Chapter 42 (1/2)

ter beating the roc bird, Lydia hit her palm with her fist as if she’d just thought of something.

「Nn~ This feeling……could this be the feeling of leveling up?」

「Congrats Lydia!」

「Congratulations」

I secretly used Scout Scope and saw that Lydia’s level was still around 13, it didn’t appear to have gone up by very much. That should be pretty obvious as Lydia usually acts as a salesperson, minds her shop, and draws up designs instead of hunting usually. The roc bird is worth quite a lot of experience points so this time she was able to level up quite a bit.

「Hehe no~ you guys are all pretty strong. Big sis was surprised.」

「No, Lydia-san is also really…..strong…..」

「Yeah! *whistle* The enemy went BOOM and CRASH and you dodged…….anyway it’s amazing!!」

Claude’s confidence in being the vanguard seems to be tattered a bit, while Milly was waving her arms around to demonstrate how Lydia moved during the fight. Lydia’s face immediately became pervy and love-struck (deredere).

Everything else aside, the roc bird was a pretty strong enemy. It not only has a pretty high level, but it’s tough and moves quickly, it is a well-rounded monster.

「If two roc birds come I’d like Claude and Lydia to take them on, this should be the method of dealing with them. If three come, then I’ll take Claude and Milly will take Lydia and run away using teleportation. For now let’s go with this kind of plan.」

They all nod.

So in order to familiarize ourselves with the roc birds, we aimed to walk to the mountain lodge. We continued to walk leisurely up the mountain path.

「There are two over there」

Lydia pointed at two roc birds lying around in the bushes comfortably. I can’t see very well because of the bushes blocking my view, so if we weren’t moving this way I probably wouldn’t have seen them.

「Blue Gale!」

Milly cast her magic and at the same time Claude and Lydia rushed out. According to plan, they each take one of them as their opponent. Claude should reach her opponent first…probably.

I cast Pyro Shot at the roc bird and hurt it while making it recoil. As expected combo magic with good range is much easier to use. Pyro Shot is a little lacking in power though, I should try a little more to develop some magic with both power and range. Recently we’ve been fighting a lot more tough enemies. Well if I spend some time then I should be able to come up with something.

「Blue Gale!」

By the time the second tornado hit the roc birds Claude and Lydia had already started fighting. In this way we continued to climb the mountain, a couple times we encountered some roc birds but we made pretty good progress.

As the sun started to set and the sky turned red, Milly’s face was also pretty red, and she seemed to be pretty tired and sweaty. She was kind of stumbling and her eyes weren’t focused on anything in particular.

The mountain path must be pretty hard on a child. Even more so because of the need to fight as we progressed.

Even so she has her pride, Do you want Lydia to carry you?, this suggestion was offered many times but it was always rejected.

I can walk fine on my own, so she says.

Claude has quite a bit of travelling experience, so even though she is carrying heavy equipment she doesn’t seem extremely tired.

「Ooh I see the Mountain Cabin Milly-chan」

「Really!?」

Suddenly Milly got excited and started to run.

Hey come on, it’s dangerous if you start to run all of a sudden.

As I think that, the next second *Smack* she falls flat on her face. She immediately sits up, stops moving, and her shoulders start to shake.

Ah ah……didn’t I tell you………

Lydia runs over to Milly’s side, the Claude and I quickly follow.

–Mountain Lodge–

Inside the lodge there is a plain table and stool, a fire pit in the center, and a futon folded up in the corner.