Watching the green carpet pass by while he sees it, Ray then turns his gaze to the sky.
　There used to be a springy sun, but now it's covered with clouds.
　The good news is that the clouds were not like rain clouds.

(I'm going to look for an alchemist, but I'll be in trouble if it rains.)

　Ray was looking at the sky praying that it wouldn't rain, but he noticed Seto moving his face.

"What's the matter?"
"Gururu..."

　Seto looked into the forest, but the trees in the forest prevented Ray from knowing what Seto was looking at.
　Still, he thinks there is more to it than he sees, and slaps him on the neck.

"Get off,"
"Glu".

　Immediately nodding to Ray's words, Seto heads to the earth, flapping his wings.
　As she approaches the ground, Ray understands what Seto is concerned about.
　It stinks of iron rust floating above the ground.
　It's not as thick as one or two.
　There was also a bad smell inside, and it was enough to understand what was going on on on the ground.
　I understand, but I don't understand why this is happening.

"Did monsters fight with each other? But there's no way there's such a strong smell of rot and blood."

　Monsters attack monsters mostly to feed themselves.
　The monster's corpse should naturally fit in the stomach, and I didn't expect it to smell so bad or bloody.
　In the first place, if the body is left unattended enough to smell rotten, naturally, the smell of blood floating thickly should not remain.
　In other words, there are a mixture of dead bodies that have been long enough to emit odors, and dead bodies that smell fresh blood.
　Ray's prediction will hit the nail the moment Sett lands on the ground.
　There were countless bodies of monsters lying casually.
　It can only be described as a myriad because few of the monsters' bodies still have their original forms.
　Almost every corpse would have been rightly described as minced meat.
　Some monsters thought they had eaten the corpse, but it was no longer within sight of Ray.
　Seth... noticed a high-ranking monster called Gryphon descending and ran away.
　A low-intelligence monster like Goblin might have eaten meat without realizing that Sett was there, but the one here before Ray and Sett came down was probably the right one.

"What's this? Did monsters keep fighting in groups? As soon as they went down to the ground, they smelled like this..."
"Yuck!"

　Ray muttering while holding his nose in front of him.
　For Ray, who is originally sharper than usual, the odor spreading in front of him is quite severe.
　For Sett, who has a sharper sense of smell than Ray, the sight that spreads before him was inflicting damage that could not be compared to Ray.
　I managed to endure it because I was prepared beforehand when I went into the undead hierarchy in the dungeon, but this time it was completely unexpected.
　Normally I could smell the rotten smell completely when I was flying...

"It's hard for Setto to be here, isn't it?" Come up to the sky and wait for me. There was little smell from here."

　When Ray tells Seto, who was pressing his face to the ground and pressing his forefeet, he immediately flaps his wings up into the sky.
　Ray looks up at Seto and then looks around again.
　Most of them have turned into pieces of meat, and many of them have rotted, so we don't know the exact number of dead monsters rolling around, but it's still quite large, and we realize that there are not only one but several or dozens of different types.
　This is because obviously a wide variety of monster parts, including horns, tusks, wing bones, and tail bones, roll and rot.
　Ray's gaze stopped as a group of wizards lay near the center of the body.
　The wizards themselves emit dull light, with a pedestal-like object in the center, and an incense burner on top of it.

"The incense burner...? I see. This will get rid of the smell... I don't think so. Have you been holding it back?"

　Deep in the woods, this place has a fairly large number of monsters and beasts.
　In the midst of all this, if you let the smell of blood and rot around you, of course, you'll get a lot of monsters.
　Ray felt that the creator of this scene had set up the incense burner because he hated it.

"But when Sett came, there was a monster..."

　When you think about the time you got down here on a set, the answer to that question comes quickly.

"The effect of that incense burner is to some extent to eliminate odors, and it is not a kind of boundary."

　The focus is on the incense burner on the pedestal in the center of the magic camp.
　Since it is a tool called an incense burner, it is not particularly unnatural that its effects are related to odors.

"But the question is, why do you kill monsters so much?"

　Ray muttered as he looked around him, but suddenly he saw the decaying head of the Cyclops and the head of the Cobboldt, which had not yet decayed, among the dead bodies lying on the ground.

"Cyclops, Cobold... Hey, this isn't it..."

　With the presence of wizards and incense burners, Ray understood that the alchemists were doing something here, but he saw the heads of the monsters he had seen and somehow understood what had happened here.

"That's right. It's not easy for monsters to master it, no matter how much magic it is. In other words, I tried to see if I could master the magic items here, and the two I saw were successful, and the ones who failed...?"

　The number of bodies lying on the ground is not known in detail.
　Still, I could somehow understand that it was not about a few dozen from the large rotting pieces of meat and bone.

"And it's not just Cobold or Cyclops. There are many other monsters. ...has the monster succeeded in getting a magic item or failed? I suppose we can only ask the alchemist directly for more information."

