Flying over the Ramish nation in Babylon, we are approaching the Great Sea of Trees. Soon, we will reach the location of the giant beast in question.

"Rosetta, did you put in a communicator?
It's perfect. You can send it to Babylon and other aircraft, and it has a private channel. We've installed external speakers.

　Close the hatch in the chest armor and adjust the channel to channel 3. This should connect you to Monica's receiver outside.

"Do you read me, Monica?
I'm here, Master. You got it.

　Monica on the front monitor waved her hand widely. I can hear the voices from the other side, so it doesn't seem to be a problem.
　Well, this time I'm going to be on my own to test the performance, so there's no need to communicate with any other aircraft.

Master. I'm over the target area. The target is going to invade the wilderness of Lyle's kingdom through the great sea of trees ahead. Please pass the target and then descend.
Yeah.

　Sheska's voice echoes through the cockpit. I check the monitors and instruments, and channel the magic power to the activation switch and various drive units.
　With a start-up sound, the Black Knight "Night Baron" wakes up.
　Following Monica's lead on the monitor, I place the Night Baron on the elevator in the hangar. The elevator descends into the basement of the hangar while making a bang, bang, bang sound.
　In an anime or something, it's like "I'm going! I would have used an ejection catapult or something like that, but unfortunately, we're not in space, and the Night Baron doesn't have flight capability.
　I jumped down to the ground from the entrance to the "hangar" underground. Even though we were flying low, it was quite high. It's no secret that I was a bit intimidated.
　If you activate the magic of the descent mode while blowing the vernier on the legs and back during the descent, the speed of the fall will be slowed down. I think this is the same magic as "Levitation".
　I landed on the ground as it was. It was less of a shock than I expected. By the way, I heard that the wire pulls it up when it returns to Babylon. I'm sure they couldn't do anything about it. Well, we could just use the "gate" to get back to Babylon.
　I saw a two-tailed scorpion coming towards us from the front of the wilderness where we landed. It's still huge.
　The size of its red-copper body is about the size of two large buses, if the frame gear is the same size as a human.
　The two-handed scissors are ridiculously large in relation to its flat body. If I was hit by that thing, it's going to blow up even a frame gear. Even if it's caught, it looks bad.

"Well, is this the first move we need to make?

　He regrasped the mace in his right hand and re-positioned the shield in his left hand. I ran the Black Knight 《Night Baron》 towards the giant beast Scorpinus.
　Perhaps confirming its appearance, the two tails of the giant beast are pointed towards us. A purplish and poisonous colored liquid spewed out like a water cannon from its tip.
　But I knew that beforehand, so I didn't panic and caught it with my shield in my left hand.

"If you're prepared, you don't have to worry...eeeeee!

　A bushy smoke is rising from the shield that caught the poisonous liquid. Hey, it's dissolving, this!
　It's not a toxic fluid, it's a strong acid! That's not good, if I get hit too many times, I'll run out of shields eventually.
　Fortunately, the other side isn't moving too quickly. I went around to the opponent's right hand side and swung the mace in my hand as hard as I could, aiming at one of the tails.
　A mecha sound is heard and the tail is cracked. Hard!
　I'm pretty sure scorpions are a spider, and they didn't have a hard shell like a crayfish! The Scorpions in this world are different!
　When I was startled by how hard it was, a blow from the scissors that rotated my body attacked the Black Knight 《Night Baron》.

''Look out!''

　While dodging it, he swings the mace down on the head of the scorpion that came to the front. Gein! And I felt a harder hand than before, but as expected, a blow to the head and a slight loss of stance. I tried to fold it up, but once again, poisonous liquid (a strong acid) was spewed out of its tail.

''Kuch.''

　I use my shield to prevent it again, but it doesn't last so many times. A moment after my vision is blocked by the shield, the Scorpion's scissors extend and I unintentionally catch it with the shield as well.

''Shh........''

　Scorpion's scissors clipped the black knight's shield tightly, and sensing the danger, I immediately let go of the shield.
　With a mecha, the half-melted shield was easily crushed. Danger!

I guess we'll have to put everything we've got into this. Monica, drop your battle hammer!
"Yessir, I'm going to drop a battle hammer on you!

　A large black hammer falls from the sky. It sticks into the ground with an impact, and I throw the mace while avoiding the giant beast's attack and grab it with both hands.

''Magic tuning. First slot released.

　I turn on the switch next to the control stick to synchronize and amplify my magic power and channel it from the Black Knight's two hands to the Battle Hammer 《Battle Hammer》.

''Gravity.''

　I'm going to be able to carry the battle hammer that has reduced the weight and jumped up to help the giant beast. Then, as he swung down, he applied many times more weight to the hammer.
　Thud! The Scorpinus was crushed by a blow from the battle hammer with an earth shaking sound. The internal organs were blown out, and his torso was torn in half. Ugh, grog.

It's not a good idea. We did it, master.

