Legend

Proceeding through the Devil's Forest, Ray and Seto.

It's been about twenty minutes since we defeated Oaknaga, but so far there's no way the enemy is going to attack us.

"I knew it, I thought it would be a more frequent battle. Could it have been Oaknaga territory around here?

Naturally, Oaknaga was more of a monster capable of collective action than he was of acting in all those groups.

If so, it is no surprise that we are working with our peers to protect our sphere of action.

However, if that happens, then it does. I have my doubts.

(That oak naga was never a powerful monster. Whatever the normal forest is, can we keep as much territory alive as that number in the Devil's Forest? Normally, I don't think it's very possible.)

Oaknaga is definitely an extremely special monster in that everyone can use magic.

But its magical power is never high.

At least not much, the only opponent Ray fought for was a water arrow.

If this is outside the Devil's Forest, an attack to be called carpet bombing by water arrows would be a powerful way of attacking.

But this is the Devil's Forest.

That's when a powerful monster... was thinking so, Seto accidentally rattles his throat.

"Gru!"

Included in that voice is vigilance.

Only the voices he had already heard more than once in the Devil's Forest, Ray immediately sets up Death Size and Dusk Spears and alerts them to whenever the enemy comes.

"Where?... Go!?

Ray, who was checking his surroundings, confirms that Seto is looking at the sky and understands that the enemy is coming from the sky.

Nevertheless, that is not particularly surprising.

Because before entering the Devil's Forest, I had made sure that many monsters were flying over it.

And the trees growing in the Devil's Forest are quite spaced from the trees around them - to the point where Seto, who is three metres long, doesn't feel so narrowly bitter - that it's not hard to do something like find someone on the ground with a monster flying over it that much.

That's why Ray was ready to deal with it if he heard the enemy coming from the sky again.

I was able to... When I saw my opponent plummeting from the sky as I broke the branches of the trees, Ray's face gave me a startling look.

Because the opponent who came down, though not to Seto, was quite a giant.

No, only Ray, who has fought many monsters so far, would have been able to deal with it right away, although I was surprised.

But the story changes when the falling opponent has big wings and his upper body becomes an eagle.

"Is that a griffon!?

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

As if responding to Ray's cry, Seto uses a power attack to hit his opponent who has descended from the sky.

"Ggaa!"

A blowing monster, whilst sounding different from Seto's.

I thought I'd hit the trunk of the tree as it was, wings flapping and getting in position in the air to land on the ground.

"Gaaaaaa, gaaaa, gaaaa!

A monster that sounds like a mixture of screams and anger and surprises.

Seto's Power Attack blow is powerful enough to snap a tree trunk.

Although the monster also managed to avoid being tapped against the trunk of the tree, the damage still seemed natural.

And when he stands on the ground and sees the eagle's upper body staring sharply at Ray and Seto, Ray finally realizes who that monster is.

"Hippogriff."

Hipoglyph.

It's a monster said to have been born between a griffon and a female horse.

The upper body is the same as the griffon, but the lower body is a horse.

Its abilities are inferior to those of griffons, just not pure griffons.

Nevertheless, he has the ability to fly, and his upper body is an eagle just pulling Griffon's blood.

That rank is inferior to Griffon's rank A, but still a rank B monster, with just the strength you deserve to call it a high enough rank monster.

"This is a delightful or sad place... it's a delicate place"

With that said, Ray sets up his weapon to react immediately once Hippoglyph moves.

I was wondering if it would be hard to fight if you tried Ceto, just a hippoglyph that should also be called a close relative species of Griffon.

But in the sense that if you defeat Hippogriff at the same time, you'll get the Demon Stone of the Rank B Monster, you're a grateful opponent as Ray.

"Grrrrrrrrrrrr!"

But there was no such thing as how Ray looked, and Seto rushes out toward Hippoglyph.

"Flying needle!

Half-assed, Ray unleashes the skills he has just acquired to provide such Ceto support.

The five long needles fly straight towards the hippoglyph.

An exquisite blow, such as not reaching Ceto's running orbit and hitting Hippogriff.

But Ray's unleashed flying needle passes where Hippogriff was and pierces the trunk of the tree behind it.

Whether Hippogriff reacted to Ray's blow or tried to intercept Seto, Ray doesn't even know that.

Either way, Hippogriff goes straight into Seto, which he obviously thinks is superior to himself.

Are you unconscious that you are a close relative of Griffon, or do you have anything to care about even with it?

Either way, the upright hippogriff fires a blow to the forefoot toward Seto.

"Gaaaaaa!"

That blow is sharp, and that's what I fought earlier. If I hit it directly, I would definitely die.

But even such a powerful blow makes no sense if it doesn't hit.

Seto changes the direction of travel with little change in the speed at which he spreads his wings and forcefully runs the ground.

That's not to such an extent that I changed it so extreme, but only slightly.

But enough movement to dodge the hippogriff blow wielded toward Seto.

Hippogriff's forelegs are swayed where Seto's body was supposed to be...... in fact he stays only to slash and tear the air, not Seto's body.

"Gru!"

Seto fires a similar blow against such a hippoglyph when the blow to the forefoot is thus unleashed.

But even with a similar blow, the blow was not the same as Hippoglyph's one to the point of fatality.

