Legend

From Ray on the back of a flying ceto, there was a single line running on one side of the green carpet on the ground.

Needless to say, that one line is a street, and if you think it would be a side of green without it, it just seems a little shameful.

If you look up into the sky, there is a spring warm sun and white clouds float.

"When I look at it like this, it's not like the forest feels like this.... Well, I guess it's because I'm flying"

"Gru?"

What happened to Seto to Ray's words, who squealed in unintentional ways? and turn back.

"No, it's nothing. Better than that... oh, that's the rumored forest"

It's about a hundred meters high, and Seto flies.

After flying out of the gilm, that's what I see in the woods in less than a few minutes.

To say why I judged the forest to be a forest of rumors, it was a simple matter.

For Ray and Seto, who have flown near the Gilm unprecedented number of times before, you can tell as soon as you see the unrecognizable forest.

Of course I haven't flown in the sky during the winter or even after spring due to the influence of being in the Guild all the time.

But still, it was certain that there was no forest the size Ray was looking at right now near here.

There's nothing like forgetting that there were just so many woods.

It was quite off the street, but if Ray remembered correctly, it would have been the meadows here.

"No way, that meadow became forest due to some anomaly... or something?

It would be impossible first if it were normal, but I couldn't say enough that it would never be in this world where there is something called magic.

"Even so... it's wider than I thought"

What Ray said was the size of the forest.

It doesn't go as far as Gilm…, but I've still seen it, it's a woodland more than a kilometre wide that I can afford.

"Grrrrrrrr?"

But Seto, looking at such a forest from above, sounds something strange.

Only Seto, who has a sharp five senses and the ability to sense the sixth sense and magic, realizes the unnaturalness of the forest on earth… the monster is graceful and unparalleled in animals, I guess.

Ray doesn't have five senses as sharp as Seto, but he still feels uncomfortable from what he sees.

"In the meantime, it definitely wouldn't be a normal forest for me and Seto to see and feel uncomfortable.... It's not normal to be able to do this kind of forest in the first few months."

"Gru?"

What are you gonna do? Get off? And it was Seto looking at me, but Ray shook his neck to the side.

"No, I'd love to come down once, too, because the purpose of this one is to find out if there really is a forest in the first place. … but I don't see it spreading."

The story Ray heard was that the forest is going to grow or move, but it doesn't look that way from above.

That's how Ray was looking at the ground, but he discovers something brilliant by reflecting the light of day in the gaps between the fudge trees.

Water at first...... I also thought it was a river or something, but there was no river flowing here in the first place.

No, there might have been something like a creek... Anyway, even in the woods, on the edge, that's what went into the woods and Ray, who was concerned about its flashing about ten meters, decides to reschedule initially and get off to the ground.

"Seto, I'm sorry, but I knew you'd get off the ground."

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

Originally Seto was interested in the woods that suddenly appeared, or when he heard Ray's words, he would not hesitate to flap his wings towards the ground.

When he landed on the ground with little noise, he stared at the forest in front of him.

If we go down to the ground, we can understand more clearly the anomalies in that forest.

There is little sign of a creature, even though it is a forest of this magnitude.

Is it about a bird that stops at a branch of a tree?

The number of birds is never too high.

"Gru......"

Ray also focuses his consciousness on Seto's squeal so that whatever happens again.

Remove the Death Size and Dusk Spear from the Mystering and get in position where you can immediately fight back if something strikes you, then walk out into the woods... toward where something brilliant was seen from above.

"Seto, just be careful what happens.... all of a sudden a forest of this size appeared. I'm pretty sure there's something."

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

To Ray's words, Seto rings his throat okay.

Because the gap between the trees in the forest is quite wide, even Seto, which is about three meters long, can proceed through the forest without any particular problems.

It was the Rays who were nervously progressing, but without any particular reason for the unexpected, they arrive at the place of destination… where there was a glimmer.

Sometimes it was about 10 meters from the outside of the woods and right around the corner... it was Ray's honest feeling that he was just nervous and clapped out.

"This is..."

What got into Ray's eye was a dagger blade.

It was just beneath the gap in the branches of the nearby trees, so I guess the sunlight reflected on the blade without blocking it.

But what surprised Ray more than that dagger was the burning marks that were near the dagger.

This means that someone was camping here, and none other than Sleisha and the others.

"What do you mean? One night...... no, we don't know when the commotion happened, so it's the longest night? Anyway, you're saying that in about that amount of time, the forest has spread so far?

There are traces of this fire about ten meters into the woods.

And Ray also hears that it wasn't in the woods, even if it was on the side of the woods that he camped.

Beyond that, it would mean that this forest increased by at least ten meters overnight.

(No, you don't know if it's eroded and increased, or if the forest itself is moving. Well, it doesn't make such a big difference which way... it doesn't make a dangerous difference)

For once, Sleisha and all kinds of tools scattered all over the ground because they belong to that party… I will be storing my belongings such as sleeping bags and backpacks in mysteries.

When the Sleishas woke up at night with their buddy screaming, they must have gone into the woods shortly after they were ready.

Most of the baggage there remained as Sleisha and the others fell asleep.

Sometimes, Ray doesn't know that much, but he does. I mean...

"You haven't even caught your stuff, have you?"

