The day after the delivery of the special portion, Ray, Elena, Marina, Vihela, Beune, Relieu, Yero, and Seto were in the sky.
　As usual, it's Seto who flies, Ray rides on his back and the others are in a set basket.
　We could still see Goltz some distance away.
　The sun is reasonably above us, about ten o'clock in the morning.
　We were supposed to start when the bell rang at six o'clock in the morning, but it was at this time... because before we left the Goltz, we were sent off by many people, including the guilds.
　Some of the people who came to see me off were local governors, and it became quite naturally gorgeous.
　The deputy knew that the dungeon had just been built on the side of the Goltz, but was actually quite a heinous thing, and he wanted to thank the Ray's.
　Originally, this area belonged to aristocrats belonging to the neutral faction.
　Ray, who is considered to be the sword of the Dasker who leads such a neutral faction, captured Dungeon, so he could not have just thrown it away.
　Ray, however, is considered by others to be Dusker's sword, but he has no intention of doing so.
　Of course, I respect and trust Dusker, and I'd like to give priority to him if I have any requests.
　But the story of serving Dusker was, at least, quite different in Ray.
　At any rate, it's not like a grand ceremony... but I'm sure that as a result of everything, I'm late to start.
　Still, Ray didn't complain because many of the people who came to see him off were genuinely grateful to him.

"And yet... this case was rather delicious, after all."
"Glu?"

　At Ray's muttering, Seto shrieks, "Is that so?"
　In fact, there is no doubt that we were able to strengthen our skills in both set and death sizes with this case.
　Most importantly, Ray was able to improve his skills and topographical manipulation.
　Geographic manipulation is a fairly useful skill if you use it correctly.
　As you can see in the Battle of Galangiga, it can also be used in combat...and in a variety of other works.
　It would be easy to create if it were a kind of simple trench.
　But... it's not that easy to strengthen, of course, because it's such a useful skill.
　So far, the only way to improve one's skill is to cut the core of a dungeon into death-size pieces.
　In other words, it is necessary to capture dungeons in order to strengthen their topographical skills.
　But, of course, the dungeon is not an easy place to capture.

(Do you want to ask the guild to find a place where the dungeon has just been built? Guild would be easy to gather information about it. Like this case.)

　However, it is safe to say that this incident is the result of coincidence.
　That being the case, it will be difficult to find a dungeon that has just been made so easily.
　That's why we take the form of a request.

(I've heard quite a lot of requests from the guild for the extension of the guild... in that sense, it might be convenient for me.)

　With that in mind, Ray looks up at the sky.
　The blue sky, with very few clouds, lies ahead of your eyes.
　There were some clouds in the morning, but from this appearance, he breathes relief when he realizes that he doesn't have to worry about rain.

"Glu?"

　She must have been distracted by Ray's movements on her back. Seto turns his gaze to Ray, purring.
　At that time, Ray shook his head saying that it was nothing... suddenly he found something in front of his eyes.
　a carriage running through a forest without a road...
　and many men shooting arrows at the carriage.
　Normally, it is difficult for a walker to catch up with the speed of a carriage.
　But that's just the case if it's an ordinary road.
　A horse-drawn carriage requires a horse to pull a carriage and the body of a horse-drawn carriage.
　There are, however, many other things that are necessary.
　In any case, if it's just a horse, it's going to slow down as long as it's a horse-drawn carriage, and above all, it's going through the trees that we need to be careful about.
　If the assessment was unsuccessful here, the carriage could have been stuck between the trees.
　That's probably why we can't make drastic strides... ...and we can't shake off those who are chasing us from behind.

(Are you a thief? ... Well, when you're moving in the woods instead of on the highway, there must be some dark spots in the carriage.)

　Ray was interested in the horse-drawn carriage, but it was only natural that he was more interested in the thief.
　If this was an ordinary thief... or Ray would have happily hunted it, but now it's a little different.
　Maybe that's the thief Ray was looking for yesterday... the thief who stole the special portion that was supposed to be brought from Somis.
　That's what I thought.
　We've already left the Goltz, and we've been quite a long way off.
　That being the case, there was ample possibility.
　However, robbers come out of nowhere, no matter what you hunt or hunt.
　That being the case, it's not as if the thieves Ray's eyes are the ones in question.
　No, the possibility of the thief is much less likely.
　Still, it's enough for Ray to decide that he's a thief.
　I'm also interested in a horse-drawn carriage that seems reasonable, but... it'll be put off.

"I found a thief! Let's get off!"

　Speak briefly to Sett Basket and Ray asks Sett to descend.
　Seto descends toward the ground, whistling, descends out of the forest, and pushes into the forest with the force of his basket.
　We drove into the forest at a great rate, but with Seto's athletic ability, it's not difficult to avoid trees growing in the forest.

"Shaking!"

