“Yosh, let’s run at full speed now. In fact, there are some companions ahead of us. and they might cause an uproar soon.”
“If that’s the case, we better hurry. We might catch up in time.”
If someone thought about the travel speed of Shin and Schnee; they could easily overtake a horse that ran at full speed by a large margin. However, Wilhelm had the buff given by Shin, which made him run faster. It was likely that he would lengthen the distance in this case. If those two people arrived at the kingdom and informed them about the situation, it would be troublesome for Shin in various ways.
“Let’s get serious. It’s too bothersome to be marked by the guild any further.”
“What you said just now, can you explain it later?”
“That is that and this is this.”
Would it be possible to put it off after Schnee made such a face, Shin couldn’t say.
“Yosh, let’s go!”
He put Yuzuha on top of his head, and began to run with Schnee.
It didn’t take too long for the two people to catch up with Wilhelm and Rashia.
After about half a day since Shin and Schnee began to run and not much time had passed since the sun appeared from beyond the horizon, the figures of Wilhelm and Rashia were perceived.
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“Oi! Now tell me everything, like what on earth happened back there?”
“What’s up with this sudden contentious attitude…”
Wilhelm was cautious of the surroundings while protecting Rashia, who was asleep. Though they joined up safely, Wilhelm was losing his temper and flared up at Shin with a threatening tone.
Meanwhile Rashia continued to sleep, probably because of fatigue.
“Well, to put it simply, Schnee took the trouble of defeating the Lord.”
“Hyun!”
Shin, who answered, was pushed away by the devil spear. It was not serious, but there was some speed put into the devil spear.
“Wait! That’s dangerous!!”
“I’ve never seen anyone that could do anything like that and have their magical power leap to that degree. You are dangerous after all!”
“Why are you so persistent!?”
“What else do you expect!! What was your intention when you saw us off with such an exaggerated skill, and then easily caught up with us! Even with such a margin in time! And I was fucking desperate to return!!”
“Wait, wait, calm down! Though it was a bad joke, isn’t『Venom』too much!?”
The devil spear was continuously thrust out, but it didn’t hit Shin even once.
“Tsk”
“What the heck are you clicking your tongue for!? It was just a little joke.”
“What joke? That face seems like it wants to say something, but you yourself didn’t do anything. Explain it precisely and I don’t want another joke.”
As one would expect, the joke seemed to have gone a little too far.
Wilhelm looked at Shin with a serious expression.
“Shin, let’s cut to the chase now.”
Schnee, who looked at Shin and Wilhelm messing around, stepped forward.
“You are..? Don’t tell me, you stood behind him.”
Wilhelm said it with some kind of profound meaning.
“It’s been a long time since I last saw you. If you understand, then the explanation is unnecessary?”
Apparently, the two people communicated with only those words.
“Hey, I want you to tell me in a way that I understand.”
Shin had no idea at all of what they were talking about.
“You don’t know, huh? Schnee Raizar is famous for not yielding or kneeling to anyone. I guess even to the Royal family and the Pope.”
It was somehow very stout-hearted.
“Isn’t that disrespectful?”
“I kneel to no one except to my Master.”
Somehow, Shin felt bad about her making the royal family an opponent, but it seemed like Schnee would never waver.
“Well, to begin with, there is no fellow who would dare pick a fight with her.”
“So that is the reason it was tolerated, huh?”
Let alone punishing her, there were only a few people who could even rival her.
When Shin heard that, it seemed as if that was not the only reason. Her tone and attitude were both polite. If a strong monster appeared, she lent her power. She kept neutrality without belonging to any organization, and didn’t bother picking any unnecessary fights.
The achievements from over 500 years were not just for show.
Though there were people who had secretly tried to draw her into becoming their ally, because she had such a great power, it seemed like none had ever succeeded.
“I understand the feeling of wanting to win her over to be an ally.”
“Wait…then if she is obediently following a guy like you, that means…”
“Ah, so you figured it out, huh?…”
Shin didn’t know how well Schnee and Wilhelm were acquainted, but it seemed like Wilhelm had already seen through it.
“A High Human, huh?”
“He is also my Master.”
“Yeah, that’s more or less it.”
“That’s not just more or less. But if that’s the case, I understand. That level of magic power was no joke.”
