Rioshko (3)
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Rey, Luna, and Jet are guided by Olda to the Forbidden Forest.
The terrain was not suitable for horses, so we had to enter the forest on foot.
Rey, who stepped into the entrance to the Forbidden Forest, frowned.
‘The air is cloudy…’
To be precise, the mana in the air was dyed in a strange color.
‘Is the principle itself similar to divine power…’
Mana altered by the influence of a transcendent being. The divine power also fell into that category.
Fortunately, the extent of the deterioration of the mana outside the forest was not serious, but it was clear that the situation would be different once they entered the depths.
He approached Rei’s group with a stiff expression and opened his mouth.
“Isn’t that a little off-putting? It gets worse the deeper you go into the forest.”
“…”
When Rey was silent, Olda walked forward, shyly.
He was good at hiding his presence like a guide, and barely heard footsteps.
Since it was still a relatively safe area, Olda continued the conversation while keeping an eye on Rey.
“I don’t doubt the wizard’s skills, but be careful in the forest.”
Ray asked.
“What should I watch out for?”
“Of course they are demons. They don’t attack people by looking for them. Heh heh… Still, it’s reassuring to have a wizard.”
“How was it when you guided the Hope?”
“Hope was a good employer, because he was good.”
The assistant’s life came and went according to the skill of the employer.
Of course, even if his personality was a little dirty, he had no choice but to prefer a mercenary with good skills.
And the mercenary with the name Hope had good skills, and compared to other mercenaries, he was a gentleman in his words and deeds.
“It was scary to go too deep every time I gave directions.”
Alda broke the direction of progress little by little by telling the story of the time she had been with Hope, or Ult.
Olda slowly showed a nervous look and spoke lowly.
“Follow me carefully. The monsters in this forest often move in groups, so be careful.”
“How do you avoid monsters that move in groups?”
“When monsters form a group, there is an active area. You have to understand each group’s area well before passing.”
This realm was not permanently maintained, but changed from moment to moment.
For this reason, the guides identified changes in the realm through the traces left by the monsters and shared information with each other.
This was the reason why you couldn’t explore the forbidden forest with only a map, and it was also the reason why your guide, Olda, disregarded the map.
“If you walk in a straight line, the distance will be shorter, but you will have to continue to face the hordes of monsters. No matter how strong the wizard, it’s rain… rain…”
“Ineffective?”
“Yes! Wouldn’t that be inefficient…?”
Rey nodded as it was not a common sense mistake.
Olda, with a slightly excited face, explained how the realms of the monsters were divided, then suddenly hardened her body.
There was a rustling sound in front of me. It was Wildhog.
“Ugh…!”
Two wild hogs were paired up.
I felt like I had been away from the crowd for a while and reached the border of the realm.
Wildhog wasn’t a very great monster.
However, Olda looked at Rey with an anxious look because she had never seen Rey’s skills with her own two eyes.
While Olda was in a cold sweat, Wildhog rushed towards Rey’s party.
“Cruck!!”
“ha…”
Rey sighed in annoyance and swung her wand roughly.
The cold air that spread across the ground reached Wildhog and turned into a pillar of ice and soared.
Whoops!
The Wind Spirit of Luna caught the Wild Hog, which was hit by an ice pillar and floated into the air.
Jet fired a sword at the Wild Hog trapped in the air.
The comparatively soft Wild Hog’s belly was ripped out as it was.
Aww!!!
“Cruckle!!!”
The Wild Hog bubbled and flew in the air.
Rei, who had confirmed for a long time that the life of a monster is quite tenacious, turned the staff around.
damn!
The cold air remaining on the ground penetrated into the wild hog’s intestines and bloomed a red ice flower.
I was amazed when I came to see the Wild Hog sagging right away.
“Oh oh…!”
Allda had never seen a mercenary catch a Wild Hog so easily.
Olda, who muttered that a wizard is a wizard again, walked ahead again.
Ray walked through the woods and asked about Ult from time to time, and Olda responded quite well.
“If you go further east from here, traces of the city that once existed in the forest begin to appear little by little.”
“Did they all have been excavated?”
“Most of them. They say things that are worthless or difficult to move have been abandoned…”
Ray nodded.
Clearly, this was a place Ult would be interested in. Ray walked faster.
On the way, I ran into a monster a few more times.
The monkey-shaped monster using long claws as a weapon was quite intimidating.
However, no monster could even injure Rei’s party.
Even if I came here, even if a demon appeared, I leisurely watched the monster splinter in half and then walked through the forest.
“Whoop! Whoop!”
Olda’s breathing became very difficult.
He still had a lot of stamina, but the density of altered mana rose sharply, making breathing difficult.
The surrounding scenery was also completely different from that at the beginning of the forest.
It was easy to see the grotesquely deformed trees drying up while holding each other.
Ray asked the staff, touching them.
“Is this the route Hope used often?”
“Yes, yes. There are many rumors that there are unexcavated artifacts here. Even after my employment was over… I could hear from time to time that Hope was moving around this area.”
“How deep can you go?”
“Uh… walking for at least 10 minutes seems to be the limit. Please don’t tell me to go deeper. Then I’m really going to die.”
Olda asked for forgiveness with a smile.
If he had not received a lot of money, he would have turned around and entered the forest deep enough.
Rei asked, looking at Olda quietly.
“Who made it?”
“…yes?”
“Who made this work?”
“That… I don’t know what you mean…”
“Who made you guide us?”
“Ah…! The guild leader asked for it. Since it’s a precious guest, please guide me.”
Allda’s words were true.
Of course, the guild leader added a few words.
