Legend

Confirming the performance of the magical reflex skills acquired by Seto from the Demonic Stone of Carbuncle, Ray and Seto proceed again through the Demonic Forest.

... It should be noted that the fruit that was the reason Ray encountered Carbuncle was well picked and eaten separately by Ray and Seto.

At any rate, Ray's honest sentiment is that he wanted cold fruit.

Of course, that's what I thought because the fruit was sweet.

"Seto, after another hour or so, will today's exploration be over"

"Gru?"

So soon, okay? and Seto says so in doubt.

It would be more like whether it would be evening after an hour or so from now on than if it was still a time period such as daylight.

If so, it was natural for Seto to think so, even though he had a little more time to explore.

But Ray doesn't intend to change his mind or anything, even if he sees how Seto is doing.

Basically at night, the monster moves more vigorously.

In the sense of searching for monsters, you might want to explore the woods at night.

(Thinking about Warcraft, I figured you'd better be that way. But I'm pretty tired of fighting giant wolves today, and because it's my first day... you start tomorrow at night. It's two nights and three days, so you should act a little sparingly)

While I thought so, it was also true that I still have the thought that night would be better than day in the sense of encountering a Rank A monster.

That Rank A monsters would also move vigorously because it's a night when monsters move vigorously.

In that sense, I guess the giant wolves that had been active since daylight were a little out of the ordinary.

"Anyway, I'm going to explore a little bit more, so be careful. Seto has a sharper sense than I do."

"Gru!"

Seto, who has the skills of olfactory ascension, has a particularly good sense of smell among the five senses.

Monsters also smell as long as they do not possess some special skill or even a special ecology than they are creatures.

In that sense, the sense of smell would mean a lot among the five senses.

(If I could level up my olfactory lifting skills more...... ah......)

That much thought Ray thinks of canine monsters because of their increased sense of smell...... wolves...... giant wolves and so on.

"No, no, no, no, no, no."

If you give Ceto the Demon Stone of the Giant Wolf, I think maybe Ceto's enhanced skills are an olfactory boost, shaking his head like he panicked.

Nevertheless, Ray also doesn't think it's a skill that can't be used with a different sense of smell.

It can't be used for combat, but it's true that it's a pretty usable skill when you're on perimeter alert like you are now, or tracking someone else or something.

However, there is still something I am not convinced that the skill enhanced by the Demon Stone obtained from that rank A monster, the Giant Wolf, is an increased sense of smell.

"Gru?"

And what happened to Seto, who was watching Ray? and honking his throat.

Suddenly Ray shook his head to the side so hard, it's natural to think so.

"No, it's nothing. I thought Seto's olfactory skills were user-friendly."

"Grrrrrr!...... Grrrrrrrr!

Or was that word of Ray flagged?

Praised by Ray's words, Seto sounds alarmed at the next moment...

Eventually, I hear feathers like Boone.

If you think only of the sound, it doesn't even look like the mosquito Ray knocked down earlier.

However... the feather had a kind of heaviness, distinctly different from that of a mosquito.

"It's just not a dragonfly."

Monsters I encountered in the Devil's Forest...... I remember the only monster in a hostile monster who escaped without any help, but the feathers I hear are not such.

It was a more different feather, but that type of feather was enough to give Ray a bad feeling somewhere.

At any rate, the number of feathers gradually increased over time.

"Wow... this is... Seto, you might want to get ready for a wide-ranging attack... all the time!

It was Ray calling to Seto, but at the same time he senses an attack that flew in and waves the death size in a medium reflex.

In Ray's eyes, he could see the attack of his opponent, who was flying firmly towards him.

"A needle!

Simply a needle, the monkey has attacked Ray before, but from the sound of the feathers he hears, I imagine another creature more.

And Ray's anticipated creature and the creature that emerged from behind the Devil's Forest were identical creatures.

However, at the same time, the reason why the feathers were clearly loud with what Ray knows.

"Right. If your body gets bigger, do you naturally have bigger wings and louder feathers that you can hear?"

It was the bee that represented Ray from the tip of his gaze.

That, too, is similar to the ostrich bee itself - with some differences, of course - but the problem was its size.

As Ray shrugged, obviously not like a regular ostrich bee.

As its name suggests, a rather large bee can be as tall as three to four centimeters.

That alone is very large as a bee, but the bee that showed up in front of the Rays has more than ten times that body and nearly fifty centimeters.

More than thirty such giant bees showed up flying in the sky, so it's nothing but a surprise to think about normally.

"Wow..."

Such a voice leaks from Ray's mouth unexpectedly.

If it was one or two of them who came with this, Ray would have entered the fight with nothing to worry about in particular either.

But when all this number hits, there's no way I'm not sick of being a ray.

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

Unlike such a ray, Seto raises a voice of intimidation toward the bee who appeared between us.

To such Seto's intimidation, did the swarm of bees also feel threatened to stop moving...

"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!"

Seto releases a leading must-win and a bubble brace before a herd of bees who thus stopped moving.

Originally, Seto wanted to unleash an ice arrow that would also defeat his opponent with a single blow.

However, ice arrows take some time to produce, and some time to release after they are produced.

Seto hated it and released a bubble brace that worked instantly.

