Skeleton Knight, in Another World

Early in the still chilly morning, I was traveling on the streets running to the plains with myself and Arian, and Ponta on top of my head, using metamagic. When it comes to streets, it's not a beautifully paved path with cobblestones, bricks, etc., it's just a path that pokes and solidifies the soil, just that there's no grass growing like you can see around it. Moving down such a road, he was eventually coming to a place where the road was second-hand apart.

"Lord Arian, which way would be Landbart?

Not confident of the sense of direction, he asks Arian, who had refrained behind him.

But what came back was her half-eye, and her obnoxious words.

"It wasn't Ark who interrogated the city's location, I don't know the path of a people's country, do I?

You're absolutely right. Landbart, the city where the next Elves are supposedly imprisoned, it was none other than himself who overheard the place in the king's capital.

In this world, we don't sell maps or anything like that that that cover the national territory. On the contrary, we hardly even see maps of neighborhoods. Inevitably, one can only know the path to destination by asking the person who knows it.

The information obtained in Wangdu about Landbart's path was that it would take the west street from Wangdu and go north after exiting the coastal area.

But in front of him lies a great rock, and from that place the streets stretch in two. Both are heading west in direction, but the street on the right leads slightly northwest and the street on the left leads slightly southwest.

Both of them would be fine to go either way if the road was better than the west. Unlike modern times, roads are built along terrain, so we rarely see straight paths. If there is a steep slope, it snakes, and if there are cliffs or steps, it bypasses. Inevitably, the distance grows and it is the path of this era that takes surprisingly long.

I don't know if these paths are meant to avoid anything either, but if it's wrong for me to be able to travel with metastatic magic, it's just to come back here.

I look around the street in an easygoing mood and find branches of just fine trees that were falling on the side of the road. Pick it up and go back to the divide, put the branches in the center of the street and let go of your hands.

The branches of the tree, away from hand, soon lose their balance and fall in according to gravity. What the tip of the fallen tree branch showed was a northwesterly street.

"Uhm, that's the right way"

One convinced and nodded, a suspicious voice rose from right behind. Needless to say, the LORD of his voice is Arian. He had slightly inflated his cheeks and turned to protest eyes.

"Hey, are you sure you can get to your destination with that proper choice of road? You said you heard right about the road to Landbart in Wangdu, right?

"I did hear, but I didn't hear the road was second-hand on the way."

Arian is taking a deep sigh and holding down Cricket Valley (temples).

"So you made your way in such an appropriate way?

"No, this is a choice that entrusts my destiny to heaven!

"Hey, don't entrust that fate to me on my own..."

That's what I said and protested. When she grabbed the branches of the fallen tree, she put her hands together to pray with it before quietly laying her eyes down and poking her knees.

"That there is no Spirit guide in my path."

When she chanted so small and let go of the tree branches she had, she slowly followed gravity and fell down, making a sound that was as dry as it had been earlier. The tip of the branch points to the northwest road, just as it points to itself.

……

"Um, it's still like the right road"

He was Arian, who had a slightly unconvincing face, but he decided to entrust himself to the guidance of the Spirit. I put my hands on this shoulder in silence.

"What, if I'm on the wrong track, I just need you to come back soon"

Say it a little brighter, then look in the northwest direction. Activate the [Dimensional Walking Method (DIMENSION MOVE)] to travel repeatedly through the streets without any shadows in the early morning.

Eventually, as I went down the street, things gradually changed around me.

The landscape, where the green plains had spread until earlier, was gradually becoming more visible with reddish rocks, stones and the like rolling, and the path at the foot was also becoming a dry and dusty rough road.

On the far side of your right you can see several mountains and woods stretching out over their hems, and on your left you can see the desolate earth stretching out. With the neglect of the grass trees, the path at the foot and the surrounding landscape are about to melt together and lose sight of the road. The thought of just going the wrong way arouses me, searching around for a settlement.

