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The Otherworld Conquest Method of a Reincarnated Porter Chapter 104 Part 2

Shoot! When I take care of the black dogs around me and look behind me, I see that each of them is fighting a black dog, but there is no one to protect Scarlett, who is at the tail end, and two black dogs are running toward her.

「Scarlett!」

Using instant step, I set out to help her, but I don’t think I’ll make it in time. Scarlett creates two fireballs and shoots them at the two black dogs, but although the first one hits its mark, the second one misses. Not only is it pretty difficult to fire magic and hit a monster that is running toward you, it takes quite a lot of courage because if you miss, there is a good chance that you will end up getting attacked by it. Scarlett, who has shot her magic, must be completely defenseless.

However, without panicking, Scarlett takes out a cloth from the magic bag at her waist. What is that, a magic tool?! She then puts the cloth on wind magic and covers the face of the black dog coming toward her. The black dog, which suddenly loses its vision, shakes its face and tries desperately to peel off the cloth. Taking advantage of that, I catch up with it and send the dog’s head flying.

「This is, just a piece of cloth?」

「That’s right, against quadruple monsters with low intelligent, if you take away their vision, they will fall into confusion and become unable to do anything, you see.」

I see. I think I can do it too. When I am with Scarlett, I can learn a lot from her, like how to carry yourself as a magician.

「Just so you know, no ordinary magicians can do this, okay?」

Well, I guess so. It would take a lot of courage and experience to calmly use magic against a monster that is coming to kill you. In the first place, most magicians do not become adventurers.

「You bastard, how dare you to use us as bait!」

「Stop it, let go!」

The blood-smeared adventurer who emerged from the forest last is grabbing another adventurer by the collar. Apparently, as they got attacked by a pack of black dogs in the forest, they used one of them as bait and escaped. It seems that they were a party of six.

「It can’t be helped, can it? There’s no way we could fight against a demon tree and a pack of black dogs at the same time, after all. Besides, it’s not like we used you as bait or anything….」

Demon tree, huh. I remember Rock saying it would be worth a lot of money if you sold it. Alright.

「Hey, you there, your injury looks pretty bad. We have a monk in our party. How about we give you some treatment in exchange for information?」

I do want to see some sacred magic, and if it allows us to get some information about the demon tree, it would be killing two birds with one stone.

In the end, they decide to temporarily put aside their internal discord and treat the wounded with Lunamilia’s sacred magic. Lunamilia kneels in front of the injured person and weaves her magical energy. So long. How long does she plan to weave her magical energy? If it is like this, I don’t think it would be possible to heal in the middle of a battle.

「Heal.」

Lunamilia puts her prayer into her magical energy and shoots it toward the heavens. Then something divine descends from the heavens, the injured person’s body glows, and in the blink of an eye, all the wounds are healed. It seems to be using a completely different mechanism from ordinary healing magic. There is a good reason that sacred magic is called prayer magic, as all the practitioner does is pray to the heavens. They put their prayers on their magical energy and send it to the heavens. It seems that the actual healing is all done by that divine something. It takes time, but it works wonders.

「T, thank you… Saint-sama.」

「Phew, I’m just a monk, you know.」

The Lunamilia who uses sacred magic is not only beautiful but also divine, so nothing would feel out of place even if she were to truly call herself a saint. Witnessing that scene, which was too unrealistic, the adventurers are captivated by Lunamilia. However, looking at Lunamilia, she seems to be quite exhausted. It was magic with that degree of effect, so sacred magic must consume a lot of magical energy.

「Now, then, give us the information. Where is the demon tree?」

「Huh, yes. It’s about 500 meters away from the forest I came out of. After being attacked by the black dogs, I bled out quite a lot, so you can just follow the trail of blood, but not only is it very hard to find it since it’s difficult to distinguish a demon tree by its appearance, it’s dangerous, you know?」

「I see, then, do you know what kind of demon tree it is?」

「Yeah, it’s a needle-leafed demon tree.」

If it’s a needle-leaf demon tree, the only one who can fight it would be me, who can use a sword. I think Zofie’s short sword lacks too much offensive power to deal with it. The rank of the demon tree is around 20, and it is an opponent you can never let guard down against, but I would like to fight it once to gain experience. There is a possibility that we would encounter one again in the future, after all.

