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Chapter 214 Part 2

Translation: Charlotte

Editor: Weasalopes

I was desperately wishing that there might be some Fighting Bulls for me to take on myself, but that wish came to nothing.
When I caught up to everyone else, the landscape was a mess of wall spells and Fighting Bull bodies.
Hey! What’s this all about?
I thought the Fighting Bulls were supposed to be tough.
But looking closer, I realised a lot of the Fighting Bulls must have gotten away.
 

Oh well, as expected, it wouldn’t be possible for us to take care of everything on our own.
We would have to rely on the main army too.
How was their battle going?
 
I could only look at them from a distance, but it seemed like the horde of monsters Fiona’s army was fighting against was slowly dying out.
The number of red markers in the distance were noticeably decreasing.
It didn’t look like any reinforcements were coming either.
Oh no…
Was that the last opportunity to get to take out some monsters fading before my eyes!?
 
「Let’s go and support the main forces, hurry!」

『Alright!』

『Understood!』
 
Come on… Please wait for us…
Let us make it in time!
 
I wished for that many times within my heart.
I was aware of the strangeness of my request.
But if we were going to win either way, it would be better to win by completely annihilating the enemy forces.
We could earn a lot of experience points too.
 
 

But when we arrived, we were greeted with a scene that shattered my wish.
There were only Panzer Rhinos left.
It was very brave of them to stay behind… Yosaku and Shinonome were calmly cutting them down.
Wow…
The disappointment was clearly visible on my face.
Well, with such a heavyweight monster, it would be better to leave it to Yosaku and Shinonome anyway.
Watching them fight was a terrifying sight.
With a single axe blow, Yosaku could sever a Panzer Rhino’s head, and a hammer blow was enough to knock a Panzer Rhino unconscious.

The last Panzer Rhino was taken out by Fiona in front of me.
No way…
Was it over?
Was it really all over?
 

Wait, what?
What was it with this disappointment filling my heart…?
 

《【Grab】Level Up! 》
《【Horsemanship】Level Up! 》
《Event『Raiders of the Plains』cleared! 》
《You have received 5 Bonus Points, and 3 Extra Bonus Points. You currently have a total of 14 Bonus Points! 》
 

I knew it!
It was an event after all.
And before I knew it, it was over too?
 
Oh. It really was over…
What a tough situation I had fallen into.
I didn’t get to go wild as much as I wanted to…
 

『Oh! I just got a lot of Bonus Points!』

『As expected, it was an event, huh.』

『Time to add some points to my Stats!』

『Aren’t these level-ups delicious!?』
 
I heard many shouts of joy around me.
Yeah. I suppose that was to be expected.
I’m sure they were all very pleased with the result.
But… Where was the fun in that?
But it just wasn’t enough for me.
 

The time was 8:50 AM.
Yep.
We still had a lot of time left in the day!
 

Well, collecting all the item drops would take a long time too.
But there was a time limit to that too.
We knew that generally, monster bodies would disappear after about an hour.
No time to chat! Hurry, hurry!
 
I got a lot of items, but Rick or another merchant would probably buy them all of me anyway.
I wasn’t too concerned with what cuts of meat to go for with the Fighting Bulls. I didn’t have the time to think about it.
I tried collecting item drops from the Minor Griffins, but they didn’t drop anything.
Lastly, the Panzer Rhinos.
I managed to get two Panzer Rhino Horns.
I looked around, and sure enough, it was just Fighting Bulls left.
 
 
Well, might as well.
I got to work, collecting skin and meat from all the Fighting Bulls.
 
For the next hour, I went from Fighting Bull to Fighting Bull, collecting all the item drops.
I had a feeling the rate at which I was getting item drops was considerably lower. Maybe that was because of the event?
What have you done this time, Admins…?
At least give me meat!
 

But having said that, I still got a lot of meat anyway.
But not too much either. It was still enough for me to eat all on my own.
I only got one cut of sirloin.
Good enough?
I decided to just be content with what I had.
 

