Legend

Trees growing in the Trento forest are basically some distance away.

That was the extent to which Seto, who was about three meters long, could walk around normally at extra intervals.

But... the place where the Rays are currently going is clearly what they deserve to call the road.

Of course, cobblestones are not laid or trampled to make way.

But still, there is no grass growing in the place where they walk, and even though they say it's in the woods, it's on the ground... not exactly where the Rays are walking, nor are the roots of the trees rising.

It was well organized to keep the Rays out of the way to walk.

Whoever sees this and says it's not the way, that's what he should describe as a pretty twister.

It wouldn't be strange if you thought so, that way.

There, the Rays were currently on their way.

Because this is all so obvious, the possibility of some kind of trap was already out of the ray.

Naturally, I'm not completely alarmed, but I try to react immediately if anything happens.

"This is obvious, and it's kind of silly to suspect it."

Vihera, walking at the rear of the line, whines as if she was somewhere shuddered.

Because Ray was also in agreement with that opinion, he returns his words with his gaze toward the trees growing on the left and right side of the road.

"Mostly, like this, that tree was actually Trent or something."

When it was a substitute for comics, novels, cartoons, and games I saw when I was in Japan, stone statues and such in places where they stood meaningfully were actually golems...... that's how I thought Ray looked at the trees growing around him.

"Hmmm...... well, do you want to make sure?

Vihera, who was listening to Ray, approached the tree growing nearby, saying so.

At first it was a proper queue of Vihelas, but I guess I was free because nothing particularly happened after entering this path.

That's how I touch the trunk of the tree and even try to scrape it a little using nails that are stretched out of my hand... but even so, there's nothing like this happening.

"Oh, I'm sorry."

Without showing as much regret as the words say, Vihera returns under the Rays.

"You know... for once this is enemy territory, be careful, okay?

I trust Vihera's arm, so Ray calls out to things like that for once.

If anything happened, I was willing to go help right away, but I still wanted you to stop acting in a circumstance where you didn't know what was going to happen, like this one.

(Well, I guess this place is more accurate than enemy land, such as in the belly of the Ning Ro enemy)

When something in the Trent Forest is likely to lie ahead, we can also think of this place as a belly in the literal sense.

Of course I won't bother to say it because both Vihella and Seto know that.

"Gru."

To Seto, who throats to rush ahead, Ray and Vihera start to move on again when they snort at each other that it would be clearer to move on anyway than we are talking about here.

That's how you'll be ahead. Walking the path created by someone, enough.

Keep walking that long......

"You finally see the exit."

Ray nods back at Vihera's voice mixed with grievances he hears from behind.

Of course, if we rode Seto, that would have gotten us this far in a few minutes.

But such imitation could not be jeopardized by the sight of just saying that there were obvious traps.

That wasn't just Ray, I guess Vihera felt it too.

... That's all I was wary of what was going on around me, but considering there was nothing particularly trapping-like until the exit, I couldn't help but be dissatisfied with Vihela.

(And while we're walking like this, I'm sure there's a fight going on in front of the Trent Forest.... over there, hopefully not much damage)

It wasn't the adventurers I met at this request that passed Ray's brain... but the researchers.

Alchemists, magic researchers, scholars... It was a gathering of various researchers, but without exception, all those with strong intellectual curiosity.

I guess they wouldn't have come to this investigation if it weren't for those people in the first place, and I guess that's natural.

But it may be right for researchers to prioritize their intellectual curiosity over combat, even though there is a battle going on nearby, but it is nothing but troublesome for the adventurers who escort it.

Even as we escort ourselves, the researchers discuss their hypotheses about the Trent Forest.

If this was a place away from the Trent woods, I guess it wouldn't be that much of a burden for the adventurers either... in fact they were imitating that right on the side where the battle was taking place.

That's what makes me want to tell you to be a good addition to and subtract from the adventurers.

Such a battle continues while the Rays are walking down this road.

We have to do something as soon as we can.

Looking at the exit of the road, Ray thinks so...... Eventually, the Rays finally arrive at the bottom of the road.

"This is..."

It was Ray, who naturally was the first to see that sight, who shrugged when he saw the sight spreading there.

Quite a lot of space.

That's the only space there that you can't miss from the sky

There was grass growing on the ground that would be illuminated by the moonlight, and if it were daylight now, I would have been able to see the sight it deserved to call it a green carpet.

And a thick tree stands in circles, trying to enclose a wide space as if it were a pillar.

Furthermore, in the central part of the space, the roots of the tree combine, and there is an object that looks like a throne… On the throne of the roots of the tree, there is also a person who has shaped this also a person made of the roots of the tree… No, the object sits.

"Hey, that... what do you think?

Vihera, who was surprised to see what was going on around her, whines as she looks at the throne made of tree roots and objects shaped like men.

"I wonder what. It's just... I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the Trent Forest, considering how obviously they've been waiting for us."

Ray squeaks as he looks at someone made of tree roots.

We've been waiting for ourselves so far, so I guess we're going to communicate.

I think so, but Ray wonders what to do with a doll made of tree roots in front of him.

Can we just keep talking... or can we just knock him out at once?

