Legend

After helping the children being attacked by goblins in the settlement, Ray was running through the settlement again.

(Because if you think about it, you should have asked the woman earlier what was at stake or something. That would have led us to a place where we weren't strong enough)

Now that he understood he was in a hurry, Ray sighs inside.

... while doing so, Ray's running speed had not faded at all.

Few of the settlements are moving around like the Lugudos earlier.

Those who can fight will go outside the settlement, otherwise they will be evacuating or turning to treating and caring for those who have been injured.

From the other side of the barrier's junction you can hear the sound of several battles.

That's the voice from everywhere to surround the settlement.

And besides the call of battle...

"Boogie!"

I hear a familiar voice coming from somewhere a little further away, and Ray's direction of travel changes.

Heading there is in a house that was built nearby.

Ray, who entered into it, saw an oak that was happily packing dried fruit into his mouth, I guess, made for preservation by those who lived in this house.

Probably because I'm obsessed with dried fruit. Ray was approaching without even erasing any particular signs, but the oak keeps eating dried fruit happily without showing how he noticed at all.

(I've heard that if you feed cows and pigs fruit and stuff, the meat tastes good... and so does oak? Well, if you've only been eating fruit for a long time, it probably doesn't mean it's to the extent that you just ate a little like this now)

While setting the death size, I still wave the death size in awe of the oak that I haven't noticed.

However, considering that it is in the house where the oak is, it is not the death-sized blade that wielded it, but the patterned part.

Instead of just hitting him in that part, he slaps a death-size pattern as he rotates half way around to hook it to his torso.

"Gupi!"

Because he was beaten where he was eating dried fruit, the oak is blown out the door with a strange scream.

At that time, the blowing oak's hands and feet hit and the furniture and walls broke somewhat, but Ray follows the oak by breaking it off that it would be less damaging than fighting in the house.

"Wow! Hey, what is it? Suddenly the oak!

Ray arrives at the scene as he is just a little surprised by the scream he heard from the blown out of the oak.

An oak holding its flank and screaming and one dark elf with a surprise look on his suddenly flying oak.

You saw blood on your face, and maybe you got hurt when the oak blew up? And I thought for a moment Ray, but that blood trail reassures me inside when I make sure it's a little dry.

And Ray, standing in front of a dark elf with Death Size in his hand, slashes off the head of an oak that was already in close proximity to a serious injury with just one blow now.

Oak's head, cut and flown through the air, looked like a soccer ball or something to Ray's eyes.

Blood is blowing up like a fountain from the neck where the head was cut off.

The dark elf watching the sight has an intense impression of a head flying through the blue sky and a fountain of blood.

The falling head makes a sound as if ripe fruit were falling to the ground and crumbling.

"Ah... Huh?

"Are you all right? Sounds like he almost got crushed by an oak... sorry."

"Huh? Huh? Yeah."

The dark elf in front of Ray has no idea what happened in front of him right now.

If this dark elf had also been in the woods last night, I would have been able to see the strength of Ray in its eyes.

But unfortunately, this dark elf had no talent whatsoever in terms of combat.

Therefore, he was still not in battle with the others and was doing a fine chore in the settlement.

In the midst of being told to get what is absolutely necessary to treat him, a boiling water and a clean cloth, and traveling through the settlement, he will be struck by the bad luck of having the orc blown up by Ray in front of him in this way.

Still, if Ray hadn't gone through this place, a man with no fighting heart might have encountered an orc, so I'd say the man was obviously lucky.

"Uh, that... sure was Ray, wasn't it? Master Marina brought you here to cure the world tree."

"Oh."

Nodding at the man's words, Ray stores the body of an orc without a neck into mystering.

I can also bleed out just fine, thinking it's going to be easier when I dismantle it later.

"The junction of the barrier just vanished, but now the junction of the barrier is unfolding again. Can I assume that you have finished treating the World Tree?

He was a dark elf man who was going to ask Ray, but it was the light sphere that was floating on Ray's side that answered that.

The dark elf man turns a strange eye to that light sphere that blinks violently.

Obviously it's something I've never seen before, but I don't think it's the enemy because Ray doesn't look like he cared at all.

Also, I don't see him as an enemy even looking at him this close. On the contrary, I can even feel something warm on my chest somewhere.

It's like you've been watching me since I was a little girl, someone I should describe even with my other parent.

(No, no, no, what are you thinking about these light spheres)

Ray looked at the dark elf shaking his head sideways small, but eventually nodded and opened his mouth.

"Oh. You can say the treatment is over for once. The reason why the world tree was weak was eliminated."

"What!? You figured out what caused the disease in the world tree!? What the hell was the cause?

Ray turns his gaze upwards to the dark elf man as he moves in and asks.

You deserve to call it May Sunshine, Spring Blue Sky.

In such blue skies, giant cicadas and cetos are currently engaged in battle as they move violently around the air.

Flames, ice, water, wind… The dark elf man, blinded by the way various attacks colour the sky, opens his mouth in such a way as to fear.

"Hey, give me a minute. Could it be..."

Ray nods back in silence to the dark elf man asking as he looks up.

Only then did you understand what kind of beings are involved in this world tree thing. I am still blinded by the appearance of giant cicadas over twenty meters flying through the sky.

No, it would be more right to stare than to be blinded.

