Living in this World with Cut & Paste

Episode 68: Games in the Forest of the Divine Spirit (1)

Thanks to the Knights I was able to sleep safely last night!

Having had enough sleep, I stretched out a lot and went out of my tent.

"Yeah, it's a beautiful day!

Looking up, the bright blue sky was endless.

Great hunting day? I think so.

Looking up into the sky and taking a deep breath, the Knights who detained the idiot aristocrats yesterday and took them came to find me.

"Good morning!!!

I greeted her well, as usual, and when I told her thanks again last night, everyone who was there smiled.

"Lord Mine, the result is already a determined game, but good luck.

Our First Knights are here for you. "

After I got those happy words, let me hear what happened last night.

After that, the fussy Claude was taken in front of the Knights Commander in His Majesty's name, who, after careful attention, was to be detained until the beginning of the game.

As you'd expect, he fought hard, but would he apply state treason? Asked, he reluctantly backed off.

The fact that there was such an exchange is likely to cause deep resentment towards me, and I was cautioned to be very careful during the game.

And finally, it's time for the game to start.

Perhaps all participants will spend the next two days in the woods.

Of course, you can come back to base camp and rest, but that will open up a difference from your opponents.

I'm not going to come back, of course, because it's going to depend a lot on winning or losing.

Naturally, adventurers who are opponents will think the same thing.

Including the stupid nobility Claude, his fellow nobles gather continuously at the meeting point.

Behind them are well-fitted adventurers who follow with each weapon firmly in their hands.

... will they be my opponents?

I will also equip myself with steel daggers and lightning edges and wait for the decree to start.

... I dare you to ignore Claude staring at me with an amazing face from earlier.

An example storage bag is given to each participant after the cavalier captain has explained the precautions about the game again.

... I'm sure they'll replace the materials that are in their storage bags after this.

If it was planned, the material from the demon hunted yesterday would be in a "hourless storage bag” obtained by fraud.

But the storage bags they actually got are "storage bags with time lapse," so naturally the material is still damaged.

And with that in mind, hang the received storage bag on your hips.

"Individually, try to compete for two days in a dignified manner so that there is no injustice!

... then start the game with this. Beginning!!!!

Under the Order of the Commander of the Knights, the participants employed by the nobility run towards the woods simultaneously.

... I already cheated on them so that there was no wrongdoing... and I turned my back to the woods with a bitter smile.

It was truly impressive that both the Knights and even the Knights Commander were laughing bitterly.

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Well, they haven't asked me which demonic material is going to be high point.

In the meantime, is it easy to hunt for a seemingly strong score?

Then I guess if you're on Stone Street, you should move on to the back of the forest.

In the meantime, I don't want to be seen using my skills, so let's always proceed vigilantly around [Signal Detection/Medium LV3].

...... hmm? I discover monsters while I'm saying that.

Name: Forest Ape

LV: 18

Race: Ape

Gender: •

[Skills]

[]/(n, vs) disease/

Direct hit

[Ability]

None

Apes, monkey demons.

This is the first time I've actually seen it...

Sure is a higher level than the enemy in the woods I always hunt.

In the meantime, take away your skills and weaken them as usual.

I use [Signal Blocking/Medium LV3] so that I don't get noticed, and it hits me around behind my back all at once.

He was a panicking ape to the presence of an enemy named me that suddenly appeared, but he was broken into the range, and he didn't have the skills.

It is the bare gesture of resistance that kills me when I show it but my heart is pierced by a light steel dagger.

"This game makes different points, even if it's good or bad to dismantle the material.

No one had a [cut] when they [appraised] their adventurers...

That's all I'm good for, right?

Immediately, the demolition is carried out with a cut and thrown into the storage bag handed over.

Yeah, everything's fine.

Let's keep going in the back.

The next monster I met was the type of guy who had a slightly different color than before.

Name: Sidewinder Evil

LV: 29

Race: Snake

Gender: -

[Skills]

Pursuit attack

[Ability]

venom spraying

Tightening

A snake-shaped monster! And it's sooo big!! Three meters seems possible.