A wind winding up sand and dust from the direction of the reddish earth there blows to the side, closing his sight for a moment.

Ponta, who was on his head, said, "Ki-yun!" He shouted and saw it in his helmet. My own black coat and Arian's grey coat made a bumpy noise as the wind stirred me up loud.

Eventually the wind subsided and stopped Arian and Ponta from moving to react to something at the same time as they tried to deliver the surrounding landscape to their vision to determine their next destination.

"What's wrong with you?

Speaking to Arian in surprise, she takes her index finger to her lips to control it and circles those golden eyes around her. I can see that I am restless when I move my neck so that Ponta is busy over my head to explore the area.

I wonder if there's anything there, and I look around myself with my mouth shut. I don't see anything like stirring up vigilance by saying this in that view of the reddish earth and the stripped rocky mountains rolling.

When I thought so, I could inadvertently hear the sound of some kind of wingspan on the wind.

Looking in that direction, I could see more than a dozen shadows popping out of the shadows of the rocky mountains into the sky. I don't know the exact size from here because the distance is slightly open, but it looks like a pretty big bird.

"Wyburn!?

I blink my eyes as I try to stare at the shadows that Arian had popped up looking at the sky as well on the side. The creature, which made up a herd of about twenty people she called Wyburn, was flying straight here with its big wings flapping.

Ponta rushes down from above her head, wrapping her around like a muffler around her neck and pulling her ears in.

"Oh, is that Wyburn..."

I see that clearly as the other one approaches me. The wings are about four meters long and the body itself is not that big but has a reptile-like atmosphere, but the head attached to the tip of the slightly longer neck looks more like a bird. Overall, the loess skin has a striped pattern. From the tip of his head to his tail, he flies about three meters, manipulating his long tail like a rudder and dexteringly changing direction.

You look completely different from Wyburn coming out of the game you were playing.

"It's a little different than Wyburn I know, I've never seen it... Besides, Wyburn is supposed to operate during the day, but I can't believe he's flying in a herd this morning..."

Arian roars with a slight twist on her neck.

Apparently, it's not the same as the Wyburn she knows, but if the environment in which she lives is different, there won't be any wonder if she thinks it's a normal organism that changes her habits and appearance. Probably a subspecies of Wyburn or a species contiguous with it.

The first thing I want to know is...

"Is Wyburn pretty handy?

Ask Arian next door as he looks up at the sky.

Wyburn in the game wasn't so much a powerful monster. Levels are around a hundred, and there are not many special attacks.

"Not as good as one. There's just so many of them this time... The magic of Ark's metastasis makes it easiest to escape."

Indeed, in the game, you will not be attacked by such a flock, nor will you be targeted from far beyond the reach of a sword. I was able to beat him down with a short sword because he was just floating about a meter above ground, such as Wyburn on the game.

But now I also want to think about the future and try a little bit of the power I have. It's not convenient to use a skill that I've never used in a very public place to do something flashy. But there are only swarms of Wyburn here besides Arian and Ponta. A little flashy would be fine.

"I have a few things to try. Lord Arian, please stay back for a while."

That being said, I step forward a moment and stare at the flock of Wyburn coming towards me. Ariane tried to say something behind her, but shut her mouth immediately.

Lower the luggage bag in your hand, then turn your shoulder and enter a combat posture.

"[Rock Barrett]!"

First activate the basic magic skills of the Mage Instructor instead of a small hand check. When fist-sized rocks are fired with momentum from both hands over the sky, they rush into the flock of Wyburn. But a few dozen meters above us, Wyburn and the others approached us without suffering from the rocks that had flown in.

It activates the same magic several times over the sky, but it doesn't even plunder on Wyburn. Single straight-line magic is easy to read orbits, and because of Wyburn's ability to evade, it can only be about traction.

Wyburn had already reached just above this one and seemed to swirl like a bald taka for prey and peek into the gap. I guess the reason they didn't assault me right away is because the magic of restraint works and I'm on guard.

