Legend

It was a man named Ougust, a merchant belonging to Gosh, who led the merchant squad.

Famous for making honest deals, and a reputable merchant even in Gosh.

That's why major chambers of commerce treat me like a takobu above my eyes, and I'm often obstructed from doing business.

This sudden decision to send out a merchant was also due to the fact that it was no longer possible to purchase goods that were supposed to be purchased from other merchants due to obstruction from a major chamber of commerce, so we quickly went to another city to purchase them.

Still, the adventurers Augusto always hired as escorts made me feel comfortable taking on the request, despite the sudden request.

Eventually, the purchase was safe and I was rushing back to Gosh...

"Monsters from the front, Mr. Ougust! One number! But... it's huge! Sandworm!"

Among the adventurers hired as escorts, the bandit Zedan shouts with a harsh look on his face.

Having heard it, Augusto turns his gaze to Zalusto, who holds the adventurers together.

"What can I do?

"Right, I wish I could get away with it if I were... Zedan, can I get away with it!?

"I can't! The speed over there is faster! If you keep trying to escape like this, they'll catch you on the way!

"... can you give Sandworm this much speed? No, if you can't escape either way, you should go out here to intercept. Intercept enemies with full force.... Do you mind?

To Zaroust's words, Augusto nods back.

He was an august with brown skin so much that he couldn't beat the dark elves like a desert dweller, but he was never good at rough things in his middle meat.

Still, I've only dived through the same training ground so many times before, and I nod without ever disturbing myself when I hear about the monster about to raid me.

"Okay, I'll take care of everything. I'm trying to stay out of the way, thank you."

"I'll take care of it. You can do anything with a sandworm. Because we still have a lot of Rank C Adventurers.... all, combat attitude! We'll intercept the monster!

Zaroust screams sharply and the carriage stops the movement.

You must be noticing the approaching monster. Some camels seemed restless, but the men of this merchant army had calmed such camels.

"Totally, if I thought a monster was flying through the sky earlier, would this be so now?... Could that monster have called in the other monsters?

One of the adventurers groans abominably.

I discovered a monster flying in the sky a while ago because it was a monster that I had never seen before.

I couldn't confirm it firmly with the sunlight, but there are several flying monsters in this desert as well, but it was a completely different silhouette from that.

I've been a man working in the desert for a long time, but I've never seen a monster like that.

"Talk about that area later for now! Now focus on dealing with the approaching monsters!

Zaroust screams, and the man sets up his own weapon, saying it is.

What the man set up was a kind of song knife called a simmer.

Unlike the long sword used by the common adventurer, his body has a gentle curve like the three moons.

It is characterized by a sharp blade with a very sharp cleavage, but is brittle for a thin fraction of its body compared to a common long sword.

The man set up a spotter and touched lightly the turban that was wrapped around his head, licking his lips and waiting for the enemy to sandworm. But...

"I'm here... stupid, no! It's not a sandworm! Sandserpent!"

To the bandit's Zedan scream, Zaroust squeezes the pattern of the spear he was gripping as he tongues.

"Damn, he said it was sandserpent!? What a place like this. Though he'll always be in a soft sand place!

Same as Sandworm in terms of going through the ground, but Sandsapent is weak in digging through the ground, unlike Sandworm.

That's why it was unexpected to show up in a place like this with a mixture of rocky and sandy deserts.

Still, there's no better option to escape than being hired as an escort.

Besides, I was surprised at the fact that Sandserpent is the one person you will never win if you fight calmly.

(Still... a little harsh on newbies)

Zaroust repents with his heart as he sees the sand serpent advancing through the sand... slightly but on the scales showing himself on the sand.

Because it was a sudden request, the escorts gathered, including their own parties, were never all skilled.

Rookies such as Rank E and F are also somewhat mixed.

Such a newbie is a Rank C monster...... it would also be difficult if we partied and finally dealt with sand surpents such as each other and asked if we could survive......

There is also a certain number of skilled adventurers, but it depends on luck if the newcomers can survive in that state.

(But you want to keep me alive if you can. Just the young people in charge of Gosh's future)

Somehow touching the turban covering his head, Zaroust recognizes what he needs to do.

Defeat the Sandserpent, defend the merchants, including the Augusto to be escorted, and the rookies, whenever possible.

As we consolidate such determination to form a formation that protects around the carriage, Sandserpent eventually shows up.

Its full length is big enough to swallow people whole, even though they haven't shown up completely yet.

"... big, huh"

Zaroust also has several previous experiences in fighting sand serpents.

But even in that experience, I was convinced that Sandserpent, which is now in front of me like this, would be the biggest and strongest I've ever fought.

Though it seemed abominable that it had become difficult to protect the newcomers, Zaroust spoke to his companions.

"Look, don't get distracted! Is he... Huh?

I didn't utter the word until the end because the moment I thought something went too far along with the sound of cum along the way, Sandsapent's head disappeared.

Yes, literal extinction.

Most of the head has disappeared, and there are minor residual areas on the ground, such as bones and cerebral marrow… that's just what remains to be called wreckage.

Sandserpent's body collapses into the sand before others, including Zaroust, fully understand what happened.

