252 # 252 Ghosts, and exams.

"Well, I'm glad we're in the woods, but what's the matter?"

Do we need to secure water for now? Take the water bottle you were given when entering the forest and decide to go for the river, which is the source of the water. It must have flowed slightly southeast from the north around the middle of the woods.

When I start walking in the woods, I can see the other exams thinking the same way, walking slightly ahead.

But you don't have a good vision. There are so many trees... Whoa, I found ravioli.... I did, but right now, all I have is a normal sword hanging on my hips.

Since magic cannot be used within the kingdom, there is no way to use magic in front of the building.

In fact, we in Brunhild are excluded from the effects of the junction, so we can use magic. But I don't know where anybody sees me. I can't take a bow and arrow out of "storage" or anything.

If that's the Warcraft, they'll attack us. Can you escape with so many trees? It's troublesome and I can't help it. Let's give up. I'm not even hungry yet. I mean, there's food in "storage". Actually, there's some water, but it wouldn't be natural not to go to the river as an exam taker.

For once, in addition to the knights who fight, this exam is dominated by the castle guard knights, the city policing knights, and Mr. Tsubaki's hidden knights. I'm going to recruit an inside job later, or if there was someone I could use this time who was a successful candidate. Magic Squad needs so much so far.

I just want you to be at least capable of surviving this survival. Fighting through is good, running away is good. In the rules, I want you to achieve your goal of staying in the woods for three days.

As I kept walking with that in mind, I could hear the fine stream "Spiral" of the river flowing with water.

Through the woods, at the end of a stone-rolling river plain, the river was flowing. The river is not so wide that it cannot be crossed at about six meters. Doesn't even seem that deep.

I'll just put some water in the water bottle and then have a sip. Yeah, yummy.

Looking around, the same exams who got water are wandering. It's nice to see here, and there's a river, so it's convenient. But because that's all that stands out, it's easy for "ghosts" to spot you.

I put water in the water bottle, and you shouldn't be here anymore. They know that. They're already out of here.

These guys here forever are in danger of passing.

Into the woods again, climbing on tall trees. Well, and.

"Long Sense"

Fly sight and hearing and explore the surroundings. There are some hardened and moving guys and some solo moving guys.

Oh, there's a guy climbing a tree just like me. My face is covered and I don't know, but you're like a ninja with a blackout.... Is that it?

Are you looking at me? No way. A kilometer away, and there's an obstacle? Oh, I'm waving. Somehow I looked back and he seemed surprised. You must have waved from yourself, you're a weird guy. Did you want to make sure we were seeing this one over there, too?

What kind of ninja would it be if I were a ninja? Or do you have the Devil's Eye? Tsubaki's nominee, I guess.

"Oh, a ghost! Guh! '

"Knock it off! Wow!

"Huh, run!

He returns consciousness to the voice that accidentally jumped into his hearing and turns his sight toward the river plain where his voice spoke.

The guys who were hanging out in the river plains were being hit one after the other by two of our knights wearing a ghost mask. He wields a stanrod and snaps it down with a butterfly. I mean, you're the grandfather of Alle Horse Farm and the old man of Mountain Prefecture...

You two are hitchers! It feels like, without pity, he defeats the exams and takes his badge. Such is the bandit himself. It fits too well. The examinees who were deprived of their badges were transferred to the main unit and no one remained there. There didn't seem to be a single talent with any attractions.

The other examinees who heard the screams showed various movements: those who fled, those who went to see how things were going, those who lurked still.

The mask just now is also gone at some point. That's quick. I guess I'm a ninja.

In time, the two ghosts who hunted down Kawahara's examinees disappeared again into the woods.

He's got his right eye crushed! Turn around! Always attack from the blind spot!

Oh? I heard another voice from somewhere. Three exams were fighting King Ape in the forest on the other side, a long way from the river plain when they skipped sight. No, you're one turn bigger than King Ape. Is it a subspecies?

"Aim for your feet! First you seal the motion!

The man, supposedly the three leaders, was a short, silver-haired man over twenty. She wears an old but fairly fine breasted mail. You're skipping pretty precise instructions. It seemed to make good use of each trait, perhaps an impromptu party.

I watched them hunt for a while, but eventually crusaded the subspecies of King Ape brilliantly.

Besides, that leader was fighting with proper attention around him. Perhaps he was wary of a "ghost" raid. Actually, I don't get attacked by "ghosts" when my exams are fighting the Warcraft, but they seem pretty attentive. That man might pass.

