Legend

"Well, I don't know what to do now"

Ray squeaks his hands off the trunk of the world tree.

It was a world tree that was dying until a few dozen seconds ago and was in such a state that it could be described as dying, but now it had blue leaves, which changed from what the world tree looked like until a few dozen seconds ago.

That's the same with the bright light sphere on Ray's side, and the light that was about to disappear today after being devoured of magic and sap by giant cicadas is now dazzling.

Such a light sphere was happily flying around Ray's perimeter blinking.

"Relax.... when we were talking about the marina, we talked about the imitation not being very good for the body to heal all at once, but you look okay for now"

To the words out of Ray's mouth, the photosphere stops moving and blinks violently to indicate that he is well.

Ray's gaze was directed towards the sky while appeasing to the light sphere's appearance.

There, the battle between the giant cicadas and Seto is going on so far that we can tell from being on the ground like this right now.

Flames, ice and wind that were emitted colored the sky.

If you look at that and knock it down when you're stuck in the world tree only for a moment... the thought passes behind Ray's brain, but it's nothing but stupidity to do the act of not thinking about it and just trying everything from the beginning, beyond knowing what a giant cicada has in the first place.

Ray, at least not least, didn't want to be such a jerk from himself.

Because even in a situation where the world tree was weak, that could even be fatal.

(World tree, world tree? Now, I wonder what's going on with having a solid view of the outside from the inside, regardless of the fact that you can't see the world tree from the outside?... Well, if it's completely cut off from the outside, it's going to affect the health of the Dark Elves, and could it possibly be agriculture)

Think like that watching the sun in the sky and shake your head right next to it.

Not if you're thinking about it now.

Seto is still fighting giant cicadas while he's doing this, and most importantly...

"Temporarily the fence of the barrier disappeared, didn't it?"

To the grunting Ray, the light bulb blinks as if it showed with attitude that he was sorry.

You noticed such a light sphere, Ray gently reaches out with the intention of dealing with Seto... but that hand slips through the light sphere.

"Ever.... well, he said he had nothing to worry about that much. The Dark Elves are doing everything they can to protect you. And Elaine, Marina, Vihera."

So Ray, who stopped his mouth, turns his gaze to the sky again.

There, several attacks were still visible.

Seto is almost crossing each other against a giant cicada ten times more than he is.

No, you can say they're glued, not exactly one another.

The giant cicada that has absorbed Ray's magic is avoiding Seto's attacks with physical abilities enhanced by his magic, or is prevented by ultrasound and barrier junctions that contain magic.

Seto had also evaded the ultrasound attack emitted by the giant cicada without having to hit it, either by already seeing out.

The battle continues, but Seto does not retreat a single step ahead of his opponent, who is overwhelmingly huge than he is.

There is no doubt that it is thanks to Seto fighting that this settlement is now safe, and if Ray calls Seto in this situation, Seto's consciousness will go to Ray at all, and if he tries to pick up Ray on it, the giant cicada will be free to move.

(It would be nice to leave the settlement, but even if you don't imitate it to attack the settlement... no, it doesn't taste good to let that go wild even if you leave the settlement)

In other words, Ray should have absolutely avoided imitating Seto's consciousness to himself as it stands.

"Then..."

The gaze was directed at the settlement, not the sky.

The boundary of the barrier had vanished, even temporarily, due to the effects of the earlier giant cicada.

And because I decided that it was better to do something about it than to hear reports of countless monsters gathering around the settlement before they came to the world tree.

(Besides, it doesn't necessarily mean there are no monsters in the settlement while the barrier's junction was gone)

The dark elves, capable of fighting, are definitely out of the settlement to fight.

There were no fightable dark elves in the settlement right now, or they were a handful even when they were there.

In fact, those injured in the battle are sent back to the settlement, so it doesn't necessarily mean that there are no talent to fight.

But still, there was never more to be expected in terms of combat power than to be injured and rendered incapable of combat and returned to a rear settlement.

"So, am I the only one who can move freely? If the barrier's junction still disappears, I guess we should have done something about it first."

Ahead of the gaze is the glowing light sphere that looks fine.

As a result of the massive infusion of Ray's magic, he was surprisingly well.

(Forced to magic by a dying old man...... in this case life force? Doesn't it feel like I brought it back to life with all my strength anyway? Because you can also understand what Marina meant when she said it wasn't very good for the world tree)

You don't understand Ray's thoughts like that, but the light bulb blinks violently as if he were angry.

Thinking to be pushed back by the light sphere, Ray eventually kicks the ground toward the settlement with Death Size in his hand.

Think about it that we should act before we think about it anyway now.

You don't want the light sphere to be left on Ray either, follow Ray after him brightly.

While running down the road leading to the settlement, there were multiple sounds of Seto and the giant cicadas fighting up there.

If the listener hears it, it sounds like maybe it's a signal for the festival, but no one will think about that in the current situation.

(No, I don't know if there's fireworks or anything over here.... I have magic, and Japanese people come in the past like Takum, so it's not weird to have fireworks or anything. No, it didn't seem like there was even udon or anything, so it's just useless to expect)

Continue to run the Death Size in your hands and arrive at the settlement.

Naturally, few of them are in the settlements because those who can fight are headed outside the fence to protect the settlements wherever possible.

But most of them don't mean none...

"Wow, wow! Don't come, don't come here!

A familiar voice enters his ear, and instantly Ray runs toward those who hear his voice.

Where we arrived without taking ten seconds, the appearance of nearly ten children.

