Volume 8 - CH 3.5

Part 5

The next day──

It was sunny, and was perfect hiking weather.

It seemed that the mountain trail went as far as the 《Master Swordsman’s Hermitage》. Stone posts with directional markers engraved were put up at regular intervals.

As expected of a place that was turned into a tourist attraction.

If not for the fact that this was a mountain in the Demon King territory, this climb would have had a bit of a picnic feeling to it but……

After walking for a bit, Demonic Beasts promptly appeared.

Since they were only a large black wolf, 《Black Fang》, and a gigantic ashen bear, 《Giant Grizzly》, there wasn’t any particular problem.

They were enemies that were about level 80.

Even so, when it came to the monsters of this region, he couldn’t easily win against them with the abilities of a half-baked Warrior-type.

In the end, he kicked them about with magic.

Six hours after leaving the town at the foot of the mountain, Sodmas, and climbing the mountain──

The summit was still far, but halfway up, it turned into a steep slope. Rather, it might be best to call it a cliff.