Vorpal Rabbit and Fortress Uncle

Numerous fine white bubbles rise and are disturbed by complex water currents.

As their hair is disturbed and their vision rolls, they move their arms diligently and scratch algae towards the light.

"Puhaha!"

Letty filled her lungs with fresh air as she lifted her face out of the rough, wave water.

"Lacto, Amy! Are you okay?"

Nah, I can handle it.

"Gobo, beard ho... Uhhh...."

The three LPs had been cut by more than half due to the impact of the water landing.

There were barely 10% left of Lacto, almost buried in a coffin.

"I knew it was safe to fall from the waterfall."

Letty leaves her body in a sticky scalefish and raises her forehead.

Looking up, there is a tremendous amount of water pouring down from far away.

They had fallen long distances and had taken painful lives.

"If she hadn't been here, she'd be drowning."

Amy puts her chest on the white belly of the scalefish and says tightly.

The scalefish had lost all of their HP, but when it floated, they managed to keep getting oxygen while being rubbed by rough waves.

"In the meantime, why don't you go up to land?

In the words of Lacto, whose face turned pale, the three swimmed to the shore while clinging to the strange fish's body.

"But the waterfall pot is the size of a boulder."

Landing on a shore of smooth sand, Letty looks back.

The waterfall pot, which is worn under the long waterfall that extends to the left and right, boasts an area that is no longer small enough to be called a lake.

"Where did Reggie end up?"

Lacto wipes his neck with anxiety and looks around.

I can't find a trace of him in sight.

"Let's move on to the marker for now. Is LP okay?

Yeah, about 30%.

The boulders are healing fast.

Instead of increasing production speed in the largest quantity, Lacto regains LP at a speed that is not comparable to Letty or Amy.

If you rest a little, you will be able to proceed with caution.

"Nevertheless, it doesn't replace the lack of supplies, just be careful."

"Unlike the upper layers, there will be new prototypes."

It's a new field that's been unlocked full.

It doesn't mean that the new prototype is just the upper scalefish.

"Yes, can you communicate?

"Wait a minute.... no, it's getting worse."

Amy manipulates the display to hang items.

When I was in the upper echelons, I was able to get in touch with people who had registered friends other than my college.

At present, however, they can neither display nor call in gray letters without exception.

"... hey, I was just thinking."

Lacto, who was using the Arts Mastery's "Sleep" to recover the LP, opened his eyes and said.

"It's like a theory that I got too far from Susanoo to be out of range."

"Yes, is that so?

Letty frowned at Lacto's reluctant opinion.

But Amy pulled her chin and nodded with interest.

"I see... I wonder if the upper echelons were within critical range. That's why I couldn't get in touch with Reggie on the lower level."

"Susanoo, is Tsukuyomi so poor?

"Tsukuyomi probably doesn't just relay calls, it's a side job."

I'm kind of nervous.

Letty looks up at the night sky and wonders about the satellites that should be lined up in quasi-geostationary orbit.

"It's already night. Let's find Mr. Reggie and get out of here."

"That's right. I've recovered, and I can leave."

"I can't fight, but I can do anything to protect you."

Although Letty and Lacto are highly attacking, their defenses are judged by their weakness.

Behavior in these unknown areas, in a situation where supplies were scarce and depleted, relied even more on Amy's protection.

Amy holds a blunt shield and braces herself.

She took the lead, and the party walked out to the edge of the water at night.

"Ugh, I can hear something really loud..."

"Ambient sound, right? If you care, you won't be able to kill yourself."

Grab the hem of Letty's jacket and let lact squeeze shoulders down.

Behind the dark woods, the groans of the trees and the roaring of the waterfall were mixed to hear something like a beast roaring.

"Letty's going to be fine."

"If your ears are too good, you'll be blunt."

Looking at Lacto, who sends a respectful look, Letty answers with an observant face.

It was her escape from reality that she walked temporarily with a calm expression.

"But it's inconvenient that there's no light. I can't cope with an ambush if I don't have good vision."

The sun has already completely sunk and the surroundings are dyed in inky darkness.

With Reggie, I could have secured my sight with the lantern lights, but that would not have happened in the circumstances where I was looking for him.

Speaking of which, Letty, you have the skills.

