Skeleton Knight, in Another World

The next day, early in the morning, when the sky was still dim before the sun came out of the horizon...

The ruins of the company near the root of the Dragon Crown Tree (Road Crown) were wrapped in white, smoking thin pockets, and the area was idle in the woods as if it had lurked its breath.

After greeting the Dragon King (Dragon Road), who has been immersed in the hot springs since yesterday, he travels using the magical [Transfer Gate (Gate)] to the King Rhoden Capital, which is the closest to the Blade Heart (Jinsin) clan's hiding place.

The surrounding scenery instantly switched, and until recently the shadow of the dragon crown tree (Road Crown), which had cut out the sky with depressed and lush branches, disappeared and came to a plain with agricultural land spread on one side.

There are still early mornings behind the city walls of Wangdu, which can be seen a little further south, and the quiet streets of Wangdu in the morning stretch far.

Stick to it in a position where Ponta was going to make a big stretch and slip off a bit, whether he was still sleepy early in the morning on his helmet.

Looking back to the north side of the back, there stood a number of mountains, and a group of Mount Calcato covered its hemline with deep forests.

The hiding place, which also serves as a base for the Chiyome and Blade Heart (Jinsin) clans, is behind these mountains, and there is almost nothing like a road, so I asked Chiyome to lead the way as a guide.

They don't have much of a warcraft in this shallow forest or anything at the foot of Calcutto, but instead, they say it's pretty dangerous for human bandits to be based there from time to time.

"But the bandits based almost here will soon be gone..."

Chiyome, who proceeds in a leading way through the woods, says so without hesitation and proceeds to the back of the woods in the footsteps he is accustomed to.

Close to the Wang capital and not so far from the crowded streets, this is a place for the bandits to dress up.

It disappears immediately, which means...

"Is that because Lord Chiyome, the Blade Heart (Jinsin) clan, is covering this area?

When asked so, Chiyome, going ahead, stopped that stride a little and looked back.

"What do you think is our usual job at Ninja?

Tilt your neck to the intent of that sudden question, but answer it as you reflect on the actions they have taken so far.

"Isn't it rescuing your fellow countrymen who are caught by people or gathering information for them?

Chiyome laughs slightly loosely at the answer.

"Sure there is, but what we usually do is hunt bandits. Blades and metals are precious among us, so bandits based in remote locations are a prey to outfits for the clan. As soon as the people known as Kusa, who are lurking around the city, purchase information about the bandits, they will be informed inside, and we, the Ninja, will storm the base."

To that Chiyome answer, Ariane nods with an impressive look.

If you do think about the danger of committing burglaries and the like all over the city and getting eyes on the side of power, attacking bandits and the like who put themselves outside the city and take away their supplies might be a smart way to do it.

If you look at her combat abilities, which she saw during the Etsato Chamber of Commerce raid in Wangdu before, it's not hard to imagine that most people in line can't be fat or anything.

"But if Lord Chiyome and the others take the supplies that the bandits have taken, can't the Chiyome and the people of Yamano be suspected?

"So it works with” Kusa ”information. The fact that information about bandits begins to appear all over the city is widespread because bandits attacked and survived. It would be fitting if it came to rumors in people's mouths that they were bandits from those testimonies of survival. Make it look as if those bandits have moved their strongholds to exterminate them and get their supplies. So there's less banditry around Calcutto."

With that said, Chiyome flips his tail with skill and goes straight into the back of the woods again.

Apparently, the Yamano people live more successfully than they imagined.

As he stepped on the weeds through the mountains where the depressed trees grew for a while, he eventually went out to a place where his sight opened slightly.

Apparently, he went out around the middle of the mountain.

My feet have changed from dirt to rock, and beyond it is an interrupted and deep valley. Peeping down from that place, which was stretched out like a rock shelf, it was running as a white belt as a thin zawa snaked down below to sew through the mountains.

Chiyome looked back this way showing the mountain across the street visible from its rock shelf.

"From beyond this valley is the true Calcato Mountains. There are powerful warcraft lurking, so rarely do people step in."

Nodding at her explanation, she sees the mountain skin across the street understanding its intentions.

Just at the end of his gaze, the trees were neglected and a place that seemed easy to navigate could be peeked at from here.

"So you're going to travel all the way to the mountain across the street, all at once with metamagic"

I nod like Arian and Chiyome agree with that word of mine, and place my hand on the shoulder of this side with the motion I'm used to. I predicted that and then moved my gaze across the mountain from the destination to activate the magic.

"[Dimensional Stepping (Dimension Move)]"

The surrounding scenery switches in an instant, moving to an open location on the mountain skin opposite the canyon, and looking back, the rock shelf of the former location looks a little farther away.

"Inside is further beyond this mountain, let's go"

Chiyome nodded back to speak to this side as he urged ahead, and followed her back further into the mountain.

This place called Mount Calcutto was literally a dense, undulating land where several mountains could never connect with each other, but could be forested in narrow areas.

As she had said before she crossed the valley, by earlier, she had become scattered with the appearance of a fierce looking warcraft who did not see her, all at once increasing the danger of the journey.

The journey is not too problematic for these three to go on, but it is very difficult to say that this land, which is suitable for inhabiting, is often shown its face by a warcraft that would quickly be preyed upon if it encountered even one normal human being.

