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Tou no Madoushi - Chapter 39

Published at 4th of June 2020 09:46:13 PM


Chapter 39

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Yellow Zone

It was the second day of the expedition.

Each guild began to set about packing up camp. As soon as all preparations were finished and everyone had eaten their morning breakfast, one by one the various guilds broke camp.

Lynn followed Teedro closely as the two of them departed. Unlike Illia, Teedro didn’t slow his pace to match Lynn’s.

Teedro was much bigger than Lynn, and so he had to work hard to keep up.

It wasn’t long since they had left camp when Teedro led them off the path and into the thicket.

Lynn, in hot haste, stumbled forwards into the thicket after him.

Teedro was making easy progress through the thicket. He seemed to be making the forest bend to his will the same way Illia did.

However, it didn’t seem so much that the forest was opening a path for him out of kindness, but more so that it was frightened of his power. The trees bent as far away from him as possible.

Lynn was surprised to see the trees bends so much. He didn’t think it was possible they could become so warped.

As they moved through the forest, they left in their wake an air of unrest and disruption.

Much like the forest, Lynn himself too felt himself become a little bit frightened of Teedro.

“Lynn, are you ok?”

Teedro looked back at him in concern, noticing his sluggishness walking through the forest.

“Yeah, I’m alright”, he replied, and strained to conceal his ragged breath from his words.

In truth, he was concerned about just how long he would be able to match Teedro’s pace.

“You haven’t taken Magical Beast Class yet have you? You should follow directly behind me, that way it’ll be easier for you”.

“Ah, sure”.

He fell in directly behind Teedro, and of course the going became much easier as the forest shifted and warped in its efforts to evade Teedro as he blazed through, unimpeded.

It wasn’t as if the idea of following in his wake hadn’t occurred to him, but for one reason or another he had hesitated to do so of his own accord.

So when he was offered by teedro himself, of course he wasn’t going to decline.

“Right then, let’s hurry on”.

“Ok”.

He doesn’t like to waste any time.

When he thought of the distance to the next camp, the need to hurry didn’t strike him as necessary. He wasn’t about to voice this opinion to Teedro, however. The two of them advanced onwards, through the thicket of the forest, going deeper.

The chimera collapsed to the floor with a deep, heavy thud, its large body rolling to its side and squashing the vegetation below it.

They had encountered a chimera, and Teedro was the one who had slain it.

It was just 10 minutes ago, when they were walking through the forest, that their rings had begun glowing, warning them of danger.

When Lynn had opened his mouth to ask what they should do, Teedro had already broken into a sprint.

Over the next several minutes Teedro had tracked the chimera, and he began flanking it.

The chimera could smell their scent. It looked around restlessly as it sought the location of its prey, but before it could, Teedro had already unleashed his magic, snuffing out its life.

My god…

It happened so fast that even Lynn couldn’t quite comprehend just how he had killed it.

Lynn walked up to the chimera’s corpse and paused, looking to Teedro. He expected him to begin collecting the valuable parts, but he didn’t seem interested in the slightest. Without so much as glancing at its sprawled out body, Teedro walked ahead further into the thicket.

Stumbling over the undergrowth, Lynn quickly followed after him.

“Teedro san!” Lynn called out from behind. “Are you sure we shouldn’t harvest anything from that chimera?”

“We can’t get anything too valuable from a chimera”

“Really?”

“Really. If you want to become a permanent member of Magulheim, you can’t be satisfied with the loot you can get from a chimera. You need to slay rarer beasts than that”.

Lynn was speechless.

The chimera was the first magical beast he had slain, and he thought it was something to be proud of. He felt dejected.

Illia told me I did well… I guess Teedro obviously feels differently.

However he wasn’t able to stay in a low mood for long. He had to learn new things, and Teedro was simply trying to make him more experienced.

He couldn’t let that favour slip through his hands.

Bolstered by his new attitude, he did his best to keep up with Teedro as he followed him through the thicket.

However after a little while he noticed that they had begun to veer off track. He remembered the location of the next camp. He had looked at the map before they left camp, but now it seemed that Teedro was leading them off course. He couldn’t understand Teedro’s motive for taking such a route.

He decided to ask.

“Umm, Teedro san. Where are we headed?”

“The yellow zone”.

“Huh?”

“We already know all about the blue zone. There aren’t any rare creatures left there. But in the yellow zone there are plenty of unexplored caves, and magical beasts of which we still know very little about. We have to be at camp two by five o’clock, so we can’t go too far in, but we might still be able to find a rare item”.

“But aren’t we forbidden from going outside the blue zone?”

“It’s not something you need to worry about. No one will know as long as we’re back at camp by the allotted time. The association can’t police everything”.

Lynn was slightly perplexed. Was it really ok to break the rules in such a nonchalant way?

However, he wasn’t about to openly criticize the leader of Magulheim, and besides, it would be even more dangerous to go back alone.

He had no choice but to keep his misgivings to himself, and so he followed Teedro deeper towards the blue zone.

They had reached the border between the blue zone and the yellow zone.

There was no divide or boundary to speak of, it was just more dense forest as far as the eye could see.

Nonetheless, once glance was all it took to see that from that point onward they were entering the yellow zone. The vegetation gradually changed from a hue of blue to yellow.

Along the boundary, the vegetation was a mix of both blue and yellow trees and plants.

The vivid colours made for a spectacular sight, but behind its dazzling, bizarre beauty, it was screaming at anyone who dared venture in that the level of danger from that point onwards rose drastically.

Even Teedro wasn’t unaffected by the increased threat of the area they were entering, Lynn saw, as he recognized what looked like tension in his expression. His forehead glistened with the sweat of perspiration.

Lynn could feel the Pellrat under his clothes tremble.

“Lynn, from now on we’re entering the yellow zone…”

“Ok”.

“Before we go any further I’ll go over a few important things, listen closely alright?”

“I will”.

“From this point on it’s too dangerous to proceed with the pace we’ve kept up so far. There are magical beasts in the yellow zone that can’t be brought down with the Vesper. We have to walk slowly and keep our wits about us at all times, ok? You absolutely must stay close to me.

Also, the map will no longer be completely accurate. We have to mark our position on the map as we go, in fixed distances. Usually one person takes point and stays on guard while the other marks the position on the map, but today I’ll take care of both of those things. Anyway, just make sure you really do stay close to me. If you do get lost, don’t hesitate to use the emergency smoke candle. You’re carrying some right?

Oh and if we encounter a magical beast, stay behind me, and within the distance of one staff. Other than that…”

He went on to tell him about several other things. Lynn felt nervousness coursing through his mind and body.

Teedro picked up on his nervousness, and smiled.

“Don’t worry. I’ve gone into the yellow zone plenty of times. I’ve even been to the red zone. As long as nothing unusual happens, we’re not in any danger. Trust me… No, more than anything, trust in yourself. The reason you’re here is to gain experience. Remember the important points I told you about, and you’ll be safe. But don’t forget to have some ambition too. You can learn a lot here”.

“Ok”, he said, nodding.

It was the first time Teedro had spoken kindly to him. He was able to feel a bit of relief.

From Lynn’s perspective, the Teedro up until a few moments ago was more scary than any magical beast.





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