Legend

Those were the Rays who were spending a lot of time in the garden of Marina's house, but not enough to miss hearing voices that had been overheard.

"Who? From the looks of that voice, it also sounded pretty chopped."

To Ray's words whining, Marina opens her mouth as she stands up.

"I'm the receptionist for the guild... but I wonder if the fact that you came to get me meant something to the guild. I need to talk to you for a second."

In the words, Ray, Vihera, Büne and Seto also rise.

If something went wrong, it was because I decided that I should do the explanation at once.

Didn't Marina have any particular objection to the actions of those Rays, either, eventually all heading towards the Mansion Gate.

Then the woman in front of the gate looks at the marinas… Ray, who is with me to be exact, with a soothing look like she was helped.

"Good. You were here, Guildmaster...... no, Master Marina"

I don't usually call marinas guild masters anymore, but I guess that's all they were stuck with.

In that situation, I've finally found myself looking like a marina, and I guess I accidentally called her the Alliance Master.

You see that, Marina smiles and opens her mouth to reassure the receptionist.

"What's going on? So you were in such a hurry that something happened, right?

"Yes. Actually, I have an urgent request for Mr. Ray."

"... to me?

From what the conversation looks like right now, I just thought it was something I had business with the marina, not myself, and Ray reveals a little surprise.

But the receptionist doesn't have any particular reaction to Ray's condition like that, and he goes on to say it.

"Earlier, one adventurer was brought into the guild. … that's not particularly problematic, but that's what the fellow said when he was eaten by the woods on his way to Gilm."

"Eaten by the woods? Killed by a monster living in the woods? I'm sorry to hear that, but it's not a rare story."

Ray's words have no particular surprise.

Adventurers are only self-inflicted.

You naturally die if you challenge someone you can't help.

You can also identify the area and say it's the first time you've ever been a one-man adventurer.

It was not uncommon for some adventurers operating in the Guild to accidentally look there... or suddenly encounter powerful monsters and get injured in the middle of a request or, worst of all, die.

Of course, family, friends, lovers, etc. sometimes request a search for the missing adventurer, but Ray didn't know why he brought the story to himself this time.

I guess you understood Ray's question like that. The receptionist also takes a small breath and then opens her mouth again.

"Hi, as far as listening to the people who have been transported, it doesn't seem that simple... you think they attacked you, as if the forest itself were alive? And the forest itself is eroding and spreading… or, I don't believe it, the forest itself is moving."

"... Huh?

Just a little, Ray gives me an interesting look.

I guess the fact that it's a phenomenon I've never even heard of before inspired Ray.

If it was such a phenomenon, there was also the aim that there might be unknown monsters.

The receptionist is just a little relieved that that's how Ray got interested in his story.

There are questions about whether it was really Trent who didn't come up with the word Trent, and he didn't want to give it a preconceived notion.

When I tell Ray the information I hear from Sleisha, he opens his mouth again.

"So if I report this to the Alliance Master, he wants Ray to scout for me because I don't know exactly what things are like... and I don't know if that's what an adventurer can do or if it's like sending a Knights. Of course, I will take the form of a request for nomination."

Ray wasn't that interested in the term nomination request, but I'm interested in the unknown woods and the monsters that would lurk there.

That's why I nod back to the receptionist without looking particularly troubled.

"Okay, let's go scout."

"... okay?

Yes, Marina asked me if I could get a nomination request even though I was having such a slow time.

But to such marina words, Ray nods back that he has no problem.

"Oh. It's nice to have a slow day like this, but I still care when you're an unknown monster."

"Yes.... thanks"

He was a marina who quit guild master, but still deserved more attachment there than he has worked in guild for many years.

So I grin that Ray took my request from the guild.

"Forest, huh. I wish I could have a powerful monster or something."

Unlike such rays and marinas, Vihera utters words to satisfy her own desire that a mighty enemy should come out.

Büne was quietly stroking Seto for nothing to say in particular.

"Well, do you want to come quick? Where is it?

"... I'm sorry, but the attacked adventurer said he forgot me after he escaped from the woods and ran desperately away, so to the point of familiarity... it's just that Mr. Luno ran into him on the street about an hour's walk from the gilm, so if you could look around there"

"Luno?... Oh, those demon-eyed"

Ray's brain is overshadowed by the adventurers he knows.

A rare adventurer who has a demonic eye and works in the same solo as his previous self.

(With that said, why are you the oldest adventurer I've ever known?)

The face of a party that Ray had named Eagle Claw, who first came to the Guild and got tangled up when he tried to register as an Adventurer in the Guild.

... of Ray, I can remember by the name of Goblin's covetousness.

Temporarily hired by its eagle claws, the eagle claws returned from a dungeon that Ray attacked just last year to do the launch.

Ray's first encounter with an adventurer in the Guild is never a mistake.

But since then, I haven't really been involved with Ray, and I've hardly spoken to him until the war with the Bestian Empire.

All in all, Ray was just a little surprised that the name of a rare person came out, but the interest quickly shifts to an unknown monster.

"Focus about an hour or so from the street, huh? Normally, I suppose you're about to say no... hey, Seto?

