10 Episode 10 Slaves, Returning the Unreachable (1/2)

The next town is the big city Mid River, called the merchant capital.

But I decided not to aim for the Mid River, but for a nearby settlement.

The purpose of the request is only to destroy the cult. Because they thought they might be eroding from smaller settlements than big cities.

The path to the settlement does not come from South Lorrier, but only from Mid River. So South Lorrier had no choice but to cut through the woods.

”It's not the way anymore. I wonder what it means to go this way,” Celestia whispers.

Even though I am at the forefront and have chosen an easy route to follow, for a princess who has not forged anything, this move may be a little more tolerable.

If I had a day alone, I could have arrived with plenty of time, but I've been walking for three days.

”You're not lost in the woods, are you?

”Celestia told me there's a settlement in this direction.”

I had the opportunity to buy information from around here at the welcoming event hosted by the director, but I didn't hear anything more about it.

”Still, you're not arriving at all.....”

Sure, it's about time I got some indication that people are living here, but I can't feel it at all. In addition, the number of monsters has clearly decreased, and it seems that there are fewer signs of organisms themselves than when they first entered the wood---

I open my left hand to the side and say ”Stop” strongly.

Honestly, Celestia began to fall on a nearby tree to relieve herself of being able to rest.

But I won't.

I stopped because I felt signs of approaching, not for a break.

”Looks like customers are coming now. I said,” Don't move from there. ”But even if I didn't tell you, Celestia didn't intend to move, so she sat on the root of the tree and waved her hand to respond.

After a while, the bush in front shakes suddenly, and a man pops out.

I look like an adventurer wearing armor, but I can only see him running toward me in a hurry, dying his body with blood. Still, I'm not going to rescue you.

I twisted the arm of the man who came here to ask for help and pressed it around my back to the ground.

”It hurts... are you one of them, too?” the man shouted.

”What do you mean? Did the monster do this to you?” I decided to find out if he was approaching by surprise.

The man's blood is really coming out of the wound that the man is suffering from, and the stain is still spreading. The wounds are often shallow, but the ones on the back are still quite deep and too deep for acting. The sword on the waist is not cheap, and if you look closely, the emblem of the Kingdom of Cassandra is engraved.

”I'm not a monster, I was attacked by people from the Kingdom of Rain. They're hunting down the top adventurers here.”

”I heard there's a settlement around here, but that scar should get you there,” I said, ”There's no such settlement. The monster has destroyed it,” the man said bitterly.

”Isn't that what they did in the Kingdom of Rain?

The man shook his head and said, ”I've been asked to hunt that monster, the Argis dragon.”

An Argis dragon, a type of dragon found in the neighboring Argis Mountains, almost never seen in the Kingdom of Carlitz, and if seen, a fierce dragon with imperial troops. When I was alive, I never relied on adventurers for that.