Legend

Time returns, hours after Ray stores the logged Trent Forest trees in the mistering and then leaves this place with the marinas...... already close to evening.

Near the forest of Trento was the figure of four adventurers.

"Hey, are you sure you're okay? You've been informed not to get too close in this forest with the Alliance, haven't you?

"It's okay. Besides, if we keep talking about the Alliance, we can't be ranked any higher. Then we need to do something about it, even if it's a little dangerous."

A man with a spear answers the words of a woman with a long sword.

The other two also nod to agree with the words of Battleax and a man with a stick in his hand and a spear, respectively.

This party is a Rank D party, the third eye, that came to Guild last spring… just about this time of year.

However, about a year after we started working in the Guild, we have not been able to be as active as we originally thought.

Of course, there are not so many parties that produce results in a year.

Still, we thought we could do that... and for the guy who thought so, the results of the past year were not very satisfactory.

And even more of an invitation to the man's impatience would have been the rapid increase in the number of adventurers coming to the Guild this spring.

Most of all, it's just a man's feeling, and in fact, it's growing the same every year.

In fact, the third eye also came to Gilm with the other parties last spring.

But this was the first time for the men that it was called Gilm Spring.

I have been springing in the Guild last year to be exact, but since I was arriving in the Guild after midspring, I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've had a full spring.

And some of the newcomers who came were obviously more amazing than they were.

If that happens, the face of the third eye is naturally in a hurry... then I hear one rumor in the Guild liquor store.

Says a party of adventurers who were on their way to Gilm was attacked and destroyed by a forest that should not exist there.

And as if to corroborate the rumors, there was also a sticker on the request board to keep it as close as possible because there was nothing in this forest.

If this happens, maybe there's something.

It would be natural to think so.

Maybe I don't want to show it to others...... there's something like that.

If we get that, we might get our ranks up and spread our names.

That's how the third eye came to the Trent Forest.

If no one really wants to know, that's why the Alliance should not publish the Trent Forest thing, but the face of the third eye couldn't think that far.

To corroborate the information, the third eye is a party where all four are warriors.

I'm really inferior to bandits for handling information.

... Most of the time, there are few people who would make bandits less than wizards.

It wasn't so uncommon for a party to be just a warrior.

In this case, however, it could be said that it had the worst possible outcome.

Until now, we have been able to gather a certain amount of information about ourselves without the bandits, but it is in the form of a fatal shortcoming that we have become oblivious to that information at the heart of the matter.

"... Still, there's really no sign of monsters or animals in the woods. Trent Forest is just a tree growing here."

A woman with a long sword squeals so as she touches a tree that is lit and red stained by the sunset.

If the tree touching as the name suggests is Trent, it's not strange when it's attacked.

But the tree the woman was touching this way was only a normal tree, and it didn't move at all.

In fact, it is the tree the woman is touching that is noted as the architectural material used in the construction of the guilds, but so far no one knows that in the third eye.

No, only a handful would have seen it across the guild before then.

That's why the third eye didn't try to do anything in front of a tree that could sell for a very high price.

However, if I knew this tree would sell for an expensive price, I wouldn't have been able to do anything about it in the third eye.

Because there are those who have Battleax, and even if they use it to cut down trees, they don't have the means to take it back.

If you are still a mere adventurer... there is nothing you can do about the tree that you slashed down to the rank D adventurer.

I walked all the way here, so naturally, there's no such thing as a carriage, and if you're going to take it back, you just have to cut it to the point where you can hold it by hand before you take it back.

However, it would be subtle to use it as building material but to take a tree cut to the size that a person can hold.

Of course it won't do any good.

"Right.... but now I'm running out of time anyway. I'd like to grab some secrets from this forest by night. There's no way there's really just Trent, as the name suggests."

The others nod in agreement with the words of the third eyed party leader, the man adventurer with the spear.

The only woman adventurer with a long sword looked anxious, but I guess I understood that my people would never change their minds no matter what I said here and now.

I go into the woods with my friends.

"As far as I can tell, it doesn't look like there's anything in this forest."

In the evening...... neither animals nor monsters can hear any noise, even though it has been quite an active time.

She was a woman who wondered about it, but that leads to a relaxation of tension in her peers.

"Well, then you don't have to worry about getting attacked by something."

A man with an axe tells him so, but a woman cannot lower her guard when she hears the words.

"Um... Even though it's evening, there's nothing in the woods? So there's no way you can feel safe about that, is there? Maybe there's something ahead, huh? Be more vigilant."

"But you don't have to worry about it as long as you're looking at it this way, do you?

"... in these woods, he said it was anomalous that there was no abnormality. Think so."

A woman squeaks like a shudder, but sometimes there's actually no danger of anything like this in the current situation, and we all go through the woods talking.

The sight of that forest, which is bright red in the light of the sunset, is not strange if this is a normal forest, purely in love.

Or when you were little, you were playing outside, and it was evening, so you said when you left.

