Chapter 50: Unexpected reunion
The monsters’ na was 「Desert scorpion」 and they were around level 35.
Their overall length was about one ter and as you would expect, they were much bigger than their real life counterparts and gross.
Since a large quantity of them appeared and were squirming around, it couldn’t be helped that I started feeling goosebumps in my skin.
Luckily, it seems like the cals couldn’t be the target of monsters’ attacks.
Like that, we entered battle with the swarm of scorpions.
…Now that I think about it, I believe this heat is taking a toll on our minds.
Our current objective was to travel and explore, not to fight with monsters.
I thought we already knew that…
However, for so reason we continued to fight with the infinite amount of scorpions swarming at us.
Tobi was moving around while attracting the attention of a large number of them.
Yumir aid for the monsters that were heading for the rear guards while making her aura give off sparks.
I used 「Quick」 on Riizu and 「Attack up」 on Selene-san.
Riizu’s offensive magic 「Darkness ball」 moved towards the spot Tobi just passed by.
Selene-san blasted the gathered foes away with 「Blast arrow」.
Around ten of them were blown into pieces by a single attack. That did feel good.
Our party’s coordination has improved quite a bit during this fight…while I was carefreely having those thoughts, it suddenly ca to .
…Wait, what’s with this pointless war of attrition!? We have already defeated a hundred of maybe two hundred scorpions, you know!?
「S-Stop! Switch over and focus on defense! Let’s gather!」 (Hind)
「Nuoh!? What’s with you suddenly, Hind?」 (Yumir)
「We are already level 35 you know!? Only Selene-san is at level 32! Soone should have thought that sothing was wrong!」 (Hind)
「If you say that I’ll be troubled. You weren’t doing this on purpose?」 (Tobi)
「Eh? I was staying quiet since you looked like you were having fun…」 (Riizu)
「I thought that was your intention…we are talking about Hind-kun here.」 (Selene)
Why? How did it end up like this?
Now that I think about it, at the start everyone’s position was all over the place, so I shouted instructions over and over.
However, as the battle went on, each mber started to grasp what their role was.
In the end, there was no need for to say anything anymore.
Fighting with such a functional party, I rember feeling better and better-
「Isn’t everything my fault…?
「No choice, Tobi. Use that!」 (Hind)
「Eh, is it OK if I do!? If we thought about the cost of the materials, I’d say it’s sothing really valuable!」 (Tobi)
「It’s ti to use it, do it! It could act as an experint, don’t worry about the cost!」 (Hind)
「Don’t mind if I do then. Nin!」 (Tobi)
Tobi lit that and imdiately threw it.
With a muffled explosion, sand and the remains of the scorpions were scattered around us.
And Waves of sand and wind pressure rushed towards us.
That’s so nice power.
Even though it’s only inside the ga, isn’t this flashier than a real life 「Bo-hiya」?
Though the displayed damage wasn’t as high as it looked.
「Ooooh!! What’s that, what’s that!? I want to use it too!」 (Yumir)
「This is not the ti to be saying that! Retreat!」 (Hind)
「Co on, let’s go Yumir-san.」 (Riizu)
「Gueh! Don’t pull , I’ll walk on my own! I’m telling you I’ll walk by myself!」 (Yumir)
The enemies far from the center of the explosion were mostly all alive, but the damage had knocked them back so we were able to take so distance.
Taking that chance, we got on the cals and were able to break free from the swarm of scorpions.
When we were unable to see any enemies, we were finally able to take a breather.
Though, this ti we talked while riding the cals.
Since they are lurking within the sand, there’s no way for us to know where the safe areas are.
The topic of our conversation was the origin of the strange number of 「Desert scorpions」.
Seems like Selene-san noticed sothing that bothered her while we were running away.
「…The truth is, I saw three strange holes. Since they were in the dunes far away, we were unable to notice them mid-fight.
「They were swarming from inside, so I believe there’s no doubt that it was their nest.」 (Selene)
「Ah, that’s why they respawned so fast. If we didn’t retreat, we would have kept fighting there forever…」 (Hind)
If we want to exterminate these scorpions, we have to destroy their nests first.
These types of monsters were standard in older action RPGs.
It was common to see a set of bees and their beehives.
The only saving grace was that the experience granted by those scorpions was extrely normal.
There are lots of cases where that type of monsters that spawn infinitely are set to give really low amounts of experience points.
