episode_0065

In the game, no matter how long you walk around, your character won’t get tired. That’s natural. If your character gets tired just from walking around, it would be extremely frustrating for the player.

A character that has been running around for an hour or so cannot move unless they rest for 10 minutes. This would be a fatal flaw in a genre like JRPG with a long playtime.

In addition, these games don’t place any major restrictions on running. Unless it’s an action RPG, there’s no need to have stamina restrictions, which doesn’t have a big impact on the gameplay. Since you’ll be switching to combat mode every time you fight an enemy anyway, there’s no reason to make the gameplay frustrating by restricting fast movement.

The problem is, that’s only true in games.

“Heh… … Heh… … Heh… … .”

I heard heavy breathing behind me.

The place where the elemental bear was was deep in the forest. It wasn’t that there was no path, and it wasn’t a real mountain either, but it was a narrow path that required a lot of effort to walk compared to the solid path in the village.

Of course, if you walk that kind of road for tens of minutes without stopping, you are bound to have physical problems.

“… … .”

At least I did the bare minimum of training. Although I don’t have a superhuman body like the other main characters, my physical strength itself wasn’t the worst.

The problem was that Mia Crowfield, who normally seemed to have nothing to do with exercise,

“Are you okay?”

Claire looked worried as she followed me, keeping her teeth clenched and her expression straight. She looked at Mia Crowfield, who was barely following behind me, and asked, “Are you okay?”

“Heh, oh, it’s okay, yo… … .”

“No, it doesn’t look okay at all.”

Alice said.

“Let’s rest here and go. It’s better for both Lady Crowfield and us to meet our prey in optimal condition.”

“Sure, that’s right. Let’s take a break here.”

The sun was rising little by little in the sky.

I woke up at 4 in the morning and went out after eating, but everyone seemed to know how foolish it was to go into the forest in the middle of the night. However, it wasn’t like I didn’t do anything in the meantime. I reviewed the request once more and checked the supplies I had prepared before going into the forest.

No matter how hard I played the game, the forest didn’t look exactly like the one in the game, just like in Imperial Road. The shape of the village was exactly like the game, but… … It would have been impossible to implement the size of such a large forest in the game.

“Haa… … .”

Mia Crowfield exhaled, squatting on the floor.

“… … .”

I took out the water bottle I had on my waist and handed it to Mia Crowfield. I had boiled some water in the morning and put it in the water bottle, then put it in the leather pouch on my waist, so it was still a little warm.

“Ah… … .”

When I handed her the canteen, Emia Crowfield looked up at me with wide eyes, a little surprised.

“Thank you.”

But I couldn’t refuse the offer, perhaps because of the gazes of those around me.

Mia Crowfield opened the still-warm water bottle and took a careful sip. She exhaled, ““Hoo… … .”.”

“I guess I might not be able to do some of the requests?”

Jake said something quite cool.

But at the same time, I somewhat agreed with Jake. Not only is Miaqrowfield second, but my physical strength also has its limits. I may look like some kind of iron man to others, but in reality, no matter how hard I train, except for Miaqrowfield, I can’t beat anyone here in terms of strength and physical strength.

“… … .”

The question is, then what happens to the game’s story?

It doesn’t matter if someone drops out of a few subquests, but the party is fixed for the main quest. Well, it’s still very different from the game now. In the game, a party can only have four people in it at a time.

The fact that so many people are running around together like this is already a far cry from the game.

But then.

What happens if a character who plays an important role in the main quest gets exhausted, injured, or collapses?

While I was lost in my own thoughts, Mia Crowfield handed me the water bottle again with a slightly frightened expression on her face, perhaps wondering what I was thinking as I looked at her.

I silently accepted the water bottle and took a sip of the water inside.

The still warm water ran down my throat, warming me up a little.

… … Well, it’s still very early in the story. It won’t be too late to wait and see and then judge.

And what?

Wasn’t this request something that Charlotte, Gorgor, and Claire both approved of?

The three of them judged that they had the ability to defeat the Elemental Bear with certainty, and the guide nodded as if it was natural when he heard Grace’s name, so something would work out.

Would someone get seriously injured in a subquest?

*

The elemental dog was similar in size to a wolf.

However, his physical abilities were not much different from those of a wolf. Although he was said to be carrying a Marmaros in his body, it was not strong enough to block bullets.

But, if you think about it, that beast was a monster you encounter in the first battle in the work.

Of course, the monster here isn’t that strong.

“Kooo!”

However, the atmosphere of ‘Red Claw’, who was howling so furiously, was different.

… … So, the beast we had to hunt this time was a ‘bear’. A bear whose hide and bones sometimes deflect bullets.

But it is a bear that holds a fire attribute Marmaros and uses magic instinctively.

It was twice as big as the polar bear I had seen at the zoo, so much so that I had to tilt my head back to look up at it.

Usually, a bear would be a little cute if it just sat there with its mouth shut, but an elemental bear just sat there still, and it had a beastly vibe.

“Then, let’s go!”

