A sight I've never seen before is spread out before my eyes.

　Riding on the back of a pterodactyl, flying in the sky above the impossible, the earth is spreading out below me.


　From this height, the magical forest, which takes half a day to walk through, feels so close.

　The place where the forest just barely breaks off at the edge, that's where we went to the Abyssal Hole (Abyss Falls) with Lloyd and the others last time.


Flick, we're about to enter the forest of the magical world, so let's drop altitude. If you fly too high--


　Just as Gawain said that, a red light passed through our pterodactyl like a bite.


''What light was that?!''

"It's like a greeting from the forest of the demon world. This is the light emitted by the Grand Fortress Turtle, a ground fortress turtle that feeds on pterosaurs and flying demons. If it hits it, it will punch a hole in the pterosaur's wing membrane, and in the worst case scenario, it will be shot down and become food for those guys.

"That red light just now. Is it an attack from the Grand Fortress Turtle, the ground fortress turtle famous for its 'Dongame'?


　I've seen some of the Ground Fortress Turtle 《Grand Fortress Turtle》 in the suburbs of the King's Capital, but I've only ever seen them walking around the ground in a leisurely manner.

　Occasionally we are asked to take them out, but they have a hard, protruding carapace, and they do not move slowly or attack powerfully.

　That's why they were called 'Donggeese' by adventurers, and were considered to be easy monsters to defeat.


It's a good thing that they are so weak against attacks from the ground, but they are the strongest natural enemies of those flying above. I've been shot down by the pterodactyl several times. And now, let's stop wasting time, let's get down to the very top of the tree...


　The moment Gawain said that and dropped in altitude--

　A red light shot up from the ground all at once, covering their vision.


''Whoa!　What is this?!


　Don't tell me this is the densely populated area of the Ground Fortress Turtle!

　There's an unusual number of lights!


　I pushed the pterodactyl's head down, signaling my intent to swoop down, and jumped into the red light with Gawain behind me.


''Hyah!　That's an enthusiastic, good-humored welcome!　I hear they're hungry!


　Gawain, who was ahead of me, made a strange noise and maneuvered the pterodactyl well, falling to a tree height slope with a cone rub to avoid the red light.


　Yikes!　You're going to avoid it like that!

　But we have to do it!


　I gently stroked the neck of the pterodactyl that had become my partner and descended to the tree height slope in a similar trajectory to Gawain's.


''Oooh-ooh!''


　A red light grazed my cheeks as I fell, cone-rubbing and falling.

　I heard and smelled the sound and smell of sizzling meat.


　I can't avoid ...... so if you absorb it with a magic barrier (magic barrier)!


　As he was falling through the red light emitted by the demon, he remembered the existence of magic that Noelia had taught him.

　There was a magic that protected the body from objects made of magic and energy bodies.


'Become a white membrane and enclose yourself in it. Magic Barrier.


　When the magic was activated, a white translucent membrane unfolded in front of the pterosaur.

　The magic barrier (magic barrier) absorbed the red light that shot up from below and immediately turned bright red.


　With this state of affairs, it's going to reach the limit of its absorption capacity soon.


　When I deployed my magic barrier, the amount of red light shooting up from below increased even more.


''Hold it!


　As he increased his descending speed a notch, he grabbed the rough rope firmly so that he wouldn't be shaken off.

　All at once, the trees of the Demonic Forest were closing in on us.

　I pulled the rough rope just before we hit them and the pterodactyl caused the body just in time.


　As they lowered their altitude to the height of the trees, the attacks from the Ground Fortress Turtle 《Grand Fortress Turtle》 all fell away at once.


''Fuuuuuuuuut!　I managed it: ......

Well, that was fun. I could have used a magic barrier to get us through it, though. It would have been so boring.

　I was relieved to be safely down low when I heard an unbelievable word from Gawain, who was flying alongside me.


'Huh?'

What?


　Gawain said, 'Oh, what's different?' He looked as if he was going to say, "I don't think so.


'I don't think so or something, but could you have gotten there without going through the place you just left?

Hmm?　Well, I can go, but that won't be enough. I've learned to ride the pterodactyl, you should be able to evade the bows of the knights of the Yggernotes, unless you can learn to evade them as easily as that.


　Headache: .......

　He's still a freak.


　And I have no intention of attacking the Yuguhanotes with this pterodactyl .......

　Why are they assuming that they will be intercepted by the knights of the Yuguhanotes?

　Don't tell me they are resenting the fact that they were intercepted with their bows yesterday?


　I looked at the face of the oddball blacksmith flying next to me, half dumbfounded.


''What?　Do I have something weird on my face?

'No, I think I'm beginning to understand why Master Gawain is opening a workshop in that place.

Well, Flick has finally come to understand the noble meaning of my presence in the region. That's a man I've allowed myself to have contact with.


　I thought that Lloyd, the frontier count who claimed to be an old acquaintance, had set up a quarantine facility called a workshop in the hunting grounds of Yasbah, the middle of the frontier, in order to avoid trouble in the city.

　He's not a bad person, so both the frontier count and the people of the city must have had trouble dealing with him.


　He's not a bad person, he's just a person who's reckless in what he does.


Well, all that's left to do now is to collect and gather materials. This is our destination, let's get off.


　As he said this, Gawain jumped down from the pterodactyl and descended through the trees into the forest of the demon world.


　That's really absurd. ...... I wonder if I'm okay, me.

　Wouldn't they be isolated like Gawain?


　It's a good idea to be able to have a good idea of what you're looking for.