When it comes to immediate effect, it also has the skill of being the Demon Eye of Shock.

But the Demon Eye of Impact is not powerful enough, although it is only quick to activate.

Not to mention not so many opponents who could attack at once.

In comparison, a bubble brace is a brace that spits out countless bubbles of about one to three centimeters, and when that bubble touches something and bursts, it becomes a sticky liquid.

As a result, nearly ten bees were prevented from moving their wings by bubble brace bubbles and fell to the ground.

"Nice, Seto!

That said, Ray pierces the spear of dusk to the ground and throws it toward the bee that fell to the ground when he takes out a spear that looks like the disposable blade he used a lot from mystering to before is missing or his tip is about to come off.

If he were asked why he bothered to prepare disposable spears rather than dusk spears, Ray would have replied because he didn't want to tarnish the spears of dusk by the sticky liquids of bubble braces or the body fluids of bees.

In fact, the adhesive liquid produced by the rupture of the bubble brace bubbles does not want it to stick to the weapon.

In that sense, I guess Ray's reaction was never wrong.

Only the number of spears kills a bee.

But naturally, bees don't just get hit in silence either.

The braces were released simultaneously from the braces and the bees that were floating in the rest of the air.

"Bees brace!?

Even for Ray, the behavior was surprising.

Nevertheless, this is the Devil's Forest.

It's no stranger to be in a state where you can use braces than you are a monster of bees living in such a place.

Also, the bee's unleashed braces aren't that powerful.

... except that the brace seems to be a strong acid or some sort of so-called acid brace, and the plants touched by the brace dissolve.

Still, the only plants that dissolve are the grass that grows from the ground, and the trees that grow in the Devil's Forest are not particularly damaged, even if the Acid Brace adheres, and I don't suppose the power of the Acid Brace itself is that powerful.

Most of all, it's not a queen bee or anything, it's just a threat at a time when each working bee releases an acid brace.

"Seto, are you okay!?

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

To Ray's words, Seto is fine! and throat...... counter-attack against the Acid Brace produces an Ice Arrow.

Earlier I used a bubble brace because it took a little while to fire, but now at such risk, I guess I decided that I should defeat the remaining bees.

Of course, Ray wasn't just watching Seto act like that in silence either.

Take out the spears one after the other and throw them, as you did when you defeated a bee that fell to the ground.

Spears thrown by Ray's arm power would otherwise be difficult to imitate, such as piercing bees that inhabit the Devil's Forest.

Anyway, because none of them were judged useless anymore, spears like they were being treated like a kind of garbage.

But if Ray were to throw even such a spear, the story would change.

It pierces the body of a bee, crushes its head, pulls its wings into pieces… it takes the lives of numerous bees or makes them fall to the ground so that they cannot fly.

Such a ray attack is powerful, and the bee wonders which one to attack Ray or Seto... but the stray has the worst consequences for the bee.

Fifty ice arrows are fired simultaneously, and all of the surviving bees pierce their bodies by ice arrows, desperate.

Thus, the battle itself ended in a surprisingly short time, even considering the number and viciousness of the opponents.

"Nevertheless, this giant bee is a working bee after all. It's troublesome to be attacked again at this rate, and I'd like to defeat the queen bee while I can.... then we need to find the nest."

How big would that be if it were also a beehive of fifty cm in length?

When I was in Japan, I saw several TV shows like exterminating beehives.

The eradication of tin bees, carried out by the idol group, which actively carries out the kind of agriculture in particular, was impressive for Ray.

The nest of tinned bees exterminated by such an idol group was quite enormous.

Even regular tin bees make nests that big.

For example, a nest made by a monster of bees that is more than ten times the size of a normal tin bee...... on the contrary, nearly twenty times the size of a nest.

That's the only thing that wouldn't be strange if you did poorly, even if Ray was the same size as the safe house he's currently based in.

(If you're a nest about that size, it would be easy to find... on the contrary, it's not strange to be raided by other monsters)

The trees that grow in these woods are huge, but the answer is no if you still ask them if they are huge enough to deserve the name Demon Forest.

If there's really a huge nest in the safe house than it is, you might be able to find it as soon as you get on the ceto and look from above.

Nevertheless, there are many things in this demonic forest called flying monsters, as there are things about hippoglyphs and... that's the thing about bees and dragonflies.

If Seto had flown through the sky, it would not have been strange for a monster to strike right over the Devil's Forest as a habitat.

In the sense of obtaining many demonic stones, that may be good too, but flying through the sky and being raided from all over there at once would be difficult to deal with an attack if you tried to make Ray a ceto with his back on it.

(then... from the ground)

When the decision is made, Ray stores about thirty bees in mystering.

From the last two remaining bees, when the demon stone is removed using a knife, it is washed with running water dagger water, then it is first thrown into the air for the death size and cut with the death size.

[Death size is "Painburst Lv. IV 'skills acquired]

The usual announcement message echoes in the back of my brain.

Paynburst doesn't know the specific effect unless you actually use it on someone because of its character.

I decided I couldn't help it and gave Seto the remaining demon stone...

[Seto says, "Acid Breath Lv. I 'mastered the skills]

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

Only the braces used by the bees convinced Ray, without any particular doubt.