Legend

The shoe thing cleared up, two days later... Ray and Seto were in the woods outside the gilm.

I've dismantled the monster several times, it's where the river is flowing.

Ray's predictions felt when he saw the snow hit and now the snow is accumulating rapidly.

There was also more than ten cm of snow around the river, and it was still snowing again.

It looked like a cold view to see, but Ray doesn't particularly remember the cold thanks to his dragon robe, and Seto is also a griffon, so there's nothing to say about this degree of cold.

The difficulty would be underfoot.

It's just too snowy to walk subtly.

Not to mention that this place is quite used by adventurers, so it can be paved and paved, but it's not as easy to walk as it is in a place where there are streets.

"... you might as well have come aboard Seto"

To Ray's words whining, Seto rattles his throat.

It's like, I wish I had done that from the beginning...... and that's what Seto sounded like.

This is how it keeps snowing even as we walk, and snow builds up over our dragon robes and Seto bodies.

"Oh, I think so, too.... That said, how was yesterday? You did amazing with Johanna, didn't you?

"Gru!"

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

The next day I had a great day with Mileine, Johanna and I will be amazing.

It seems like a tiring schedule for Ray, but it was a ning-roe pleasure for Seto, who is adored.

I guess it was also a pleasure for Seto to get more food.

Having spent such time, Seto visited Ray and this river today in order to absorb the demonic stones of the silver lion.

"I wonder what abilities you'll get"

"Grrrrrrrrrrrr?"

Ray remembers his battle with the silver lion as he strokes Seto's head tilting his little neck.

Immediately remembered would still be a roar that stops the movement of those who hear it.

In addition, there may be other methods of attacking your hair like a needle and releasing it omnidirectionally, as well as methods of attacking purely to improve your physical abilities.

In any case, it was an unmistakable fact that any ability acquired would be a great force of war for Seto.

Other than that, it also means that Ray checks… more precisely how effective the terrain manipulation skills acquired by Death Size have been.

"Well, check it out for once. There's no one around, is there?

"...... grrr"

To Ray's words, Seto rings briefly to see what's going on around him.

What we're going to do now is absorb the demonic stones that have become familiar to Ray.

But still, I had to be more careful than usual for a reason.

Because the demon stone that Seto is going to absorb is the demon stone of the silver lion.

Rank S Monster Demon Stone...... I don't even have to think about how much it's worth.

Few merchants have come into contact for the silver lion material Ray has, but if Ray knew he had the silver lion demon stone, the offense would have been more powerful.

Fortunately, the heart of the silver lion and the demon stone decided to use it for a ritual to regain the consciousness of Vihera, so many merchants believed it.

Some merchants doubted Ray's words, but after a little research, I know Ray was acting for nearly two months to help Vihera, who went unconscious, and I have to convince him if he tells me he needs the heart and demon stones of a Rank S monster to do something about an existence that just showed up a long time ago like Ambris.

For that reason, if Ray was now known to have the demon stone of a silver lion, it would undoubtedly have been a far greater commotion than ever before.

That's just like when you evacuated outside the Guild in one of the twilight spears, so much so that you have to evacuate somewhere again.

Ray didn't want that to happen either, so he had Seto make sure he checked the surroundings just in case.

"... All right, then Seto. This is it."

Ray gently offers the silver lion's demon stone removed from the mysterious ring to Seto.

As usual, they would throw it at Seto to absorb it, but he wasn't even willing to treat it that way, like a silver lion's demon stone.

Do you understand that Seto is not the same as usual, softly swallow the demonic stone of the silver lion on Ray's palm with a couché... just like that.

[Seto said, "The King's Intimidation Lv. III 'skills acquired]

Announcement message that resonates in the back of the brain.

Hearing that, Ray has nothing particularly surprising to say.

Because I was probably expecting the King's Intimidation skill level to increase.

Speaking of what was troublesome during the Silver Lion attack, it would still be that roar.

I couldn't deny the possibility of acquiring a new roaring skill.

But as for Ray, I wanted the King's level of intimidation to rise if I could, so I can say this time the result is the best.

(Well, the attack of flying that hairy needle all around was pretty appealing too... but I think that's going to make Seto's hair go away)

The silver lion wasn't out of body hair after many attacks of flying hair needles, so maybe it was okay Ray, but that's not absolute either.

Funny how everything like Ceto's feathers and body hair fell out behind Ray's brain too...

"Gru!"

"Ouch!

Seto pokes Ray's hand lightly with a couch to see if he instinctively understands what Ray imagines.

Of course Seto isn't really mad either, so there's nothing like blood coming out of Ray's hands.

But what hurts still hurts.

"Seto......"

"Grrrrrrrrrr"

Ray turns his gaze slightly to blame, but Seto turns away to mess with it.

He said, "Okay. I'm sorry. Look, forgive me."

When Ray admits his inaction and gently strokes his body, Seto's mood is fixed as if it were a lie that he was obstinate until a short while ago.

"Well then... it's my turn next"

After playing for a few minutes with Seto, who is in a fixed mood and rubs his head with more strokes, Ray takes Death Size out of Mystering.