　I receive such a communication from Monica. It was more complicated than I expected. Maybe we should have taken two or three of them. I've ruined my shields, too. I'm afraid Rosetta will say something. Well, it's good that we won.
　But was it too much...? I wonder if I can buy this thing as material. Looking down at the soggy corpse of the giant beast, I sighed.




''This is also......... I didn't expect to defeat it so quickly.''

　I used the "gate" to bring Relisha to the site where I defeated Scorpinus. This is because we didn't know what part of this thing we were going to defeat.
　Originally, requests to defeat giant beasts were never sent to individuals, so they didn't specify a part to be defeated. The original species of this guy, Scorpione, is said to be the scissors.
　At any rate, as long as the guildmaster is a witness, there shouldn't be a problem. The guild officials in Temu's town, who were called by Relisha-san in the "Book of Prophecies", will appraise the Scorpionus and purchase it. I'll leave all the stripping and such to the other side. It's a hassle and I don't want to touch it because it's a bit uncomfortable.

''Then here.
Oh.

　The guild card I gave to Relisha-san earlier came back to me in gold. It's beautiful but flashy.

''It's the highest rank, a gold class guild card. Currently, the only people who have it are His Majesty the Duke and His Majesty the Prior King of the Knight Kingdom Restia.''
"Knight kingdom Restia?
Here in the land of the knights, east of the Kingdom of Lyle.

　Wow, I didn't know there is such a country. The gold rank means that they must be strong after all. The knight king, huh? He's retired, which means he's probably old.
　Well, there were three titles on the guild card, "Dragon Slayer", "Golem Buster", and "Demon Killer", and a symbol, but this one doesn't seem to have any.
　I guess it can't be helped since this quest itself isn't something that is personally requested in the first place. If it weren't for the Frame Gear, Relisha-san wouldn't have thought to ask me to do it. Well, 'Giant Beast Hunter' or something like that, it looks gorro bad.

''But........it's a terrifying artifact. With this power, it would be easy to invade other countries.

　Relisha-san murmured while looking at the Black Knight 《Night Baron》 standing beside the giant beast. ''Hmm, it seems that they are considered dangerous.

''This thing is called 'Flame Gear'. It's an artifact created by the genius doctor of the ancient kingdom (albeit a pervert) and was created to protect this world.
...to save the world?
'I'm sure the Guildmaster would know, right? The unidentified crystal demon that has been spotted in many parts of the world recently.
"Huh!

　Relisha's face strengthens. You know for sure. Adventurer's Guilds that exist all over the world. And there's a communication item called the 'Book of Propaganda', there's no way you wouldn't know about it.

''........We have indeed received reports from branches all over. About a crystal demon that can't communicate with swords, can't communicate with magic, and has the ability to regenerate. Small villages and mercenary groups have been destroyed, and the damage is becoming quite extensive.
The monster's name is Frazeez. It's the monster that destroyed the ancient civilizations that once existed in this world.
What did you say?

　Relisha-san froze with a shocked expression on her face. I still want to avoid panic caused by the Frase thing, but the information power of the guilds in different parts of the world is useful. There's nothing better to do here than to disclose some information to the public and install cooperation.

''World wards........invaders from another dimension....... If it wasn't for the report of the crystal demon, we would have laughed it off.''

　After I gave her the general explanation, Relisha-san murmured quietly. Naturally, I didn't mention Babylon or the nucleus of the King of Freys. Still, he seemed inclined to believe me. In fact, there's damage caused by the Freys, and it should be a matter to be considered.

I don't know if there will be a big attack from Fraise and her friends later on. But if we don't have a way to counter them, we will be overrun. That's why I revived the Frame Gear.

　Well, I had a desire to just ride it.
　Either way, I don't think I could compete with more than an intermediate Frase, only with frame gear. On top of that, if there were advanced flames, there was no guarantee that they would be able to win a platoon with frame gear. It's safer to do what you can do.
　We don't even know how much time we have to prepare.
　Relisha-san, who had been looking at the Black Knight 《Night Baron》 for a while, turned to me somewhat and opened her mouth.

''I understand. Let's tell the guild headquarters about Frase and gather as much information as possible and provide it to His Majesty the Duke's people.''
'Thank you. But please keep the matter of the great attack as confidential as possible, as it is still uncertain.
I know, sir. We don't want to plunge the world into chaos without a fight, either. We'll keep it within our ranks.

　With the guild's intelligence, they would be able to tell me immediately if something unusual happened. I'd prefer not to hear such reports if at all possible.
　I've decided to have the fee for this request and the money for the sale of materials be paid together at a later date.
　Relisha-san said he would stay behind and handle the post-processing, so he used the Gate to return the Black Knight Knight Night Baron to the Hangar, then used his Fly magic to fly to the place where he received permission to excavate, and dug out giant magic stones one after another. There are three in this country. A blue, green and yellow magic stone. Now we have more Aether Liquid, and we'll be able to mass produce more Flame Gears.
　I put the huge magical stones away in storage and opened the gate to Babylon.