Legend

The appearance of the Rays descending on the outer edge of the forest is naturally found by the adventurers.

I guess it's only natural that I put up a weapon thinking that way, wondering if it might be a new enemy at first.

As an adventurer, I couldn't be more alert because things like earthquakes and sudden monster movements kept happening.

But when he understands that it is Ray on Ceto and Vihera grabbed on Ceto's forefoot, he relieves himself and returns to his attack on the monster.

Though some of them felt strange about such monsters and were distancing themselves from them.

Either way, Ray, coming down on the ground, heads straight for the marina.

"Ray, you're safe. And Seto and Vihera."

Sometimes the monster's movements had stopped, and it was no longer necessary for the marina to give instructions.

Still was it possible to predict that something was there, Marina opens her mouth with a slightly suspicious gaze at Ray and Vihella as she gives a joyous expression.

"Hey, Ray, Vihera. Let me ask you something... this monster thing can be considered your fault, right?

"Right. Perhaps we're the reason."

"Hey, why are you even in there with me? In this case, Ray is the only reason, right?

Vihera, who was listening to Ray and Marina, tells her dissatisfaction.

But that dissatisfaction would also be natural.

Because Ray was the only one who fought the doll with the root of the tree because he thought it was the case.

Vihera, dissatisfied with the matter, looks at the marina and opens her mouth.

"It was a guy like this Trent Forest incarnation who caused this. But Ray was the only one who dealt with it, and me and Seto were just fighting Trent, who was near the incarnation, so it doesn't matter."

"... well, as I will hear about that later. Trent Forest Incarnation? Is that who you were behind this?

Ray wonders what Ray answered to the marina, who asks as she recieves Vihella's words.

Also, naturally, the researchers, who are a little further away, are making their ears clear so that they don't miss every word Ray says.

This Trent Forest is a special place in many ways.

So Ray's testimony that he encountered Trent's Forest Incarnation is not something to be missed.

I guess I don't clog up toward Ray because I understand it to be unsavory in many ways if I undermine Ray's mood.

The alchemist among researchers in particular has the experience that Ray, who did not like it, temporarily left the guild as a result of the previous merchant's intransigence against Ray, making it very difficult to obtain Griffon's material.

Others, those who live in the Guild… or those who are involved, even if they do not live in the Guild.

I know what character Ray has, as a matter of course, so it wasn't stuffed from me, and now it was a setup to listen to that story anyway.

"Maybe the way you say incarnate...... fits. Oh, yeah. I was able to communicate with Trent's forest incarnation.... done? I wonder. I think you're right about the communication of intentions or the forcible influx of the other will into the image."

"... yeah? What exactly does that mean?

"Right, first of all, there is a presence in this Trent forest that we should call even the will of the forest itself. And in this central part of Trento's woods, there was a terminal of the will of the woods… a doll made of the roots of the incarnate trees, if you say so in the Vihella style"

Marina gives a convincing look to the word doll made of tree roots.

If it was also the will of a being called the Trent Forest, it would still mean that a doll made of plants was not a strange thing.

Ray opens his mouth to the marina urging the story to continue, remembering what it was then.

"I thought you were sitting on a throne made of tree roots, too, and you wanted to make contact with us somehow."

The researchers' curiosity sparkles their eyes at the words and they are so intense on Ray... that they look so strongly at the possibility that it is also material pressure.

"So they poured the image in?

"Oh, for now I conveniently decide to call it even an image language, but that's all I've conveyed in that image language, anyway, making myself... a top priority to expand this Trent forest... no, that's all I've been thinking about"

"... I see"

I wonder if that's why the Trento forest was as wide as ten meters every day.

Marina gives a convincing look to the words out of Ray's mouth.

The researchers had heard so many other things. They had done so, but now they had heard Ray's explanation, and then they were silent in deciding that we should all ask questions.

"So, if it's going to spread, I said we should move on to someone like Gilm or Abu Ero. No, I didn't exactly say it, but is it correct that I conveyed it in an image language with a strong mind? In the first place, this is how we come to Trent Forest, partly because it's spreading to those with guilds."

"Wait, please!

Some of the people who were listening to Ray's explanation naturally looked like Sleisha.

And next to Sleisha, there's also Luno's figure.

(Oh, you're safe)

Ray is slightly relieved to see how the two familiars are safe.

Regardless of Luno in particular, Sleisha is not originally ranked or strong enough to take this request.

By partying with Luno, he managed to take part in this request.

That's why it wouldn't have been weird if Sleisha had died first...

(Guess it's only because I had a follow up on Luno)

Moving his gaze from Sleisha to Luno, Luno, who received that gaze, nodded small.

"Mr. Ray! Are you listening! Why do you say leave Trent Forest intact, etc!

When Ray and Luno are interacting with each other with their gaze, Sleisha screams out about how they couldn't bear to look like that.

But what Ray gave back against Slasha like that was a sigh.

