Legend

After defeating the giant wolf, Ray and Seto left the place for now, not necessarily because other monsters would not come attracted by the smell of its blood.

If you travel about enough from where you fought the giant wolf that way, think about what you should do now.

"It's only halfway through the afternoon... just before 3: 00."

Instead of putting out a pocket watch, look up at the sky from the gaps in the trees growing in the Devil's Forest and check for the approximate time in the position of the sun there.

Of course, that's pretty much it, so if you want to know more about the time, you just need to get the magic item pocket watch out of the mysteries and check it out.

It was my decision that I didn't need to do that now.

"Grrrrrrrr?"

What are you gonna do? and Seto turns his gaze towards Ray.

While doing so, Seto hasn't stopped the perimeter alert.

Of course, Ray hasn't done anything like take his eyes off the surroundings while taking a break.

It would be more natural than not knowing what would happen in the present situation.

The Rays are in the Devil's Forest.

Because it's not weird when or what happens.

"All right, let's hunt some more monsters. It's a little troublesome when a Rank A monster comes out... well, I still don't think there's anything you can't fight and win"

Even in the fight against the giant wolf, Ray and Seto were nearly unharmed victories.

Nevertheless, it is only right that the giant wolf did not show its strength by using powerful skills before he showed his true strength, and by doing so in a series.

Given that it was all those powerful monsters, there is no denying that if you fought from the front you would have been quite injured.... No, there's a good chance it would have happened.

Nevertheless, it's not the same again when it comes to whether all of the Rank A monsters are like giant wolves.

The battle naturally had a compatibility, and if there were a Rank A monster, like one that specializes in defense, for example, that was likely to be treated like a good prey if you tried Ray or Ceto with extremely powerful offensive power.

"Even if you're not a Rank A monster, you can master enough skills in Rank B and C. In that sense, is this demon forest a bonus stage place if we try it?... a vicious bonus stage though"

Ray and Seto, one with high abilities, can handle the Demon Forest on a bonus stage.

If adventurers around...... even if that's an active adventurer in the Guild, to the extent of Rank B adventurers, it's hard to survive a long time in the Devil's Forest.

On the contrary, even Rank A adventurers will have difficulty surviving in the Devil's Forest, depending on their abilities.

In fact, Zakat, who led the Rays to the Devil's Forest, was a Rank A adventurer, but when he brings the Rays to the Devil's Forest, he's walking away from here as soon as possible.

"Grrrrrrrrrr...... Grrrrrrrr!

It was Ceto as convinced by Ray's words, but he accidentally makes a sharp squeal.

Ray, who felt the chirping contained vigilance, was immediately ready for battle.

"Well, what kind of enemy is next?... don't have a bad feeling."

Ray, who showed motivation, looked somewhere disgusted at the next moment, probably because he recognized the sound of boom heard from the back of the woods.

The sound is never a good memory for Ray.

The sound I heard a lot when I was in Japan.

As I try to sleep on a summer night, that sound is inadvertently heard in my ear.

Especially since it was on the side of the mountain that Ray's house was located, a being that emits that sound... can't stop a mosquito from coming into the house.

Even if I use mosquito extraction incense, does it work?

Also, if you go out there, you come from nowhere, you stab me.

When I succeed in finding mosquitoes and slapping them with my hands and killing them, when a large amount of mosquito sucked blood adheres to my palms, I feel pretty bad.

As for Ray, it's good to suck blood - not good if it should be - but I honestly didn't want it to itch.

Then I still managed to put up with it.

"Kill"

When he was in Japan, various - in a bad way - memories of the mosquitoes came back to life, Ray sets up a death-size and dusk spear to kill him instantly once the owner of this sound shows up.

"Gru!?

Suddenly to the murderous Ray, Seto raises his voice of surprise.

To some extent it was Ceto who knew Ray's memory, but it was still unexpected that Ray was so far the lord of this sound… intense in his willingness to kill mosquitoes.

Seto felt such a willingness to kill Ray, but the Lord of Sound...... Mosquitoes show up, not looking like he cared at all about Ray's willingness to kill.

"Wow..."

That's what you should call the Devil's Forest.

The mosquito that showed up is nearly a metre long.

Like a giant wolf, it looked like a normal mosquito had just gotten huge, but what Ray held against such a mosquito was not like feelings close to surprise or fear of a giant wolf, disgust.

Flying slaughter!

The flying slaughter released just saying he doesn't even like touching the mosquito with a death-size or dusk spear lightly amputates the body of the mosquito.

"... you're weak"

Ray turns off his disgust and gives him a slightly surprising look.

The opponent is a monster present in the Devil's Forest.

More than that, you didn't think you'd die from the blow of a flying slash.

But this is close to illusion because Ray was used to fighting in the Devil's Forest.

Whether it's a monster in the Devil's Forest, it's not all a high-ranking monster.

Ray realizes that, in an effort to keep the demon stone secure for now, so he approached the body of a mosquito monster, but sees a sudden drifting iron rust odor and a large amount of blood red spreading on the ground, opening his mouth half-reflexively.

"Wow..."

Perhaps this mosquito was sucking blood from some animal or monster before Ray killed it.

Given the size of the mosquito in the Devil's Forest, it is overwhelmingly larger than the mosquito Ray knows.

For what happened to all this blood sucked prey?

That's not strange to be sucked of all the blood, dried up and dead.

In such blood, the demonic stone is rolling.

I guess Ray's blow also severed the mosquito's heart.

