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"Well, it seems more than I expected,"

 He muttered unconsciously when he saw the sight of the brasso spreading before him.

"I didn't expect this development either."

 Next to him, Fluorocarbons were dumbfounded and spoke.

"Glu?"

 Just asking, "What's wrong with you?" Seto bends his head slightly and rubs his head against Ray.
 and Ray was also half-stunned at the sight.

"No, I had expected it, but... that's it."

 At the top of the mountain is Ray's eyes.I saw the cave in which the harpies lived.
 The cave itself is scorched by magic using several fireballs fired by Ray, and the smell still hangs around it a few hours later.
 But the problem is not that.It was a sea of blood just beyond the eyes of Ray.
 The caves are surrounded by monsters scattered all over the wilderness where few plants and vegetation grow.Almost all of its carcasses have been eaten, some of which have been bone-only in the hours in which the lays were asleep.

"In just a few hours, I suppose the existence of the harpies has disturbed the monster ecosystem on this mountain."
"So the monsters of this mountain joined hands to attack Harpy's survival?"

 Ray asks Blaso, muttering in an unconcerned tone, but Blaso shakes his head slightly to answer the question.

"No, it wasn't such a systematic battle.Probably, the blood of Harpy that flowed when he and others knocked him down.I smelled the blood, and here came monsters from the mountains, and they killed each other in great numbers... No, I think there was a fight between themselves.
"...and yet none of the monsters have survived the struggle?"
"That's certainly reasonable,"

 Returning his words to Fluorocarbons, he glances at Seto, who rubs his head against Ray and spoils him.

"Blasso?"
"Perhaps you've noticed a sign of Sett....as you can see from the monsters that are not yet bone-based, most of them are from low-ranking monsters.That's why I'm so sensitive to the strong."

 Ray and Fluorocarbons look again at the monster's corpse spreading before them at the words of Brasso.
 Ray confirmed that most of the monsters that are spreading in front of him are low-ranking monsters like goblins, Soldiers Ants, and Fangwolfs.Some of them seem to belong to Oaks and Lizardmen, but only a few of them.
 Or were these monsters the ones who won the competition with each other, relatively high in rank among the mountains?

"Anyway,"If the corpse is left as it is, a strange disease may occur.I have been asked by Harpy to reopen the mine, and I can't stand the miners who work there getting sick. ... Ray, can I ask you?"
"You can burn it?"
"Yes, I'm sure you'll get enough material from the remains of the monsters... and above all, even if they don't come close to you because they feel the signs of Seto, they'll change their minds at any time, so please ask them before they change their minds."

 He nods to Blaso's words and thinks about what magic works in his mind.
 The wasteland in front of him was scattered with corpses, not all in one place.Then you need a wide range of magic effects... and you'll take a step forward with most of your eyes on it and your death-size grip.

'Fire, burn up those who die from my magic.Cleanse yourself with all your heart and fire.Grudges, bitterness, envy, hatred.All of them have no meaning before my magic.Flames burn away even vengeance.Take my magic and go back to heaven.'At the same time as she recites the spell, Ray's face is frowned upon by the rapid wear and tear of her magical powers.But Ray continues to put his magic into the spell, regardless of it.
 Then a blue, fist-sized flame appeared on the death-size handle...

"The Flame of Funeral"

 As soon as the magic is invoked, a death-size handle is struck to the ground with a blue flame.The blue flame is crushed by the death-size handle and the ground, and the blue flame carpet spreads out to the surrounding area as if water were flowing down the slope.and the flames burn in an instant upon contact with the monster's corpse, leaving the burning corpse intact and the blue flame spreading, until within ten seconds or so the wasteland in front of the cave is covered with blue flames.But...

"Isn't it hot?"

 Fluorocarbons muttering in amazement.Yes, I feel no heat from the blue flame burning up the monster's corpse in front of me.

"Ray?"

 Like Fluorocarbons, the dazzling blue flame of Brasso turns to Ray and sees him sweating like beads all over his face.

"Oh, hey, Ray!"

 He waved his hand to the running fluorocarbon and leaned against Seto's back, showing that he was OK.

"I'm sorry, but this kind of magic is rather a part of sacred magic, and for me, who is fit only for the magic of fire, it consumes a great deal of magic."

 Watching the blue flame burning the remains of the wilderness, Ray explains the magic he has just used.

"The magic I used now is to burn monsters and dead bodies to mourn....I would like you to pay attention to my condolences.It's magic to keep the corpse from undeading undeaded.Undead monsters don't work... but they're probably very little damaged.Well, if you're going to attack the undead, you'll only be quick if you use the magic of fire that I'm good at."

 Ray, stroking Seto's smooth hair, looks at the monster's corpse burned up by the blue flame.
 and after about twenty minutes Ray was finally feeling better by the time almost all of the monsters scattered in the wilderness were burned down.

"... I feel refreshed,"

 Fluorocarbons mutter involuntarily at the sight of the monster's corpse, which did not seem to have spread until recently.

