80 Episode 78 Return to Merte Village (2/2)

I ordered Crow Solas to ascend so as to escape that line of sight.

By the way, regarding my departure for Merte, I have been notified to Ishka's main organization after the report of death poison.

So when I saw Klaus Solas heading south, I wasn't worried that the Dragon Knight had fled Ishka!

Some inhabitants who don't know the details will be misunderstood, but they will not be a big problem.

Some Ishka administrations showed reluctance to leave Ishka at this time, but they brought their helpers to defend the city: Lars, Iria, and Priest Sarah. I was convinced by that.

Having left Ishka, I was able to arrive at Merte much earlier than I had planned without any trouble.

The time savings is the result of Krau Soras's hard work. Maybe it's a meal for Priest Sarah. I like the old boar dish very much.

The state of the village as seen from the sky is the same as the other day. It's unlikely that you've been attacked by a demon, or you've fought with other villages in the oak profit distribution I gave you.

However, I was worried that the number of villagers walking out was small. Somehow, you can feel the same atmosphere as when you visited before.

I dropped the Claus Solas in front of the village, feeling vague.

I realized that the anxiety was not a matter of concern when I heard the sounds of familiar children from a distance.

Chibigaki No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 reunited-Ain, Zwei and Dora were crying with their faces crumpled.

At first, I quickly concluded that something had happened to Priest Sarah, and my whole body was all hair.

What passed through my mind was the remnant face of a person poisoned by death.

But fortunately, Priest Sarah was not poisoned.

—Ilia, the daughter of Priest Sarah, was affected by the poison.

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There is a phantom beast called aquatic horse.

This phantom beast, known as Kelpie, is, as the name suggests, a horse and appears on the water.

Fins Waterweed mane, fish tail, and countless on trunk and quadruped. He says he can run on the river surface, like the ground, swim in the water, like a fish, and once diving in the water, he can work for hours without breathing.

The kelpies also had the ability to transform and could turn into normal horses.

The reason why he has such ability is to deceive humans and put them on his back. The aquatic horse's back is sticky, and once it gets on it, it cannot be descended on its own.

Prey The aquatic horse on the back, standing out of the way of a normal horse, goes underwater and drowns its prey. After that, they take their whole body over time.

Human-eating monsters In other words, the genie beast kelpie was a monster classified as:

Liver It seems that you don't eat just one theory, but if that were the case, it wouldn't provide any comfort to the eater.

Such kelpies, like the phantom beasts, do not appear in front of humans.

Once every ten years, whether witness information flows by wind rumors. Speaking of the appearance rate, it is about that.

The appearance of such a rare monster on Merte at this time is probably due to the anomaly of Titis.

The children first discovered Kelpie.

On that day, Ain and others picked up nuts in the forest at the outskirts of the village, and noticed the foal slowly approaching.

Wild horses are timid and cautious, and rarely appear in secluded areas. Furthermore, it is impossible to approach humans.

But even the oldest Ain is ten or so. It would have been terrible to notice unnaturalness.

Ain and the others tried to bring their horses home. Horses make farming easier and they can sell more expensively-he didn't do that, but he simply wanted to get him to praise Sarah.

Later, Ein and Zwei were forcibly transported to the Kale River by the kelpies that showed their nature. Surviving alone, Dora fled back to the village, crying, and appealed to Iria and Lars, who had just visited the church.

To be precise, Dora was so crying that she couldn't explain it.But after seeing Dora, they realized that something was wrong. I rushed. It's an intuition for those who have been eating for years.

The Ilias then ran down the Kelpie's footsteps and ran to the Kale River, rescuing the Ains who were about to sink into the water, and exterminating Kelpie.

The end of this was a torment, but from this day on, Ilia's condition deteriorates rapidly.

It can be temporarily relieved with antidote or the recovery magic of the priest Sarah, but the condition will soon recur.

Kelpies have the power of cursing, and may curse those who have slain themselves. The priest who knew it also tried the magic of decursing, but this also had no effect.

Meanwhile, some villagers begin to complain of the same symptoms as Iria. In each case, they were all bathed in the water of the Kale River for some reason.

That was when I arrived at the village.