Chapter 728 – The Sun Covers the Sky (3)
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Next day.
Members of the advance party boarded the Ammuna and drove the ferry to the Earthtlan continent.
【Is everyone ready to dive?】
【Yep! Istetil-sama!]
【Protecting their ship is part of the promise. Keep in mind and work on it.]
【Yes!】
Istetil gathered her Reptilian friends, declared, and jumped off the deck of the Ammuna. Plop-! Submerged below the surface, they swam near the keel.
Sssss—!!!
Then, the marine monsters that came and went to the southern coast of Earthlan continent started to run away in a panic. Seeing that, Dana murmured as if it were strange.
“The escape form is very attached to the body?”
“A deep-seated fear of predators.”
Nefertiti also helped with a drink. I agree with that story, but somehow I felt a bit out of place.
‘Monsters are stronger than I thought.’
In particular, those who keep their dignity and step back gracefully – to my senses – are on the same level as me and Istetil. Fighting in the sea is going to be tough.
But what was even more amazing was that even those monsters avoided the Reptillians. There is no reason to avoid injury.
For now, it’s not a bad thing for us, so let’s just remember it and move on.
“Everyone—!! We will arrive soon!!”
Kiara, observing from the top of the mast, exclaimed.
We left it to Ammuna’s automatic navigation function and docked. The ship was built in a cave along the coast to prevent it from being destroyed, but it was able to reach the coast of Azteca without any problems.
… Sleep.
“… Well?”
As soon as I stood on the sandy beach, I felt uncomfortable again.
I held the sand on the sandy beach and played with it, then blew into it.
The fine sand was blown away by the sea breeze.
“Hmm… ?”
It’s not a very ominous feeling. The dream I had last night was still vivid, but it was a pretty gentle beach for a savage land called the hell of this world.
“Husband, what are you doing? Everyone starts.”
“Uh, I’ll go.”
When Dana called, I stopped thinking about her and went after her. Istetil, who was the first to open her eyes, was biting his nails as if she was nervous.
【What’s up?】
【… Weird. The day is too bright.]
What’s wrong with being bright?
I glanced at my watch. It’s been like that since yesterday when I saw it with my clairvoyant. Wasn’t this white night phenomenon not an ordinary occurrence in Earthlan as well?
【… Collie too! Asherad! I will move!】
As I was about to ask the question, Istetil shouted.
【As we discussed, we will stop by our city, Scolaco, before going to the historical sites you want to visit! There are few monsters in front of this beach! Hurry and move!】
The members of her advance party met her eyes and followed her directions.
It was an order that didn’t need to be resisted, and isn’t it a situation where those who know this land better than anyone are so nervous.
It was obvious that we had to hurry up to figure out the problem.
“Dana, get up.”
“Ha. As soon as you arrive, it’s a mess. Although I expected it.”
I chased the runners ahead with the slow-footed Dana on my back.
Pasasasak—!
The low-growing grasses were uprooted by the feet running faster than the wind.
A little stretch of the southern coast. Istetil’s hometown, Scolaco, is a city-state on a plain far from the jungles of the western continent of Earthtlan.
However, the vibrant stone civilization greeted us with a completely different look from what we had heard.
Houses dyed in dark gray and a desolate landscape that can only be seen as ruins.
The first city we witnessed on this continent was a ruin that had been burned by fire.
【… What’s going on?]
Could it be that they did not accept that the ruins, where it is difficult to find the presence of the living, were their hometown? Istetil and Skolakiche shook their necks.
【While we left, something happened to this city!! Elders, Warriors!!]
Istetil, who cried out for the city to leave, jumped over the almost melted walls and ran inside. Shedmenhotep’s eyes widened.
【Someone, someone, there are no survivors! Come out, elder! Pocasoka—!!]
【Tiakan!! Father!! Answer me if you’re all right!!]
【What bastards!! I will find you and kill you!!]
Losing their cool, they pursued Istetil before we had time to stop them.
If you don’t stun it, you won’t be able to subdue it. I clicked my tongue.
“… Sir Colido. Can you feel the popularity?”
“There are several people inside the castle walls.”
Kiara’s expression when she said that was not very good.
“They must be the person they are looking for. I don’t know if he was the person I wanted to be alive.”
“… Let’s go after it.”
Whatever happened, I couldn’t just wait here.
We chased inside the walls, and in the stream, which was wider than expected, we found people with scales and wings of skin on their limbs.
【What. Were there any survivors?]
Just, as Kiara said, they weren’t the people we were looking for.
They looked like the Skolakiches, but they were completely different men whose faces we remembered in a few days. They walked around in a group of five and showed great interest when they encountered us.
【… No I’m an outsider How did you get here? Have you penetrated the sea or the jungle?]
It’s a reaction as if you’ve seen a wild animal overseas.
I sighed and put my finger on the bracelet.
“Sir Colido. I’ll leave the one who runs away.”
“I think it was a mistake at the point of missing Istetil, but let’s do it.”
Damn. Is it like that too?
It was a situation where curses came out, but I couldn’t help it. Because you can’t hope that those reptilians are psychopaths who act coldly even after their families and neighbors are massacred.
From the start, he was faced with a situation where sighs came out naturally.
“Fuck the plague. I’d rather come in droves from the beginning.”
【Which country are you talking about? So that I can understand——]
─Giyiing!!!!
