Soul Eater of the Rebellion

Tracking the beast headed north was easy.

All you have to do is follow the blood of the beast that has wet the ground.

Thanks to Perry for cutting off his leg and creating a landmark, he follows bloodstains and runs.

And how long did it run?

Eventually I reached a strange place.

A village.

Wooden houses are lined up in a picture of a forest opened in a circle. It's not a loose house or a hot hut, it's pretty solid.

Each house has a fence made of earth and a gate made of wood. Elves are associated with forest dwellers, but this lifestyle is closer to that of humans.

When building a house with trees instead of stone, I reminded me of Onigashima and other eastern architecture.

There are about 20 houses. Assuming five families live in each house, the total number of villagers is one hundred.

Swagger This is the deep area of Titis where monsters play from daytime. If there are more than a hundred inhabitants in such a place, it will not be on the topic of people.

But I had never heard of such a village until today.

So here is--

"Is that a demon village?"

Probably so.

After all, if you're in this open space, you'll definitely notice when you fly over Wyvern.

But I never realized. Perhaps this place has a technique that hides it from the eyes of others.

A hidden village closed to the barrier.

Now, the scenery in front of me seemed like that.

"But if so ..."

Why did I break through the barrier and come in? The monsters should have already entered because of the bloodstains, but why is the whole village calm down?

Everyone evacuated?

Even so, given the agility of the beast that hit the Grim Reaper's Scythe, it's unlikely to miss over a hundred villagers. It's unscrupulous to say, but there is one or two corpses.

I was also worried that there was no evidence that the villagers had resisted. Isn't it strange that one of the fences and one of the arrows is missing?

After that, as I entered the village following the beast's bloodstains, I became increasingly wrinkled in my eyebrows.

Even if the monsters attacked and fled, every house is tightly locked. No, maybe nobody lived in the first place, rather than a lock.

All windows are closed and every house feels like life. Vegetables are drying on the porch, agricultural tools are standing on the eaves, and plants are growing in flower pots. There is no single such sight.

Thinking that way, I stepped further into the village, and I knew why I could get into the barrier and why.

――There was a forest that was being eroded by the sea of rot.

Miasma Trees have decayed, grass has withered, and the soil is rotten. From the muddy, muddy, muddy ground, it is poisoned constantly, but is exhaled.

The dark purple vegetation gave off a strangely unpleasant smell, resembling a fruit just before rotting. When the leaves blown by the wind fall on the corroded ground, they instantly become black like fallen leaves hit by a bonfire.

A scene where ordinary forests are being rewritten as rotted seas.

There are huge trees growing here. The giant tree, probably a symbol of the village, was swallowed by corrosion from its roots.

The roots are rotten, the trunk is cracked, the branches and leaves are torn off. Within a few days, the decayed trunk will not be able to bear the weight of the giant tree and will fall.

Suddenly, when I looked around, I could see that there were similar giant trees in the south, west and east of the village. Probably, these four were the starting points of the village barrier.

One of them was swallowed up by the sea of rot, making it impossible to maintain the barrier-the guesswork was just guesswork, but probably not far from the facts.

Surely, the monster sensed that the barrier had been broken and headed here. For the demon beast, the demon hidden in this village may be that delicious prey. Survival of the Shinigami's Scythe, hiding in the bushes and trembling, is not a problem.

In retrospect, the members of Reaper's Scythe were attacked by monsters and killed, but were not eaten.

For demons, humans are lower creatures that are not food.

So, the demon did not eat the Grim Reaper's Scythe.

Now, the demon beast.

The king of snakes I lifted my lip, looking at the giant tree trunk.

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The lizard Basilisk's appearance was simply eight-legged.

Lizard It may be more of a king than a snake king. Such thoughts pass through the mind.

Poisonous dark red scales. It is lightly over six meters long, and could reach ten meters if it includes a tough tail.

The Basilisk, whose eight legs were robbed by the leader of the Grim Reaper's Scythe, seems to have little effect on movement as he is stuck on a giant tree.

Even now, four of the remaining five legs are stuck to the trunk, and the other leg is grabbing the prey-a demon girl.

A familiar two horn. The face certainly belongs to the girl who helped before.

However, the complexion is so bad as you can see from here. He seemed unconscious and his body was loose-just like the dead.

There seems to be no trauma as you can see, but given the toxicity of the basilisk, which also erodes the ground, there is a great risk from approaching alone. On the day of being grabbed directly ... that might be too late.

Shinso "-"

... Well, it's known that she will kill Basilisk, whether alive or dead.

Kei: The whole body is in a critical state in just one breath.

With my sword removed, I didn't notice--or ignored it, and shook the blade at the king of the snake, who opened her mouth to swallow the girl.