Chapter 235 – Special Missions
“Since you were born? I have heard of it for the first time.”
“Huh? Is it?”
Roin tilted his head at Natalia’s reaction.
“Doesn’t it seem unusual to receive divine protection from birth?”
“It is not uncommon. After all, protection is something that God has to give. Am I about six years old? Around that time, I received divine protection, and I remember that when I received divine protection, people around me made a fuss about me saying that I was the youngest.”
“Okay? You said that Natalya was the youngest, but did you mean that old people were born?”
“What… ‘Cause I’m not a noble Unexpectedly, there might be more people like me among the common people.”
The appearance of the old man shrugging his shoulders raised some doubts.
“On what criteria do the gods bestow blessings?”
“…”
“…”
At my murmur, Natalya and Roin stared at each other in silence.
“Why?”
“Are you saying that as an incarnation?”
“If you get your memory back, please tell me why you gave me the protection later.”
“…”
Roin and Natalya talked lightly like a joke.
But rather, those words caught my heart. I went to bed feeling uncomfortable on the other hand because I was able to confirm that I was cheating on the two of them.
Early in the morning, before the sun rose, my eyes suddenly opened. The air outside, seen through the cracks in the tent, was a blue-blue color close to purple. I started meditating with my eyes closed, thinking that Natalya and Roin, who were sleeping next to each other, would still have a long way to go before waking up.
I close my eyes and slowly unleash the mana ball coiled in my chest. Mana made noise and followed my will slowly but steadily.
-□□□… □□□.
The bundle of mana was released little by little, and something leaked out through the gap. Whether it’s words, writing, or thoughts… I couldn’t tell.
If you pay more attention, you can hear it. What she’s talking about…
Shaaaaah.
“Hansong! You have to get up!”
Flash Eyes open. The old man was already up and ready to leave, and Natalya was holding my coat.
“What’s the matter?”
“Something is coming. It feels like it’s probably the unidentified monster we’ve been chasing.”
After Roin explained that, he checked the condition of the dagger he had tied to his thigh belt and put it back in.
Seeing them prepare for battle, I quickly took a coat from Natalya, put it on, picked up a scythe, and left the tent together.
The forest was surrounded by the morning mist, and the sunbeams from the sky were opaquely scattered. Breathing in the damp, damp, unpleasant morning air, I looked around in a gray haze.
The flames of the bonfires guarded by the skeletons all night still swayed their tongues of orange light. Around the campfire, I could see three people sleeping in sleeping bags.
“Wake up!”
“Okay… Oh, it’s the waist.”
“Turn it off!”
The bald man and the fat man stretched their arms carefreely without even grasping the situation, and Fade looked around her and held his armament, perhaps noticing that we were unusual even in her sleep.
Shaaaaa I got goosebumps at the sound of shaking dozens of hard wooden bells at the same time. It was difficult to tell where the sound of the bells was coming from because of the blurred vision in the morning mist. The bald man and the fat man finally took stock of the situation and quickly looked around and screamed in terror.
“Oh, where are you! Where are you making noise!”
“I don’t know because the sound is ringing!”
“Quiet! Talking about it might irritate them! Stick with your back to each other!”
The talkative guys followed Fade’s instructions without saying anything. We stuck around the troll skeletons and hid behind the steel skeletons.
Shaaaaa The sound of the bells got closer. Turong. The steel skeleton staggered along with a cheerful friction sound.
“What? What?!”
“I don’t know, I don’t know. It looks like you attacked the skeleton from a distance… Because I can’t see… !”
Tuong! Again, something flew and collided. The steel skeletons that built a wall by interweaving shields with each other stumbled.
“What are you throwing?!”
“Shit! I can’t see anything!”
Bald and fat covered themselves with small round shields and cried.
“What is it that bumps into a skeleton?”
“I don’t know. I can’t see anything… !”
