Legend

The sun sets and the surroundings are surrounded by darkness.

Outside the woods, among other things, the lights were kept by incendiary fire.

If this is a request that is usually made, we will talk to each other until some time and eventually leave watch to sleep.

But you don't have the same face here.

More than during the day, from now on… from night onwards is a full-scale investigation.

"... I'm listening to you, are you sure you're coming? We went into the woods during the day, but you didn't look like a monster at all, did you?

One of the adventurers groans looking out at the forest of Trento in front of the bonfire.

Clouds float in the night sky, completely covering the moon and hiding it.

There were few clouds during the day, and warm sunlight had fallen from the sun.

Even though it was such a spring weather, it seemed somewhere suspicious now that it was night.

(I'm near the Trent Forest, so maybe that's what I feel extra)

I was near an adventurer who was complaining, another adventurer looking around me whining inside.

A short distance from the forest is now home to several kindling fires.

Each one of them gathers on a party-by-party basis or on a team that acted at noon to set the fire.

Only the number of people, the number of incendiaries is really high.

At first, there was also an opinion as to whether to burn a giant bonfire, but the question of whether the fire could be extinguished immediately at times of need led to a situation like the present one.

"Hey, honestly, what do you think? I don't really trust that neighborhood."

You didn't mind the man you talked to was silent, or the adventurer man who is dissatisfied with Trent's Forest once again asks that to the man you were to put together this time.

This team has a total of six alchemists and five adventurers.

Precisely in the form of two and three adventurer parties working together.

Of these, alchemists are not here to exchange opinions with other researchers, and some of the adventurers are not here to exchange information.

As a result, one of the two parties here was left here.

The talked adventurer opens his mouth even though it looks slightly annoying.

"I don't care what you think. You're sure there are more enemies than there are people who've actually been attacked.... Well, not that I'm still here."

Though I don't really think so, I detect a man in a bad mood who has spoken the moment he says he has enemies, and hastily adds:

Did the grumpy man get a little carried away with it, opening his mouth again overlooking the forest of Trent?

"... to the habit of knowing nothing, do something unsolicited..."

A short distance from those two, Sleisha shrugs as she pushes her anger to death when she hears the conversation.

If there is nothing wrong with Trent's Forest, what are you… and what have your people been attacked by?

Sleisha becomes uncomfortable only with the person who was actually attacked.

"Take it easy.... Here, drink this."

Luno, who was sitting next to him, gives him the cup.

What's inside is tea.

Besides, it's not really tea brewed with tea leaves, rather than tea that you drink in such a place.

It is a small pot placed on a burning fire using utensils, simmered with tea leaves.

Tea is very unacceptable for those who genuinely enjoy things like tea and tea… it was nevertheless a commonly used method for adventurers to enjoy enough tea.

... It is also true that more people prefer alcohol to tea or tea.

"Thank you"

It was Sleisha drinking the tea I received, but I still can't fully put away the anger I hold towards the two of them a little further away.

"Calm down. You can't be so powerful right now, can you?

One of the adventurers on the same team speaks that way against Sleisha.

Of these, Sleisha is the lowest rank.

Naturally, you don't have as many ranks as you can take to request this survey.

That's why the other adventurers have eyes on Sleisha.

Of course, that definitely affected that Sleisha is still a young woman though.

If this were the busy man in Sleisha's shoes, that would have been what the other adventurers would have looked at in a different way.

... although it would be difficult to say if such a person could have asked Luno to bow his head and act with him.

"I know. I know... but I really..."

I guess I was called in and calmed down a little bit. Sleisha whines small as she drinks tea.

"That kind of idiot is everywhere. The one who can't see reality as reality, the one who thinks his common sense is absolute.... I can't say that kind of guy is for adventurers."

"Ahhh! Oh, come on!

I guess I heard an adventurer talking to Slasha.

An adventurer who earlier said there were no monsters in the Trent woods yells when he sees the Sleishas.

I hear the conversation over there, so it must have been a sufficiently conceivable situation to hear the Sleishas conversation.

"Calm down, you see, because it stands out. Do you have any idea what would happen if it stood out in a place like this?

Half provocatively I told him was the adventurer man who was encouraging Sleisha.

But even if the tone is provocative, what you're saying is never wrong.

If you had a problem while you were making the request, it would be seen as a problem by the Alliance.

Not to mention, this request is for that guild straight away.

It is also likely to affect the assessment on ranking up.

I guess the yelling adventurer knows that, too.

For a man who still has a blood-prone personality on his head, now it was better to do something about the person who provoked him

Stay up and try to walk out towards the incendiary fire where Luno or Sleisha are...

"Whoa!

My neck accidentally gets bitter and my movement stops.

Could the guy on the same team have done something?

From that thought, even glancing back unpleasantly, what was there was the face of a man in amazement.

At least the man who decides that it's not about what the man did to himself tries to remove something that is strangling him.

But it's tightly tangled around my neck, and I can't even put my fingers in between.

With a knife or something, the moment you think so, the man is suddenly pulled behind his back.

It was also quite a strong force, and it was exquisite that the man managed to stop on the spot.

"Come on!"

He pulls his long sword out of the sheath of his hips almost reflexively, flashing invisible.

