90. Exam preparation (2)
90. Exam preparation (2)
Every time the golden bird walks, it makes a squeaking sound. The bird that approached me with such a sound tilted its head and croaked. I grasped the Golden Bird’s intentions and opened my mouth.
“I came because I wanted to find an ax rabbit. Could you please guide me?”
ㅡ 『Beep!』
The golden bird leaps from her seat and raises one of her wings. Means to know I was lucky. The road I was going to was not usually dangerous, but I was thinking of taking a detour for safety.
I thought so, but if a powerful being like the golden bird opened the way, there would be no need to go round and round.
The golden bird starts walking in the lead, as if telling only it to follow. The point is to walk 5 steps while making a squeaking sound like that, then turn around halfway through to see if we are following well.
Beep!
“Woros by the way, what is an ax rabbit?”
“Oh, I didn’t explain. It’s a rabbit with sharp blades like an ax in its hands. They use it to topple trees to get food. I will collect those ax blades and make a carving knife.”
“Is there such a rabbit? Why… Didn’t I know?”
“Because most of the life in the Ashen Forest is kept secret.”
“That’s it.”
We left the forest and came into the grasslands. From here on out, I’m also nervous. In the original work, the appropriate time to enter the gray forest grassland is the middle of the second part. That is, when Lin Ren is in the second semester of her sophomore year.
That is the point where powerful beasts and monsters appear. But maybe it’s because of the Golden Bird’s influence. Creatures such as bison and wolves see us and run away. Then a deafening roar is heard.
ㅡ 『Kaeaeaeae!』
A wolf approaching with a great roar. The horse is a wolf, it stands on its own two feet and slowly approaches us. Terrified by that appearance, Denas froze in place. The wolf looks at us with its clawed paws raised.
It looks like they’re trying to hunt us down. The golden bird also took a step toward the wolf, as if it had grasped the wolf’s intention.
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ㅡ『Piyaaa!』
ㅡ『Caaeaeaeaejuek!』
A suffocating roar from two monsters. The wolf seems fearless, as if he did not even recognize what kind of creature he was facing. Normally, it would be better to run away if you have done this.
The wolf slightly lowered his body, and then charged at the golden bird. The golden bird took a deep breath.
Hwaaagh!ㅡ
It spews huge flames at the wolf. The wolf, whose body began to burn, collapsed on its side as if a log had fallen. The golden bird that saw it leaped once from its seat, then flapped its wings once.
Look at your opponent and mess around, now you know who I am, man? The movement of the golden bird as if to say. At that gallant figure, Denas squeezes both of his hands and his eyes twinkle.
“Whoa, whoa! Amazing! You are very strong!”
“Beep!”
In response to Denas’ praise, the golden bird lifted her head slightly and took her form. The point is that the golden bird, which had been cheeping loudly, made a crawling sound as if it were embarrassed.
When I saw that, I approached the wolf’s carcass, which was on fire. The fire extinguished as I approached. I took out my dagger and clipped the wolf’s hand to get the claws.
How can you just pass by when hard-to-find ingredients are rolling around in front of you? If it was originally the same, I would have had to take care of things like eyeballs and leather, but they were all burnt out, so there seems to be no useful parts except for the claws.
“Woros… Still great.”
“You should take care of it while you can. Then Let’s go.”
“Yes. OK.”
The golden bird takes the lead and starts walking. As I walked behind the bird and Denas, I glanced at the fallen wolf’s corpse. It was normal for a beast of that level to run away as soon as he saw a golden bird, but it was strange to attack him directly.
I’m not a biologist, so there’s no point in thinking about it, so I decided that’s why.
“But Woros… You said you were looking for a rabbit. If you die like before… Are you grabbing the blade?”
“No. Those friends take out their fingernails once in their lifetime and grow them again. It’s enough to find the ax rabbit’s nest and pick it up properly.”
“I see! Thank god.”
While talking about that, I left the meadow and entered the forest. Entering the forest, we ate lunch with the lunchboxes we had prepared, then entered the meadow again and hurriedly moved. It was only after arriving in the area where the ax rabbit lived that I was able to discover a strange part.
“Whoa, Woros here!”
“This is… “
Looking for a rabbit hole. They found a dead rabbit with cuts on its torso. What’s even more surprising is that the ax blade attached to the rabbit’s hand is covered in blood.
“…… “
“Oh, what happened?”
“Probably, it seems like they fought each other. Look, there’s one more rabbit. They die with the same wounds.”
“Are these guys even fighting among themselves?”
I shook my head at Denas’ question. Ax rabbits are basically pack animals. Even if rabbits from other realms come in, they are also docile animals that never kill each other.
The same goes for the wolf that attacked the golden bird a while ago. The same goes for rabbits who made a life-and-death decision between their own kind. Something strange is going on.
“Senior. I guess I’d better do a little research. There’s also a golden bird, so it’ll be fine.”
