Vorpal Rabbit and Fortress Uncle

Episode 496: Hunting and Walking at Night

Native creatures, like large horses, form a number of large and small herds in the Horned Horse Hill, and live in vast, landscaped meadows.

At night, the sun hides beneath the horizon.

The Hummers also rest their legs, leaning against each other to ease their fatigue with a shallow slumber.

At that time, there was a beast that actively switched with them.

"I found it." It's a bunch of night-running chickens (Nightwatch). "

Lettie shouted, her eyes shining as she drowned in the cold darkness.

I was able to quickly find the shadow of the visual aid's eye drops called "Star Drops".

It's a large chicken with black feathers that patrols the hills at night with a herd of about ten chickens.

Holding a hat-like chicken crown straight up, she looks around the field with her chest open.

The name of the night guard (night watch) is not Date, but if you accidentally attack, it will immediately ring out loudly throughout the field, waking up the sleeping protozoans.

I think it would be easiest for you to assassinate one by one, but what should you do?

Letty asks as she looks at the grassy chickens.

The stone that safely hunts the "Night Crying Chicken" is either a hunter with excellent secrecy, like a minke, disappears one by one without being noticed by the herd, or the herd itself is destroyed in an instant using large-scale range arts.

"No, I'll go." Lettie and the others be prepared for anything. "

Okay, I'll see what I can do here.

But I stood up with Letty and Mikage left behind.

It was my first hunt in a long time, and I wanted to show you where I could fight as a trapper.

Letty and the others anticipated the answer and nodded without any particular surprise.

Well, I'll go there a little bit.

Move out alone in the dark.

Thanks to the "Star Drop", you can walk the dark hills without having to provide any lights.

A cat-type lycanthropic slope like Kett C would look like daylight in this pitch-black world.

Well, here it is.

Instead of approaching the Night Running Chicken herd directly, I came ahead of their path.

The chickens that patrol the field at night have a well-defined route.

In other words, it's easy to set up a trap in advance.

"If you can scream, you'll have to take out the whole herd in one shot."and then.... "

Select the trap to be used while drilling piles into the ground and designating the area.

What was needed this time was to quietly wipe out a herd of about ten.

Pitfalls and basket traps that restrain movement make no sense.

I laid a coarse net on the shallow, grassy ground.

"'Scatter food installation', 'trap concealment'. Okay, this is it, right?"

Spread bait for avian protozoa on the net to hide traces of the trap.

All you have to do is get out of there and wait for the prey to hang.

He frowns in the nearby grass and waits for the police force to arrive, now or never.

The watchmen of the night scratch the grass and come to the trap with a firm footprint.

And what we find is food that smells delicious.

One of them pecked at me and immediately fed me to the others.

I moved unknowingly to the one with more bait, and I didn't notice the net under my feet.

Trap Activation

Press the button of the trigger you were holding.

Instantly, a high voltage current flows through the grid, paralyzing the "night running chickens" in an instant.

The scent of burning in the darkness rises, and the wind blows and disappears.

Just in case, I watched for about ten seconds, checked that there was no one to stand up, and then returned to the trap.

"All right. That sounds good."

Neva's special current trap has done an excellent job.

Most of the "night-running chickens" are dying instantly, and the leader of the powerful herd cannot move due to the abnormal state of "paralysis".

If I could spear the last remaining body, I could safely defeat the "Night Running Chicken".

"The problem is that the trap is disposable."I just can't help it..... "

The current grid cannot be used more than once because the grid itself cannot withstand the high voltage current.

The cost of a disposable can only be thought of as a trade-off with power.

Ledge-san, you're doing great.

“Oh, thanks to the good work Neva did.”

Detecting the success of the hunt, Letty arrives.

I'll leave her to the perimeter, and I'll start breaking up the chickens.

Even if it is a chicken, its appearance is slightly similar, its body length is more than 1 meter, and it has a strong muscular body. If you look closely, it has four large eyeballs.

I'm sure that night vision will be heard to some extent.

Every time I look at the native creatures seriously to dismantle them, I remember that this is an alien place and that they are aliens.

If you're this big, you'll be able to pick up quite a lot of meat.

"I don't know. There's a huge difference between the apparent size and the actual meat obtained."

With 80 skills, the protozoa that live on the Onokoro Highlands can be easily defeated, and the highest ratings can be given.

However, for the parent-child bowls and yakitori bowls that were to be sold tomorrow, it seemed necessary to attack about 30 more bowls.

Oh, by the way, where are Toka and Mikage?

I pretended to have the "Night Running Chicken" drop item dismantled, and I noticed that I couldn't see the two of them coming together.

Asked where they were, Letty opened her mouth with her hands on her hips in awe.

"Mikage is overfishing the Digger Python to collect the snake meat on the list.

And then Toka..... "

I'm back!

Just in time, a figure emerges from behind Letty.

It was a toka with a bright smile of red and black blood on its cheeks.

When she stood between me and Letty, she revealed the giant beast she was dragging.

Huh, that was quite a toothy name.

"This is..."

Swollen muscle mass, glossy black fur.

The flesh is long, the legs thick, and the fangs sharp.

It looks like a horse, but on its forehead there is a black horn symmetrical with "Glorious Lapolita", and it has six legs.

"Soon after Ledge left, I found the" Night Emperor Valba "walking nearby."Then, Toka jumped out. "

"Because Valba is a rare named enemies that is only available at night.I was too alert to miss the chance to meet Thousand Loads because I was quick to escape.It was worth it, and I was able to crush it safely. "

Perhaps you haven't noticed Letty in awe, but Toka says with a full expression of accomplishment.

Lettie was quite a fighter, but Toka was pretty much a fighter too.

It was perhaps the most reliable of all the [Shirakukan] women with a passion for hunting named animals.

"Therefore, Mr. Ledge, please dismantle this as well."When you get home, you'll have to eat cherry blossom meat, right? "

"Torka is still a minor..."

"In this world, it doesn't matter, so it's okay."

There are six legs. It is worth considering whether the flesh of a beast aligned with the teeth of a carnivorous beast can be called cherry meat, but it is not so unusual on this planet.

I have also crunchy dismantled Valba and divided it into meat, hides and folds.

"... I'm home"

I was going to come back there, too.

What he was hunting was a protozoan resembling a large snake in the soil called the "Hole-Digging Great Serpent."

This meat is supposed to be sold as dumplings and bowls of meatballs.

Oh, that's a lot of them, too.

Mikage held about five pale green giant snakes with fine scales all over her arms, and one was hanging on her shoulder.

"I can beat it with the [Blood Relation Curse], so it's easy."I'll come back to get it, because there are more bags I can't hold. "

"Oh, oh..."

To put it bluntly, the [Kinship Curse] is a [Curse] technique that collectively deals damage to native creatures of the same species within a certain range.

Originally, it seemed that he had independently improved the tracking magic called "Kinship Eye" and transformed it into an attack magic.

An example of his excellence as a magician would be the discoverer Mikage, developer Mikage, and leader Mikage.

Ledge-san, wouldn't it be quick, cheap, and easy to leave it to Migage?

"Don't tell me..."

Lettie muttered as she watched the migrating flies disappear into the darkness again.

I bite my lips with distant eyes.