Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyusoukyoku (WN) - Volume 10 - Chapter 33

Chapter 33: 33

10-33 . Fiend Drug (3)

 

Satou's here . It's important to prepare things in advance . It's troublesome to do it while you're in the middle of a work, but if you don't prepare properly, you'll have a tough time later on . It doesn't feel like you need to do it until you learn it from the mistake though .

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Equipped with the artificial skin that I've made in the ivy mansion this afternoon, I change into a different person by using Disguise skill in full throttle . In addition, I equip a black mask to cover the area around my eyes .

Then, I change the Companion column into these . The name is Kuro, level 50, the occupation is bounty hunter, the skills are of shooting-related ones, rare magic, elf language, dragon language, and the exact opposite of Satou's modest stats . I recorded the various stats in the memo column so I won't mistake it whenever I disguise myself . I can use Nanashi if I want, but disguising myself will have no meaning if it becomes [Nanashi appears wherever Satou is], so I've decided to make the third persona .

"Satou-sama, what are you going to do with such a disguise?"

"I'm going to eliminate the lost thieves . Leriril, I'm sorry, but is it okay if I shelter the people who have been caught by the lost thieves here?"

"Please use the surface mansion if possible . There are many dangerous equipments in the underground . "

Ah, I forgot about that .

I install a carved seal board for teleport on the surface mansion .

"Well then, I'm going . I'm counting on you to receive them . "

"Yes, please leave it to me!"

Ah, I can't stop feeling odd at Leriril who replies promptly .

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I initially went to the safe area of Area 17 where the villa is .

First, I have to prepare the particular by finding the place where I can apprehend the lost thieves .

I mark all the lost thieves inside the labyrinth . There are approximately 300 people in total . 90% of them have committed felony like [Murder] .

Next, I look for the working field that Rudaman talked about . I try searching the main ingredients of the fiend drug, Ruin Weed and Decay Stem in each area . Although there are places where they're growing wild, I pick ones where they're growing densely that have obviously been tended by humans, and have carriers and lost thieves nearby them . There are three places all in all . Moreover, the places cannot be reached without going through troublesome areas .

Next, I search to see if there's any noble or their servants . Miss Gina's party [Moonlight], and other three noble parties come up . Judging from their positions, every party is innocent . They're quite enthusiastic to hunt by staying overnight . Even miss Gina who was at level 6 when I first met her has smoothly leveled up to 9 now . They're probably leveling up efficiently by constantly fighting higher-leveled enemies .

Next, I need to prepare the place where I can temporarily put the lost thieves . I can't exactly bring them to the authority in the middle of the night .

The chosen site is in one corner of Area 37 . It's a bit deep but since it's an area with plant-type monsters, it has watering holes . I've picked the place where Gushing Holes can't geographically appear, and with only one entrance to it .

I look for the shortest route there . I can likely get there in 20 minutes if I break the walls in two passages along the way .

While relying on Invisibility and Spy skills I fly on the passage ceilings with Sky Drive . It seems that no one from the explorers parties along the way noticed me . Even if they do, they will probably regard it as a new kind of monster .

The hall where I've arrived at is quite a damp place with water dripping from the ceiling .

Fern-type plants are growing in colony . It looks like they're monsters . I tried throwing an ant leg from the storage to it, and the fern leaves became like a chainsaw, cutting the leg . I'm unsure whether this monster belongs to a fantasy or a horror work . Let's check the leaf's structure later .

I catch sight of monsters that look exactly like triceratops between the trees .   It's probably not a normal dinosaur since violet flashes sometimes appear on its orange-colored transparent horns . While producing chewing sounds, these monsters are munching the leaves that are rotating like chainsaws without even caring about it . There are also two-meter class dragonfly-like monsters fluttering around .

Geez, it's completely a Cretaceous era .

I pull myself together and begin the clean-up . I swiftly cut down the stronger monsters with [Flexible Swords] . Since they'll likely smell if left alone, I put them into the storage with [Magic Hand] in no time flat .

After I've exterminated the big ones, I use [Remote Arrow] to eradicate the small fries . I retrieve the bodies just like I did with the big ones .

In just 10 minutes, I've completed clearing the monsters in the hall .

In the center of the room, I put a lot of bowls with clothes inside and dried meats from insect-type monsters in jars . These dried meats were something that the mansion children had made for practice . They're terrible thing that even made the beastkin girls to put down their forks with just a single bite . It was clearly a failure, but I couldn't throw them away just like that either, so I stowed it away in the storage . Might as well use it for the lost thieves I'll be capturing .

Next, I block the only passage to the room with a big rock that I had stored in the storage from the aisle . Then I put a carved seal board on the middle of the passage . In addition, I make hard stone walls at a certain length in the passage afterward by using [Stone Wall] magic on the soil taken out of my storage .

