Volume 2 - CH 195

A few hours after leaving the guild …….

We were able to reach the place where DaftWorms were said to have been roaming around.

Houen was very knowledgeable about monsters, so he didn’t need to do any special preliminary research.

Where in the world did he gather such information ……?

If one asks, it seems that he heard it all from the voice of the sky.

I heard that he had spent some time in the library, asking the voice of the sky a lot of questions.

Thanks to this, he has become extremely knowledgeable about monsters, and he has even climbed the ladder to A rank adventurer.

His skills are a cheat, and he had to be able to identify the enemy’s weaknesses because he would change his fighting style depending on whether he had information about the enemy or not.

It was a revealing story that showed that Houen was more studious than he appeared to be.

“So, what kind of ecology does the DaftWorm live in?”

“It hates fire. It doesn’t like warm places either. They tend to stay deep in the ground, but sometimes they come out to damp places in search of water. That’s basically where they go.”

The way to hunt DaftWorms is basically an ambush.

It seems that the general strategy is to wait until they come out.

It is not difficult to find them, as they appear several times a day, but you have to hit the ground with a powerful attack to scare them off.

Well, it is only natural since they are so big.

I have already proven that they have a very hard body, having smashed a prison cell in the past.

That shit hurts like hell.

So, to determine where the DaftWorm comes out is …….

“It’s easy. There’s a big hole, just look for it. Or just look for a rise in the ground. Follow it and you’ll know where it comes out.”

That’s what he said.

But now that I think about it, the DaftWorm must have had the ability to restore the land’s nutrients.

Which makes me wonder if it would have been so simple to kill them. ……

If v inhabit deep forests and restore the nutrition of the land, plants will grow well and monsters will come to enjoy them.

If nature becomes too rich and the number of things for the monsters to eat increases, the number of monsters will also increase, and if they are not thinned out from time to time, there is a possibility of a disaster.

So, if you find a DaftWorm in a forest that is not frequented by adventurers, it is better to take it down immediately.

Once we knew the proper reason for defeating it, we decided to look for that big hole.

‘Well then, that’s where I come in.”

I deployed my haze manipulation over a wide area and explored the terrain.

The terrain at this location is strange, as it seems to switch between being a forest and a plain.

The first thing I did was to look for a damp place to drink water, which I soon found, and from there it seemed to be a river.

After carefully searching around it, I found a large rise in the ground.

Following it a little further, I found a large hole near the water’s edge.

Perhaps this was the hole where the DaftWorms was entering and exiting the ground.

“I found it. Over there.”

“Oh, ……. I’m impressed with your detection ability. I have to fly to find it, so it takes me a while.”

“This skill is always helping me, though.”

It’s a really good skill.

It’s not a cheat, but it’s a great skill to be able to see if there’s a gap.

It’s one of my favorite skills.

Now that we knew where the place was, we slowly made our way to it.

On the way there, …… Houen starts glancing at us, fidgeting.

He seems to have something to ask us.

“What’s wrong?”

“……. No, it’s nothing serious, but …… something is bothering me.”

“What is it? Tell me.”

The two of us are not the only ones who are concerned about this.

Houen asked me with a mysterious look on his face.

I immediately understood what he meant and froze.

“…… you too ……?”

“Ouren, you too?”

Me and Houen then grabbed each other’s hands tightly.

Houen nodded his head as if to say that it wasn’t just him.

After a few moments of emotional reverie, me and Houen are looking at Reizen.

“……Eh? What the hell is wrong with you two? …… Eh?”

“”You F-ing traitor!!!””

We protested loudly to Reizen, who has a few things to say.

“How the F you have it!”

“The other way around, why don’t you have it? You are a man, aren’t you?”

“I’ve been asexual since I took human form, damn it!”

Houen is in turmoil.

Well, I can understand why you would want to go that far …….

“You have no idea! The sorrow of having one of your three greatest desires sealed away!”

“I have no idea!”

“I’ve walked past all kinds of brothels! I feel nothing! It’s too lonely!”

“How should I know!”

Houen grabbed Reizen’s shoulders and shook him roughly.

I’m in the same position as him, but I don’t know if it’s something to be that distraught about. ……

I’m fine with the fact that I can live a normal life without it. ……

I’m starting to feel sorry for Reizen, which is being blamed for the whole thing.

