Me, Adventurer! - Undoubled Skills Are Flat Magic (WEB Version)
Episode 16 - Cumming Out, But Safe?
Earlier the next morning, Mr. Vincent and his escorts traveled north a day earlier. After selling out forest potatoes in a trading city, they quickly sell Dantes baking and ketchup to see how they react.
They say there are no such large ups and downs as far as trading cities, with meadows, hills and quite a few forest areas. They're weaker than near the Great Forest, but they also get demons. I don't feel very safe. But they say the scariest thing is bandits.
Near the Great Forest is a border, but unexpectedly there are no bandits. Because there's nowhere to hide. There are fierce demons in the woods, so you can't hide in such a place. If you were hands-on enough to do that, you'd be growing up as an adventurer.
But if you're away from the Great Forest, with some arm, you can survive. If it is a population, the probability of survival increases even further. That's how the rogues are forming a party and forming some bandits. North of the Great Forest, they say it's the biggest threat.
Insecure, actually?
After dropping off the carriage, he collected and marinated the leaves of the daily paper tree, finished the salary scale and then headed to the field. Pickling and salary scales recently became my job. He said, "I can't let you do field work or hunt demons yet, but let me do something to help you." I can, but if you use magic.
My dad and I are taking it off the field instead of me. My dads are going to be around.
The men of the village are doing the roundabout with a rotation of four shifts. Early morning to before noon, day to evening, evening to late night, late night to early morning. You mean two pairs during the day and two at night. Wife Believers become a daytime group. It is the village chief's concern to have a meal with his family. You're thinking a lot.
"Beat, the potato fields in the west have just been planted with seed potatoes. So don't dig them back.
"I'm not digging back! But I guess I'll play at the Tomba field today.
"Whoa, we're going home in the evening.
I go to the corner of the field in conversation with my father and no other love.
but soon stops feeling some strange sign. Looks like someone's approaching the village. Not from the south with the woods. From the north. Plus, I'm in a pretty hurry. Don't get to the gate any time soon. You must also be aware of the watch standing on the outpost.
Do you want to go?
The visitors were Mr. Vincent and the others. but there's something wrong with you. He seems to be in a terrible hurry. Someone seems to have informed us, and the village chief has arrived.
"What's wrong Vincent, even the bandits are out!?"
"Not quite, Master Dantes!
It's harder than a bandit. Could it be a dragon or something!? One of the "things I want to do before I die in another world" come true!?
"Yes, Inago, a large group of Inago are on their way here!
"What!"
I wasn't about to! Seriously, that was a bad thing!!
A calamity beyond man's power is called a 'natural disaster'. Earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, droughts, etc. mostly lead to life-threatening crises. And the invasion of the inago, the so-called "locust plague", is also classified as a natural disaster.
I call it inago, but not exactly inago where I say it in the original world. All large bats that can fly are called inago. Entomology is less developed.
When locust plague occurs, the damaged area becomes barren land with no grass left, without any exaggeration. Humans and animals are enough to be bitten, but everything made of plants and trees, such as cotton, hemp cloth, thatched roofs and columns of houses, is eaten up. And it is fierce hunger that is caused by it. Anyway, there's nothing to eat. There's not a single bottle of weed left. If you manage to cut down your savings for more than a year and wait for the harvest the following year, locust plagues won't even allow that.
The herd of inago leaves eggs before they die. The egg hatches the following year and becomes a new ingot. In other words, a massive amount of inago occurs the following year. And the following year there will be another massive outbreak… locust damage will continue to occur for several years. In that case, no other creature can live on that land anymore. We just have to throw it away.
The locust is the locust, though it is a scary insect.
By the way, this knowledge was taught to me by the village chief. When I was an adventurer, I heard I saw a damaged village.
He said it was when he was hired as a food transport escort, but that seemed terrible. They all lost weight in the gallows and wrapped a small amount of potatoes around each other. They said that it was like a zombie listening to a story when a single potato was combined to fight ugly.
Now such despair is about to come to this village.
Looking at the northern sky, I don't know why, but it's red and black near the surface. I guess that's the Inago herd.
Is the distance about 50 km? We're going to reach this village as early as 2-3 hours. Too little time.
"... evacuate... no, but where... hide... bury temporarily? But time...
Village chiefs, who are always instant executions, are rarely bothered. Naturally. There are no longer limitless choices. We don't have enough time to escape or take measures. No more means of leaving the villagers and the village itself intact.
Except for just one.