「However, even though they are convenient to level up, once they catch you they will encircle you making it hard to escape.」 (Tobi)
「It’s hard to run in the desert after all…they would just catch up to you.」 (Hind)
「Fumu. However, since they are that troubleso, there’s probably so rare drops in those nest!」 (Yumir)
Speaking of drop items, we have a lot of scorpion materials in our inventories.
I wonder if we could use them for sothing.
…Oh, right.
Before thinking about such things, I should apologize for the blunder in the last fight…
「Ah, you see, I’m sorry everyone. Since our coordination got better during the fight, I kinda got too into it.
「I made a mistake concerning when we should have quit.」 (Hind)
「Oh, so you ant that. I was just thinking that it was quite the drawn out and unproductive way to fight for soone like you.」 (Yumir)
「Unproductive you say…you sure are quite harsh.
「But well, I can’t say anything to deny it. I’m ashad.」 (Hind)
For so reason, the role of leading the party has fallen onto .
That’s why the party’s failures are fundantally part of my responsibility.
Once I lowered my head, Selene-san was the first one to back up.
She’s so kind.
「However, I kind of understand Hind-kun. When I’m in great form while I’m doing blacksmithing, I tend to craft way more than what I had initially planned.」 (Selene)
Ah, I experience that kind of thing too.
Once you are in good form, you can craft high quality goods consecutively after all.
You can’t stop your hands in those kinds of situations.
「When I get into it, I sohow end up dying before I notice.」 (Yumir)
「When I get into it, I end up staying online all night.」 (Tobi)
「That sort of thing doesn’t happen to , but as a punishnt, can I demand to sleep together?」 (Riizu)
「…」 (Hind)
As if to express my own feelings, Selene-san started to laugh with a trouble look.
Well then, there’s just a bit more until our destination.
It’s nearly evening inside the ga, the ocean of sand is starting to get dyed in red.
Sunset in the desert is breathtakingly beautiful, it doesn’t feel like it’s a ga at all.
Unexpectedly, Selene-san was the most moved by the scenery and her eyes were glittering the most when watching the sunset happily.
“I’m glad that I ca here”, at such a statent, I was unable to contain a smile.
I’m happy that she’s being honest.
As we had previously discussed, we took various screenshots and resud walking after telling each other that we’d send the data to the others.
Luckily, there were no encounters with any monsters during that ti.
「By the way, does this Yabilga desert not have an area boss? Isn’t it worriso to just go like this?」 (Yumir)
That was a question asked by Yumir.
There’s a reason why no one else had asked this question.
「The tutorial explained this, right? In fields that take a long ti to travel, they have set up dungeons so there won’t be a field boss.」 (Hind)
This was only because Yumir had skipped the tutorial.
The border color of the field na displayed when we entered the area was different so it was possible to differentiate them, since we have confird that this 「Yabilga desert」 is a large scale area, there’s no need to worry about a boss.
Strictly speaking, there’s a boss in the dungeon placed in the field, but there’s no need to worry about that if you are just travelling from town to town.
「…It’s sothing like that, we can just focus on travelling today. You got it?」 (Hind)
「I see, understood.」 (Yumir)
「Regarding the dungeon, we’ll just do it little by little-」 (Tobi)
That will probably be left for when we explore the place and set up the ho.
In order to do that, we’ll devote ourselves to just progressing now.
For the ti being, I want to imitate what everyone else is doing and reach this region’s capital.
「…Eh? Hind-kun, can’t you see sothing over there?」 (Selene)
「Eh?」 (Hind)
Just when I absorbed in how we’d proceed, Selene-san found sothing.
I can’t see anything though…we all advanced to the place she was pointing at, it’s true that I’m beginning to see sothing that has a different color from the sand.
It’s not a plant or a boulder.
Once I concentrated, I could see sothing that looked like a collapsed person carrying a…backpack!?
「I-It’s a person! Hind-dono!」 (Tobi)
「It collapsed!?」 (Hind)
We travelled towards said person in a panic with our cals.
We descended from our cals after they sat down and checked if that person had any pulse in a hurry.
Sothing must have happened, the luggage was scattered all around the place.
「Hey, hang in there! …Wait, this person is…」 (Hind)
「S-She is…cla…cla…Clatos!」 (Yumir)
「You are wrong. She’s Claris-san, Yumir-san. You sure have bad mory.」 (Riizu)
「Ah, she’s the clerk from the item shop in Altrowa village!」 (Tobi)
「However, why is Claris-san in this place…?」 (Selene)
The unconscious woman with her eyes closed was without any doubt the NPC Claris-san.
Imdiately after checking that she was breathing, her eyelids slowly started to open…
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