(Oh, was that pretty dangerous to think about? If you cut it in Death Size, you still wouldn't have met the conditions of Warcraft if you cut the Demon Stone if it was a Flying Slash)

While relieved by that, Ray's choice is what to do with the mosquito's demon stone.

"Seto, I don't want you to swallow this demon stone for a second. Do you mind if I use it on the Death Size?

"Gru."

Seto also wanted to shy away from swallowing the demon stone painted by blood that he didn't know what blood it was, nodding honestly to Ray's words.

"Well, then the question is whether you can acquire or enhance your skills with this demonic stone..."

Saying so, he washes the demon stone wet in blood with a dagger of running water for now, throws it in the air and cuts it at death size.

But cutting the demon stone doesn't send an announcement message to the back of your brain.

All the monsters I've defeated since I came to the Devil's Forest - I haven't tried the giant wolf yet - have been able to acquire or enhance my skills, so I clap them out somewhere.

"No, well, that was all weak. Can't you do that either?"

Flying slaughter is level five, considerably enhanced compared to up to level four.

More than that, there's nothing strange about dying from the blow of a flying slash.

... Not to mention the mosquitoes were sucking blood all over their bellies and their movements should have been dull.

Even when Ray was actually in Japan, I remember the blood-sucking mosquitoes moving slowly.

It is not uncommon for mosquitoes who are not sucking blood to accidentally change direction on the way they are flying, even if they want to smash them, thereby letting them escape.

For that matter, even if I ran away from Ray, I would come back around Ray again and make an unpleasant feather called Poon.

"The material... nothing"

I don't know what material can be taken from a body of mosquitoes that has been cut into two pieces by a flying slash.

Originally, if the body is kept in mystering, it may be usable as some kind of material at a later date, but Ray somehow hates touching the mosquito body, leaving it intact and moving with Ceto from the spot.

"Still, you're just moving around because of the smell of blood"

"Grrrrrrrr?...... Grrrrrrrr"

To Ray's words, is Seto? and hoarse his throat, remembering what had happened since he came to the Devil's Forest, he hoarse his throat convincingly.

That's why I move through the demon forest thinking that if I smell blood, there will be a large collection of mosquitoes earlier.

In the meantime, there was something that came into Ray's eyes.

It's a purple fruit, a branch of a tree a little further away.

When it comes to figuring out why it's a fruit, it's because I've eaten it several times before in Gilm and other cities.

Of course, there is no denying the possibility of fruits that look just like them.

Anyway, this is the Devil's Forest.

There may be normal fruits, but there is no denying the possibility that there are poisonous fruits disguised as such.

Nevertheless, that fruit, which Ray had previously eaten, was quite intensely sweet, and quite rare and delicious, such as a slight sobriety lingering in his mouth after he had finished eating it while he was there.

If it was real, I'd definitely pick it up.

That's how I get closer to the fruit.

Then there was an opponent that something attacked in the hand that inadvertently reached out to the fruit Ray tried to pick.

"Slow down!"

Ray can pull his outstretched hand in.

Then at the next moment, something sharp slashed and ripped the part where Ray's hand was.

Ray, who is sharp... but still hasn't stood that much since he finished the battle with the giant wolf, was able to see with a firm eye what that sharp thing was.

"Squirrel? No, you're not... Carbuncle!?

The opponent who tried to attack Ray's hand with sharp claws quickly glances at him as he lands on a slightly distant branch.

In that situation, Ray finally confirms his appearance, discovering that jewels and thoughts are embedded in the forehead of a monster in a form close to a squirrel, and mouths its name.

This is not the first time Ray has seen Carbuncle.

Carbuncle that other adventurers have taken as a submissive before...... it's not just a carbuncle either, I had seen a carbuncle with nine tails.

Of course, compared to the carbuncle I saw at that time, there's only one tail in front of me, a regular carbuncle.

Currently, its carbuncle was roaring as it stripped its fangs toward Ray.

If you try to lay it on, you don't have the option of not moving to deal with the sudden unfolding.

This carbuncle has clearly attacked itself.

To be honest, Carbuncle is not a troublesome opponent for Ray.

What is particularly troublesome is that you have the ability to reflect magic?

Of course, Ray doesn't know exactly how much magic can reflex.

I don't think the magic that I've unleashed with all my strength will be reflected without question.

I was more of an opponent than such a nasty opponent, and if I could, I wouldn't have wanted to fight... but still, I don't have the option of not fighting in a situation that has struck me this way.

(You attacked me to protect the fruit? No, looking at this looks a little different)

The fruit Ray tried to pick actually meant something to the species called Carbuncle, which is why he has attacked Ray, who tried to take away the fruit.

That's what I thought for a moment, Ray, but when I think about it again, I feel different from what Carbuncle looks like.

"Grrrrrrrrrrrr?"

What will Seto do to Ray, who is staring at Carbuncle? and asks with a throat ringing.

Do we attack like this, or do we miss it?

"Defeat"

In response to such Ceto's question, it was a short but clear word that came out of Ray's mouth.

If you try it on Ray, maybe for some reason, but this is how you're the one hostile to yourself.

If you're running away like this, you're still clearly hostile to yourself.

More than that, there is no such option as Ray not fighting Carbuncle either.

"Kishaaaaaaaa!"

You must have understood from Ray's condition that he was going to fight.

With an intimidating squeal, Carbuncle exfoliates his little fangs and makes a threatening noise.

(Is that it? Was this what Carbuncle sounded like? Well, the carbuncle I know is a nine-tailed carbuncle, so maybe it's not normal)

With that in mind, Ray was prepared to respond to his opponent's actions.