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Chapter 136
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Chapter 136 – Lake Voice
“(Potions are good, horse dung is good, and as for the water bottle―even though it’s near water, I don’t know what will happen, so I’ll take it just in case.)”
Today, I will finally go to Lake Voice.
I was able to acquire unexpected skills in the Pal Plains, so I wonder how much I can accomplish in a single day.
Especially since it’s the first day, I’m full of excitement.
However, there is one thing that is disappointing.
“Isn’t this the last day for Riste?”
“That’s right. I’m supposed to finish the search for the transmigrators around noon or early evening.”
As she said, this would be the last dinner with Riste.
Well, there’s a chance she might come down again, but if it’s a luxurious meal in a luxurious room, it’s most likely going to be the last time.
“Okay, then I’ll make sure I’m back in time for dinner tonight.”
“Don’t worry about it. Please put Loki-kun’s priorities first.”
“Eating delicious food with Riste is one of my priorities, too! I’ll be going then!”
I leave the room, almost defeated by Riste, who smiles and waves while making a wide-eyed face for a moment.
“(She started smiling a lot…)”
Riste, on the other hand, was always calm and collected, so it was hard to see any changes in her expression.
Despite that impression, I can’t help but feel that she’s been smiling more since last night.
“(Did something good happen? Could it be that there has been progress in the search for the transmigrators?)”
While thinking about these things, I decided that if I wasn’t told anything, it must be something that didn’t concern me, so I moved to a place where it seemed possible to fly.
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Flight is excellent, but it’s very difficult to control.
Yesterday, I managed to raise the level of my Flight skill to 4, so it consumes 6 magic powers per minute.
If I use it continuously, I can fly for about 30 minutes, so even if I use my magic power release image, I can reach my destination before my magic power runs out if it’s a distance of about 2 hours on foot.
However, the problem is whether I can use the flight without being noticed.
This is a very tricky point to consider and a major drawback that makes it difficult to use casually.
As Riste said, ordinary people cannot acquire this skill through the official method because of the difficulty involved.
It is likely to be possessed only by people of a race that have wings or by reincarnated people who have dreamed of flying.
If I fly in a way that makes me stand out as a human, I’ll be suspected of being from another world, and if I’m suspected, the possibility of receiving troublesome invitations in the future will greatly increase.
“(Is this about right…?)”
The area is a dense forest.
I was going to a place that wasn’t even designated as a hunting ground, a place where it seemed like there were only wild animals.
Ideally, I would have flown directly from the inn, but if I had done so during the day, the locals would have seen me, and the rumor would have spread.
So, for now, my ideal is a place where no one seems to go.
Flight.
My body floats in the air.
I point my hands downward, imagining that I am releasing magic power downward as I rise.
When I ascended while hugging Riste, I was just scared, but it felt a little different when I thought of it as if I was controlling it myself.
Like you’re afraid of roller coasters because you can’t control them?
Well, if you’re afraid of heights, it doesn’t matter if you want to or not; it’s still scary.
In that sense, I’m really glad I’m not afraid of heights.
“(Hmm, am I the size of a pea now?)”
The view is magnificent, and the height is estimated to be about 300 meters.
If I go up that high, I’ll just look like a bird looking up from below.
The basket is bound to stand out, but if I don’t accept that it’s okay as long as I’m not seen, I’ll never be able to use this ability.
At first, I was overjoyed, but I felt a little stressed that I couldn’t freely use my Flight skill.
And in terms of movement, you could say that it is a completely superior replacement.
I was especially impressed by Felin’s spatial magic, which made her instantly disappear from the room and bring back Koujo-san’s bag in an instant.
“(I want to use spatial magic as soon as possible. I want to pour all the skill points I’ve saved into it like water… Or should I just use it in the city? No, I think it’s still too early for that.)”
While muttering such things to myself, I continued to fly toward the mountain the guild had taught me about, and when I saw a lake in my field of vision, I secretly landed in the trees far away.
From there, I jogged as usual and continued towards the lake…
I thought I was almost there when I saw a strange plant with red flowers on its head wriggling in front of me.
