68 9. To the Kera Forest

"This is going to be worse than I thought..."

Larsia solitudes herself as she stops and looks through the woods. Normal cheerfulness was totally lurking.

Kera Forest stretches between Falve and Hardenturm.

I sent a messenger to a nature worshipper (Druid) who is essentially ruling this forest to visit the ancient altar of the Hellenonian God supposedly behind it, but there was no response after the deadline set for responding to the letter.

If it's being ignored, that's fine. I can do it.

However, in the short period of time since I sent the letter, it would be different if a condition appeared to be occurring that prevented me from responding.

"In that sense, I guess it's a good thing you sent me."

Depression and lush trees blocked the moonlight and were sinking completely into the darkness at night.

Even if we go to the settlement of nature worshippers, there are just a bunch of deserted homes. I was Larsia leaving in the morning, but I haven't been able to confirm one human yet.

The beast grates away, a complete night when you can't even hear the bugs.

Larsia raunched the dried meat and forced it into which back.

"I guess the yuts are eating acorn dishes. No, are those two awesome struggles? After all, the true enemy is an egg who eats delicious food with only a dressed escort."

Even just Larsia couldn't tell that Valtrude was indulging in alcohol and meals.

"In the meantime, go back or move on..."

Because we were searching the woods extensively, we have come - but not yet - to the ruins at the heart.

The darkness of the night is no longer a problem if you make up for it with a spell.

Although there is some fatigue, I have not lost focus.

Calmly analyzing the situation, Larsia drew the opposite conclusion.

"I can still go, but it's not safe anymore. This place, I figured..."

Let's go back.

That's what I decided, Larsia felt multiple signs.

At the same time, the fog starts to rise.

"Ahhh. Something came up."

My experience as an adventurer was telling Larsia what kind of monster they were on guard against without alarm.

Cursory footsteps.

Temperature that drops all at once.

Rotten odor on the nose.

"They're the ones with no steeple!

Corpseman (Zombie), Tsukamato (Wight), Corpse Eater (Ghoul).

Mixed armies of all immortal monsters (undead) surround the meadow race (Magner). Do you want me to scatter it, or do you want me to be one of you? I don't know the intention, but gradually narrow the circle of siege.

"I wonder if it has anything to do with the people who went out to King's Capital."

There is no evidence.

There is no basis.

"But by irrelevant, you mean more unlikely!

While Larsia retrieved the magic scepter (Magic Wand), she made that determination.

There is no way the immortal monster can affirm it, and every step of the way is sure to come.

"Bullet of Reason (Force Missile)"

A bullet of pure magic unleashed from a swinging magic scepter blows the corpse man away. Whatever the rushing adventurer is, it doesn't even make this much of an opponent, a problem for Larsia.

"Ugh, it's overkill. Waste."

I can also afford to think about such an extra thing.

But the smile had disappeared from Larsia.

"There's a lot of them..."

I can't feel the anxiety in that voice.

At the same time, it doesn't feel like the number of enemies has decreased.

"What to do, this"

In a forest where no living person existed, there was no voice to respond to the words.

"Tsuka-tsuki-tsuki-tsuki"

"Thank you so much"

"I thought I was gonna die, really."

"If you die, I'll ask Arcia to bring you back to life."

"That's not what this is about, is it?

"Yes, sir."

I'll stroke the head of an acorn that's gobbling like a daughter-in-law in bed.

So you were satisfied, and when you narrowed your eyes to feel good, you buried your face straight in the sheet.

In Yut's bed.

"By the way, why are you in my room?"

Of course, I'm going to have more feelings for labor than anyone else. While you're on your own, and I think you did a really good job with your royal opponent, etc.

But it's late at night.

To the extent that there are eye-catching people in situations where unmarried men and women are alone in the same room.

"You think you can reward me today."

"A reward..."

I looked up at Yuut sitting on the bed with mesmerizing eyes as I lay down on the bed, only my neck facing this way.

Yut knows that acorns are not as “light” as they look.

Still, it should be noted that the trick of inviting her under the guise of defenselessness in that way suited her gorgeous appearance well. To the extent that if Valtrude's face does not pass, he is likely to reward and do as he is asked.

"I'll give you something next time."

"It's engagement ring, what is it?

"What is it?"

"Can't you?

"No... not..."

Bad foreboding.

Yes, I guess I thought so myself.

I put my hand aside and sat the acorn down, and said with my eyes in the immediate vicinity.

"I told you before, are you talking about making Valko and Zhuyin your fiancées?

"Yeah."

"That, about a month ago, told the King"

"Huh? Why?

If you can't believe it, the acorn hears back from the front straight.

"You didn't even tell me?

"Yeah."

"You haven't told Val yet?

"Oh......"

"Are you nuts?

"That's right. Stupid guy who couldn't pick one."

I said, I said it.

That's a word I can't go back to.

Yut falls into bed and diverts his gaze from Acorn.

"Well, that one. That kind of indecision isn't bad sometimes."

"... do you?

Now Acorn gently strokes Yut's hair. The clothes I prepared are going to wrinkle, but now would be a good time.

"Yes, if the sum of the heavens, the earth, and men is in place."

"Do you even go to war...... No, in a way, yeah."

"That's right. You've been advertising me to great people this time, haven't you? If it wasn't meant to be a brave woman, how would it have happened from now on?

