When Aldis explored the surrounding magic, there were multiple reactions. The number is more than ten. The power of the magic is not so great, but it is rare that you do not notice until it approaches this much.
"A monster ... isn't it?"
In the dark, the figure emerges around the Aldiss.
It was a red humanoid. The size is the same as a human. If human shadows were colored red and three-dimensional, they would surely look like this.
I didn't feel hostile. In the first place, it is doubtful whether they are living things.
A deformed humanoid with weak magical power moves his body swaying silently. In the silence-filled ruins, only Cyril, still asleep, could be heard.
How long have you been doing that? The movement of the humanoid, who had been shaking the body until then, becomes intense. Some hold their heads with their hands, some hold themselves, and others look up in heaven with their hands folded. The humanoids are approaching Jirijiri and Aldis, all in different ways.
"Oh oh good, oh oh oh oh"
At the same time, voices from the humanoids begin to be uttered. I couldn't see anything whispering, but it was clearly heard by Aldis.
"Why ... what is it?"
As expected, the voice wakes up Cyril. Cyril looks around with her incapacitated head, waking up and seeing the crimson variants surrounding them and the voices they utter.
"Eh ...? What ?! What? What ?!"
"Don't do anything extra. Stay still."
Ayaka Soten Keeping her mind, "", Aldis said to Cyril. In the meantime, the red variant will surely shorten that distance.
(Well, what happened?)
Aldis ponders, not speaking.
There is no hostile response so far. However, it would be unfavorable to be surrounded by strange and unusual variants, and to be narrow. It is doubtful what the opponent is going to be, and whether he has any intentions in the first place.
"Stop there. I'll kill you as you approach."
Aldis gave a warning. The voice echoes inside the high ceiling ruins.
"Oh oh oh oh oh oh"
However, all that comes back is a voice of agony with unknown meaning. Communication was unlikely.
"it can not be helped"
Hakuharu Kasumi Give up early on negotiations, and Aldis releases "" and "".
Soten Ayaka himself stands in the side of Kirill with "" and flies the remaining two swords toward a humanoid. One goes straight to the humanoid in front of the other, and the other goes around overhead, aiming at the back of the humanoid in the vicinity.
Two swords split in the air and attack a strange humanoid. The humanoid does not show any avoidance. The next moment, the sword slashed the humanoid body that each was targeting.
If it is a human, the part that hits the torso is cut right beside it, and the humanoid disappears like a haze. It was almost unresponsive, but the moment the fellows were attacked, the appearance of the humanoids changed dramatically.
"Oh oh oh oh oh oh!"
"Good, oh, oh, oh, oh!"
"Oh oh oh oh oh oh!"
An unprecedented scream echoes around. The humanoid, whose speed was creeping, suddenly rushed to Aldis at intense speed.
"Chu!"
Aldiz makes the tongue tapping "Katsuharu Kasumi" and "Tsukisuki Fubuki" to another humanoid. At the same time, he deployed the magic of the wind and hunted down other humanoids.
Iku "Pale white is a far-off void, and convicted ----!"
A strong wind is created inside the archeological site separated by walls from the outside world.
An instantaneous roaring storm engulfed the crimson shape. Small rubble scatters against the wind pressure, and dust and dust accumulated over many years soar. Receiving such a windy blade, the humanoids scattered around their bodies and were torn apart.
"No, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!"
A harsh scream resounds around.
The humanoids are wrapped in the wind and blown off near the ceiling, and when they lose momentum, they fall down to the floor and thin down. Just before colliding with the floor, the body vanished into a point as if sucked in an unnatural trajectory.
Where the humanoid disappeared was the sword obtained from this archeological site. At first glance, a sword that no one would have touched was pulled out of the sheath, revealing its sword's body. The brilliant sword blade that I saw for the first time was suspiciously glowing red.
"Yeah, this sword ... isn't he cursed ...?"
"... maybe."
Painful silence comes again inside the ruins illuminated faintly by the magic light.
"What do you want to do? Don't you take it home?"
After a long silence at Aldis's question, Cyril's neck is swung left and right.
"I can't give up this far. I'd like to bring it home if I can-I'll definitely bring it home. But ..."
Muddy Kirill spoke.
It would also be so. If Aldis wasn't accompanied, Cyril wouldn't even be able to return to the royal capital through the forest. It would be even more difficult to have a sword possessed by such an unidentified variant.
If Aldis were to say no, Cyril's fate would be exhausted at that point. There is no way that Kirill's feelings sink. Aldis takes a small breath and creates an expression similar to a bitter smile.
"It's a ship on board. I won't abandon it anymore. I'll keep going until I return to the capital."
When he says so, he moves the glowing sword with magic and puts it in the sheath.
"Well ... it's too early to leave. Do you want to sleep again?"
"Huh? Yeah !? Even though that happened ...?"
"Sleep when you can sleep. It's the basics of mercenary ... Isn't it a mercenary? Well, if you come back, just turn it back. Good night--"
When he answered with a tone that it was not a big deal, Aldis quickly wrapped up in his cloak and lay down. Cyril had a swearing sign, but eventually gave up and went into a second sleep, just like Aldis.
next morning. Eventually, the unusual humanoids did not appear from that.
Neither Aldis nor Cyril were able to completely heal the fatigue, but the situation is the situation alone. He prepared quickly and left the archeological site with the sunrise.
"That ghost, will it come out again?"
"I don't want you to come out."
Even if it's a trivial opponent, it's stressful not to know when Aldis and his elusive opponent will attack.
As it turned out to be a good sword, it was judged that holding it directly by hand was a high risk, and Aldis still carried it in the air with magic. It always consumes magical power, which adds to the burden, but cannot be replaced by safety.
The site where the archeological site was located is about two days on foot from the forest entrance. Floating Aldis alone can fly faster and run faster with [], but this is not so with Cyril. He had to walk according to Cyril's physical strength and stride, so it took three days to get through the forest.
The beasts and monsters attacking in the forest are all right now. For Aldis, repelling the monsters that live in the Caucasus forest is a breeze, even with a cursed sword and a lonely boy.
The problem was a strange humanoid that appeared every night in camping. After all, two nights spent in the woods, the red humanoids appeared exactly at midnight.
Retirement Of course, it's easy for Aldis. But as long as the root cause is not removed, it will reappear at night.
That is fine up to the royal capital, but there is still a problem of what to do afterwards. It seems honestly reckless to bring this sword back to the city where the client is located with Cyril alone beyond the royal capital.
"I wish there was a way to break the curse in the capital city ..."
Kirill seems to understand it well. He has an expression that does not float even though he has obtained the desired sword.
Aldis and others finally pass through the forest, with such subtle air flowing. Cyril squinted, immersed in the sun's light.
"It's a little more"
Once you have gone through the forest, it is a day's walk to the royal capital. There is a question of what to do with the sword's curse, but it can be said that we are now back in a safe arena.
Of course, safety is a matter of comparison with the Caucasus forest. Beasts that attack humans appear in the grasslands.
Also, it is not just the beast that attacks. Merchants who do not employ escorts, or mercenaries who rush to see, are good targets.
"Oh, shavens! Keep all the things you have silently!"
It was none other than those who attacked such vulnerable groups. One is a pre-adult child, and the other is a magician-like boy who can only see about 15 years old. As a game of hunting, it would seem attractive.
"If you listen quietly, you won't take your life."
A few minutes to get out of the forest and start walking. Multiple shadows appear around Aldis and Cyril.
A humanoid other than red that I see after a long time. It had a face, dressed, and spoke human words. It looked like a robber.