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One corner of the entrance to a dimensional forest.

The summoners who received Ian and Hun's orders were heavily involved in lumbering.

Squeak, squeak, squeak!

“Hey, take care of yourself. When are you gonna fill a hundred of them so slow? ”

“Shut up. Can't you see I'm working hard?" ”

Squeak, squeak, squeak!

Elkarix, riding on Carseus' shoulders, is working hard overseeing the lumbering scene.

And next to them was Lai, who was wielding the axe he had received from Ian hard.

“Grrr, this is too hard. Can't we just break it with our claws? ”

If the axe doesn't work properly, he gets annoyed or exhales an elongated nose.

Towards him, Elkarix shakes his head and darts.

“No, Lai. If you do that, you'll get more useless materials. ”

“Grrr. Elkarix, I want to stop this. Fighting the enemy is much more fun. Grrr!”

“If you keep grumbling like that, you'll go to your dad? ”

“Grrr!”

And this kind of firearm.) Next to Ian's summoners, there are the undead of Hun, who are ignorantly lumbering.

Shya-!

“The Lord awaits! Cut down all the trees! ”

“Let's push this forest into the plain! ”

“Kirik - Kirik -! ”

Under the command of the Darknights, the undead of Hoonie take down the trees with their bare hands

Seeing them like that, Elkarix was the General Manager of the Undead Faction.) to the Desert Night Balaam.

“No, Balaam! You don't need it unless it's black dagger. Why are you chopping down all the trees? ”

“We don't know that. ”

“ ……? ”

“Isn't Black Trees a tree? ”

“Right... W... ”

“So if you cut down a tree, you cut down a blackflower, right? ”

“Eh……? ”

Unknown logic and the undead of Huns who chop down trees as soon as they hit them!

So, one peak south of the dimensional forest began to turn into a mountain of foliage.

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Meanwhile, the time when the summoners were working hard to cut down the trees.

“Hmm, I need to follow the ghosts to find him.... ”

Worker in a Fortress (?) and came out of the dimensional forest, wandering around looking for something.

What he's looking for is another dimensional ghost.

The reason Ian was looking for ghosts was actually simple.

The best thing to do to find the ‘Iron Swarm’ was to capture the movement of the spirits.

‘The mine with the fire is concentrated in the northeast...' If we wait in the street over there, we'll find the demons' movements. ’

Ian rolls his head quickly and starts to move quickly.

As long as I find the Iron Worm, I'm confident I can gather 40 Magic Crystals.

However, it was not enough time for two hours.

‘Now, where are you, buddy? Come on, show me what you got. ’

Ian stares at the glittering golden pickaxe in his hand, and starts walking with a big smile.

The performance of this pickaxe received from the Guard Captain shows more than a few times the level of a basic pickaxe.

As long as we find the Iron Worm this time, Ian is really confident that he will devour his soul.

But then, Ian was making fun of the walk.

Kirik! Kirik!

An unfamiliar sound came into Ian's ears.

“Found it!”

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Humans are selfish.

It is human instinct to be distracted and not want to lose money for others.

If only one of them has to survive, it is a person who has no meaning unless it is "me."

How much more do I need to concede if I didn't know the first person I met just a few days ago?

The ‘concession’ was normally accomplished.

“Huhu, this is how it turned out. ”

Ryoka, who was the leader of the Heavenly Military Faction, was sighing and stepping out of a dimensional forest.

But the strange thing was that there was no one with her.

Jonas, who was the leader of the group, as well as Pedrick, Rias and Seyffle.

I didn't see any of them by her side.

Then, did Ryoka kick out the lead group that was a target for all rankers?

If that's the case, then why did it happen?

“If Ian and Hun were here, things would be a little different.... ”

Ryoka sighs deeply, shaking her head.

She didn't actually kick the lead group out.

The leader of the Heavenly Military Faction was already disbanded by the time she left the party.

She recalled the situation about half an hour ago.

“So you're saying Jonas wants to push the two of them out of the equation? ”

“Th-that's it. Isn't there something else we can do in this situation? Instead of failing the quest together, at least one or two people should go to the next level... ”

“So which one of us is going to be the one who's going to be pushed into the civil war? ”

“Then it would be reasonable for Fedric and I to have just acquired some Contribution Points, wouldn't it? ”

“Phew, so the three of us, we just have to sacrifice. ”

“Well, more than that, for the public good……. ”

“What is the public interest. That's it. I'll just leave the party and figure it out. ”

“Mr. Seyfel! ”

“I agree. A public interest in something frozen to death. I can only see your selfishness.