“(That’s what I saw in the Guild’s reference room. Was it a hall plant? I remember that the flowers were used as material, and that it attacked with ivy… but there’s no ivy here?)”
It’s about 1.5 meters long.
It looks like a big flower, about as tall as a person, and I can’t see any part of it that would be called ivy.
There’s a thick stem that’s swollen in one part and twisted, and there are several large leaves at the top.
And there’s just one bright red flower at the top that seems to be making a statement.
At first glance, it’s a mystery how this plant attacks.
So, grabbing the short sword I had been using, I slowly approached it…
“Oh! It’s not ivy, it’s a root!”
I couldn’t help but let out a surprised cry.
The roots that suddenly emerged from the ground wrapped around my legs and tried to pull me in, so I quickly dropped to my knees and braced myself while lowering my center of gravity.
“Gyo… Gya…”
“…..”
“(I see. So the roots are supposed to wrap around me and pull me in, and then it’s supposed to prey on me with its creepy mouth in the middle of the flower, huh?)”
But no matter how I thought about it, the hall plant was no match for me, and my body didn’t move an inch.
The roots had thorns like roses, so I was a little worried that they might be poisonous.
Well, my Poison Resistance is level 7, so I only had to worry a little.
――Snap――
As I thought, this is an E-rank hunting ground.
I quickly cut off the tangled roots, and then, without a moment’s hesitation, I cut off the flower at the top.
The hall plant quickly withers.
“(It’s so weak…)”
While holding the cut flower, I suddenly look back at the place where the roots appeared earlier.
“About 10 meters? …No way, right?”
Even though I said no way, I couldn’t help but have some hope.
After opening the status screen and checking the percentage of a certain skill, I took the magic stone out of the swollen part of the trunk and ran towards the next hall plant that was in my field of vision.
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“Overhunt! Overhunting!”
Maybe it was because I arrived earlier than usual, or maybe it was because the landing site was far away from where the hunters usually go.
I run around the empty hunting grounds with my usual short sword in my hand, going in all directions.
I can’t worry about where I am right now.
If push comes to shove, I can use Flight and fly in the opposite direction to the mountain I can see at the end of the lake and return to the city of Malta.
So now, in this hunting ground that is empty of all other people, I will cut down as many hall plants as I can.
I will walk around thinking only of that.
‘You have acquired the Presence Detection Lv.4.’
“Here it comes, here it comes!”
It was strange.
The flower had a mouth but no eyes.
How could it detect my location?
And the distance was about 10 meters.
That was the same range as the level 2 Presence Detection I had experienced before.
So I thought, “Could this be?”
And when I defeated the second one, I immediately checked the Presence Detection stat, and my heart leaped.
This guy has Presence Detection, I thought.
From then on, I was single-mindedly focused.
This useful skill can be used anywhere.
In the current situation, where I don’t want to be found out as an alien, it’s even more useful than Flight.
“Hunt, hunt, hunt, and then… oh no! I’ve entered the crab zone? There are frogs here, too!”
As I looked, I saw a lake in the distance.
As I approached the water’s edge, I realized that I had entered the habitat of the amber frog and the mud crab.
I also began to see hunters here and there, and conversely, I could hardly see any hall plants in the distance.
“(I see, I see. So this is a hunting ground where the monsters live in different areas depending on whether they are near the water or not.)”
If you want to hunt flowers, move away from the lake.
If you want to hunt frogs and crabs, move closer to the lake.
This is useful information for me, who wants to pinpoint and increase the skills I’m aiming for.
Now that I’m here, I’ll start by finding out what skills the mud crab and amber frog have.
I stopped hunting the hall plants for the time being and, still in a state of excitement, charged at the crab that was nearby.
I was overconfident because I had just hunted a hall plant with ease.
As my heart leaped, I swung my sword at the mud crab…
…Clank!
“Ouch…!!!”
It wasn’t as if I was hit by some kind of attack.
Just as I was about to bring my sword down, the mud crab stopped moving and glowed for a moment.
I knew that, but I couldn’t stop swinging my sword, and the result of swinging it down like that was this.
The sword had sunk to a certain extent, so it looked like the mud crab was on the verge of death…
It’s so hard that my hand is numb.
