Legend

"Huh? What this?"

Vihera whines as she is distracted by its roots, which are eroded all over her body from the pattern of the Devil's Sword and cover the body of the Cobolt as if it were a tattoo or something.

Kobolt's body is hairy, so if it were normal, it would only be part of his face to know if things were to be rooted in his body.

Still, you can see that the roots are firmly stretched in the body because the roots stretched in the body emit dull light.

Such a sight, as if carved tattoos were glowing throughout your body.

And Cobolt, who was screaming until a few seconds ago, already has no light of will in his eyes.

The day before yesterday the Cyclops thing was Vihera I had heard from Ray, but I guess the sight I saw for the first time was different in many ways.

I was looking at Kobolt so that I couldn't understand what had happened for a moment.

Standing beside such a vihella, Ray stands against Kobolt with Tsu's spear in his hand.

"It's the same red cyclops we talked about yesterday. Perhaps Cobolt is manipulated by that demon sword. But... it's too late."

Cobolt, supposedly manipulated by the Devil's Sword, still kept cramping his body.

The red cyclops didn't take long to get here when the hammer took over his body, and he said he was taking immediate action.

(Cyclops...... it is also a cyclops stronger than normal in rare and superior species and a regular cobolt. Whatever you think, Kobolt is weaker. Yet why does it take so long for the Devil's Sword to take over the body... the Devil's Sword?

What I saw in Ray's eyes was a demon sword trying to take over Kobolt's body.

Seeing that demon sword, Ray immediately understands.

"Demon Sword and Hammer, even if it is the same magic item, does it perform differently"

When I squealed, it seemed to Ray that it was true.

Naturally. Normally, Rank E Monster Cobolts and Rank C Monster Cyclops, and more than what seems to be a rare or superior species, have too different fighting power as an individual in a Rank B equivalent monster.

Let two monsters of such different fighting power have magic items with exactly the same performance?

The answer is no.

If it's less ray, I'd rather have a powerful magic item on a powerful monster like Cyclops than a powerful magic item on a cobolt.

(Besides, I don't know how many alchemists are from the Bestian Empire that have anything to do with this one, but it's probably more likely the remnants of Kabazid than being an alchemist. If that happens, is there that many people?... I don't think I'm going to miss a number of alchemists running out of the Bestian Empire, like ten or twenty)

With no more light of will in his eyes, Cobolt turns its movement from a thousand feet to something smoother with every walk, eventually making a quick move towards Vihella.

Sometimes the body is small, the weight is light, and the original Kobolt is a race with superior velocity than power, where the Devil's Sword takes over Kobolt's consciousness and forcefully increases his physical abilities.

It was so quick and sharp that I didn't think it was a Rank E monster.

As far as the roots stretched most inside Kobolt's body shine, I guess the Devil's Sword forcefully draws out things like strength and vitality, just like Cyclops.

power gained by cutting lives in the literal sense, it can be said.

It was Vihera who saw Kobolt coming towards her at such a rate, but Ray saw the smile on Vihera's face.

Want to fight a strong opponent, face as a combat freak.

If you lick your lips with a red, glossy tongue, you will come forward yourself instead of waiting for Cobolt as it is.

Having decided that it would be useless to say anything to Vihera now, Ray falls back so as not to get in the way.

Coming forward, Vihera sheds her magic on the armor of her hand, producing her magic claws.

I took the blow of the Devil's Sword swung down there with my fingernails and wound it up to tangle it up as it was...... if it were meant to be, I would have packed more of the time as Kobolt put the Devil's Sword back on hand in anticipation of it.

But...... at the next moment, the Devil's Sword's body breaks in the middle with the kind of metal sound that echoes around him, and Kobolt falls to the ground at that rushing speed, rolling to scrape the ground and advancing for a few meters to stop the movement.

"... Huh?

It was Vihella who raised her voice in a daze.

Without knowing what I did with the Devil's Sword, I still unconsciously wave my right hand and drop the body of the Devil's Sword onto the ground that was hooked from my armor to my stretched magic claw.

"Er... hey, what is it now? Are you sure this is it? You're lying, right?"

I whine if I'm not convinced.

Naturally. I was looking forward to seeing them do it right for the first time in a long time, because the Devil's Sword actually broke due to light magic claws.

"... I felt like this would happen somehow."

To the grunting Ray, Vihera turns her gaze for explanation.

"Rank C Monsters and Rank E Monsters. This is all rank away, so it's the same for a magic item. But performance is different, naturally. High-performance magic items naturally require scarce materials and a lot of magic to make."

"... right"

I'm convinced by Ray's words.

Because I understood that if I were to plan something, I couldn't possibly give Kobolt and Cyclops the same magic item.

"And given that Cyclops didn't have the ability to play on the magic items he had, I guess this demon sword is a degraded version of that hammer, or something like that"

Ray shrugged as he turned his gaze toward the fullness of the Devil's Sword, which fell to the ground, even reaching out and stopping the movement.

The hammer of the cyclops was to remind me that he had tried to take Ray's consciousness away when he touched it.

This demon sword is a magic item a few steps down compared to a hammer, and now it's even broken from half-baked.

Still, in case you think about it, I had to say it was still dangerous to touch it as it was.

"I need you to step away for a moment."

To Ray's words, everyone who was on the spot leaves Ray wondering.

Confirming it increases the magic… In the next moment, the magic released from Ray's body is concentrated, compressed and visualized, becoming a red magic and wrapped around Ray's body.

