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Chapter 18 – Day 17 of Living in the Demonic Land
“Makyo! Food!”
I was awakened by Cher’s voice.
It seems that she has begun to learn our language.
I thought she was asking me to make her some food because she was hungry, but it seems she made it herself.
“Raw meat and fruits don’t count as food.”
“Wha?”
Are demons supposed to eat raw food?
I grilled the meat, kneaded the bread, stuck it in a heated pot, and grilled it.
Cher seemed to find this interesting and adjusted the firewood.
She seemed to understand that the bread tastes best when it is golden brown.
After breakfast, I went to check the fields.
I pulled out the weeds and watered the plants. As usual, Swimmers Bird was perched on a stake, looking at me.
“Why don’t I try to make a field somewhere else, not just near the swamp?”
There must be somewhere else that the Swimmers Bird hasn’t damaged. I went to the other swamp next to it, and it was full of aquatic plants. There were a bunch of Haze Turtles, but I beat them up and chased them away.
By the way, if I hit the turtle’s shell with a fist imbued with magic power, it will break, but it hurts so much that my fist feels like it might break as well.
I wasn’t in trouble for food, so I left it alone.
Cher fought with magic, but when she saw it retreat into its shell, she gave up. It seems she’s learned that it’s a bad idea to pursue it too far.
The aquatic plants have strong buoyancy, so even if a person steps on them, they won’t sink.
“Uhaa! Hohoho!”
Cher played by jumping on the elastic aquatic plants. I wonder how old she is.
I thought it would be a good idea to make a boat out of them, but it didn’t seem like it would be easy to weave a boat out of them, and it also seemed like it would take an incredibly long time, so I decided not to notice.
I crossed the swamp, getting my feet caught in the gaps between the aquatic plants a few times.
To the north of the demonic land, I could see a mountain range in front of me.
I’m not sure if my land extends as far as the mountains, but I’m curious to see what’s on the other side.
I decided to walk a bit and see. I wasn’t that fast, as Cher was able to catch up with me.
But when I stored magic in my legs and took off, I jumped about 20 meters in one step.
“What the hell is this?”
I felt silly, wondering why I hadn’t used magic before.
Cher tried it, too, but she didn’t get very far.
“Wow, this is amazing! Aghh!”
I got carried away and looked away, and I bumped into a rock in front of me and got a bump on my head. It was such a hard blow that it cracked the rock. I’m glad I have a hard head.
Cher healed me with a healing spell, so it’s okay. But I asked Cher, “How do you do a healing spell?”
It can be used for more than just when I am injured, like when I want to heal someone else’s injury or when I want to get a lot of money out of someone who is injured.
I wonder if it can only be used by people with pure hearts who can see spirits and such.
“Juku, juku, juku, juku, juku, pahhhh~~!”
I was foolish to ask Cher. Is this also an image problem?
If so, is it something like connecting cells?
I tried to cut my palm with a knife and cast my own healing magic, but although the skin healed, I got a blood blister.
“Haaahh~~~!”
Cher’s whole face expressed the feeling of “What the hell are you doing?” And she healed me.
“I’m ashamed.”
It may be dangerous to do this before I understand the structure of the body. I eat my lunch with the cross-section of a broken rock on the table.
“Ufufufufufu, ufufufufu!”
Cher laughs strangely as she eats the bread she made.
“Is it good?”
Cher asks me what I think of the bread.
“It’s delicious!”
“Delicious, delicious!”
Meal times seem to be the most fun.
After eating, it’s time for a nap. Now that I have my own land, I’m free to do what I want without anyone bothering me.
“I eat when I want to eat and sleep when I want to sleep! This is the way to be!”
“This is the way to be!”
I used the soft grass as a substitute for bedding.
“Gyaoeeeeee!”
I woke up to the sound of a monster and a strong wind on my cheek, and there was no ground.
Only those who have experienced it will understand, but it’s very surprising when you wake up, and the ground you were lying on is gone.
When I look up, I see reptilian-like scales. When I look to the side, I see Cher, who is snoring and being held by a wyvern. Behind her is a group of wyverns.
The one holding me also looks like a wyvern.
I can see the demonic land far below.
“Good grief, what should I do…?”
It looks like we’re heading towards the mountain range I could see in the distance.
For now, I’ll attack when I get close enough to the ground so I can jump.
There was a time when I thought about doing just that.
As soon as Cher wakes up, she uses magic to attack it. We were in the air, and the ground was far below us.
I thought to myself, “Give me a break,” but there was no choice but to fight.
I swung my saber and broke free of the wyvern’s legs.
Of course, if I broke free, I would fall.
And, of course, someone without wings can’t move in the air.
The wyverns are chasing me. I put magic power into my body and defend myself, but I’m still caught. The sound of their wings cutting through the wind.
It looks like they’re going to swoop down and knock me down.
I gather magic power imbued with earth magic into my fist.
The wyverns are surprised by the sudden weight of my fist and let out a scream.
As I slammed my fist into the wyvern’s leg, I heard a cracking sound.
Holding on to the broken leg, I shifted my position so that the wyvern was underneath me.
It bent its head to bite me, so I punched it.
Punched it. Punched it.
The strong wind made it hard to keep my eyes open. When I could just make out the scales through my half-closed eyes, I had no choice but to punch it there.
The wyvern, now unconscious, spiraled downward.
I timed the moment it hit the ground and used a wind spell on my legs to jump up.
Just then, Cher and the wyvern that had entered the water ball were also about to fall.
It seemed that Cher had trapped the wyvern inside the water ball.
The moment it hit the ground, there was a loud sound like a water balloon bursting.
When I landed, the wyverns began to chase me from the sky.
I intercepted them with my saber and went to check on Cher.
She wasn’t breathing, so I stepped on her belly, and she spat out some water.
She must have drowned from her own water magic.
“You’re an idiot, but you did it…”
The wyverns kept attacking us, and it was hard to fight them off.
I took them down one by one with P.J.’s sword, which I’d brought just in case, and after killing five of them, they fled toward the mountain range. As I slashed with P.J.’s sword, it made a “Zupiao!” sound and a flash of light, which seemed to scare them.
Cher looked around. I looked around as well and finally understood what was happening.
It was a rocky area full of rocks and sand.
It seemed that the demonic land was far away.
The mountain range was very near. I had planned to go there, but it had come much sooner than I thought.
I skinned the wyvern and collected the magic stone.
It seemed that I would need tools and skills to process the claws and fangs into a knife, so I took as much as I could carry and decided to exchange them at the training facility.
I should go to the training facility soon.
“Cough! When the wind blows, the dust is terrible.”
“Cough! Ugh…”
I wonder if we’ll be able to get back from here.
The sun is setting in the west.
It looks like we’re going to spend the night in the rocky area.
Cher sneezed while drying her clothes with water magic.
I hope she doesn’t catch a cold.
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