Chapter 73 part2

Giant Magic Steel Dragonfly Part 2

In the morning, Rollo and I are woken by the sound and fresh wind blowing over the Haym river .

It’s still dusky .

When the morning sun rises, everyone starts to get up and prepare breakfast .

“It’s simple soup . ”

“Roger . ”

I eat breakfast and make small talk with Gomez .

Once breakfast is finished, everyone gets their things together and prepares to depart .

Again, we are advancing west .

We are heading down from the kill we camped on last night .

The scenery changes .

Until now the stone statues have been to our right, but now it ultimately becomes a swamp .

The earth is wet like the bank of a salt lake .

As we continue through the marshland, big mushrooms begin appearing .

The giant mushrooms grow in patches .

They seem to be an endemic species that inhabits the part of the swamp .

Large pink and purples mushrooms are mixed in with the rest .

The mushroom umbrellas have purples spots .

…I wonder if they’re okay to eat . (TL: Ah, Shuya . I love this simple side of you . )

Then, the fog clears and sunlight covers the area .

Just as I look at the bright sky, In front of me, a flock an enormous jellyfish is swimming through the air .

The big jellyfish have tiny ones following them like parent and child . (TL: I’ve been playing Skyrim, and this reminds me of the netches from the Dragonborn DLC . )

They gather together and move in a spiral .

There are also giant dragonflies in the sky, some having stopped on top of the large mushrooms .

“That’s a giant dragonfly . ”

Foggy marsh, giant mushrooms, jellyfish and dragonflies in the sky .

The whimsical scene is happening in front of me .

I wish I had a portable camera to record this .

A pleasant smell is coming from the mushrooms .

After entering the boggy marsh, the speed of the caravan has decreased, but I prefer it this way .

I move popob.u.mu to the side of the road, closer to the mushrooms, and enjoy myself .

I also reach out to touch the mushroom .

It feels interesting .

A bit similar to a s.h.i.+take? Its tenderness is right, and it smells like a s.h.i.+take as well .

Then,

“This smell is so goood . ”

“Ooh . ”

“It really is . ”

“Oooh!”

Many shouts are raised-

At that moment, I hear it from a new person riding on a white robot…

With a shout, several dozen people have started running at a giant dragonfly .

The ground is muddy, but they move fast .

Several people fires arrows at the giant dragonfly . There seem to be magic users at the back too .

The magic user starts chanting and aria .

A chain is visible on the back of the arrows . It appears to be a mechanism .

The group of adventurers cooperates smoothly .

“Oh, they’ve started . Those giant dragonflies are the specialty of this area . ”

Gomez says .

Of the arrows loosed by the adventurers at the dragonfly, only some have stuck . The giant alloy dragonfly flies away and appears the counter-attack .

It uses its giant flapping wing to hover in the air and fires small thorns at the adventurers from its mouth and tail .

However, they’re experienced, so warriors with large s.h.i.+eld stand side-by-side and deflect the needle attack .

“Now, spread out!”

The leader shouts a command from behind the line of s.h.i.+elds and several arrows are released dragging a considerable iron net behind it .

The giant dragonfly’s body and wing are entangled in the net sending it cras.h.i.+ng into the marsh, but even though it is caught in the net is continue to struggle and shoot needles out of its mouth . It will probably break the net .

-The magic chant now ends, and an icicle missile strikes the entangled giant dragonfly .

“It’s not over yet!! Force, Riot! Vanguard attack! Aim for the head!”

The leader issues instructions .

Two ma.s.sive warriors with a longsword and an ax step forward and run at the immobilized giant dragonfly and land a single blow at the base of the head .

The giant dragonfly tries to struggle, but the warrior’s skill with the sword and ax is fast .

The giant dragonfly is decapitated by the combined attack of the ax and sword .

The headless body convulses at first but gradually stops twitching .

“Yahoo, we killed it! This is our second successful subjugation today! Collect it quickly!”

