22. Fighting against mugwort monsters (4)
The captains of the Holy Knights had the same thoughts as the vice mayor.
“It is clear that the leaders of the Holy Knights of the Holy Hwangcheong inner party would also like to see Zeke. The leader of the 3rd Holy Knights is personally close to me. If you can obtain his letter of recommendation, you can ascend to the rank of senior paladin in no time.”
“I wonder if a senior paladin would be a problem! Think about it. You can use the power of Aura,
right? “It’s something we can’t just say out loud, but… there may be one less vacancy for the Zodiac Knight.”
Just as the knight captains’ story was about to move on to a larger topic, Zeke spoke to everyone again.
“Zorix is a place that our ancestors have protected for generations. “It’s adjacent to a mountain range, so monsters may be haunting it, so I think I should go there as soon as possible.”
The high-ranking people of Neuekan let Sieg go with a look of regret.
Zeke returned to the rear and exchanged greetings with the young paladins.
In particular, Oreno saw Zeke off with an almost crying face.
“You must come back and find us. “It’s a promise.”
“I am hired by Deus. “It’s up to him to decide what to do, but it’s still possible to get some vacation time and come visit… I’ll definitely come back to see you all again.”
After greeting everyone, Zeke got off his horse and handed the reins to another paladin.
Then he climbed into the driver’s seat and sat down next to Ska Tull.
The carriage ran.
Along the road to the northeast, it passed by the residents of Neuekan in an instant, raising dust.
They put their hands together and bowed their heads to Zeke.
The sound of a murmured prayer rang in Zeke’s ears on the wind.
God please protect him.
Until the harsh winds pass over the traveler and the raging waters calm down.
I will pray countless times and sacrifice countless sheep.
God please protect him.
Tears came to my eyes.
Zeke bowed his head and answered their prayers.
“Now then, shall we make a bet here?”
It looks like he got bored while running along Guando.
“Did a monster come or not? “What is Jorick’s castle like now?”
“I hope nothing bad happens.”
Deus spoke immediately in response to Zeke’s answer.
“Then, Zeke, if nothing happens safely, I’ll give you 1 gold.”
“Eck! no!”
“Then, 1 gold for all the people dying and the castle being reduced to dust and no trace of it?”
“No, no, I won’t bet.”
“That’s it, Your Excellency.”
“How can I bet 1 gold each?”
“Walk something. If I did something wrong, the store
might have gone out of business. “You’re unemployed.”
“yes?”
“If you don’t have a store, how can you use employees?”
“Huh? No. “What should we do with the kids’ tuition?”
“So walk. “I will save my money and start doing business again.”
Skathul said with a smile.
“What happens if the owner loses the bet?”
“It’s bankruptcy, right?”
“Then I’d like to bet that you’re safe.”
“Okay, okay, one vote was sold. Don’t say anything else to me. “I will get 1 gold even if I have to dig up the grave.”
Deus took out a notebook from somewhere and started writing down the details of the bet.
Yulgeum scolded.
“I can’t be serious even for 10 minutes. “Except when he’s fighting, he’s just an asshole.”
“Who are you looking at and saying you’re going crazy?”
“You. “Someone there looking at me with a cocky face.”
“So where are you going to hang the damn girl? Will I be safe?”
“no. Most monsters are things that used to be animals, right? Munchkin, Sperm Dragon, Tainted Gorilla, Giant Ant, etc. “That would follow the habits of animals.”
“I guess so?”
“Then we will definitely move along the mountain range. And Joryx Castle is at the end of the mountain range.”
Zeke said.
“If you move along the mountain range, the entire continent is in danger.”
“Do you know that now? Until that hole is closed, mugwort monsters will come out endlessly .
“Don’t think it will end
after one or two of them come out .”
Zeke thought of the giant ants. If such terrifying monsters came to the surface endlessly,
demons were not the problem.
“How do I close the hole?”
Deus crossed his arms as Zeke asked.
There was no answer for a long time.
It was more despairing than any answer.
Even Deus said there was no way.
“Why don’t you pray to God?”
There was no trace of reverence in Deus’s casual tone.
Zeke found that heartbreaking.
It’s only a day away from Zoryx Castle.
However, it was not possible to calculate it using the old standards.
An ominous noise echoed from the side of the tree-covered pipeline.
The carriage stopped and Skathul took to the sky to investigate.
But there was no particular need for that.
A sweet smell wafted from the forest. It smelled like honey or something similar.
The noise came from near the smell.
The other side of the forest is clearly visible from the carriage.
What was there was a huge flower field.
There was no way it could be described as huge, just a few meters tall. One flower was well over ten meters in diameter.
Those flowers were forming in bunches and pushing out the forest.
Bees were flying between the flowers.
It was a swarm of wasps with a body length of about 2 meters that could easily be called ‘Giant Hornets’.
It was a scene where a sign saying “Do not approach” filled my field of vision.
huge flower. Giant wasp. It was obvious that if I approached, I would be attacked.
Instead of flying up, Scatul came back down to the carriage and rode quietly.
As slowly as possible. The carriage moved gently so as not to irritate the bees.
“What is that again?”
Deus clicked his tongue while looking out the window.
“flower garden.”
Yulgeum answered briefly and Deus shook his head.
