Legend

The hive found by Ray and Seto, who kept walking in the Devil's Forest, was unexpected in some ways and as expected in some ways.

To be precise, the expression is correct: part of the hive is out of the ground, the majority of which is buried in the ground.

There are many individuals in the bees, not just tinned bees, such as nesting in the ground.

Given that, I guess it's not a rare story to build a nest in the ground.

Above all, it's a giant hive about fifty centimeters long.

If you did something like build a nest in a place like a tree branch growing around it, it was only natural that the weight of the nest would break the tree branch.

If so, it wouldn't be such a strange story to build a nest in the ground so that the place where it was built doesn't break by its own weight.

... Even if the majority of the nest was in the ground, the visible part alone was a pretty big nest... that was a substandard nest like Ray's height though.

"I wonder how big the hell this is. It's troublesome to have no idea how much of it is in there."

"Grrrrrrrr"

Ray worries when he sees the nest entrance at the end of his gaze.

Seto also rattles his throat to agree with Ray's words like that.

While trying to hide in the surrounding bushes, Ray ponders what he should do now.

(If I can afford more time, I can be on guard here for days. Then you'll know what kind of ecology that bee is)

Though I think so, I can only stay in the Devil's Forest for two nights and three days, so I can't imitate things like observing for longer periods of time.

Or, if you're sure the queen bee is a Rank A monster, you can recognize the remaining one as a Rank A monster because you've already defeated the giant wolf... but it was too dangerous to bet on that than it actually turns out to be a queen bee or not.

"You've seen bees... bees... smoke with smoke when you exterminate a hive with something. However, normal smoke... at least if you can do something to paralyze the bee even if you can't imitate it with smoke... paralysis poison? Poison? Yeah?

"Gru?"

What happened to Seto, who was whining to sum up the thoughts that were in him and I noticed that Ray had seen himself better? and gaze.

To such a ceto, Ray asks with the thought that maybe...

"Seto, your skills had poison claws, didn't they?

"Grrrrrrrr"

To Ray's words, Seto nods honestly.

You don't have to bother asking. I guess I had that thought too.

Anyway, Seto's poison claw is level six.

Alongside optical camo and power crashes, it is a skill that stands out and boasts a high level.

Nevertheless, unlike optical camo and power crashes, it is a skill that is rarely used.

If you try Ceto, you can defeat the opponent by simply attacking him normally without the use of poison claws.

If so, you don't have to bother imitating things like using poisonous nails.

That's why I was actually slightly oblivious about Seto's own poisonous nails.

"All right, then let the poison stick to some stone or tree with poison claws, and burn it and flush the poison smoke into the nest. That should damage the bees, too.... I don't know if I can defeat this for sure."

In Ray's words, Seto gives a look that seems difficult.

I guess that's how I thought I could really imitate that.

In fact, Ray doesn't think this method will necessarily work either.

It's only an action from the thought of it, so I guess that's natural, too.

But there was no doubt that this method, if successful, would yield significant results.

"Why don't you try it? If you can't, it's the only way to get away."

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

Seto got it in Ray's words! Convinced.

Seto doesn't even know if he can really do what Ray is thinking.

But if I fail, all I have to do is run away with Ray.

As far as Seto knows, the bees aren't flying that fast.

That's what I didn't expect the bees to catch up with me running on the ground instead of flying.

Also, if you go back to the safe house, there's a line there.

At least if Ray or Seto fought as much bees as they could, they wouldn't be able to get close to that junction or anything like that.

"All right, let's do it. First of all... right, that tree."

At the end of Ray's gaze was a fallen tree.

Nevertheless, it's not like it rotted and collapsed to the ground.

A tree broken by some animal or monster hitting it or doing something.

Ray thought about burning the tree after poisoning it with poison claws.

Did Seto also understand Ray's thoughts like that, walking closer to the fallen tree Ray is looking at?

"Grrrrrrrr!"

Using poisonous nails, Seto scratches the fallen tree.

Level 6 poison nails immediately erode from the wound on the fallen tree at a rate that can be seen and seen as purple poison and presence.

"That's fast!

As for Ray, I thought the poison was spreading more carefully.

That's something like level six.

Either way, if the poison spreads quickly, I can't even imitate holding the fallen tree in my hands in a detour.

Reluctantly, Ray takes the spear out of the mistering.

I could have used a dusk spear or death size, but I didn't want to touch the poison created with poison claws.

More than that, he decided he should use a disposable spear to take the poisoned fallen tree towards the hive area.

"Over there...... go!

The spear waved with its cry blows the raw tree toward those with the hive.

... At the same time, there's nothing like being able to withstand the blow now because it was a nearly broken spear, and the spear pattern breaks along the way.

"Ah... well, okay. Which is disposable."

Too bad I couldn't use it for the throw, but it's the spear I originally bought for the throw away.

More than that, broken here served me well enough.

No, I'd say it worked better than the Ning Lo price.

And the fallen tree that flew away flies towards the hive that's out of the ground...... eventually falls near the nest entrance.

"All right. After that, burn the smoke..."

"Gru!"

The moment Ray tries to burn a tree using magic, Ceto accidentally squeaks sharply.

Half-conditioned reflexively wary of his surroundings, Ray overheard the sound of a boon he was already used to hearing.

"Is that a bee!? No, but this..."

I'm sure it's a bee from the sound, but it's the direction of the nest that I heard its feathers.