The giant dragonfly corpse is dismantled by several people .

A big pipe comes from the alloy dragonfly’s torso? Things like that are removed .

The head, wings, and everything is collected . A significant amount of materials are removed from a single one, and it fills a whole cart .

“Collection is almost finished . ”

An elf woman who appears to be the leader of the collection party shouts .

“Fuhaha, haha, is that so! Aside from the collection party, shall we move on to the next?”

“Got it . ”

“You guys, get more excited! At the end of today, we’ll bag five of them! -Move out . ”

The warrior leader is short .

People who appear to be from the same clan are chatting, they get on small non-thoroughbred horses and walk off while laughing .

“Follow leader . ”

“We’re making money!”

The group is excited .

It all happened in a moment…

That was the giant dragonfly Gomez said is hunted .

A little shocked by the hunt, the caravan continues west at a comfortable pace .

I was enjoying touching the mushroom along the way, so I wasn’t bothered, but it seems everyone is upset by this mud .

The muddy road follows the Haym river through a marsh, but the caravan patiently endures .

Popob.u.mu splashes mud as he walks, but his steps feel somehow heavy .

Do you also have the mud? I pat his neck rea.s.suringly .

The mud eventually decreases, and we enter a gra.s.sy plain .

The road becomes solid earth, and we advance easily .

-Oh? I see something .

The city walls of Holkerbam are coming into view .

The walls are low . When I see the city walls in the distance, Fran speaks from the back of her magic beast .

“Is this Shuya’s first time seeing the 【Magic Steel City Holkerbam】?”

“Yeah . ”

“In that case, would you like me to give a brief introduction?”

Fran says with a radiant smile .

Her transparent hawk is flying low near her .

“Ah, please do . ”

“Understood . Holkerbam is situated south of the Haym river, the marsh and forests we pa.s.sed through are the east-north-east of the city . There is an enormous quarry to the north and to the town of Pernette is to the west, there are farms and graveyards on the road to Rad Pa.s.s .

“Quarry?”

I remember Marquess Chardonnay saying something along those lines .

“That’s right . There are requests for adventurers at the quarry and where trees are harvested . Harpies come out of the quarry, goblins in the forests, orcs, Nogu, and other monsters like the Shapus.h.i.+ . ”

“Heh, it must be hard to not find a job . ”

“Haha, that’s true . ”

On the Haym river to my left, I can see a boat advancing .

Groups of armed adventurers and other caravan pa.s.s on the other side of the road .

Magic beasts pull wagons filled with farm products .

Flies and insects are swarming around the horses and magic beasts pulling cargo to the point that I feel sorry for them .

Various people are using the road .

There are snails with large gray sh.e.l.ls loitering around in the plains and marsh on the right side of the road . There are also adventurers fighting those enormous snails .

Battle cries are audible .

Rollo is also looking at the giant snails, her crimson eyes are dilated, and she is crouching, preparing the go hunting .

It looks like Rollo wants to play .

However, we’re still on guard duty .

“Rollo, hunting selfishly isn’t good? The people fighting aren’t having a hard time . ”

“Nya~ . ”

Rollo responds with her ears folded back .

Those ammonite or snail type monsters .

Still, the nearby people transporting goods don’t seem concerned .

With that many adventurers partic.i.p.ating, still…

I can see Holkerbam’s eastern gate .

As we approach the east gate the number of peculiar building increases .

They’re tent-like building .

They resemble Mongolian Yurts .

Domesticated animals are visible as well . It’s a cow . Lungas . Two heads .

It has a lot of b.r.e.a.s.t.s .

It seems to be a favorite domestic animal .

In the tents with domestic animals on the gra.s.s plains east of Holkerbam, there are also tiger-faced beastkin . (TL: I’m changing beastman to beastkin)

There are merchants wearing fur mantles set up in front of the tents and announcing their wares .

All over, there are tiger beastkin trying to sell their wares to the caravans and travelers entering the city .

