The Peerless Kobold (WN)

As we walk away from the village of Viel, once we slowly leave under the gaze of Maril and the bandits towards the Barbera Forest, which is slightly northeast of the settlement.

"Well, apparently they're mutants from the Barbera Forest."

"Barbera Forest”... then you can be convinced of that strength. "

"I've never seen a high cobolt in the woods around here..."

I heard the vigilantes agreeing with Muriel's whining, the red-haired demon mentor, coming from behind. I'm sorry about the rest, but let's leave it all to her.

However, for a while, it may be time to put out a scourge on the outer edge of the Easteria forest and be vigilant... in case it ever happens, to secure a place where we could move the settlement further behind the forest.

In that case, the northeast, which is now headed towards the "Barbera Forest”, is the danger zone of the markings, so we will inevitably aim for the southeast of the forest zone.

Well, it's a guy called Cane Without Falling Ahead.

Why don't we go take a look down when we have time...

Thinking about things ahead, go for a short time through the meadows where the short grass spreads. Eventually, when we were invisible from the village, we moved carefully around the area, turning the path to the opposite west of the forest, keeping our noses at bay.

Then without taking much time, Blazer stops, who was in the lead.

"Grung, Grung Ao? Blazer, did you find it?

"Wahoo, guru, woo on! (Oh, you're perfect!)"

What was there was an unnatural trace of grass treading on the ground. The earlier bandits must have passed the roadless path this trace points to and come to the village of Viel.

And because many of them are ex-mercenaries, the behavior is similar to nature. Normally, mercenaries do not carry supplies of livelihood that are not directly related during sword-wielding combat.

So where is it?

Hide it in the rear curtain, or a little further from the main battlefield.

Neither did the bandits we encountered in the village of Viel bring anything but arms and props.

In other words, their supplies of subsistence and so on should be lying on the meadows near the village of Viel. I can't believe I'm alive eating Xia.

"Gurua kurua... (The boss is right...)"

Lancers groan, looking at the traces of grass trampled by those dozen bandits.

... Well, thanks only to Muriel for winning the neighborhood map and survey he had.

But I'm sure I can't fool around with my instincts.

Many of them are sensations gained from unconsciousness based on the rule of thumb of similar situations.

If I were to force myself to reason with this thought...

I wonder if the rationale is their positional relationship with the north-south streets connecting the town of Zergra to the city Warren, the tributaries of the Stile river that cross it, the east-west streets that extend from the town of Zergra to the village of Viel?

If you think of it as a place where you can escape into the forest on the south side of the river, or, if you have to, the east, close to the water source with the aim of both streets and without the need to cross the river, the range of life of the bandits becomes quite limited.

Overall, it is presumed that they came from the south side of the Stile River tributary and from the north side of the village of Viel. Once we proceeded to the northeastern forest to avoid identification of the settlement, we could have crossed the trail with the marauders if we proceeded west from there.

"Gurrah, Gaowan... (Head, out to scout...)"

"Waf, Gong (ah, please)"

[Activated: Signal blocked (medium)]

[Effect: It makes it harder to be distracted by your signs]

Soon the signs of Blazer diminish and it becomes harder to get a sense of reality even though we are in front of them. As it was, he followed the trail north.

Perhaps we won't be travelling with supplies of subsistence near the village, so if we follow this trail north, we should be able to reach the hidden supplies and lookouts...... is there any chance of the south?

I get a voice when I'm anxious, for example.

"Gurua, Woagaruu (Boss, I want some water)"

I opened the lid on the leather water bottle I recovered from the bandits, checked the contents, gently included it in my mouth to make sure it was safe, and then threw it at Axe.

"Gawoal, woah, woah."

"Wow! Kluaong? (Eh! Can I have it?)"

Axe happily receives a leather water bottle, opens the lid and mouths it.

"Bufo!?

And erupted the contents.

There is a slight smell of alcohol.

"Wah, waffy! (Hey, what the heck!)"

"Gah, gah."

In the first place, some people in the settlement also ferment fruit to make alcohol and drink, but it's not very common, and I've never seen Axe drink it.

Was it still the first time?

Lancer watched us interact with each other.

"Gu, guraou...... (already, the boss again...)"

"Wow, wow."

In a slightly shattered atmosphere, Blazer shows up with the sound of accidentally scratching the grass.

"Wow, Guru."

"Gwawong?"

"Galquao Oufa Galua, Galua Ouu"

(Not so far away, there were two watchmen)

So shall we strip them of their figure too...

As he lowered his posture at Blazer's lead and gently circled to the camp of the bandits, a lookout with a seemingly familiar look at the end of his gaze was biting the absences.