“Dias...! ”

“Everyone just happens to be like this. ”

While the rankers are talking, Ryoka doesn't say a word.

In the beginning, she was as greedy as the other rankers.

As one ‘ranker’, of course, it would be a lie if you didn't want to get ahead of the other rankers.

But her greed was not as great as the other rankers, and she tended to pathologically dislike conflict and dissension with someone.

Because if Seyfal and Dias had accepted Jonas' proposal, she would have followed the trend without a word.

But the outcome led to everyone's conflict, and Ryoka, who didn't want to see it, was the first to leave the party and return to the fortress.

‘At this rate, I need to rest for a long time today. I think it would be a lot easier to stockpile up and try again with other members tomorrow. ’

When four people thought they might still be arguing, a sigh came out of Ryoka's mouth again.

“Phew, I don't want to go to that party again. ”

Ryoka shakes her head again and makes her stumble.

But when I left the forest and started to see the fort, I suddenly thought of someone in Ryoka's head.

“Where did Ian and Hun go, by the way? Even if you two are great, this quest won't be a quest for you to break... ”

Recalling the two, Ryoka decided to look for their whereabouts once before closing the connection.

I didn't know what they were doing, but if they didn't try the quest today, I wanted to go on the quest with them tomorrow.

“Heehee, I think Hun can make it really fun when he quests with. ”

I remembered Ryoka's silly look on her big wizard hat, which reminded me of her silly face.

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Sarah and Vanessa, two of Germany's most famous twin rankers.

Famous for playing games in private, she has always stood by Duo in the village of warriors.

Of course, there were times when it was inevitable that I would be with other rankers, but I got confused and went through all the quests with Duo.

Because of this, you're a little behind the other rankers who entered the town.

But they didn't really care about that.

I was going to enjoy the game anyway, and I didn't intend to party with other users in the future unless they were more fun to play with.

“Sarah, can I finish my colony extermination quest today? ”

“Well, it won't be easy, but, you know, we should try. ”

The village rank of two warriors was just beyond the rank of a recruit.

So their ongoing main quest is a Stage C quest called the Battalion Elimination War.

The Battle of the Rocks quest was, in fact, the most common quest of this warrior's town's main quest.

The difficulty was never easy, but the quest was constructed with a structure that was not difficult to see in the human world.

“Forty ferocious bears. Twenty dimensional magicians. Seventy evil spirits in dimension.... ”

“Ugh, bears and demons are easy to catch, but magicians are really tricky.... ”

“I know. But I can't help it. You have to fill all the kill points in order to get into the possessed colony. ”

Sarah and Vanessa started talking about the quest and moved towards the coordinates in the quest information window.

I want to kill them first because the location of the dimensional magicians spread throughout the forest in the quest information window is marked with coordinates.

“Wh-whoa! ”

As always, the twin sisters on the "Cortus," Vanessa's summoner, began to fly slowly toward the sky.

Whiiing-!

As the wings of Cortus, a massive green dragon, start flapping, the forest trees are swirling in all directions.

“Cortus, let's head northwest. I'll get the exact coordinates back on the way. ”

“Understood, master. ”

At Vanessa's command, Cortus nods slightly and answers briefly.

And then the next moment.

Cortus, who burned the two sisters, began flapping his wings towards the northwest.

Cortus begins to cut through the air at fairly rapid speeds, unlike a giant.

Shhh!

“Hmm, I knew summoners were handy in many ways. ”

Sarah casually sits on the stones of Cortus and strokes her back with a satisfied expression.

As she looks at her, Vanessa pounces.

“It's not convenient, it's great. Summoners are great creatures. ”

“Yeah, I think so. Kick-kick.”

Two sisters relaxing and chatting with floating coordinates on the quest window.

However, their leisure could not last very long.

Suddenly, I'm starting to hear loud noises of unknown identity.

Cough, cough, cough!

Trees in the forest begin to shake like ashes, even if there is an earthquake.

“Well, what is it? Are there any boss monsters? ”

Nervous Sarah begins to scan everywhere using magic, holding Cortus' back tightly.

And after a while.

“ ……! ”

She was able to identify this enormous noise.

“That guy, Ian...? ”