"There's no fear of undead or plague any more.Now, Ray, I'm going to go and check out the cave, but what about you? You may rest here a little longer if you're still in poor health."
"No, I'll go with you for the time being."
"Guru..."

 Seto scrapes his head while singing anxiously.Ray smiles as he caresses his head.

"You don't have to worry so much.I'm just a little tired from the sudden exhaustion of so much magic.But let's keep an eye on other monsters here."
"Grull".

 Still worried, she nodded with a little by little.
 Finally, after stroking his head again, they head to the cave where Harpy lived.





"It's cooler than I expected... or rather colder."

 As soon as I entered the cave, CFC mutters to the cold air.

"Well, Ray's magic doesn't mean it's burning all night.The already hot air must have been scattered in the cold air of the mountain.and yet,"

 murmuring, and giving a voice of admiration to the wall of the cave.
 The entrance to the cave is narrow, and it becomes wider as you go.If they wanted to go into the cave and defeat Harpy, this narrowness would have left Ray and Brasso struggling without wielding their weapons the way they wanted.But the passageway is not the only one visible in the eyes of Brasso.No, he was looking at the wall more earnestly than at the aisle.

"This is..."
"Blasso?"

 Ray, who only knows Brasso, a dwarf who laughs, drinks and makes a fuss all the time, asks without thinking of his serious face.
 But Fluorocarbons put his hand on Ray's shoulder and shook his head slightly.

"It's no use. If that happens, it won't be back for a while."

 Unlike Ray, Fluorocarbons, who have known Brasso for a long time, must have seen the current state of Brasso several times.

"I told you before that Blaso originally wanted to be a blacksmith, but he couldn't be a blacksmith in the end."
"Oh, I heard that,"
"The biggest cause of this was his lack of sense as a blacksmith.But I suppose he is a dwarf who aims to be a blacksmith.The human blacksmiths around here are as good a hand as they can be when it comes to ore.No, it's a strange expression to say you're a good judge."
"... ore?"

 Ray turns his eyes to Blaso at that remark.where the dwarves patting the walls of the cave as if to confirm something, or patting them with a jolt of ground shaking to see the stone falling to the ground.

"I mean, what? Was this cave a vein of metal or something?"
"I suppose it's a priceless thing, as far as the state of Brasso is concerned."

 Ray and Fluorocarbons, who had been watching Brasso for about five minutes, let out a sigh and look at him.

"If I were to stay in Brasso, I'd be staying in this mountain again today.We can't help it, so let's go and see what's going on inside."
"No, but can I leave my blasso as it is?"
"I'm a little afraid that there's a set of Gryphons on the outside, and you and I are going to the back.I don't think there's going to be a monster attack... but if they attack me, I'm sure they'll get me back.Here we go."

 Fluorocarbons forcefully pull Ray's arm wrapped in dragon robes and head toward the back of the cave.
 Then, with a slight frown at the burnt smell, he made his way down the aisle, and eventually came out into a huge space.

"This place..."

 The huge space was still larger than that of the Bornter estate, which Ray had visited a few days before.And from the ceiling, many limestone grow like ice columns in the middle of winter.

(I've seen in a TV program before that Jongmil Cave doesn't form on the top of a mountain like this, but water that passes through the mountain melts limestone... why is it on the top of a cave?)

 For a moment, I thought about it in my heart, but it's a fantasy world with magic and monsters.It is judged that it is not so strange that there is a limestone cave with limestone on the top of the mountain.

"Well, it seems that it was Harpy's nest,"

 Watching limestone, Ray comes back to life with the voice of Fluorocarbons.
 and when I looked towards the view of the fluorocarbon, there were many holes in it, just like honeycomb structures that I could call honeycomb structures.

"Is that...?""Well, I don't know what it is like, but I'm sure it's as long as the charred remains of Harpy and his companions are there."

 Indeed, near the honeycomb wall lay a large number of charred, completely charred corpses, thought to be harpies, burned to death by Ray's magic.
 A hole leading to the outside is formed on the opposite side of the place where the laymen are located, centering on the place where the honeycomb structure.

"Well, this was rather the front door for both of us, and it would be more of a back door for us to come in.--that's why more than twenty of them survived that spell."

 Fluorocarbons sigh and look around, followed by Ray.Only the corpse of the ex-Harpy remains in this hall, and there is no surviving Harpy.or, if he had been lucky enough to survive Ray's magic, he would have quickly escaped from it if the exit was so close.Perhaps Fluorocarbons understand this, and when they look around and see if Harpy is alive, they smile relievedly and cleanly.

"Well, for the time being, I have accomplished my request.For some reason or other, I just turned to Ray for help...

 He looked at the honeycomb structure near the wall with a wry smile on his back.

"And it's okay to kill Harpy, but why did you end up like that? Is it a punchline that Harpy built?"
"I don't know.At least I've never heard of Harpy building a nest like that.Perhaps, by chance, they found it and thought it was just right for their nests."

 That's how Ray talks to Fluorocarbons, but he hears footsteps running toward him from behind and turns around.
 where a blush of excitement was running in his arms with some enormous pale red ore.