There is no cloud in the sky, and the sky is as tall as summer. And what comes out of the sun is also summer-like intense sunlight.
　The sun that descends to the ground has not yet entered full summer, but intense heat deprives people of their physical strength.
　Walkers along the highway frown in spite of the sun's distortion of the distant landscape.
　Travelers and adventurers often glare hatefully at the sun floating in the sky.
　It's very hard to lose your strength by the heat.
　In the midst of this... the adventurer, who is asked to collect flowers that only bloom in the summer sun, glances angrily into the sky like his partymates... and finds something strange there.

(Monster?)

　The reason why they muttered and still didn't immediately get ready to intercept was that the monster had fluttered its wings without showing any awareness toward them.
　There aren't many monsters flying, but not all monsters fly.
　If they were heading towards us, they would have to respond by running away or intercepting us, but the monsters flying ahead of the man's gaze were not interested in them at all, just flying gracefully in the sky.
　I don't know what it's like to fly in this intense sunlight, but when I think it's cool compared to the sun-heated ground, I want to fly...
　He looked up at the sky blindly, and the others called him... and the man who came back to himself with that voice hurriedly ran after him.





"If there were more clouds, I wouldn't get tired of the sight."
"Glu".

　Ray, completely unaware of the interactions taking place on the ground, was flying in the summer sky with Seto.
　The sunlight coming from the summer sun was almost as intense as the ground, but fortunately Ray has a dragon lobe that can be called a lightweight air conditioner.
　Seto is also a Rank A monster, so there's nothing particularly wrong with this level of sunlight.
　The reason Ray was flying with Seto at this point, well away from Gilm, was because he was heading to Gorsuch, a desert town proposed by Marina.
　Ray had been haunted by many merchants over the twilight spear, but Marina chose Gorsuch as a refuge until it was settled.
　Neighboring the Kingdom of Milliana... it is also a small country, and the land of Sollein, which is essentially equivalent to a tributary state, is desert in many places.
　Many of them are purely sandy deserts, not rocky ones Ray had experienced in dungeons before.
　Among the five most advanced cities in the country, Sollein, is Gorsuch, where Ray is heading.
　It's an oasis-centered development and it's hot all year round... a place where you don't want to go into summer, though not very much.
　But Ray was heading for such a place with Sett.
　It was a trip suggested by Marina, but she would normally have refused.
　I took it on partly because I didn't have anything particularly urgent to do.
　The study of goblin meat was done with Mayo, but when Mayo heard of maturation, Mayo was now testing it and told him that he didn't need to do anything.
　Ray recognizes that Mayo was also concerned because he knew Ray was being followed by a merchant over the twilight spear.
　Ray decided to go to Gorsuch, partly because there was nothing particular to do at the moment, and partly because it was a desert different from the dungeon in the labyrinth city of Egjir, there might be unknown monsters.
　Vichela was out dating on her way home from Bune, and she thought she might get in trouble when she came back, but she left with a sense of security when Marina told her that she would mediate.
　Going to the desert in summer seems insane to anyone suffering from guillem and heat.
　The feeling will be stronger than anyone else, especially for someone like Mayo, who is fat.
　But... fortunately Ray has a dragon lobe, and above all, Ray's body was created by combining the skills of the Zepyle family.
　Naturally, it's resistant to heat and cold, and you can spend your time comfortably with magic tents.
　There was also the feeling that Ray's name would not be as well known in neighboring countries as in the Kingdom of Milliana.
　Of course, since he was active in wars with the Westian Empire and in competitions, he will not be known at all.
　At the same time, it was quite possible that the adventurer's guild was getting Ray's information... but I still thought it would be better than being dogged by merchants.

"Desert? I wonder what magical stones I can get."
"Grull!"

　At Ray's words, Seto chants happily.
　Having acquired some skills in the world tree field, you may want to use them.
　In particular, the king's skill of intimidation is so powerful that there is no easy opportunity to use it.
　a few days after leaving Gilm Unusual... that's what's really unusual about Ray and Sett, who continue to travel freely without getting into any particular trouble.
　He was on his way to Gorsuch without being attacked by thieves or monsters while he was in the camp, or lost his way.
　Marina couldn't lend a detailed map from her standpoint, but she gave Ray the rough map to Gorsuch and explained some of the way.
　...and it's always Ray who gets into trouble even if he's paid that much attention, but strangely enough, he's been able to move around without any problems.

(Did you not want to have any trouble with this heat? ...no way.)

　Gradually the surrounding scenery changes from normal to rocky desert.
　The gosh is a sand desert, and passing through this rocky desert turns the surrounding landscape into that sand desert.

"Grull?"

　Suddenly, the flying cet chants.
　Ray looked to Seto to see what had happened, and he was looking to the ground.
　Following his gaze, he saw a commercial party there.
　Ray is not being attacked by thieves or monsters as he always sees, but is moving slowly through the rocky desert.
　Ray observes the commercial corps on the ground to see what caught Sett's eye.
　Then I could quickly understand the different places from the business units I had seen.
　It's a carriage. Usually the horse is towing, as the name suggests, but it is an animal with a lump in its back that is pulling the carriage of the merchant.

