That afternoon at Dusker's request, Ray was with Sett in front of the main gate of Gillum.
　Normally, going out requires a lot of preparation.
　The means of transportation, preserved food, drinking water, bodyguards... of course you can replenish them during your journey, but you don't know what travel is all about.
　That being the case, it was only natural to prepare for something.
　But... if it were Ray, the story would be quite different.
　The means of transportation are much faster than horses running on the ground, but they fly in the sky, so they are not attacked by thieves.
　There's a lot of food in the mistling, and the running water dagger magic item solves the drinking water.
　And in terms of bodyguards, it can be said that Ray and Sett are overpowered.
　Under these circumstances, there was nothing special for Ray to prepare for.
　If I had to say something, I would have bought whatever I could at a stall before leaving Gillum and packed it into a mistling.

"Well, all right? Don't you ever get lost?"

　Marina told her first errand child to tell her to do so, but in Ray's case, she's not exactly... but she's somewhat out of the question.
　That's probably why Marina is making sure Ray doesn't take a strange turn.
　Marina and Vihela were originally going with Ray.
　But it was not possible because Marina and Vihela had a lot of work to do at Guillum.
　Marina's spirit magic, in particular, is overwhelmingly different in ability from the perspective of the same spirit wizard.
　Marina's application and versatility are immeasurable in terms of spiritual magic.
　Vihela has performed well as a security guard.
　...and Ray thinks that Vihela's appearance is what disturbs public order, but it seems that adventurers, artisans, and those who have sought work need a lot of prominent figures.
　Naturally, it was becoming a specialty of the guillem that such people would reach out and be beaten down by Vihela.
　Bune is excluded from the list of people she goes with in the first place because of communication issues.
　Ray has become able to communicate more or less, but that's only about it.
　You can't understand Bune in detail like Vichela.
　That being the case, Ray had no option to take Bune with him from the start.
　If you take him, he'll definitely be confused.
　On the contrary, there is a good possibility that the inability to communicate could lead to various bad things.

"I know. I asked for that, too, Mr. Gilmoo. -- well, I don't need to say that."
"Well, I wish I had a good partner,"

　The reason Vichela remained in Gilm, as well as her work, was that the barbs of the nobility were not always over.
　Of course, today's guillem has more adventurers than usual.
　With all its strength, it won't be as straightforward as it was to attack Vistol.
　However, it was conceived that the next time we set it up, it would be done in an unpredictable way.
　It was also half certain that some of the adventurers now in Gillum had the breath of the nobility.
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　Vihela was chosen as a direct force largely because such opponents were probably strong opponents, and Vihela could enjoy a satisfying battle...

"Well, I'm going now,"

　and Ray straddled Sett's back...

"Seto-chan!"

　All of a sudden I hear such a voice, as if I had been waiting for the right time.
　Looking at the familiar voice, Ray saw, again, the figure of the Mire Dog, as he had expected.
　He waved his hand and motioned straight to Ray -- in this case, to Seth -- without waiting to see him running.
　I wouldn't mind letting Miredogs and Seto play if they weren't in a hurry.
　But now we need to leave as soon as possible.
　before a major move by the aristocracy
　The more time you waste here, the more likely the aristocrats are to move.
　... of course, wasting a few minutes here would not make any difference, but if the other person becomes a Mirene, the story will change.
　The love Mileine has for Seto is very intense.
　If I had let the Miredog do what he wanted, it would have been a few hours... if I didn't do well, it could have killed time by the day.
　Ray wanted to refrain from wasting that much time.

"Hey, Ray! Me, Millerine! Wait a minute!"

　From behind... No, ignoring the voices coming from below, Ray leaps up into the sky with Seto.
　I was looking at Ray with a slight tilt of my head asking if he liked Seto, but Ray nodded that there was no problem with it.
　Seto could have played with Mireine for a while, but as Ray says, he flaps his wings away from Gilm.

"Here, eat this first. It's not a long journey... but the first thing to go is the territory of a neutral aristocrat."

　Ray could have gone to the barons who had sent private armies all at once, but he still needs information to know what kind of buildings are there and how much security is there.
　And just rightly, next to the aristocratic territory that Ray is going to go to, there is a neutral aristocratic territory.
　Then, of course, if Ray had received this request from Dusker, he could get information from the nobility.
　Dusker probably asked Ray for the case because of the circumstances surrounding it.

(Well, the information about the extension of the Gillum to this time's target nobleman... was it the Earl of Leldakt? I suppose it was the information he had obtained from a hand who had been sneaking into the territory of the neutral nobleman, so it was our mutual understanding.)

