Chapter 139 - Gigantic Moth
I used teleportation magic and teleported myself on top of the gigantic moth.
“What’s that ominous miasma stuff……”
I unintentionally scowled.
The stuff that rose from the gigantic moth’s whole body, the miasma, was — Stagnant Magic Power.
It fell down along with the scales to the ground. In the blink of an eye, it rotted away the trees of the Great Forest.
It completely ignored me, probably because it took me as a fly or something, it just kept on flying calmly.
However, in that direction is an elven village, so if I don’t do something quickly there’ll probably be severe damage. I don’t know what’ll happen if this sale powder falls onto people.
“I don’t really want to use physical attacks……”
I don’t really want to use techniques that will leave a grotesque corpse, so I decided to burn it down with fire magic.
However, to prevent the forest from completely burning I first enveloped the gigantic moth in a barrier.
Moreover,
“〈Hell Fire (Furigana: Brimstone)〉
I used a Super-class fire spell inside the barrier.
The moth was instantly wrapped in terrible flames.
By the way, since I have the skill 〈Barrier Magic・Extreme〉 even Super-class magic spells can’t destroy my barriers.
『～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～!?』
The huge moth was rampaging inside the flames.
“Hey, hey, are you serious?”
Unbelievably, even after getting turned into a ball of flames it still tenaciously held on to dear life.
It tried to tear down my barrier and slammed its body multiple times against it.
“God-class magic —〈Sin Purifying Purgatory Flames〉”
Then I cast a highest class fire spell.
A large avalanche of flames attacked the gigantic moth.
The pressure pushed against the barrier and almost broke it.
When the flames eventually subsided what was left was just a huge pile of ashes.
Despite that, there was still a huge amount of miasma.
“……As I thought, I can’t just leave this stuff here”
I had no other choice but to put this stuff in my 〈Infinite Storage〉.
Lucifer helped to purify the trees that have already been contaminated.
Using her heavenly power, it was possible to remove the damage relatively easy.
“If it’s for Thira-sama, I’ll do whateeeever she wants!”
“……When did you come back?”
She should have been sent to the Heavenly Prison in the Heavenly Realm though.
Well, thanks to her, we’re saved.
Even with the death of the gigantic moth, the miasma didn’t disappear and the pollution continued to spread.
I’d probably have been able to contain it with my skills but it would’ve taken a long time probably.
Then we gathered the materials Rishelle and Ashera needed and returned to the elven village.
“Still, what on earth was that? It seemed to be completely different from the usual monsters……”
So Thira.
I’m of the same opinion.
That’s the first time I’ve encountered a monster of that type.
“Naviko-san?”
『……My apologies. I don’t know any further details either』
Seriously?
Naviko-san who came from the skill 〈Navigation・Extreme〉 didn’t have any information about that thing.
『As the name suggests, I’m a skill that specializes in giving directions in the first place』
It seems like her dictionary functions were just secondary.
“The elder?”
“Correct. That gigantic moth could be seen from the village, but when the elder heard about this, he suddenly started becoming uneasy.”
Thira’s papa told us who just returned to the village these things.
“I’m sorry, but would you, who defeated that monster, go to the elder for a bit……?”
That’s an easy task.
If the elder knows something about that monster, then I’d love to hear about that as well.
Thira and I went to his house as representatives as it would be annoying to come with a great number of people.
I was told that the Elven Elder’s name was Tokoro.
It’s also said that he’s been alive for more than 500 years.
If one considers that the long lived elves also only live for about 200 years that’s surprisingly old.
As expected, he seemed sloppy.
One couldn’t even tell if they are a man or a woman.
“Elder, it has been a while. I’m Family head Diega’s daughter, Thira.”
Thira greeted him.
The Elder put one hand to his ear.
“Aah!?”
Looks like he didn’t hear her,
Thira spoke slower and in a louder voice than before.
“……Elder-sama, It has been a while. I’m Family Head Diega’s daughter Thira”
“Aah!?”
As expected, looks like he didn’t hear her again.
Thira spoke in an even louder voice.
“E L D E R – S A M A, I T H A S B E E N A W H I L E. I ‘ M F A M I L Y H E A D D I E G A ‘S D A U G H T E R, T H I R A !”
“Aah!?”
“………It’s nothing”
Thira gave up.
“I’m really sorry. Great Grandfather-sama’s ears aren’t the best anymore……”
A woman that seems to be the great grand daughter of the elder apologized in his stead.
“I feel like we won’t be able to communicate like this……”
“Leave it to me. Let’s try talking through telepathy”
If we use telepathy it won’t matter how bad his ears are.
“!”
The elder seems to be surprised.
Then he moved his mouth devoid of teeth.
“Fugafugafuga”
The elder seems like he wanted to convey something!