But how come?

Why is it that me and Houen don’t have it, but Reizen have it?

Is it a species problem ……?

No, but I used to be a snake.

There should be male and female. …… No, but I took on human form when I was a snake. ……

“So! Why isn’t it the other way around!”

“I don’t know! But I heard the voice of the sky! It says you’re immortal, so I just turned it off!”

“Damn…..”

“S-seriously, ……. Is that how it is for me?”

…… Let’s be clear here.

I haven’t seen you in a long time, voice of heaven.

Please tell me why I’m asexual.

[It’s because your final evolutionary destination is a dragon.]

…… please be a little more specific.

[Dragons don’t exist in this world. So they can’t mate. Therefore, there is no need for them.]

So that’ s the reason!

[so I removed it]

I never heard of this bullcarp!!!

I mean, there’s no dragons except ME!

Well, I guess I’m different from dragons or something. ……

Eh? Why is the Voice of Heaven trying to make me a dragon?

Aren’t they trying to make me a real variant of this world?

I mean, we have dragons, but we don’t have dragons, do we?

What’s going to happen to me if I become a dragon ……?

While I was agonizing and thinking about it,…… Houen was snapping at me.

“Why are you the only one!”

“Shut the hell up!”

“This anger! I’m going to turn it on DaftWorm, goddamn it!”

At this point, Houen thrust his own spear into the ground.

“Flame Manipulation, Flame Bomb!”

The flames entered the ground, creating a scene as if magma was about to erupt.

It was a flame fissure.

After letting the flames burrow into the ground for a while, explosions begin to occur in the ground.

I, who had no tolerance for such things, felt as if an earthquake had occurred, and I staggered to my feet to keep my balance.

Reizen is …… resistant to earthquakes, so he’s immobilized.

“Whoa! That’s a little too much! We haven’t even reached our destination yet!”

“It doesn’t matter! If it’s close enough, it’ll come out!”

“That’s a big f-ing deal!”

The earth rumbled louder and louder amidst the earth tremors of the explosion.

I could no longer stand and finally kneeled down on the ground to endure the shaking.

At the next moment.

BOOM! The ground buckled with a loud explosion.

‘Gyuyuyuyuyuyu’

From that spot, a DaftWorm came out.

The flames sent by Houen into the ground, and it was probably startled by the heat and came out.

“Holy carp, the sounds so disgusting!!!!”

“Bring it on! Imma kill you!!” 

Houen pulls out his spear from the ground and runs at full speed.

Beyond that, the Datworm is surprised by the heat and rampages wildly….. At that rate, Houen gonna be smacked away.

“Damnnit! Don’t go on without thinking!”

“That’ s not a problem! Focus on one spot [Fire Arrow].”

He swung his spear once while running, and a mass of flames appeared.

They split up and became flaming arrows, the arrowheads all pointed at DaftWorm.

“Take off!”

The fire arrows all fly at once toward the DaftWorms.

However, the arrows are spaced so tightly and densely together that they look like a large javelin.

These arrows hit the DaftWorm.

‘Gyyuyuyuyuyu!!!!’

The effect of the Endless Coat of Fire was activated, and its slimy body was set on fire.

Daftworm hurriedly tried to extinguish the fire on its body, but the fire had already spread throughout its body and could not be easily extinguished.

However, Datworm’s life force is strong.

It seemed that nothing could slow it down.

“Not yet! Blazing Flame Pillar!”

This time, he slammed his spear into the ground.

Then, a huge pillar of fire rose up from where the dataworm was rampaging.

“Hot?!”

“Hey, hey ……, seriously ……?”

I was unable to keep my mouth shut when I saw the intensity of the fire.

As you can see, he can only use fire, and the power of the fire was impeccable.

When the pillar of fire disappeared, a blackened DaftWorm remains rolled out of it.

A terrible smell wafted up to us.

“T-thank you for your hard work!”

I called out to Houen, but he didn’t move from that spot.

At the same time, I was wondering what had happened to him, when he kneeled down on one knee and looked at me with a very tired face.

“I’m sorry …… I’m out of MP …….”

“”What a shitty fuel consumption you have!””

Within the loud retort we did, the request was accomplished.