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[The Sky was Full of Danger]
The sight that I have never seen before is spreading in front of me.
Riding a Wyvern, flying over the limitless sky, and the vast land stretched out under my eyes, that kind of sight.
From this height, even the Demon Forest, which would take half a day of walk, feels close.
Around the edge of where I can see the forest breaks, is where the Abyss Hole which I went to previously with Lloyd and co was located, huh.
“Frick, since we’re about to enter the Demon Forest, let’s lower our altitude. If we fly too high――”
At the moment Gawain said so, a red light passed through our Wyverns.
“What is the light just now!?”
“It’s a welcome greeting from the Demon Forest. It’s the light emitted by the 《Ground Fortress Turtle》, which feeds on Wyverns and flying monsters. If hit by that, a hole would open on the wing membrane of the Wyvern, and at worst, it will be shot down to become their food.”
“The red light just now. Is it an attack from the Ground Fortress Turtle that is famously referred as ‘Dongame’?”
I saw Ground Fortress Turtles a few times even in the outskirts of the Royal Capital, but I only saw them walking sluggishly on the ground.
The subjugation request occasionally came out, but only their shell with many protrusions is hard, their movement is slow and they don’t make such powerful attack.
Therefore, they were called ‘Dongame’ by adventurers, the kind of easy monster to subjugate.
“Ahh, they’re vulnerable to land-based attacks, but they’re the strongest natural enemies of those flying above. I had also been shot down while riding on Wyvern a few times. Wait, enough chit-chat, let’s get down to barely above tree’s height――”
The moment Gawain said so and lowered his altitude――
Red lights shot up all at once from the ground as if to cover our view.
“UWAA! What is this!?”
Don’t tell me, this is the habitat of the Grand Fortress Turtle!
The number of lights is unusual though!?
I pushed down the Wyvern’s head to convey my intention to dive down, and follows behind Gawain flying into the red lights.
“Hiyaa~~!! What an enthusiastic and happy welcome!! It seems they’re hungry!!”
The leading Gawain raises a strange voice and steers the Wyvern well, and he falls down to almost the tree’s height while spinning as if to avoid the red lights.
It’s a lie, riiight! Do I have to follow that dodging maneuver!?
However, there is no choice but to do it!
I gently stroked the neck of the Wyvern who became my companion, and descended to almost the height of the trees, following a trajectory similar to that of Gawain.
“Uooooooo!”
While spinning, the red light that came this way graze my cheek.
There are sounds and smell of burning meat.
It’s unavoidable……I see, if I absorb it with a ‘Magic Barrier’!?
While I was falling through the red lights emitted by the monsters, I remembered the existence of the magic taught by Noelia.
There was a magic to protect one’s body from projectiles made of magic and energy bodies.
“Become a white membrane, and wrap around me. ‘Magic Barrier’.”
When the magic is activated, a white translucent membrane unfolds in front of the Wyvern.
The Magic Barrier absorbed the red lights that shot up from below, and was immediately dyed in red.
At this rate, the limit of the absorption capacity will soon be reached.
When the Magic Barrier unfolds, the amount of red lights shot up from below increased further.
“Please hold oooon!”
I raised the speed of descent further, and I firmly gripped the straw rope so that I would not be shaken off.
The trees of the Demon Forest approach immediately.
Pulling the straw rope just before collision, the Wyvern’s body barely managed to pull upright.
When the altitude was lowered to the height of the trees, the attacks from the Ground Fortress Turtle stopped all at once.
“Huuuuuu! We made it somehow…”
“Iyaa, that was fun. Putting up a Magic Barrier was overdoing it though. That made it boring after all.”
When I got down to the low altitude safely and was releasing my breath, I heard words that made me doubt my ears from Gawain who was flying next to me.
“Eh?”
“Eh?”
Gawain had a look that seems to be asking, ‘Eh, is there something wrong?’
“I thought it was impossible, but did you perhaps intentionally go through the place just now?”
“Hm? Well I did, but that was fun, right. Now that you can ride a Wyvern, you have to be able to dodge those easily, then the arrows of the Youg Hannotes’ knights will be easy peasy y’know.”
My head hurts…
This person is a weirdo as I expected.
And I completely have no intention of attacking Youg Hannotes with this Wyvern though…
I wonder why did he assume that I would be intercepted by the knights of Youg Hannotes.
No way, perhaps he is resentful of being intercepted with arrows yesterday.
I looked at the face of the weirdo blacksmith who flew next to me while being a little amazed.
“What? Is there something strange on my face?”
“No, I just felt like I can understand why Gawain-sama opened a workshop at that place.”
“I see, Frick had become so familiar with me that you can understand the refined meaning of why I opened a workshop at that place. As expected of the man who I allowed to have a skinship with me.”
I think that his so-called old acquaintance, Frontier Count Llyod, had set up an isolation facility in the name of workshop at the Yasuba’s hunting ground, which is at the remote region in the remote region, to avoid troubles in the city.
Since he is not a bad person, the Frontier Count and the people of the city should have trouble handling him.
He’s not a bad person, he’s just an absurd person.
“Well then, next is picking and colleting materials. Since this is our destination, let’s go down.”
Gawain, who said so, jumped from the Wyvern and went down through the trees into the Demon Forest.
He’s really absurd…am I going to be okay?
I wonder if I would be isolated like Gawain.
Even while being somewhat worried, I followed after Gawain and got down to the Demon Forest.
I wonder if Noelia’s fetish stems from this guy…
Oh yeah, how’s the site’s new look, is it easier to read now?