Yes, there must have been dried meat and hard-baked bread in the luggage as a preserved meal.

It would naturally be more like an emergency meal than working as an adventurer, and I would have eaten something here before I went to bed and prepared something for breakfast.

Nonetheless, the luggage does not look rough at all.

Even if there is no food kind, if it is a monster or an animal, it was natural to scold or examine it if there were any strangers.

"Because there really aren't any monsters or animals in this forest."

I had heard the story from the receptionist, and I had somehow had a hunch that I had entered the woods in this way.

But if we can still stick with the evidence to the point of clarity in this way, we have to convince ourselves with such persuasion that there is no more.

"...... grrr"

Looking at the site of such a camp, Seto sounds his throat lonely.

You must be thinking of Sleisha's people who died in this forest.

Anyway, recover all the luggage that was in the woods.

I naturally own this hand item to whoever picks it up... but for Ray, this is useless even if I have it.

Because we already have more and more high-performance tools than we have in this luggage.

"That's about it."

Where the luggage is, Sleisha, naturally.

It was originally a decision that would be better than unnecessary for Ray to be that kind.

Keep the adventurer going, give up the adventurer's path, than you lost everyone at the party overnight, this package was supposed to help.

If you're going to act as an adventurer, use it as a tool.

And if you're quitting the adventurer, sell it in the guild to fund your life in the moment.

Either way, there will be no harm in substitutes.

(This is how you think, because I started partying, too?... Well, I'm not going to imitate the Red Lotus Wings to extinguish them)

If that's what you're saying, even Sleisha and the others liked to wipe out the party - Sleisha survives, but - they didn't let him.

No, it wouldn't exist except for someone with some strange idea, such as someone who thinks about annihilating his own party altogether.

"Anyway, I've done my errands. Fortunately... that's a little unworthy, but it's nice to be able to confirm that there are no animals or monsters in the woods."

"Grrrrrrrr?"

Really? and ray nods back as he strokes his neck tilting ceto.

"Oh. All you have to do is go back to Gilm and make this report?... With that said, I'm here not to determine the reward in the form of a nomination request... well, if I leave the negotiations around the marina to you, will you be okay?"

That was Ray whining, but in fact, no one would be as good at negotiating as the former guild master Marina.

With this kind of request… If it's also a nomination request, it's easy for Marina, the former Alliance Master, to determine how much the reward is reasonable.

Most importantly, the reward of money is not very appealing to Ray.

"... but you said something about being eaten by the woods, but you didn't end up with anything. Because Seto's here?

Whatever opponent did this, Griffon named Seto... I didn't think Ray would do a bad imitation before a monster of rank S equivalent because it was also a rare species.

"It's a forest, and if you burn it with my magic, it's going to come with a piece of light... but then, in the case of an unknown monster's work, it could also burn demon stones. I'd like to do something about that area... no, it doesn't make sense to think about it now"

I shake my head sideways and kick it out of my head for now, taking what I was thinking.

Now, anyway, I thought it would be a top priority to let you know about this forest.

"Then go. You don't want Seto in this forest forever, either, do you?

"Gru."

To Ray's words, Seto nods.

Sleeping in the shade is one of the happy times for Seto.

But the shade of the tree is also in the shade of such a forest, there is nothing to rest on.

It was more appealing to Seto to take a nap in the garden of the Marina's house with direct spring sunlight.

Move from where the site of the camp was... and notice a single branch falling on the ground.

I guess that branch that is broken along the way was broken when Seto moved.

(Tree branches...... well, does that help anything? Check this out, if you know anything at all, it's like something to make money on)

Decide so, pick it up and store it in the mistering as it is.

"Grrrrrrrrrrrr"

Leaving the woods quickly, he nods at Seto, who growls so loudly, and Ray follows Seto, who moves on.

Sometimes the very place where the site of the camp was was just outside the woods, and it was right out of the woods.

That's how we get out of the woods and turn our gaze again to the woods where we were until earlier.

From the outside, it only looks like a normal forest with no particular variation.

But the forest is actually a forest that swallowed many adventurers.

Not very much, but it wouldn't be a normal forest.

(No, well, if you're caught off guard even in a normal forest, you'll be dead in a monster attack in no time... and this forest has nothing to do with that)

Looking at the woods, Ray shrugs.

For Ray, who grew up near the mountains even when he was in Japan, it was only uncomfortable that there was no sign of a creature in the woods.

Of course, when I was in Japan, I didn't really feel signs or anything, but I still hear animal ringing and it's not impossible to see.

"Grrrrrrrr?"

What's the matter with you? and Ray, who returned to me with Seto's throat-soaking voice, shook his neck sideways saying it was nothing.

"Well, I did my request anyway. Shall we go?"

"Gru!"

Ray, crossed by a throat-soaking ceto with pleasure, rises straight up into the sky with Ceto.

It gets smaller while you look at it, the look of the forest.

It's the same as meadows in the sense of green carpets, but still meadows and forest trees are different colors even in the same green.

Most importantly, given Seto's speed of flight, he soon left the woods... eventually he could see the guilm and capture Beaune, the marina and Vihera waving towards Ray and Seto at its main entrance

... Unlike Marina and Vihera, who are smiling and waving, Büne was waving with the same faceless expression.