Trinitas Mundus

Tria Calendar 3026, January 26.

I left from near the village of Leriche for four days. The vast forest stretching at the foot of the Aquila Mountains also finally broke off.

Through the woods, which were richer than they thought, there is a vast wilderness in front of them.

There was nothing but rocks and a few shrubs growing there.

The sky was clear, the cold blue skies of winter and the snow-covered wilderness were spreading, but there was no impression that it was beautiful, only a sense of rejection even colder than death.

Ray looks around at his people and quietly declares, "Let's go".

Take his word for it and nominate a scout and a rear watchman preceded by Uno the Beast Slave.

"Seis, Nuebe. Find the route ahead. Ocho warns the rear..."

Three werewolf beasts scatter immediately at his command.

Ray, who confirmed it, started walking to Seo Momoro. Beside him were Ashley Markat and Stella, and right behind him were the captives of the Little Ghost tribe, Darvé and Lauri.

Uno and Diez, another beastly slave, were on guard around them.

For just a few hours through the woods, you will wonder why the Demons are giving the name Desperationis and loathing it.

Initially it was a plain with just a lot of rocks and hard walking.

But just a few km further, the landscape turns into something even rougher, and the snow that covered the ground disappears, and instead of the slightly growing shrubs, you can't even see the grass and make you feel no trace of life at all. The rugged rock also melted and deformed like lava, and the remaining snow on the rock gave the impression of being snug, and the monotonous landscape only emphasized the creepiness.

A sulfur-like odor stood in, and the sensitive sense of smell of the beasts was completely mahy.

Seyce, who was ahead of him, suddenly poked his knee. As Nuebe guards his surroundings, he approaches, but he also begins to flutter like a thousand birds feet. Uno, who was watching in the rear, lifted his arms and stopped the Rays.

"Seyce and Nuebe have fallen. It's dangerous up ahead."

Ray said to the words, "Rescue me immediately! shouting," Uno shook his neck to the side, "It seems poisonous or exuding. Getting close is dangerous," he replies quietly. But in its eyes there was something like grief for losing one of its companions.

Ray wasn't convinced and said, "Then you can help if you go right away! I'll go! I said," I started running. Stella as well as Uno said, "It's dangerous! Please stop!," but I can't stand losing any more of my people. "Ray said," I have an idea!, "he said, forcefully moving forward.

At that time, he had no particular idea and also knew that what Uno and Stella were saying was right.

(Uno is right, even if we continue on to the dark clouds, I will only be in secondary distress. There has to be something. There's a way to help...... this sulfur smell, I do remember seeing it on the news...... volcanic gas? Was it gas sulfite...... no, it should have been hydrogen sulfide. I remember someone dying of hydrogen sulphide poisoning at some hot spring facility and watching the news. So maybe we can do something about it...)

Uno and Diez catch up from behind, turn forward and spread their hands. No more "It's Dangerous!" I said and stopped Ray. Now Ray also stops honestly,

"I've come up with a way to help. Leave it to me."

Ashley is also catching up with the Rays, and she asks worried, "Are you sure you're okay?"

"Oh, maybe it's okay. Because the cause is known. I don't have time for that."

Ashley nodded small, "I'm fine when Ray says this. I'll take care of it," he began convincing the Unos. In the meantime, Ray casts an impromptu thought spell.

"It is the god of the wind (Wentus) who brings many winds. Give me your presence, a clean breeze. I do not give you the power of my life. The wind that wraps me up and cleanses me (clean air)."

When Ray finishes casting the spell, a quiet breeze wraps him up.

(The image is an air purifier, but I don't know if it works on these gases. I wonder if I can handle it with activated charcoal or something like that......)

As the image grows stronger, the smell of sulfur disappears.

(I can do this. We need to help at all costs......)

Ray, who was in high school, didn't know, but hydrogen sulfide paralyzes his sense of smell and doesn't feel the smell when it gets above a certain concentration. For this reason it was dangerous to judge cheaply by the smell, but fortunately the magic was working perfectly, with clean air supplied around him and no problems.

Start moving as soon as the effect can be confirmed. However, it was not possible to run at full speed so that the layer of air could not be interrupted, but it would run as quietly as possible.

In about a minute we will reach the fallen place of Seyce and Nuebe. White vapours were erupting from the ground around them.

Ray immediately extended the range of magic he hung on himself, giving the two a clean air.

(Can you do lungs or throat? I don't know, but it's dangerous when there's a toxin in your blood from your lungs. We need to hang the healing magic with the image of cleaning the blood and fixing the mucous membrane...)

Alternate the healing magic of the water and wood attributes while maintaining the magic of the clean wind (clean air). It would multiply the magic of two attributes at the same time, which was considered impossible in the magician's world. This time Ray's magical purifying wind (clean air) imagines a self-running air purifier, so he wasn't aware that it was that difficult for him. If researchers in the academic city of Doctus had seen it, they would have looked at its diversity.

