Second day in the Murasaka Village at noon.
The next day, I and Hain headed towards the food shops in the north district to eat delicious food that she and I never tasted before. For me, it's understandable since I'm particularly an otherworlder and just recently arrived here. But for her, she simply had no money to begin with, since she dedicated all her life to the light.
While we were walking and eating something like grilled chicken kebabs. Alvis picked up something from the radar.
My footsteps were halted by Alvis's following speech.
『Master, there is a Mid-Tier C Rank monster at your 11 o' clock approximately 6km away.』
What about it, Alvis? I just grabbed another bite while asking her. Today later in the afternoon, I'll go to the blacksmith's shop to get my weapon.
『Answer, It's currently in pursuit of five humans. Their levels range from Level 7 to 9.』
So what's the monster's level?
『Answer, level 39.』
Woah. That's pretty high, how did they even run away from it?! I felt a strong sense of anxiety from what's going on. My heart was telling me to go and save them immediately. What the hell is this feeling?
『Answer, because of master's prev–』
Nevermind that, show me their location in the navigation right now! We have to save them!
While walking, I brusquely grabbed Hain on her breasts and casted the multi-element magic"Elemental Barrier"skill.
「Kyaa! Y-Yukio?!」
Even though it wasn't necessary, it atleast gave me some confidence to leave her here for a short while.
「I have urgent business to attend to. Please wait for me at the inn, Hain.」
「O-Okay, I understand.」
Slightly red, she nodded at me and her watermelons seem to have jugged. It was really an obscene sight. What a monster!
I quickly ran to the direction the radar told me. Using my real agility values, I quickly jumped building from building leaving only a blur behind.
『Borrowed Skill,"Wind Resistance"active.』
With the skill that only the rides from this world are supposed to have, I was able to obtain more speed than before. I can no longer feel wind hit my body whenever I make rapid movements. It's the perfect kind of skill that horses have in this world.
In less than thirty seconds, I was able to cover the distance in a violent roar of wind from where I stood. I didn't really feel it, but the sound itself must've been heard by alot of people considering it was so loud that it can be compared to the sounds jets make when flying overhead. I was only able to come this far because it was only 6km.
I stood behind a tree and leaned my head from the back. They look like adventurers, is there an adventurer's guild nearby? They're heading towards the town to probably seek help.
「H-Help us! Anyone!」
「Tuna hang in there!」
「Just keep running or we die!」
From the looks of it, Alvis was right about five humans. Four of them ran while one of them was carrying a girl who was bleeding madly from her missing left leg, her agonizing face was hard not to sympathize with. But if I were to say it, it's going to be four soon if they don't hurry up.
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Name: Tuna
Class: Acolyte
Level: 8
Age: 15
Race: Hyuman
Height: 177cm
HP: 18 / 140
MP: 7 / 180
STR: 87
AGI: 92
INT: 13,251
DEF: 83
Unique Skills:
None Available
Skills:
"Cooking E"
"House Management E"
"Farming D"
"Heal"
"Holy Light"
"Holy Shield"
Huh? Tuna? Isn't that fish from my world? Really what a strange world this is, it was probably a name that the previous heroes made famous for fun.
But they're pretty lucky because I was nearby. Now that I'm here, I can now see the monster chasing them. It looks like a giant lizard with a sword as it's tail-tips and it's whole body was covered with some kind of hard silver exo-skeleton. Alvis, use appraisal on it.
『Understood.』
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Name: None
Level: 39
Age: 50
Race: Armorizard
Height: 20 metres
HP: 4,864 / 4,867
MP: 179 / 179
STR: 923
AGI: 90
INT: 2,852
DEF: 5,679
Unique Skills:
"Scale Restoration D"
"Physical&Magic Resist C"
Skills:
"Swordsmanship D"
"Meditation E"
"Tongue Lancer"
"Reduced Fatique E"
"Venomous Strike"
Those are some pretty good skills. He's apparently stronger than Heldris that I can tell. I can't let it get to the town at all costs. Looking at everyone's status, I know for sure they're small-fry for this guy.