But Hippogriff takes Seto's blow, not knowing what makes that blow different.

"Gawn!"

Hippoglyphs blown away by Seto's blow as he rang with a scream as if a dog were going up.

Ray throws a spear of dusk where that's how his intercession with Seto opens.

"Seto!"

Teaching Seto the presence of a spear of dusk thrusting through the air itself as it slashes and rips, Seto stops his move to unleash a blow of pursuit on the blown hippogriff...

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

It was the ice arrow that was released.

Fifty ice spears pierce Ray's thrown twilight spears and kill him into the body of Hippogriff, who stopped him from moving.

At that moment the spear of dusk was put back at Ray's disposal.

"Gah..."

Without even being able to scream the last time, Hippogriff extinguishes the light from its eyes and collapses to the ground.

"... apparently one"

Ray looks up at the sky as he confirms Hippoglyph's body.

Many parts are covered by tree branches, and nothing can be done to make sure they are completely empty.

But if you wait like this and see no new hippoglyphs attacking you, I guess the only hostile hippoglyphs were the one you defeated.

"I wish I could have had another one."

I'm sorry to say, Ray, but basically hippoglyphs are similar to griffons and ecology.

Given that Griffon basically lives without making herds, I guess Hippoglyphs, again, basically lives alone.

"Grrrrrrrrrrrr"

Praise and praise, and Seto approaches Ray and squeals his throat.

Ray caresses such a ceto, but only a little caution.

"Seto, I don't mind I knocked Hippogriff out on your offense... it could have been a little overkill"

"... Gru? Gru."

To Ray's words, at first, yes? And it was Ceto, who sounded his throat strangely, but when he looked at Hippogriff's body again, he would have recognized that the word was right, and he would squeal his throat with sorrow.

Either way, a single arrow of ice, powerful enough to pierce the trunk of a tree, stabbed the hippogriff with fifty pieces together.

And Hippoglyph is about two meters long.

What happens if you eat all that attack in such a situation?

A rag was Ray's impression of seeing Hippoglyph's body.

Is it a coincidence, or did Seto go for it?

Ray didn't even know about the area, but fortunately the wounds around the heart with the demon stone aren't that bad.

But, of course, it will be hard to check the crusade proof sites, looking for parts that can be used as materials.

It is also a little difficult to use as edible meat.

(Think of it as ground beef... no, it's mixed with skin and guts and you can't? And it's scattered all over the ground)

Hippogriff is a monster composed of an eagle in the upper body and a horse in the lower body.

So, as a horse meat with bird meat - not chicken - it wasn't strange if it was delicious meat.

(Oh, but horse meat is usually eaten, so anyway, I wonder what eagle meat is)

When Ray was in Japan, horse meat was usually sold in supermarkets.

There were dishes such as stewing horse meat in stock soy sauce with unodored ginger and onions, yarn konjac, and octopus - a thin octopus unlike regular octopus, which is just nemagari.

As a horse bowl without a beef bowl, I remember it was very tasty.

No soy sauce - maybe it's precisely there, but I haven't been able to find it - in this Elgin, it would be difficult to cook the same dish.

Still, horse meat dishes usually exist, so if the lower body of the hippogriff had been secured, they would have eaten delicious dishes.

Not to mention because Hippogriff is more than a Rank B monster, and its meat is naturally delicious, too.

"Uh... for now, let's wait for a new hippogriff to strike when it comes to meat. And if they attack me, now let's take them down in a way that won't damage more bodies. That's all right, right?

"Gru!"

To Ray's words, Seto growls when he understands.

(Even so, glyphons and hippoglyphs should be close relatives. Nonetheless, you were usually willing to eat it)

I feel just a little surprised about that, Ray.

At least the upper body looks like an eagle like Seto.

With that in mind, it's no surprise that Seto wants to eat hippoglyphs.

Nevertheless, that is only Ray's common sense.

It is wrong to impose that common sense on Ceto.

Nor is it surprising that even if they were close relatives, they would eventually recognize them as different species.

(Or maybe it feels different to other monsters because they're monsters created with warcraft, not normal monsters)

Seto is not normally a monster born of his parents, but a monster created by warcraft.

So, it's not surprising that normal griffons and cetos could be different from each other in many ways.

"Anyway, this demon stone... that's Seto. It was Seto who defeated Hippogriff."

"Grrrrrrrr?"

Are you sure? And Seto rings his throat at Ray's words.

If you try Ceto, of course, I'm glad you can use Hippogriff's demon stone.

But I guess I also had that thought that I could use it for Death Size.

But while Ray understands such Ceto's thoughts, he still thinks that Hippogriff's Demon Stone should be used for Ceto.

Hippogriff was heavily damaged by the blow of Ray's unleashed dusk spear, because it was Ceto who actually took his life... but more simply, Ray wanted to see what impact Ceto would have had if he had used the demonic stone of Griffon's close relative species Hippogriff.

Will new skills be acquired or will existing skills be strengthened?

I can't tell until I actually use it around there.

(Hippoglyphs fly through the sky... and the area is enhanced? Whatever, I can't tell you anything without actually trying)

With that in mind, Ray gives Seto the Demon Stone...

[Seto says, "Tornado Lv. IV 'skills acquired]

Such an announcement message resonated in the back of my brain.