173 Episode 173: Resumption of the investigation

"I'll make you a grilled pig! Meltsword!"

You, Gyro, with the blaze on your sword, cut the orcs apart one after the other.

"Don't fight too close to the trees! Windslasher!"

When Mina unleashes a streak of wind magic in the direction where the adventurers on her side are not, the upper and lower parts of the orcs are split apart beautifully.

With all the magic hitting the enemy, Mina's magic accuracy and ability to grasp the battlefield is growing.

"Minimally...... hang up!

Ms. Megri travels endlessly across the battlefield with flying magic that has increased her speed with wind attribute defense, while scaffolding the surrounding trees and rocks to accurately attack the orcs' steeple with an ambush attack with three-dimensional leaps.

"Holy shit!

"Bumowo!?"

And Mr. Norb was responding with a tactic of defensive specialization with a combination of hard attribute defense and defensive magic.

While avoiding the orcs' attacks with minimal movement, the inevitable attacks also seem to be avoidance exercises.

"Hey, that kid, why are you eating that big fat ass attack right in front of you and you're fine!?"

"That lady over there is amazing - magically wrapping up the orcs and wiping them out!? Why can't she run out of magic?!?"

"Surely those guys are the newcomers who just became adventurers a while ago, right? Why are you so strong!?"

The other adventurers and knights are shouting surprises at your work, Gyro.

Yeah, yeah, you'd be happy to have your body complimented.

"Yes! Don't take the back with the adventurers! Can't you both destroy the orcs?

"" "Ha, yes!!" "

My boss scolds me and the knights rush to the orcs.

But he hastily popped up, so he didn't see what kind of oak the target had.

What they popped out of was an oak with a long arm like a kamakiri, with a wide range of blade battle axes in their hands attacking the knights.

"Hih!?"

Though they managed to avoid an unexpectedly long arm attack, the knights lose their balance and butt because of it.

That's where the axe in the other hand strikes.

"Wow!?"

A knight who closes his eyes unavoidably.

At that time, however, the part of the axe blade in the hand of the oak blew up.

"If you wield something so noisy, it's not safe."

It was Mr. Liliera who showed up there.

The fact that the oak axe appeared to have blown up was due to Mr. Lilliera's spear cutting off his handheld.

"Are you okay?"

"Yes..."

"Then it's good!

Upon confirmation of the safety of the knight, Mr. Liliera slipped through the frozen ground and accelerated, tearing apart the confused oaks as his feet became unstable.

"Goddess......?

And the knights left behind stared at Mr. Liliera with a stunned face.

Well, it's time for me to focus on the fight, too.

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"Huh, it's finally over"

Everyone exhales heavily after battling the orcs they encounter while exploring.

I've been fighting the orcs since this morning.

We started a joint investigation into this orc commotion between the Adventurer Alliance and the Knights, but the situation was more troublesome than expected.

Because as the orcs headed in the direction they came, they encountered the orcs more and more often.

"Even so, are these guys getting a little stronger?

"Oh, I felt that way, too. The number of casualties has been increasing since then."

Gyro, to your blur, Mr. Norb speaks out in agreement.

"And the orcs are getting weirder and weirder."

"Yeah, I'm definitely not an oak anymore, alle"

As Mina and the others say, there were more orcs encountered that looked unusual.

The person I've encountered so far looked like an extension of the oak, but now the oak element is the accompanying oak? Because it's becoming.

"A demon like Hydra with nine oak heads, that's impossible."

"This one's got a shell on his skin like a bug"

"Cucumber"

Moffmoff is thinking of something about each of the orcs.

"Cuckoo."

And then I went back to being one of them and started eating in earnest.

Is it possible you're comparing it to eating?

"Hey Mr. Rex, I knew this..."

Mouth the doubts Liliera has had so far about the apparently strange looks of the orcs.

"Yeah, that's definitely a chimera"

Yes, these orcs were definitely chimeras.

"There is such an unnatural creature in nature... I'm not saying I won't, but this insistently creature with an oak element is an anomaly"

"You have to stay. Weird creature......"

The world is huge...

I've encountered quite a few amazing demons in my past life.

"Did someone make it?"

"But why are you obsessed with orcs? Oak mania...... or something?

Um, I don't even know that. What are you really orcs about?

Orcs just grow in numbers faster, and I don't think there's any benefit to racially purposefully turning them into chimeric primitives.

"Whatever it is, you don't know what's causing it."

"Cause..."

I hear it's the cause, and Mr. Liliera makes a difficult face.

"Speaking of chimeras, I remember that undead..."

"Are you talking about Mr. Gun-ei?

Indeed, Mr. Ganye, the undead of the ancient magical civilization period we met before, specializes in chimeric research.

It hasn't happened since we broke up at the bottom of the cave, but I wonder what we're doing by now.

"Maybe that undead caused this chimera thing..."

"Mm-hmm. I wonder. The purpose of this guy was to create a chimera that could crusade the white disaster, but I don't think this time the orc would fit that purpose..."

Yes, Mr. Gunnye's aim is to produce the most powerful chimera. It was never supposed to mass produce weak chimeras.

"You can either. That's it. He said he'd find out what caused it."

"You should think about it a little more."

Mr. Mina cautions you to be more thoughtful about Gyro, who trumps you for nothing.

"But Gyro, you have a point. Even if we think about it in the absence of information, we end up guessing. We need to find the culprit."

"Yes, yes! Let's go, bro!

"Doesn't sound like it."

Gyro, when you raised your voice to move on, it took Mr. Norb to wait for you.

"No, no, no, no."