I thought the bee that was exactly outside the nest had returned to the nest, but that seems to have been different.

And as Ray expected, a few bees come out of the nest.

Ray sees it and sees how it goes in the bushes with Seto... but bees coming out of the nest approach fallen trees near the nest instead of doing things like flying away as it is.

(You're lying, aren't you?

Normally, bees wouldn't be particularly concerned if there were fallen trees near the nest.

But that's only a normal bee story.

At the end of Ray's gaze now is a monster of bees as long as fifty centimeters, not very much but not a regular bee.

When that happened, it wasn't strange for that bee to try to eliminate the fallen tree that had been invaded by Seto's poisonous claws as a dangerous being...

"But that's why... you can't let them imitate you like that!

So screaming, Ray throws a spear of dusk.

The dusk spear unleashed pierces and blasts its body before the bee realizes its presence.

If this happens, it's not strange when a new bee shows up.

"After that, do the magic... No, you don't. What I should do is put the smoke in the nest hole. Seto, just get a little closer, and use your firebrace to burn that fallen tree!

"Gru!"

Seto follows Ray's instructions immediately.

When you pop out of a hidden bush, close to the firebrace's range of effects, you open the couch wide...

"Grrrrrrrrrrrr!"

Activate the Firebrace skill and the flames emitted go straight to the fallen tree and burn.

Nevertheless, Seto also probably understands that the purpose of firebraces is not to burn down trees, but to produce more smoke.

Firebrace's power is clearly weaker than Ray knows.

"Hands of the Wind"

In the meantime, Ray uses Death Size as his hand for wind hand skills.

Level four wind hands extend up to a maximum of two hundred and fifty m.

In this sense, the distance from where the rays are currently located to the tree where the fallen tree is burning reaches enough.

"Seto, I'm sorry, but there are other things I need you to do right now. Use poison claws on the tree, and then throw them at me on that flame. I think I can control the smoke, but I still don't think it's complete, so be careful."

"Gru!"

Seto immediately follows Ray's instructions.

Seeing Seto move out, Ray also concentrates his consciousness in the hands of the wind.

From the burning tree, it must be the poison. I saw purple smoke standing up.

Use the hand of the wind to direct that smoke to the nest.

Probably from my experience with wind hands when making fire whirlwinds. He succeeded in pouring poisonous smoke into the nest much easier than Ray had expected.

"All right!"

Ray shrugs happily as he concentrates on moving the wind's hands.

Though, that's a flash, too.

Unlike when you create a fire whirlwind, now you need to control the smoke to a good condition while not burning too many trees.

Therefore, I cannot imitate distractions in the present situation.

Especially big is keeping the smoke under control so it doesn't go anywhere else at all.

When there is a fire whirlwind, if the tornado becomes a fire whirlwind, it is no longer necessary to use the wind hand at that point.

Unlike that, now I needed to keep my wind hands under control a little more.

It's surprisingly difficult to keep this under control.

It was necessary to adjust the movement of the swinging smoke by the fact that Seto threw one poisonous nail after another into the tree, and even more so because the wind blows from the surroundings as naturally even in the Devil's Forest, it was necessary to control itself well against it.

That was surprisingly difficult wind hand control, but it's also true that if you still concentrate some time, you get used to it quite a bit.

In the meantime, several bees jump out of the nest.

Did you manage to escape from being smoked by poisonous smoke?

Or did you want to do something about someone who was emitting poisonous smoke?

The neighborhood was not even known to Ray, but the bees that jumped out of the nest, but at that point there was little power left, unable to eliminate the fallen trees and trees burning on the ground, fall to the ground.

And if I fell to the ground in this situation, I would inhale the poisonous smoke flowing in the nest up close, and it stopped moving as it was.

That went on a few times, and some of them were particularly physically superior individuals who plunged into burning trees instead of exiting the nest and immediately falling to the ground.

However... in the end, the individual will be more miserable than any other bee: densely wrapped in poison smoke and even burned by flames.

When those times last more than thirty minutes and I think it will be almost an hour...... Ray finally stops sending poisonous smoke in the hands of the wind.

"Grrrrrrrr?"

Enough? and Seto rings his throat.

For some reason, the task of working with Ray would have been interesting for Seto.

Even if that's the task of creating poisonous smoke and flowing it into the hive.

"Oh. To be honest, that bee is a monster, so I don't know how much damage it's going to do. Besides... really, it's a little hard for us to get in because the hive is narrow now. After that, we can only wait for the queen bee to come out."

A nest of monsters with giants like Dragonias would make it possible to do things like get Ray inside too.

But even though the bees are huge, they're still about fifty centimeters long.

Not very much, but I can't imitate Ray entering that nest.

Even though Ray's height isn't high enough, he's still limited.

Not to mention that in Ceto, which is nearly twice the size of Ray, it's not very much, but it can't be imitated like entering a beehive.

"What do you care, there's a nest in the ground... it's not good for me. If this is a normal nest in a tree branch or something, I don't know how to do it by imitating it like breaking a nest."

To the muttering Ray, Seto rattles his throat to comfort him...... but at the next moment Seto rattles his throat toward the nest in the ground.

What the fuck?

That's what I thought. At the end of Ray's gaze, the soil blows up like an explosion...... eventually a giant being appears even compared to a normal bee.

"Queen Bee."

Ray's voice echoed all around him.