Published at 7th of December 2020 09:52:36 AM
Chapter 114
Chapter 114
While watching the black smoke, I drew the IH magic circle on the ground and heated the pot I had put water in from the waterskin .
During that time, the black smoke rising from inside the well changed into the form of a man wearing robes .
“I am the King of Shadows, one of the 7 Great Demon Kings … Hang on, wai – buho-!”
He seems to be giving some sort of introductions, but Ayl hit him with her wooden sword midway .
“Seems like he’s solid . ”
“Ku- ow! This bast”
So saying, the man wearing robes became smoke and came over towards me and Velsa .
The black smoke changed into a hand and the man’s face, and the hand stretched towards my neck .
“Don’t you care about what happens to these two?”
He said towards Ayl .
The smoke hand has substance, and it made to strangle my neck .
I seized the thumb and pinky, pulling it open .
“Owowow! OW-! Impossible! You people!”
Glaring at me, the smoke man screamed .
The man’s hand changed into smoke, escaping . There was something like black powder clinging to my hands that had seized him .
Velsa touched the black powder attached to my hands with her forefinger, sniffed it and rubbed it, and looked at it with her Microscope Skill, then,
“It’s soot . ”
She concluded .
“What King of Shadows!? Aren’t you just a soot monster?!”
Ayl spoke towards the face in the middle of the smoke .
“Shut up! I’m the King of Shadows, Shadouro! The shadow leader of the 7 Great Demon Kings, that’s who I am!”
All of the smoke changed into the man’s head, and he yelled loudly .
Isn’t he embarrassed?
“What’s the 7 Great Demon Kings?”
As Velsa asked meaningless questions, I took liquid that had the chili pepper-like fruit I’d tried at Marcus-san’s island out from the item bag and put it in the pump .
“Fufufu, a good question . We, the Demon Kings shouldering the 7 deadly sins, are the true demon kings, our abilities hidden in the shadows of the previous Demon King!”
The Evil God said there wasn’t anything like a Demon King, so they’re self-proclaimed, huh? It’s just, it’s THAT Evil God, so it’s also possible that he overlooked something . Well, whether he’s real or fake, it won’t change that I’ll exterminate him .
“Why did you capable people appear at this point in time?”
“Fufufu, would you like to know?”
The smoke face, Shadouro, widened his eyes suddenly, giving a vulgar smile as he asked .
“No, we’re good . Since my preparations are done . ”
I pointed the tip of the nozzle at the shadow face .
“Preparations?”
I sprayed Shadouro, who’s making a stupid face, with the spicy spray .
“GYAAAAAA!”
A shriek reverberated through the village .
That Jude-san and Berserker-kun came running when they heard the shriek was something I learned through the Search Skill .
“You cur! What did you do! What is with this stinging?”
Shadouro’s smoke gathered at one point, changing into a completely black man’s form .
“It’s just a bit of spice . ”
As I explained, I continued to spray Shadouro with even more spicy spray .
“Stop! Please stop! My entire body huts, my eyes, my eyeees…”
Ayl beat the writhing Shadouro up into pieces with her wooden sword .
When Shadouro became tiny pieces, but he’s originally soot . Is he dead with this? I don’t really get it .
Velsa put as much of the pulverized soot into the pot with the hot water .
“Can you put this pot in the item bag?”
I went to put the pot in the item bag like Velsa said, but it wouldn’t go in . Living beings can’t enter the item bag .
“It’s still alive, then . Naoki, please give me one of those sound bombs . ”
Velsa put out her hand as she said so, so I took out the sound bombs we had used when fishing for the fish monsters, and handed it to Velsa .
She threw the sound bomb towards the pulverized Shadouro like a ball .
Kiiiin! With that sound, the powdered shoot shook, and from within the well,
“GUOOOOO!”
We heard a roar .
His real body might have been in the well . Anyway, the pot stuffed with soot went into the item bag, so I guess it’s become inanimate .
“Are you alright!?”
Berserker-kun asked as he ran towards us .
“Aah, it’s just about over now . ”
Ayl said .
“What was all that? Said he was a Demon King . ”
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“Who knows? This time I’ll try asking THAT (Evil God) about it . ”
Velsa asked and I replied .
“Ah-, without a pot we can’t have tea . ”
“Let’s buy a new one when we get back . ”
“No break, huh? Well, that’s fine . ”
We put away the pump and tea leaves and the like, preparing to return .
“Um … … what about the monsters in this village ……?”
Jude-san, who was behind Berserker-kun, asked .
“Ah, it’s done . All of the ghost-type monsters are exterminated . There aren’t even any monsters within the range of my Search Skill . ”
I explained, and they made dumbfounded faces before,
“Is that … so?”
Jude-san said .
“Well then, we’re in a hurry so,”
So saying, our group ran off immediately .
I want to set off before the sun sets .
Returning to East End, we reported the request completion at the Merchant’s Guild .
When we received the reward, the Merchant’s Guild’s master appeared from an inner room in a hurry .
“It was quite the disaster this time, wasn’t it?”
The Guild Master is a merchant with a solid body . He’s probably talking about getting thrown into jail .
“Well, yeah . Thank you for all the trouble you went to for us . ”
“Nothing to it, we just did what we could as the Merchant’s Guild . ”
“Well then, we’re in a bit of a hurry . And so,”
So saying, we left the Merchant’s Guild .
We bought a new pot and cute cups at the general goods store and headed to the port .
