The beads on the abacus beat loudly.

"Ah, I don't mind."

Bel Xi said this, glanced at [Guhehe] who was smiling, and added: "Then I will talk to Sebu Belia later."

"..."

Nananoshima Semu: [Guhehehe~]

Now, it was Semu who was smiling.

"No, no, no, that's not what I meant... Oops..."

The mage girl explained anxiously, her eyes rolling, her lips pouting, thinking about what to say, but in the end she could only lie down pitifully.

“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupuuu, big brother obviously knows how to bully people~”

Lying on her stomach, she pretended to cry, pretending that she was just a bastard fish.

"Humph... I do know what you want to say, Third Sister, but we'd better talk about it later. Now let's imagine how to deal with the fourth-level enemies."

Belch couldn't help but chuckle and narrowed his eyes as he looked at the carriage speeding along the uninhabited mountain road.

It's almost time to take action, but the fourth-level warrior... is a bit deadly.

"Do we need to confront each other head-on?"

The mage girl gave such a proposal. She looked at Brother Belsi below her and hesitated: "Do you have to rob? Can you do it secretly?"

The mage girl who said this blinked her eyes and asked: "Or, Brother Belxi and Second Sister Semu, what obsession do you have with [robbing]?"

【How can there be such obsession?!】

"That's right! We are not professional robbers!"

That would be easy to handle.

I'm not bragging about the mage girl, but she has to say... In fact, her mind is very flexible, which is completely different from those rigid traditional mages.

You can also use all kinds of magic skillfully!

People give nicknames——

【King of College Ideas!】

…

Belsey: "People give nicknames? Who gave them?"

Mage Girl: "Myself! Because no one will give me a nickname."

Semu Nananoshima: [Hahaha!! Why do you still sound so proud? It seems too bastard, right? 】

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"Yawn, what a peaceful escort mission..."

A man dressed as a warrior said this. He lay on the top of the carriage and said, "Aren't there any bandits blocking the road?"

In response to this, another warrior who looked more mature smiled boldly: "Hahahaha!! Young adventurers are indeed energetic..."

Only adventurers who have just started adventuring will hope to encounter robbers, bandits, monsters and the like, after they have been around for a few years.

I will start praying that everything will be safe along the way.

Even if you are idle to the point of going crazy, it is still better than encountering an accident...

It is precisely because of this that adventurers sometimes choose commissions that do not seem dangerous.

For example, this escort mission...

It’s not important to say it’s important. It’s just a gift to a few nobles. No one will be interested. It’s important to say it’s not important...

So the reward is quite generous.

The price/performance ratio is extremely high.

"I'd rather nothing happen along the way."

The ranger in the team said this. With a bow and arrow on his back, he looked at the taciturn magician and asked, "What's wrong?"

Although she usually doesn't talk much, today she didn't say a word...it seemed a bit abnormal.

"Well, well...it's nothing."

The elf magician sighed, looked at the carriage under his butt with some pity, and said, "Although, you guys can probably understand?"

It's okay if you understand...

After all, the one being escorted this time is a fellow elf magician in the team, so it is normal to feel a little sad.

However, this certainly does not prevent them from making commissions normally...

The elf magician just sighed a little. Everyone knew this, so they didn't take it to heart.

"Understand, understand~"

"Hahaha……"

"We are different. If a human slave was beaten to death in front of us, we would not blink an eye."

"Are your eyes dry?"

"..."

The companions were laughing and joking, but the ranger was always a little uneasy. He pulled up the green mask on his face and looked around warily.

It's so strange...I always feel a little flustered.

With this in mind, he looked at the coachman in front of the carriage, who was drinking and driving his horse... Is it really okay?

Although the ranger knows that Old John has been a deliveryman who has been delivering goods for decades, but drinking and driving like this... is it really okay?

The ranger asked himself this twice in his mind. After confirming it, he cautiously looked down from the skylight on the roof of the carriage...

The elves were all lifeless in the iron cage, seemingly motionless.

The sense of crisis in my heart does not seem to come from them...

"call……"

The ranger took a deep breath and closed his eyes gently. He felt that he was thinking too much...it was obviously not advisable to scare himself.

"what are you doing?"

"Haha, are you motion sick? I didn't notice it before..."

"..."

While his companions were joking, the ranger opened his eyes helplessly, glanced at them a few times, and responded: "Dizzy? I don't know who's intuition you relied on to save the day in the previous missions? But this time it seems..."

The ranger who said this moved his gaze from a distance to his companions, but...then he suddenly realized that he noticed something abnormal with his peripheral vision.

"etc!!!"

Amid the roar, the ranger looked in the direction of the coachman... At this moment, the place where Old John should have been was now empty.

Then, several almost invisible black whips swept from the direction of the carriage, decapitating the two frightened horses.

The blood immediately splashed like a fountain.

(M: We are innocent!!!)

(Nanashima Semu: You are not, because you are uncle’s horse.)

…

"If there is any situation, be on alert immediately!!"

When the ranger shouted this, the carriage, which had lost its horses and driver, deviated from the main road and tipped straight towards the forests on both sides.

During the roll, the most agile ranger stood up as quickly as possible and immediately saw the carriage that had tipped to the side and crushed some small trees.

His companion also fell not far away...

"Everyone, are you not injured?"

The ranger shouted, and his companions quickly waved their hands to indicate that nothing happened to them.

He did not immediately go to help his companions, but looked around vigilantly...

The dense and silent forest composed of Derui trees with many tubes and branches seems to hide the enemy just seen in the depths.

Long black whips... poked out of the carriage.

"Be careful of the carriage! Enemies may be hiding in..."

After shouting this, the ranger immediately looked in the direction of the carriage, and at that moment, before he could finish his words.

A terrifying darkness instantly enveloped him.

This was a kind of darkness that encompassed all parts of his field of vision, as if he had entered a room where he could not see his fingers, or...

Is he blind?!
To be continued...