Volume 2 - CH 281

After being dropped off in the forest near the Kingdom of Salettana, I asked the two of them and one of the animals to return home.

Lacc looked somewhat lonely, but probably just didn’t want to go back to that small place again.

I’ll tell Rose something when I return to my human form.

Now, it’s me alone.

It has been a while, the lone Ouren.

Actually, it hasn’t been a long time or anything, but I feel like saying so in this form.

I wonder why.

Anyway, I’m going to start looking for monsters right away.

For now, my goal is to find something that is still alive.

First, I need to figure out how much experience I can gain by eating them.

Anyway, it would be a good thing if I could gain even the experience worth of one level.

In case I was told that I couldn’t gain experience, I would go to the strong enemy and eat their meat as soon as possible.

I haven’t hunted in a long time.

I may be dull, but I am much more powerful than I used to be.

Therefore, I will first search for monsters by deploying the haze manipulation as I did in the past.

…… Hold on.

In the past, did I ever search for monsters by using the haze?

I always seemed to be searching in a random direction.

……Well, it’s the result of my growth, so let’s continue the search.

While searching, I went into the forest at a leisurely pace.

I don’t know if there are any monsters, though, so there’s no point in rushing.

Let’s take it easy this time and concentrate on recalling my old senses.

Oh ……?

A monster’s reaction was caught in my haze manipulation immediately…….

Isn’t this thing small?

It’s moving, but it’s tiny, about the size of a mouse.

It doesn’t look like eating this would add anything to my meal. ……

I’d like a monster that would at least be able to eat an entire animal and raise one level.

Maybe a bird or something would be good.

I guess I’ll have to spread my haze a little higher up in the sky to manipulate it if that’s the case.

Oh, that reminds me, I have to head for the dungeon before I can go there.

I didn’t want to get lost, so I decided to head straight for the dungeon instead of taking the long way around.

If there were adventurers, they would not notice because I’m using [Assassin].

Even if they found me, I can only see them being surprised by me.

I could just run away while they’re trying to find me. ……

But if they send a request to the Kingdom of Salettana to hunt me down, I’ll be in deep shit.

A-as I thought, let’s try not to be discovered……

Suddenly, there was a reaction from a slightly larger monster in the haze.

Oh!

Finally someone who seems to be worthy to eat has come out.

Alright, nice to meat you, my prey!!

It wasn’t that far.

If I went too fast, I might crash into a tree or something, so I kept my speed to a certain extent and kept moving.

When I was gradually getting used to it, I was finally able to see the monster.

A chicken.

Yes, that’s a chicken.

I guess it’s about the same height as a human ……?

I’ve seen chickens in this world, but I’m sure they didn’t have venomous horns on their crests.

Apparently, that chicken is building a nest.

Before that, let’s hear from the voice of heaven what that monster is like for the first time in a long time, shall we?

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-Bakuchou (subspecies)-.

Ordinary Bakuchou are only about fifty centimeters in size(19,6 Inch), but the subspecies grows to be larger than a person’s height.

It builds a small nest, where it lays its eggs and then goes elsewhere.

Since they destroy crops in human settlements, they must be exterminated before they multiply.

The young are small and frail, but as they grow older, they become more ferocious.

The color of the horns on their crests becomes more poisonous with the number of eggs they lay.

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…… Say what?

Hold on a minute, voice of heaven.

If my eyes are clearly recognizing colors at the moment, those horns are ridiculously black…could it be that it’s laying an unbelievable number of eggs somewhere?

[……]

Yeah, I knew you wouldn’t answer me with this kind of question, void dictionaries.

This is bad, isn’t it?

How often do I get myself involved in weird stuff without even knowing it?

I’m going to get rid of this thing for now before it goes somewhere else.

Here we go, the [Water Spear Volley].

Five spears appear around the Bakuchou.

Apparently, the Bakuchou, which had been building its nest with enthusiasm, didn’t understand why the spears had suddenly appeared, and was able to skewer it easily.

It’s so weak.

This one might not fetch that much experience. ……

At any rate, I’m going to eat it.

………… Can’t I just eat just one bite?

Well, I’ll eat all of it now.

I can’t chew it well, so I just keep on cutting the meat into strips and swallowing it whole.

If I repeat this, the meat will soon be gone.

But the level did not go up at all.

It seems that this one was not enough.

Hmmm, that’s not good.

If the level doesn’t go up even one level, I can’t do anything about it.

I wonder how much experience I have gained now?

The voice of heaven.

Can I ask you something?

[……]

Let’s see, tell me how to increase my level with my current species.

[You can get experience by eating monsters.]

No shit, sherlock.

I’ll go eat some more monsters then.

But first, ……!

If I don’t find and eat every single egg this thing lays, the Kingdom of Salettana will be in trouble again!

I don’t want any more hassle in that country.

They’re in the middle of reconstruction, so you monsters should behave yourselves!