On the second day of our escort, today we pass through what looks to be the most dangerous part of the trip to Kilmaia.
This is Mount Buller, where wyverns are said to nest every few years.
In other words, the road goes around the base of Mount Buller.
This place is far away from the top of the mountain, but also far away from human habitation. Some people are worried that bandits will appear here.
After leaving the inn early in the morning, the carriage of the furniture workshop Diaco arrived in Nacoote City before noon.
After lunch here, we planned to pass through the foot of the mountain.
"Hua Wuming, be careful of suspicious people."
"Suspicious guy?"
“Thieves will keep an eye on which carriage is in the town ahead of them.
"Do you understand it"
"I replied that I understood, but there were a lot of people on Nucket Street and if I felt suspicious, everyone would feel suspicious."
Schuler sat on the coachman's platform with a wide view and stared blankly ahead.
At first glance, it looks sleepy and unfocused, but in fact it has an expanded field of view, monitoring strange movements.
It might listen about 200 degrees ahead, but even the Shure can't cover 360 degrees.
"That being the case, I'll do my best to make up for the missing pieces."
I sat on Shure's lap and tried to spread natural magic surveillance positions within a range of about two hundred meters, but there were too many reactions and my brain couldn't process them all.
I tried to limit the deployment range of the monitoring position to about 50 meters behind the highway driving station.
Even then, the reactions were too many for my brain to process them all.
Next, try to simplify your perception of each response.
Instead of identifying the reaction as a human figure, I replaced it with a simple circle and just followed the movement.
This way I was able to track their movements, but even at a quick count there were over 200 reactions so I couldn't track them all.
So instead of narrowing the focus like Schuler did, I decided to look at the whole thing from the top down.
Then you can see that most of the responses are moving in a straight line toward the target.
The people gathered near another carriage are likely to be passengers and related personnel of that carriage.
Among these reactions, some were immobile.
A motionless reaction came from diagonally behind the carriage of Diaco, the furniture maker.
The car stopped as soon as it reached the entrance of the alley, but suddenly started moving deeper into the alley.
I was a little curious, and following the reaction, I saw that it was moving at a speed close to a trot.
There was only one reaction, and it wasn't being chased by something.
When this reaction combined with another large reaction on the other side of the alley, it started moving faster, beyond my detection range.
This was an action I was vaguely concerned about, but I didn't tell Schule because I didn't know the details and because the identification was simplified.
After leaving Nacoot, the carriage began to move at a slightly faster speed than before.
Not only the carriage of Diaco, the furniture maker, but other carriages on the highway were also speeding up.
This seems to be due to the vulnerable mentality here.
Schuler looked the same as usual, but Haig, the driver, looked nervous.
"Haig, that's a little too fast."
"Uh, ah, yes, I was seduced by the guy in front of me."
I didn't notice either, but Schuler asked Haig to slow down the carriage a little.
"Can I leave the carriage in front?"
"It would be terrible if you can't run when it matters most. Always leave some energy behind."
Hearing Schuler's leisurely tone, Haig nodded repeatedly, as if to warn himself.
About an hour after leaving Nuckot, Mount Buller comes into view on the right.
It feels like the slopes of Mount Fuji are always gently sloping, and it is a mountain with a very beautiful shape.
"The reason there aren't a lot of tall trees is because Mount Buller is a volcano and at the base of the mountain is a lava plateau."
There are wide grasslands on both sides of the road, and the wild horses raised here can be sold for very high prices if captured and tamed.
"That wild horse is probably grazing in the distance."
As I soaked in the tranquil scenery, something strange happened.
Behind Diaco's carriage in the furniture workshop, about a hundred meters away, another carriage was driving, but its speed suddenly slowed down.
"Shule, the carriage behind me has already left."
"Be careful, Haig."
Immediately after Schuler issued the warning, he saw a fire diagonally forward on the right side.
"shield!"