No one could feel the magic on this occasion, but no one still fails to realize the overwhelming force felt by Ray.

The faces of the former guerrillas have seen it many times before, as have the Mileynes and members of the scorching wind, the sight of Ray activating the Red Armor of the Flaming Emperor in a duel held in the winter.

Only the two adventurers who have fled to this place can harden and move without knowing what is going on.

Wrapped in red magic, Ray reaches for the body of the Devil's Sword falling to the ground.

That's how the moment Ray grips himself...... as if he couldn't stand Ray's magical powers, the Devil's Sword becomes sand and crumbles.

"... what?

Unable to understand what happened, Ray turns his gaze towards the body of the Devil's Sword, which becomes sand and falls zero in his own hands.

Less than a few seconds after that, all of the Devil's Sword body, which was in Ray's hands, turns into sand and falls zero, and is flushed by the spring breeze and disappears.

Ray, who was just shyly dropping it off, turned to Tsu's spear, which he had in his left hand.

(That demon sword broke just by touching it, but Tsu's spear didn't do anything in particular. Is this... No, is this also a difference in character as a magic item?

Tsu's spear is a very high quality magic item rewarded by the marina.

It was wrong in many ways to compare that tsu spear to the demonic sword made for use by Kobolt even when he was an alchemist of the Bestian Empire.

"... uh, Ray? Well, if you can, it's time..."

Mileyne, who was a little far away, tells me so, scratching her sweat at the heat released from Ray.

I was able to operate a certain amount of heat once, but it's still not complete.

"Oh, bad"

Whimpering, releasing the Flaming Emperor's Red Armor.

At the same time, the wind blows, warmer than the spring temperatures… No, running the hot surrounding air into the woods.

The wind coming over the river was just as cool for the lit body.

Feeling such cold air, Seto eventually comes near Ray.

"Gru?"

Are you okay? and Ray grins and reaches for Ceto, who tilts his little neck and squeals his throat.

"Don't worry. I don't know if it's too bad... but it's not that bad."

There was just a demon sword that would have been a clue to the alchemist, and I wanted to get it if I could, but still, it's not absolutely necessary.

In the first place, in the sense of clues, there are hammers made more by hand than the demon sword Ray just broke.

If you're going to get information on the alchemist, you'll get more information by looking into the hammer.

(I guess the most magic item to look into was just if there was one)

When the sand on your hands is scattered in the wind, it is in your eyes that Fu and Vihera have a harsh look on their face.

'Cause the fight against Kobolt was boring? I also thought Ray, but somehow I found out that it wasn't about Kobolt that I thought I was going to see how Vihera was doing.

"Vihera, what's up? Anything wrong?

"... Yep. It's just a little bit here. I'll talk to you later. What more do you do with Cobolt than that? I don't think the Cyclops thing feels like I'm stripping away material anymore."

I understand that you are intentionally changing the story, but when you decide that it must also be for some reason, Ray turns his gaze around.

The corpses of the cobolts rolling around there, combined with those hidden in the bush besides the twenty who first showed up, are close to fifty.

I came here to strip the cyclops, but I had already lost all motivation to continue doing so.

It must also be significant that the stripping of the cyclops defeated by the Mileynes is over.

"I don't need it for now. Now."

"We might want a little. If you divide the rewards you've earned on the Cyclops by this number of people, there's not much left."

To Mileine's words, and to each of the other multitudes, he nods back.

(Don't tell me it'll be a mountain if it's dusty too)

It's just more than fifty Kobolt corpses.

If I stripped it from all of it, it would have cost me about a month of food if it had worked out for a week.

So is Kobolt's demon stone, because fur sells for quite a good price.

"Then why don't we just peel it off? Vihera is..."

And I just called out, and it's in Ray's eyes that Büne is collecting a few of Kobolt's bodies near him.

You noticed Ray's gaze like that, and Büne brags with that thin chest up.

He said it was a cobolt he defeated.

"Mmm!"

"No, I get that... what are you gonna do with that? Maybe you're going to peel it off now?

"Mmm."

As a Bühne with a strong obsession with gold from its birth, I guess the option does not exist to dump the corpse of Cobolt, which will undoubtedly be gold, even if it is somewhat cheap.

It is the two adventurers who were being chased by Kobolt who are surprised to see how such a Bühne is doing.

I was surprised to see one girl overwhelmingly younger than ourselves defeat Kobolt after another, and also surprised to self-assert the defeated Kobolt against Ray.

We look at each other, and then eventually we nod and we both open our mouths.

"Well, thank you for your help"

"I didn't think Kobolt was making so many herds, even if he was going to make a herd... and hold a demon sword or something..."

"Never mind. That's what happens. And it wasn't just bad for us."

To the two adventurers who are bowing their heads, Ray returns his words as he looks at Mileyne and the Bühnes, who are just beginning to strip quickly.

Even though I said I would strip them off, they decided to give up the furry kind that takes time, except for the beautiful ones, and collect only the crusade proof area and the demon stone, and the tail that can be easily cut off, and they have handily stripped the material from the cobolt.

"I'm pretty sure today's earnings will be more than just this Kobolt corpse."

"... you guys are strong"

One of the men squeaks smudgingly.

Hearing such a man's voice, Ray relays the story without any particular affirmation or denial.

(More than that demon sword was being given to Kobolt, maybe these guys are my convolutions.... but the fact that Kobolt is also given the Devil's Sword means that the quality is mass-produced anyway... I only have a bad feeling)

Looking at the sight of the material peeling off the cobolt, I felt smudged.