《【Appraise】Level Up! 》
《【Disassembly】Level Up! 》
 

I also got some level-ups while I was working on collecting all the item drops.
It would be a nice addition to my harvest.
 

The area around the Spring of Mist was very crowded.
Honestly speaking, I wanted to buy some things from Fiona…
But with the place being this crowded, it wasn’t a very likely thing to happen.
I didn’t even know where she was.
 

In the meantime, the Summoner Corps somehow ended up collecting item drops together.
I didn’t even schedule a meet-up or anything, it just happened naturally.
Well, we were on horseback, so we naturally stood out.
It would be second nature for us to all stick together.
That aspect of Japanese personality made itself very manifest in a strange way.
 

「What are you planning to do after this?」

「Hmm… Log out for a bit, and then return to do some more stuff. Explore the neighbouring maps, maybe?」

「Can we accompany you this time?」

「Huh?」

「We haven’t accompanied you in a long time! It would be interesting to do it again once in a while.」
 
Yep. They certainly had a point.
Although there were some things I wanted to check.
“We” definitely referred to at the very least Adele and Irina.
But… No way, you’re not referring to all the Summoners here, right?
 

「Everyone coming with, raise your hands!」
 
Adele shouted out at the Summoner Corps.
Everyone raised their hands at once.
 
「The monsters there are going to be much scarier than the ones here. Is that alright with you?」

「Isn’t that why we’re asking you if we can go together?」

「Dangerous map, but if we go together, there will be nothing to fear!」
 
What kind of motto was that?
 
 

Well, whatever.
We still had a lot of time left in the day anyway.
 
「Well then, let’s take a break until 9:20 AM. We’ll depart from here then.」

「Got it!」

「Well then, I shall see you later.」

「Time to take a toilet break…」
 

Hmm.
I guess I could log out for a bit too.
Even if we were to get ambushed, there were so many of us that the Production Job Players could probably handle it.
 
 
That being said…
I was planning on logging back in very soon anyway.
I logged in.
So, where was I planning on going?
 
We were in W3.
I had gone to W4 before.
I had the opportunity to check out S1W3 too.
But north…
I had never laid my feet in N1W3 before.
Alright, I made up my mind. Time to head north.
 
The details of the N1W3 map were still unclear. I didn’t even know what the terrain would look like.
Moving through W3 would be easy as long as I had my usual mobility-oriented team.
Well then. The team I had to summon was obvious.
I summoned Volff, Zangetsu, Helix, Ninetails, and Couturier.
I wanted to raise Couturier’s level.
With Couturier’s agility, no matter how under-levelled she was, the chance of her getting hit by anything was quite low.
In fact, all of the monsters on the W3 map Couturier seemed to be compatible against.
Centaurs, Steppe Lions, Fighting Bulls, and Carrion Feeders.
They were all very slow monsters compared to Couturier.
There was no information on what kind of monsters I could encounter in N1W3.
Oh well, guess there was no other way besides finding out for myself.
 
 

The Summoners were all starting to come back.
Their Summon Monster teams were all also built around mobility.
From a distance away, I wouldn’t blame anyone for thinking the army of monsters just came back.
There were more Summon Monsters than there were players.
Before we departed, I more or less set a goal for us.
The goal was to reach the W3 map boundary by noon.
 
Well then. There wasn’t much thinking left to do.
It was time for the Summoner Corps to get going once again.

What about the monsters around us?
I checked out our surroundings using【Call Monster】.
There were noticeably less Centaurs and Fighting Bulls.
The number of Steppe Lions was still the same, but they didn’t become active even when we got uncomfortably close to them.
The area seemed like it had gone back to normal.
 

If I had to mention something strange, I noticed there were a lot of Carrion Feeders. I could leave them alone…
But… Where was the fun in that?
Before all our Hawks and Owls, they were helpless.
But they were a type of monster that didn’t have any item drops..
We killed them quickly and kept going on horseback.
 

I wanted to put mobility first.