Living as an Unemployed in Another World

100 – 4. Silence in the Helmet (16)

16.

Winterwolf has two seasons.

Winter and non-winter.

Unlike other animals that prey on the cold and grow in size, they save their lives in the cool forest for three quarters of the year. Therefore, even in the area where Winterwolf lives, if you catch a flying animal to use as bait in advance, you can cross safely.

However, the story changes in winter. Armed with the color of snow, they set out on a hunt to release the overflowing chill. It is their real strength to hunt even large bears by biting their necks by themselves.

Of course, they rarely leave their habitat. It is only when the balance of the colony is upset that they venture out of their homes. Three years ago, a pack of winter wolves, which were hunted by humans and reduced in number to less than half, have been preventing quarrels and increasing their numbers for the past several years. The result was the result of hunting out of the forest.

Winterwolves, even though they were monsters, were exceptionally intelligent and had a strong perception that they were unreasonable. Humans are mostly weak, but I never looked down on them. Most of those capable of hunting, leaving only the females and their young, left the forest and headed for the villages.

The first target was a private house built in a wheat field at the bottom of a hill. For those who insist on eating meat, grasses that have not sprouted yet do not whet the appetite. Their first targets are human children who are unable to resist. In an instant, they surrounded the house and drove the terrified children into the house. The flesh is tender, but not enough to feed the whole group. Winterwolves were obliged to take at least one adult with them. They are highly intelligent, and they know that adults will come if they use children as bait. That’s why I deliberately let go of one adult.

Unlike the past when they were hunted, everyone believed that it was their turn to hunt now. As if to prove it in practice, the Winterwolves did not cry loudly, but buried themselves like white clouds floating in the green, waiting for a sign to come.

“There are too many of them.”

A word from David, an adventurer who uses a crossbow. He counted the number of Winterwolves in the distance and loaded his crossbow. They lay face down on the hill, looking down at the Winterwolves. He said.

“I don’t know who’s the boss since they’re all the same size. Is that okay?”

“It doesn’t matter.”

Jin answered. There are 17 adventurers gathered here. It seems that all the people who are itching from the long winter break have gathered. All of them are placed under the direction of one young man.

Before that, some would have been unhappy about him giving them orders. However, it is different now. He’s an adventurer with a blue plate that most of them don’t have, and he’s also the leader of a party. And now everyone knows. That the man who had been crouching in an inn for a long time was actually hiding extraordinary abilities. David loaded his arrow. He, too, was present when hunting Winter Wolf three years ago. Their skins could not be penetrated by their own arrows. However.

f*ck!! The arrow he fired spun and flew through Winterwolf’s eye. The thick and heavy arrows would have crushed his eyeballs and shattered Winter Wolf’s eye sockets and reached his brain. It is the result of 3 years of training. One fell flat on the wheat field.

“Nice!”

“That’s pretty cool!”

The cheers of the adventurers resound in a small way. Before long, a sorceress with fluttering jet-black hair stepped into the battle line. The wandering Winterwolves were wary of the direction the arrows flew from. Just raise your head and look around the ridge. They never look at the center of their heads. They do not know that the great disk connecting space above the blue sky has been completed.

“Gate, finished.”

“Shoot.”

“────Greater Magic Missile【Arrow, Arrow, Arrow】.”

As Janice swings the wand, a purple flash emanates from the jeweled tip. A bunch of arrows she shot disappeared in an instant into the air, and suddenly scattered in all directions from the firmament over the wheat field.

Screaming wolves. As magic stronger than a crossbow shot pours from all sides, they are seriously injured or lose their will to fight, and run away in all directions. Except for one or two wolves guarding Isaac’s house, they started running toward the hills.

After a splendid opening with large-scale magic, it is time for warriors. Concealed adventurers in an instant obstruct their path and spring up from all sides. Shield Warrior Merilda’s large shield strikes Winter Wolf on the bridge of the nose, and the gigantic body instantly retreats behind her. However, the difference in combat power between Winter Wolf objects and yellow-grade adventurers was clear.

If you count all the people who come and go in and out of the house, there are 13 Winter Wolves left. At least three of them need to stick together to be sure to take down one. Eventually, each of them formed a temporary party centered on the avant-garde and confronted the respective Winterwolves. As the engagement began, frost blew from all sides.

“Don’t line up, surround yourself! Move in a group of three!”

