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The Otherworld Conquest Method of a Reincarnated Porter Chapter 120 Part 1

Post Town Under Construction

「You heretics that go against God’s will, receive the judgment of Heaven! Heavenly Judgement!」

Lunamilia’s superhuman-level sacred magic is activated. Everyone here, including me, is so scared that we can’t even move as we watch the magic being unleashed. As if a knife was being held to my neck, a freezing chill runs through my body, and a premonition of death crosses my mind. When I sense tremendous magical energy and look up to the sky, I see a vortex of divine something swirling in the clear sky. In that moment, lightning erupts from the sky, and the targets of the judgment are reduced to charred lumps of flesh while letting out death cries. It seems that magic just now was the judgment of God for those who lied to Lunamilia. The sacred magic is a sure hit. What’s more, that magic just now might even be a sure kill. This is bad, Lunamilia has mistaken me for not only an apostle of God, but also an incarnated God, and I have given in to my desires and have been mingling intensely with her every night. This is bad, this is bad, if she finds out that I’m just a human, I won’t get away with it scot-free. What will become of me?!

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Having successfully become a bronze-rank adventurer in Rotos, I try to leave the town with Lunamilia, but which route should we take to get to Brint in the Chanortham territory? The Chanortham territory is located at the far east, and if we head straight to the east, we will be able to get there in the shortest amount of time through the Neurath territory, where the frog labyrinth is located, and the Lambert territory, where the doll labyrinth is located, further to the east. However, since powerful monsters tend to appear around Rotos and around the west of the Neurath territory, I guess we should make a big detour. We should go back the way we came, go around to the west, and head there via the Amberlius territory and Magt territory in the south. However, it will be a pretty long detour. Sigh, it will take time, but I guess there’s no other way.

「Luna, if we head straight east, we might run into a powerful monster. Would it be ok to go back the way we came and take a longer detour?」

「A powerful monster, is it? By all means, let’s defeat it, Sei-sama. Saint-sama also faced numerous powerful monsters along with Apostle-sama. With me and Sei-sama, we should be able to defeat any strong enemy. That’s right. It must be so. Now, let’s head east, Sei-sama.」

Not good, Lunamilia seems to be under the false impression that she is the Saint and that I am an Apostle of God. Staring at me with a pure gaze that knows no doubt, her eyes are sparkling. True enough, taking a detour and spending weeks to get to Lambert territory, which we can reach in only a couple of days if we rush there, might be a waste of time. Should we go to the Adventurer’s Association and ask for advice?

「The Highway to Neurath? It has become pretty safe now. Count Leancool and Count Neurath are regularly sprinkling holy water on the highway at the request of the royal family, so the number of monsters has dropped drastically. They should have even started to build a post town.」

「Heh~, a request from the royal family, is it?」

「Perhaps the royal family received complaints from the nobles whose territories are in the east, who had to take a long detour and waste so much time every time they went to the royal capital. There are no post towns yet, but it seems like you can make a camp in the vicinity of the highway. Though, I recommend you make a detour for safety reasons.」

I see, it doesn’t seem to be that dangerous. With Lunamilia’s sacred magic, not only can we sprinkle holy water as much as we want, we can heal. As long as we don’t move away from the highway, it shouldn’t be that dangerous.

「Luna, let’s head straight east.」

「Yes, Sei-sama.」

I leave the east gate with Luna, get on my horse and head for Neurath.

Jiggle, boing, jiggle, boing…. Kuh, with each step the horse makes, Lunamilia’s ample twin mounds shake, making it difficult to concentrate on my enemy detection. I have to do something about it.

「Luna, we never know when we’ll be attacked by a monster. You should put on your armor.」

「Yes, Apostle… ahem, Sei-sama.」

That should do it. Still, do I have no choice but to go on a journey with Lunamilia until she reaches level 40? Through exploring the Labyrinth of Rotos, Lunamilia’s level has risen significantly, and she is now level 32. This is largely due to fighting the high-level adventurers who attacked us after the battle against the labyrinth lord. It’s hard to raise your level even by one, so maybe it will end up taking years. However, in the Labyrinth of Rotos, we were fighting in a group of seven, but now it’s just me and Lunamilia. We will be dancing with danger, but since there are fewer people, we should get more experience points and level up more easily. I will have her change jobs to a priest as soon as possible. Being with Lunamilia, who unconsciously presses her huge breasts against me, makes my lower body raging, and I’m already worried about how I’m going to make it through the night.

Even as I get beset with some anguish, we continue along the highway. I’m watching out for the surrounding areas, but contrary to my expectations, we don’t encounter any monsters. I wonder if it’s the effect of the holy water, as expected.

「Luna, you can make holy water, right?」

「Yes, Sei-sama. If you cast purification magic on water, it will turn into holy water. If you soak mithril in holy water and use purification every day for ten years, it will turn into ithildin.」

「Oh, if that’s case, that means any priest or monk can make ithildin?」

「Yes, however, purification magic consumes a lot of magical energy, so it’s hard to use it every day. Priests who work at ordinary churches have their hands full with healing and making holy water, so I don’t think they have the leeway to do such a thing. Besides, I believe it’s difficult for wealthy nobles to wield ithildin armaments.」

I see. If you’re a great noble that has multiple priests in your territory, you can create ithildin, but you won’t be able to make use of it properly. It will end up turning into a useless possession, so there is probably no point in having the priests focus on making ithildin for ten long years.

Today, our journey went smoothly without encountering any enemies, and in the evening, we arrived at a settlement under construction. It seems they are in the middle of building a new post town. Perfect, let’s camp here for the night.

When we enter the settlement, it’s noisy with a flurry of people screaming. I have a bad feeling about this.

「Make way, male way, we’ve got an injured person. Is there anyone who can use healing magic?」

A number of injured people are being carried away, bleeding. It seems they were attacked by monsters. If I were by myself, I would refrain from sticking my head into it, but…

「Sei-sama, they seem to be in trouble. Let’s go and have a look.」

Well, of course it would turn out like this. Lunamilia, influenced by the Saint Monastic Tale, believes that it is her duty to help people in trouble and exterminate monsters together with the apostle, after all.

When we head to the building where the injured are carried, we find that the three people that have been carried there have all received treatment. I call it treatment, but it’s just first aid, lying them down and covering their wounds with cloth. When I appraise them, I find that apparently, they are not adventurers, but ordinary people. Judging from the fact that they are not dead, the monsters’ rank is probably not that high.

「I’m a monk. I’ll treat the injured.」

I gather information while Lunamilia volunteers to treat them. It seems that they were attacked by a pack of demonic wolves while they were cutting trees in the forest. They had escaped while the escorting adventurers were fighting the monsters off, but some were too late to escape. It can’t be helped, we’ve gone too far to turn back. Let’s lend them a hand.

「Luna, for now, just leave it at first aid. We’re going to help the adventurers that are being attacked by the pack of demonic wolves.」

We treat the seriously injured one with Lunamilia’s sacred magic, and seal the wounds of the two who are relatively lightly injured with my healing magic. We can use our remaining magical energy after subjugating the demonic wolves to heal the rest.