The sun is already past its zenith .
When we reached the port, Merumo was waving her hand from the ship .
It seems like Seth’s already finished the formalities for departure, so they were just waiting for us . As expected of the Captain .
Untying the rope from the pier, we boarded the boat .
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I leapt on top of the mast and unfurled the sails .
“Set sail!”
Seth declared in a loud voice from the helm .
There wasn’t anyone in particular seeing us off, or so I thought, but when I looked over my shoulder, there was a single man with his hand raised on top of the roof of the guard station . It’s Fluden .
The sun had already sank beneath the western mountain, a magic hour where there’s no shadow .
We waved our hands towards Fluden, and Fluden’s raised hand waved a bit back .
The boat gradually left East End behind, taking an easterly course .
Velsa brought me a cup of tea as I surveyed the ocean with my Search Skill deployed from the front of the boat .
“Thanks . Oh yeah, I wonder what that self-proclaimed summoner gramps is all about . ”
“I also wonder what’s with the 7 Great Demon Kings . If I think there’s another 6 of something like that, I start worrying for the state of the world . ”
We had rambling conversations while drinking tea .
“Ah, that’s right . Here . ”
I took the bag with the flower apis hive in it out of the item bag and handed it to Velsa .
“Oh yeah . There’s this . ”
Velsa had said that the flower apis had made strange movements when they died, and she wanted to investigate .
Velsa headed to the captain’s cabin holding the sweet smelling bag . The captain’s cabin has already transformed into the lab .
Ayl is keeping watch on top of the mast with a magic stone lamp in hand . Although, you can call it keeping watch, but she’s swinging her wooden sword towards the sky . Merumo seems to be making a big box in her room for the poison spiders .
Captain Seth has fixed the steering wheel in place, and is currently making food .
The wind is a very weak tailwind, so we’re moving eastward as if we’re drifting on the waves .
As expected, when the sun completely sets, the monsters in the ocean become lively, so there are a lot of them that approach the ship . But they realize the ship isn’t a living creature, so most of the monsters ignore it . Even so, there are fish monsters that poke their heads out from the sea surface from time to time, so I’ve hit the prow of the boat in warning . Sometimes I also show the Red Dragon’s dragon orb from before . With that, most of the monsters dive deeper into the sea .
“O-i! Naoki, the sea in front of us is kind of glowing!”
Ayl called from the top of the mast, pointing forward in the 1 o’clock direction .
Certainly, I can see something like a pale blue light in the ocean .
“Seth-!”
I expanded the range of my Search Skill and called for Seth .
The part of the sea that’s giving off light is shallow . It’s possible we’ll crash if we keep going forward like this . Looking at it with my eyes it’s pale blue, but it’s read when looking at it with Search Skil; I can tell that the identity of the pale blue light is a countless number of small monsters .
While wearing an apron, Seth came out and took up the helm .
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“What is that?”
Seth asked . Merumo and Velsa also came out onto the deck .
I think there’s something like sefireflies or bioluminescence in my previous world, but I don’t know about much aside from monsters in this world .
“That’s a phenomenon known as sealight, an illusion seen at sea . There’s talk of it being the dead guiding you, or sirens leading you on . ”
Velsa explained .
Going closer to see it, since we came across it, we discovered that the shallows the sealight was in was a part of a donut-shaped island . It’s a small island, so it’s not even on a map . I think it’s not even 1 meter above sea level .
We dropped anchor to spend the night at this island .
“Then, you mean those are small monsters?”
Setting up a number of magic stone lamps on the deck, everyone ate dinner . As I told them about the lifeforms of sefireflies and bioluminescence from my previous world, Velsa gave me a query .
“It shows red when I look with Search Skill, so I was just thinking that isn’t it a herd of monsters rather than an illusion?”
“If that’s the case, then let’s go fishing for them . ”
Rolling up the sleeves of her robe, Velsa shows her eagerness .
“After we finish eating . Is the flower apis hive alright?”
“Aa, you won’t get the honey from that . The inside of the hive was completely black . ”
“What’s the cause? Illness? Or is it the work of some bug even smaller than flower apis?”
“I don’t know . I looked with the Microscope Skill, but I haven’t found any traces of that sort . I dare say, it might be a curse?”
Curse, huh? I’ve come across curses from time to time since I came to this world .
We eat Seth’s special spicy stewed eel, then it’s tea time .
While the other members are drinking tea, Velsa and I go to collect the sealight .
When we put it in a bottle and lightly shake it, it glows pale blow .
Returning to the ship we looked at it with the light of the magic stone lamps, and, although it didn’t look like anything but brown, murky liquid, when Velsa looked with her Microscope Skill, as expected, it seems it’s lifeforms whose bodies glow . Although it seems suspicious whether they’re monsters or not .
“What is this!? Are they really monsters? This sort of thing exists?”
“Is it that rare?”
“Yeah, monsters should have a magic stone somewhere in their bodies, but that can’t be found in these . However, there’s magic power flowing within their bodies . How mysterious . So these kind of guys exist?”
“N~ I’m sure . To not have a magic stone within the body, it’s like us . ”
“Us?”
“Aah, like humans or beastmen, human-shaped lifeforms don’t have magic stones in their bodies, right?”
“Aah… that’s right! I see, if we think about it like that, it’s not so mysterious after all?”
Velsa groaned as she stared at the sealight in the bottle .
The stars twinkled in the sky, and the sealight sparkled in the ocean .