Among them there was also a mix of familiar faces such as Ian, Kalja and Murus, especially Lugudos, who wielded a dagger in his hand to protect the other children, holding on to the goblins he was trying to approach.

The number of goblins approaching the children is three.

Each one of them can't even be called a stick, a wooden stick...... that's what surrounds the Lugudos with an ugly grin in their hands, something that suitably folds and weaponizes the branches of the tree.

There are more children in numbers, and some of them can use spiritual magic or learn to handle weapons.

But...... it's just practice and I've never done it in action yet.

And now it was just the children, a situation that could be described as unusual: the world tree was about to wither, the junction of the barrier was broken, and monsters were gathering.

If you ask me if I can fight a monster in that, the answer is no.

Lugudos in particular was hit in the head by a goblin stick in the woods and has just been injured.

Is that when things are traumatic, Lugudos' hand, who now has a dagger, is trembling with fear?

"Damn, don't come! I'm telling you not to come! You guys, if we get any closer, we're not just gonna do it!

Still, as a kid general, Lugudos desperately takes the goblin in his vanity while protecting his younger children as well.

"Gah, gah, gah!"

"Gagging"

"Gagga."

I guess I'm cutting through the vulnerabilities of Lugudos. Each of the goblins laughed and held a wooden stick...

"That's it."

As soon as the word sounded around me, I wondered if a flash of wind had blown, all three goblins had been severed into two straight parts of their upper and lower bodies.

"Huh? That?

Seeing Goblin die the moment he gets a word squealed, Lugudos looks around in such a way that he doesn't understand what happened.

At the end of his gaze is one man with a sickle bigger than his height.

I naturally know who that is because Lugudos also lives in this settlement.

An adventurer who came to heal the world tree.

And for Lugudos, he was a powerful lover, though he never put it in his mouth, and while he was there, a benefactor who helped himself last night when he was in the woods and unconscious.

(Sister Marina will never give it to this guy!

An older woman who was distraught just at first sight. Lugudos tries to open his mouth whining its name inside...

"Heh heh! Ha ha!

From among the children, a small, temporal child runs out towards Ray.

"Hey, hey, Mules!

"Thank you, Ray"

"Thanks, brother Ray"

Carja and Ian also run out of the group, as they chase after Mullus, who ran out first.

These three were helped last night by Ray in the woods, who is seeing the power firsthand.

Mules in particular admired Ray for helping himself, and until not long ago, he smiled like a liar when he looked like he was about to cry at Goblin against him.

"Are you all right?

Ray tells him to put his hand on his head to calm down such a mulse.

I guess you understood Ray wasn't the one you were afraid of. Everyone else runs under Ray.

"Hey, hey, brother, you're strong!

"How did you defeat that one? Not very much, but for a move that just humans can make..."

"Silly, you. This man fought the elders and won! That's not normal."

"Oh, if you say so, my mother said this Ray guy is a person, not a person."

…… Are you a person? No? "

Ray was watching each one of them say whatever they wanted, but keep your hands gently on the heads of the Dark Elf children before heading under Lugudos, a little further away.

"You've never seen me when I'm so conscious. I don't know what to say, but it's been yesterday."

"... Huh!

My lover saw me dressed badly. Without putting up with it, Lugudos turns away from Ray.

"What, did I do something to make you hate me?

"Nothing."

That's what he said in his mouth, but his attitude totally expressed his dissatisfaction with Ray.

(Why do they hate me like this? I've never actually talked to this guy before, have I? I passed out yesterday.)

Ray, who never thinks he's suspected of having a relationship with Marina, only questions Lugudos' attitude.

Still, I couldn't let the kids go any more than it was dangerous to stay here.

"Anyway, when I'm here, other monsters might show up again. Now the fence is back, but there's a good chance the monster got inside when the fence wasn't up earlier. It was dangerous, actually."

The children breathe small to Ray, who groans with a glimpse of the goblin that is severing his torso in two.

This time it was helpful because Ray came, but because if Ray hadn't come, it would have been obvious what would have happened to us.

"In the first place, what are you guys walking out of here at a time like this? Shouldn't you have hidden at home or somewhere?

"Oh, we weren't even playing! Here!"

It was some potion that Lugudos took out of the bag he was carrying.

It was also evident from seeing a sculpture in the container that it was a substitute that would be of high quality rather than of low quality.

"... what are you guys doing? Weren't the grownups with you?

"We're all busy, so we're here to get it!

"It seems like it would be nice for some adults to come along."

Lugudos, listening to Ray whining, softly turns away from his gaze.

That's all Ray understood.... I did.

That Lugudos and the others didn't come to get the potion because the adults asked them to, but because they came at their discretion.

"You guys... in this busy time..."

It was also understood by Ray that he would have taken this kind of means because he wanted to help the adults at all, rather than going outside because he was free.

There may have been the thought of being in a closed cage all the time and being free, but what's still in the big book was the desire to help the grownups... the injured settlers.

Still, the actions taken by the Lugudos and others are in no way to be commended.

I tried to open my mouth to Lugudos, that's when... the rage that doesn't belong to Ray echoes around me.

"I found it, you guys! What are you doing in a place like this! … Ah, you……"

I guess it was totally unexpected that there was a Ray on the side of the kids. The dark elf woman opens her eyes to surprise.

Ray opens his mouth when he sees it, deciding he won't have to scold him.

"Well, I'm sorry, but the kids, please. I still have work to do."

"Huh? Oh, yes. Okay."

To Ray's abrupt words, that's all a woman can give back.

With such a woman, Ray followed the scene with Death Size in his hand.