The impromptu prison is complete with this .

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I catch the lost thieves with a series of capturing combo starting with Remote Stun .

"Who are you bastard! Who do you think this great me is!"

"Yeah yeah, I'll listen to you later . "

I defeat the one who seems to be the boss of this lost thief group by pounding him with Remote Stuns . I then floor the rest of the small fries with the capturing combo .

Fumu, it's 55 people with this huh . I guess this is it for this base .

I lift the captured lost thieves with [Magic Hand] and teleport to Area 37 . I advance on the passage, and then put the rock that block the way to the hall into my storage, opening the road .

Since the fallen lost thieves were crowding in front of the rock, I pushed the fresh lost thieves inside, putting them back into the room . After I've finished putting them inside, I place the rock again, blocking the passage . Booing broke out from the other side of the rock, but I ignored it since it didn't interest me .

However, it was a bit of failure . I forgot that there were also women among the lost thieves . I can let them stay in the same room, but I don't want that somehow . It can't be helped, I make another room with a door in the passage and decide to confine the female lost thieves there . Just like in the hall, I've also provided food, salt, two barrels of water, an empty jar, and a partitioning screen there .

I teleport back to the base just now and this time, I lift the carriers and the slaves with [Magic Hand], and take them to the mansion of ivy .

"H-here is?"

"Onee-chan, it's stars!　I can see the stars . "

"Outside? It's really the outside?"

Leriril who have waited for our coming claps her hands to gather their attentions .

"Be quiet children of human . This is the mansion of ivy, the place where sage-sama lives . I'll send you back to the labyrinth if you make an uproar . "

The threat seems to be effective as the worked-up people have quieted down .

"Have your representative steps up . Porina, please explain the things to the representative . "

"Yes, Kuro-sama . "

Porina is the leader of the carriers whom I've saved first . She's level 7 despite being a baggage carrier . Her skills are [Carriage], [Cultivation], and [Harvesting] .

I leave here to Leriril and Porina, and go back to the field earlier . I put one of the surveillance magic tool that I've created for the villa in one corner of the room . It looks like a two-meter long pole with a skull on its tip . The skull part has surveillance and information transmission mechanisms installed . The pole part has magic circuit for circulating magic power, and it can operate for three days if it's filled to the brim with magic power . I made this for surveillance around the villa, but since its appearance was unpopular (among the girls), I stowed it away .

I attack the remaining large-scale lost thief hideout and rescue the carriers who are working there . The bigger places are complete with this . Next, I assaulted the smaller lost thief groups that had dispersed in 10 places . Dealing with them was troublesome since they were running away in small groups .

Once I throw the last lost thief into the temporary prison, I take a breath .

It should be fine to take these guys to the west guild after the day has risen .

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In total, there are 220 people that I've saved . 110 people are carriers, 80 are slaves, and 30 are unexpectedly explorers . All of them are women . Apparently, men who were caught were either killed, or made to work as slaves until they made them became decoys for a special strategy (Train), killing them .

Most of the women seemed to be working on the field with shackles on their legs . Looks like they were also cultivating crops for the lost thieves' consumption besides the ingredients for the fiend drug . Due to that, there are some who have Cultivation, Harvesting, and Mixing skills .

There are a lot of female explorers at level 5, the ones who were higher than that were either solicited into becoming lost thieves, or killed .

Leriril was still up, but Porina and the others have gone asleep since they seemed to be tired, I'll talk to them again once the dawn arrives .

There are too many of them and not enough rooms in the mansion, so she has prepared beds in the hall and the corridors for them .

"Sa, Kuro-sama, actually, we have ran out of the reserve food . The vegetables grown with 『Green Hand (Grow)』 magic in the garden are at its limit too . "

"Ah, sorry, I forgot to supply them . "

Leriril leads me to the food warehouse and then I take out a large quantity of ingredients . Most of them are the ones I've collected in the lost thief hideouts, but I've also put things like wheat, potatoes, frog meat, salt and many other things . It should be enough for a while since they're around 6000 meal worth in all . I give her various kind of medicines since there are some unhealthy people among them .

"Is this a space magic?"

"Un, something like that . "

It's dead at midnight now, and there's still quite some time until morning, so I go to the underground workshop with Leriril . Communications from Arisa comes at regular interval, reporting "No abnormal~ity" with a sleepy voice . I suggested her to alternate the monitoring work, but since she said okay, I'll let them work hard until Arisa and Mia doze off, and the regular contact gets cut off .

Sir Sokel doesn't have a peerage even though he's a noble . I feel that there's a real mastermind behind this, although I hope it's just an unfounded fear . If the mastermind is in this city, they should be raiding tonight . And right now until the early dawn is the time with the highest probability for the raid .

I thought of going back to the mansion for an instant, but I decided to prepare various things in the underground workshop and went to the streets .

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