Hikaru left King's Capital in a carriage with Lavia.

"Where are you going?

"I want some requests to be accomplished with material delivery. I want to go to the dungeon as soon as possible."

"Could Hikaru have been such a dungeon lover?

"I'm interested, I'm interested."

Familiar with swords and magical fantasies, it is a dungeon. Rather, there are only dungeons. There are games and novels.

Besides, dungeons can demonstrate their abilities without worrying about the eyes of others.

"Even Lavia wants to go to the dungeon, right?

"What? Yeah... well, if Hikaru says so, you can go."

Try lifting the hair on your ears, touching the noodles you are exposed to because of your short hair, obviously softening Lavia.

Hikaru knows. that most of the adventure novels that Lavia had rented in the King's Capital were about dungeons. I guess I borrowed plenty of that stuff thinking I might be able to go to the dungeon from now on. They read it all out during their stay.

"Well... we are still dazzling adventurers. Let's just go with Monster Hunt."

The first carriage in the morning takes the roundabout route to Pond.

Hikaru aimed at the lake —— behind it. It's a forest where we met Paula and defeated the Goblin leader before.

I had a lot to try.

By the lake, Hikaru explains to Lavia.

"First you two sneak up on me and slap me"

"You two?

"I'm the only one who attacks. You just have to hold hands and follow me."

"Okay."

Although Hikaru's "secret" secrets have not yet been revealed, Ravia, who seems to have placed his trust in its performance, understood in two replies.

Hikaru has a few things to try.

The first is the "party function".

I knew the adventurers were throwing a party, but this seems to be just enough to notify the Adventurers Guild that way. It doesn't look like it has the benefit of guild cards or anything like that.

What Hikaru cares about is the rank of the soul. Recovery wizards, for example, do not wave their swords on the front line. Still, some rank high. How are they ranking?

The battle with Lawrence was intense, but Hikaru's soul has not risen in rank. After all, they won't go up unless they take their lives.

"Wow......"

Green Wolf is walking about 5 meters away. They don't notice Hikaru and Lavia even if they get so close.

Unexpectedly, Lavia snapped pompously, but just stood her ears tickled, and Greenwolf was sniffing the smell of the roots of the trees without worrying.

(... don't raise your voice)

(Oh, sorry)

Whispering very low, Hikaru approached Greenwolf with Lavia.

A blow —— if you insert a "Shortcut of Arm Power" into your neck muscle, the wolf's life will be gone.

!?

At that moment, Lavia's body trembles.

Hikaru quickly rips off the moss that was growing on Green Wolf's back. It's a special moss "wolfgrass" that only grows on Green Wolf's back, and I have a request to deliver this.

Take Lavia, who moves with her thighs, away from the Green Wolf carcass. Other Green Wolves were about to approach.

"-- ranked up?

"Maybe that's what I'm talking about."

It is usually known about the phenomenon of the ascending rank of the soul. In fact, when Hikaru checks Lavia's soulboard,

[Soulboard] Lavia

Age 14th Grade 7

1

It was.

(Lavia hasn't done anything, but the rank of soul has risen. This is a party, right? The concept of a party seems to be good to think of as "yes". But I haven't been made clear about that concept...... why?

Hikaru considered some patterns.

One is not valued in terms of "ranking the soul" itself, so research is not progressing.

Two have weak ideas in this world such as "research and demonstrate with a scientific approach".

The three had few practical examples because "party effects are only effective under fairly extreme restrictions".

Somehow I was wondering if all of that wasn't the reason.

It is not the purpose of this time to clarify why, so now I will make a discount.

As for Hikaru, that was enough if Lavia could raise each other's soul ranks by fighting near herself.

The point is to keep warm. I'll use it when something happens.

"What's next about magic, but what happens when you use magic to the limit?

"You're gonna fall out of your mind."

"And then when you wake up?

"I feel sick enough to die, but that's hardly an example of death... should be"

"Right. You did say that an elementary 'firebrace' could shoot about 30 shots without a break, but not exactly 30, right? I said 30 when I saw room."

"Yeah, yeah."

"Then the next experiment is that you know the limits of magic power."

That was an essential experiment in diving into the dungeon.

(My stunts are secret, and Lavia is fire magic. These two don't go so well together, do they?)

If you use magic, you will summon enemies around you. There is no way I can recover from losing my magic and fainting, and if I carry Lavia, Hikaru's mobility is restricted.

"There's also no such thing as the best person to let go of the magic though... I guess I'll have to set the right goal and shoot?

Walk through the woods. The landmark is the position of the sun. You have to be careful because the position changes with the passage of time.

There are stories that the more you go in the back, the stronger the monster will be, but it never will.

"Mmm."

Hikaru found it then. "The perfect match to unleash magic".

"Can you see that?

"Wow, that's the goblin settlement!? I've never seen it before!

"... I think the Count's Lady, who blinds you by looking at the Goblin settlement, is about you."

"Former (...), former (...) Countess"

About 100 meters from the Hikars, there was an open place. The only reason it's open is because the trees are cut down. The culprit is Goblin.

Goblins use cut down wood to make simple dwellings.

I don't know if it's the same family of goblin leaders that Hikaru defeated, but I wonder if they have about 50 to 100 goblins.

