Shinka no Mi

"Still... you're farther than I expected to get to your destination"

"Hmm?"

About three days after I left Terveil, I said so.

Then Salia seemed to feel the same way as I did, and she was snorting.

"Speaking of which, you do walk quite a bit!

"That's right..."

"But isn't that because there are no people or demons around?

"Oh, I see..."

Sarya's right, I haven't met a demon since that camel Dharma encounter.

Instead of living things, they don't even grow a single grass tree.

I have no particular influence, but watching the sweat flowing from Al and Salia shows that the land is still hot. No, it's not because of the gear that I don't feel the heat, is it? Al says it's hot and painful just because it looks like it, so you're taking it off, right? But it's not hot, so there's nothing I can do. I knew I was gonna stop being human.

I wasn't sweating one, even though I was walking under the shining sun.

I'll put it aside because my mental health is not good considering that any longer, but as Salia says, it would be one of the big reasons why time feels so long because there's nothing around.

Then Al, who was listening to me and Salia talk, tells me how frightened he is.

"He says he's walking pretty well, but that's not true when you say it in the course of the day. Salia's right. I don't have anything around me, so I can feel it for a long time."

"Really? But the long journey so far, that's all I can remember when I go to Barbados Magic School..."

"... I'm going to forget it because I'm always flying, but Makoto didn't have the experience of a long expedition himself."

"Always flying!?"

Al's right, I'm flying in terms of combat power, but you're amateur when it comes to other experiences. Thinking about it again, it's pretty chipped.

Al's eyes have turned to me in disdain at Al's words.

"Think back on your actions and then be surprised."

"Isn't that normal?

"It's not normal!

Weird. Even though there's no such thing as a general representative so far.

"Well, I don't care if you're normal or not..."

"Doesn't matter..."

"Remember one thing. First of all, when you're on an expedition like this, you sleep in that place. So, how are we doing?

"Uh... metastatic magic back to Terveil, sleeping in the inn bed, starting at yesterday's place?

"You know it's not normal at this point."

Oh, my God.

If I had chosen comfort, they would have stayed away from normal at some point. I don't mean to do that in any way...

But I certainly didn't think I'd spend a long time outside like this, and I'm not prepared to go wild.

In contrast, Al always has a set for Nojuku in his own item box.

It would be the difference between a human being who has come here as an adventurer for years and just an ordinary person.

Still, I didn't think I was going to be in the wild, so I just had to go home with metamorphosis magic and leave again from the same place the next day. It's not going to be forgotten that Al's face when I said I was going to go to nowhere.

'Cause you better be comfortable. If you can sleep in bed, that's better, right? Let's do that.

Well, I guess the rootiers who left first are ready for camp, like Al. Even though Zola, who grew up in the dungeon, has no such knowledge, Lurne is out of the question... Routier is suspicious because she has a slight boxed sense of daughterhood, but if she was with the Demon King Army people along the way, there would be nothing the Demon King Army people wouldn't tell her about it, and most importantly, there would be Origa who is most used to traveling alone and seems to be fine there.

"And yet... is the ground kind of bumpy around here?

"Right. If you're not careful, you're gonna fall."

"Right. Besides, I don't see the creature itself, but I can see the signs that it was there."

At first, it was only the dry earth, but our place now is full of holes as if our feet had been worn by something, and as Al said, some creature's bones were falling, and I can't believe there was a creature in this place.

As we walked in such conversation, something huge plant-like popped into our eyes.

"Hmm? What is that?

"Come on?"

"... well I haven't seen a single plant before, but it's so obvious... and if there's a giant plant, don't be alarmed by anyone"

Al is right, it would be natural to be wary of that if you suddenly show up in front of him even though you haven't seen any plants before.

Moreover, as we approached, we saw the full extent of that plant, but the part of that plant that was in flowers was shaped like a cannon, and it was going to fly something.

"Uh... I think we should think about it together, but, uh, you should avoid it"

"Well, I guess so."

As he pulls his cheeks together. That said, Al nods.

No, I don't care what you think. This hole at your feet. This is who you are. He's the culprit.

I hurried to get away from the scene, and the huge plant pointed its flowers towards us...

"Huh!? Avoid it!

To Al's word, we jumped off the spot in a hurry and something wore the spot where we'd been standing at a whimpering speed.

When you look at the dreaded position, there is something buried that seems to be as much of a species as a person's head while raising smoke.

"Big surprise."

"Oh...... anyway, avoid that plant -"

The moment I said that, the seeds that were buried on the ground broke and grew more and more in front of us, and finally the very same plants that had shot the shell-like seeds earlier, grew anew.