Amongst them, I pa.s.s in front of a tiger beastman vendor speaking energetically .

“Come! Gaumok Store’s goods, good from far past Hector and 【Fornium Volcano】, from the far eastern country 【Fujiku Commonwealth】and 【Lerwick】 . Come and look at Gaumok Store’s goods!”

The Yurt behind this tiger beastkin is noticeably bigger than the others .

It seems like a gathering of merchants and traders .

Instead of entering the city, business can be done here?

We ignore the merchant and continue toward the city gates .

There are blue flags on either side of the gate flapping in the wind .

The flags have a horse, eagle, and dragon drawn on a s.h.i.+eld, each one wearing a crown .

There are two guards in blue armor below .

Pa.s.sing through . The guard sees us, but we don’t make eye contact .

We pa.s.s through with the other travelers .

At last, we arrive in Holkerbam .

“We’re here . ”

“Everyone, it was a difficult request . ”

The merchant Taijiki apologizes .

“Oh, wait for a little while we remove the baggage . ”

Gomez’s clan members remove their luggage from Taijiki’s wagon .

“Thank you . Now, someone from my trading firm is coming . ”

“Understood . Still, we can just take it down . ”

As Gomez works, those from Taijiki’s trading firm gather .

She is wearing a turban around her head .

There are plenty of people, so the cart a quickly unloaded .

Taijiki hands the wooden request board to the person from the trading company who came to a.s.sist .

The lady who came to help receive it and lower her head before disappearing into the city .

“Everyone, I am having someone from the firm submit the completion tally to the guild when you return to the guild you can receive your payment . In that case, I am going to deliver the good to the trading firm . Everyone, thank you for your work . Another chance . And then, Shuya-sama, I’ll wait for you to visit Luxor . Then . ”

Taijiki connects the covered wagon and cart and leaves .

“That merchant really likes Shuya?”

“Seems like it . ”

I don’t intend to go, but I nod .

Then, a member of 【Fist of the War G.o.d】 behind Gomez opens his mouth .

“Captain Gomez . It’s only natural . Even we are grateful to Shuya-san, I was waiting at night…”

I splendidly ignore that .

I don’t make eye contact…they didn’t approach, only looking at my crotch making me feel a little scared .

His name is Gio… an existence scarier than any of the monster that has appeared .

“Isn’t Gio pa.s.sionate? However, Shuya-san wasn’t there…shuddering . ”

“Ah, don’t you think? And if a thief is caught at the same time, you’ll probably be killed- Shuya, thank you . ”

Gomez and his clan members thank me .

His rough fatherly character comes out, and I can see he is an excellent clan Leader .

Them looking at me is embarra.s.sing .

“Iya, that was just luck . ”

Embarra.s.sed, I try to brush it off .

“Hahaha, you’re being modest about that spear handling? You’re a truly a strong person, a man among men…then, we’ll all receive our reward from the guild, everyone okay with that?”

Gomez laughs heartily and looks at his member with a heroic character .

“Agreed . ”

“I’ll come . ”

“Captain Gomez, I’ll look for an inn . ”

“Oh, let’s rendezvous . -Fran and Shuya . We’re going to the guild, let’s meet again . ”

“Understood . ”

“Alright . ”

Gomez and the members of 【Fist of the War G.o.d】 leave .

“Is Shuya going to the guild too?”

Fran asks .

“Ah, I want to look around to city a little, so I’ll go later . ”

“Is that so…I can show you around?”

While holding her red hair that sways in the breeze, Fran suddenly says such a thing .

Her red hair sways and she gives off a lot of s.e.x appeal .

However . I’m planning on releasing Misty, she would be inconvenient…

“I’m just taking a look . It’s not necessary . ”

“…Understood . Well then, I’ll go to the girl first as well . ”

“Ah, see you later . ”

Fran makes a thoughtful face before turning around .

Well then, I’ll release Misty somewhere .