“Fugafugafuga”
The elder seems like he wanted to convey something!
“Fugafugafuga”
The elder seems like he wanted to convey something!
“I see……”
I nodded mysteriously.
“You understood that just now?!”
“Because I listened to his thoughts”
“Then, wouldn’t it have been fine even if he didn’t do the whole Fugafuga thing…….?”
According to the Elder.
In the past, there was a powerful and evil entity that was trying to rule the world.
Countless evil monsters were subordinate and among them was a gigantic moth that shed dreadful scales.
The places the moth passed through turned into lands of death and people who were bathed in its scales died one after the other, so it was pretty similar to that monster just now.+
“And what happened then……?”
Then, suddenly a hero who received special protection and power from the gods appeared.
It is said that after the hero defeated the evil entity after a life and death struggle the world regained its peace.
“Fugafugafuga”
“It’s something that happened more than a 1000 years ago”
“Fugafugafuga”
“When I was a kid I was told this story by my great grandfather”
“Fugafugafuga”
“Is that moth the harbringer of that evil entity’s revival?”
“Fugafugafuga”
“Will this world come to an end?”
The elder held his head and shook, frightened.
It seems like the elder’s life will come to an end even before the world does.
Moreover, wasn’t this something that happened long before the elder was born?
If it’s like this we wouldn’t be able to know if it was just a myth or something that actually happened.
“Fugafugafuga”
“The ruins of the Great Empire which flourished 1000 year ago are in the western Grea desert?”
“Fugafugafuga”
“It’s said that the Hero’s grave is located in that place? I see, there might be a clue there, huh……”
We thanked the elder and left the house.
『The Grea desert is located in the far west of Ekvana』
Ekvana is the beastmen’s country.
From there, I went to the north to visit a hots spring before, but I haven’t gone to the west yet.
But a desert, huuh.
That’s just a sandy place with nothing else to see.
The story the elder told us is just your same old typical folklore story and that moth might just happened to seem similar to the monster in the story.
『By the way, Amazones, who are a women-only warrior race have made their country there』
“Alright, let’s go”
I received that information from Naviko-san and immediately made our future plans.
“……You obviously have impure motives, don’t you?”
“What are you saying, Thira?! Maybe the world really is about to face a great crisis! No matter. If I have to go through fire, water or a place filled with muscular beautiful women, guhehe…… I’ll go through everything to get to the bottom of this!”
—————————————————————
I used teleportation magic and teleported myself on top of the gigantic moth.
“What’s that ominous miasma stuff……”
I unintentionally scowled.
The stuff that rose from the gigantic moth’s whole body, the miasma, was — Stagnant Magic Power.
It fell down along with the scales to the ground. In the blink of an eye, it rotted away the trees of the Great Forest.
It completely ignored me, probably because it took me as a fly or something, it just kept on flying calmly.
However, in that direction is an elven village, so if I don’t do something quickly there’ll probably be severe damage. I don’t know what’ll happen if this sale powder falls onto people.
“I don’t really want to use physical attacks……”
I don’t really want to use techniques that will leave a grotesque corpse, so I decided to burn it down with fire magic.
However, to prevent the forest from completely burning I first enveloped the gigantic moth in a barrier.
Moreover,
“〈Hell Fire (Furigana: Brimstone)〉
I used a Super-class fire spell inside the barrier.
The moth was instantly wrapped in terrible flames.
By the way, since I have the skill 〈Barrier Magic・Extreme〉 even Super-class magic spells can’t destroy my barriers.
『～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～!?』
The huge moth was rampaging inside the flames.
“Hey, hey, are you serious?”
Unbelievably, even after getting turned into a ball of flames it still tenaciously held on to dear life.
It tried to tear down my barrier and slammed its body multiple times against it.
“God-class magic —〈Sin Purifying Purgatory Flames〉”
Then I cast a highest class fire spell.
A large avalanche of flames attacked the gigantic moth.
The pressure pushed against the barrier and almost broke it.
When the flames eventually subsided what was left was just a huge pile of ashes.
Despite that, there was still a huge amount of miasma.
“……As I thought, I can’t just leave this stuff here”
I had no other choice but to put this stuff in my 〈Infinite Storage〉.
Lucifer helped to purify the trees that have already been contaminated.
Using her heavenly power, it was possible to remove the damage relatively easy.
“If it’s for Thira-sama, I’ll do whateeeever she wants!”
“……When did you come back?”
She should have been sent to the Heavenly Prison in the Heavenly Realm though.
Well, thanks to her, we’re saved.
Even with the death of the gigantic moth, the miasma didn’t disappear and the pollution continued to spread.
I’d probably have been able to contain it with my skills but it would’ve taken a long time probably.
Then we gathered the materials Rishelle and Ashera needed and returned to the elven village.
