Isekai Taneuma

Gekko, a big forest peddler and lizard (Lizardman), asked me to search for a village that was supplying pepper.

On the Baltica continent there are two large rivers flowing out to the western sea, but the settlements inhabited by the Gargantuars are in the northern basin and the village in question is in the southern basin. Traders usually set up bazaars at the mouth of the river every week to deal with the beasts. At that time, they also handed over the pepper, but in the past few months, they were unresponsive and never showed up.

Even if I wanted to check back up the river, the depths of the big forest were dangerous and nobody wanted to go, so the feng looked like a bowl came around. I don't know what happened, but in the Great Forest, the invasion of the Demons has been confirmed one after the other, so we must assume the worst.

And, well... because I invited Lucy, a de Amateur, to such a difficult quest, Guillaume was in a bad mood... but I think this choice was never wasted later.

Fengbai

Str10 dex11

Agi10 vit10

Int10 cha10

Bonus1

Level5 xp/next430/500

Hp/mp100 /50 ac10 pl0 pie5 san10

Job alchemist

Per/ali good/dark bt c

Party-exp100

Feng Bai LVUP

Jeanne

Mary LVUP

Guillaume LVUP

Lucy LVUP

When the Southern Expedition was decided and was being pursued in preparation, Feng was summoned by the Guild Leader to receive a reward for killing the Fishman. Most of the remuneration was for alcohol from the neighboring village, which was modest in financial terms, but it was the first formal request I received at the party, so I was impressed with some of it.

When Feng received the reward from the Guild Leader, he remembered why he had originally received the request and checked his status. As I was aiming for, the reward for completing this quest was shared experience.

Apparently, there was a hypothesis that if we achieved one thing at the party, we would have shared experience.

Unfortunately, his level had not risen yet, but as soon as he was thinking of assigning this shared experience to someone, he found Lucy's name among the party members.

"What, Lucy's name?

"Oh, I was surprised to find Lucy when I opened it thinking I'd shake my experience with either you or Mary."

When Feng told Guillaume this, he looked hard.

"Ah, but what kind of person is chosen to be a party member? I don't suppose Leo and Gargantuar were in there together."

"You two are leaders of an Alliance or a tribe, so I don't think you can join my party. I don't know, maybe when they get free and abandon that kind of gesture, their names come up here."

"I can't even try that... Lucy. Having a name means he can raise his level, right?

"Yeah, what do we do? If you raise your level, you might be able to protect yourself."

When Feng suggested so, Guillaume shook his head to blow something out,

"No, I don't think that's a bet right now. Meetya's right, I'll protect him and you. Rather, it's better to assign experience to someone who is sure to be stronger."

I see. Well, shall I let you in?

"No, this must be Mary."

I thought it would be unfair because it would be two consecutive times, but Guillaume has recommended Mary.

"The priest is somehow a powerful race. Never lose by raising the level. Besides, he's on Mage Level 3 now, and if he goes up one more time, he'll remember the attack spell, right? I bet on that possibility."

"I see. So is that."

I know the power of a fireball because it has almost been killed once.

"Well then, let's shake Mary's experience.

"Yeah, do it."

Feng nodded and pressed the name of the status screen, and Mary screamed from a distance.

"Already! If you want to raise the level, I'll do it first! Oh, my God, you're amazing!

Mary was still crowned an hour after she left the Gargantuar settlement and walked quite a distance. When the priest leveled up, the fanfare rang in his head... Feng, who had completely forgotten such a trivia, accidentally assigned her a shared experience without telling her anything, and suddenly Mary, surprised by the fanfare, was embarrassed in front of everyone.

The villagers who happened to witness the appearance, seeing Mary's funny appearance, who thought she was God, laughed at her love, but Mary, who had been humiliated unnecessarily, could not forgive her. Feng and Guillaume were about to be allowed to walk on the ground without being put on a horse.

"Why even me....."

Guillaume said it was bumpy, but he was the one who told Mary to put the experience into it, so it was a joint and several responsibility. Incidentally, Mary's level rose to 23 with this input, and she also learned the attack spell very well.

The first of the two spells I learned at Mage Level 4, Fireball, was the flame magic that Feng was about to be killed once. When the fireball fired by the attacker hits the target, it explodes, blowing up the flame and burning it out. What the hell was burning before? I was wondering, it seems that the lipids in the body of the target are destroyed from the inside of the body due to their sparks, so a direct hit will not help me first. Conversely, even if you target the ground with the intention of magic, there is little power, and it may burn.