“Is that also a mugwort monster?”
“Wormwood monsters specialize in that area.”
“It’s not a major in particular. “Because I don’t go outside the boundaries.”
Deus muttered this and looked outside again.
“If something like that attacks, Joryx Castle will be completely destroyed.”
Scatul said, lifting his head into the carriage.
“Master, please lower your voice a little
. “I’m afraid it might irritate the bees.”
“You do it when you stimulate it. If they attack you, just set them on fire. “A hornet’s nest is basically a flamethrower.”
“Even wasps are like wasps.”
“Are you scared?”
“Yes, a lot.”
“Why fight with ants?”
“I’m more scared of wasps than ants. No, and that flower is a bit more suspicious than that.”
Before Scatul had finished speaking, a wasp could be seen looming over the forest, landing on a flower.
Immediately after that, the petal closed its hook-like teeth. There is a crackling sound and the wasp’s body disappears without a trace.
Grumble.
A nerve-wracking noise continued several times, and then a bee’s wing flew out from between the petals.
“What is that?”
Deus pointed and frowned, and Yulgeum answered briefly.
“flower garden?”
“shut up. Run scatul. Wasps are not the problem.”
“Yeah! master!”
But it seemed to be one step too late.
The carriage jerked to a halt.
Sadimus, who was standing in the servants’ seat at the back, fired a spell and shouted.
“Tree roots are suddenly attacking the carriage!”
“Set it on fire!”
“There are too many. “Master, I need you to help me too.”
“Eight, bother you.”
Deus opened the door.
At that moment, a vine sprouted from the ground and grabbed my ankle.
“Has this bastard lost his head? Whose leg are you holding?”
Deus instead grabbed the vine and pulled it away.
Thicker roots were pulled out of the ground.
“It’s not an animal, it’s a plant, so why do you eat meat?”
The roots that Deus grabbed turned black. It seemed like a corrosion spell had been cast on it.
The moment I tried to move it to the thick root, the fine root suddenly fell off. “
It looks like it has a head that can think .
Does that mean
we should attack the head?”
Deus said to the people in the carriage.
“Just try to hold on. “I’ll come back and see what it is
.”
Yulgeum said, sticking his head out the window.
“While you’re watching, let’s defeat him.”
“You come too.”
“It’s annoying.”
“I’ll give you something delicious for dinner.”
“Okay then!”
Yulgeum soared into the air and
looked around the carriage. The tree roots were encroaching on the ground and looked as if they were going to eat the entire carriage.
Even Sadimus and Skatul Zeke joined in and began to fight against the roots that were lashing out like whips.
It seemed like there wouldn’t be much danger as long as Sadimus was there.
Yulgeum cast a lot of blessing magic on Zeke’s body and immediately chased after Deus.
Carnivorous flowers growing in clumps were encroaching on the forest in a diagonal pattern.
Deus didn’t even pay attention to the flower tomb.
The goal is to get to the center of the flower pile from the beginning.
I flew straight towards there.
At some point, the Giant Hornets began to pay attention to Deus.
One by one, they gather as if scouting.
But I wasn’t the type to just let that happen. Deus burned all those who approached and reduced them to ashes.
Was that a stimulus? At one point, a swarm of bees
were attacking Deus.
The Giant Hornet was classified as A-class monster.
Of course, this means that the level of an individual is like that.
In large colonies of at least a hundred animals, up to a thousand animals hunt in groups, so their rank as a colony was the highest in the D class.
An opponent that even dragons have to fear is the rare Giant Hornet.
Of course, this did not apply to Deus.
“The little bugs are buzzing dirty.” In a fit of frustration, he unleashed a storm of flames.
“Fire Vortex.”
The flame that started from the fingertips quickly rose up like a whirlwind and turned the entire area into a pile of fire.
The combination of strong storms and fire was the flying insects’ worst enemy.
When caught in the wind and dragged into a whirlpool area, the wings catch fire from the extreme heat.
All that remains is a handful of ash powder.
No matter how many there were, they were just ‘flying insects’ to Deus.
Yulgeum was impressed.
“It’s not a waste to say that you are truly the best in the world when it comes to fighting.”
“Try praising me more.”
“I’m already bored.”
“Sweet.”
Yulgeum took a leisurely flight next to Deus.
There was nothing left to do as he thoroughly destroyed all his enemies.
“But why did you drag me in?”
“Because I get bored if I fight alone.”
“There’s no way you could buy dinner for that reason, right? “A miser.”
“I won’t be bored if I’m with you.”
“oh! Is it a proposal? “I need to change my makeup for a moment and change my clothes to something pretty.”
“Are you sick again?”
“Why are you being shy again? “Not being bored means being together is fun, so if that’s not a proposal, what is it?”
“Isn’t it boring in a very neutral and dry sense? If you
can’t explain it, you’ve got a disease that will kill you. I brought you here because I wanted to hear an explanation about the monster. “It’s a species I haven’t seen before.”
“Wasn’t the mugwort monster a specialty of the demons?”
“I thought so, but you strangely know a lot. “The situation of our demons.”
“That’s because we’ve been fighting for a long time.”
“It’s not that much. You also know about the Silver Age. “There were no demons in that era. From what we sometimes see, knowledge has reached the Age of Gold.”
