Legend

Arriving before the junction, a breath of relief emerges from Ray's mouth.

I knew I was headed for the lair somehow with a feeling, but still, if this is how the junction actually shows up in front of me, I'll be relieved.

I guess there are some things around here that Ray still thinks about in a place called the Devil's Forest.

"Grrrrrrrrrrrr?"

Look at Ray like that, what happened to Seto? and rattles his throat wonderfully.

If you try Ceto, isn't Ray just happy because you've arrived at the safe house? And I guess that's what I thought.

"Nothing."

Ray said it that way and stroked Ceto, there's no way he's going to stay like this forever, trying to get inside the junction... I'll see what's going on around him before then, but there's no longer a black snake there.

No, when I took a break in the den and then went out of the junction, there were no more black snakes, so maybe it's natural that I'm still gone.

"Grrrrrrrr?"

What's the matter with you? and Seto turns his gaze towards Ray.

"No, I figured there wasn't a black snake. If I could talk a little more firmly... I can't, but I wanted to try to communicate."

The Black Snake could understand Ray's words, but the other word... I can't even understand Ray's words that should be called Snake.

(When I was reincarnated, if I could have gotten a better knowledge of Zeppyre, maybe I would have known about that black snake.)

When Reiji was reincarnated - or possessed - into Ray, Zeppyre's soul became the catalyst and it was done.

As a result, Ray only gained the minimum amount of knowledge necessary.

That's why the knowledge of Zeppyre when he was alive is what the majority of them looked up in the library category and what they heard from Grimm, who actually lived that era.

(When that happens, should I still hear from Grimm about the Black Snake?

Grimm took a gate to Zeppyre... among them, he especially had a strong respect for Zeppyre.

No, that would be better regarded as admiration, not respect.

So if the Black Snake is involved with Zeppyre... maybe it's not strange to know the information about the area.

Nevertheless, Grimm now concentrates on developing magic items to stay connected to the world of Centaur.

With that in mind, it was honest that I still didn't want to get in Grimm's way if I could.

"In the meantime, I can't help it if I'm doing this here as I am, and do you want to go inside? … just in the evening."

In the evening the sun also leans, and less sunshine comes into the Devil's Forest.

The place where the sunset was hitting instead, though it was stained bright red as if it were burning.

"Oh, maybe it's summer, and the monsters in the Devil's Forest are acting a little different than usual,"

Why was Oaknaga traveling in a group?

Could it have been seeking a cool place to come to the summer heat?

That's what I thought, Ray, but if you think about it again, Oaknaga was using the magic of the water system.

If so, things like cool wouldn't be that difficult.

With that in mind, Ray crosses the line with Seto.

Naturally, there is no particular species of other organisms on the grounds of the lair.

The monsters were bare, and ordinary animals and birds were not visible either

"It's not a bad idea not to have bugs."

In summer, many bugs start to move vigorously in the woods.

In the meantime, if there are bugs as troublesome as mosquitoes, it's not particularly harmful, but it's still an eyesight to live normally.

In that sense, it was quite easy to live within this juncture.

Most importantly, the Marina house where Ray is based in the Guild is not the kind of place where such bugs come in by the Spirit.

"Grrrrrrrrrr"

Whether he agrees with Ray's words or has something else to say, Seto rings his throat.

"In the meantime, you should get some sleep this evening to get tired."

In fact, when I first came to the safe house, I took a little nap.

But after that nap I explored the Devil's Forest, which led me to fight many monsters.

Most of them weren't that powerful, but some of them are clearly high-ranking monsters, like giant wolves and queen bees, and the fight against them, physically or otherwise, is enough to bring about mental depletion.

(Though, neither the giant wolf nor the queen bee fought squarely from the front. I guess that's why I was able to win without injury-like injuries)

In the case of the giant wolf, Ray and Seto against each other. The other was clearly insulting.

In that insulting state, Seto was unable to use the king's intimidation and stop the movement, but he nevertheless succeeded in slowing down the speed, and in such circumstances he succeeded in using and defeating powerful skills one after another where the giant wolf could not make its original movement.

The queen bee fought after poisoning the tree using the level six poison claw that Seto had, burning it and leading the poison smoke through the nest using death-sized wind hands, and letting the queen bee smoke plenty until she came out onto the ground impatiently.

Both sides did not win by fighting square and square from the front in the true sense.

Is that okay with the content of the promotion exam? I didn't think so, but the exam is to defeat two or more Rank A monsters, and it doesn't mean you have to fight from the front.

If so, decide that it will be okay.

"Gurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"

I'm hungry! and Seto shows Ray with attitude.

In fact, Seto worked pretty hard today.

Of course Ray worked hard enough too, but I guess Seto was originally just looking forward to eating.

In that sense, I can't tell you about Seto because Ray is looking forward to eating again.

"Right. It's only about evening now, and do you want to take your time today?... before that, what do you want to eat? With so many, there are quite a few bodies in Oaknaga."

Other than that, there are bees, but as for Ray, I don't know how to eat a bee.

