“I don’t know who came up with the name… but I think they named it perfectly.”
Daniel spoke as he caught a drifting spore in his palm. The cloth he had prepared beforehand was wrapped securely around his mouth.
“It truly is a silent invasion.”
“There is no reason spores floating through the air would make a great deal of noise.”
The others were the same.
Meister, the Archmage, the Inquisitor, Deathbringer—even the horses had cloth masks wrapped around their muzzles.
It was all to prevent them from inhaling the spores.
「Even if you happen to breathe some in, you can just burn them away from the inside. So don’t worry too much.」
Perhaps guessing what I was thinking, the boy, who had been quiet for a while, whispered to me.
The Archmage had warned us so insistently that it almost felt like she was trying to frighten us, and apparently that had bothered him.
Rather than telling me there was no need to be careful, he repeated two or three times that I simply shouldn’t worry too much.
‘Have you tried it?’
But the way he spoke sounded suspiciously like personal experience, so the moment the boy finished, I asked.
He fell silent for a moment.
「…It’s useful for shaking off pursuers.」
‘…Pursuers.’
「Back when I first made the contract, there were many times when I couldn’t properly control my Demonic Energy…….」
‘So you came here?’
「The reason this forest is frightening is that even demons can’t make it out alive. If their affinity is bad enough, even a Great Demon can be in danger here.」
‘I see…….’
As we followed along the perimeter, I looked at…