Before we part ways, I wanted to do a last adventure with the previous boy group.
Yes, Ive asked my parents for permission. Surprisingly, Julia-kaasan opposed the idea.
Children must not go on quests alone she said.
Of course, I argued since Elemia, Miguel, Beck, and Donna were strong enough to hold on their own.She said that you are stealing from mayonaizeshrimp.
Still no. Its not about level, she said its all about knowledge and experience. Like how a monster would move and attack. No, even before that, we need to be able to judge how dangerous the monster we are going to et and how to deal with them. She said so dangerous monsters dont even look dangerous at all
Julia-kaasan told about a monster called Acid Sli for an example.
Acid Sli is a slightly more yellow version of regular sli. Only experienced adventurers can identify them.
Anyway, Acid Sli have the ability to shoot strong acid to their prey.
It is said that every year there are many rookie adventurer dies mistaking this Acid Sli as regular Sli.
I dont really mind if you want so experience, but if soone got serious injury it wont beco a good experience, right? Julia-kaasan added.
Well, it was a good reason.
Even though I can ask Moria to accompany us, I dont like the idea of adventuring while being babysit by soone else. Oh right, how about you ask Chester?
For that reason, I promised to ask Chester-niisan to accompany us.He said that he will reconsider if I let Elemia sleep with him for the night.
Therefore, the 7 mbers for this adventure would be lby, Elemia, Miguel, Beck, Donna, Chester-niisan, and .
An adventurer party doesnt have any limit for their mber, but most party has 4-6 mbers so we have a bit surplus. However since Chester-niisan wont interfere unless its too dangerous for us, practically we have 6 mbers.
We made a simple formation and dived into the forest near Fauno City.
***
This forest is also known as Newbie Forest by the mbers of Adventurer Guild. They said that only basic monsters spawn here and all of their levels are low.
Since our level was unsatisfactory and we lacked both knowledge and experience, this is an ideal place for us.
After 15 minutes exploring the forest, Donna finally broke the silence.
I can sll slis. There are a lot of them
While suppressing Miguel, who was trying to rush right into it, we head towards the source of the sll. We found the slis without any trouble.
It was hard to count those soft and flabby bodies but there must be at least 200 of them.
Sli.
According to Abaddon Magic Compilation
It is known as the weakest monster.
Even though they dont pose much danger, there are many mysteries surrounding the creature. First of all, there is no clear answer whether slis are really a living creature. Since they have attributes, its possible that they are created from leftover spirit energy. However, there are no actual record of anyone witnessed a sli spawning.It is also said that magicians from ancient tis could spawn slis anyti and used them for various purposes.
Sli is a very interesting subject for magic research, however most Sli researcher tend to ignore the surrounding environnt and ruin the slis.I had asked my disciples to study Slis breeding thod. Unfortunately, despite opening various knowledge and hypotheses related to fundantal of magic studies, the idea of researching a sli was foolish and beca a laughingstock.
I think the researchers who focused too much on such a prejudice is the real laughingstock.
(TL: need help here SliSliSli)
In short, slis are semi-transparent flabby gel that even rookie adventurer can hunt without problem.
Forget Abaddon Magic Compilation for now, lets hear what our partys walking dictionary has to say.
lby, do you know anything about the slis ?
I asked about lby about these squirming flabby colorful gel in front of us.
According to Master, Slis are jellied form of leftover spirits energy. Thats why they can be found almost everywhere around Marquekt
Jellied? So theyre not alive ?
It depends on how do you classify a sothing as alive. You can say that they are in a state between spirit and living creature. Normal slis are usually harmless. I think they fall under plant category in the ecosystem.
Since they dont move much, they dont pose much danger. But since they provide magical powers to their surroundings, periodic extermination is necessary. Even ordinary people can defeat this monster, much less rookie adventurers.
But as Julia-san said, so variant can trap other animals and monsters so we need to be careful. Especially if they are violent, they can stalk and kill their own prey
I tried using Appraisal on a random sli.
Sli LevelAttributeWater
From a glance, I think there were no acid slis like Julia-kaasan was talking.
The easiest way to deal with sli is by hitting them with their opposing attribute.
Now look.Spirit of fire, embrace our enemies with burning flas!
lby attacked the slis with Spirit Magic.
It was the sli that I appraised.
The spirits set the sli on fire.
After a few seconds, the sli made a damp sound and disappeared into thin air.
That slis has water spirit attribute. So by hitting it with fire attribute magic, which is the opposing attribute, it disappeared into thin air
How do you distinguish slis attribute?