“Ugh, yes. Let’s do it.”
“Beep!”
I bent down to check the area around the rabbit carcass. Footprints and ax marks were all around the corpse. Discovering that many rabbit footprints lead to one place, I told the party about this and walked along the tracks.
That’s how we arrived at the small cave. It was time to look inside in front of a cave with a narrow entrance that one person could barely enter.
“Woah, is Woros going in alone?”
“It will be fine.”
“But… I heard her nails look like axes… If at least one attack comes.”
“It’s okay.”
As you enter the cave, you frown at the smell of rotting corpses. Because it was not a long cave, I was able to reach the end immediately, and I could see why the rabbits were fighting with each other.
“…… “
A huge rabbit about the size of my torso. I was lying on the floor, wheezing, with little ax rabbits surrounding it, looking at me.
Because it is certain that we will be attacked if we go any further, we decided to escape first.
“… The head rabbit was in a strange state. Perhaps… It may have something to do with the wolf attacking us earlier.”
“What is it?”
“It’s hard to tell you how it is yet. I wonder why the meadow has become strange. To satisfy your curiosity, it would be better to save a rabbit.”
I also wonder if I’m done with being a Shaiza student, so it’s to the point where it’s uncomfortable to have a sore throat. Finding the head rabbit could be an opportunity. If you get the blade the boss was using, you’ll be able to make a better carving knife.
“It would be nice if I could see a little bit of the condition of the rabbit.”
Let me hold my chin and talk to myself like that. The golden bird suddenly tapped my shoulder with its beak. I looked up at the golden bird with a puzzled expression.
ㅡ 『Beep!』
After cheeping loudly, the golden bird headed for the ax rabbit’s den. The bird enters the rabbit hole confidently, but gets caught in the entrance of the cave and begins to cheep as it struggles.
After shaking his butt like that, he barely succeeded in entering the cave.
“Whoa, Woros… Did the bird get in?”
“I see… It’s none other than the golden bird, so it’s okay, I want to. I don’t know why he’s doing that all of a sudden.”
“Ugh… huh. I want to go too. I can’t because I’m worried.”
Denas Yeseul fell in love with the golden bird. With an anxious expression on his face, he approaches the rabbit hole. Then dozens of ax rabbits pop out from inside the burrow and run away toward the forest.
The rabbit jumped out of nowhere, and Denas, startled, hit her buttock and fell. After I lifted her up. Went down the rabbit hole
Since the entrance is narrow, I went in first, followed by Denas.
“Beep, Beep!”
The golden bird urgently begins to cry. I can’t see the front because of the golden bird’s chubby body. I squeezed into the side of the bird to check the situation.
All the little ax rabbits went out of the burrow, and only the big head rabbit remained. The head rabbit trembled as if in pain, and was breathing hard.
I knelt down in front of the fallen head rabbit and checked its condition. At that time, the voice of Denas, who had squeezed in next to the golden bird, was heard.
“Ugh, ugh! Puha… Woros. Did you find out something?”
Ignoring her words, I tried to understand the situation by touching the rabbit’s body.
And after a while, I was able to come to a conclusion.
“… I was poisoned. It is the poison of a creature so powerful that it can use its teeth to pierce the chief rabbit’s thick hide.”
“That, is it? Does the head rabbit have anything to do with the fight between the smaller rabbits?”
“Yes. Since the boss was killed, the rabbits must have become very sensitive.”
I got up from my seat and opened my mouth while looking at Denas and the golden bird.
“Judging from the teeth marks, it looks like an insect bite. It is also a very large insect. It’s probably even bigger than the head rabbit.”
“Go, go, insect?”
Denas Yeseul’s face starts to turn pale when he hears that he is a bigger insect than a rabbit.
“As far as I know, such insects do not live in grasslands. It means that there are insects that are large, but there are no insects with poisonous teeth.”
The wolf that attacked the golden bird. A rabbit wandering between life and death being bitten by an insect that does not live in the meadow. Some kind of change was taking place in the gray forest grassland area.
I need to find out the exact reason, but it seemed that the insects that bit the rabbit were disturbing the ecosystem of the grasslands. Judging from the clues we have now, that would be the most realistic answer.
Most of the creatures living in the Ashen Forest are affected by Arisha’s abandoned magic, and they don’t get out of their territory easily.
Arisha adjusted the forest to be like that. Because if the territory is not fixed, it will invade the human domain casually. It is quite a big problem for the creatures in the gray forest to break away from their domain and move to another domain.
There are all sorts of monsters living in the Ashen Forest, so when they start to invade the human realm, it becomes quite difficult. That’s why you should learn more about the bug that bit the rabbit. Even the smallest signs of abnormality cannot be taken lightly.
“First of all, I’ll have to look for bugs later and make an antidote.”
“I don’t even have a poison sample, can you make one?”
“I think you need to analyze the poison to find out its size.”
I said that while rolling up my arms.