"Looks like there are more wounded than expected, and I'm in the process of discussing whether we should retreat, get ready again, and then get back out again"

"Are there that many wounded?

"Yeah, it looks like there were too many different kinds of these odd orcs, and a lot of people were injured in unexpected attacks"

"I see. If you do look so different, another creature already. It's practically like fighting a bunch of demons."

Plus, the strength seems pretty uneven.

"All we encountered was a weak oak, but the other adventurers were unlucky and troublesome. No. If there's a mastermind behind these orcs, did the enemy target an armed adventurer to infiltrate the weak orcs and injure them?

"" "" No, then I wonder if my brother/Rex/was being targeted "" "

Me? Why would you do that?

"Anyway, if the guild is in the process of consulting, you might want to take a break now."

"Right. And now that we've crusaded all this oak, there can be plenty of retreat to retrieve and dismantle the material."

Oh, well, that's certainly possible.

I don't have to worry about the material crusaded being rotten if stored in a magic bag, but I don't know because the number of demolishers is limited. And the size of the demolition yard.

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"Hey, gather the leaders of each party!

Because of this, as I take a break from lunch, someone at the party entrusted with the role of leader by the Adventurer Guild speaks up as to whether the consultation is over or not.

"Then you're coming."

"Yeah, we'll finish the meal."

"Yeah, nice to meet you"

Gyro, don't bother me.

He said, "I'm just gonna go talk to him!

Gyro, you're the leader of the Dragon Slayers, so it sounds like you're gonna go talk to me.

I would have bothered you until now and left it to Mr. Mina, but I can't believe you started working as a leader from yourself, Gyro. I wish you were growing up every day too.

"It doesn't bother me. But I can't let him go..."

Oh, because I'm going to be preached...

"As I'm sure we all know, the number of orcs has increased and there have been a lot of awesome enemies. The number of injured is also low. So after consulting with the Knights, I decided to withdraw here."

"" "" Ooh "" "

Some raise their voice of relief to the words of the leader, while others raise their voices of dissatisfaction.

"Of course it's not compulsory. Adventurers are inspired by freedom. … but it is only through self-responsibility that we can do so. Those who return are safe to act together with the Knights, but those who want to stay and continue their quest after this time will no longer have companions to fight with and the danger will jump. Think carefully and make your choice. More than from me."

That's all Mr. Leader has to say, and we're all going back soon to talk to our party buddies about what we just heard.

"What shall we do?

I ask for your opinions, Mr. Liliera and Mr. Gyro. I still have plenty of room, but maybe everyone wants to go home tired.

"Of course I'm coming! Looks like the rest of them are going home, and by the end of the day, fix the problem and monopolize the handles!

"I agree with you. There's still room over here. But, you know, by the end of the day, it's just too much of a rush, so I think we should move carefully."

"Ooh..."

"Well, I'm in favor of continuing my investigation. We could magically fly home anyway."

"It's easier to fly through the sky and investigate for not having to take group action rather"

"If we're the only ones who don't fight the orcs on the ground, the investigation will be safe."

Looks like they're all in favor of continuing the investigation.

"Cuckoo."

When he realized, Moffmoff had finished eating all the oaks he was comparing to eating.

I mean, if you're gonna eat it all, did it make sense to compare it to eating it?

"Cuckoo"

Mohmov looks around when he is hungry.

"Chi, cuoo"

And when I punched him in the tongue, he climbed up my leg and started catching the magic bag crunchy.

Do you want an oak that you might have stored?

"Apparently, Moffmoff doesn't eat enough oak either."

"Cu!"

All Moffmoff said was right, his chest stretched, and he fell to the ground.

"Yeah, then let's continue our investigation!

"" "" "Oooh!!" ""

"Kew!"

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"You found it."

They found me.

"I see you found it."

"They found you."

"Too easy......"

"haha......"

In conclusion, the destination was found as soon as the search resumed.

When I broke up with the team and went in the direction of more and more orcs coming with flying magic, I got to the foot of the big mountain range.

On the corner of the mountain, a large building was built to assimilate to the mountain.

And out of that building, dozens of orcs kept showing up.

"There's such a building here..."

"And it's so big, didn't the guild or the Knights have any information on this building?

Mina and the others leaning their necks in the building, which is so unnaturally nestled, wondering why it has never been a scene before.

"There was a cover-up, so there's a good chance the Knights and the Adventurers didn't notice it coming near here."

"Huh? There was something like that!?"

"Liar!? I didn't realize that!?"

When they hear that the junction was tense, Liliera and Mina raise their surprises.

"Yeah, it got in the way, so I disarmed it."

"Oh, that's why all of a sudden the building showed up."

"I was surprised earlier"

"That's my brother! I had no idea!

"Don't say it with confidence... well, I didn't get it either"

Mr. Mina sighs at you, Gyro, who says excitedly.

"Anyway, I'm pretty sure that building caused it."

"Then just do a survey of that building... hmm?

It was then.

All of a sudden it started ringing like crap.

"What, an earthquake?

"No, you're not! Look, the building!

Gyro, when everyone pays attention to the building to your words, the building makes a noise and collapses.

"The building...!?"

And then something huge came out of the building.

"Ha ha ha ha! I thought it would depend because the junction was lifted, but you still said it, my lord!

What I heard from the soil smoke was a familiar voice.

"I knew it was you...... Mr. Gun-ei!

Coming out of the soil smoke was the appearance of a creature that should literally be called a synthetic organism (chimera), as Liliera expected, and one that fused too much with various creatures to be called an oak anymore.