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Volume 12 Chapter 5 Part 10

It looks like she was working outside in this heat all the time while we were gone, so her situation was drastically different from ours where we were moving through a relatively cool forest in between going from one Labyrinth to another.

「It’s alright. You should also take a moment to rest, Roxanne, Vesta. 」

「In that case, I was almost finished with caring for the Rosemary, so would you mind if I took care of that first, master? 」

「Alright, go ahead and do it. 」

「Then we are going to help as well. 」

After Sherry said that, Miria and Rutina also went outside.

That is exactly why I was asking her if she wanted me to take her equipment off for her. If I get the chance to do so, then I think I am going to take it off for her after all.

That’s basically about it.

But since I cannot help it for now, I decided to prepare a light bath instead.

That being said, it doesn’t mean that I need the bath to be filled to the brim right now. Filling about halfway through with warm water should be more than enough for me to wash off my sweat.

Yeah, it should be more than enough.

「Are you done now? 」

「Yes. 」

「I am sure you must have sweated quite a lot, so take a light bath yourselves if you want and drink some water. 」
I gave all of them some water with ice that I made separately when I was preparing the water for the bath.

Since they were all working outside in the heat, having a glass of ice-cold water should be just what they need right now.

「Thank you very much, master… ahh, I can’t get enough of this. This is so good! 」

And I thank you very much for such delicious lines. I cannot get enough of them as well.

「Alright, let us all go to the bathroom then. You are coming with us too, Rutina. 」

「Yes. 」

「Well then… 」

We all headed to the bathroom and took our clothes off together in the room next to it.

I also removed Rutina’s equipment for her.

I will not tolerate any shyness from her.

I remove it because it needs to be removed for her own comfort.

I also remove it for her because that is the chance that I was waiting for.

That is basically what this is all about.

「Nhh…. 」

Thank you for this delicious sound as well, Rutina.

I will never get tired of it as well.

In the bathroom, I sweated while spontaneously discharging my load.

「Well then, from this point onwards, we will be going towards Grineer. I do not know if we are going to be able to reach it or not, but at the very least, we need to make sure that we will go as far as we can. 」

「Yes. 」

「I agree. 」

「Let’s do it, desu! 」

「I think we are going to be alright. 」

「…. Yes, of course. 」

After getting out of the bath and putting our equipment on again, we all decided that we are going to be aiming for Grineer now, but before that happens, I need to make sure that I am going to have my MP reserves replenished to the fullest, so I went to the Labyrinth to recover the MP that I have expended to prepare the bath.

On my way there, I used Durandal to defeat the monsters that kept popping up all around us from beneath the ground, so there was no problems with that while I kept getting my MP back little by little.

「For now, let’s start with the Labyrinth of Quratar. 」

Roxanne, look for the groups of monsters nearest to us.

「Understood. 」

After securing enough MP in the Labyrinth of Quratar, we moved to the Hawk Forest Labyrinth.
「Un, we are here now… but what are we going to do from now on? 」

「I guess our only option is to move forward little by little. 」

「Maybe we can look for a vantage point that is going to allow us to get a better view of our surroundings? 」

Just like its name implied, the Hawk Forest Labyrinth was located in a forest.

In other words, the view was far from an ideal one, because all of our surroundings have been blocked off by trees, so at best, we were only able to see that which was a few meters ahead of us.

In a situation like that, there was no pint in moving forward by using 「Warp」.

On the other hand though, the option that we could take was to move forward while cutting ourselves a way through the trees with our weapons, which would really make that a step by step advancement.

We might also mix the two together, moving forward with 「Warp[」and then walking on foot whenever possible.

「Master, I think I can see a mountain over there in the distance. 」

「You don’t say? 」

「Indeed, there does seem to be a mountain over there. 」

「Ohhh… I see it as well, I see it! 」

「Once we go to the other side of the mountain, we should be able to go a long way if we turn around. 」

What are Roxanne and Sherry even talking about?

Indeed, Warp is a type of Movement Magic.

Sure, the way it works, it should be possible to move to a given place as long as you are able to see it. But if something like that was possible, then I could probably move to the stars in the sky, since they are something that can be seen with a naked eye.

That is why travelling in such a way is bound to have its limits. Limits, I say.

For the time being, I think the best think that I could warp to are the trees, but even then if I wanted to warp to the trees, I would probably be moved towards their roots that are on the ground, because if I tried to go higher, there is a risk that I might overshoot it and die as a result.

「U-Un. But you know, is that not a little too high? 」

「It should be fine. You just have to stick your head first and check the bottom. 」

「I… I see. 」

「Yes. 」

Is it really worth giving it a shot then?

I focused my attention on the farthest tree trunk possible, the one that I could barely discern with my eyes, and then I used 「Warp」. When a black portal formed on the tree trunk that was immediately next to it, Roxanne immediately stuck her head inside.

And than, she completely disappeared behind the wall without coming back up.

Should I stop hesitating and follow after her now?

No, there is still a possibility that there might be monsters waiting for us on the other side, so this really is not the time to be hesitating, so I follow after Roxanne immediately.

「Aghaaa….!!! 」

It really was not all that high… but the drop was still there. Not a big one, but a drop nonetheless.

Because the warp portal ended up appearing not on the ground, there was a difference of several tens of centimeters between the ground and the portal.

God damn it, it was a mistake to judge that it would be fine for me to waltz into the portal like nothing happened just because Roxanne went in there.

Yeah, that’s right. Even in that Regard, Roxanne is still Roxanne after all.

「Just like I thought, it really seems that you can turn around from here. We can go quite far this way. 」

Before I even knew it, Sherry came out of the portal behind me and was already on the lookout for the next tree that we could warp to, even though it was still relatively hard to see and we still do not know exactly what might happen if we end up warping too high.

Well, there is nothing that I can do about it now, so I might as well continue.

「I’m in a little high place, so I need to jump down. 」

Roxanne, who was searching beyond the black wall of the warp portal, withdrew her neck for a moment and disappeared.

Is she judging that the steps just now are not high?

It wasn’t that high, after all.

I stick my head out and look over there.

I see.

This is certainly over one meter high. Jumping in without warning can be dangerous.

Does that mean that Roxanne is making the right decisions?