In this world, you were often encouraged to execute criminals on the spot.
Normally, there would be the issue of whether they truly were guilty, but since they had tools to determine if someone was lying, things went much more smoothly here.
StillâŚI decided to capture him with magic.
It wasnât out of a sense of pity.
We currently lacked information, and any person who could help us with that was worth keeping alive for now.
âWhat!?â
âMagic Transfer-Fireball!â
After capturing him, I used âFireballâ to destroy the stick he was using to hold the cursed stone.
And then-
âCurse Break: Extreme!â
Last time I had used the normal Curse Break, but that had resulted in monsters spilling out.
So maybe if I cleansed it completely with advanced magicâŚ
âWha-âŚâ
Right in front of the man who had brought it, the once black magic stone turned pure white in a flash. And then it vanished.
Yes, as long as you broke the curse all at once, you could nullify it safely.
Now I just needed to take the culprit back to town and have him questionedâŚ
âTsk⌠To save this tarnished world!â
Just as the stone disappeared, the man shouted these words and stabbed himself in the neck with a knife.
ââŚWhat?â
While I was still stunned, he continued by stabbing himself in the chest and head. And then he died.
âŚHe had killed himself.
It was understandable if he didnât want to be questioned, but it seemed way too early to do something so decisive.
I would have thought he would at least try and escape firstâŚ
But then again, it was possible that he was being mind-controlled by whoever orchestrated this.
In any caseâŚI needed to report this to the guild. As soon as possible.
And so I ran back to town in a hurry.
The problem wasnât that he had brought a magic stone.
The problem was that they were bringing in other magic stones than the one that had created the swarm of monsters.
Considering he had killed himself, there must be others besides him.
I could imagine a horrifyingly large crime organization in the shadows.
That created another problem.
I didnât know what their purpose was-but this suggested that there were others like this man.
If there were many of them, they were probably placing these stones in other areas as well.
That meant there were likely many monsters outside of my security netâŚ
Just as I thought this, a slime contacted me.
âYuji! Yuji!â
âWhat is it?â
âLots of monsters are appearing from behind us!â
âThey are still far away, but there are so many of them!â
âTheyâre coming from over there as well!â
âŚSo it seemed that I was right.
I had used my Tamer skills to strengthen their scouting abilities.
And so they were quick to notice that other monsters were appearing.
With so many monsters about, it would be difficult to have the slimes gather in one place.
I could also use Hellfire of Death to kill a lot of the monsters at once, but I should probably wait until there were more.
If I did it now, most of them would escape.
âŚAnd so I would have the slimes hide and protect themselves for now.
âProud Wolf! Take as many of the slimes as you can and return to town! The rest of you, go and hide until I give you further orders!â
âUnderstood!â
âOkay!â
âThey wonât find me!â
I could hear the slimes and Proud Wolf moving hurriedly around as I headed for the guild.
The situation was becoming incredibly dangerous.
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