(Is it a carriage, even if it is towed by a trap?)

　Ray suddenly had such a question, but having seen a tame monster towing a carriage several times, he decided that it was OK to use a carriage.
　Ray was looking at the commercial forces on the ground thinking like that, but some members of the commercial forces probably noticed the presence of Seto flying in the sky. rush into an interception

"Well, there seems to be a pretty good bodyguard to notice here at this distance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ."
"Gruly!"

　Ray's voice makes Seto leave with his wings flapping.
　After a few minutes of doing so, Ray notices that Sett is again turning his attention to the earth.
　Ray also turned his eyes to the ground, wondering if he was also a merchant party with a string of straws, but what spread was a mixture of rocky and sandy deserts.
　When people say what is different from where it was before, that's the only difference they can see.

(It seems that Seto wanted to try the meat of the sea bream, but that worry was groundless.)

　駱駝It doesn't look as if Ray could eat it, by common sense.
　However, Ray thinks it's no surprise to eat an animal called 駱駝, since they like to eat monster meat.
　Besides, it was out of the ordinary for Ray to eat 駱駝, but when he was in Japan, he had seen dishes using 駱駝meat on TV, and he knew that dairy products made from 肉meat, such as 、meat, チーズmeat, アイスmeat, too.

(I've seen some high‐quality ingredients in Chinese cuisine.) ...it seems to be a lump of fat.)

　For some reason, while thinking about 料理food, I'm concerned that Seto is still looking up to the earth, so Ray looks down there again.
　It was Ray, who had been watching the ground so carefully that he might have had some reason to do so, that suddenly he saw the ground moving with excitement.
　It was as if something were moving around under the ground... in fact, Ray had not guessed it.
　Something long and slender is moving under the ground. I can only understand rough shapes from the air, but they are something as slender as worms and snakes.

"Worms? No, I don't you think so.

　If there were so many earthworms, it would be an extraordinary land.
　Ray thought as if he had forgotten that he was usually the only frontier in the kingdom of Milliana, but he immediately remembered the contents of a monster dictionary he had seen in the library before leaving Gillum.
　It's a monster sandworm you've encountered before in a dungeon in the labyrinthine city of Egzil.
　However, the sandworm we encountered before did not appear to have feet, but now it is on the ground... exactly the sandworm moving through the ground.
　Of course, since it was moving underground, it was possible that it was simply impossible to see its feet from above.

"It's small,"

　Ray's words, muttered at the sight of a monster running underground, perhaps a sandworm, were disappointing.
　It's clearly larger than the sandworms we encountered before.
　Usually, I recognize that a monster 5 meters long is definitely huge, but in Ray's case, it's only been about a month since he fought a giant cicada flying freely in the sky a little while ago.
　The world tree was also exceptionally large compared to ordinary trees, making it resistant to huge monsters.

"By the way, is it too bad to miss here?" ...set.'
"Slurrurling.

　Seto, who understands what Ray wants to say alone, follows a seemingly sandworm monster who flips past him.
　Considering Seto's speed, it wasn't that hard to catch up with monsters moving underground, but... Ray frowns slightly when he understands what's going on in the monster's direction.It's because I understand what the monster was for.
　At the sight of them was the merchant party pulling a carriage at the wheel... yes, the men whom Sett had just overtaken.

"Oops, another troublesome development..."

　Ray muttered, but the merchants must have noticed the monster approaching them. hasten one's
　There are about twenty adventurers. Considering that 駱駝's carriage consists of five commercial units, it is a little small, but this is related to the fact that the place to travel is desert.
　As long as you travel in the desert, you naturally have to carry a lot of water, but the more people you get, the more water you consume.
　Therefore, it was common to hire a small number of people who were above a certain level of ability.
　Of course, this is just a general example, and there are quite a few who have made other choices.
　At any rate, it seems that the merchant corps on the ground chose not to escape but to attack them.
　The monster then emerges from the sand as if it had been waiting to form a defensive line.
　Ray looks a little surprised at the sight.
　Because the monster that appeared was not a sandworm.
　I thought it was a sandworm, so I was surprised.
　It looks like a sandworm, as Ray misinterpreted. Unlike sandworms, however, the body has scales.
　a snake, not a worm

"Was it a sand serpent?"

　I remember what was written in the monster book.
　Rank C monsters, too, are the ones who beat them at the party.
　The head of a five-meter-long sand serpent turns from a high position to the prey below him and sticks out his tongue to check his bodyguards.
　His bodyguards were not as good as Date, but each of them tried to fight against him, but Ray smiled and said, "It's just right."

"The spear of twilight... Let me try it."

　A crimson spear appears in Ray's hand with the words.
　Spears taken out of the mistling are cast with magical powers...and thrown as they are thrown.
　The spear of the twilight, which flew straight and still through the desert air, would, in the next moment, smash Sand serpent's head and kill him.

"...what? Did you do too much?"