"Village chief."
I had a surprisingly calm voice myself.
"... beat. I'm sorry, but I don't have time for this right now. Later.
Naturally, that's what's coming. But you can't pull this place off. Because it's a crisis in this village where I was born and raised. So go on.
"Mayor, I might be able to do something about it.
"... beat?
"Mayor, I can use magic.
I finally revealed it. I thought one day I'd reveal it, but it's like a badly made read-out comic strip when that's the time of the village's existential crisis. If you're in a series, you're done with two single-issue volumes.
"Beat, what are you saying...
I naturally thought you wouldn't believe me, so give me your right hand and let me create a glowing ball of transparency over your palms. I just set a transparent material refracted on the sphere and put a dot light source in its center. I registered it as a "false fortune ball" in the library, but I didn't think I had a chance to use it. I didn't know you actually used it.
"This is! You, really!?
Hundreds of stories don't look like it at first sight, right? Usually a calm village chief alternates between balls and my face to pat my eyes. Not only the village chief, but also Mr. Vincent and Anna and their dads and Dents seem to have no words to be surprised.
"I magically stop that inago. The village chief came to cut trees out of the woods with everyone in the village. As many as you can.
"... can you do it?"
"I'll do it.
I nod and say. Probably no problem, but I've never done it before, so I can't say absolutely. Believe me, no, I just do it even if I can't. Someone said it in a previous life.
'Nothing is impossible in the world. There's just something I haven't done yet.
I'll do it now. That's all. The determination seems to have been conveyed to the village chief.
"Okay, I'll take care of Inago. You heard me! Prepare to fight for what you can fight for, and prepare to go to the woods for what you can't! We don't have time, get ready and assemble at the gate now!
"" "Yes!
When the village chief issued the decree, everyone quickly rushed out to prepare. Except for your father.
"Beat, oh... no, nothing. Bring me a pint. I'll take care of it.
"Dad... yeah, good luck!
Dad slaps his chest with Don and runs out to get ready. I have a lot to say, but I guess that means I won't say it now. Yes, now (...).
I don't know, Dad's handsome in there, after all. Seriously, God, isn't that too much?
I'll run north from the gate, too, after I see Dad's on his way to prep. I want to deal with it as far away from the village as I can. I'm afraid of the later, but I run with my body strengthening fully open. Probably should be fast enough to run a 100m in 9 seconds. This is it for a 7-year-old. If this world had the Olympics, wouldn't it be a hell of an on-parade of records?
Would it have been about 5 km from the village? The red and black clouds are already imminent. When you come near me like this, you can get a little hips on that beauty. In a horror movie, it feels like a bunch of zombies coming together with a walrus? Fear is stimulated more directly than that. Anyway, the red and black walls, about 3 km east and west, about 80 m high and too thick to measure, are approaching at less than 20 km/h. The sound of the inago winging sounds like a wave, and it's not half intimidating.
"Well, shall we begin?
I shrugged without telling anyone, maybe because I was nervous. Anyway, what I'm going to do is challenge my limits.
It's easy to do, just 'build a big wall and push it away'. Except that the wall is a size that has never been built before. I've never had a chance to build a wall more than 3 km wide.
Once you take a deep breath and calm down a little, work out your magic more than usual and build a wall. It's only about 3x3m in size. The thickness is extremely thin as usual and the material setting is colorless and transparent. If you don't know what's going on on on the other side of the wall, you don't know how long to keep going. Scale this vertically and horizontally. It expands up to about 100m and 4km from left to right, just in case. They took a little more magic than usual, but they haven't used 10% of the total. It doesn't seem particularly problematic. Fix the position and never let it get close to the village.
Then about 3 minutes later, I heard the sound of a trick where something hit the wall. Looks like you finally made it out. When I saw it, a slightly dull black coloured bat was crawling across the wall. It is about 4 cm in size and only the eyes have a strangely bright red color. It's like a black guy from Showa Ryder. Had it not been for this time, I would have gladly caught you. Oh, is this the reason it looked like a red and black cloud?
Sounds are getting more and more. I was neglected enough to hear every single sound, but now it just sounds like noise.
And I heard an ominous noise mixed with that noise. Gissies and missies, that's how it sounds.
No, no, wait, wait! A plane that can also afford to be attacked by a giant claw bear, albeit in large numbers, is on a hedgehog!? Even though it hasn't been half an hour!?
While they are wolfing, they also start to interact with the sound of pikipiki.
No, seriously!? akan!!