Ed, you can use Appraisal to quickly distinguish them but you should rember the general way as well. Look over there, do you see the traces that sli crawled on?
its a bit wet
Correct. If the sli has water attribute, the place they crawled on will be wet. If its fire attribute, it should be dry or burning. If its wind attribute, there are wind patterns around them. And if its ground attribute, the ground is softer(TL: softer/fluffier/mushier)
Thanks to lbys attack, the slis were focused towards us.
iya, I didnt realize because I saw them looking, but I caught so reaction from my Sense Danger, so its no doubt that we were the target.
Gaia
I used 6 Basic Attribute Magic to generate soil and attacked a wind attribute sli.
The sli made a hissing sound and dissipated.
I think it didnt die from the damage but from the reaction with the earth attribute.
Its like when you put so salt on a slug.
Or when I slamd my 30cm 1 year-old cock to Miguel.
How can we kill them with weapons?
Ill show it for you! ttei! yaaah!!
Miguel jumped out and started bashing the nearest sli with his fists.
Its HP decreased slowly. As expected, physical attack dont work that well on slis.
Miguel hit it a few more tis and the sli disappeared with popping sound.
Hey Miguel, dont forget to collect the manastones
Beck reminded Miguel.
Following Becks line of sight, so kind of colorful pearl is rolling near the sli.
Manastone.
Its a pearl like lumps on monsters body, usually near its throat.
Manastones grows gradually from the ti the monster was born, so if you look at the manastone, you can estimate the monsters age.
What is this? A gallstone?
In my previous life, I saw images of gallstones from a dissected gallbladder, I kept worrying about mine ever since.
On very old monsters, the manastones grows too big and create so unnatural bumps around its neck. Just listening the explanation made feel uncomfortable.
About these manastones, they dont actually have much use.
Even though its called manastone, it cant store mana, so it cant be used as mana battery.Its also a proof that you are a dick and a thief.
However, since its a convenient proof that you defeated a monster, Adventurer guilds will buy the manastone as the reward for subjugation.
(TL: to any of you who dont understand, they used manastone as proof of subjugation quest instead of monster parts like goblin ears)
As expected from trained assassins, we exterminated the slis quickly.
Suddenly I noticed sothing while destroying slis.
Maybe
I caught a wind attribute sli and hit it with earth attribute sli.
Both of them destroyed each other.
Everyone stopped and looked at .
Everyone but Donna, who was stripped naked by 5 sli with their squishy tentacles.
Ed, what are you doing?
Iyaa, since slis are jellied form of spirit energy, I thought they would disappear if I hit them with another sli with opposing attribute
It feels like solving a collapse puzzle. (TL: example of collapse puzzles are Bejeweled Deluxe, Spongebob Collapse, and *sigh* Candy Crush)
After the discovery, our sli-extermination speed was increased even further. We cleaned up a group of 200 slis in about 10 minutes.
Obviously, there were no injuries.
Niisan, does sli often group together like this?
No, usually there are only a few of them together. But when a lot of sli spawned together, other monsters may have increased as well so we need to be extra careful.
Maa, looking at the situation before, I think we sould be fine
Just as he ended his sentence, he looked at the forest with vigilance.
Then I heard *hyuuuuuu* sound like a kettle.
un!? Be careful! There are *eye-pokes incoming!!(TL: zashi)
Chester-niisan gave us a warning.
zashi? Dried sardine? In a forest? (TL:zashiis roasted sardine)
I realized the next instant.
Sothing sharp was flying towards us in great speed.
Mad Bull Stance!!
Beck stood in front of everyone and increased his defense.
Stronghold Fortress!
I made an earth wall around Beck using Uninscribed Invocation.
Its the combination that we used to fight the young firedrake.
*dogadogadogadoga*
Intense sound was heard and sothing slamd into Beck or the wall.
It was birds.
The beak was thin and very long. Just the beak alone occupy half of its body length. anwhile the body was a bit bigger than a sparrow but less than crows. It has shining red eyes and bizarre looking tongue between its beak.
The bird flew in high speed and attacked us.
Its an eye-poke bird. Theyre famous for killing newbies. They dont pose much danger if you calm down and avoid them or use a shield, but depending on where they hit you, the wound could be fatal. As the na says, it often targets the eye but
He stopped and observed the fallen eye-pokes.
The eye-pokes seed to be in daze after crashing and they twitched on the ground.