"I don't have a lantern. It's just because the camp hasn't been lowered."

Avoiding Amy's gaze with expectations, Letty whispers.

If she knew this was going to happen, she also brought the lantern into the inventory, but she usually keeps it in Susano's storage to save weight.

"Wow, then I can't help it....."

Few players leave the field at night in the first place.

Sometimes it is visually unfavourable, because the danger rises so much that it is not compared to daytime.

"Pi!?

As she walks in rows through the sand by the water, Lacto suddenly screams.

Immediately Amy took a defensive stance and Letty held the hammer, but there was no sign of the creature.

"Lacto, what's wrong?

"Hmm, I feel like I heard something....."

That said, Lacto looks at the surroundings strangely, but there are no signs of life in the natural sounds.

Lacto decided it was an overreaction from fear and apologized to both of them.

"Sorry, let's move on."

"This is Letty's first place. Always be vigilant."

Letty caresses and gently comforts Lacto's hair.

All of a sudden, Amy drops her hips with a sharp gaze.

As Letty and the others noticed her shielding, a huge shadow appeared from the darkness ahead.

You're welcome right now.

"Is this who the sound is?"

Letty holds the hammer and Lacto prepares the arts.

The beast slowly walks four feet and approaches them.

Seeing them exposed from the shadows, they opened their eyes wide.

"Crocodile?"

"It's huge. I'm going to be swallowed."

It looks down on them with a good body.

The dark-green scale is wet and reflects the moonlight, and sapling-like fangs peek through the gap in the mouth.

Can you knock it down?

"I don't know, but I don't think I can get away with it."

At the same time as Amy's words, the crocodile moves like a shot.

Amy catches a crocodile jumping with her jaw wide open from the front.

"'Guard'! Kh, I can't take it anymore."

Amy, who had been bitten by a shield, said with a look of anguish.

Steel Fang Double Shields couldn't catch heavy crocodile attacks, but some damage was pierced.

"Wow, 'Shattered'!

The crocodile pierces Amy's arm and Letty shakes her hammer.

A blow to the body that captures the center of the white belly is, however, inhibited by a thick layer of fat.

"Chi!"

"'Ice Arrow'!"

There comes Lacto's art.

The ice arrows, which were precisely targeted, cut through the sky in a straight line and pierced the crocodile's eyebrows.

It also seems to have arrived at the crocodile of the boulder, and the gigantic body turns around.

"Damn, no damage at all!

However, crocodiles only end up disoriented.

Low-Cost Low-Power Arts did much less damage than Lacto expected.

"This isn't good enough."

Amy shakes her toothed shields.

There's no decisive contradiction, no shields to catch that attack.

The situation was overwhelmingly unfavourable.

"I'm going to run."

Why don't you follow me?

"Let's bet you're poor and slow to fight like this."

That's how Amy holds her shield.

A violent crocodile with a rough nose rushed toward her.

"'Stanguard'!

Amy moves to dive into the lower jaw of the crocodile and pulls up her shield.

A hard impact accurately penetrates the crocodile's skull and brightens its vision.

"Now!

They run out with Amy's voice.

Make a little distance while the crocodile is turning his eyes.

Kh, you've recovered already.

However, wild abilities are strong and crocodiles regain normal sight faster than Amy's estimate.

Plus, unfortunately for them, crocodiles followed them in surprisingly agile movements.

"Ah, I'll catch up with you like this!

"Lacto, on my back."

"I'm sorry."

Amy carries lact and runs hard with Letty.

I never thought I'd be chased by a protozoan twice a day.

They mourn their misfortune.

"─ ─"

It was then.

A sharp sparkle comes from behind the crocodiles chasing them.

Gaaaah!?

The crocodile jumps up against the shrimp.

Letty and the others turned to surprise the crocodiles as they trembled and fell down.

"Hmm, what happened!?

"I don't know. But now's your chance."

As Letty pulled her shoulders, Amy ran.

Then they set aside a crocodile that cramped little by little and disappeared into the darkness of the forest.

……

There was a gaze at those girls from behind the tree shade.

The shadow sighs at the backs of the three moving away, exhaling a small sigh of distress.

A slight breath of breath is mistaken by the wind and cannot reach them.

So the shadow blew without sound, and the next moment there was only an unmanned dark forest.