If you wind up like that, you're going to die of crushing lightly...

Besides, I don't feel strangely level...

Hey, lord around here?

In the meantime, pick up the stones around there, and the abilities stick to him.

... Skills next.

I don't see how that works, but I can predict it, but isn't that a skill that seems user-friendly inside?

All right, weakened!

Well, don't feel like avoiding melee fights for a bit.

I don't know where or who's watching magic, so I want to avoid it...

Oh, wait! Can we afford proximity this way?

First stop the movement with [the King's Intimidation]!

Reinforce with [AUTO ARM LV3] and cut off your neck close at once.

I knew Oak King's skills were broken.

That's all you can beat most monsters, right?

Quickly dismantle the snake and throw it in the storage bag to go further back.

All the monsters I find along the way take them down from one end at the same pace.

... um, I've come a long way back.

Since there have been no signs of people around for quite some time, maybe they've come to a place they didn't envisage as a hunting ground.

With that said, His Royal Highness Lewis said.

”I have long been told that there is a divine beast sleeping deep in the forest…".

Well, it's a legend, so there's no way he's really here, but he says he won't stand smoke where there's no fire, and maybe there's a strong monster even if he doesn't say he's a god beast after all.

Well, I don't think it's as deep as a boulder around here, so there's no such thing as a god beast out there.

... and that's when.

A little further away I could hear the demon roar and the battle noise.

Hmm? Are those the other participants?

... you want to go see how it goes?

It's not a hostile inspection, but I don't think it's a bad idea to know your opponent's power.

Use [Signal Blocking/Medium] to start moving quietly in the direction in which the noise was heard.

The sight that jumped in front of me on the move... was something I never expected.

The first thing I notice is a giant wolf with a beautiful purple fur.

I can see its beautiful hairline everywhere, tainted by blood.

It doesn't seem to be damaged, so it's blood back?

And the next thing I saw were multiple adventurers.

These are the people who weren't among the game participants, so they're probably the other adventurers hired by the stupid aristocrats.

What are these people doing here, coming to the back of the woods out of sight of surveillance?

... what? Those adventurers are catching some little wolves...

Ah!? No way......!?

What was the incident that started this game in the first place?

Yeah, that's what got the dragon kid, enslaved him, and made him a sale.

I mean, this fight going on in front of me...

"You lah! Kids back SE!!!!"

Oh wolf talked!!!

Name: Fenrill

LV: 160

Race: Divine Beast

Gender: ”

[Skills]

Mystic Rain

Lunatic Wave

Divine Beast Double Strike

The Devil's Eye of Gravity

[Ability]

Big Roar "Warsecamui"

[]/(n, vs) (yoji) healthy feet/

Yikes!? A god beast!!!

Ho, ho, were you really there!!!?

Is that it? Wait...

Wasn't God the Beast a long time ago, when people were about to be destroyed by the Demons, who stood by and protected the Humes?

Those adventurers!!? And more importantly, you're trying to catch God Beast's child, a great favor to the Hume tribe!?

J, I'm not kidding, this is disgusting!!!

Seriously, it tastes really bad!!!

Even though I say it's not just a dragon or a ton...

If you attack even God Beast into town, if you do poorly, mankind will perish.

Things go bad while I panic. [M]

"Ugh, don't move, for fuck's sake, don't try to defy us.

Move it even a little bit, kiddo, your child's life will be lost!!!

Right, you're trying to get away with holding a kid hostage.

So you're saying that God and the Beast can't move either?

... They don't know what a god beast is!?

If so, there is only one thing I will do.

Rescue that child from them and return it to God Beast.

Yes, when I made up my mind... it was already too late.

"Witch Mountain Play Lunahhhhh!!!

The divine beast growls and growls at the unselfish words of the adventurers.

The whole forest boils down to too many shocks, and the trees around it shake its branches wide.

You must have felt terrified and forgotten me for the rest of the intimidation.

One of the adventurers who was catching the children shook down the dagger in his hand to the child of the Divine Beast.

"KYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU..."

A cry filled with the grief of a stabbed child... echoed through the woods.