A laser was inserted between the eyebrows of the man who was talking.
Bang-!! The light, which seemed to have focused sunlight, was magic on a principle similar to that of a microwave oven. The man’s head exploded like an egg exploding as it evaporated.
The boy’s head, which the man was holding, rolled off.
After catching a glimpse of the flesh firecracker, Pharaoh lowered his finger.
“Was Jim wrong?”
I looked at the expression of the boy with only his head left.
He was a little native of an age where he would never have died in Hollywood.
Ugh ugh… !!
Brünach’s spear edge flashed sharply in the strangely bright sun.
【–Evacuation! Report to Philpitin!]
If you do, it’s the same. When the baby, who was not known whether it was a friend or a senior, exploded and stillborn, the cannibal babies threw the ‘rice’ they were wearing around their waists and bounced off.
Tung-!
Dana, who made the shield of light used by the Val Curiers, looked at the head of the person hit by the shield and closed his mouth.
“… I’m sorry for the dead, but it’s good that you skipped breakfast.”
“You will get used to it. It’s not a good thing.”
Answering her self-talk, Kiara ran like lightning and turned the bastard’s neck 360 degrees. ─Oops! The cannibal had its head pulled out like a robot that got caught in the wrong hands of a young mother who bought a transforming robot for the first time.
Kiara left the enemies she was searching for and disappeared without a confirmation kill.
I will catch and kill those who try to escape from this city as much as possible. I gestured to Dana as well. From her medallion, which nodded her head, the Val Curiers sprang up and spread out.
‘… Can I catch them all?’
Momentary worry.
My colic has a negative conclusion.
What if a guy hanging around outside hears a commotion and jumps out first?
‘Let’s think about it. There are no sharp points.’
I gave up on coping. Variables are variables because we cannot control them.
I couldn’t help but blame Istetle. Even if they were calm anyway, wouldn’t they be able to surround them with the number of vanguards?
It’s not easy to get rid of all these bastards if you place more emphasis on escaping alive and reporting than fighting. It is right to see it as impossible.
Our visit to Azteca is transmitted.
I have no choice but to move with the mindset that this will happen.
【Are you guys invaders!!】
─Quarreuk!! The Aztecan, who stopped while digging through the gravel, raised his claws. It was a plan to drag the time with the resolution to die.
【A visitor. For those who aren’t you.]
As I answered, I immediately attacked. It is an opponent with no room for conversation. ─Flash! While emitting an aura, Brunak slapped the man’s forearm.
There was resistance, but it was only momentary. His scaly arm was severed.
【Kuah──】
【Noisy, you bastard son of a bitch.】
I swung my spear and decapitated the son of a bitch. The throat, which was about to scream, made a sound of air escaping and rolled beside the person it had preyed on.
I blew that head off with an aura.
〈Hahu-don bastards who eat even their mothers are fried. How can you eat people if you don’t know the taste?〉
“There must be a reason other than religious.”
─Exactly!
Shedmenhotep snapping his fingers. Then, as if the sun in the sky suddenly approached thousands of kilometers away, the Aztecs, who had been running away from afar, spontaneously ignited.
〈Are you willing to take the risk and disperse?〉
〈Efficient, but quit. Chances are high that he will be hiding outside anyway. It is better to reduce the choice of casualties. If it’s scouting, I’ll do it.〉
Shedmenhotep with his hand in his sleeve. A jewel-studded piece of an owl flew into the sky. Both are valuable magic items. It was a pharaoh’s wealth show.
As he was casting his magic, he noticed my gaze and said.
〈It is an artifact connected to the treasure house of the palace in his home country. I can’t take it out except for me, but on the contrary, it’s a subspace where everything is. Would you like to chew some herbs if your stomach is uncomfortable?〉
〈Sweet things attract me more than bitter things. My appetite is bitter.〉
It was the horse of Nefertiti who swung a whip in succession as if to kick it. The cannibal Reptilians who were holding their breath in the alley became stains on the walls like mosquitoes in the summer.
─Spooky!
With the last one I killed with an ice spear, the devastated city fell into a chilling silence. The heat of flowing blood and the subtropical climate make the air cold like a lie.
〈… Guys, let’s move too.〉
Asherard, who had little fighting ability, said with an expression of enduring vomiting.
We nodded. He surrendered to his rage and killed them all, but he had to find survivors, whether enemies or allies, and listen to his story.
Interrogating the spirit is when there is no story derived from it.
I thought that far and said.
“But how are you going to separate the citizens from the enemy soldiers?”
〈… Damn. First of all, we need to calm down the Skolakiche people—〉
Would all the soldiers show off that they were bastards who ate people like that? Asherard, who was grinding his teeth, looked back.
Istetil stood at the end of the dagger aiming carelessly.
【… I’m sorry that I made a fuss so much that my family was eaten. Should I say that?]
The corners of her expressionless mouth curled self-mockingly.
Those who couldn’t understand the language glanced at me, who knew what they were saying.
But it was a word that did not need to be translated. My mouth spit out only their language.
【Did you find out what happened?】
【It’s a blood relationship problem. It’s a kind of fratricide.]
【A fratricide?】
【’The Sun That Covers the Sky’, Tonashillucatl.]
Istetil stroked her bloody ribbon.
【We, Skolakiche, are children who inherited the divine dragon’s blood.】
