Chapter 192 - Episode Eighteen - Live Fogg (8)

“Go! Lapides Sword!”

The sword flew in a straight line and killed another one of Live Fogg.

Neatly, the Live Fogg’s head rolled off into the distance.

This was the fifth one.

“Yes! Kamla-san, please collect the Live Fogg again!”

“A-Abel…… Hey, let’s go home. …… I think It’s good now with all of this. It’s not like it’s going to take that many bodies……”

“Eh…… but we need to collect a few more to make Pargas Village fully healed……”

“But, but……”

Kamla said this exhaustedly and began to rummage through his hair and didn’t particularly interrupt me further.

He looks very tired.

“Augen-san, could you collect the…… Live Fogg instead?”

“Oh, yeah…… yes, I guess so……”

Strange.

Augen, who should have certainly been happy until the second body, has a completely hardened expression.

Maybe he’s worried that collecting them halfway through will only provoke a fight over the Live Fogg in the village.

“Don’t worry! The Ortem is responding! There has to be a hangout for the Live Fogg nearby!”

“Live Fogg’s hangout!?”

Even Augen seemed to be pleased with this information, and his eyes were peeled back and his mouth was open.

“A, Abel-san! We’ve come to a place we haven’t ventured much further into! To be clear…… It’s hard to know what kind of demon you’re going to get! Also, there may be some unearned demons out there and ……!”

Sophia tried to persuade me.

“You see, if Abel-san were to lose his life, it would be a loss to the people of Pargas village! For now, let’s take these four things home with us, shall we? There’s no room for stubbornness here, is there?”

“Don’t worry. Even though I look like this, I’m pretty timid, so I’ll run away the moment I feel uncomfortable.”

The World Tree’s Ortem is now spinning happily around.

It should be safe to assume that there are …… ten of these reactions.

If I catch a lot of them, maybe they’ll flush some of them out to me.

Thinking about that makes my heart skip a beat.

After all, they are the raw material for the legendary elixir, the Fogg.

There are many uses for it, and it’s worth analyzing.

I took the three somewhat reluctant men and moved on in pursuit of the World Tree’s Ortem.

“It looks like we’ll be able to secure twenty of them by the end of the day for sure!”

“………… Yeah, I suppose.”

Augen nodded emphatically.

At that moment, Mea suddenly opened her eyes and held her bow.

“Abel, ahead!”

If I looked ahead, I could see a yellow fruit flying towards us.

It was the fruit that Augen had told me on the first day that it was poisonous enough to cause a skin rash.

The World Tree’s Ortem leaps up quickly and spins in the air, knocking the fruit off.

“Kiki, kiki,……”

With a cry, a human-like shadow suddenly floats from the surroundings.

“It’s Shadow Swimmy! We’re surrounded!”

Augen exclaims.

A swimmy is a monkey-like magic beast.

They are smart and specialize in nimble movements. They are considered to be quite troublesome if you are spotted.

In addition to their conventional cunningness, Shadow-Swimmy is particularly adept at using illusions to weaken their targets.

The shadows move, wavering.

These guys have a nasty nature, preferring to target sorcerers who want to retreat to the rear of the …… guard, rather than the vanguard.

“We only have…… one chance.”

Augen muttered, and the corners of his mouth lifted slightly.

He tightened his grip on the wooden mallet of his weapon.

“Augen-san, do you have a plan?”

“No, what……”

Augen turned to me as he said, and freaked out and tensed up.

“Brother, behind you!”

I reached out my fingers and raised my arm, bringing it down with great force forward.

The Lapides Sword slashed the ground following the movement of my arm after extending its blade length to three times its original length.

The shockwave that gushed from the tip of the blade cracked the ground and cut both sides of the large tree that was beyond it.

“Kiki!” “Ki, Kiki!”

Shadow Swimmy runs away with a squeal.

Swimmy is a clever magic beast. After threatening them this much, they won’t come any closer.

“…………”

Augen froze in his posture with his mallet raised.

“Um, is there something wrong?”

“…… No, sorry, I think I was hallucinating about them.”

Augen quietly lowered the mallet.

It wasn’t really that kind of magical power, but …… well, maybe he was in a panic and mistook it for something else.

Even if there was an attack by a magic beast, I could just wield my Lapides Sword and they would quickly run away.

It was convenient. I’m glad that I had procured a weapon, after all.

I must thank Rinoa again for making it for me.

After advancing for a while, the World Tree’s Ortem stopped moving.

It starts spinning around on the spot.

“Huh…… Looks like it was a malfunction.”

When Kamla said that, Sophia sat there as if she had lost her strength.

As I thought, she was quite tired from walking.

It was probably a combination of disappointment and exhaustion at the prospect of finding Live Fogg.

“Sophia-san! Don’t worry, the Live Fogg is definitely nearby!”

“Eh …… N-no, but there is nowhere……”

I put my hand on the World Tree’s Ortem.

This contains Marias’ demon that I’ve locked away, Hamelin.

It seems that Live Fogg is hiding …… If I use the full extent of Hamelin’s magic beast attraction ability, they should be excited and jump right out.

Live Fogg seems to have a high level of intelligence, though, so it would be meaningless if I didn’t output it quite strongly. ……

I pour my magic power all at once into Hamelin, who is inside the World Tree’s Ortem.

Rattling, the World Tree’s Ortem began to tremble.

“Kyahahahahahahaha”

Hamelin’s laughter escaped from World Tree’s Ortem’s mouth.

At the same time, the air around changed completely.

“Jus-, just now, what ……”

A hole opened up from the ground and a massive amount of Live Fogg revealed itself.

It wasn’t ten or twenty. The area was filled with holes, and one by one, Live Fogg crawled out.

There must be close to a hundred of them.

After making a potion, they could make enough change to give out to all the villagers as sashimi.

The clear, lapis lazuli color of Live Fogg’s body made it seem as if an ocean had sprung up out of the ground, an illusion-like sight.

Its body surface was dazzling because of the way it reflected the sunlight.

Indeed, it was beginning to seem like it was a gift from the sea gods.

Perhaps the followers who had first said that Live Fogg was Levi’s gift had also seen this sight.

“Wow! It’s so beautiful!”

Mea was frustrated by this sight.

Come to think of it, Mea may have never seen the real ocean.

Even I haven’t seen one in this life.

“……ve?”

“Veoh! Veoh!”

Live Fogg comes to himself and tries to escape in a great hurry by teleportation.

The Lapides Sword moves just as I reminded it to, sending Live Fogg’s head flying.

In just three swings, I was able to kill nearly a dozen Live Fogg’s.

However, within just a few seconds, the Live Fogg’s figure disappeared as if the tide was receding.

“…… mare’s arrow didn’t hit.”

Mea shakily drops her hand down holding the bow.

“If it’s just after teleportation, he shouldn’t be able to use it. If there are this many of them, it might be easy to kill a few of them. Let’s go after the Live Fogg quickly, everyone! They must still be out there! Let’s catch every last one of them!”

When I turned around, I saw the three Levi followers standing there with stunned expressions on their faces.

…… As I thought, was it a bad idea?

No, but they shouldn’t have been able to stop it that hard ……