"You know what, okay? I think it's a shame your party members died in this forest, and I think it's sad. But you made it... an adventurer ready to die, didn't you? That's what it's like to be killed by monsters and bandits on a request and die in this Trent forest, don't you think?

"It's..."

Sleisha, who was angry with Ray's words until a few seconds ago, will be unable to say anything more.

It was common sense that an adventurer was a dangerous profession.

It's impossible that we're not the only ones in danger.

I know Slasha understood that too, but I guess she couldn't really feel it.

"Ray, about Sleisha, that would be fine. Now it's about Trent's forest incarnation.... Why was it spreading to the Gilm?

Ray, who was talking to Sleisha, nods at the marina's words and starts explaining again.

"Trent's Forest was headed toward the Guild because there are many magical beings in the Guild… I mean, I understood that there are many people who should feed themselves"

"... I see. For the Trento Forest, where spreading the woods is a top priority, there must be more opponents with the kind of magic that feeds them."

There was some surprise in Marina's face, but nothing else existed.

It was originally relative to the out-of-consciousness in various ways of this Trento forest.

Think of it, it's not like it would be disruptive for a marina to be told that she wants a highly magical being as bait.

In the first place, even if we seek the inhabitants of the Guild as bait, whether or not we tolerate it is a completely different story.

"So, what's up with Ray dealing with the guy who says he wants Gilm residents as bait? You didn't tolerate that, did you?

"Oh. I said it in image language to stop it... apparently, that touched the other scales, making it a battle"

Hearing Ray's words did not make anyone angry.

Naturally. If it wasn't a battle under the circumstances Ray told me, it would be to sacrifice the inhabitants of Gilm... and the highly magical adventurers against the Trent Forest.

With that in mind, it was only natural that those who were listening to Ray would want to say that they did well.

The researchers had some explanations for Ray, but still didn't want to sacrifice Gilm's inhabitants.

If you're a criminal in there, why don't you let me out? Some thought so.

While relieved by that, Ray talks about the battle.

"There wasn't just one Trent Forest incarnation, naturally. Weaker than the guy I came into contact with, but many incarnations appeared... dolls made of tree roots. And Trent, who's a lot stronger than he was here, was in the square. I left you to Vihera and Seto."

"Stronger Trent than Trent here?

"Oh.... right, normal soldiers and Kingsguard soldiers or something like that would be easy to understand if explained in that way?

Those who had listened to Ray's words, including the marina, nodded as they were convinced.

… although some researchers had a subtle look on their face.

Regardless of the great powers such as the Kingdom of Mireana and the Besti Empire, some of the smaller countries around them have been sheltered by the great powers, so the royal family is not attacked, and they take the noble three or four men as close guards.

Naturally, I guess I've heard that such people can't seriously train themselves, and they're turning into Kingsguards entirely just by name...

Anyway, it doesn't matter now, so the researchers didn't say anything about it either.

"You seem so strong, Trent."

"Yeah, they were actually a lot stronger than normal Trent, weren't they? I don't know if that's a superior species or a rare species."

Vihera answers that to Marina's words, but Ray can't honestly nod when he sees the sight that was exploding inside Trent with an immersive palm reinforced by fusion with Ambris.

Ning Lo, Vihera seemed to be lightly defeating Trent.

"Anyway, it's a battle with monsters like that, and even if you use Death Size or something, it's the roots of a tree, so it sticks right over there, even if you cut it.... so I used magic to burn that I wouldn't have to worry about extending the burning because the surrounding area turned into a square..."

When told that far, Ray looks out of sight just a little hard to say.

Because the magic that I used caused that to happen is unmistakable.

"... so? What happened to you?

To the marina urging the conversation, Ray turns his gaze back as he perceived it.

"Trent's forest incarnation, the doll at the root of the tree, burned with my magic. But was that quite a shock to the other side, or was it fear... I don't know why... but anyway, there was an earthquake"

"I sensed that over here, too. From before and after the earthquake, the monsters suddenly stopped moving."

That's what Marina says as she sees adventurers gathering materials and crusade proof sites to defeat immobile monsters.

"I guess. It's the first time I've known that since I got here, too.... Maybe all the monsters in Trent Forest won't work now. Anyway, that's why there was an earthquake, and the square we were in was swallowed by the ground as it was. So, this is how we've been evacuated aboard Seto."

"Again, for a long time... no, that's enough"

In the first place, it became like fighting the very incarnation of a being, not a being called a monster, but a Trent Forest.

Ning Ro, I should say that Ray is the reason I was able to come back alive.

If this were a normal adventurer, it would be because it is certain that Ray was dead caught in the ground crack he was talking about.

"Then..."

Marina tried to tell me something again, at that moment...... a huge sway engulfed the surrounding area again.

That's an incomparable shake, even compared to the shake Ray felt in the central part of Trent's forest.

How seismic would that be? And, Ray could still afford to think about it, but for the rest of us, this is the first time we've ever experienced such a shake.

Those who were attacking immobile monsters couldn't afford to do that now, either, but they just crouched and sat on the ground so they wouldn't even fall, withstanding the shake.