"Knock."

I didn't know they'd noticed.

He was poked at a picture star, and rarely Yut lost his word.

"... So, you still have your reward?

"Didn't you say next time?

"An advance."

When I smile at him saying that and wasting a man, the acorn creeps over Yut.

The distance between the two stays zero - it never happened.

A modest knock sounded and the acorn jumped away as it was played.

"Geez."

It was never a loud sound, but it worked immensely.

"My head was boiling..."

Reflect deeply as you hold on to your bright red cheeks.

I guess my head wasn't working because of fatigue. When I calm down, it's too bold for me to open up.

So the acorns, who are righting their abode with the mundane on the bed, will not receive the voice of Yut and Arsia, who came to call him.

"Zhuyin"

"Something wrong?

I guess I figured it out in Yut's hard voice. Acorn asks worried.

"Oh. Larsia's a little"

I left him telling him not to go to sleep, and Yut left Acorn.

I wasn't called.

That means Acorn is not a useful thing to do.

"I wonder if there's a battle..."

You knew it, you knew it.

Valtrude said he saved the world and earned the territory as a reward for it.

In other words, he fought and won against the likes of the demon king who threatened the world.

With Yut.

Yut fought too. He was just a high school student.

Whatever Yut is doing - even if he was killing people, he's not going to blame Acorn.

Because he lived. We met again.

But then she can only wait.

It's not my role, like fighting.

Even knowing that, it was a matter of time to convince.

"Sorry I'm late"

To the usual dining room and conference room, Yut ran out of breath with Alcia.

"Larsia's in big trouble, huh?

"Oh...... Surrounded by immortal monsters..."

Exile answers in a heavy, low voice.

"Because you're alive! I mean, you're not hurt at all!

"What is it, Larsia? I couldn't see in the shadow of Exile's old man."

"It's a lie!

"You're lying, but you think this treatment is gonna taste good, don't you?

"Because you're a meadow species. Of course you do!

"Well, I'm glad you didn't get hurt."

"It's really natural for Yut to show you something to worry about while you're at it."

"Larsia, shut up..."

Jonah makes a blatantly grumpy voice over Yut and Larsia's multiplication.

I guess I can't help but want to sleep. When I saw it, my head was shaking back and forth with my eyes flashing.

"Kids."

"It's a child."

Yut and Arsia take their seats and finally have all the members.

But I needed another guest on this issue.

"I seem to be the last."

Simple - but top notch in fabric and tailoring - Prince Alsace, dressed in tunic, enters the room at the end.

Always ceded the upper seat where Valtrude was, and instead she sat next to Yut.

"I need to talk to you about the ritual. It's urgent."

"For more information, I haven't even heard it yet"

"So long, Larsia, please"

Urged by Arcia, Larcia gets up from her chair and starts reporting.

"First, the colonies of nature worshippers are mushrooms. No bodies, nothing."

"Then it's only natural that you don't have a response."

Valtrude snorts heavily.

"Right. I've been carefully exploring the Kera Forest, and there's a sudden outbreak of immortal monsters in the back."

"That would have been hard"

"Yeah. They're not in a hurry. Was there a hundred or so?

In the end, after breaking through the siege net, Larsia naturally completes the report, saying it was annihilated while at a distance.

"Even immortal monsters don't show up naturally."

"Then there's the ruins of the example?

"I want you to wait a minute. More than a hundred immortal monsters?

Unlike the lightly flushed yuts, to Prince Alsace - rather than - it was usually an unseen statement.

"I don't think there's going to be any other fire right away because all I can see is extinct..."

"No, it's an emergency. I don't care about words."

"That won't help."

Larsia, who is not even pre-built, frees up her tone to her posture. And I know you weren't listening to that word, but Jonah was finally falling and putting her head on Arcia's lap.

"Can Prince Alsace do the same?

"I don't intend to take a step backwards, to the extent of a corpse."

Still, it's frustrating to deal with more than a hundred at the same time.

Alsace replies that way to Exile.

"Given the timing, I'm also suspected of being related to the incident in Wang Du that Larsia was saying..."

"The matter has been told by the Prime Minister. It doesn't seem to have been resolved."

"It was an uncertain story. By the way, was there no inheritance, such as the appearance of a corpse man, regarding the ruins of the example or the altar?

Alsace shakes his head and quietly denies it.

Sometimes I wouldn't be able to tell you as a royal secret, but this seemed really irrelevant.

"Mr. Alcia, even tomorrow."

"Yeah. Let's get you a commission."

Silence comes because the information is out.

"We have to go."

It was Valtrude's quiet words that broke it.

Morale dwells in everyone's eyes in just one word and is reborn into a group that fights all at once.

Except Prince Alsace.

"Your Highness?"

"No, I'm sorry. Right. I'm sorry, but let me cancel my appointments after tomorrow. I'll get in there myself and let them know the truth."

"Yes, sir."

With Yut listening, the policy is finalized.

"But when this happens, I just want to leave a voicemail..."

That's what I say and look around my face, but no one wanted to stay as one. Especially if he leaves Valtrude behind, he's going to pull his tail.

"I can trust you, I have the strength, and you'll respond to the invitation right away. Such an opponent..."

"... I have one person in charge"

Yut, who said so, was accomplishing the difficult act of smiling and making a very unpleasant face.