Of course, there were those who did not need to follow such tactics. They were adventurers with a blue or higher level. While the other adventurers held the Winter Wolves by the numbers, Monk Sukh Bhatt trampled the ground with his feet, sending all the recoil up his torso and pouring it through his fists. A huge wolf with a body length of 2 meters collapses on the floor with its nose crushed. Winter Wolf nevertheless did not lose his fighting spirit and spewed a ray of frost from his mouth, tying the monk’s feet and rushing at him.

“Damn it!!”

It was the thief Hilda who cut Winter Wolf’s throat from bottom to top. Hiding her little frame completely in the great shadow, she mortally wounded the wolves who caught sight of them in that way. It’s already the second time she’s killed a wolf.

However, Winterwolf’s intelligence is by no means low. Her relatively small stature made her easy to hunt, but towards her ambush her comrades, her Winter Wolf broke her encirclement and opened her huge mouth.

However, her rush didn’t reach her. It was because a sudden flash of light obstructed his vision. In the meantime, her gaping mouth was slashed with her entire sword. Winter Wolf, cut below her chin, rolls on her floor. The swordsman, Gerald, who inserted a blade into Winterwolf’s throat laughed humorously.

“How was it, was it cool?”

“Go and help your lover.”

“I tried to do that, but I got kicked out. It’s a matter of pride.”

Gerald shrugged his shoulders. Then, after pulling out his sword, he pointed the shining blade at the other Winter Wolf. The wolf, seeing that his comrade had died in the distance, did not rush to attack. As the suffocating confrontation continued in the battlefield, a loud roar similar to them suddenly rang out. Who doubts, it belongs to the half-orc Alphonse.

He was struggling with two Winterwolves. While one was strangled to prevent it from spewing out frost, the other struggled with the other and finally cut its throat with an ax and cut it in half. The other grabbed the body and pinned it to the ground, then trampled it and finished it.

“…… It kills me.”

“Don’t look away! Come…… What?”

Hilda, who had been criticizing Gerald for admiring her, turned her head to her temple as if she was also possessed by something about her. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew across the wheat field, and a wolf was spinning in place, supporting its weight only with its hind legs.

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No, the wolf isn’t dancing. It was so fast that I just missed the opponent’s move. Mira continued to draw solid red lines on the white skin, leaving only afterimages of her pink hair that occasionally fluttered. Although, unlike Alphonse, it was not a dance to catch and kill two animals at once due to the reach of the dagger and the limitations of his physique, but in a sense, it was more terrifying in that even the same adventurer missed the movement. It took less than thirty seconds for the Winter Wolf to fall, as she had brutally slashed at her body.

“It’s great.”

“Hey, don’t look away!”

Soon after, another winter wolf attacks the party. Their mouths were open, but Gerald and Sukhbat did not stop running. The ray of frost that was emitted was immediately blocked by Zenith’s protection. Now all you have to do is cut down those who have become big and strong wolves.

But, just then. Everyone’s attention was focused on it.

“…… Light?”

In the chaos of war, the light attracted all life around it. A paladin, standing in the middle of a wheat field without a trace, gathered light into the gauntlet. A divinity used to summon something different from the flash emitted by Gerald’s sun sword. Yet…… A huge warhammer with a body length of over 1 meter was held in his hand.

“Are you kidding?”

A word from another adventurer. That kind of weapon, it’s not the size that a person can wield in the first place. However, the paladin corrected her posture as if holding a small hammer, and swung the mace once using her centrifugal force.

It floats, floats, floats. Looking at the white bundles flying in the sky, the adventurers opened their mouths. The wolves they had been dealing with with all their might a little while ago were beaten by the mace and turned into ground meat. One swing mortally wounds two or three. Gerald asked a young man passing by him before he knew it.

“Hey, Jin. It’s because I don’t know…… Are all paladins monsters like that? That…… Even as an adventurer, it’s at least enemy grade.”

That can’t be.

I laughed. There are many knights who swear to God, but there are only about 20 cathedral knights in the kingdom. They are a military group that balances the enemy adventurers crowding the capital, and if you look at the number of them, each one is rather a monster that surpasses them one by one.

After a while, the breakthrough opened, and I ran all of a sudden. Do you have to rescue Isaac’s younger brothers in this gap? Fortunately, more intelligent monsters do not easily kill humans, who are food. Judging from the absence of the smell of blood, it was clear that the children would be alive and well even if they had passed out. But… ….

Soon after, a winter wolf appeared in front of me. I took out the small wand I had borrowed from Janice. You can’t use up slots to cast spells rashly. However, small spells that are weak in power are almost ineffective against the giant Winter Wolf.

