Legend
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By the time the surroundings were set in darkness... more than ten people were going through the forest of Trent.
Getting out of the gilm at night is only a suicide act, unless you are confident in your arms.
Especially in this Trent forest, because last night even rank B monster Cerberus came out.
With that in mind, I wouldn't really think of moving such a place if it were normal.
But do the men who go through Trent's woods know it or not, and they go straight without looking frightened?
The pine beads do not hold, but rely solely on the moonlight to proceed.
It was a night sky with no clouds, but still the moonlight alone would be able to move on because everyone has some good night's eye.
If you move along Trento Forest, it's a little easier to move around.
But because of the trees, this group is hard to find.
It is all arm-written adventurers who are defending the place of destination.
It also exists inside Ray, who has a deep red alias, and even his subordinate Ceto.
It would be natural to act in such a way as not to be found wherever possible.
Moving on like that for a while...... Eventually, the foot of the man who was leading the way stops.
"Stop. From here on out, go more cautiously than ever. All right? I'll check, but all we need is information. It's not about fighting adventurers."
Everyone snorts at the words.
We're out of the guild at night, so we're confident in our arms, naturally.
But if you ask me if I can make it through safely if I encounter Ray because I'm confident in my arms, the answer is no.
No, it's not just Ray. Because there are many armed adventurers and reservoir men near the Tower of Birth.
That's why the aim of this one was not to fight, but only to confirm information.
If I could be seen traveling like this at night, I would definitely be suspicious.
Nevertheless, if you imitate the way you move in the day, the forest of Trento has the appearance of a pigeon or an adventurer, and above all is easy to find from its brightness by those who are escorting the tower of birth.
I'm pretty sure there are a lot of dangers to moving at night, but still I was more secure than moving in the day.
In addition, this group is well aligned with those who stand on their arms.
If it was about a low-ranking monster, it wasn't a difficult story to deal with.
"Everybody, scatter. From here, as soon as someone is found, they will withdraw. I repeat, our job is only to obtain information. All right?"
Everyone nods at the words of the man in the lead, each scattering.
Dropping it off, the man who was leading the troops also started acting.
I'm pretty far from the lake, but I wouldn't have any trouble with the lights if I got here, even in such a place.
(Slime, huh?... Is that it?
Even from its current position, the flaming mass can be seen.
According to the information obtained in advance, it has already been burning for a few days.
It was definitely surprising to the man that it kept burning that much.
The lights that keep the slime burning can be lucky or unlucky for the guys.
Its light source is sufficient to reconnaissance the state of the lake.
At the same time, however, it was also true that the lights of the slime were burning, making it easier to find those scattered around them.
(But that lake... how far is it going? I was talking about it being quite spacious as far as I was taught in advance, but I see that wasn't an exaggeration or anything)
The lake stretches far, even just within sight of the lights of the burning slime.
Precisely not everything can be foreseen just by the lights with the slime on fire.
(And that tower.... Is that the tower where Lizardman lives? If you're in the daytime, it's still night if you're going to do reconnaissance than you can look around from above)
If you take sides with the trees of Trent's woods and the darkness of the night, you won't find them for much longer.
... Yes, if there's not much left to do, though.
"Wow!"
A scream that sounded like darkness at night.
I didn't know who made such a scream.
Still, there was no doubt that one of the men brought him in was found.
A lesser chance is that we found another group of people who came to see how the lake and the birth tower were doing the same way other than ourselves... but that would be only a hopeful observation.
As such, it is possible that we will soon find this place as well, beyond the fact that someone has been found.
(Damn it! You've already found him!
It hasn't been long enough since we started the reconnaissance.
I would have scouted a little more if I could, but there's nothing I can do about it more than find it.
Hurry up and try to get off the spot...... moments, jump off the spot in a flashy move exactly the opposite of what you've been hiding.
And moments after the man jumped off the spot, there was a spear piercing where the man was.
The leaping man screams unexpectedly when he sees a spear piercing the ground.
"Twilight Spear!?
The spear is a very famous spear.
As a weapon Ray possesses.
When that happens, who has made the current attack? That was obvious without even thinking about it.
"That's surprising. Avoid this attack?... Well, considering we've come this far, isn't that a strange story, too?
That's what I came down from the sky to say, Ray.
Instead of riding Seto and attacking him from the sky... he attacked him while walking in the air using Slapenil's shoes, and he came down.
Seto, who has always acted with Ray, next raids those who are currently watching the lake and the Birth Tower with other adventurers.
"Why! At this distance, Griffon wouldn't have noticed!
With a dagger in place, the man... the man in the mask screams.
If I were a man, even if this case was dangerous, the danger should have been handled at the very least.
But how could we find ourselves?
I screamed out of such irrationality, but when I heard it, Ray opened his mouth with a frightened gaze.
"How sharp is Seto's five senses... did you really think I understood that?
I was only a little bit good at telling you Ray, but it's also true that although you can actually see the lake here, it's pretty far away.
If it is the five senses of Seto in the vegan state, it is also fully possible that he did not realize its existence.
