"Come on, we've got lunch, and let's get going!
At the end of his breakfast, Mora has encouraged him to leave with such faces as motivation. That's well good......
"What is it, that luggage?
In a piece, she was in charge of a giant hemp bag swollen in bread. You just look like a fire burglar or someone evacuating the fire.
"The bandits took it from me, it was my father's property. I can't have all my luggage, just some of it..."
It's true that this is a bandit's fort, so if you look, you probably have treasures taken from the victim, etc. Yesterday, you saw a warehouse in the basement loaded with luggage like that when you explored it. If this is "D&B," I'd be happy to collect it all.... or if we were collecting it within yesterday and there was property in it for Mora's family... it's dangerous.
"Uh, wait a minute. I'll be ready now."
Forgive Mora for the momentum that was still about to jump out of the fort, and I cast some spells.
"Ugh, horse!?"
By a three-level spell [Phantom Horse (Phantom Horse)], Maura raised her bare voice when a black-haired horse appeared in the courtyard of the fort. Wrapped in a thin, blue-white aura, this horse exerts an alien ability to run special terrain, such as on the water, depending on the level of the spell user. Of course, I'm at the highest level, so this horse can run in the sky instead of on the water and through the walls for every rider.
"It's hard to walk down the mountain road for half a day, and I'll use this horse because you'd better get to the village soon. And I have other things to pack..."
And, do your gaze at the jergle statue you left overnight in the courtyard. Use the next spell I was thinking about while eating breakfast.
"Ugh, I floated! And so are you..."
[Invisible Carrier (Sprite Porter)]. A spell that creates an invisible squire and carries luggage. Only one level of spell gives the squire no ability other than to carry luggage and track the user, but its power is considerable. First Maura's large luggage gently lifts the jersey statue. The squire himself is most invisible, so the stone statues and hemp bags appear to float alongside the universe... surreal. Maura seems to have the same opinion and is whining about "wow......"
I wasn't sure what to do with the jersey statue, but I didn't have time to bring it back to life and get the information out on this occasion, nor could I keep the wizardry staff petrified with him, so I decided to carry it. In case the people you're about to meet call you an evil sorcerer, you can use them as witnesses.
"There are a few more spells I'd like to use, shall we get out of here for one second"
"Ha, ha."
When I straddle a phantom horse, I pull up Mora. What I grabbed at that time was not "white and luxurious hands," often referred to in the novel, etc., but warm hands hardened by daily chores and work.
"Uh... hi yo!
……
Horseback riding, since I experienced it on a ranch in Hokkaido decades ago, but I was able to manipulate the reins firmly. "Watchdogs" faithfully reproduced that all characters possess basic horseback riding skills in the "D&B" basic rulebook. It's the most spell-called monster, so he obeys orders even if he's not skilled.
Maura sits on the back of the saddle, surprised.
I let the phantom horse walk (though it was still unusual for a stone statue jergle and hemp bag to follow fluffy behind me) through the general gate and out of the fort.
The fort's front yard is very narrow. One side was a cliff and the other three were rugged slopes. If we were to attack this place in the military, it would be quite a struggle. You could have built a stone fort in a place like this in the first place...
"I need to get to the village and show my father my safe face and then come back... I'm worried about the load."
Maura shrugged with a serious face.
"Right, maybe the bandits will come back. I'll take care of it."
"Measures?
I used the next spell as I looked up at the high stone wall of the fort on the horse.
"… [Changing the earth (renovation)]"
"!? Now what's so awesome!?"
Tremors and ground ringing spread from the ground, precisely from the earth beneath the fort.
"And, for the time being!? Ground!?"
This spell can move the surface freely. Along with the sound of 'gogogo', the earth on which the fort was built stretched vertically, fixing the effect of the spell about 20 metres after lifting the fort. The only thing you can see right now is a cliff.
"This won't let anyone in for a while."
…………
Vanity is stimulated by Mora looking up at the fort above the wall with her eyes and mouth wide open.... Totally stubborn I am.
Gently wipe your head before putting on some more emergency spells.
"Thank you for waiting. Then you're leaving."
"... Ah, yes"
I dressed up and kicked lightly in the belly of a phantom horse with my feet, taking more will than that signal, the black giant horse rushed out lightly...... floated into the universe.
"Oh, it's flying, it's flying"
"Ghahhhhhhh!?"
"... upp..."
"Really, you're in trouble if you don't think about it a little bit more, right? Am I your sorcery? You don't know anything about magic, do you? What would you do if you fell?
"... yes... sorry..."
A few minutes later, the phantom horse that put us on was quietly going down the mountain path.