I don't know what to do, but even if I'm lost here, it just puts a lot of strain on the adventurers I'm currently fighting, so I open my mouth as I move on.

"You know what I'm saying?

Ask so, but nothing comes back from the doll at the root of the tree.

Now, I know that if I move anything, I can hear my words, but if I don't even hang around, I wonder how Ray should react.

"... maybe that doll, not actually a monster or anything like that, but really just a doll, right?

"Who would make a doll like that here?"

Getting here is also definitely quite a challenge if you are a normal adventurer.

Not to mention that it wouldn't be a bit or softly possible to get out of the rays and come this far to create this kind of sight.

Besides, this vast space is a substitute that the Rays definitely didn't exist when they were in the sky.

I mean, if someone really made this, it would have been made while the Rays were walking down the road and getting here.

(Plus, it would mean I made that road, too)

Ray looks at the person at the end of his gaze and decides that won't be the first.

For example, the sight that was undoubtedly spreading in front of us should have made some sense.

Still... even if it makes sense, the doll that Ray doesn't seem to react at all when he calls out is only creepy.

"This is how the chair...... no, it's pretty big, and the throne? I don't think it's surprising that you've been waiting for us to build a throne or something, considering you have knowledge of humans."

"But there are goblings, oak kings, that sort of thing, right? Can't think of it as knowledge coming from that way?

"Uh... yeah, well, maybe so"

Lightly returned the words answered with confidence, Ray shifts his gaze to delude something and strokes Seto.

What's the matter with you? and watching Seto rattle his throat, Ray, who regained his mind, opens his mouth again.

"Whatever. Goblin, orc, but that would be the orga... whatever it is, I just wanted to say that there is wisdom, not just instinct."

"I know about that.... So what do you do?

"No, I don't care what they say."

Exhaled, Ray once again sees the throne and doll made of the roots of the tree.

I don't see any more significance to this than the hassle this way.

But it was true that if you asked me what that meant, I would have to lean my neck too.

(Worst of all, I have the means to try to destroy it... but if you imitate it like that in the present situation, it's true that it sounds all kinds of yummy)

If you destroy it badly, you don't know what's going to happen.

In fact, if that doll is something that holds the secret of Trent's Forest, and it breaks, it will stop Trent's Forest from spreading any further... then it can be said to be the best result.

But on the contrary, it is that doll that is holding back the spread of Trent's forest, and it is possible that, as a result of breaking the doll, Trent's forest explodes at a faster rate than ever before.

"In the meantime, I'll try to get close. Seto and Vihera need to be ready to deal with whatever happens right away."

"Are you sure? Or are you leaving me?

There is a slight dissatisfaction in the words of Vihera, who tells that.

I wondered why I would leave myself when maybe it would be a fight......

"As far as this goes, you don't know what's gonna happen. … and the possibility that the tree here is Trent cannot be denied."

To Ray's words, Vihera turns her gaze to the trees lined up on the edge of this space.

Most of the trees growing in this Trento forest are more than a certain size… thick.

But the trees that grow here are even thicker and bigger than they are.

If these trees were Trent, there was no mistake that they were more powerful monsters than Trent, who had fought before.

To Ray's words, Vihera takes a glimpse of what's going on around her.

The battle against Trento has also been experienced by Vihera in this forest.

It didn't feel as strong as a foe when he tried, which is why Vihera acted to stop Trent's opponent and fight the giant flowers that grew in the woods.

(But this is definitely an important place for Trent Forest, right? Let them protect it, so naturally Trent is also the one who comes out in the woods... and that's no stranger than a guy who comes out in the outer edge of the woods, is it?

At this time, past the back of Vihella's brain was just the difference between soldiers and those in the Kingsguard.

Even the same soldiers have ordinary soldiers and powerful soldiers.

I was wondering if this Trent might be a close guard at that thought.

The word Kingsguard came out here, probably because something like a throne still existed in the bend.

I also had the impression that this space was clearly different from the Trent Forest we had walked in before.

"I can't help it."

In the end, Vihera gets ready to be okay whenever and what happens as she snorts at Ray's words.

Seto looks at Ray like that worryingly, but still tinkles his throat if Ray decides to.

With such one and one dropped off, Ray approaches the throne in the center and the doll sitting on it.

Death size on your right and dusk spears on your left so you can deal with anything immediately, of course.

Only the sound of stepping on the grass growing on the ground echoes around.

If we get here, we won't even hear the sound of the battle taking place outside Trent's Forest in Ray's ear.

... If any of the adventurers were to use an explosion, they might have heard it... happy or unhappy, such a person did not exist.

No, a marina that can use spiritual magic would be possible if you wanted to have an explosion.

I didn't do that because my guild was finding high value in this forest.

(Still, Marina would make up her mind if I had to)

Thinking that way, Ray keeps walking...... eventually he arrives before the throne.

And I observed a doll made of tree roots.

It's bigger than Ray's, but it's not as big as 3m or 4m.

Heading to such a tree-rooted doll...... Ray doesn't get alarmed and opens his mouth as he stands okay whenever anything happens.

"You know what I'm saying?

The moment I told him so, even though there was no wind or anything, the doll moved Pickle and his arm.