I know that there are regions that eat bee children when I am in Japan, but what Ray has secured is bee adults, not larvae.

... even larvae didn't really want to eat them though.

(With that said, there were dragonflies, mites, gengolows... and even comics I cooked up to the Uzi worm... yeah, I wouldn't want that if I could)

I still decide to stop eating bees, remembering the cooking comics I saw when I was in Japan.

So while you're at it, you also normally eat ingredients that are not commonly eaten in Japan like snake meat, so I guess there's some difference around there that only Ray can tell.

"Grrrrrrrr!"

To Ray's words, Seto sounds his throat gladly.

I guess you remember the meat from the cow monster you knocked down before entering the Devil's Forest was so delicious.

That's why the meat of the monsters I defeated in the Devil's Forest definitely seemed delicious.

Originally Seto prefers oak meat.

Ray also prefers oak meat, so there is a ton of oak meat in the mysteries that he has defeated so far.

So I guess I was looking forward to the meat from Oaknaga in the Devil's Forest as well.

Ray also thinks the same about such a ceto and quickly removes one oak naga from the mistering.

"Well, the question is... Whatever the orc part of the upper body, what do you do with the snake part of the lower body"

Since the oak has been scratching more than once, there is no particular problem in dismantling it.

But can the snake meat part be good on its own?

There was such a question in Ray, but he still decides to try.

It's still evening, and I have plenty of time.

"Let's start with your torso, even if it's part of the snake.... Shit, I wish you'd drained your blood. Oh, no. Then this way."

Ray stores the Oaknaga body he was putting out in the mistering and takes out the Oaknaga body, which was stripped of the demon stone.

This corpse is bleeding more or less, so I decided that I would be able to bleed a little faster.

When you use a death-size terrain operation to dig a hole and tie the tip of the tail of the snake part with a rope there, you cut off the neck and then drop it into the hole.

Precisely because it is tied with rope, it is more correct to say that it will hang in the hole.

And the hanging Oaknaga body keeps bleeding into the hole.

My neck is amputated, so my blood runs pretty flashy.

"In the meantime, do you want to eat this to kill time?"

That's what Ray took out, dried fruit.

I moved my body pretty hard today, so my body was looking for sugar.

The drying results in a thickened sweetness that stimulates Ray's taste.

Pass the dried fruit to Seto as well, naturally, and he will roar his throat with joy.

Seto, too, still likes sweet foods like this.

That's how I take my time eating dried fruit for a while and amazing...... where Oaknaga's blood is completely drained, I get the body back from the hole to the ground.

The next step is to amputate the upper and lower body.

It's harder to dismantle both at the same time than the upper body is an oak and the lower body is a snake.

If you amputate it that way, the upper body part is not different from the oak that has been dismantled many times before, and it will be dismantled quickly.

The serpent part of the lower body took some time to peel, but it's still not that hard if you break it down a little bit.

"Well, I'm pretty good at dismantling it, too."

I guess that's because this is still close to where Ray was born.

When Ray first woke up in this demonic forest, his physical abilities were very high, but he was still amateur as an adventurer.

Such a ray is now pretty good at dismantling monsters, so I guess there's something to think about.

"All right, over and out"

That's how when I finished dismantling the oak naga, meat was available in front of the rays.

The unnecessary part is thrown away in the hole.

There may actually be some areas that can be used as material, but as for Ray not familiar with Oaknaga, I'm not going to look into that.

With a large number of oak naga bodies in the mysteries, it was decided that one would not have to be like collecting materials.

When the number of oak naga is high, no one will be complained about using it that way.

(The alchemists in the Guild might complain.)

Beyond being a monster living in the Devil's Forest, its material is very rare in any area.

Even with regard to the part I threw away in the hole, I have judged it to be useless if I try it on the lay, but if I try it on the alchemists, I can't deny the possibility of a pile of treasures or something like that.

Thinking about it, maybe I should also store the area I dumped in the hole in mystering and take it home.

"Well, don't you need to think about that now? Now, first of all, I want to make this oak naga meat a priority."

"Grrrrrrrr!"

To Ray's words, Seto rings out to agree, too.

It was Seto, who was eating dried fruit once, but I guess he's still intrigued by the meat he eats for the first time.

That doesn't change Ray either...

"I think I can treat it as oak meat, but I don't know exactly what kind of meat it tastes like, so why don't we skewer it first and eat it? And Seto, is that all right?

"Gru."

Having heard Ray's words, Seto rattles his throat, like, of course.

Skewer grill can confirm the flavour of meat only for a simple amount.

Of course, it's definitely deep only in simple dishes.

That's the level at which Ray can cook, and that's not going to be far to the pros.

But still, in the sense of checking the taste of oak naga meat, it's never wrong.

"For now, season only with salt..."

Stab the oak naga meat cut into bite-sized pieces on the skewer, prepare the incineration, and then stab it around it.

I also have a pot magic item, but if I were to make a skewer grill, it would be more straight-fire than a pot, and Ray had that thought.

I would say detention in a way.... It's not that harsh.

That's how Ray prepared the skewers and wondered how to cook the other oak naga meats.