"So can you say this? [Thunder Strike Heavy Rain (Lightning Damper)]!"

Did you feel sensitive to the sudden change in barometric pressure? Wyburn over the sky makes a noise. At the next moment, loud sounds like tearing the air apart and splitting (crushing) your ears will sound, and the air will shake. The dazzling flashes of light overlap and run through the universe, as thunderlights rain and fall from above to the Wyburns.

Range of Thunder Attributes of the Mage Master Magic, intermediate position magic and a lot of power, but when you actually see it, it's different in power. It's as flashy as if you exercised great magic.

Thunder struck the Wyburn that was swirling over the sky as well, as several Wyburn giants descend from the sky in a conical state. But less than half of the total could be dropped.

"Hmm, you don't seem very hitting accurate..."

They can't even say thunder running in the air has a high hit rate in flattery, I have to say the effect is pretty low for flashy performances. Modern weapons are also a good place for defective products, such as cutting the hit rate by 50%.

Magic activation feels more like a beat or two than a single bullet (barrette) system, and lacks instant responsiveness. Indiscriminate attacks are a little tricky to use for a certain range of targeted locations.

But the Wyburns above were just scared of the unexpected damage of the lightning strike, scattered and fled.

Looking at the sky like that, Arian's protest rose from behind.

"Hey, if you're going to use such great magic, tell me first! You surprised me!

The eyes of Arian's eyes, looking back, are a little tearful and holding her ears. Surely anyone would be surprised if they could suddenly see so much flashy noise and light up close. I honestly apologized here because I didn't think it would be so fancy.

Ponta, who was wrapped around his neck, glances at him, licking his forefoot tightly, and trimming his mustache. Did the magic just now charge your mustache?

"... and the magic of great power, you can really do anything."

Ariane sighs and looks around like she said slightly frightened half, half impressed. There are several Wyburns rolling down on the ground that I shot down earlier.

"You can't turn anything into a boulder, it's all you can do."

Approaching the whole Wyburn, talking about a dialogue I've heard somewhere. Though there were traces of burning from lightning strikes everywhere, they remained relatively clean.

"Can't this Wyburn be used for something?

Ask Arian as he repeatedly pulls the rolling Wyburn.

"Well, Wyburn's skin can be leather armor, but it's an apprenticeship gear. The meat is not delicious, and I wonder if it can be used with magic stones."

Listen to her answer, convince one person. The Wyburn material was positioned about the second half of primary in the game, so I guess it stands similarly in this world.

"With that said, that armor of Lord Arian looks like leather, but what kind of leather is it?

If the armor made of Wyburn leather is for apprenticeships, it is clear that the armor she is equipped with is better than that. Somewhat intrigued but asks Arian.

"This is Grand Dragon leather armor."

"Oh, you're using pretty good material"

A surprising voice leaked to that name, to which she replied in advance. I don't know if the Grand Dragon looks the same as the game, but it doesn't seem to change that it's an advanced material.

"Not as good as your armor."

Arian sighs with a groan on her shoulder.

Take the dagger out of the luggage bag you kept while we had such a chat and detect Wyburn's body rolling on the ground.

"Lord Arian, where is the Demon Stone?

"If it's the same as Wyburn I know, it's in this position."

What she showed with her fingers was around slightly below the center of her chest. When I stuck out the dagger I had and opened it there, I found a not so big but beautiful purple demon stone.

The number that shot it off, recover eight pieces and pack it in a luggage bag with the dagger.

"What should we do with the rest later?

"You leave it around there, but if anyone wants it, you take it on your own, right?

When she squirmed looking at Wyburn, who had been thrown away around her, Arian answered it with no interest.

Indeed, if apprenticeship equipment is to become a material for leather armor, those who go down the street and want it will take it home on their own. Though that won't be just people.

"So is that. Then it's time to move on..."

Speaking to Arian with the hemp luggage bag on his shoulder, he went down the street again using the transfer magic [Dimensional Walking (Dimensional Move)].