Legend

Ray and Seto, who land on the outside of the woods, enter the woods in a cautious manner.

The aim was to reflect light from the gaps in the trees seen from above.

Places where what seemed obviously to be something people left behind existed.

Such Ray's anticipation... eventually emerges in front of him as clear evidence.

"Is this... a long sword? There's more..."

Ray, who looked around, found a stick stuck to the ground in a diagonal state.

Ray was also stabbing the disposable spear to find out how long the forest had spread, so for a moment I thought it wasn't, but this is clearly not where Ray came from yesterday.

Also, the spear Ray pierced was vertical, but this stick is pierced diagonally.

interested in the stick, take it in your hand...... pull it out.

Then that stick slips out of the ground lighter than Ray expected, sees the tip of the stick with the tip of the tip of the tip, and realizes for the first time that the stick he had was a spear.

"Spears, huh?... but considering we were poking around here, it was probably a fight?

"Grrrrrrrr"

When Ray is squealing, Seto accidentally squeals.

What Ray saw with his gaze over you was traces of a burning fire that was on the ground.

Obviously it's a trail of thought to have camped.

But naturally, there is no such thing as a camp there.

Still, from Ray's eyes, it was an unmistakable fact that whoever was camping here did not just walk away, but was attacked by someone here.

The same is true of the fact that the spear was unnaturally pierced to the ground, and most importantly that the kind of luggage remains intact.

For a moment, just for a moment, but maybe you're leaving this place on some errand? and I thought so, but I immediately shake my head to the side and dismiss it.

In the first place, it's obvious how long it's been since the fire went out.

Beyond that, there is no doubt that those who camped here... or those who were attacked by the woods died.

"But I wonder what imitated camping in this forest.... I thought you were looking for merit?

Trent's Forest is published in the Alliance as unmatched by monsters and animals, but many still wonder.

Regardless of winter, even though it certainly did not exist in autumn, a forest of this magnitude shows up at the moment of spring.

A lot of people will naturally wonder.

But most of them will not come to the forest of Trent except that it will not be gold, and most of them will return as soon as they come.

Less, he didn't camp like he was at the end of Ray's gaze.

(Well, I don't know everything about this forest either, and I can't deny the possibility that maybe some other adventurer or something is in the woods.)

If there are clear traces of the camp, like this one, it's not hard to find.

But in the case of someone who is used to camping, he is very good at hiding traces of camping.

At least it would be difficult to find traces of the camp flying over it.

"... In the meantime, I don't know who the adventurer who camped here was, but I'm pretty sure he was under some kind of raid"

Ray can also predict that the raid was probably Trent from Sleisha's words as well.

Still, as far as looking around you like this, you don't look like Trent anywhere.

"Seto, do you know if Trent's here?

"Guru? Guru, Guru... Guru..."

To Ray's words, Seto takes an unclear attitude.

It's not strange to show with a firm attitude that if you're always there, if you're not there, you're not there.

But Seto now looks around like he's lost.

Ray, whose five senses are sharper than normal humans, Seto, whose five senses are more developed than its rays, can't smell the smell away even if he uses his olfactory lifting skills.

Ray is also surprised by that.

"Don't you see? Seto?"

"Gru......"

To Ray's words, Seto bows his head small if he is sorry.

Ray strokes Seto's head softly when he sees his circular eyes floating with a seemingly sorry light.

"Don't worry about it. Because I'm not going to blame Seto for this. Besides, there are many mysteries about this one. Ning Lo, even Seto's sense of smell doesn't allow him to find his enemies, which in a way is a gain."

The sharpness of Seto's sense of smell has helped Ray many times before.

But having that sense of smell and not being able to find the enemy was sufficiently meaningful information.

In the meantime, Ray decides that the Alliance needs to be informed about this. He will store his luggage in the mistering.

Since no one is already on this scene, it is not a problem for Ray to get this package, but in this case the package will be used to identify who was camping here from this package.

"I hope it's also an guild card...... it'll be hard"

Sometimes guild cards can also be used as ID cards, which is very important.

If it is lost, a fee will be charged even if it is somewhat for reissue.

Beyond that, adventurers often have their guild cards without letting go of their skin.

Most of all, that's only a lot, not all of us.

It wasn't like some of them were keeping it with their buddies that it smelled like trouble to carry it around, and no one left it in their luggage.

Neither does Ray carry his guild card directly with him.

... but in Ray's case, it's stored inside the mysteries, so it's much safer than I would normally carry.

Either way, for that reason, you won't immediately find out whose luggage it is.

Still, it is rare to find out which adventurer belongs by examining the tools that remain.

Few adventurers have all the gear at the party.

With such an object, it will be found out whose it belongs in one shot.

"... can we do this around here for now"

Then the spear also stores in the mistering wondering if it could be a clue of some sort, and once again Ray looks around.

There is nothing particularly like a blood trail, some kind of monster… there is probably no such thing as flesh pieces even if Trent attacked them.

In Ray's eyes, it's just a very normal forest.