It was a goblin settlement, about the size of the inside of a land truck. I bake animal meat, whistle and dance. It looks quite peaceful —— but in one corner there are human things and the wreckage of a bumpy carriage, as well as pieces of clothing. He must have been killed.

"Will you wait here? I'll be back in a few minutes."

"Eh."

"I just want to see if there's anyone in the settlement who's been exposed."

…………

Lavia with an anxious face. Sure, I wouldn't like to be left in a place like this.

But if you two go, you might see a shocking sight. Goblins can also increase the number of individuals in their nursery beds.

We cannot rule out the possibility that someone is caught and kept alive more than humans have already been killed.

"If I'm alone, I can run right back."

"... ok"

Away from Hikaru, Lavia nodded in the shadow of the great tree.

This won't be noticed by a puff.

(Still, I'll find out if I'm Green Wolf. For Lavia, I want to get some kind of magic guide that can hide her because it's mild enough. Is there such a thing? Well, Princess Cujastria had it)

Hikaru ran out.

"Muscle Strength" 1 and "Instant Strength" 2 are not Dada. You don't have to be serious, you're going to be able to run 100 meters in just under 10 seconds.

Even if the sesame grass shakes, there is no way to notice the goblin.

(There is no goblin leader in sight. But there's a big individual there.)

The goblin leader was a giant over two meters, with about a meter and a half of individuals. One head serving is bigger than the other goblins.

(There's no human figure so far —— living people, right?)

Mixed with the meat of animals being baked in a fireworks, human arms were also skewered and baked.

With patience for nausea to come in, Hikaru turns a blind eye.

(Let's go inside)

It was daytime, but Hikaru forced it. I can't take more time than leaving Lavia alone.

I'm going to go through the square with a dash and check the digging shed that's blindfolded.

Sleeping goblins. Carrappo's cabin. Storage --.

(None)

There were no humans.

I had myself in great relief somewhere in my heart.

Assuming there was a woman who was being made pregnant with a goblin seed —— what would have happened? Would a woman have killed herself when she wanted to die?

(... I'm not ready yet)

If you confirm it, you have to make a decision.

Even if I found this settlement, I would have liked to have retreated. Only report the location to the Adventurer Guild and they will dispose of the rest. You don't have to get Hikaru's own hands dirty.

But if you check —— one of them. Do you want me to help you and take care of him? Do you want to close your eyes and run?

Disgusted by his half-way point, Hikaru returned to Lavia.

Lavia was shrinking just like earlier.

"... welcome back"

I saw Lavia with tears in her eyes —— I thought she was anxious, too.

Hikaru held her by accident.

"Hey, Hikaru...?

"I'm sorry. You were anxious."

"... it's weird. Let me do that myself."

"Oh, I'm an idiot"

I was anxious, too. I hugged her because I wanted to hide it.

Lavia also embraced Hikaru while looking surprised.

For just a little while, you two stood still.

"Well... that's magic"

"Are you okay now? Hikaru."

"... Well, that's magic"

To the embarrassment of being reconfirmed for his agitation and anxiety, Hikaru reinforced his narrative and reworded it.

"As a range, how about from here to that settlement?

"Fire magic? It won't arrive for a while. We need to get closer about half the time."

"Okay. Pull my arm just the right distance. So let go of Lavia's best magic."

"... Seriously?

"Then make the guild card 'Occupation' also 'Flame Spirit God: Flame Maygas'"

"Seriously?"

"Of course. Knowing your maximum firepower will narrow the range of tactics in the coming dungeon offense"

".................. ok"

Hikaru cares about that depressed face.

"I'm sorry. You don't like it?"

"No...... it is true that I wanted to adventure. You can't be adventurous if you're frightened here. I'll do it."

"Thank you. Oh, the most magical thing I can say is, I can't let you get stuck."

"I'll just think about it there. There's just a lot of magic going on. Still okay with that?

"Big magic formation? Well, I think it's okay. Instead, keep your hands tied."

"Yeah, that's fine."

"Okay. Then it's action."

Hikaru thought "mass blockade" would make even the magic formations invisible.

Even if we find out, it's in the woods with so many things out of sight. I can lurk as much in the shadows and re-enact "secrecy".

Hikaru and Lavia walk away.

Strengthens the power in the hand that connects you. Lavia's mouth is tight all the time.

With a distance of about 50 metres to the settlement, Lavia drew Hikaru's hand.

"I'll do it here"

Sooo... and Lavia took a small breath.

"'Answer my call, Spirit. My greed burns all things, creatures, even reason." -- "

Hikaru was stingy.

The ground emitted light about three metres in diameter, mainly in Lavia.

Throw your gaze at the Goblin settlement, but they don't even look like they noticed this one. "Mass blockade" seems to be working.

"--" Dance, Spirit, sing my magic to food, Spirit, burn it down in order to regain the unblemished heavens and earth ""

Hikaru glanced up at the sight.

Overhead, a huge magic formation appeared about 10 meters away —— a sphere of flame rising from it.

Hikaru's forehead and cheeks looking up are twinkly hot. Lavia is also stunningly sweating on her face.

Bigger than when "firebraces". I thought it was a ball, and it comes out like a noose. It's even like a snake.

Exactly some of the goblins noticed something unusual. He who points to the flames and raises his voice. He who plucks the skewers of flesh in his hand. who try to escape.

"'The Benefit of Fire (Flame Gospel)'"