　Flying above, looking to the ground, you'll see the forest of Trent a short distance away.
　The woodcutters seem to be cutting trees very hard, but most of the places are still untouched, given the sheer size of the Trent forest.
　It was such a huge forest, but traces of Gigant Turtle's movement can be seen from above.

(Well, in this case it's because it's from above.)

　a line drawn in the woods
　It's a little too thick to be called a line, but it's definitely very noticeable anyway.

"When will we be cutting down all the trees in the forest of Trent?"
"Glu?"

　Did you blame Ray for his muttering? What happened to Seto? He flapped his wings and turned around.
　As Seto gazes at her with round eyes, Ray swings his head and caresses the back of his neck in front of him.
　Ray's behavior makes Seto snarl pleasantly.
　With Sett's loveliness, which is hardly considered to be a monster of rank S, Ray understood why Millerine has such a strong attachment to Sett.

(I knew that from the beginning)

　Then Seto continues to fly and quickly passes through the cities of Abuero and Subursta.
　an order of magnitude compared to moving on the ground
　This speed is probably one of the major reasons Dusker asked Ray for this request.
　This incident...that's what he meant by trying to end his retaliation before the news broke to anyone who had pulled the strings behind his plan to raid the merchant corps and steal the materials used to build the Gilm.
　Ray, however, is not optimistic on that point.
　There are magic items that can communicate over long distances like the pair of oves because I understand them myself.
　Ray's frequent conversation with Elena is only natural because of this magic item.
　However, the magic item of this pair of obes is an invaluable thing, and I don't think it belongs to the Earl of Leldakt, who is taught to be in such an important position in the aristocracy.
　You don't have to worry about it if you think about how hard Ray went to get it.

(Well, if you're a nobleman, it's possible to buy it with money, but... do you have that much money? Very unlikely.) However, there are other ways to contact them other than the pair of ovens.)

　That's what Tamers and subpoena magicians can do to get the bird to carry them, and they'll be able to know the results much faster than they normally do.
　Summoning magic aside, Tamer is so rare that it's not easy to hire him...happily or unfortunately for the Lays.
　At any rate, Gilm is now attracting many adventurers.
　Dusker was also hiring such people in favor of quick contact with other villages and towns to give instructions.
　Some of them will naturally take jobs from others and do their job.
　For such people, they don't pry into who they are.
　No, if it's a blatantly suspicious request, they'll refuse it, but none of them will be so stupid.

"Grull".Seth suddenly chokes as Ray looks around at the scenery.
　Ray, looking at her, looked in the direction Sett was looking at... with a look of surprise.
　for there were several oaks in sight.
　The oak itself is not such a rare monster.
　Like the settlement ruled by Oak King, which Ray had previously overthrown, there would be a great disturbance if the existence of superior or rare species led the Oak, but in the absence of such an existence there would be a few...and often ten or so oaks.
　Of course, there are many exceptions, so there are some oaks that work in tens of animals even though there are no superior or rare species, or conversely, there are some oaks that work alone.
　Anyway, just having an oak doesn't surprise Ray.
　But... if the oak carries a man who has lost consciousness, the story.
　Moreover, the hair of the person who is being carried is long.
　Perhaps the proviso is that it is women, not men, who are carried on the oak.
　And a woman caught by monsters like oak and goblin has a miserable fate ahead.
　That's what it is to be trampled on as a person... or as a woman.

"Now that I've seen it, I can't... I can't believe it,"

　Ray is not particularly philanthropic.
　The adventurer's world is sometimes understood by the weak.
　But... in spite of all this help, I could not pretend to abandon her.

"...can't help it?" Set!"

　With that word, Seto probably understood what Ray meant.
　It flaps its wings and descends towards the ground.
　Perhaps the reason why Seto didn't raise his voice as usual was because he was worried about the woman on the oak.
　If Seto were singing here, we wouldn't know what the oaks would do when they noticed Seto's presence.
　Leaving the woman alone would be the best outcome for Ray, who could easily achieve his goal.
　But throwing a unconscious woman to the ground is undoubtedly dangerous.
　If you think about the possibility of breaking your neck and dying from the shock of falling, it's very unlikely that you'll be able to tolerate it.

(and oak is quite valuable)

　Rank D monsters and oaks that are by no means high rank monsters, but the meat is pretty good.
　The higher a monster's rank, the better its meat basically tastes.
　But there were exceptions to everything, and oak was one of them.
　Previously... that's when Ray just showed up on Gilm, Ray joined the attack on the oak settlement led by Oak King.
　Although he was getting a lot of meat at the time, Ray is well-deserved to be called a glutton, and Seto eats even more than that Ray.
　That being the case, it was only natural that the oak in the mystery ring was decreasing... and if it could be replenished, there was no need to hesitate.