So not to look like a coward, I stepped out and called towards the adventurers.
「Hey! Get over here quick, I'll protect you!」
Thankfully, they heard me because they flinched and looked at my direction.
「Hey theres a guy over there!」
「Just do as he says!」
The hard-looking adventurer with a sword told his companions to come to me. Good.
I charged right towards the armorizard without hesitation and crossed paths with the adventurers. They stopped to watch after a while.
「Hey! Where do you think you're going!」
「I'll be fine!」
Alvis, activate"Auto-Pilot"mode. Please don't kill the armorizard. I have other uses for it.
『Understood. Commencing auto-pilot mode.』
What I didn't notice was that, my eyes began to have a brilliant violet glow to it whenever Alvis took over. My face looked calm, I could feel it from my facial expression. However, no matter how much I move it, it won't budge no matter what. Same went to every part of my body, I couldn't control them anymore because now Alvis took over for me.
My body that was charging for the armorizard raised it's hand and directed it towards the overgrown lizard. A moment after, the lizard was turned upside down after both my hands had grabbed it from it's head and flipped it over at my right side.
Then suddenly, a status in my screen shown a little bit of the armorizard's status. It seems that Alvis is the one who made it pop up to inform me that it's HP had reduced from 4,864 to a measly 10.
Damn it, Alvis! You overdid it, it could have died!
『Answer, it was not by mistake. It was intentional to put the monster at a degree that it will be no harm to master.』
Even if it bit me too, it wouldn't really hurt you know!
Seeing the knocked out armorizard, the adventurer with the sword couldn't help but ask.
「I-Is it dead? Did you kill it?」
I was feeling a little relieved atleast that the damage was kept at the minumum. And looks like Alvis gave me the controls back.
「No, I just knocked it out.」
I can't possibly kill this guy afterall. It has it's own use for me because of my skills and from the looks of it, this guy's armor could sell.
「How were you able to flip it like a bread dough?!」
「Are you an A Ranked Adventurer?!」
I wonder what to do in this situation, well for now I guess I'll just ignore them and use"Dominator"on the Armorizard to tame it and heal their companion before she dies an early death.
I reached out my hand and pointed my palms at the armorizard then activated the skill by saying「Dominate」. The adventurers were perplexed when I said that word and it would be best if they stayed that way because it seems like that word doesn't exist in their vocabulary, much less their world. Since that's done, I should treat their comrade.
「Lay her down, I'll heal her.」
「Are you sure?」
「Definitely, I won't charge you or anything so be at ease.」
I directed my palm at her breasts. The boys around me watching didn't really think anything bad of it since I didn't feel the usual stingy feeling whenever someone gazes at me weirdly.
「High Heal.」
「!?」「Th-That skill!」
Huh? Is high heal a rare skill too? I looked at them innocently then checked her current HP. It showed 140 out of 140 HP.
「Th-Thank you so much, Paladin-sama!」
Paladin? They must have misunderstood something. High Heal is probably a skill that the paladin class has.
「What are you talking about? I'm not a paladin.」
「Are you really not? But that strength and that healing magic...」
「Hey guys, look at this!」
One of the adventurers, a mage looking guy pointed at the spot where Tuna had lost her leg. Except there was a leg there in perfect condition.
「No doubt about it, he really did use the"High Heal"skill. But why are you saying you're not, paladin-sama?」
They really are insistent... Well for now I'll just reject that and say I'm a traveller going to Touma Village.
「Because I'm just a traveller from the Raske Village. I'm on my way to Touma Village to register as an adventurer in the Adventurer's Guild.」
They wore a dubious expression on their faces but nevertheless, the swordsman straightened his back and raised his hand to shake mine. I took it as a sign of respect since it would be rude if I didn't.
「I'm Clint, nice to meet ya. So you're going to Touma Village and become one of us, right? We're departing tomorrow. Would you like to come?」
Yes. Definitely. Absolutely.