There will be little need to worry about the invasion of people who are external enemies, but living in this is far from a land of peace in itself.

A lot of the women and children I used to help in the slave traders in Wangdu went for the back of this mountain, and I get a little worried when I think I still live there.

Such a huge warcraft that has struck me earlier is breathless on my back, and I am responsible for relaxing and pulling off that fierce looking giant.

The warcraft, which Chiyome and Arian called Umbratigris, was a very powerful form of warcraft in this mountain, and it seemed to be based on dealing with one of their species in multiple squads.

Its body length is four meters, close to five meters if you also put your tail in. It's a giant tiger-shaped warcraft that grows two bloody red eyes, black and purple stubborn horns on its head, and covers its entire body with black spotted hair, in the long fangs of its upper jaw reminiscent of the Servel Tiger.

Normally it seems like a warcraft that is nocturnal and does not encounter much during the day, but it happened to be a battle when it was encountered at the end of a divided one.

Usually they attack their prey by wrapping black misty gas around their bodies in the dark at night, but large tigers wrapped in black gas during the day are rather large.

The ambushed Umbrati grease traveled to the afterlife earlier than the cup noodles could be served by the three counterattacks on the other side.

"Excuse me, Lord Ark. Isn't it heavy?

Chiyome, who unexpectedly moves forward, looks back and turns his carefree gaze towards this direction.

It is at her request that we are carrying this warcraft called Umbratigrease.

Everything finely crushes the black purple horn on the head of this warcraft, mixing it with steel and forging the blade, he says, can produce amazingly sturdy and sharp objects.

I'm also talking about using this warcraft horn for the dagger on Chiyome's hips.

In addition to that, fur also has valuable cold protection and other uses in this mountainous area, and fangs are brushed and used for medication and so on. In addition, they are treated as quite a luxury item in the people if it is a whole piece of fur left over from the head, and if it is sold, it is also used as a fund for purchasing food, weapons, etc.

"Nothing compares to the weight of the Giant Basilisk you defeated before."

That's what I said and laughed, jumping lightly on the spot with Umbratigrease on my back to show it off.

Then Ariane, who was following Ponta from behind with her chest in her arms, raised her voice like a shudder and put a cross spear in that conversation.

"Ark is out of standard in a different way from my mother..."

"There's something itchy about being complimented."

Laughing back at her words, Arian looks somewhat complicated and lowers her brow butt.

Apparently, he wasn't complimented.

In that conversation, the leading chiyome stopped to point to the open place at the end of the woods - the second mountain visible at the end of a chopped cliff.

"Beyond this valley lies the inside of us at the end of that mountain. At this rate, you'll get there before sundown. It's the boulders that went at this rate without going through the rest stop."

Chiyome says so and shifts his gaze to the mountains where he can see ahead of his gaze.

"Do you think you can step on the rest of the journey and take a breather inside Lord Chiyome?"

"Right."

With Arian's consent, use metastatic magic to cross the valley.

Eventually, when it was dusk, when the sun was blocked by the high mountains and the area was gradually dimming, Chiyome and his hiding place finally appeared in a way that could be seen down from the high ground.

Its appearance is more like a fortress than a village in Riyama, with double walls of exterior walls consisting of wooden piles strewn around the interior and inner walls by stone walls, combined with sharp and pointy returns that inhibit the incursion of external enemies.

The place, which would be the entrance to the village, seems to be a bouncing open and closed door, and now it has firmly closed its entrance and refused to let the outside enemy in.

The private houses and windmill-like buildings in the back, built to stick to the slopes, were dense at the top of the mountain, and the slopes of the mountains beneath them were stonewalled in staircases and crops were raised as fields.

The landscape reminds me of Machu Picchu somewhere.

In a well-maintained staircase, you can see the figure working in the sunset. In a mountainous area spreading with warcraft, it can be said that ignoring the appearance of a rugged outer wall is a wonderful view full of emotions.

It is certain that it will never be an easy land to live in.

"You're putting inside in a sudden place of great inclination..."

Arian, who had golden eyes on the figure in it, divulges such honest thoughts.

This mountainous area of Calcutto is made up of mountains and valleys, and it is almost impossible to find the equivalent of a plain.

I guess that summit is the only flat, open place around here.

"I honestly commend you for building this inside in the back of the mountains, but how many people live in it now? Not too many of them will be able to live..."

Built on a land where these steep mountains can hang, it can certainly be said that it secures a splendid living area, but nevertheless the size of the inside is quite narrow considering the inside of Laratoia, where Ariane comes from.

To that question of his own, Chiyome answered it with a worrying look with her pale eyes pointed inside.

In the meantime, we rescued the King's capital, and the population exceeded a thousand.

"That's a good number of people again..."

When he leaks his surprise voice, Arian, who looked down in the same way next door, also agrees.

In that girlfriend's arms, only Ponta was tremendously outstretched and waving her tail in swallowing.

Dietary speculation is unusually good, but it doesn't seem to be much of a deal with other things. However, if Ponta, the spiritual beast, has something to worry about difficult issues such as population density, that would be the problem.

Seeing such an innocent Ponta, Chiyome's face was also slightly disintegrating and breaking the worrying look he had shown until earlier.

"So you're going to meet Hanzo, the head of the Jin-shin clan?"