Legend

Ray and Seth were partly frightened by the gaze of their appetites, but it was only a part of them.

Otherwise, Yadkari attacked Ray and Seth at once.

"Fast!?

The speed at which Yadkari runs on the ground with many feet is several times faster than Ray imagined.

Of course, it's not as fast as you can see or create an afterimage, but at least it's not as fast as Ray knows Yadkari.

However, it was not just ordinary Yadkari that attacked me, but only Yadkari monsters.

Beyond that, it is not strange to have higher physical abilities than Yadkari.

"Gruuuuuuuuuuuuu!"

Greek Aaah!

The biggest of the Yadkari attacked, an individual about two meters in size, headed for Ceto to fight.

It's just such a big yakukari, and of course the scissors are also big.

It had four scissors on it, so it was a very advantageous means of attack.

... but it's only about the opponent Yadokari has been fighting.

Gruuuuuu!

Seto, who avoided two of the four scissors, circled behind the rocky shell.

Yadokari... only carries a shell that can completely store his body, but naturally when he turns behind it, he becomes completely blind and has no means of attacking.

However, it was only when there was only one Yadokari, and there were many Yadokari gathered here.

And this yadkari is moving much faster than Ray knows… That's why these yadkari are heading for Ceto, who circles behind his friends, and another yadkari tries to shake his scissors.

But faster than that, Seto kicked Yadokari in the back with his hind legs trying to attack from behind....

Gruuuuuuu!

A blow to the forefoot... A blow to elements that do not use magic items such as stiff bracelets or power crashes, but a blow to destroy a rocky shell.

Greekyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

The blow did not only damage the shell… it also damaged the shell-covered Yadokari's torso, and the Yadokari's mouth screamed.

Still, the shell's defenses reduced Seth's attack a little bit, and the blow never killed Yadkari.

Stick a pair of scissors into the ground on the spot and rotate it around the fulcrum.

Turn around, scattering fragments of the shellfish destroyed by Seto.

Using that centrifugal force, I tried to hit a pair of scissors on the set....

Gru!

Seto's forefoot smashes the scissors.

One of the Yadkari's scissors was cut from the middle to hit the ground.

Yadkari couldn't understand what had happened for a moment.

You didn't think your scissors, who had killed so many prey, would be cut like this.

Nevertheless, in Seto's case, this kind of attack is only as many as we have seen before.

Not to mention that since we entered this demon forest, we have been fighting several Rank A monsters... and even Crystal Dragons of Rank S Monsters.

It's not hard to deal with a blow like that.

The next moment, Kuchibashi pierced Yadokari's face.

While Seto was fighting the biggest Yadkari, of course Ray wasn't just watching it.

Ray's swinging Death-size strike cut the rocky shells lightly.

A twilight spear strike pierced the shell and inflicted fatal damage to its contents.

Yadokari moves fast, but I can't deal with it if I try to lay it down.

One attack after another kills a lot of Yadkari....

"What!?

Ray, who was attacking the Yadkari herd to dance, felt dangerous the moment he heard the sound of the wind cutting, and waved Death Size over there.

Ray then severed something that was released... and saw a water splash floating in the air to understand what kind of attack he was attacked.

"Waterbrace!?

A blow fired by compressing water.

Surprise that such an attack has been made, and at the same time turn your attention to the presence of the opponent who has made such an attack.

Precious species!

Ray's shouting voice had a color of joy with astonishment.

She screamed as she saw Yadkari carrying a pseudo-shell on a blue rock.

These Yadkari's Magic Stones are not always able to master their skills.

Of course, considering the monster in the Forest of Demons, I thought I might be able to master it, but it was still not absolute.

However, based on the experience so far, I should have been able to acquire basic skills from rare species of Magic Stones.

That's why Ray was happy.

... Of course, rare species are treated much better than regular monsters.

If these Yadkari are Rank C monsters, rare species will be rank B monsters and so on.

Originally, Seto, a Griffon of a Rank A monster, is treated like a Rank S equivalent because an Alliance that doesn't know about magical beast magic recognizes Seto as a rare species of Griffon.

Former Alliance Master Marina now knows about Ray and Seto's situation, but the secret of her beloved man... is also a secret that, if known to the public, would definitely cause a great disturbance, and Marina would never divulge it to anyone else.

The same goes for Elena and Vihera.

Regardless, rare species are so special that, naturally, Ray is not going to miss the blue shells.

While defeating the other Yadokari, they are closing the distance from the blue Yadokari.....

"Here it comes!

The blue yadkari releases the water bracelet again, judging Ray to be dangerous as he approaches himself while killing his friends.

But even a surprising blow could have prevented Ray from wearing a water brace.

That being the case, it is not difficult to prevent an attack that we know will come.