“Sorry, but that was still me in ‘easy’ mode.”
“I see…the Master of Schnee Raizar, huh? Indeed, the story was more than I expected…Oi, then the animal that you, a High Human, put on your head is not just an ordinary fox?”
Wilhelm shifted his attention to Yuzuha while feeling relieved and shrugging his shoulders. Surprise and amazement began to mix into his tone of voice. There was no sense of fear here, probably because he got to know Shin without any preconceived notions.
“Kuu?”
“It might not be a Little Fox. Its level exceeded 400 after the fight a little while ago.”
“…Again, I’m not really surprised.”
Wilhelm sighed while glaring with scornful eyes. Even though he was surprised by the truth about Yuzuha, which had the appearance of a small animal as well as a level exceeding 400, he was way past being shocked, so he ended up feeling “Like hell such a thing could exist!”.
“So that is why you vaguely answered about being a chosen one earlier, huh?”
“Right. In my case, I was not strong since birth, though my power is higher than a chosen one. I thought such guys were rare in this world, don’t you agree? Therefore, I decided to go with being a chosen one.”
“I see. Then, if you two act together from now on, it’s only a matter of time before it comes to light.”
Wilhelm’s point was justifiable. Generally speaking, Schnee and Tsuki no Hokora were famous. So if Schnee appeared to be close to a man, certain groups of people would try to gather information.
“For that situation, there are magic skills that easily allow me to deceive others. I can earn some time if I make full use of illusion magic.”
“I don’t think the illusion magic you talk about is similar to the one I know. I would not be surprised if you transformed into a monster.”
“What kind of treatment is this…”
Shin could do nothing but smile wryly.
“If you are going to do that, then you will be a walking disaster. A guy like you could easily go out and erase a country if he felt like it in the same day. If I were the King, I would lose my mind.”
It was meaningless to try and act violently, so Wilhelm sat down as he added another point. He then urged Shin and Schnee, who were still standing and talking, to sit down while he mended Rashia’s bed sheet.
Rashia was sleeping soundly as her breathing could be heard. According to Wilhelm, when the people were told that high ranking adventurers were around, they seemed to calm down at last. Regarding Shin, he seemed convinced that there was no need to use the illusion magic skill immediately to that extent.
“Which reminds me, are any documents relating to us, High Humans, still remaining?”
He had returned empty handed when he visited the library before, but how were player matters circulated? Shin only had the unclear information that he had heard from Tiera. If he thought about it now, he wasn’t certain if it was unconsciously avoided. No one would bother with such a dark history, and they would pretend like it never even happened, naturally.
“There might be some left. Well, the things that I know of are; they have absurdly powerful-like strength and each had their own field of expertise in which they possessed an abnormal ability. They were treated like Gods in their particular field.”
“There are various legends that have been passed down among other people, right?”
Schnee chimes in.
“Uhee, this is gonna be troublesome again. Because Rokuten certainly was a former production guild first, we felt like we wouldn’t lose to others when it came to our individual fields of expertise.”
“Ha? Since you were strong at the beginning, did you waste time on craftsmanship? Like Schnee here.”
“Wilhelm, didn’t I only cook to pass the time??”
There seemed to be some kind of different history between the two people.
Even though every member of Rokuten certainly had amazing stats, the main reason they first gathered together was to be production guild.
“It’s different from that. Even if the levels are the same, humans are weaker than other races. In my case, I compensated with blacksmithing. It was really difficult to raise its level at the same time as combat skills.”
“You just ran from place to place many times when you first started adventuring, right?”
Schnee grunted “uh-huh” and nodded. When Shin first played, he was very weak compared to the present.
“These kinds of things, I guess, are not normal.”
“That’s what ‘High players’ did.”
Schnee casually said a word that only players would understand.
“It was called ‘High Human’ though.”
“Hai pu…what?”
Wilhelm could not understand the net term.
“Anyway, I made weapons to raise my level in blacksmithing. I equipped them and defeated stronger opponents to raise my level. Then I made a stronger weapon with the material from the opponents I defeated. And again, defeated another stronger enemy. It was this loop.”
To begin with, the world of blacksmithing was not sweet enough to be able to make an advanced weapon as easily like Shin said. Though ‘blacksmith’ was an example of a production skill system that