　The horse towing the carriage in front of him wriggles violently at the sight of Seto.
　He was running frantically, when suddenly a Gryphon appeared before him.
　So it would be impossible not to be surprised.
　A flustered horse rages to get away from the set running toward him.
　For horses, the Gryphon in front of them is much more of a horror than the bandits who chase them from behind.
　The wolf of the front gate, the tiger of the rear gate... but the dragon of the front gate -- the Gryphon -- but the goblin of the rear gate.
　However, if the carriage's body collapses, the horse connected to it will naturally be unable to move.

"Hehehehehehe!"

　a bitter cry from a horse's mouth
　You understand that in this situation, if you are targeted by the absolute Gryphon, you will certainly not be saved.
　But Sett, with Ray on his back, passes right by the desperate horse and heads for the bandits behind the carriage.
　For a moment the horse looked as if he didn't know what was going on, but neither Ray nor Sett cared at all.
　Ray and Sett's behavior... was the worst for the robbers who were chasing the carriage from behind.

"What!"

　The man at the forefront of the bandits suddenly shows up from the side of the carriage and gives a cry of surprise to Ray and Sett... the next moment Ray is beaten sideways with the handle of a twilight spear he pulls out of the mistling.
　To the robbers, it's as if they were suddenly attacked by the prey they were attacking.
　That's not really the case, but at least it looked like that to the robbers.
　The blowout of the leader's comrades may have made him even more convinced.

"Don't be silly, you bastard! You think you can go against us!"

　Some robbers scream so, but Ray's twilight spear beats them one after another.
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　And as many robbers as they are blown away, naturally others will find themselves out of the ordinary.

"Be careful, there's something! It's not prey, it's something else!"
"Answer".

　He blew the bandit away with a blow of the twilight spear... and it did not take long for the bandit to be wiped out.





"Well, then, the problem is that carriage, but it's dead, I'm sure,"

　After defeating the thief, Ray's gaze turned to the man lying on the ground.
　If that's all I might have thought I was just faint.
　But... if you see so many arrows stuck in your body that you don't seem to move, you'll almost certainly be dead.
　I knew this carriage was somehow meaningful when I was moving through an obscure forest, not a highway.But there's nothing we can do about the death of the man who should have heard the reason.

"Uh... Uh... Uh..."

　I was wondering what to do when I heard the robbers who had lost consciousness, fortunately... or unfortunately for the future.
　Ray was comparing the carriage with the thief, but even though he hurt him, he couldn't leave him alone, given the possibility of the thief escaping.
　It's too late to look into this carriage... that's what Ray thought, but at that moment the Elenas appear.

"Why, don't you move all of a sudden?"

　The reason why Elena seemed a little dumbfounded was that she had spoken to the thief before he attacked him, but that was all of a sudden.
　Then I realized that the basket had been thrown to the ground.
　With that in mind, it's still fortunate that Elena was dumbfounded, not angry.

"I'm sorry. I was in a bit of a hurry."
"...I hear so,"

　Marina, emerging from behind Elena, muttered her surroundings... especially as she looked at the fallen carriage.
　The tone was naturally mixed with doubts about the unnaturalness of the carriage's behavior.

"First of all...Why don't you let Ray put away the set basket, for we'll keep the thieves alive? I don't think there's any problem, for we've left him behind."

　Vichela's subsequent appearance convinced Ray.
　With Rellie, no one would be foolish enough to poke his nose into the set basket.
　But that's not absolutely true, and maybe some of them are thieves who mess around with Relieu without knowing the difference in ability...and in some cases some monsters.
　That being the case, Ray, who had the mistling, was sure to keep the cages.

"Well, then, please. Use this to bind the living thief."

　Take the rope out of the mistling and give it to Vihela, where Ray rides a set and gets out of the forest.
　She didn't have to go all the way to the place where she left the basket, but... now that she's rubbing her face crying to go with her, Ray has no intention of refusing it.
　If there were other monsters and bandits here and everything was dangerous, I wouldn't have to worry about it... under the current circumstances.
　When you ride through the forest on a set, you'll see Ray's predictable scene.
　a sulky-looking lily in front of a set basket
　The Relieu, aware of the naturally approaching presence of Ray and Sett, opens his mouth discontentedly.

"Hey, you don't have this all of a sudden."
"I'm sorry. I was in a bit of a hurry. I found a carriage attacked by thieves."
"...the thief? Not in the road, but in the forest?"

　Relieu looks suspicious at Ray's words.
　It would be impossible not to be suspicious of the situation, given that the road is on the side.
　But Ray saw the horse-drawn carriage being attacked, and the thief's attack killed the driver.
　That being the case, the facts must be communicated as facts.

"Yes, obviously for some reason... or there seems to be some dark side to it. And I'm also interested in a lot of things about thieves."

　As he spoke, Ray touched the set basket and stored it in a mistling.