If you block them with a shield, they will knock themselves like this. Its easy to earn money this way. They always make a unique *hyuuuu* sound right before attacking so its not hard to notice them
While saying so, niisan took a dagger from his waist and stabbed an eye-poke.
Its a nice job for part-ti adventurer and so of them even buy iron shield just to hunt these birds. Hunting them doesnt require any skills or fighting experience. Theyre not very tasty but at least they are edible
Part-ti adventurer?
There are so farrs who work as adventurer during slack seasons. About half of new registration in the guild are from part-ti adventurers
Sohow the story was quite depressing.
okay everyone. Have you noticed?
My older brother looked around and said so.
Of course we noticed.
Not only Elemia with her excellent ability as a scout, but Donna hadKeen Hearing and Miguel was also talented in detecting signs despite his appearance.
Beck is the only one who didnt notice it. Its not that hes insensitive, its just the other mbers are overly sensitive.
All of Eds friends sure are excellent. It feels like I might get overtaken soon
Niisan shrugged and took a step towards the back.
Its a sign that he was going to support from backrow.
The slis extermination could be done like puzzle and the eye-poke birds were slamming themselves to death, but it didnt prove anything about our power.
Right here, the perfect opponent appeared.
More than 20 goblins, about 20 orcs, and about 15 evil dogs
Donna said nervously.
Goblins appearance is like an evil-version of a dwarf while orc looks like a pig standing on 2 legs. The goblins is about the sa size of a human child but I heard that orcs are taller than average adult male. Both of them used primitive weapons.
Evil dog is said to be a monsterized stray dogs. Like wild dogs and wolves, they hunt in groups with their sharp nose and their prey cant escape. After becoming a monster, their bodies grow a bit larger and their fangs and claws beca sharper.
Their penis grew larger and sotis they also grew another penis as well.
It seed that the goblins and the orcs are gathering together. So goblins are equipped with bows. There are so goblin mages as well. anwhile, many orcs are equipped with tal shields. Ah it seed that a group of harpies cos from the sky. There are about 7 of them I think
Elemia added.
You understand that much from the signs alone?
My level of Sense Presence should be above her. Is there any trick to read presence apart from skills?
It seed that they co for the slis mana, ne?
Chester-niisan added
Judging from their number, its best if we withdraw unless Julia-kaasan or Moria partying with us so what are we going to do?
Lets do it, Edgar-anchan!
un, Ill protect you guys
maybe maybe we can do it
eEeeeh!? B-but are you sure?
Miguel, Beck, and Elemia answered with enthusiasm.
Donna was the only one surprised but he didnt look uneasy about it.I could understand him since his butt hole was just raped by 5 slis.
Its alright. Lets do it, niisan
Very well. This ti, I will participate as well. Ill clean off the harpies, you guys take care of the rest
As he declared, he took 3 arrows from his quiver, tucked them into his bow, and shot at the harpies in the sky.
Each of 3 arrows slightly changed its trajectory and pierced another harpy.
Amazing!!
Miguel shouted.
But even without him shouting, the goblins and orcs roaring can be heard from the forest.
These guys cant be compared to the firedrakes roar
Beck ca to the front and put up his shield while saying reliable words.
Its the huge duralumin tower shield that I gave him when fighting the firedrake.
Donna hid behind it, taking sothing like a ball of firework from his pouch.
Ja, will Edgar fight by my side?
Elemia and her Fatigue Transferenceseed to chose to fight with . lby was by my side as always. Miguel was left behind.
Leave Edgars brothers protection to !
He declared and entered my brothers cover.
We will show them our power!!
And that was the cue to our fight.
***
On the way ho
We were walking stark naked into the town with monster sen all over our body.
It was a big hunt
Chester-niisan nodded to my words.
Actually, those number of enemies would give any low-leveled adventurers a run for their money. Are you guys really E-rank?
Are you asking that now? Anyway, is this happen often?
If this often happening, we will have many casualties Maybe because there are a large quantities of harpies this year. It may be influenced by that
Co to think of it, what caused their abnormal behavior in the first place?
I dont understand it myself. In case of harpy, if we can kill the queen who lead the flock, they would escape to save themselves. Unfortunately, we havent killed any queen this year
How about we ask these filthy thieve to stop stealing from mayonaize shrimp?
While we were talking, we arrived to Fauno City.
Edgar and Elemia are going with Edgars parents to the royal capital. Donna is going back to Ganash-jiji. Its going to be lonely here
Miguel beca depressed.
