The Branded Female Fencer

Battle of the Dark Forest, Part 3 - Mages Gathering ③

"This forest is precious."

"What's the matter, suddenly? Doesn't that sound right?"

"You're going to be rude. I'm going to be able to determine what's valuable. This forest is very mature, although many trees are short due to its age. It would be essential not only for resources, but also for the Spirit. This forest is so rich that it can be home to new superior spirits"

"Do you agree, Anomaly?"

"Does the king agree with you?

"Uhm."

Lifeless looked at the forest with eyes that seemed to see something he missed somewhere. When Dortmund tried to think about that where the thought was going, he broke the air by making sure Blanche jumped.

"Ousama! Konomori, Hen!

"That would be so. I hear you have a mighty demon."

"Soujanai! Kemonogato Ormichi, Nye!

"What?

"Speaking of..."

Sure, the road we've been walking on is a road without paths. It's not like there's no sign of a creature, but I don't feel at all how I feel about life. As Anomaly looked back to look around to confirm Blanche's point, a huge tree looming in front of her entered her sight. And the tree, which was supposed to be straightening, came upon it with a threaded bend.

"Bye!

Neither could a servant anomaly be helped by the giant trees that struck him, and he was exposed to the woods with screams in his outfit to be swept away by the trees. But no one is going to help Anomaly. Instead, each one of them raises his guard and prepares for the onslaught of the enemy.

Lifeless checked his surroundings most carefully.

"Dortmund, have you seen the enemy?

"No, nothing but trees"

"Erlich."

"I haven't seen anything either"

"Well, so am I. You don't want to kill the attack."

Lifeless evaluates the current attack. When I checked my surroundings again, I spoke to Titania, who stood up with no weapons at all.

"Titania, do you feel anything?

"No, I certainly don't feel like killing. I was wondering if it was more like a trap that has automatically launched an attack than a concealment of killing. I can still follow the signs of anomaly, do you want to help?

"Leave him alone. He's also the kind of guy who dies in that kind of attack."

"That's terrible. So we move on?

While Doom shares his thoughts, he points to the end of the woods. Sure hasn't stood that much since I went into the woods yet. Based on the size of the forest, which can be confirmed by the use of flying dragons and the like from above, this point is still not allowed to enter by a tenth from the center of the forest. It was a pre-emptive attack earlier than expected.

And when you make sure there's no enemy attack, the line starts to move on again. In the middle of it, Lifeless speaks to Blanche.

"Blanche, you said there was no beast path."

"Un. Kemonogato ormici, futuunala al. Ikimonoheirnoni, Solemonaino haokashi. Konomori, Hen"

"Right. You know what else is wrong?

When Lifeless asked gently, Blanche answered with a few thoughts.

"- Utah Casgill"

"Too rich?

"Seileigaosgill. Fusizen"

"... sure."

I also know what Blanche is trying to say to lifeless people who use witchcraft. Was that the same with Doom and Erlich, nodding at the gaze sent by Lifeless? What their snorts show is that there are many dark spirits here that they serve or exploit. Lifeless had noticed that there were many spirits of other attributes, so I was wondering if this forest was purely rich, but that didn't seem to be all.

Lifeless went ahead, thinking for himself about Blanche's opinion. Sometimes in the woods, we meet beasts, and we meet warcraft. But they never attacked the Lifeless, but they didn't even look scared. I tried to kill myself and intimidate them, but they were scared and never ran away. Instead, he just leaves when he gets tired of observation, looking a little farther at the Lifeless. Wild animals should be very sensitive to killing, etc., but the animals and warcraft in this forest were as if they were different. Though he wondered how it was, Lifeless was going through this forest full of spirits, nostalgic.

Should I have walked for another half an hour? A line of feet that was going on without anything stopped perfectly, not that anyone would say.

"The forest..."

"You're suddenly getting deeper"

Until now there were certainly many trees, but they were wide enough to walk without worrying. But from here on out, it is so dense of trees that you must strike down the branches and walk without taking your feet from the roots. Autumn is also gradually deepening, but the fallen leaves were built up deep enough for the feet to be buried. It is as if we can see the will to reject the intrusion of others.

It is clearly not a state of nature that suddenly results in this kind of situation.

"Apparently you don't want me to go in ahead of you, do you?

"Though, I can't possibly not go"

"Then who's going first?"

Take Doom's word for it, everyone sees Doom's. Doom looked like he was gone, but it was too late.

"Hey, what is it? You're saying there's something on my face?

"Words are responsible. Don't you think?

"You can think a little bit more about who's best suited, right?

"It's okay. Because you're the one who can stand the cage between me and Dragreo. I'm not going to die for a little while."

"You were a cage, not a training, that!

Doom opened his grievances in full, but Titania and Lifeless showed no sign of giving way. Doom reluctantly steps into the danger zone.

Looking at him, Titania looked somewhat surprised.

Continued