Legend

There is no cloud in the sky, and this bright blue sky is as high as summer. And emitted from the sun is another summer intense sunshine.

Even though the sunlight pouring down to the ground hasn't completely gone into summer yet, the intense heat deprives people of their strength.

Anyone walking down the street frowns unexpectedly at the yang flame, which distorts the view a little further away.

Many, such as travelers and adventurers, admire the sun floating in heaven with hatred in our faces.

There is something very hard about being deprived of strength by the heat.

In the meantime... the adventurer, who was asked to collect flowers that only bloom in the summer sun, similarly turns his gaze to the sky with frustration... where he discovers strange things.

(Monster?)

Whimpering, he still didn't get into an immediate interception posture because the monster was winging at us with no appearance of consciousness at all.

There aren't that many monsters flying in the sky, but none of them are.

If we were to come towards ourselves, we would have to deal with things like running away and intercepting, but the monsters flying ahead of the man's gaze right now were not interested in us at all, just flying gracefully in the sky.

I don't know what experience it's like to fly in this intense sunlight, but I still wonder if it's cooler than on the ground being heated by the sun, which makes me want to fly in the sky too......

The other fellow called the man who was looking up into the sky to be blinded… the man who returned to me with his voice rushed after his fellow man.

"If there were a few more clouds and stuff, I wouldn't get tired of this sight."

"Gru."

Ray, not at all aware of the exchanges taking place on the ground, was flying through the summer sky with Seto.

The sunlight pouring out of the summer sun was like saying it was intense compared to the ground, but fortunately Ray has a dragon robe with what should also be called simple air conditioning.

Seto is also a Rank A monster, so there's nothing more to be said about this degree of sunlight.

Ray was flying with Seto on this spot, a long way from Gilm, because he was heading from the marina to Gosh, a city in the proposed desert.

Ray was followed by many merchants over the dusk spear, but it was Gosh that Marina chose as a place of refuge between it and a paragraph.

Neighbouring country of the Kingdom of Mireana...... it is also a small country and the country of Sollain, which is essentially equal to the country to which it belongs, is deserted by many lands.

That, too, is not the kind of rocky desert Ray experienced in the dungeon before, but a lot of deserts made of pure sand.

A city that has developed to the point of entering five fingers within such a country as Sol Rain is Gosh where Ray is headed with Seto.

It is a city that has developed around the oasis, hot all year...... a place that is not very much but doesn't want to head into the summer.

But Ray was on his way to such a place with Seto.

It was a suggested trip from the marina, but I would have said no if it were normal.

Sometimes I didn't have to rush to do anything.

The study on goblin meat was done with Maryo, but when I heard about Ray called Aging, I was told that Maryo was currently trying it and that Ray now didn't have to do anything.

Maryo also knows that Ray is being followed by a merchant over the dusk spear, so Ray recognizes that he cared.

Sometimes there's nothing particularly Ray needs to do at the moment, and the anticipation that there might be an unknown monster because it's a different desert than the dungeon in the labyrinth city of Exil, Ray decided to go gosh.

Since Vihera was away with me on the way home from Bühne, there were some thoughts that she might be pissed off when she came back, but you were talking about Marina being spoken for, and she traveled in peace.

Going to the desert in the summer doesn't seem like a sanity shack to those suffering from the heat in the Guild.

Especially for someone like Fat Maryo, the thought would be twice as strong as a person.

But... Fortunately, Ray has a dragon robe, and most importantly, Ray's body was created by bringing together Zeppyre's technology.

Naturally you have some resistance to the heat and cold, and with a magic tent on top of that you can be comfortable.

It was also thought that the name of Ray would not be known to the Kingdom of Mireana if it were a neighbouring country.

Of course there will be no more known names than they played in wars with the Bestian Empire and in fighting competitions and such.

At the same time, it was quite possible that Ray's information was coming around if he was an Adventurer's Guild... but still, there were some thoughts that it was better than being persistently attached to a merchant.

"Desert, huh? I wonder what kind of demon stone you can get."

"Grrrrrrrr!"

To Ray's words, Seto sounds his throat gladly.

The fact that I have acquired some skills in the World Tree affair may also make me want to use them.

Especially skills like King's Intimidation are just powerful, and they don't get to be used easily.

A few days after leaving the guild already. Rarely...... that's what's really unusual, Ray and Seto continue their empty journey at will, especially without getting into the trouble I said this.

I was not attacked by bandits when I was camping, I never saw a carriage being attacked by bandits and monsters when I was flying in the sky, and I was well on my way to Gosh without getting lost.

Marina was also unable to lend a detailed map due to her position, but I gave Ray a big mess of maps to Gosh, and he explains some of the journey.

... It is the usual ray to get into trouble even if you are pushed that far, but wonder has been able to move around without any problems until now.

(Thought you didn't even want trouble to move in this heat or anything?... No way)

Gradually, the surrounding scenery also changes from a normal view to something close to the rocky desert.

It is the desert of sand that has the gosh, and the surrounding view will change into the desert of that sand if you pass through a section of this rocky desert.

"Grrrrrrrrrrrr?"

Two, a flying ceto rings his throat.

When Ray looked at Seto, wondering what had happened, Seto was turning his gaze to the ground.

Following that gaze, there was the appearance of a merchant army there.

Rather than being attacked by bandits and monsters as Ray always sees them, they are proceeding through the rock desert at a relaxing rate.

