Chapter 51 – Hermes

“It’s spooky.”

Ruril shuddered and said.

As Ruril had said, they arrived at an eerie forest surrounded by swamps.

It was a forest with a strangely spooky atmosphere even though it looked no different from a normal forest in the game. But when I saw it in real life, it was a forest full of personality to the point where I could understand why it was described that way in the game.

The jungle is the most similar place on earth. Of course, it’s actually quite different from the jungle, but if you’re going to pick a similar place, that’s it. It is so hot compared to other places and countless bushes that it is impossible to see the front, so I can’t help but think of the jungle.

And since the swampy areas spread out here and there gave off a fervent feeling of being dangerous to touch, I couldn’t do anything about it.

Fortunately, thanks to the things I had brought with me before departure, I couldn’t go in anymore and didn’t get blocked.

“Ugh..”

A place where there is only a swamp with no way back.

It’s a swamp with high viscosity but relatively low moisture, so if you use these shoes that prevent you from falling into the swamp and my lightweight magic, you should be able to pass without any problems.

I cast a spell on everyone.

The hero was taken aback by the sudden magic for a while, and as if he realized why I had used magic, the hero thanked me and walked forward.

Embarrassed by that, Cecilia held out her hand as if to grab the hero, saying that he shouldn’t go out.

“You can come over! If this is enough, I can get over it!”

I don’t know the principle, but in the game, it was a place where you could pass if you had the equipment. This is the reality, I’m glad I can get over it even though it may not be possible.

Seeing that things that were possible only in games work well, it seems that if it is possible in a game, it is also possible here because it is a reality based on a game.

Every time I see something like this, I feel like it’s common sense to do something in this world, and I feel like I’m being changed.

Anyway, I think I can get over a swamp made of poison if I use some equipment and magic, and I should make good use of it. I don’t know if this is bad, but it doesn’t matter because it helps us.

Cecilia and Ruril, who were worried at first, looked at each other when they saw that the hero was going well, and then started to take one step at a time.

I was nervous about whether I could get over it even with the magic applied, but I wasn’t aiming for it, but it’s fortunate that the hero became a test subject.

I’m sorry for the hero, but if you say it’s a swamp made of poison, you might be afraid, but seeing that you can get over it without any fear, it seems like I used magic and packed my equipment before returning, so what…

I don’t have to be sorry, right?

It’s a trashy idea, but it’s a vicious swamp that’s made of poison and is so vicious that it’s called a swamp from which you can’t get out if you fall into it.

The moment I fall into it, not only will my clothes melt away, but I will slowly die while being eaten by the monsters underneath, so I can’t help but feel fear.

…

Isn’t this completely out as a heroine..?

Just a while ago, we said that we were colleagues and said, “Please forgive me and don’t think about going alone.”

I shook my head, then stepped forward with a determined expression. Seeing me suddenly step forward, Cecilia, Ruril, and the hero looked puzzled, but it was only natural that I would take the lead, as I could figure out what might be dangerous.

To the hero’s question why I was trying to come forward, I used magic instead of an answer. It is a magic that roughly informs you of the danger factors around you.

It’s not that I can respond to all risks by using this, but I’m not comfortable with the trashy thoughts I just had.

It’s not so painful that the skin melts anyway just because it touches the poison, and since the clothes melt and you feel the same effect as the aphrodisiac, it should be fine.

Maybe..?

After..

Just now, where did the ambitious thought that if you tried to poison Cecilia, she would hit her instead?

Calm down me

“It’s not as big as I thought”

Ruril looked around and said so.

There was nothing particularly strange about it, except for the fact that there were no monsters and there were swamps made of poison all over the place.

But that’s because we walked around as quietly as possible, so we couldn’t see the monsters. This place was full of monsters.

Those are very vicious monsters.

For example, a plant monster with tentacles that drags it into its own body, commits a lot of offense in order to give birth to a child, and then eats it up with digestive juices.

All of them were monsters that existed.

While I was walking, remembering what other monsters there were, I froze on the spot.

I felt a creature with magic from the detection magic.

Judging by the strong magi, it was clear that this was a monster living in this poison swamp area.

I turned my head and looked at the hero with a serious expression.

Like a warrior who usually knew what I was thinking at once, as soon as I turned around with a serious expression, my expression hardened and I nodded.

“Guys, prepare for battle..!”

The monster’s position was right below us, and as soon as the hero spoke, I used my magic to cast ice magic downward.

A swamp is basically a land that has moisture.

If the moisture is high, it is a swampy area made of liquid, and even if the moisture is low, it is a place close to mud, so it is inevitable that ice magic works better than other places, but hiding under such a swamp, it was natural for ice magic to exert explosive power.

However, the opponent was also not easy.

I easily saw through my ice magic and left immediately. My ice magic didn’t do any damage to the monster, but I was able to manage to get away from being attacked right below.

A gigantic tentacled monster sprang up from the swamp and screamed. It was as if he was asking how he knew where he was.

There was no need to answer, because they probably wouldn’t understand what we were saying anyway.

As soon as the monster jumped out, it kicked off the floor and the hero jumped up.

There was no need to hide his power as long as he had already revealed his identity to everyone, including me. The Holy Sword, which opened all its power, emitted an enormous light and shot its sword toward the monster.

Basically, most of the monsters were monsters made of magic. The power of the magic sword, that is, the holy sword with the power of exorcism, was truly incomparable.

The monster hurled its tentacles at us, probably because we thought it was the hero’s weakness, but Ruril stepped in and shot down all the flying tentacles with arrows in the air.

He wasn’t an archer who came to the Hero party for nothing.

The tentacles aiming at us were pierced by arrows, and the tentacles aiming at the fly-like humans who were slicing themselves with swords were cut off like tofu.

Do you want to run away

I didn’t miss the moment and used the ice magic again to freeze the ground so the monster couldn’t go down again.

In the current situation, it would be a nuisance if the monster ran down, so it was a natural action, but it created a gap for me.

The seasoned monster who survived for a long time did not miss my gap. As if he had waited, he threw a ball of poison that looked like he’d sucked a swamp at me.

I couldn’t avoid it, it was impossible to avoid it because my body was weak because I had just used magic. I said with my own mouth that it was better to be hit than to be hit by Scyllia, but I didn’t know that he would blow me up all of a sudden.

I moved my body to avoid it as much as possible, but the poison flew so fast that it seemed impossible to avoid it.

It was then.

“Rumia..!”

Was a warrior

The hero jumped at me without hesitation.

I think I was dealing with that monster just before, but did I come this far before I knew it?

I was taken aback for a while, but the warrior who had already arrived in front of me had just swallowed the flying poison.

Ah..

“Warrior?!”

“Hey you..!”

Cecilia and Ruril also looked at him with bewildered expressions, as if they had seen the hero get poisoned instead. The warrior groaned and fell to his knees in his place.

“…”

If I could be right, why would you stop me?

Even if I was hit, it would have been enough if I had defeated the monster.. With a worried look on the warrior moaning in pain, I approached him and knelt down on his knees.

I tried to touch the hero with trembling hands, but Cecilia and Ruril intervened to block it.

“Don’t touch it!”

“First of all, wipe out the poison as much as possible and use purification magic…”

It was my fault.

If only I had been careful…

Screwed up because of me

Even when I was attacked, the monster even ran away because the hero hit me instead, so even if I did win, it wasn’t a perfect victory.

I bowed my head with an indignant expression.