　He muttered, determined that he had no more business here, and tried to leave... but Ray stopped walking.
　for a few seconds After thinking about something, Ray steps out. ...not away from here, but towards the wizards.

"This incense burner may not be very important as long as it's here, but it's better to have fewer cards over there. Besides, if this incense burner disappears, experiments will naturally be impossible here. If he were a good hand in cooperating with an alchemist, I should be able to manage it."

　But if I could get in the way of their actions, it would be no loss to do so, so I stepped into the wizards."

"It hurts!"

　For a moment, you feel pain as if you were electrocuted by static electricity, but the pain disappears quickly.

"...what? It felt strangely weak to protect the incense burner."

　While leaning his head, Ray touches the incense burner on the pedestal, and the next moment the incense burner is stored in the mistling and disappears.
　At the same time, I realize that things around me are definitely different, if I don't say anything.

"It's the effect of an incense burner, isn't it? Well, should I be a little bit harassed? You'll need to report it to Mr. Dusker, though. --it'll be a nuisance if you're undead."

　Although the odor around him is gradually fading, Ray uses the magic of fire to incinerate the body, completely unaware that the odor has paralyzed his nose.
　Fortunately, this place is well hidden by tree branches, but it's so spacious that I didn't have to worry about spreading the fire.
　Not all bodies could be burned, but 80 percent of the bodies would be burned and left.
　I could have called Seto here, but I went a little further away, thinking he would hate it.

"Set!"　

　At the call, Seto would come down to Ray's throat.





　In the dark, the man who was experimenting with something suddenly stops moving.
　The person watching it a little further away, reaching out to the sheath of his waist, opens his mouth.

"What's the matter?"

　The voice is neutral and looks like only a thin man from the sidelines.But while its body is covered in leather armor, if you look closely at it, the body has a curved.
　It's such a line that if you look at it from a distance, you might mistake it for a man, but if you look at it from a distance, you'll be able to identify it as a woman.

"Now... someone has moved the incense burner from the magic camp."
"Well, you mean someone came over there, didn't you? Who do you think he is? A passing adventurer?"

　At some teasing woman's words, the man shouts a negative voice, mixing the powder with blue liquid.

"Perhaps not. It's so deep in the woods that no one would bother to pass by such a place."

　There's no one. She smiles a little at the man's words.

"Well, it might be the case in a normal town." Unfortunately, this is Gilmoo. It is the only frontier in the kingdom of Milliana, and therefore has a large number of outstanding adventurers. I'm sure there are many people who can easily break through that forest. Not to mention the Devil Forest."
"The Devil Forest?" Honestly, I'm interested, aren't I? But Mr. Adria stopped it, didn't she?"

　A woman called Adria breathes a sigh at a man muttering discontentedly.

"Of course! It's a place where there's an extraordinary world. I can't keep it up for a day in my arms. It's like a mountain of evil in the Empire of Bestia, isn't it?"
"Is that so?"

　Adriatic gasps in amazement at the man who stops working and looks at him as if he had been told something unexpected.

"Well, the Devil Forest is famous, isn't it? I know I was in the Empire of Bestia."
"Isn't that because Mr. Adria is an adventurer?"
"I don't think it's a good alchemist to be ignorant of the world."

　Adriatic's expression has something more amusing than his tongue.
　It's only natural. If the person in front of me really knew the world, I would never have done this kind of course.
　It was a fact that I was enjoying myself now because I was ignorant of the world.

"Well, I had a hard time collecting monsters, but I'm glad I was able to see them. If a monster can't stand the erosion of a magic item, it explodes from the inside. ...however, why did you add an eroding function to your magic items? You have to use a very valuable material as a catalyst, don't you?"
"Yes. To be honest, we didn't have much material left when we ran out of Bestia. But if you don't, it's impossible for an ordinary monster to use magic items. That's exactly what you have to teach your body in a literal sense."
"Well, ... I wish I could see an interesting sight." So, back to the subject, you don't know who he is who managed the incense burner?"

　The man shakes his head at Adriatic's expectant words.

"I don't know that much," That incense burner is an improvised magic item. Honestly, I didn't expect that many other monsters would gather like that."
"No, if the bodies of monsters are gathered, it's not natural for other monsters to come for them. but that the incense burner had been managed, I suppose, had it been discovered that the pile of the monster's corpse was man-made."
"I suppose so," However, I don't mean to say what's going on. I'm sure it's going to be difficult to do experiments there, but there's another place to do them."
`What I say about you, but you've done a lot of good,'
"Is that so?" said he, "but I can't take revenge on Prince Kabazid, with crimson as it was." As long as that's the case, I'll try to do anything as cruel as possible. I'll pay the price of killing my benefactor."

　The man... a former Bestian alchemist, muttering a grudge against Ray, as he put his magic into the powder of the mine ore.