In a minute or two, I decide I've had some healing, and I try to hold the two of them back to where Ashley and the others are waiting. The two beastly slaves felt like pulling over because of their light attire and their original light weight, but they were able to travel.

When he joined Ashley and the others in about five minutes, he unlocked the magic of clean air.

"You look fine... but what about the two of you?

To Ashley's question, Ray shakes his neck to the side.

"I don't know. For once, I've cleaned my lungs and blood so I think I can figure it out... just in case, I'll hang some magic on my head."

Consider the damage done to the brain and hang the healing magic. Did it work, Seyce and Nuebe regained consciousness?

The two hear that Ray saved them with his life at stake and bow his head just to put his forehead on the ground.

"Thank you for your help. But think about yourself more than we do."

Ray shakes his head "wearing" to the words.

"I'm glad you said that, but I don't like it when you're sacrificing someone. So we want you all to take care of your lives."

Uno didn't shake his head vertically, "But that doesn't make it possible to check the safety of the route," he said.

"No, Ray is right. We've only just entered the wilderness. If you drain your power here, you can't move on. Well, if you seem to be making a sacrifice here, you won't be able to recapture Luna in this demonic land. It will be important for everyone to safely exit the land. Shouldn't we be about 10 meters ahead and alert as far as we can see?"

That being said, I was thinking of something else in my mind.

(If someone dies in this situation, Ray will blame himself. No one told me to rescue Luna, but what I decided to do myself. Unlike Millis Valley, which was involved in the battle undeniably, or Periclitle, which I knew would make a great sacrifice. No sacrifice should be made to protect Ray either......)

Stella was thinking the same way.

(Master Ray is kind. If someone is forced to die, they will always regret it...... but this is a dangerous place. Someday someone will lose their life......)

"I think so too. The danger of total annihilation increases, but even if the power is shredded little by little, it will eventually be annihilated. I think we should all hit it, like Ray and Ashley said."

To Ashley and Stella's words, Uno also had to nod, "I will obey you".

Camp that night in a place where bittersweet rocks roll, but the wind blowing through is cold as cutting itself off. Though windscreen a large rock, there were no fueled trees around, and I had to lean against each other and warm my body.

The distance travelled on that day was less than 10 km. It looks like a plain in in the distance, but by the way, deep cracks like crevasses ran, and even more so because the gas ejection holes where the Seyces fell held their way.

Not only that, nature was not the only enemy, such as the appearance of a demon like Ali Hell from the ground and the likelihood of the Little Ghost Clan Lauri being drawn into it.

Though it was the fatal injury that did not take place, Ray's magic power was close to its limit and his face was earthy with fatigue and out of magic. The others were equally exhausted. Even Ashley, who was confident in his health, has a hundred million to open his mouth.

The freezing cold and fatigue plunges Ray into negative thinking.

(This would have been better if we had forced ourselves along the street. If the ghosts were their opponents, they could escape, and if it was difficult to travel during the day, there was a way to rest and travel after the sun went down... it hurts not to be able to use the fire. So is a warm meal, but I feel somewhat calm if there's a fire... now I guess we can still make it... no, we can't make it if that's it. I really need to break through here......)

"Your judgment isn't wrong," whispered Ashley, who sensed Ray was in a hurry,

"But rush is forbidden. This is the time to be more careful than usual, and on the contrary, there will be delays."

"Right," he nods with a smile at the words.

"I was in a hurry even though it was only my first day. There are still hundreds of kilometers and I can't help but rush. It's going to take ten days to estimate less."

Containing his inner haste, he answers that with a smile, but both Ashley and Stella were aware that he was forced to do so. But I didn't put it in my mouth, I just nodded quietly.

Ray quietly led to Ashley and slowly fell asleep, feeling its temperature.

The next day, Ray's magic slept without disarming him, although he had recovered, so his body fatigue had not completely slipped out. Still force me to make a smile.

"Keep going. But from today on, I'm going to go pick up some branches of wood that I think I can fuel. Of course, if anything happens, I wish I could throw it away, but I still can't get tired without warm food."

Though no grass or trees had grown, the dead branches that seemed to have been flown out of the woods fell by the way. However, that amount was small and I could not secure enough to fuel it even if I collected it in one place.

Ashley also agrees with Ray that

"Basically, I'll carry it. Physically, I guess I'm the best. I want Stella and Uno to be on guard."

Stella also noticed Ashley's care and replied with a smile, "I'll take care of it".

It slightly preceded the beast slave Ocho and, once again, began to challenge the wilderness known as “despair”.

As yesterday, the weather was clear and open to sight, and we made use of yesterday's lessons and devised ideas such as exploring the route to proceed from the large rocks, which went well in the morning. With more than 10 km of travel yesterday in about five hours, and some more dead branches likely to be firewood, there was also room in the faces of the Rays.

At lunch I could use those branches to light the fire and have a warm meal. This gave me just a little room for their expression as well.

But at this time, the Rays didn't understand the true meaning of the name Desperationis.