"If it's true, I'd love to try the king's intimidation... but it doesn't make sense to try it where no one else is, and if someone else asks me poorly, it's a lot of trouble again"

"Gru......"

To Ray's words, Seto sounds sorry.

In fact, the intimidation of Seto's king just needs to roar, and it really stands out.

It's winter now, but this forest is also a place with quite a few adventurers.

For if you use the King's intimidation poorly, it will surprise the adventurer… as a result, it can also be a deadly gap for an adventurer in the midst of battling a monster.

"Try again next time... right, when you run into a monster"

When I tell him that, Seto sounds a little sorry but convinced.

One stroke of Seto's body, once again Ray concentrates his consciousness with Death Size in his hand.

You don't need to concentrate that much on activating your skills.

... Because if so, that's what you won't be able to use in a detour during battle.

But this time, Ray was nervous about just using his leveled skills for the first time, so that he could do something about it immediately, no matter what.

"Okay...... here we go. Topographic manipulation!"

Ray screams as he touches the ground with a death-size stone poke.

At the same time, the ground rises a little further away from where Ray and Seto are located as if it were an elevator or something.

That appearance, which rises in the form of a square about fifty centimeters long and wide, would undoubtedly hit a mass of soil that rises because of it if someone penetrates it towards it.

"About a meter.... and this way, too? terrain manipulation."

Mumbling with a less temperamental voice than earlier, Ray activates terrain manipulation again.

Then, just next to the ground, which had risen by about a metre, a hole of about a metre is drilled next.

"... you can use it for a long time. This."

About a metre, but being able to manipulate the ground freely would not be as helpful in your battle as an individual.

However, this is what Ray specializes in versus a large number of people... so if you're dealing with people like bandits and, if you're big, the military, you can definitely use it very effectively.

Dozens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands...... what happens if a scaffold suddenly disappears not a metre and falls into a pit when such a group is attacking straight towards itself.

Those in light clothes wouldn't break a neck bone if they didn't have too much luck falling off.

But what happens when people like those who wear full plate armor there, or cavalry, fall?

... You could say it's fatal. There will be damage, I'm sure.

Also, many people think that way when they can go up even if they fall into a hole at about a meter high.

But in the sudden disappearance of one's underfoot on the battlefield, how many can decide to go right up?

And if the judgment is even a few seconds slower, you'll be crushed by a buddy approaching from behind.

Not to mention getting out of the pit could create the same pit again in the next moment.

"And... there's more to fighting than just fighting."

Ray has...... no, not many jobs like that around Gulm, but also jobs like water remediation and expansion of cities and villages.

At such times, it would not be necessary to consider how helpful it would be to have the ability to raise and lower the ground freely, even for about a metre.

"Maybe we shouldn't expose this to too many people?... No, not now"

"Gru."

For a moment, isn't it going to be a lot of trouble when they find out about this? I thought Ray, but Ray basically doesn't do anything called self-weight in the first place.

That's why, if Ray is weighing himself down, he can't be an adventurer with an alias.

Not to mention the Rank A Monster...... no, the rare species treatment means that at the time I'm taking Ceto, which is the equivalent of the Rank S, I won't have any weight or anything.

"Next time you have a request for water treatment or something like that, will you take it?

"Grrrrrrrrrrrr?"

Seto tilts his neck and rings his throat about what he felt in Ray's words.

It was Ray who questioned what Seto was wondering, but for now he decides he's done everything he needs to do.

"You want to go home?

"Grrrrrrrr!"

Do you want to go back to Gilm and eat some warm food?

Seto shook his neck sideways for some reason to Ray, who tried to say so by storing the death size in mystering.

"What's up? You're not leaving? You want to stay here a little longer?

"Gru!"

Ray had no idea why, but for some reason Seto rants that he wants to stay here a little longer.

"... are you still here?

I don't feel the cold thanks to Dragon Robe, but still Ray doesn't really like to see snow just because he grew up in a snow country.

When I saw it still snowing, I honestly wanted to get back to the wheat pavilion at dusk as soon as I could.

But unlike Ray, who hates snow, Griffon...... despite his lower body being a cat lion, Seto, a people-and-dog character, never hates playing around in the snow.

Near the place where the stables of the wheat pavilion at dusk...... in the backyard, the sight of Seto playing snow with Mileyne, Johanna and various other opponents is not so unusual.

"Just a little bit."

That's why Ray also loses the silent favor of being made with Seto's circular eyes, leaving Seto free as he is.

Ray was happily watching Seto run around the perimeter, but eventually he thought fu and took the death size out of Mystering again.

And let the stone poke touch the ground...

"Terrain manipulation"

Activate the Death Size skill and lift the ground just on your side by about a metre.

And lay the cloth removed from the mistering on top of it...... sit there.

"Yeah, you could normally even use it as a chair. Besides, given its size, it seems like it could be a temporary table or something.... Can't you do the table?

Whimpering, activate the terrain operation again to lift the ground to a rectangular shape.

I'm just forcing the ground up, so there's no place for me to put my feet in.

It was obvious that it was a little hard to use as a table.

"Well, as a temporary table, there's no use for it. But it won't be."

He groaned and watched Seto joyfully run around the woods, kicking gently in the dirt with the shoes he had prepared at the shoe shop.