Be sure to bring Rey’s party into the Forbidden Forest yourself. Guide them to the deepest part of the forest they visited with Hope.
Allda knew that the guild leader’s request was a bit outdated.
Perhaps while Olda guides Rei’s party to the Forbidden Forest.
Someone might have robbed Rey’s belongings, or they might have been ready to raid when they returned from the forest.
However, there was no need to worry about getting there.
If the mercenaries from inside the forest attack Rey’s party, it would be very dangerous to come, but that was an absurd assumption.
It was perfect for both of them to lose their lives if they fought between humans in a forest teeming with monsters.
Anyway, Olda was proud of herself.
“Is there any problem?”
“Did the guild leader ask you for directions?”
“But… As far as I know, the wizard first asked for a guide that Hope hired…”
“Did the guild leader say that?”
“yes.”
“That’s true. But, did the guild leader plant that weird thing in your head?”
“Yes? My head?”
Olda couldn’t understand Rey’s words and froze.
Rei manifested her powers for a moment, examined Allda’s body, and shook her head.
Olda was a young man who grew up here without parents and lived a difficult life.
He was far from a good man as he lived in a rough place, but he was not a person who could be criticized for being a bad person.
Rey sighed and turned her head.
The presence of the monster began to be felt up close.
As they had reached quite deep in the Forbidden Forest, the monsters had also become much more ferocious.
The number of monsters that started to appear one by one soon exceeded twenty.
Confused, I stepped back.
“Hey, this can’t be happening…?”
I arrived here by well circumventing the area where the hordes of monsters roamed.
But all of a sudden, a large number of demons of different species gathered around Rei and the party.
Rey called out in a low voice to Allda, who was staggering in panic.
“Come, if you don’t want to die, don’t move, just stand still.”
“Ah… yes!”
In any case, Rei was the lifeline for Allda.
I felt a headache coming and lowered my body in place.
Koo!!
Among the dozens of monsters, monsters with a length of more than 10 m also appeared.
It was a monster with the appearance of a crocodile wrapped in stone skin, but as soon as Luna saw the monster, she did not wait any longer and fired a fireball.
A fireball the size of a human fist flies through the air-
aa
As soon as it landed on the monster’s head, it exploded in a fan shape.
In an instant, a part of the forest turned into a fire pit, and the monster that looked like a crocodile was discolored black and crumbled.
Even Jet, who was aiming his sword at the monsters with the power of magic that far exceeded expectations, for a moment, looked back at Luna.
Luna blinked for a moment, then forced herself to gasp for breath and pretended to be struggling.
At that moment, Jet understood the situation and pointed his sword at the monster again, as if he had used his trump card.
immediately after.
Dozens of monsters that occupied all directions poured in at the same time.
Rey spun the staff round and round and pounded the ground.
Then, ice rose from the ground, obstructing the path of the demons or striking them into the air.
Jet swung his sword sideways towards the closest Wildhog.
👌👌👌👌👌
A sword surrounded by a sharp sword almost cut through the Wild Hog.
The monster’s intestines were pouring down through the cracked skin… and it stopped.
“?!”
Jet got goosebumps for a moment.
The monster’s intestines, which stopped abruptly, trembled, and then plunged into the jet.
“what!!”
Kwagak!!!
The ground that Jet had been stepping on until just before was dug deep.
Cuckold…
The shape of the Wild Hog, which poured out its intestines, began to change bizarrely.
Jet retreated once, radiating a sword towards the Wild Hog, and then looked around.
Demons from all directions were rushing in even though they were wounded by magic.
That demonic charge was at a level of aggression that even a monster could never understand.
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Naturally, the formation of Rey’s party became a form of three surrounding Allda, who had little combat power.
While the three of them struggle to push out a monster that sheds its internal organs and does not die.
Olda felt a severe headache.
Olda swallowed a groan inwardly trying to put up with the headache that was about to break her head.
However, the pain that grew stronger as time went on quickly swallowed up Olda’s reason.
‘Ah, it hurts…!!’
When the headache got so bad, I felt nauseous all the way to the inside.
Allda tried to grab Rey from behind and ask for help, forgetting how serious the battle was now.
‘Ma, wizard, do, help…!!’
Tung!
Rey created a shield in the direction Olda reached out.
Above it, Luna spread the barrier around Allda.
Olda, who did not understand the situation, slammed the shield, ignoring the burning of her fist.
The headache was so severe that I couldn’t stand it.
As I came to think that it wouldn’t hurt to crush my skull with a saw and hammer, I heard something cracking in my forehead.
and…
Aww!!!!!
An explosion occurred.
Rey’s shield was peeled off, and the broken pieces of Olda’s flesh stuck to the barrier that Luna had deployed.
Blood stood in Jet’s eyes, who had not expected such a terrible situation.
Luna’s barrier was lifted, and the meat pieces stuck to Luna’s barrier fell to the ground.
“Did you notice. It feels good.”
A human voice was heard among the demons.
Rey slowly looked back at her opponent.
A skinny man with abnormally swollen blue veins was smiling at Ray.
“Still, nothing will change.”
Kugugung-!
The ground shook, and a dark veil began to cover the whole area.
At the same time, the group of monsters, which had maintained their original form, transformed strangely and vomited out screams.
“My name is Lipol.”
The skinny man who briefly introduced himself raised his finger.
“An agent of the Great.”
quagga gaga!!
As if something had been signaled, the transformed monsters slammed into Rei’s party at once.
Rei stared at Ripole beyond the monster with cold, hardened eyes.
“Z.”
“Please name it.”
“When you signal, throw a sword at me.”
“I see .”