Ray stands still and observes the ground's merchants as to what caused Seto to be blinded by such a merchant squad.

Then, I quickly understood a different place from the merchant squad I had seen.

It's a carriage. Usually, as its name suggests, the horse is carrying, but it is the animal with the tumor on its back that is carrying the carriage of its merchants...... a camel.

(Is it a carriage even with a camel in it?

He was Ray, who had such doubts, but decides that the carriage would be better than having seen the sight of him towing the carriage on a few familiar monsters.

It was Ray who was looking at the merchants on the ground thinking that way, but I guess some of the merchants noticed the presence of Seto flying in the air. I rush to start an interception posture.

"Well, I hear there's a pretty handsome escort who notices us at this distance.... Seto, go"

"Gru!"

Ringing into Ray's voice, Seto leaves the scene with his wings flapped as-is.

A few minutes to go like that, Ray realizes that Seto is once again turning his consciousness to the ground.

Ray also turns his gaze to the ground, wondering if he might also be a merchant squad with camels, but what was spreading there was a sight like a mixture of rock desert and sand desert.

If they say what makes it different from where it has been, I can only tell the difference to that extent.

(Seems Seto wanted to try the meat from the camel... was that a concern?)

A camel doesn't look very edible from Ray's common sense.

But Ray thinks it's not particularly surprising that he eats an animal called a camel because he prefers the meat of monsters.

And eating camels was out of common sense for Ray, but I had seen camel meat-based dishes on TV when I was in Japan, and I knew that dairy products like cheese and milk, yogurt and ice cream made from camel milk seemed very expensive in some places.

(You've also seen camel tumors in Chinese cuisine as luxury ingredients....... actually sounds like a chunk of fat though)

While thinking about camel cooking for some reason, I'm concerned that Seto is still looking to the ground, and Ray looks to you again.

Seto's eager look at the ground so far was Ray, who looked carefully at the ground, wondering if there must be any reason... but it came into his eyes that the ground was moving unexpectedly as it rose.

That's as if something was moving around beneath the ground...... in fact, Ray's prediction that was what he thought was not off.

Something elongated is moving under the ground. I can only understand a lot of clutter from the air, but that's something as elongated as a mite or a snake.

"Mimizu? No, you don't."

If there is a giant mite so far, it would be an out-of-town demonic land.

It was Ray's idea as if he'd forgotten that he was usually the only periphery in the Kingdom of Mireana, but he immediately remembers the contents of the Monster Dictionary he saw in the library before traveling through the Guild.

It's a monster sandworm I've encountered before in a dungeon in the labyrinth city of Exil.

But the sandworm I previously encountered had legs growing, but now on the ground... it doesn't look exactly like the sandworm traveling through the ground has legs growing.

Of course we're going through the ground, so there was a chance that we simply can't see our feet from above...

"You're small."

Ray's words, whining when he saw a monster running through the ground, possibly a sandworm, were things like falling short of expectations.

It's obviously bigger than any sandworm I've encountered before.

I recognize that a monster with a total length of five meters would undoubtedly be huge if it were normal, but in Ray's case it was a little over twenty meters long... it's only been about a month since I fought a giant cicada flying around the sky freely too.

In addition, the size of the world tree was larger than that of a normal tree, making it resistant to giant monsters.

"Whatever, is it a shame to miss it here?... Seto"

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

I understood what Ray's words alone meant to say, and Seto flips by on the spot and goes after the sandworm and thoughtful monster.

Given Seto's speed, it wasn't such a difficult story to catch up with a monster moving through the ground... Ray frowns slightly when he understands what is in the direction of the monster's progress.

To understand what the monster was meant for.

At the end of his gaze were the merchants pulling carriages with camels... yes, the ones Seto had overtaken earlier.

"Wow, another troublesome development..."

It was a grunting ray, but I guess the merchants noticed the monsters approaching. I rush to set up an interception posture.

The number of adventurers is about twenty. Considering that the camel carriage is a five-car merchant squad, there are slightly fewer people, but this has to do with the fact that the place where the journey takes place is desert.

Naturally I have to carry a lot more water than traveling in the desert, but with more people, that's all water consumption.

For this reason, it was basically common to hire more than a certain number of skilled people.

Of course, this is only a common example, and there are quite a few who make other choices.

Either way, it seems that the merchants on the ground made the choice to intercept rather than escape, and the escort forms a formation.

Then, as if waiting to form a defensive formation, the monster emerges from the sand.

To that appearance, Ray gives a slightly surprising look.

Because the monster who showed up wasn't a sandworm.

I just thought it was a sandworm exactly, and I was dressed to be poked at the impression.

As for appearance, it's as close to sandworm as Ray misunderstood. But unlike sandworms, scales grow in the body.

Not like a mite, snake.

"Was that a sandserpent?

Reminds me of what was written in the monster atlas.

Rank C Monster, that's also a Rank C Monster for those who defeat it at the party.

The head of the sand salpent, five meters long, turns its gaze from a high position to the prey beneath its eyes, tongue out and restrain the escorts.

The escorts didn't have Dada aligning their arms either, they try to fight each other... but Ray grins that he is just fine.

"Twilight Spear... Let Me Try"

A deep red spear appears in Ray's hand with the words.

Flush magic into the spear removed from the mistering... and throw it as it is.

Straight ahead, then the dusk spear that flew through the desert air slashing and tearing it apart… the next moment was to lightly crush the head of the sand serpent and take its life.

"... that? A little too much, huh?