And then I thought about the blade of the sword breaking.
I’d just had it serviced the other day, and I’d feel bad for Paisa-san if I broke the weapon so soon.
“Oh no… but wait, it’s easy to pull out. Is everything okay…?”
Although I was a little disappointed that the sword came out so easily, I was relieved to see that there was no noticeable damage to my favorite short sword.
Then, as I watched the hunters from a distance, I noticed that they were all attacking in a way that didn’t involve cutting with a hammer-type weapon, as if they knew it would be difficult.
In addition, it looked like they were delaying their attacks by a beat.
“I see…”
With so much information, it’s as if I’ve figured out how to defeat the mud crab…
“(It’s a bit difficult for me with only two short swords…)”
To begin with, I don’t have any weapons with a hammer-like shape, so all that’s left is the moment when it shines.
I’ll have to try to attack it outside of that moment.
Then.
“…Well, I guess I’ll give it a try?”
My new weapon, which I had bought but never used because I was too poor to afford it, was now in my hands.
This one is about 30 times more expensive.
The material is also high quality, so it’s no surprise that it’s so sharp.
I thought that my original short sword would be enough for E-rank hunting grounds, but whether it was my skill or the characteristics of the weapon, I felt that this was the perfect opportunity to try out this unusually hard mud crab.
If the blade breaks suddenly, it won’t be funny at all…
Holding it tightly, thinking that the second generation of this high-quality weapon will be just as good as the first generation, I start walking towards the second mud crab.
“(I’ll pretend to attack… here!)”
As I expected.
When I get close, the mud crab swings its big claws around, but it doesn’t have much range to begin with, so it’s almost impossible to say that it’s dangerous in terms of attack.
Instead, when I make an attack move, it stops moving, and its entire body begins to glow.
Since the light is not aggressive, I should probably consider it activating some kind of defensive skill.
That’s why it was so difficult just now.
And if you delay for a beat and slash down at the moment the light disappears…
…Swosh.
Surprisingly easy.
I don’t know if it’s because the sword is so good, but even if I don’t put that much power into it, the body splits in half, and the delicious-looking crab miso comes out. [T/n: Crab miso is an organ with liver and pancreas functions.]
“(Seriously? I really want to eat it!)”
I wonder what would happen if it were poisonous.
However, the level of my Poison Resistance skill is high.
And I can’t resist the temptation of crab guts, which is also one of my favorite foods, right in front of me…
I reach out and sniff, then lick the miso off the crab’s shell.
“Wow, this is rich and not fishy at all! Maybe it would be even better if I mixed the miso with the meat…?”
Once I started, I couldn’t stop.
With a dismantling knife, I started to peel the shells off the arms and scissors, which looked like they were about 30 cm long.
Of course, the other hunters were putting them in their baskets for cash, so no one was around to see me.
From the outside, it must have looked like a strange sight to start eating in the middle of the hunting area.
But that’s the real thrill of hunting in a new hunting ground, and it’s something you can only do in a lower-class hunting ground.
Even though I thought the shell was hard for a cheap dismantling knife, I managed to finish peeling it, and when I dipped the fresh, plump, raw meat into the miso and threw it into my mouth…
“Mmm! It’s delicious!”
I drool.
Raw crab meat is quite expensive in Japan, but this is the right size, filling, and sweet.
I can’t help but want soy sauce, ponzu, and sake, but there’s no point in asking for things that aren’t there.
Just dipping it in the crab miso is enough to bring out the flavor, so if I call this a compromise, I’ll be in trouble.
“I can’t stop… I can’t stop, but I’ll save the fun for lunch and dinner. If I take a couple of them home just before I leave, will Riste be happy?)”
There is not the slightest thought in my head of trying to turn the mud crabs into money.
Since they are so big, they would end up overwhelming the basket, so after cutting off the magic stone and the left claw, which is the proof of subjugation, I will only take home as much as I want to eat.
I knew from rough calculations that this would be more financially efficient, so I left the last one.
Staring back at the distant amber frog still staring at me, I muttered to myself.
“(Please? Please have the skills I expect you to have, okay?)”
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