It's good to have floated for a moment into my first experience in any double sense of flying across horses, but I had an immediate problem. One is that Maura panicked. The other thing is that I was drunk. And because I realized that if Mora's father was headed to the fort with a ransom, he would be going wrong. If it was flat, it would have been found from above.
Fortunately, if we were to proceed through the earth, the sway on the horse would not have bothered us.
Comfortable ride even in the bad conditions of mountain paths in depressed and thriving forests. Though the novel from Maura on the back goes on a long way.
Anyway, take this mountain road for half a day and you'll be out on the street. It meant that if we went west down the street, it would be the city of Lelis, and if we went east, it would be the village (which seems to be the name Yule).
For about two hours, we were rocked on the back of a phantom horse.
"... you really don't look like a magician, Gio"
"Isn't that right?
Maura said she thought it was time to have lunch somewhere.
"Has Mr. Morra ever met or seen a magician around here?
"There was a magician's guild in the city of Lellis, and because of my father's work, I sometimes traveled with magicians who were adventurers."
Is there a sorcerer's guild after all? And adventurers.
"But magic used by magicians was all about flying fireballs, ice arrows, blowing up opponents with the wind... whatever they used to fight anyway"
"Ho..."
Does it mean that magic for attacks is developed and convenience magic such as recall is not common?
"Besides, a lot of people look down on civilians..."
"That's troublesome."
Having that conversation, I saw something across the mountain path.
"Hmm? People, is it"
"... oh, really"
Bad vision because it's a winding road, but it looks like one person sits a dozen meters away. That's a new contact. Now be careful not to be suspected or hated by Hein.
Slightly loosen the phantom horse's legs to avoid threatening him and move closer. Turns out he's carrying a bow and a man in clothes whose greens and browns seem to be easy to move around the base.
Hello, hello.
Enough, a few meters to notice this approach. I spoke to him.
"Oh, hello. You want to go for a walk in here?
The man replied with one hand up in a casual manner. Is he in his 30s or something? He also wears a cape with a leather hood and a leather protective gear. If you're talking about gaming knowledge, like Rangers or Hunters.
"No, there was a little bit of a situation. Take this woman to the village of Yule…"
Trying to start explaining, Maura screamed when she peered into my face from my back and saw a man.
"Ah, Mr. Seddam!
"... is that Mora?
As Maura jumped off the saddle of the phantom horse, she rushed over to the man she called Sedam.
"Mr. Sedam! You're so helpful!?"
"Oh, I took your father's request"
Oh, so this man is an adventurer? Bandits, you run into an evil sorcerer followed by a fantasy profession.
I go down from the phantom horse too and approach him.
"Nice to meet you. I'm a wizard named Geo Margils. We were on edge, and we could help Mr. Morra."
"Magic, use?... Well, whatever it is, you've definitely helped Mora. Thank you."
I thought an adventurer who took on her rescue might have been said to have interrupted the request, but Sedham has smiled and offered one hand.... This is a good handshake, right?
Sedam grips her hand hard as she stretches out a little thought.
"Looks like the bandits were in good shape with their new magicians on their heads. I've been so helpful."
"I owe it to coincidences. Anyway, it was good. She doesn't have a scratch."
"It would be nice if you could tell me a little more later.... for now"
When he let go of his handshake, Sedham clasped his fingers in his mouth and sounded sharp and high.
Moment after moment, there's a slight sound of something falling behind me.
!?
"It wasn't the enemy... you know. Anything will be fine if Mora is safe..."
Looking back, at some point a woman in leather armor stood. She's a beauty with three big cluttered red hair braids, but her expression is dark. Ka-chan, when I saw the sound, I was putting my dagger back in my hips sheath.... I guess I've been lurking on a tree before. This woman must be a bandit or an assassin.
"Mr. Physica! It's very suspicious, but he's not a bad person."
Maura followed me as I hugged a woman...... Physica. It's called a conversation with Seddam, he seems a lot closer to them.
In addition, two adventurers emerge from the prosperity of the mountain path.
But there's no reward for that.
"Well, isn't that good?"
A woman with a long cane and a boy with a shield and a sword.
"I'm sorry. I knew you were on your way over here. I thought you were a rumored magician. I was just getting ready."
Says Sedam with a bitter smile.
I see, you're smart.... rather than I was defenseless. I was going to get ready, but if I got really unintended in the current situation without [Invincible], I might not have been able to handle it. You haven't had enough of a crisis yet...
"I've got two more down there. Why don't you rendezvous with them and exchange information while we have lunch?
"Not a bandit coming to get her back?
"I don't have that kind of vibe... are you coming after me?
"No, at least the bandits in the fort are on the loose, and the chief magician is captured."
"I think it's okay! Let's make it dinner!
"See?
After this, this was the encounter with the Sedams Adventurer Party, which became a long relationship.