The man is also more deeply thoughtful of the world tree than he is of the dark elves of this settlement.

It weakened the world tree until it could no longer develop the fence of the barrier, so it was natural to hold a grudge against the giant cicada.

Ray was watching such a dark elf man for about thirty seconds, but eventually opens his mouth that he can't waste any more time.

"It's time, okay?

"... Huh? Oh, yeah."

You must have understood that you were staring at giant cicadas. A dark elf man turns his gaze in haste at Ray's words.

"So, you know what's going on out there?

"Oh, yeah. As far as I can tell from the guys who came back with injuries."

"Tell me."

"Eh, but all I know is the situation when the barrier junction is disappearing, so now that the barrier junction is back..."

"Still, please. I don't have any information right now, so I need some information."

With Seto, we could see what the present situation is from the sky, but Seto is currently engaged in a fierce battle with giant cicadas, a situation that is not very, but is not free to move.

That's why Ray now was craving information because he could use a little.

"Eh, like the monster doesn't have his own will, he hasn't raised any of those voices like roar or scream. In that state, I was just trying to break even the fence or something."

"The barrier junction?

"Oh. They didn't even hurt to attack me,"

"... he did it, didn't he?

Ray's gaze is directed at the giant cicada fighting Seto again.

There is no damage on the ground as we are fighting over a little further from the settlement.

However... there is considerable damage to the forest.

The same goes for Seto's attack, but the biggest one would still be the attack of the giant cicada.

Its ultrasound with magic seemed unlikely to be difficult for Seto to evade, but there was no way the forest trees on the ground could evade the attack.

The blades caused by ultrasound put together the trees and cut them off, but Ray on the ground and... Dark Elves couldn't see the sight.

"His? Is that that the big fat ass?

"Oh. There's nothing to prove, but that giant bunch of cicadas are coming out. A bunch of monsters attacking the settlement just then. You're too good for anything."

"That's... yeah, well"

Neither does the Dark Elf man disagree with Ray's words.

It's impossible to call it a coincidence because this happened at the right time with the pulse of the world tree.

"I mean, that's why"

"But... how the hell is that!? The number of monsters that have come together may even reach hundreds... no, thousands."

"I don't know that area yet..."

With that said, I could have half predicted it in Ray.

Probably using ultrasound.

But even if there's some certainty, it's simply Ray's prediction.

"Well, I got the story for now. So, where do you think I'm headed from here?

"Where...?

To a dark elf who looks like he doesn't know what he's being asked, Ray exhales small and then opens his mouth again.

"I'm asking you where the most dangerous place is right now. Dangerous places need power, don't they?

"Huh? Oh, right. Um... but there's very little I know..."

"Don't make me say it again and again. I'm in a situation where I have no information. Then you'd better have some guidance, even if it's a little old."

"I'm talking about the guy who's been injured, the southeast direction... he said it's dangerous to have a small number of people over there"

Ray nods when he sees the direction the dark elf man who told him so turned his gaze.

"Okay. That way. Then I'll head that way. Needless to say, there could still be monsters in the settlement. Don't act too alone."

"Oh, oh."

Keep the snorted dark elf man, Ray leaves the spot.

After that, he takes the light sphere and travels with him... and when he says that several monsters like goblins and cobolts are the cost of going on the way, he ends up dead sized like a passerby.

When we arrived at the junction of the barrier that way, outside the settlement, as the man from the dark elf earlier said, there was a battle going on.

However, there are some things that are slightly different from information.

The story I heard was that dark elves are pushed and dangerous, but it doesn't actually look like the dark elves you're fighting are that damaged.

Of course the dark elves on the spot are desperately fighting, but they still looked almost like each other or something. The reason for this...

"It's like I didn't have to come here..."

What I saw in Ray's gaze over the junction of the barrier was the appearance of Optis raging in a flock of monsters with delight.

The other dark elves are away from the herd of monsters, using bows and arrows or spiritual magic to attack the monsters about to head to the settlement from a distance.

But Optis, unlike the others, is challenging monsters to melee.

If the monsters find out there's a dark elf right around them, they'll take precedence over the other monsters.

Most of the monsters there were goblins with only a few, but Optis crushed the head of the goblin by waving a blunt instrument named wand after wand.

"Whoo-hoo. Look, try harder. Look, look, not this way. Whoa, that's a shame. That was a shame."

As he tells him to tease, Optis takes the life of the monster in front of him.

Optis' appearance says he's an old man, but he keeps fighting with no blunt movement at all.

The approaching monster will be crushed in the head or his heart destroyed at the next moment.

(Lightweight, right? No, maybe anyone with a dark elf can make this much of a move...... no, yeah)

Several optis are fighting past Ray's back of the brain, and he immediately shakes his neck to the side to erase that phantom from his head.

Because I imagined the sight of such a myriad of optis only as hell that they would all challenge Ray to battle.

"Yeah? You, Ray? What's the matter with you?

One of the dark elves who was shooting an arrow near the junction of the barrier notices Ray and asks him so.

"I heard you said this place was dangerous. I'm here for reinforcements..."

"... oh..."

Dark Elves deflect his gaze as he figured out something.

Watching such a dark elf, I couldn't fit in and Ray asked me to put myself outside the barrier's boundaries.