But... it's only a matter of vegetarian state.
Seto has skills.
And some of my skills were called elevated sense of smell.
If you try Ceto, I know from the state of Ray that the area around the current lake and birth tower is a pretty dangerous place.
That's why I sometimes used my olfactory lifting skills on the way to watch and sniffed someone from as close as I could possibly grasp.
Seto has four levels of olfactory ascent.
The ability of a skill to explode is not yet in the fifth, but if it is still as high as four, it will have a corresponding effect.
It was the men's bad luck not knowing that.... you can call it a lack of investigation.
Most of all, few know Seto possesses the skills of elevated sense of smell, etc.
No matter how much information we gathered, it was very difficult to obtain that information.
"Well, you were pretty good at hiding, but you know there's no escape if they find you, right?
……
To Ray's words, the man remains silent.
In fact, it's true that it's harder to get out of here than Ray found me.
But with that in mind, there is no alternative to fighting Ray here.
If so, we still have to somehow escape here.
Because if you can't get away with it, you have to use your back hand in case this happens.
"Huh!?
Don't speak up, the man comes forward at once.
And stick out a dagger that goes inside Ray's interval or no.
The thrust unleashed was a very smooth blow.
That proves that a man's strength is not concurrent.
Seeing such a blow straight into his throat, Ray only raised the man's rating a little.
Normally, it wasn't a strange blow to aim at the heart, but the dragon robe Ray is wearing has strong spike and slash resistance.
Because I use plenty of dragon leather and scales, the blade doesn't stand in the literal sense of the blade around it.
He was a man who didn't know about Seto's elevated sense of smell, but he knew about Ray's dragon robe, but it was a late act.
That's why Ray raised the man's ratings.
(Most…)
A sharp poke released by his own throat, but Ray swings a death size as he leaps backwards.
Nevertheless, it is a blow using the patterned part rather than the death-sized blade than the need to extract information from the man.
Still, he was beaten wielding a blow of as much as a hundred kg with the power of Ray, so the shock is considerable… As a sign of this, Ray's hand with a death size conveys the feeling of breaking a man's ribs.
"Grr!"
The unfortunate thing for a man would have been that this was the forest of Trent.
The man blown away by Death Size hits his body against the trunk of a tree that was growing right on his side and breaks several more bones with its impact.
Lucky for the man, this would have been Trent's woods.
There were many trees growing around, and Ray could not shake the death size in a way that maximized his power.
If Ray had waved Death Size in his optimal move, the man would definitely have been more seriously injured.
The number of broken bones was definitely increasing.
Careful not to snap the surrounding trees at Death Size, Ray looks at the man who blew up and hit the trunk of the tree.
Man... Yes, I couldn't clearly confirm my face because I was wearing a mask, but it was easy to predict that I was a man from that line of body.
I can't deny the possibility that she's actually a woman with a slender body.
"Well, that's fine with me. I wonder what else is going on."
Whimpering, he returns the spear of dusk remaining pierced to the ground with his special abilities and stores them in mysteries in both death sizes.
Then he takes out the rope and the cloth, and lets him bite the cloth so he doesn't bite his tongue and bite the monkey monkey, he ropes his hands and feet together.
Ray knocked it down lightly, but I'm pretty sure the guy is good at covert action.
That was the possibility that if I tied it poorly, I would have gotten out of it.
That's why Ray ties tight and lifts the man who stays stunned so it doesn't happen like that.
Big man...... even though he was trained with an emphasis on agility to get it to covert behavior as well, he's still definitely a heavier opponent than Ray.
With one hand holding such an opponent, Ray heads toward the tower of his birth.
"Oh, I knew Ray was the first one back"
Before the Tower of Birth.
One of the adventurers who waited in the square used for all sorts of things, like it was a stowager for the adventurers, a place to eat, a place to watch, and so on, took the fainted man... No, I say yes to Ray, who brought it back.
The words themselves are light, but there is something sharp about Ray's gaze toward the man he holds.
This man... No, it's obvious what the men came here to do without even thinking about it.
"I thought it would be difficult to control the information... but after all, that's the biggest cause"
A different adventurer than I was talking to Ray turns to the flaming mass on the side of the lake... to the slime that is still burning.
The magic that Ray used to defeat that slime could see its enormous flames even from the guild.
Then, naturally, people will be concerned about what the hell happened and others will come out trying to find out.
"If you think about it, maybe you should say it was too late to come and explore Ningro."
Another adventurer squeals, but Ray has something to say as well.
That huge... it was obvious that it made little sense in an attack there to defeat a slime about the size of a hill or a small mountain.
That's why we needed an attack that had the power to call it a Special, just to defeat the opponent with one blow.
If it was actually a weaker way of attacking than then, it is likely that Slime was still alive and raging around.
"Grrrrrrrrrr!"
Unexpectedly Seto's voice echoes around him.
Ray, who didn't think Seto would lose to an opponent like that, turns his gaze to Seto, who is grinning and putting three black-crushed men on his back.
All three of them were not defeated by Seto... it was obvious that the adventurer who came back with Seto defeated them.