From the feeling of returning through the blade, I realize that what I slashed was something of some thickness.

This is a few seconds since I decided that something had wrapped around my neck.

I guess the accuracy of judgment around here is why a man was able to participate in this request with a limited rank.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! There's a monster coming out of the Trent Woods!

Luno screams as he watched a series of movements, but by then most of those already around him had pulled out their weapons and entered a response position.

The strangled man also turns to the woods with a long sword.

That way, finally, the man finds out who the existence was that was strangling him.

That's, uh...

However, even though he was slaughtered en route, he is still screaming like a snake on the ground.

"Damn!

The man forcefully removes the stirrups in the area that was still wrapped around his neck, even if the skin of his neck was injured with his nails.

"Danger!"

The man slamming the wreckage of the bamboo wrapped around his neck to the ground jumps off the scene aggressively with his voice.

I guess this is a testament to the strength of being able to take this request, even as soon as these decisions can be made instantly, with short tempers and fights.

Either way, something comes down to where the man was until a moment ago.

"What!?

He was a man looking at the sky screaming, but so I saw... a giant flower, present higher than a growing tree.

If Ray sees that flower, he's probably like, 'Sunflower!?' I would have screamed.

In fact, the flower looked a lot like a sunflower.

But, naturally, many things are different.

In the first place, sunflowers are not this huge anymore.

What the adventurers are looking at now is about ten meters high, and the size of the flowers exceeds three meters in diameter.

And there are seeds in the flowers... that seed was what came down earlier.

"Whoa, whoa! When did those flowers grow! You didn't have those flowers during the day!

If it was too late to dodge for a few moments, a man would have hit that seed and screamed in a hurry.

How powerful the seed is, and what happens when the seed is planted... I can largely predict how dangerous the seed is.

"There's more here!

At the same time as one of the adventurers screams, Trent reveals himself by trying to sew the gaps in the trees.

This forest, named Trento Forest, deserved and the number of Trentos was quite high.

Not to mention a bunch of tweezers stretching out of the woods like the one that strangled the man earlier trying to sew between Trent like that.

"Look! Trees are growing rapidly from the ground!

A different adventurer cried out, and when the adventurers, who were around them, looked at the ground, the trees were growing at such a rate that they could see from the ground, as the words said.

Normal but inconceivable rate of growth.

The kind of sight that shows how the forest of Trento is spreading at so much speed.

But while I'm surprised by that, what the adventurers here need to do now is not observe the Trent Forest, but deal with the various monsters that are coming out of the Trent Forest.

… most importantly, leaving the adventurers alone, the researchers are observing the Trent Forest in a solidified and interesting way.

"Look, growing at this rate definitely means using the magic that is flowing through the earth"

"I know that, but then, what about that monster over there?

"Is that the giant flower that's letting that seed down? Isn't that the magic that's flowing through the earth growing to that point?

"Hmmm...... but the magic of this size of forest just keeps spreading? Well, we'll figure it out at first, but still, isn't magic depleting?

"... that you are getting nourishment and magic for any reason other than magic?

"With that said, a couple of adventurer's parties are missing information here, right?

"I think it's a little difficult considering the number of people."

The adventurers get frustrated with researchers who are having such conversations over swallowing, even though they say they are fighting.

Especially for those who remain here as guards for the researchers and have not participated in the battle, some people have the idea of what to talk about at length….

However, given the nature of the researchers, it would be honest to say that each of them would like to go to places of their own interest and conduct themselves closely, such as observation and collection.

You can say you're cooperative enough because you're putting up with it and getting together in one place to make it easier for the adventurers to escort you.

... aside from whether the escorting side will admit it.

As the escort adventurers feel stuffy or frustrated, the war situation gradually favors the adventurer side.

Because one adventurer after another, a little further away, is coming to escort us.

Originally this request was rank-limited and the strength of the adventurers participating is quite high.

Beyond that, monsters coming out of the woods, including Trent, have nothing to fear that much if not an ambush.

One person, if it's a monster to the extent of Trent, can cross each other... no, because most people can cross each other more than each other.

"Yikes! If we get reinforcements over here at this rate, we're sure to win!

One of the adventurers screams as he destroys Trent's torso with a hammer.

To that voice, other adventurers raise their spiritual voices, naturally.

But...... one adventurer screams to block it.

"We have a lot of power over here, but we don't know how much power our enemies have! This is not a short-term showdown, we should think about and act on a protracted battle!

Screaming, the man casts a spell and waves his wand.

What was released was a needle made of stone.

A needle made of more than thirty stones fills the holes one after the other, crawling like a snake through Trent and the ground, who have emerged from the woods.

He is a famous wizard for specializing in earthly magic.

Its appearance of slaughtering enemies while using magic with low magic drain can be described as a skilled wizard.

Adventurers who earlier shouted good things of prestige shouted grumpy at such wizard screams.

"If you've been cowardly, pull in!

"... I don't know about that"

Along with that cry, a shadow waving a huge weapon through the side of the man who screamed.

That alone cut Trent off from his torso and collapsed to the ground with his own weight.

"Given the unnaturalness of this forest, I don't think it's wrong to conserve more power than a short-term showdown."

HUGE WEAPONS...... that's what Ray groaned as he took the Death Size on his shoulder.