It’s the last post of the year.
Thank you very much.
The results from the detection magic showed that the monster horde was scattered all throughout the forest.
If the number of monsters in the report was correct, there were 5000 goblins.
The problem was that I didn’t know if I had enough magic power.
In the game, there was MP, magic points. In this world as well, there was a maximum magic power capacity.
Hence, I didn’t know how much magic power I had.
In the game, you would consume 10 MP when you cast a fireball. In this world, there weren’t any standards regarding that.
I didn’t know how much magic power I could charge up.
This battle wouldn’t be against monsters, but against the amount of magic power I could use.
「Swaying Bear, thanks for all your work until now.」
I caressed Swaying Bear’s head as reward for running from the capital without a break until now.
Then I recalled Swaying Bear and summoned Hugging Bear.
「Hugging Bear, from now on, we will be running nonstop through packs of monsters, so I am counting on you!」
I caressed Hugging Bear’s neck.
As I finished my preparations, I hopped on Hugging Bear and entered the forest.
Just after I entered the forest, a small number of goblins started to approach.
It was auto homing magic, a magic where you locked onto a target, then fired. After that, it would automatically seek at the target.
A white bear ran through the forest.
I didn’t count, but I think around 1000 heads were cut.
I launched magic in the direction of a pack of goblins.
A white shadow and wind magic ran through the forest.
I didn’t know how many monsters I had killed.
In the game, I would have known how many points I would have left though.
From my position, on the right there was a pack of wolves, on the left was a horde of orcs, and lastly, in the center were wyverns.
I postponed the extermination of the wyverns.
Fighting the monsters you knew you could fight first was the normal strategy in games.
I brought out oren juice from the Bear Box and took a little break.
As I drank the oren juice, I asked Hugging Bear to go where the orcs were stationed.
「Hugging Bear, I’m sorry. Hang on for just a little bit longer.」
I hadn’t killed even half of the monsters.
Unlike what I had done for the goblins, I increased the magic power charge of wind magic.
A goblin’s and orc’s neck strength was vastly different after all.
「It would be great if I could cut off their heads with twice the magic power.」
I fired the wind magic towards the orcs.
No problem, it seemed.
Unlike the goblins, the orcs had higher endurance, and their strength was on an entirely different level.
The orcs brandished their weapons and rushed towards me with an abnormal speed for giants.
Orc Archers!
The projectiles were really troublesome.
There was magic coming at us as well.
「Are there Orc Mages too?」
The Orc Archers were using bows.
The Orc Lancers were using huge lances.
So annoying.
Numbers were numbers. With earth magic, I created 30 Earth Bear Golems.
Was that a little too much?
I cut off their heads, too.
Wherever the golems and I went, a path of orc corpses was created.
「I still have magic power…」
I made sure I had magic power in my body.
「Just the wolves and the wyverns are left for elimination.」
I fought this much, but thanks to the Bear suit, I didn’t have much fatigue.
「Let’s persist a little more.」
The place where the wyverns were…
To restore a small amount of magic power, I changed to the white bear suit.
When I wore the white bear suit, it made me warmer, and I could tell that my magic power was being restored.
Now a white bear, I started fetching the corpses of the orcs and put them into the Bear Box while going back to the place where I killed the goblins.
In the end, the only things that remained were the heads I had cut off.
That was why the road I took turned from a path of orc corpses to a path of orc heads.
After I finished gathering the corpses, I decided to take a short break in my white bear suit.
Now, let’s go kill some wyverns!
I hopped back onto Hugging Bear and rode to the wyverns’ location.
When I thought about it, even though I made so much noise while fighting, the wyverns hadn’t budged at all.
When I approached the wyvern pack, I found out why…
「They’re sleeping.」
Was it possible that somebody made them fall asleep?
I approached the wyverns silently, and cut their heads off one by one.
Even though their companions had their necks cut right beside them, they didn’t wake up.
Was it okay that it was so easy to collect wyvern materials?
When I finished collecting the corpses, the earth started to tremble.
「What?」
The ground was rising.
In the game there were monsters that came from the ground as well.
I didn’t notice it with detection magic.
Did the detection magic not reach deep underground? Or could I not detect it because it was under the wyverns?
「So disgusting.」
A worm was coming out of the ground. It was bigger than the Black Viper.
Lots of saliva was drooling from its mouth.
A really big mouth was attacking me.
It was big, but fast.
It was said that when you attacked its skin, fluid scattered and a foul odor propagated.
Immediately afterwards, the skin regenerated. A really troublesome monster.
However, I had Bear Magic now.
I created 10 fire bear cubs and made them run into the big open mouth.
The cubs, which had disappeared into the worm’s mouth, didn’t stop burning.
Even if the exterior was strong, the interior was tender.
The worm thrashed on the ground for some time before it stopped moving.
「Hmm, will this sell?」
It seemed there were some places where people eat caterpillars, but I didn’t think someone would eat that…
For now, let’s dispose of it, and I will think about it later.
I placed the dead worm in the Bear Box.
Just the wolves remained.
I dispatched the wolves easily.
I made the Bear Golems transport them to me and then placed them inside the Bear Box.
With that, the monster hunt was completed.
I hopped on Hugging Bear and got out of the forest, which reeked of blood.
When I looked at the sky, the sun had gone down, and it was evening.
Why was it that, even if my body wasn’t really tired, I felt really tired.
I ate a simple dinner, and after I bathed, I went directly to my bed and drifted into the world of dreams.