I Was a Small Fish When I Reincarnated, but It Seems That I Can Become a Dragon, so I Will Do My Best - Extra Chapter 104
Another one, while I’m still awake.
4-22. Exploration Begins
The place we arrived at was a densely packed forest with large trees lined up one after another.
Judging from the position of the trees and the breadth of their branches, it seemed like very little light reached the ground, yet surprisingly, there were plenty of weeds and plants growing around here.
I was somewhat amazed by how lush the greenery was despite the lack of sunlight reaching the ground.
After being dropped off by Abyss, Amariaz and I stood on the ground.
She seemed to adjust her movements to mine, contemplating which weapon to equip as she manipulated the white mass of flesh.
Weapons that could change shape at will, like scythes or spears, seemed enviable to me.
I, on the other hand, am all about explosions… which tends to attract attention.
“By the way,” Amariaz turned to Abyss.
“What kind of creatures are the ones carrying those magic stones?”
“Huh? Didn’t I explain that before?”
“Eh?”
“…Oh, Amariaz, you were still asleep.”
I had only received an explanation about creatures carrying magic stones after waking up in the Devil Territory.
At that time, Amariaz was still fast asleep, so I asked Abyss to tell me about it alone.
Come to think of it, I forgot to share that information…
As a form of confirmation, Abyss patiently explained it once again.
“There are four creatures capable of generating magic stones internally: Horkh, Pogensh, Dainul, and Karahokkh.”
“Oh, I see…”
Given Amariaz’s self-proclaimed status as the god of skills, he would probably understand what kind of creatures they were just by hearing their names.
Although, it’s still self-proclaimed…
But it seemed like he got the idea, as he wore a slightly troubled expression.
“What’s wrong?”
“They’re all creatures with stealth magic. Three of them can disappear, and one can conceal its presence.”
“So, Amariaz can only distinguish one of them?”
“That’s right.”
Amariaz’s ‘Spatial Awareness’ couldn’t show beings that were invisible.
So, this time, it seemed that my ‘Earth’s Blessing’ for detecting presence would be crucial.
Suddenly, a significant role…
But well, Amariaz still can search too.
There might be individuals who aren’t invisible, and it seems like she can spot one out of the four types, so let’s search together anyway.
Besides, if we don’t do it together, we won’t know which one is the invisible creature.
My detection only follows presence, so I can’t tell if it’s visible or not.
Now that we’ve decided what to do, I immediately began to track down the creatures using my detection ability.
There were many creatures nearby, and it seemed like small to medium-sized monsters were looking in our direction.
Surprisingly, there were quite a few…
With forests forming in the Devil Territory, the number of individuals seems to have increased as it became relatively more habitable.
…Wait, which one of these is the creature we’re looking for?
“Um, Amariaz…? H-How’s it going? Are there any creatures?”
“Nope, none at all.”
“Yeah, doesn’t seem like there are any around here.”
“Eh?”
…Huh?
No, there are like, mountains of them nearby!!!
Wait, could it be… Are all the creatures I’m sensing right now the ones capable of generating magic stones internally?
Oh Hell nah!!
There are way too many of them, it’s creepy!!
“I-Ivy Rope!!”
With the force of using all the vines in the forest, I began to capture every creature I sensed.
The creatures, realizing they had been captured, started to thrash around and make loud noises.
Hearing that, Amariaz and Abyss were surprised and immediately took up combat stances.
But since I’ve captured them all, there probably won’t be any harm…
Seriously, why couldn’t they figure this out when there were so many of them…?
I pulled the captured creatures in front of us using the ‘Ivy Rope’.
They were all caught alive, and creatures of various sizes gathered.
Surprisingly, there were many small ones, but there were also creatures the same size as me.
It seems these were the target creatures, as Abyss’s eyes sparkled with joy.
“Wow!! Amazing!! These are all creatures capable of generating magic stones!”
“…Eh, there were this many of them nearby…?”
“Yeah.”
“They’re too good at hiding their presence… They probably have some ability to block detection, but you were able to find them because of your ability, Yuuzen-kun.”
“I see…”
That’s right.
But well, anyway, it’s lucky that it turned out to be useful.
Um, with this many, can we make up for my insufficient magic capacity?
I tried asking Abyss, but she seemed too focused on carefully extracting the magic stones to listen.
She hummed a tune while dismantling the living creatures.
It’s pretty gruesome…
“I think it’s better to wait for dismantling.”
“I have that feeling too. Then let’s sit around and wait here.”
“Yeah.”
Since we caught so many, it’ll probably take some time.
But Abyss created several hands with the white mass of flesh and began dismantling ten creatures simultaneously.
It might end up being faster than I thought… With that in mind, I sat down on the roots of a large tree.