just the guards, they would have succeeded in escaping the scene with a transfer by metastatic stone at the expense of their men as they aimed.

But it wasn't a normal adventurer who was on the spot. It was Ray, rumored to have a rank A adventure-like fighting power. And in this case, what would have been more lethal than anything else was that there was a griffon ceto capable of sensing magic.

The next moment the woman and her men showed up and besieged the Rays. Seto sensed a magical reaction from the cabin from which the woman who was in the lead came out, even as he was besieging himself. I couldn't tell if that was magic or some kind of magic item, but it could do harm to my favorite Ray as it is. Having so decided, Seto kicked the ground, feathered his wings, and used the effect of a magic item called his flesh and rigidity bracelet over 2m to penetrate the cabin where he sensed magic.

And as a result...

"Seto!?

Like those around him who have a clear face for his actions, Ray also unwittingly calls the name of Seth.

But by the time Seto heard that voice, the effect of the metastatic stone was already being exerted, and a magic formation had been deployed to transfer to the ground of the cabin. And the man and his men, who had that metastatic stone, are hitting the wall and passing out and falling to the ground, losing their minds by the stroke of Seto's body. The activated transfer stone remains on the ground.

"Grrrrrr!?

It was already too late when Seto noticed the magic formation. Magic formations unfold around the transfer stones that fell to the ground. And the presence that was in that magic formation… i.e., it transferred Seto.

"... Seto?

Signs of Seto bursting into the building suddenly disappeared, Ray groaning. Langa, who doesn't know what happened next to that ray, but still understands that something awkward has happened, is turning his rugged gaze to those surrounding him.

But the same was true of the confusion for the women and their men surrounding Ray and Langa. I'm pretty sure the metastatic stone activated somehow, but the griffon ran into it on the verge of activating it. If all the buildings like the shadow captain's cabin were broken, I would have understood what was going on inside. But Seto's momentum was tremendous, and he didn't understand what was going on inside because he tried to penetrate the wall rather than collapse it. There would also have been overlapping bad luck that the captain of the shadow had passed out by the stroke of Seto's body.

But the biggest bad luck...

"Hey, you. From what I've seen, you're the best of these guys, aren't you? What were you doing in that cabin?... Answer."

My own partner...... or I would have noticed that the sign of Seto, another arguably self, had suddenly disappeared, the presence of Ray in front of me.

It was fortunate in the midst of misfortune that some of the shadows dealt with magic but none had the ability to sense magic. If there had been one who could sense magic on this occasion, that person would undoubtedly have first lost his will to the amount of magic that was still lacking, even though it was enormous, that was erupting from Ray himself.

But still... even those who cannot sense the magic can confirm that the surroundings of the rays are shaking, and they can see that the snow falling from the sky disappears as if it evaporates when it comes near the rays.

"Huh!?

The woman, who should have been severely trained as a shadow in the killing spraying with immense magic, breathes, her hands tremble unconsciously, her feet tremble.

When I realized that the noise I was hearing from earlier was the sound of my teeth squealing due to fear, I realized that my men who were already around me, like myself, were useless as a decent force of war.

"... Answer me,. Is that what I said?

Whimpering, he takes the Death Size out of the Mystering and swings it big.

The sound of the sickle blade slashing and tearing the wind was sharp enough to make us half convinced that it would be enough to slash and tear ourselves like paper.

One step, one more step and Ray are the shadows surrounding themselves...... and moving on to the woman at its forefront.

It's time for Ray to make it to the end of his life. While I felt that way, I couldn't move as one person, starting with a woman, to the intense killing that was being directed at me by Ray and the discomfort that even though I didn't have the ability to feel magic, it also led to intense fear.

... Yes. Those on the spot are.

"Shit!"

I try to slash and tear the wind to feel something flying in, swinging a death size with my tongue slapping.

Kim!

While emitting a metal sound, the Death Size, poured into Ray's magic, slashes and tears the knife that flew from the cabin where Seto had poked earlier without even a slight response.

"I haven't heard anything about this monster."

It was the man who led the shadows here who entered with a sigh of relief.

"Ha, ha..."

I try to get something out of my mouth, but Ray's killings and magic put me to a woman with no words at all.

However, the eyes were like saying things to the mouth, and the woman's gaze indicated that the man was an important person.

"... I see. You're their best friend. Apparently, he was only trying to escape by himself..."

I look around without particularly moving my expression to such a provocative phrase of Ray.

Being there are my men who can't move. Even for a man, I was instinctively aware to say that it was impossible to beat Ray with the killing spirit that was being directed... or run away.

"Does your presence here mean Seto interrupted you trying to use magic items to transfer?... Say it. Where's the destination?

Ask Death Size toward a man. I guess I should say that unlike the women and the rest of my men, Ray's movement hasn't solidified when he says he's decently motivated to kill is just the captain who leads one unit of shadows.

"... if we talk about it, they'll miss us..."

Slash!

Without having to make me say it to the end, the flying slaughter away from Death Size, the flying slaughter slashes and tears apart the building where the man appeared by passing directly next to the man.

"You think I'm in a position to offer you a deal? Answer or die. Pick whoever you want."

"... okay? If you kill me, there's no way to find out where the Griffon you just transferred is?

Even as I put it in my mouth, the man's back is shockingly wet with cold sweat.

The intense killer feeling from Ray was putting so much pressure on him.

"Even if you don't say anything, why don't you ask your men and they'll tell you? Fortunately, my magic has a few things that I might be able to use for questioning."

(Awkward...... dude. We're wiped out like this, and the worst pattern is that we can't take the information back after all. Damn, why is this monster on such a periphery?... No. because it's a periphery, or)

You can't win first by challenging the fight. For a man that was already a fact I understood. What you can do when you do so is abandon your men and run, or surrender.

(No, there's no way you can run away and run away. Especially now I can move...)

A man who checks on his men with his gaze. Because the killing spirit from Ray is focused on the man, the woman who is the man's deputy was able to move somewhat, but still not enough to escape. The rest of my men are out of the question.

(Then there is only surrender? It's nearly impossible to escape from this man, and somehow this killer. If we do poorly, we're all likely to die. It would be better to surrender than that and escape where this man is not. … although it would be slower to deliver information)

If there was still a metastatic stone, he would have abandoned his men to bring the information back. Transfer stones, however, require very advanced alchemy to make, as well as high-ranking monster materials, including rank B, for catalysts and materials. For this reason, it is not an alchemy developing Bestian empire or something that can be produced so easily in mass, and only one was used when Seto interrupted the man. I soon realize that more than the lack of that metastatic stone, it just makes my life scatter for nothing, even if I abandon my men and try to leave this place.

No matter how many shadows say they don't hesitate to risk their lives to accomplish their mission, it's only because they believe their lives will be for the good of their country. At least not to get killed without question by Ray, who's stuck in front of the shadows here.

Even while the man is thinking, Ray magic Death Size...

"Ray, that's enough!

Langa reaches down to Ray's shoulder with the words to stop the movement.

Sometimes, unlike those in the shadows, Ray's killing spirit is seen by Langa, who is also the captain of the guard, but it is still probably the biggest reason that he wasn't directly targeted for killing. Still, the movement had been stopped by the leaked killing, so Ray himself showed exactly how mad he was.

……

For a moment he turned his gaze to Langa, and eventually, when he sighed small, Ray settled for killing. But still, his gaze remains directed at the man who leads the shadow as it is.

"Say it. Where is Seto's destination?"

"... a river near the city of this guilm. In a cave upstream of it."

Hearing the man's words past Ray's brain was a river stripped of monster material with a long face of power.