With its shock and sound, Zaroust finally turned to the red spear buried more than half the way to the ground...

"What? Disappeared?

At the end of Zaroust's gaze, the red spear disappears as if it had been an illusion to watch before.

But the fact that the red spear wasn't wrong about Zaroust is that there's an empty hole in the sand... and most importantly, the body of the sand serpent whose head disappeared.

Many, other than Zaroust, had seen the moment the spear disappeared, and could only be flashed.

In the meantime, Zaroust gazes over the sky anticipating the direction in which he flew from how the spear was stabbing him...

At the end of his gaze existed a flying monster. That, too, is the Griffon of Rank A Monster. And on the back of the griffon was a person who seemed human.

"That could be..."

Passing the back of Zaroust's brain was a monster who passed over their own heads a while ago.

At that time, it was too expensive to confirm its shape firmly, but if it was so close now, I couldn't go wrong.

On the wings growing from the back, the upper body of the eagle and the lower body of the lion. Overwhelming enough to understand just looking from afar.

Compared to monsters now at the end of Zaroust's gaze, such as Sandworm and Sandserpent, babies and adults...... no, there are more differences in character than that.

"G., Griffon......"

In quiet, someone's squeaky voice echoes all around him.

When it comes to deserts, it doesn't mean that they are usually surrounded by silence.

The sound of wind and sand rubbing off. If it's a rocky desert, you can hear things like the sound of rocks rolling and the slightly growing trees swinging in the wind.

But now I didn't hear that at all, only silence was spreading around me.

If I tried Zaroust, I would like to praise him so much that he could often open his mouth in the present situation to those who leaked earlier whining.

With such strange silence all around him...... eventually, Griffon descends to the ground with his wings winged.

The moment I saw the sight, the escorts, including Zaroust, had a hunch of their own death without exception.... and shit.

For the average adventurer, a Griffon of Rank A monsters is an unreasonable totalization that can't be done so far.

"Grrrrrrrrrrrr?"

But for Seto, who is usually left to people, fed and played, I guess he wondered how others, including Zaroust, were stopping the movement.

Tilt his little neck as he throats as usual.

If you are a resident of Gilm, you can mostly describe it as cute. It was Ceto's trick, but if things change, the product changes.... Should I describe people as changing in this case?

Either way, Seto's tricks only seemed like the kind of gaze that was identifying prey for the Zarousts.

On Seto's back, Ray somehow understands it.

(Well, I'm sorry that I ended up with one of those dusk spears. Still, I helped you around the corner, so I'm weirdly nervous here and I don't want it to explode, and consequently be hostile or anything like that)

If time continues to flow, will it become hostile as a result?

Ray, who wants to avoid such an end, decides to open his mouth for now.

"Are you all right? I tailored this monster before the damage happened to you."

Jumping off Seto's back, he gently touches the body of a sandserpent who lost his head.

Blood continues to flow from where my head was, dyeing the ground red, and smelling blood all around me.

The first thing that came back to me in Ray's words was whether it should be taken for granted or Zaroust.

"Oh, thanks to you, I'm saved. There were a lot of rookies over here.... Well, who the hell are you to ask for help? I can't believe you're turning Griffon into an obedient demon without seeing it with this eye."

Even the surrounding escorts and merchants turn their gaze toward Ray to inquire about Zaroust.

Since the camel carrying the carriage could not even move in fright as a response to the animal who had seen Seto for the first time, the men of God also turned their gaze toward Ray and Seto.

Ray, with the merchant squad's gaze all around him, gives him a slightly unexpected look.

Until now, he operated in the Kingdom of Mireana, and few people knew his name about the war against the Bestian Empire.

No one knows the alias Deep Red, to say the least, to those such as adventurers and mercenaries.

It is not well known what the appearance is compared to the spread of aliases, but it is still known to have Griffon, and the majority of the people could understand Ray as Ray if they saw Seto's appearance.

The only other country Ray has ever been to is also the Bestian Empire, where Ray was also known, although in the exact opposite sense of the Kingdom of Mireana.

... Well, it's not strange considering the damage Ray did to the Bestian Empire, and it was natural because even civil unrest did what its alias deserved.

That's just what I thought, I never thought I'd see Seto or be asked who I was.

Of course, Gosh has some knowledge of Deep Red aliases, and Ray's information naturally exists in the Alliance.

But still, the adventurers of our neighbors… and the adventurers of our countries are more interested than the adventurers of the countries to which we are subordinated.

"It's Ray. I am an adventurer in the Guild of the Kingdom of Mireana"

The moment the name Mireana Kingdom emerged, Ray also found that the expression of those around him, including Zaroust, was slight but strong.

(I heard about subordinate countries... they don't really like them, naturally)

It was Ray who realized in his present attitude what the kingdom of Mireana, the Sovereign Nation, was supposed to be like, but still there was no reason to break up here like this.

You defeated an unknown monster named Sandserpent, so I want to make sure you get that demon stone.

But he also decides that he will not want to be involved with himself from the Kingdom of Mireana for very long, and puts his own business to the point of going straight.

"This sand serpent, but you can have me, right?