“Fire Bolt [Fire, come]…… What, old!”

Pretending to use magic, I threw the open bag at him. Preoccupied with the sparks lit at the tip of his wand, he failed to react as the leather pouch flew with his mouth wide open.

“Kuong!? Keong!!”

While my bag ate up his nose, I passed the Winter Wolf and hurried into the house. As expected, I saw small children clinging tightly to each other, trembling. All of them don’t resemble the eldest son, so they are pretty cute faces. Is it really worth risking my life to protect it? Catherine, the eldest, recognized me as she hugged her younger siblings.

“Eh, oppa Jin?! How… ….”

“Yes, it is me. Wake up soon We have to run away from here.”

I took her hand without a long explanation. Unlike her brother, Catherine was a bright and confident girl. She ran out the back door, holding the hands of her younger siblings, with no empty hands. Just then.

Kwajajak!!!!! The wall has been torn down. Her sharp claws ripped through her interior. It was probably the Winter Wolf that roamed around the back of the house. Damn, wasn’t there one at the entrance? It seems that he was looking for an opportunity by running away during the battle.

I already threw away the bag. I looked back at the children hiding behind me, and as soon as the wall completely collapsed, I met their shapely eyes. Catherine screaming. Crying children. I had a wand in my hand.

──What should I do?

Jenice said. My slot is actually a kind of curse, and the more I use the slot and use stronger spells, the more my soul will be stolen.

But…… At this moment, if you don’t do your best. My soul will be eaten by itself. Torn and scattered, only the shape remains. I am not here to see such a scene.

A gluttony for the soul? Eat me

“…… f*ck you.”

I used the strongest attack magic I could use. A spell learned by chance after being attacked by a lich in the labyrinth that day.

My heart is pounding.

The heart pulls blood on its own. The senses were confined to one.

If everything I’m doing is actually a curse.

Accept. No, it is released as is.

“Eldritch Blast!!”

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Negative Explosion. The massive negative energy that had gathered in his heart hit Winterwolf’s face. In an instant, the huge body was terrified and stiff…… It would be enough if I bought this much time.

On this battlefield, a being stronger than anyone else broke through the roof and crushed Winterwolf’s skull with a massive mace. I sat down in her seat and faced her. The sight of her covered in blood with her helmet on, how to say.

“Ahh! Sister!”

“Hey! Help me!”

…… To be honest, I was a little scared. I struggled to get her up and patted her on the shoulder.

There was no sign of winter left. It was everyone’s victory.

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That night.

The inn was crowded for a while as Isaac and his younger siblings bowed their heads and received thanks from the villagers who were hiding and trembling nearby.

It would be difficult to dismantle the skin of the Winterwolf that was defeated, but the locals who run the butcher shop decided to take care of it, so it’s only natural that the adventurers were already smiling big. If you sell a whole winter wolf’s hide, you can get several silver coins.

The adventurers who participated in the hunt either criticized the adventurers who did not participate, or simply teased them for not being able to get the hide, and in that way the inn was buzzing.

Even though the sun had already set and it was night, Celine’s face was full of fatigue from the adventurers pouring out bottles of wine. What did I do? I decided to give her a little gift for her as she was busy going to and from her kitchen…… I was heating up the bath water.

“You guys washed first last time! Make some concessions today!”

“We are covered in blood too!”

The adventurers who had finished drinking earlier were waiting for a group bath to wash their dirty bodies later. Well, the inn smelled so strong that even the smell of alcohol couldn’t cover it.

Of course, even if selfishness is excluded, it is correct that the few female adventurers wash first. There are male adventurers who still don’t intend to wash themselves even after being covered in blood like that. It’s really dirty.

I stopped spying on them and slowly went back to the bathroom. It should be warmed up just right by now. I’ll come to wash up only when I announce the time at night, so at least until then, I can freely use the bathroom by myself. I couldn’t enjoy it properly last time because of someone, so I guess I can monopolize it this time.

I need to wash up and come out. At that thought, I burst open the bathroom door with a smile on my face. And.

Chack!

What is the sound of overflowing water? I focused my vision on one point, covered by steam, and before long, I faced a naked paladin. She was so startled that as she stood up, her water hurriedly covered her dead breast with both hands, but seemed reluctant to try to cover her underneath.

“… ….”

I forgot what Mira said, but now I see she has real abs.

Kikkiik, and the door was closed by the wind blowing from outside.