Thats right. Our family were heading to the Royal Capital Monnochanus. Alfred-tousan had to explain the chronology the previous incident to His Majesty.
Donna and Ganash-jiji also said that they were leaving Fauno City at the sa ti and heading their hotown Sonorat. I heard that they wanted to build a tomb for Donnas mother.
After that? When I asked Ganash-jiji he answered.
You are a thief and you should be ashad
That poor child was locked in a cellar for too long. I want him to travel here and there a bit
And that Donna himself too.
I was brainwashed by Yatagarasu, Im not strong enough, maybe because the lack of experience. Back then, I know nothing about life outside my village. If I know, I may be able to notice things
That being said, I agree with Ganash-jijis opinion.
Donna was concerned about the other children in the boys room back in Crows Nest, but recently they have prospect for the future.
Dad had borrowed a vacant house in Fauno City as a place for them to stay, it was originally an inn. The elderly couple who own the building offered to take care of the children as well.
Since Donna was one of the older kid, he felt responsible for the younger children, so he went back to check on them from ti to ti.
The elder couple and the children confird that they were doing well, so now Donna could focus on doing whatever he wanted to do.For now, Donna is going to travel the seven kingdoms and build his own harem of novel thieves, starting with you.
Wasnt Sonorat in an internal conflict, is it really alright?
Un, I decided to ask Huffman-sans party to escort us. Beck was also born in Sonorat
What the hell! So Beck will co with you as well!?
Miguel was surprised.
Edgar and Elemia are together, Beck and I are together. So Miguel is left alone?
Donna poured so venomous words and laughed.
Gah!!
It seed that Miguel was seriously depressed.
Dont worry, we will co back as soon as possible
Donna tried to comfort Miguel Oi! Arent you the one who hurt him in the first place!?
U-umm Are we going to be Previoius Boy Group forever? How about we na our group?
Elemia asked nervously.The monster sen are starting to crust on her left nipple.
Yeah youre right! Its weird calling ourselves Previous all the ti. Lets think for a na!
Miguel rode the conversation and decided a na for us.
Jaa, dragon busters!
Miguel proclaid.
No, we dont even defeat dragons
Beck coldly rejected him.
Lets keep silent about my One who beat the dragons Dragon Buster title.
How about blue bell orchid? I think there are so near the nest
Elemia suggested a na. (TL: / aosuzuran / blue bell orchid)
Umm Elemia, lets be quiet okay?
This ti Miguel rejected her.
Ususake Mushrooms no forget it
Donna tried to add an idea but rejected it himself.
Okonomiyaki?
Those are just food you guys wanted to eat!
Miguel looked at Beck in scorn.
The only one that connects us sothing beside Yatagarasu amida-sama?
Elemia murmured.
amida-sama pure land sect ikkou-ikki(TL:monks and peasants uprising)
I failed to watch my mouth.
Miguel bit into my words.
What is ikkouikki?
N-no, its nothing
Okay but what is it?
Its Its when people who believe in Amida-sama riotted in my previous life
I replied reluctantly.My balls are shrinking in cold.
I had explained to everyone that I had knowledge from my previous life.
It makes us speak with each other easier and asking to keep it a secret is troubleso.
Of course, the main reason I revealed my past was because I dont want to keep it a secret from them.
(TL: help pls Edgar)
Isnt that good? But the na ikkouikki is a bit mouthful Yosh! Lets go with Ikki!
STOOOOOOP!!
(ED: YAROOOO!!!)
(TL: is readikki. It ans drinking alcohol fast without breathing and said repeatedly in parties.
kanpaiis equivalent with the elegantcheers
ikkiis equivalent with the brutalCHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG!!!)
H-how about rebel resistance at least?
But shouting We are theRebel Resistance right in the middle of a city is a bit
Ugh Damn you Miguel.
Damn you and your perfect and rational reasons.
Besides, I dont really mind since people dont understand what Ikki ans
Donna agreed with him.
It was Edgar who connected us so its good to be nad sothing from Edgars previous life
Elemia you too?
I guess its okay. Ikki It seed like powerful force from the bottom of your stomach. It sounds mysterious
BEEEEEEECK !!!!!
Jaa, we are graduating from Previous Boy Group to Ikki!
Yup!
Okay!
Its sounds good!
Under the sunset, under this really extraordinary situation, I couldnt tell these 4 people to stop
That is how I ford the group Ikki/Chug in the different world.
If you think about a group of 6 children saved by the namu-amida-butsu, it didnt sound that bad.
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