It's a sight to grieve me somewhere, but still... No, I should say that, there were a lot of things to think about.

"... there are nuts and fruits, so you don't have to worry about food."

A man with a party leader spear squeaks like he's just a little relieved.

Only the Rank D party, and the financial situation of the third eye is by no means affordable.

Of course it's to the extent that I don't have a problem living normally, but it was natural to save where I could still save.

In this sense, this forest, with its kind of nuts and fruits, is a good place to go.

"Regardless of the lack of meat, I'm also concerned about the lack of a variety of mountain vegetables"

A man with a stick squeaks as he looks around.

Meat...... I knew in advance that there was no such thing as animals or monsters.

I couldn't believe I wasn't really there until I actually saw it, but still, I wouldn't be wrong more than I checked with my own eyes.

However... in the spring season, it was unexpected for a man with a stick that there was nothing to eat, even though it was the season of mountain vegetables.

Many mountain vegetables have to go through the hassle of draining ash, but many can be eaten as is.

I know that mountain vegetables aren't growing because it's a border, because I collected them in a different forest than here.

"I wanted to eat some seasonal food, can't you help it"

"You can just go back to the guild and eat it if you have to.... It's about time I took a look around, and let's camp out today and find out first thing tomorrow morning"

Follow the words of the party leader, and the face of the third eye leaves the forest.

The only woman in the party with a long sword doesn't exist any animals or monsters...... on the contrary, I was uncomfortable with the woods that are spring but don't even exist worms.

But no one will listen to me if I say that here, and most importantly because I'm willing to leave the woods, I go outside the woods without saying anything more.

That's how I get ready for camp quickly, but even though it's getting much warmer in the spring, it's still quite cold at night.

I prepare many layers of cloth that I have brought, and I finish my meal with things like nuts and fruits that I have picked, dried meat, and baked and hardened bread.

Until earlier, the sunset was completely set in the night sky, surrounded by darkness.

"Hey, I'll ask you once, aren't you going back to the guild like this?

Though I don't think so, the woman asks.

Fortunately, the woods are just nearby and I don't have any trouble with firewood.

Even now, the faces of the third eye talked about each one of them in various ways as they were caught in the fire.

It was a word out of a woman's mouth in that, but it's rejected by everyone, naturally.

"What do you think we're doing here? There's definitely something about this forest. It's essential for us to grow up."

"... right, sorry. He seemed a little weak."

When the woman apologizes, the party leader man flips out of his grim face and nods to Eagle Deep.

"I'm pretty sure this forest is creepy. Given the circumstances around it, I can't help but be anxious"

"Right. … for once, you should keep your watch tight in the camp tonight"

The party leader man snorts at the words as well.

It doesn't change that this forest is a creepy place.

It's because of the decision that you won't be too vigilant.

That's how we talk for a while, and eventually each falls asleep because it's getting late at night.

It was the rule of the third eye camp that one of the four was always awake, but this time tightening the watch just in case, makes it a two-by-one watch.

That's how the Battleax and the two with sticks watch first, and the party leader man and the woman with the long sword each fall asleep.

"... mmm..."

I wonder how many hours I slept.

The camp meant that I would normally have slept shallow, but only today, he fell asleep well.

I casually turn my gaze towards the burner...... so I see the burner going out and the head of the woman who was still slightly sleeping awakens rapidly.

"Huh!?

Reaching for a weapon that's almost reflectively close by...

"Oh?"

I was surprised that my hand wouldn't move as I thought, and even trying to make a voice of doubt...... even that voice had become something that Lu Rhythm couldn't turn.

In the first place, I was trying to stick my hand to the ground as I reached for my weapon, and that doesn't move either.

The way it doesn't move as if it's paralyzed would be like a potato worm moaning on the ground from the side.

I understand that women are having some kind of anomaly with themselves, too, but I don't know what that is.

Anyway, I managed to look around using only my still moving eyes in an effort to make sure what was going on around me...... my head turns bright white at the sight that jumped into my own sight the next moment.

Because two of my party buddies... had those two guys on guard before me.

... If that's all, nothing particularly surprising.

However... it was surprising to the woman that she could understand that the two were companions and that they were not human.

Because the two people, who were supposed to have bigger bodies than women, now looked thinner, thinner, bones and skins alone.

It would not have weighed twice or three times as much as a woman would have been otherwise...... no, it would not have weighed weighed nearly five times, nor would it now weigh a third of a woman.

What is to be stunned is that the two of you were still alive? … I wish I could describe it as living to be sucked by a body fluid called fluid in the body while being forced to live, dissolved meat and guts and also being sucked by a cum growing off the ground as a nutrient.

Severe pain and fear, confusion, despair...... those emotions had already left the two companions completely blind.

Seeing those two, another companion...... looking for the man of the party leader, there was a man there who was losing his upper body due to a giant insect plant.

And... despite being paralyzed, Tupri, and finally the feeling of something piercing the woman's body, the woman's consciousness disappeared as well.