「Sure.」
I smiled at him and we agreed to meet up near the front of the town gate. It would be more fun to have more people in our journey than not.
「So what are you going to do with this armorizard? Why didn't you kill it?」
Each one of them eyed me suspiciously. Certainly it's pretty distrustful for me, a stranger to not kill a high ranking monster because I might be plotting something evil with it.
「Oh, I actually have the taming skill.」
「A taming skill on a B Rank monster?!」
「A taming skill? Despite having the highest tier of healing magic you have a taming skill too?」
Uh oh. Will they find out? Hopefully not, if they said I'm the hero I'm gonna plummet them and bury them in the ground and noone will ever know.
『Master, that's how a murderer thinks.』
However, looks like they'll get to live a bit longer.
「You must've worked hard and had great teachers to learn those skills!」
「Yeah! How strong would you be if you can tame a B Rank Armorizard!?」
「W-Well...」
Lost for words, I should just stay quiet for a while and let them do all the talking. It's starting to get embarrassing how they're being stunned again and again.
Ah right, I forgot about the armorizard. I slowly approached the monster while the others were distracted from talking about class skills. As usual, I lightly tapped on it's silvery-coated nose and it was sucked in by the dark vortex from my finger leading to my spacial storage. Before long, someone noticed that though.
「Huh? Oi! Where did the monster go!」
「I'm sorry. Was it to kill for you guys?」
I wonder, did I just steal someone else's stuff? It's embarrassing because I just stored the armorizard in my storage like it was mine.
「Oh. No it wasn't, actually we were just here to search for a Jeorial Flower and that beast suddenly showed up from the cave entrance where the flower was growing nearby. The armorizard is all yours, you killed it afterall and we owe you our lives.」
Ohh. So I guess it's alright for me to keep it. Clint once again began searching for the monster by looking at the surroundings.
「Was it actually playing dead?」
「No, I actually just stored it in my"Magic Storage"skill.」
The"Magic Storage"skill is actually an inferior version that can be learned of the"Dimensional Storage"skill. But it solely depended on the magician's intelligence stat how large the amount they can carry is.
「To even know that kind of spell, you really are pretty amazing. By the way what's your name?」
「Arch Fern.」
I'll go with this name for now. When I heard Hain's story about the heroes, I noticed all of them had japanese names that were unrecognized in this world. So if I become famous and the coincidence of being powerful and japanese hit them right in the head, my cover as the undercover hero is blown. I don't know what exactly I'm hiding this secret from, but I'll keep this to myself as much as possible.
「Fern? Are you a relative of that Marquis Fern from that magic city?」
Oh? It looks like that guy is famous everywhere I go. What exactly did he do to get that famous? I'll just keep this play up either way.
「Yeah, I'm his nephew.」
「Oh! No wonder you were so adept at magic. You're actually a relative of that sage!」
「Y-Yeah, I guess you could say that.」
I didn't know he was some kind of sage. Alvis really did a good job on who to choose when it came to connections.
The martial artist and archer of the party named Pine and Troy told Clint that they would carry their recently injured and still unconscious healer back to Murasaka.
「That would be a bit too hard. We're 6km away afterall.」
And so, I placed my hands behind my back and what came out from my"Dimensional Storage"skill was none other than the Rafflecia Deer, Heldris.
「S-Summoning! Sir Fern can even do summoning! As expected of the great sage's nephew!」
Eh? Summoning? Oh yeah, I forgot the"Magic Storage"skill can't hold living things unlike my"Dimensional Storage"skill. It's best if they think of it that way.
I ordered Heldris to take us back to the Murasaka Village. With some difficulty, all six of us were able to ride Heldris back to Murasaka somehow, even though it was cramped. After that, the adventurer party namely "Iron Trout" invited me for a drink at the bar in Murasaka which I agreed to after finishing my business in the daytime.
Finally, I went to the inn where I told Hain to wait for me. Surprisingly, a worried Hain was waiting in our room to welcome and embrace me the moment I came in from the door.