Secondly, Blizzard is magical enough to cause a violent snowstorm to blow the subject away. The power is so great that a two-story house would blow it away. Even if you touch the cold air for a few seconds, it would freeze the blood in your body and cause frostbite, but unfortunately, the subject will not die soon. When surrounded by multiple enemies, it feels like magic is used to keep them away from each other.

Especially if frostbite occurs in a few seconds, it will freeze to death in a minute. For example, if combined with cloud-based magic like Stancloud, it can be presumed to be a very malicious attack. I'd like to try it the next time I raid a colony of the Oannes. When I said that, Guillaume praised me for saying, "You really can't come up with eggs."

The chance came as soon as it happened.

Two routes were planned for the expedition to the south.

One is the route from the mouth of the river, which merchants always use to meet when bartering. This means going out to the sea in the western part of the continent once, so it seems very far away, but it seems that it is possible to reach the destination much sooner than on foot if you can use the waterway. However, considering the invasion of the Oannes tribe yesterday, I had to abandon passing through this waterway with a neck.

The other is a route that goes as far south on foot as possible without going through the river. Needless to say, this route is expected to be difficult to navigate, but inter-tribal societies (tribes) are formed everywhere in the big forest, and if we follow these Wesen settlements, we won't have to worry about replenishing them at least. This time, it was a formal request from the Merchant's Guild, so you don't have to worry about expenses, so if you don't even care about time, it would be safer to go through here.

The settlement in question is about 500 kilometers south of the village of Gargantua. It is about the distance between Tokyo and Osaka, but since it passes through the woods, even if you ride a horse, you can expect a one-way trip of about two weeks. However, as for safety, Feng and his family decided to choose this route because they could not replace their bellies.

However, even the route they should have chosen for safety, they were troubled by the demons. All the settlements that stopped by for supplies were in trouble because of the nearby Oannes colony.

Most tribal societies are disadvantaged against demons, even if they have strong tribes like Gargantuar who can deal with them on their own. If not, mankind would be further south of the continent, and there would be no request like this one.

That's why every time Feng and the others stopped by the village, they asked for help to exterminate the demons.

Before asking for supplies and, of course, because we couldn't ignore the people in need, Feng bought helpers and left. Thus, while fighting the Oannes, I realized that the further south I went, the more of them would increase.

Two weeks had passed since we left, and by the time we entered the river basin to the south in a day, we had been asked to crush the colony twice a day. While the number of demonic tribes is increasing, I understand why their hometown of Neuroi is an unprecedented place. The numbers are incredible anyway.

And if you're fighting this much, of course, there's a problem. Mary's MP ran out.

While attacking the Oannes colony, the battle gradually became routine, and it goes without saying that Mary was the main force at that time. The procedure is as follows.

First of all, since there is not enough time to wait for the evening to ambush, Mary approaches with the contemporary magic of Leonardo, hindering recognition, and greets Stancloud. Jeanne, Guillaume, and the villagers jumped out and chased them, while Mary froze the crippled fishmongers with a bleezer.

That's it. It's very simple, but if we could just find the colony, we could get rid of most of it this way. During the day, some fishmongers would be out hunting their prey, but I couldn't take care of them until then. Then they asked me to hunt the mountains, and the feng headed to the next settlement. But most of the time, the same thing happens in the next settlement.

This way, Mary's MP won't have time to recover if the battle continues. In general, when it comes to how much MP is consumed in a single fight, it seems that there is about 30 MP consumed using magic twice. However, the MP that she recovers naturally in one day is about 10.

Mary's maximum MP was about 360 at Level 23. Thanks to the experience gained while fighting, the level has increased and is currently at level 24, but still only 365.

The HP is superior to 2000, but why is the MP so low? Originally, the maximum MP was 999. This was the specification of the previous world game, and Kazuya's MP proved it even after coming here. Therefore, her MP is by no means low.

The problem is consumption... if we don't reduce it, we'll have to make it more resilient. If there were high purity crystals in the MP potion here, I wouldn't have to worry about anything at all, but I left them all when I ran away from Hermes. I regretted that I should have brought it just for my own fun, but it was a later festival.

That's why I came to the village under investigation (if anything) in a day, but the party was stuck waiting for Mary's MP to recover. From here on out, we naturally expect to fight Oannes, so it is a necessary stagnation.

It will also distract Mary and Jeanne from the tiredness of the fighting. I wish I could find an alkaloid-containing herb that would add a bit of MP later....

During this break, Feng used the information of the Beasts and his skills to explore the surroundings.