“Still, what on earth was that? It seemed to be completely different from the usual monsters……”
So Thira.
I’m of the same opinion.
That’s the first time I’ve encountered a monster of that type.
“Naviko-san?”
『……My apologies. I don’t know any further details either』
Seriously?
Naviko-san who came from the skill 〈Navigation・Extreme〉 didn’t have any information about that thing.
『As the name suggests, I’m a skill that specializes in giving directions in the first place』
It seems like her dictionary functions were just secondary.
“The elder?”
“Correct. That gigantic moth could be seen from the village, but when the elder heard about this, he suddenly started becoming uneasy.”
Thira’s papa told us who just returned to the village these things.
“I’m sorry, but would you, who defeated that monster, go to the elder for a bit……?”
That’s an easy task.
If the elder knows something about that monster, then I’d love to hear about that as well.
Thira and I went to his house as representatives as it would be annoying to come with a great number of people.
I was told that the Elven Elder’s name was Tokoro.
It’s also said that he’s been alive for more than 500 years.
If one considers that the long lived elves also only live for about 200 years that’s surprisingly old.
As expected, he seemed sloppy.
One couldn’t even tell if they are a man or a woman.
“Elder, it has been a while. I’m Family head Diega’s daughter, Thira.”
Thira greeted him.
The Elder put one hand to his ear.
“Aah!?”
Looks like he didn’t hear her,
Thira spoke slower and in a louder voice than before.
“……Elder-sama, It has been a while. I’m Family Head Diega’s daughter Thira”
“Aah!?”
As expected, looks like he didn’t hear her again.
Thira spoke in an even louder voice.
“E L D E R – S A M A, I T H A S B E E N A W H I L E. I ‘ M F A M I L Y H E A D D I E G A ‘S D A U G H T E R, T H I R A !”
“Aah!?”
“………It’s nothing”
Thira gave up.
“I’m really sorry. Great Grandfather-sama’s ears aren’t the best anymore……”
A woman that seems to be the great grand daughter of the elder apologized in his stead.
“I feel like we won’t be able to communicate like this……”
“Leave it to me. Let’s try talking through telepathy”
If we use telepathy it won’t matter how bad his ears are.
“!”
The elder seems to be surprised.
Then he moved his mouth devoid of teeth.
“Fugafugafuga”
The elder seems like he wanted to convey something!
“Fugafugafuga”
The elder seems like he wanted to convey something!
“Fugafugafuga”
The elder seems like he wanted to convey something!
“I see……”
I nodded mysteriously.
“You understood that just now?!”
“Because I listened to his thoughts”
“Then, wouldn’t it have been fine even if he didn’t do the whole Fugafuga thing…….?”
According to the Elder.
In the past, there was a powerful and evil entity that was trying to rule the world.
Countless evil monsters were subordinate and among them was a gigantic moth that shed dreadful scales.
The places the moth passed through turned into lands of death and people who were bathed in its scales died one after the other, so it was pretty similar to that monster just now.+
“And what happened then……?”
Then, suddenly a hero who received special protection and power from the gods appeared.
It is said that after the hero defeated the evil entity after a life and death struggle the world regained its peace.
“Fugafugafuga”
“It’s something that happened more than a 1000 years ago”
“Fugafugafuga”
“When I was a kid I was told this story by my great grandfather”
“Fugafugafuga”
“Is that moth the harbringer of that evil entity’s revival?”
“Fugafugafuga”
“Will this world come to an end?”
The elder held his head and shook, frightened.
It seems like the elder’s life will come to an end even before the world does.
Moreover, wasn’t this something that happened long before the elder was born?
If it’s like this we wouldn’t be able to know if it was just a myth or something that actually happened.
“Fugafugafuga”
“The ruins of the Great Empire which flourished 1000 year ago are in the western Grea desert?”
“Fugafugafuga”
“It’s said that the Hero’s grave is located in that place? I see, there might be a clue there, huh……”
We thanked the elder and left the house.
『The Grea desert is located in the far west of Ekvana』
Ekvana is the beastmen’s country.
From there, I went to the north to visit a hots spring before, but I haven’t gone to the west yet.
But a desert, huuh.
That’s just a sandy place with nothing else to see.
The story the elder told us is just your same old typical folklore story and that moth might just happened to seem similar to the monster in the story.
『By the way, Amazones, who are a women-only warrior race have made their country there』
“Alright, let’s go”
I received that information from Naviko-san and immediately made our future plans.
“……You obviously have impure motives, don’t you?”
“What are you saying, Thira?! Maybe the world really is about to face a great crisis! No matter. If I have to go through fire, water or a place filled with muscular beautiful women, guhehe…… I’ll go through everything to get to the bottom of this!”
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