Argus and Baumann, and Maxwell, who brought them all the way to Matheus, quickly moved the scene and made them ready for the night camp.

We moved the place because we smelled blood and were even more alert to monsters coming.

I climbed the mountain as I made that explanation my children, and found a half-baked mountain hut that I had once used, where I was to reveal the night.

"We moved ahead because we were wary of a beast raid. Because the smell of blood attracts unexpected enemies."

"I can't believe I conveniently had a place like this. Did Grandpa know?

"This is one of the huts that was destroyed when Evil Dragon Corkis built his nest. I used them at the time."

Matheus speaks to Maxwell explaining in a spare manner.

In this man's case, even if Fangwolf comes up with an ambush, it's an attitude because he can handle it at his leisure.

Clouds and Phineas are also shrinking nerves just to be vigilant. Especially Michelle, who was about to be ambushed, and so on, were looking different than usual.

"Michelle, you don't have any enemies around here, do you?

"Ugh, yeah. I know that..."

"I knew it was an ambush earlier?

"A little."

In earlier fights, if either me or Maxwell hadn't noticed, they would have been totally ambushed from behind.

As for her, who is usually in a position for me to take the lead and shoot unilaterally, I guess I got the feeling that for the first time I was put in a life-threatening situation.

Even when Cloud fought Matheus, she was on the side to be protected. Until now, it can be said that the enemy has pressed us since Kobold.

Dogs and wolves, such similarities might also have strained her spirit.

But in continuing to be an adventurer, that fear is also an important thing.

Knowing fear and always being prepared for it can be the best way to survive.

"If you're too scared, you'll fail the other way, won't you? But don't forget how it feels."

"Can't you?

"Because if you forget your fear, you lose your prudence. Me or something that's pissed me off a lot."

"Haha, because Nicole doesn't know anything particularly scary"

"It's not like I don't know. I'll get ahead of you."

I'll go inside the abandoned house and gently rub that shoulder to relieve Michelle of her tension.

I used to ask Maria when skinning like this helps relieve excessive tension.

Especially since she's in an elaborate shape.

Meanwhile, the cloud was going up to the roof and blocking the hole in the ceiling. The Mathews were also blocking the holes in the walls using the borough cloth that was left in the abandoned house… probably something that was once a blanket.

This is a necessary procedure to keep the light from the inside out.

However, if it is completely blocked, the air may become bad and suffocate, so the idea is not to leak light and yet the air passes through it.

That's how I got ready for the night camp, Finia. After eating your handmade survival dish, I pulled Maxwell out of the abandoned house.

"What, are you inviting me on a date?

"Don't say anything disgusting. So... what did you discover?

I hadn't informed the Michelles, but it was as originally planned to camp at night. But what we call upon even Mathews is unplanned behavior.

Doing that means there was something that needed manpower.

And that decision is being made after Maxwell flies through the sky.

It is also evidence that when I flew up in the air, I discovered something.

"The Lord... I'm not sure if you're really smart or not"

"Leave me alone."

"When I flew in the sky at noon. I saw a strange bunch."

"A strange bunch?

To put it oddly, even we're in a place like this, it's odd enough.

But apart from that, I guess he saw something suspicious.

"Oh, three adults and five children. They all wore hooded capes and hid their faces and physique, so I'm guessing. It's so far-sighted, the smaller one could be a dwarf."

"Eight people in this mountain. Hide your face in this unpopular mountain...? That's odd indeed."

If this is a normal mountain, we don't think it's weird either.

But this is one of the most disturbing mountains in the Sion Peak. Evil Dragon Corkis Crusaded Mountain. That is still being treated as an ominous symbol, and there are few that enter.

In a sense, it is as much a place of repellence as the mountain inhabited by Ast of Mareba.

As many as eight people are entering such a place and climbing to an undesirable height at the foot. It's an event that deserves vigilance even if it's not Maxwell.

"What are the chances, like us, of an adventurer coming to get material?

"You don't. I'm guessing, why don't you take five kids?

We're all in this mountain, but we're still being pulled off by an expert named Maxwell.

There are also nine now that the Mathews have participated, but the number of children is smaller than they are and there are only four.

"I'm not going to head out to investigate after the kids are asleep. In the meantime, we need someone to protect them."

"Is that why you called the Mathews?"

"I was forced to abduct him."

Matheus, the person who needs to be most vigilant, lives in Maxwell's mansion, but Argus and Baumann are on guard duty every day.

Their colleagues also know these two are Maxwell's livestock, so even if they're taken out by Maxwell somehow, they won't complain.

Still, they seem to care a little.

"Well, that's it, follow him. Better yet, where were those people heading?

"Further above this position... I mean -"

"Corkis nest, huh?"

Where we are now, the vegetation is quite sparse, and above this, the noticeable is almost gone.

If the plant is gone, there will be no animals to eat it, and no monsters to target that animal.

If you become a monster sitting at height, the number will be even more limited.

And even Fangwolf will be gone above this position. The only thing that exists is the Corkis nest.

"You need to find out."

"Well?

Me and Maxwell were supposed to look each other in the eye and sigh at the same time.