199 Chapter 199

Ataru on their journey to the kingdom of the Beasts.

The weather also blessed him and he enjoyed a relaxing journey as he defeated the occasional demons he attacked.

"... uh, what do you think that is?

"Uh, rock... is that it?

'Yeah, that's sooo big too!

Ataru and I can see a big, too huge, big rock ahead of us on our way. It was too big to get around in people's hands. It blocked the road wide and seemed to creep like a wall.

Getting closer, the other travellers seem to be blocked ahead by the big rock. The loaded merchants and other adventurers who were nearby with troubled faces were also in conversation.

"Hmm? You guys want to move on, too?

Just as the adventurous man notices the arrival of the Atals, he talks to them. Well-built muscles wore low-ranking equipment such as cheap protective equipment. Maybe it's not long since I became an adventurer.

"Oh, what the hell is that all about?

That's what Atal asks as he points to the rock. The size of the rock I feel again when I come closer. It was impassable because of the huge large rock in the middle of the road, which obviously did not seem to have occurred naturally.

That part is just the narrow part of the street, and to bypass it is also left and right are high rock walls, so it doesn't come true either.

"We're in trouble, too. When I got here, there was that big rock and I couldn't get through. I've been down this road a few times, but I didn't..."

The man looks up at the big rock as he scratches the back of his head like he's in trouble. Looking around, he seemed troubled by what happened to adventurers, merchants, travelers, etc. other than them in front of the big rock.

This street is a narrow but well-maintained street with few dangerous demons in the daytime. Everyone seemed to relax and converse, even with giant rocks in front of them, because it was a common path for everyone to use.

"What shall we do?

Atal had put his arms around Caro's question and thought.

"Hmmm...... you might have to break it if you're serious, but you also want to avoid showing your hands in front of all this people. And that rock isn't just a rock..."

Still staring at the rock, Atar was spotting its identity with a blue, shining demonic eye.

"... it's not just a rock, is it?

A decent Caro was tilting his neck as he turned his gaze to the rock.

"- Let's talk a little further away."

The man who spoke to me had already returned to his companions, and Atal decided to turn back the way because he had not heard the Atal conversations, but did not know where or whose ears were.

Ataru's actions seemed to envelop those around him who had given up moving on.

Atal starts explaining to the two of them where he gets so far away that he can't see the rock.

"Ugh, this place would be nice. - That rock, but besides being a big rock, it has two characteristics."

Looking around and making sure no one was around, Atal holds two fingers to explain to Caro and Balkias.

"Two..."

That's what Caro groans like he thinks, but he doesn't know what that is.

"The first is that rock, the surface is just a rock, but as soon as you take the surface, there's hard metal inside. It's like covering a ball of metal with a rock."

That's what Atal says while adding a description of the shape with his hands. Even if the surface could be smashed, it would be difficult to break it because its next metal layer would stop.

"That's troublesome...... so, what's the other one?

Caro asks what the other one is, a trait he said there were two. Even the first thing is a desperate situation, so Caro decided to ask anxiously what more could be done.

"That... could be alive, not just a rock"

Exactly. I didn't imagine this answer. Caro opened his eyes and was surprised.

"Hey, are you alive?

Atal nods vaguely at the question asked back to parrot return. Atal himself can't explain it well.

"There was a rock on the surface, and a ball of metal in it, and a nucleus in it. I don't know if it's the nucleus as a creature, if there's another metal at the center, or if there just happens to be some kind of nucleus."

It was connected to the word that it might because it could not be confirmed.

"What shall we do...?

Caro turns to Atal's judgment whether to leave it like this or take any action.

"Looks like there's no other way, and hey, we'll just have to do something about it... I just want to avoid that in all those people"

Caro did nod when he remembered people stuck rocks in front of him in troubled atars.

"In the meantime, we'll have to wait for it to be night and that place is a narrow road, so if the demons attack us, we'll have to tell them there's not a single one and encourage them to move"

"Right..."

I heard the whole story. I also thought Caro was nothing but an Atal operation. Balkias is not very good at thinking, so he yawns very loudly.

"Let's just say it moves on that line."

Atal was heavily concerned from now on because he is a troublesome opponent who is not just a rock, although he thinks he will manage. Atal had turned his maneuver into a caro in order to prepare the bullet.

An earlier adventurer man talks to me wondering that the Atals are back again.

"Oh, what's up? Was it a detour somewhere?

Atal shook his neck sideways to the question of an adventurer man like he expected.

"No, I was hoping it was somewhere. Looks like we're gonna have to do something about this road."

"Even so, it's too little for everyone to move. Actually, I tried it with the guys here earlier, but it didn't even work with Pickle."

The sighing adventurer man was gently raising his hands that he was doing well.

"What about destruction? You tried that too, didn't you?

Atal asks that question because he thought it would be normal to come to that conclusion if there were many adventurers in the situation.

"Oh, of course I tried. weapons attacks, magical attacks, and various"

To put it that far, I pose the same as I did earlier and raise my hand.

"You mean you're doing great."

The adventurer man grinned and nodded powerlessly at the pale atal words.

"I could sharpen the rocks on the surface, but I couldn't scratch them any harder."

The story of an adventurer man speaking powerless was the result of what Atal had seen and expected with his demonic eyes.

"For now, I'm already leaning in today, so maybe we should all get some rest"

"Oh, we were discussing that, too. I'd like to move in the daytime if I could think of another way. Let's go wild in front of the big rocks."

As the travelers have Nojuku's equipment, they could also have expected to use this place. That's why Atal decides to advance to the adventurer man while giving out his worried body.

"No, this place is blocked by big rocks up ahead on the main road. I mean, if they attack here, there's no escape route. This would be a safe path during the day, but if this were some kind of setup trap... there could be total annihilation."

The adventurer man takes a breath of relief when he hears the opinions of a serious facial atar.

The adventurers around this rock didn't seem to be as high ranked just to look at, so Atal expected this threat to work.

In fact, the conversation between the two seemed to reach the ears of the others present on this occasion, and they begin to bother around at once.

"Yay, it's certainly dangerous here.... Ooh, hey! You guys are going wild somewhere else! Oh, I'm sorry. We'll let you go now. Thanks for the advice."

The adventurer's man, as in a hurry, quickly uplifted his conversation with Atal and began to run back to his companions to prepare for the journey.

With that in mind, the others had begun to prepare for it.