Slash and tear the water bracelet released by Death Size and fill the gap with the blue yadkari all at once....

"Hmm!?

At the moment, you feel something slippery and jump backwards.

Suddenly, Yadokari, who was near him, tried to hit the scissors like a stick, but Ray waved Death Size and cut the huge shell without seeing him.

And... beyond Ray's gaze, something huge popped up, like a river exploding behind a blue yadkari.

"You're kidding!

Ray screams unexpectedly, seeing the presence that jumps out of the water.

Of course not. This river is not so deep.

That's only about a meter deep.

Of course, there are places that are suddenly about two meters deep, rather than natural rivers.

But it's just a really small place.

And yet, the fish jumps out of the water... and the fish is huge enough to be nearly three meters long.

No, Ray didn't even know the exact size.

Because there were a lot of hair and hair from the fish's body.

That's why you can't really see the end of the fish's tail, and the total length of about three meters is just Ray's prediction.

Such a strange fish jumps out of the water and falls straight to the riverbank.

And Ray doubts how such a fish looks.

I thought I'd be attacked by some sort of attack on myself, or by Yadkari and the others.

However, falling on the riverbank without attacking anyone was unexpected to Ray.

But... the real unexpected happened in front of Ray at the next moment.

Originally, the fish that jumped out would have hit the riverbank... the ground and stones.

Regardless of whether or not they will take damage, they will not be able to move on the ground much better than fish.

I thought so, but what Ray saw... was a fish sticking into the ground.

Instead of crashing into the ground in the sense of hitting it, he dived into the ground that was not a river, as if it were water.

Of course, I didn't dig the ground like a mole, but I really dived in the same way as the water.

What surprised me was that the fish tangled the hair that was growing from the body into the blue yadkari body and dived with it on the ground.

"Hey, hey!

Ray looked stunned by the unexpected succession of developments, but still returns to me in a few seconds.

With bad luck, Yadkari might have been attacked by the surrounding Yadkari in a few seconds, but for Yadkari and the others, whether it was an unexpected sight or whether they decided that they would be counterattacked even if they attacked Ray, they didn't act as if they were attacking.

Gruuuuuuu!

However, Seto came to Ray's side while activating his Power Attack skill, judging his condition to be dangerous.

It was still a level-one power attack, but originally it had Seto's high physical abilities, and the Yadkari who hit Seto were all blown away.

When such a seto comes next to Ray, check the surroundings.

I don't suppose Seto could have detected the presence of the fish earlier.

Or even if you could sense it, could you not make a voice of vigilance because you were in the middle of battle?

Regardless, that fish is no doubt more troublesome for Ray and Seto than for Yadkari.

Above all, it would still be troublesome to be able to imitate something like diving on the ground.

It was troublesome to use my hair like a tentacle, but I don't care if you use Death Size or Twilight Spear.

But we can't do damage in the first place when we're lurking in the ground.

(No, if you can simulate an attack there by chance when it comes up, you can do damage... but is it nearly impossible to simulate what you expect? Rather, is it quicker to wait for someone to come out of the ground and attack them?)

Fortunately, Ray has a set with sharp five senses, a sixth sense, and the ability to sense magic.

If there was such a setup, it would have been right before the fish appeared from the ground, but you might know.

"Seth, you know when that fish comes out?

"Gruuuuuu....."

I'm sorry about Ray's words, Seth.

... while I was there, I was waving my forelegs to defeat Yadkari who approached me, so whatever Ray was accustomed to, he would have looked surreal in a sense if he had seen someone who knew nothing.

"Well, it's hard to set it up.... if you're going to take that fish with you, you might as well take a normal yadkari instead of a rare species."

Ray murmured with frustration.

It's only natural that they took one rare species with them.

Had the fish's hair been tangled with ordinary yadkari rather than rare, Ray would not have been so frustrated.

"I want to kill that fish if I can, more than I've been robbed of a rare species."

Ray's best bet is to destroy the fish and get a body of a rare species.

Ray already fights rare species, so he meets the requirements of Magic Beast Magic.

As such, Ray wanted to get a rare species of corpse if possible, but he decided that he should give up getting a rare species of blue yadkari corpse before it was taken to the ground like that.

That being the case, at least I want to defeat that fish.

(Rank A monster... I don't think so, but it was as powerful as Rank B. My abilities are quite special. The problem is that I don't want to eat the fish.)

Ray and Seth were originally heading upstream along the river because they wanted to secure the fish.

However, the fish that grows hair from inside the body like that doesn't make Ray appetize either.

I could predict that it would taste better if I ate it than if I were a high-ranking monster.

(Can you eat fish with hair even though you can eat oak normally? I have a little doubt about how I feel.)

While thinking like that, Ray waited for the fish to pop out of the ground while fighting Yadkari.