"Oh, you're such an ant..."

He says so while Al pulls his cheeks together, but I think so, too.

Then they flew shell-like seeds at us again, including newly grown plants!

"Whoa, whoa!?"

"What am I supposed to do with this!?"

That's what Al screams as he desperately avoids.

Every time you avoid shell seeds, they grow new and the number of attacks keeps increasing!

"Oh my... aye!

To the seeds of such shells, Salia turned her face into a gorilla, releasing fire attribute magic to match the shells that flew in.

Then, the flamed seeds could be bounced, and the fine seeds from inside struck us again!

"Wahwah!"

"Salia!?"

"It's okay!"

Salia was attacked by that seed at close range, but apparently she did well.

Though, this plant is too unscrupulous for you!

They fly seeds like shells, like fine seeds flying like shotguns from inside if you try to burn them...

Then Al said as he bounced off the seed with the axe in his hand.

"This kind, if you burn it, you can play it, but if you attack with a normal weapon, you can prevent it!

"Wow, okay!

So, did the Luluenes really go through where there are such dangerous plants? If he went through, I guess he was fine, huh?... those fallen bones don't have any pricks, do they? Are you all right?

I imagined it wouldn't be a bit stylish, shaking my head. Stop thinking about things that aren't even marginal......

In the first place, what is this plant?

When you activate the 'Advanced Appraisal' while avoiding attacks -.

Lv:???

"You don't know anything, do you?

Levels and names:? 'Or what?

Is that a good enemy to come out on the road? I don't care what you think. It's like Las Bosses, isn't it?

You can't get close with a shell storm, and if you avoid it, you'll get more numbers, and you'll get more shells. It's only a nightmare.

Well I guess it's ok to hit it...... you don't want to think about it because if you hit it and it was really ok, you feel more away from humans!

"Chickshaw, you can't get close. Then we'll have to fight back!

Seeing Al play a shell like that, I decided to do what I had in mind.

It's...

"Whatever!

"Makoto!?"

I struck back the flying shell with the sword body part of the Hate Swirling Fine Sword (Black) under batting instructions.

Then, like a pitcher return, I strike out exactly the flower part of the plant I've been shooting at.

Besides, isn't that what I do, buddy? He didn't seem to think the plants could do it, I don't know if the plants have feelings, but the bewilderment stops other plants from moving.

Ignoring the condition of such a plant, I dropped off and admired the seeds flying farther than I thought.

"Oh, you're gonna try."

"... it was useless to worry about this hand when you were around"

Al sighed as he just said that he was tired already. Oh, this is complimentary, isn't it?

As I was wielding the 'Hate Swirling Fine Sword', wondering if I could seed it again, Salia, who, like me, was making shelter and dropping off seeds, said as she realized there was.

"Ooh... is that it? Makoto"

"Hmm?"

"Seeds, I flew away somewhere, but are you okay?

"Huh?"

"Because that seed is new to this demon when it's punched into the ground? grew up, right?

"Ah."

Until Salia told me, I didn't come to that possibility.

Oh, that? Did you make fun of him?

Then, the plants that were stopping the movement moved out as if they remembered haha, and they went after us again to resume the attack.

Plus, it's more powerful in offense than without a heart or at first, and it also looks angry.

"Look, Makichi! You're pissed off because you're gonna knock him out in a weird way!

"Is that why you're angry!?"

Besides, weird is rude.

Well, I think he's definitely mad because his people got knocked down.

More than that, I was a little concerned that despite the fact that the plants I just beat back and knocked down disappeared as usual into particles of light, I left nothing behind.

Last time I heard in Zola's dungeon that dropped items were never meant to be available, but still, the demons I've defeated have always left dropped items.

Could this plant not be a demon? On second thought, even the demon dealership where Lune was was had enough UMA...

I want to think calmly, but the plants won't loosen my hand in the attack, so I decide to wipe out all the plants here first.

"Hey, Al."

"Ah!? What the fuck! This one... avoids, so desperate, because...!

"Oh, I'm sorry. Well, there's a lot of people around here, right?

"Do I look like I have one!? You haven't even seen a decent creature in people until you get here!

"Indeed."

Then can we just knock it down?

I know you can cook it with fire attribute magic, but if you don't burn it up properly, the seeds will play and you'll be miserable, and most importantly, from Al and Salia, this land is hot. I don't even need to bother to get more hot air.

Besides, if you don't have people around you, you can take it personally elsewhere. Look, it's such a dry earth, and you should have green, right?

"So, Batter Makichi, Izuma"

"Do it seriously!

"Yes."

While I was angry, I shot back one seed after another, finally wiping out all the plants around me.