Kujibiki Tokushou: Musou Hāremu ken Chapter 23

With both Helena and Io, we walk to the gra.s.sy plain. My aim are of course would be the mountain cow. After I hunt it down I will turn them in for money. Today I’ve only managed to hunt down one so my earning is still far from enough.

“One man fighting over 1 000 man force was it?”

“Yes. Although almost half of the soldier were spared, most of the spared soldier had lost their willing to fight so it was not surprising at all.”

“I can see how it goes. As I’ve seen Kakeru dealt with the large amount of undead army, Kakeru-san had personally defeated Sandros.”

“Sandros. Is it the h.e.l.l’s Emperor Sandros?”

“Yes. That’s why being able to defeat a unit of 1 000 man did not surprised me at all. As I though Kakeru-san is certainly amazing. At least that is what I think.”

Somehow Helena and Io were chatting happily behind my back. It was as if they had immediately found a mutual understanding with each other.

That is good and all… but there was no mountain cow to be seen. We have walked quite far but there seems to be none of those mountain cow appearing.

Even when I hunted the previous mountain cow, it ran away as soon as our eyes met.

I don’t want to think about it but….

(Are you not being avoided?) Eleanor said.

“I wonder if I overdid it.”

That might be the case. Perhaps the mountain cows had already recognized me as a dangerous existent.

We walk for a little bit more. When we finally see a mountain cow, there were already a group of people hunting it. When I looked at the carefully, it was a group of mercenary with 10 people wearing the same type of armor.

It’s quite unfortunate when we finally see one mountain cow and all— as I was thinking about that there was something shocking occurred.

The moment where my eyes met with the mountain cow, the mountain cow that was fighting with the group of mercenary hurriedly turn around and run away with its tail between it’s leg.

The moment when it’s saw me, it ignored everything in front of it and it ran away.

….. Well, this is not good..

We returned back to the town and went straight to Andrew Firm. There I told everything that had happened to Andrew without missing a single detail in it.

“My my…”

Using his handkerchief, Andrew wiped off his sweat on his forehead. He had an unspeakable look on his face.

“Certainly, if Yuuki-sama were to say to over-hunt them I would have no objection towards that. For the past few days alone, Yuuki-sama alone had done the work of a few hundred man.”

“If that’s really true then I don’t think mountain cow hunting would be possible for the mean time.”

“Yes.”

“So, are there any other things that we can make earning with, if possible something that pays good.”

“Let see…” Andrew thought for a while with a serious look. After thinking for a while, he raised his head and looked at my behind.

“If I’m not mistaken you’re the C RANK Io right? The one who’s good with lightning.”

“Yes.” Io nodded sounding a little bit troubled. Why did he looked over here— that was the sort of reaction that Io had.

“You’re in a party with Yuuki-sama?”

“”As long as there’s someone who can use lightning magic…there is no task that cannot be made into earning point.”

“You’re not sounding clear.”

“At any rate there are certain risk that would go with the work.”

“Let me hear about it for now.”

“Understood. The task would be mining the orikudite.”

Mining? This daite-something is some sort of ore? It doesn’t sound that dangerous though. However I could hear Io gulping down hard from my behind.

“Andrew-san, isn’t that a little bit…”

“I know. However Yuuki-sama said [something that pays good] so.”

“Well that might be the case but.”

Io looked at me with a really troubled look. I wonder what sort of task would this mining the orikudite would be for Io to make such troubled expression.

We fly back and heads toward the rocky mountain that was located before the plains where the mountain cows were inhabiting.

“What they meant by Orikudite would be the name of the mountain where we can get the magic ores from.”

“Magic ores? You mean that it was a stone that was formed by magic?”

“In the mountain there lives a monster named Orikuto. A strong gush of magic always leaks out from the monster’s body. The magic that was leaking out is strong turns into some sort of substance. That magic power began sticking onto the surrounding rock and gets dry after some time pa.s.sed. And Orikudite are the thing that was formed out of the substance the dried after hundred, thousands of time pa.s.sing.”

“I have seen it before.” Helena said while nodding.

“Because the magic power that Orikuto emits varies depending on the time of the day, the one that I had recollection of was an ore with pile of layers that resemble the rainbow, it emits the aura of mystical and was really beautiful.”

“I see.”

Somehow I was able to imagine it. From the explanation that they gave, I wonder if it looks like a colorful annual ring of the tree.
“Is it expensive?”

“Ee, while it being beautiful, the difficulty level to harvest the ore are quite hard from what I’ve heard.”

“To be honest, Orikuto is immortal.”

“Immortal?”

I was quite surprised by what Io had said.

“Not only it’s monstrously strong, no matter how bad it was attacked it would keep on regenerating. Orikuto only has one weak point, and that is the lightning magic. Once it got attacked using the lightning magic, it will disabled for quite a time.”

“I see, so when it was disable then people would go and harvest some Orikudite quickly. The reason why Andrew told me this because Io is in a party with me.”

“Yes. It looks like he know that I can use lightning magic. It was said that if you go there without anyone that is capable of using lightning magic is the same as courting death.”

The danger level is to that extent?

I understand what she’s trying to say. It’s a common sense to have a well equipped member before fighting a formidable enemy. For the monster Orikuto, there’s only one possible way to deal with it and that is by using lightning magic.

“Understood. Well then, if we ever met him then I will hold him back, while I’m doing that Io will take that opening to invoke your lightning magic.”

“Okay.”

While the vanguard stay on guard in front, the magician will start hitting it with the magic that the monster’s weak against.

An orthodox strategy. Io replied without hesitation.

“Thus, for Helena you will be dealing with this one.”

I pulled out the all of the offensive magic ball (black) that I have and gave it to Helena.

“This is?”

“This is an offensive item, it will be activated as long as you throw it at the target that you want. You can use it at your discretion.”
“I understand.”

“And please do the harvesting.”

After we finish with a simple formation we proceed by climbing the rocky mountain. By the time I realize, we reached a place where a weird aura could be felt from the surrounding area. It was a weird emerald colored…. but I didn’t feel anything weird even when I bath in the aura or touch it.

“This… is that Orikuto aura?”

“Probably.’

Io nods. When we advance a little bit more, the wall of rock is clearly different from before. For an example, up until now the wall of rock looks bare, but now the wall of rock looks like it has been painted with green.

This is the place— while I was thinking of that, Orikuto appears.

“It’s Orikuto.” Io screamed out.

“Yos.h.!.+ Let’s go!”

Holding onto Eleanor, I dashed out towards Orikuto. With a quick glance I look at Helena and Io. Reflected before their pupils were the looks of confidence.

“Eleanor.”

(What?)

“I’m going to beat him, lend me your strength.”

Now that they had put their trust in me— of course I need to answer their expectation.

TLN : Like the usual please. Grammar error and stuff.