For now, when I got off the tree and walked south, this time I crawled into something and met a boy digging the ground.

"... what are you doing?

"!?... Oh, yeah, I was trying to get some food, some food."

You thought I was a ghost when I spoke, and for a moment, the boy freaked out, but exhaled relief when he found out he was the same examinee.

"What food?

"Huh? Ah, this crawl is a Daedalya potato crawl, and in this time of year you can eat an imo under the ground. After three months, it's poisonous and I can't eat it."

"Heh..."

"Oh, the ghosts will find you, so I can't give you the fire. Then I guess I just have to find something like this. Because there are quite a few edible weeds and nuts here."

Oh, well. Catching a raven or something doesn't set off the fire... I can't even eat it raw. There's probably nothing I can't eat, but I'm a little resistant.

Various weeds were picked at the boy's disposal. There are also a number of nuts and fruit-like things. There were several types of objects I had seen. Sounds like you know a lot about those things.

"Ko, there was a pasimo tree from here to the south, so you should go. I only took a little, so there's got to be more."

"Mm, thanks. I'll go."

If I stayed here the whole time, it was like I was after his imo, so I left the scene.

I broke up with him at the potato dig and went south, as I was told, and there was definitely a pasimo tree. Pacimo is a pear-textured food that resembles persimmon. The food is in "storage", so I eat only one. Delicious.

He climbed a nearby tree again and spent until evening monitoring it with "Long Sense". A ghost has attacked the examinee there, and he has been attacked by a warcraft. So far, it looks like no injuries have been reported to all of the ghosts or to the exams.

Some of them have already been disqualified, but not yet. I'd like to make it roughly 500 or less, well.

The sun is setting. This is the real deal.

I make sure no one is around me with my smartphone's search function and take the ghost mask out of "storage". Wearing it and changing the costume to something darker, he flies from branch to branch between the trees and runs through the woods.

Huh, I could see the lights across the woods, so flying "Long Sense," many exams gathered around the fire, guarding themselves around, burning their captured prey and eating.

I see, with all those people gathered, the ghosts wouldn't be able to get their hands on it so easily. Surrounding the group eating, so to speak, the group of escorts is attentive to the outer perimeter.

I guess I do have a little trouble getting my hands on it. No, we can wipe it all out if our Knights get serious.

In the meantime, searching around on my smartphone, I find out where the ghosts are gathering, so I'll rush over there.

"Tired ~"

"Huh!?... Your Majesty... please don't freak out."

"Don't sneak off the signs, Admiral. I almost jumped."

When I spoke from behind everyone I was gathering, I was pissed off.

Here's Mr. Logan and an old man from the mountain prefecture, Grandpa from the stable, ah, there's also Mr. Nicolas. A few more, about 10 in all. You're just a man.

Well, no, it's easy. The Knights are disciplined! Better than a policy like that. We're a gathering like family and buddies. If you're a human resource that needs to be tied up more or less by discipline, you're being played in a Yumina interview.

"So what do you say? Have you found any brilliant talent?

"There were a few people who were going to work out."

"I also have a few people who are quite attractive"

Grandpa and Nicolas at the stable answer. I see. Sounds like a lot of people could use it. I also had a ninja, an armored man, a potato boy, and people who seemed to be able to use it, but since then, all the ghosts may have hunted me. The potato boy in particular didn't seem very strong.

"By the way, what do we do now? Are you willing to attack that group?

"Mmm. There are 10 of us. There's like a hundred people over there, right? I know you can't win, but I can't help you. Seems impossible to measure the qualities of each and every one of us, huh?

An old man from Mountain Prefecture roars in his arms. Sure. Then it's a real fall. If you're fighting for them, they'll surround you. No questions asked, it would be easier to take them down with a special blow, but that's what it's all about.

There are other ghosts, but not enough to bother collecting them all and attacking them, and besides those burning ones, there are still exams out there.

But are you ready to be attacked for using fire in such a flashy manner?

"What would Your Majesty do?

"Me? Right...... get your hands on it for a second and pretend you lost on purpose and run away. So, if a few of us come after us, we'll ambush them and take them down, what do you mean?

"Dude, do you get caught in that hand?

"No, you don't need a guy to get caught either way. If you don't catch it, that'll be the ingredient for judgment"

Grandpa at the stable is right, I hope you're not caught in one way or another. With the "long sense" of the smartphone, I show them on the screen where they surround the fire over there.

"Some people are paying proper attention around, others are distracted"

Nicolas is right, some people are nervous but spying around, others yawn and chat with the guy next to them. I wonder if this is a spare because of the large number of people.... Oh?