More and more flames suddenly appeared, approaching us, but they hit the shield deployed in front of the carriage and exploded.
Immediately afterwards, fire bombs also approached from the front left.
"shield!"
The fire bomb itself may not be very fast, but the carriage is still moving and seems to be approaching quickly.
The flaming bullet was blocked by the shield, but a thick log was thrown in front, blocking the way.
"dangerous!"
Haig hurriedly pulled the reins, but the carriage was very heavy and could not stop at all.
"I'll fix the road! The floor!"
Use natural magic to create roadbeds and crawl over thrown logs.
In order to withstand the weight of the horse and carriage, in addition to being fully compressed and hardened, it is also engraved with physical resistance enhancement.
The horse pulling the carriage stepped on it with bare feet, almost losing its balance, and the carriage shook violently as it climbed the steps.
The screams of Alyssa and the maid came from the hut.
A normal person would be thrown out of the chariot seat even if he was sitting on it, but Shuler stood up, held me in his left hand, and slashed forward with his dagger.
A gust of wind blew past, scattering the second wave of flame bombs approaching from the front.
"Haig, run!"
"No, the horse is scared!"
Although the carriage escaped, the horses were frightened by the fireballs flying in front and stopped.
The fourth wave started, but this time I blocked it with my shield.
"Shul, this is the magic gun you were talking about."
"Hua Wuming, can you surround the entire carriage?"
"Of course, Wall!"
Use natural magic to build a solid wall of about two meters around the carriage.
We were surrounded by thieves who poured out of the roadside before attacking us.
"Damn it, what the hell is this!"
"What's wrong, don't get too close"
The thieves who surrounded the furniture factory's carriage knocked and kicked against the wall made of natural magic, but they remained motionless.
"Hua Wuming, can I go out alone?"
"No way, I can't undo part of it, so if I solve part of it, I'm going to be attacked."
"Do you think you still have magic power?"
"Yeah, it's been a while but how many hours might be difficult."
Maybe it was because I used all my strength to build the roadbed to avoid the logs falling on the road.
"Oh my God! Give up and come out!"
"If you come out now, I will save your life!"
"If you don't come out quietly, I will kill all those bastards and sell them when the women go crazy!"
The thieves around the carriage knocked on the natural magic wall and shouted.
The total number of people should be more than fifty, but seven or eight people started to try to tear down the wall with wood.
"Schuler, if you keep doing this"
"Don't worry. If we buy time, other carriages and knights will come to patrol. These guys are much more impatient."
"Indeed, as Schuler said, thieves are doing everything they can to tear down the wall."
At that moment, Schuler carried me to the roof of the cabin, looked around, and then thrust the dagger forward.
"Hua Wuming, can you defeat that bearded man?
"Yes, I understand"
The man Shure was pointing at with his dagger was standing in front of the carriage with his arms folded, watching the other bandits struggling to knock down the city wall.
"Maybe this guy is the leader of the bandits."
"Crush!"
On the back of the boss who crossed his arms arrogantly, I activated the most powerful crushing magic circle distributed outside the walls surrounding the carriage.
With an explosion, the thief boss's torso was blown away.
Hearing the sound, the thieves were startled and turned around. The guts and blood of the blown boss fell like raindrops.
The boss, whose torso was blown away, was lying on the ground, with the upper half of his chest and lower half of his waist separated.
"Wow!"
"Puff puff puff puff!"
"Here! You're doing great!"
"Come out, bastard! I'll kill you!"
Unfortunately, Schuler's explanation was that if the top boss of the organization was eliminated, the chain of command would be disrupted and the bandits would collapse.
The thieves started banging on the wall harder, it would be dangerous if I ran out of magic, but Shure's eyes were far away, not just around the carriage.
"Schuler?"
"Hua Wuming, don't break the wall, it will never solve the problem."
"No, of course, but"
"Come"
The dark shadow Schuler saw in the sky over Mount Buller was approaching us.