Leo said so, and Claire nodded.

“Koooo!”

The elemental bear deftly dodges the swing of its arm. Leo jumps sideways and Claire ducks her head. It makes me shiver to see the ends of Claire’s tied-back hair being bitten off by the sharp claws.

“Let’s go too, Princess!”

“… …Just call me Charlotte.”

Jake and Charlotte ran next. They circled around the elemental bear and swung their swords. Of course, it didn’t look like it would fall easily because of its thick hide.

Claire used her whip-like sword skill to steal the elemental bear’s attention from a distance, and Leo used the gap to dive into the bear’s front and swing his sword. Although he wasn’t able to inflict a fatal wound at first, he was definitely taking away the beast’s stamina.

The fight unfolded with the bear turning its head towards Charlotte and Jake at the back, and the two people in front attacking again to bring its gaze back to the front. Grace’s swordsmanship, which focused on heavy strikes and slashes, and Charlotte’s swordsmanship, which used a narrow sword, and Jake’s swordsmanship, which used quick strikes and escape tactics, were a good match in their own way.

“Then, I’ll go too.”

Alice said, holding the sword tightly.

“Please take care of the back!”

“Yes.”

As I nodded, Alice rushed forward.

The Imperial Swordsmanship was a swordsmanship that placed great weight on each attack. It was slower than Grace’s swordsmanship, which used two-handed swords, but at the same time, each attack had tremendous power. It was enough to crack the floor with just the sword.

In the game, Alice was a melee dealer who was ‘slow but had strong one-shot skills’.

Alice ran towards the Elemental Bear through Leo and Claire’s gap and swung her sword. The Elemental Bear’s belly, which had only received minor wounds from Leo and Claire’s swords, was torn open and blood spurted out.

“Geeek!”

A painful howl, different from the spirited sound from earlier, rang out so loud it almost tore through your ears. Thud, thud, the furious Elemental Bear slammed its fists against the ground several times. Sparks shot out from the ground covered with a thick layer of dry leaves.

“hic.”

Mia Crowfield let out a faint scream at the sight.

“We just have to do it according to plan.”

I spoke calmly to Mia Crowfield.

It was a much more thrilling and brutal scene than what I had seen in the game, but I had already blown up a person and shot a wolf in the forehead before. There was no reason for me to be shocked by such a sight now.

“Prepare water attribute magic. I will prepare to shoot from a distance away from you. ”

Mia Crowfield nodded several times to my words.

I saw Mia Crowfield, who had moved to a place slightly away from the battlefield with her shoulders slightly hunched, casting a spell with her staff in hand, and I moved as well.

If I had enough time, I would have climbed the tree, but it didn’t seem like there was time for that now.

I climbed up onto a large rock nearby, knelt down on one knee, took up a shooting stance, and aimed my gun at the elemental bear’s head.

Although its head was large, it was not easy to aim at it as it roared and moved madly towards Leo and his party.

But, I have several chances.

I put my finger on the trigger and pulled it. The solid metal pushed my finger hard, and eventually it fell backwards as if it was collapsing under the force I gave it.

bang!

The gunshots rang out so loudly that I thought they might be even louder than the gunshots I had heard in the military.

It was a stroke of luck that I was able to hit the bear’s head in one shot without having to turn back time.

“Kuao!”

But the prey didn’t fall down all at once. The sight of it stretching its body and getting up, even with blood spurting from one eye, was honestly a little scary.

In the meantime, several more wounds were added to the Elemental Bear’s body, but the bear looked straight at me as if it didn’t care about that.

frenzy.

If that bear had an expression, it would look like this.

I looked straight at the blood and something transparent flowing out of the bear’s right eye through the scope, and I put my hand on the bolt and pulled it back. Clang! I felt the light and pleasant movement of a gun part that fits perfectly, and at the same time, with a tingling sound, the bullet casing fell out one foot.

Push your hands forward again,

“… … .”

Flames began to shoot out from the bear’s back.

Even by my standards, which are incapable of feeling the sensation of life or anything else, the bear’s appearance was very alien.

“Back off!”

Leo immediately shouted when he saw that, and everyone near the Elemental Bear instantly fell back.

Even so, the Elemental Bear did not chase after the humans who surrounded it.

Swoosh—

There was a sound like a kettle boiling, and a large bear head slowly opened its mouth.

The gaping mouth was pointed straight at me.

“… … Ah.”

right.

I hadn’t even thought about it because of its overly beastly appearance, but in the Azerna Chronicles, even the trash mobs used magic without any problems.

It’s magic with the same effects as the magic used by humans.

I’ve always wondered how humans use magic that requires reciting spells.

Through the scope, flames could be seen rising deep within the bear’s mouth.

Was it coming out directly from the body?

I pulled the trigger hastily.

I heard a loud bang, and felt the recoil of the gun through my shoulder. As the gun was fired, the recoil lifted the scope up, so I didn’t see the bullet pierce the bear’s cheek.

And at the same time, the magic of the Mia Crow Field that had been prepared in advance was activated.