Somehow, a dozen people surrounding the fire chase away the same subjects who came to the burner. I was curious so I tried to increase the volume of my smartphone.

'No, no, no! Get over there! This place is already full!

"Why not! I know you're not saying anything about giving me a meal! I just want you to let me use the fire for a second!

The examinees who came from over there were two sub and two demonic men and women. Looks like he's got some rabbits in his hand. I wonder if you've come to let me burn that one. There's no chance of ghosts attacking us here.

"The Lion Beasts and the Aries, and the Demons are Wardogs and Arakunei..."

Mr. Nicolas looks at the screen and squeals. Anyway, if you're an animal, it's the first race you've ever seen of a demon.

A word dog, like Mr. Norn, a wolf beast, was not in the form of a wolf's ear or tail growing in a human being, but a whole dog person, from head to tail. His whole body is covered in hair, and he's like a werewolf. I don't transform into a human, and it seems like a dog, not a wolf.

Arakunay's is a haircut woman, said to be a princess cut, with short dark hair cut straight over her eyebrows, which is quite adorable, but from its back she had a few spider-like legs. And my eyes are red.

"Just go away! With things like you guys, the smell might bring the Warcraft closer!

'Yes, they do! It smells like a beast, you guys!

'You guys are on your own to get attacked, but don't even get involved with us!

"Become...!

A young wardog who tried to beat up a lion woman by the men who were around the fire? but grab my shoulder and stop. Seeing the wardog shaking her head quietly beside her, the Lion woman lowered her fists, took the Ariyi man and the Arakunei woman, and left from the spot.

'Shit, why are those guys on the test list? I wish I was pulling into Zenoas and Mismids. Recruitment conditions are too slow. "

The man who drove him away to throw up opens his mouth.

'Brunhild just did, so you're understaffed. That's why I'm going to use the Beast Man or whatever. Instead of beasts, I can't believe there are demons. "

"The captain is an animal, too. If the Beastman can be the captain of the regiment, maybe we can be aristocrats or something soon."

"Baka, if you're noble, what a minister I am." You're an adventurer from the king. These knights don't look like knights at all, and they're just cool. '

The guys on the spot whisper so they could laugh, but my smartphone was picking up that voice exactly.

'Don't say that. That's why we go in and make him a true Knights. I can't believe these beasts let the Knights work their width.'

"Oh? Do you want to be the Knight Commander?

"Let's be. With more decent knights, you won't need a sub. If you beat the captain and deputy captain with training and all that, you can easily become the new captain, right? I knew it was strength in the world.

Gahahahahaha, and a few guys there laugh at each other, kidding like idiots. Conversely, not a single laugh happened on this side of the screen.

"... I don't need those guys"

"Right."

Nicolas, the fox beast man, stared at the men who kept laughing on the screen at my crush. Mr. Nicolas has been with Mr. Rain, the captain of the regiment, since he came to this country. I guess there's something I can't stand on my belly. He was holding his fist and staring at the guys on the screen.

There are still people who make these mistakes. I also have a lot of mistakes about using subpeople because of lack of talent.

The subians and demons don't get out of Mithmid or Zenoas very often, and they don't have a small number, so in some parts of the region there are fewer humans involved with them.

For this reason, there are still occasionally people who have such an indecisive image as Demon-Warcraft Companions, Subhumans = Barbarians.

There is also a history of subhumans being considered inferior creatures in the past and subject to contempt. They said it was a despicable savage race, and they treated it like a slave.

Now that you've got a mismid, you're in a minority of the guys with that idea.

I've hardly had a chance to see it with the Demons, and it may be discrimination coming from unknown fears, but either way, we don't need them.

Sure, we're special. If you say it's not like the Knights, you're right.

But what happened to it? It's done by someone who doesn't look like a king from the king. Too much now. If you want a Knight-like Knights, you can go to another country. Crap.

Sure, at first I pushed the Knights against the three of Mr. Rain for lack of talent, but they have trained like blood seeps and have joined forces with the rest of the team to create this Knights.

Ever since Sister Blades trained me, my strength has been so close to Hachi and Hilda. You can't beat our captain and deputy captain with half the strength. If you're in the Knights now, you can definitely pull out the Horse Farm Grandfathers, because they're the top three. Its strength is tattooed by the sword god, Sister Blades.

Ma, we don't need them to insult us just because of their appearance.

"Well, would you like them to leave?"

The ghosts in front of me snorted at my words. [M]