「Alright, before we go back, let’s fight the demon tree. I heard that demon trees can be sold at a high price, after all. However, for the most part, I’ll be the only one who fights it. Needle-leafed demon tree’s weakness is sword attack, so leave it to me and my mithril sword. You all be in on standby in case any other monsters show up.」

Parting ways with the adventurer party, we head into the forest with me in the lead. The forest is covered with the tracks of the adventurers’ run and unnaturally broken branches, making it relatively easy to pinpoint the direction in which the demon tree probably is. After following the tracks for a while while erasing our presences, we find bloodstains and traces on the ground, which look as if there had been a fight. Even if we take into account the distance, the demon tree should be somewhere around here, but when I look around, all I see are ordinary trees. I concentrate on my magical energy perception skill, but I sense no presence of monsters in the surrounding area. What a pickle, is the enemy outside the range of my magical energy perception? Or perhaps demon trees are unperceivable by magical energy perception.

「It looks like my turn has come.」

As I, the vanguard of the party, sit down and rack my brain, Scarlett, who is unable to just watch, speaks to me. It seems that she is going to do magic-based detection.

「Will you be okay? You failed to detect the centipede, didn’t you?」

「A, at that time, it suddenly came at me from a far away place after I canceled my magic to do my business. I did let my guard down, but it was just bad luck.」

「I see. Do you use search for enemies with wind magic?」

「Yeah, I’m completely vulnerable when I’m using this magic, so if anything happens, be sure to protect me, okay?」

「Yeah, of course.」

Steadying her breath as she weaves her magical energy, Scarlett closes her eyes and creates a gentle wind, before then sending it flying to the surrounding area. She concentrates for a while, but then cancels the magic.

「It’s no good. I checked quite extensively, but I couldn’t find any demon tree. Maybe you can’t detect it with wind magic. I did hear that you can’t detect stone puppet monsters with wind magic, but it might be the same with tree monsters.」

「What can you detect using your wind magic-based detection?」

「Monsters and anything that moves. However, it can’t detect things in places that the wind can’t reach, such as crevices between rocks and bushes. But the demon tree is a huge monster, no? I don’t think I’d miss such a thing, so as expected, perhaps you simply can’t detect it with wind magic.」

If we don’t know where it is, the risk is too high. As the leader, I guess I should issue a withdraw order here.

「I’m not very good at it, but… Shall I try using earth magic-based detection?」

「How is it different from the wind magic one?」

「The earth magic one is specialized for detecting monsters that are in contact with the ground. It can even detect things in rocky areas and bushes, but it cannot detect the enemies in the air. Also, I am not very good at earth magic, so it consumes a lot of magical energy and its range of effect is not that wide.」

Earth magic-based detection might be effective. The demon tree is probably moving, so there is a good chance that the roots under the ground are constantly moving. If it consumes a lot of magical energy, I can just have her take my magical energy recovery medicine.

「I see, in that case please do the earth magic-based detection. If it consumes a lot of magical energy, I’ll give you a magical energy restorative medicine. It’s a medicine with special properties that I asked a leech I know to concoct for me.」

「Ugh, magical energy restorative medicine… Sigh, despite it not being very effective, it tastes very bad, isn’t it? But it’s better than nothing, I guess.」

Scarlett receives the medicine with a reluctant look on her face, puts it in her mouth and begins to chew it. When you put this medicine in your mouth, it tastes bitter at first, but the large amount of honey takes effect afterward, so its taste is reasonably palatable.

「Huh?! What is this? It’s so sweet! Tasty… is not the right word for it, but I can swallow it with no problem. It also seems to be pretty effective. Sei, which leech did you get this from? Like seriously.」

「I just happened to get my hands on a lot of honey during a job, so I had them concoct it for me. More importantly, please do the detection.」

「… Well, fine. My magical energy also seems to be recovering little by little, after all.」

I could’ve just told her that I concocted it, but it’s not like we trust each other to such an extent, after all.