When the skeletons perform complex actions such as combat, Natalia must see and control them with her own two eyes, so the fog that obscures her vision becomes a fatal weakness.
On the other hand, even in this thick fog, he sees our location accurately and has been attacking in unknown ways.
Tuong! Less! Dump!
Another strong impact sound was heard. The head of the steel skeleton collapsed as it rolled on the floor.
“Has your head been cut off?!”
I picked up the head of the steel skeleton that had fallen on the floor. The skull was distorted as if it had received a strong shock, and the vertebrae connecting the skull and body had fallen off. It must have been pulled out after being hit on the head with a strong force. Less than 3 minutes after the encounter, they were attacked one-sidedly, and the skeleton’s chill fell off.
At this rate, the skeletons might collapse before they even try. As if a spark had fallen on his feet, he acted somewhat impatiently.
“Okay. Is there any good way to do it? Any good way?”
It’s big enough to eat a person in one bite, so of course it must be quite strong. I don’t know what method he uses to attack the skeletons, but if this one-sided confrontation continues, it’s all over.
Is there any way to find his location…
Method… One bite of a person… ?
“It’s Natalie.”
“Yes?”
“I don’t know where he attacks, but if it’s not digested, there must be a human corpse in his stomach, right?”
“Yes? Oh, maybe?”
“Then wouldn’t it be possible to feel the energy of death in his stomach? Feeling the energy will be different from seeing it with your eyes.”
“Ah… ! I understand what you mean!”
Clever Natalya nodded her head to see if she fully understood what I was trying to say, then frowned and looked out through the hazy gray haze.
“Can’t you just explode the corpse in the stomach?”
“From the way I feel, I don’t think the body is intact. I think you can guess the location to some extent.”
Natalya’s gaze pierced the fog.
“That way, that way.”
Natalya said so, but the fog made it impossible to see anything.
“Damn it, nothing because of the fog…”
Whiik! Tuong!
The steel skeleton staggered as if it had been hit in the head, then collapsed.
“I broke my neck… !”
“Damn it, I can’t stand it for long…”
Two of the five skeletons fell in the blink of an eye. Did you feel the uneasy air current?
The fat man who had been squatting and shivering began to scream and run away. Fade stretched out her hand, embarrassed.
“I-I don’t want to die!”
“Do, come back!”
“Aww! I don’t want to die!”
The bells stopped. The wind blew, the fog dissipated, and a black figure appeared.
The black figure darted at the fat with a gust of wind, crushing it with her huge forepaws.
Ugh, with a sound, the fat folded in half without even screaming.
It must have been a broken back.
The brother of the guy who trampled the fat man was clearly visible.
“What is that?”
It has shiny black scales that reflect light all over its body. It’s a huge elephant-sized size, but it’s very sleek, so if it was small, you would have mistaken it for a wolf. Above its elongated snout, snake-like eyes could be seen. The first impression was that it was a reptile that looked like a wolf.
Natalia shouted.
“This is Drake, the super monster!”
As if responding to Natalya’s words, he raised his long tail, which seemed to be 5m long, and swung it quickly. No, his action was closer to vibrating rather than shaking. The tip of its tail was brown like that of a rattlesnake, and it chirped in time with its vibrations.
The rapidly vibrating tail disappeared. A quick sound of wheezing and cutting through the air was heard, and a knocking sound was heard from the skeleton.
“Did he attack with his tail!”
Contrary to its size, it moves quickly. The speed of the tail is hard to follow with the eye. Seeing that even a steel skeleton can be destroyed in two or three rooms, if I get hit, it will probably kill me instantly.
Thanks to Drake’s movement, the fog cleared to some extent and visibility was secured. I guess the fat man’s death helped.
The corpse of a fat man caught his eye under his feet.
“U-that! Let’s explode that!”
“Yes!”
Natalya responded to my instructions. Convex, the body trembled. A stupid beast cannot know magic. When the fat man he must have killed moved, he examined the corpse with a curious look.