But last night... I don't know if... but I'm pretty sure the adventurer was attacked by a monster here.

(Considering where this camp trail was, probably last night)

Even if I find that out, there's nothing more I can do about it now.

All Ray could do was just take the artifact to the guild, more than after things were already over.

If anyone survives like Sleisha, maybe someone like to pick up their luggage... but I also know Ray is more than an adventurer to be unlikely to be.

Still, just in case...

When he does all the errands that way, Ray rides Seto out of the woods once.

Heading there is where Ray logged the trees yesterday.

If it meant cutting trees, that's what you could have done in your current place.

But how much forest has eroded compared to yesterday... it was still the quickest way back to yesterday's place to make sure of that.

Did Seto also remember where he was yesterday, and he goes to that place without showing how particularly lost he is.

A little but flying in the sky...... and if you notice, it was coming near where Ray logged the trees yesterday.

Most importantly, due to forest erosion, the trace had completely disappeared.

"Hmm, is this about fifteen meters?... about 50% more yesterday if you think it was about 10m.... That makes a lot of difference. Maybe those adventurers aren't the reason, are they?

I found it earlier, a trail of camp.

I guess that's where the woods attacked the adventurers, didn't they become nutritious for the woods?

I think so, but I'm pretty sure it's a baseless story.

Even if it did, there's no way to find out.

(Except to talk about using sinners and stuff to find out, or that way)

With that in mind, Ray was able to see how far the forest had spread, so he did what he had to do next.

... Yes. Coming to this forest also meant finding out how long the forest had spread, but just like that, there was also a request to fell the forest trees.

Just cut it and you'll get more rewards.

More than that, for Ray this equals a bonus.

I need to shake the axe down again and again if it's normal to cut a tree.

But in Ray's case...

"Ha!

Just let magic flow through the death size you took out of the mysteries and wield it as it is.

Due to the diagonally flashing death size, the first slashed tree has no particular appearance of movement.

But...... eventually a spring warm breeze blows and the tree eventually shifts due to its own weight and falls straight to the ground.

It was only cut diagonally, and the pointed part pierced the ground... but fell as-is in the next moment, bringing it to a tree nearby.

All that remained was the trunk of a tree pointing upwards at a sharply pointed tip due to being slashed diagonally.

"Could this be all kinds of dangerous?

Whimpering, it's about Ray coming here in the first place.

This place is not on the street side, so it's quite unlikely that people will come.

Those who come from the streets will reach those on the site of the camp that Ray and the others found earlier.

"Well, still just in case."

Whimpering, passing magic through Death Size again before swinging.

Now a flash directly next to it, not oblique, unlike earlier.

While in triangular form, the cut off place falls to the ground.

I don't know what I'm going to grab this tree for, but that's the blow of judging that it would still be better to be flat where it's cut than pointy.

When you store the tree leaning against the other tree that way and the triangulated part in the mistering, look for the next tree.

Most of all, there are more trees right around here than there are in the woods.

"Oh, Seto. I'll slash the tree for a while, so you can do whatever you want."

"Grrrrrrrr?...... Grrrrrrrr"

Seto, throbbing at Ray's words, lays down a little further away.

Normally, it's no surprise I'm running around and playing around...... I guess this is how I still lie in Ray's visible position because I feel strange about the woods.

In particular, it was significant that the presence of monsters could not be felt on the site of the camp earlier.

My favorite Ray, I protect him.

With that in mind, Seto falls asleep and closes his eyes… concentrating on the sense of smell, hearing, and feeling of magic.

I guess Ray understands Seto's thoughts, too. Put up a death size with a grin.

"Ha!

A magical, death-sized blow that will be unleashed again.

Unlike the first blow, a flash released directly beside it.

A death-size blow cuts a tree without any resistance.

So with the Death Size swung through, I gently reached for the tree...... the next moment, the tree disappears.

It was housed in mysteries.

Later only the mutilated stump was left on the side.

"You should have logged it this way from the beginning. That way, there wouldn't have been any damage to the perimeter."

Whimpering, Ray's gaze was directed at the trees around him.

Those are the trees that were broken precisely because of the first diagonally slashed tree leaning against them.

I guess I don't have to worry about it either, because I'll be back at this level in one night.

I think so, but still, I was sure there was something about it that I thought was different.

"Well, can't I think of anything more like this now? In the first place, this forest is a forest that eats adventurers.... for some reason, it's stretched all the way to the guilds."

Why are you on your way to Gilm? I don't know about that, but still it wasn't headed for the Abu Ero side, I guess Gilm was lucky for the residents of Abu Ero anyway.

Because we're headed for the Guild, so far we've been able to deal with it calmly.... As Ray saw earlier, some of them seemed to be coming to this forest from themselves.

If this were on the way to Abu Ero, the adventurers in Abu Ero would probably not have been able to deal with it calmly.

It was Abu Ero on the border with the border, but I knew nothing more about the horror of the border.

While considering it an unfortunate fortune, Ray was able to enchant Death Size to cut down the next tree.