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

To Ray's words, Seto rattles to leave it to him.

Given Seto's speed of flight, that's not a hard story to talk about scouting around the streets.

Also, if there is such a thing as an erosion… or a moving forest, Ray and Seto, who are flying around the Guild more than once, can't miss it.

(Well, I haven't been out of the gilm lately, so I didn't even notice there was a forest like that)

Since there was one incident at the Spiel Chamber of Commerce, Ray has had an amazing day of serenity.

So when people hear that strange woods have thus appeared, there is also the matter of unknown monsters, and I realize myself expecting only a little unknown presence.

"Well, I'm going... what about the marinas?

"I'm coming too. It's a request for nomination from the Alliance, and something I'm curious about. I can only wait by the gate."

"You can go with me like you did with Ambris, but then you're going to pull Ray's leg. I'll keep you waiting, too."

"Mmm."

Marina, Vihera and Bühne answer each one.

Vihera might as well grab onto Seto's feet and move around, just like she did at Ambris... but in the end she chooses to wait on the side of the main gate.

"Okay, please. I'm going to let the Alliance Master know if you'll excuse me around here."

The receptionist can find Ray here and shrugs with relief.

"Oh, I'm gonna keep going out of the gilm and see the woods and the dots as soon as I can.... all you have to do is investigate? What about going down into the woods and fighting monsters?

"No, first of all, is that forest really there... and can you report on how big the forest is?

"Really?... Could it be that the Alliance thinks that the words of that carried adventurer are lies?

"I won't say that. But it's also possible in case of everything. That's why we can't deny the possibility that they're showing a phantom."

If you say so, Ray has to convince me too.

In fact, the problem, even thinking about this one, is the explanation or phantom of the living forest... because if you ask me which is more likely, it is definitely the latter.

(but... because, are you a bandit? No, I don't think even a bunch of bandits with wizards who can use phantoms would bother working around Gilm)

I was a doubtful Ray, but I decided that if I went directly to see how that was going, the neighborhood would be immediately clear, and I nodded back to the receptionist.

"Well, we'll be there."

"Please"

A deep salute, the receptionist leaves to inform the worker that Ray has accepted the request.

Dropping it off, Ray and the others will follow the Marina mansion.

"Forest...... right. What do you think, Trent, after all?

"Trent... with that said, Seto fought before, right?

To the words of Vihera, Ray asks as he strokes Seto.

Previously...... Seto was acting differently from Ray when Ray challenged him for a rank-up exam with faces like Cullot, Alogan, and Scola.

Seto, deposited in the face of the scorching wind led by Mileine, fought Trent in the battle of that time.

"Grrrrrrrr...... Grrrr!

To Ray's words, Seto is fine! and honking his throat.

... I just didn't think that Ray was simply Torrent's fault, even though I saw such a ceto.

If you're walking down the road, there are people who naturally want to leave you to Seto.

Children, adults, adventurers, merchants… without such distinction.

Some of them want to look at the marina and vihella and give it a whirl, but they hesitate to see Seto make that move.

Naturally. Nearly three meters long, Seto, at first glance, shows how loving he is, but what happens if he turns to his enemies poorly... he won't even want to think about it.

"Ray, Seto, why don't you have a bite to eat?

"Uh, bad. I have to go outside the guild for a little while now. I'm sorry, but do it again."

Ray tells the story of the stall owner selling the sandwich that he looks sorry.

Even the store owner wouldn't be forced to recommend it any further if Ray were to say so......

"Pfft, Seto's still popular, but Ray's popular too."

The marina, who was watching a series of exchanges, laughs and tells her so with pleasure.

Vihera, who has been acting with Ray for longer than Marina, nods as she agrees with such Marina's words.

In fact, many people talk to Ray, and the attitude of adventurers towards Ray and the attitude of stall owners towards Ray is very different.

"Grrrrrrrrrr"

"Look, I'll feed you when I get back to see what's going on in the woods"

Ray says as he strokes to Seto, who rattles his throat that he wants to eat.

If I could stroke him that way, Seto would have changed his mood, too.

Eventually it changes from the way I want to eat to the way I want to stroke more.

"Because Seto is a sweetheart at all. You're such a big body."

Whilst complaining in his mouth, there is a gentle light in Vihella's eyes.

One side of the battle frenzy is Vihera again, but I guess this sight is Vihera again.

Biune, who knows it best, goes all over the city grabbing Vihella's thin coat softly.

That's how you go along, eventually you'll see the main entrance to Gilm.

Sometimes before noon, there are not so many figures of people proceeding at the main entrance.

Still nervous while keeping some of the guards from being known to the person in the process, I guess one of Sleisha's cases still has something to do with it.

The guild is supposed to handle it once, but I still don't know if it will really fit in.

So, when Ray... No, I see the Red Lotus Wings coming, I'm just a little relieved.

Because I understood so intuitively that Ray would definitely move in this case.

... Now, in fact, if we were to talk about Ray going for a completely irrelevant request, the guards would have had a hard time enduring the penetration unexpectedly.

"Procedures, please"

"Oh.... good luck with that"

I guess you understood what the guards were trying to say.

Ray nodded and gave him his guild card.