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Chapter 29 – Day 28 of Living in the Demonic Land
When I looked out of the makeshift cave the next morning, everything was white.
It wasn’t snowing, but there were many layers of white threads between the trees.
It seems that last night’s attacker was a spider monster.
“Arachne”
Cher, who had woken up, bit her lower lip as she looked outside. Arachne was a monster with the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a spider. Cher had apparently suffered a painful defeat at Arachne’s hands in the past.
There was no sign of them, but they were extremely dangerous, so I used earth magic to harden the earth and pierce through the white threads. The earth magic was easily repelled when it came in contact with the threads.
Soon, a huge swarm of Aracne descended on the side of the cave, accompanied by the sound of countless footsteps.
“Oh no…”
“It’s bad…”
Cher nodded her head vigorously.
I used earth magic to completely seal the small hole in the cave and then hide inside. I had slept for quite a while, so my strength and magic power had recovered sufficiently.
Should I dig my way out?
Or should I just take a chance and charge in?
I don’t even know their weak point, but is it okay to just charge in?
I make a light with life magic and try to read P.J.’s notebook.
‘Arachne: A slightly erotic monster with the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a spider. Their weakness is their stomach. They can be quite dangerous when they gather in groups. The best way to deal with them is to set a trap and impale them from the ground. The string is a usable material, so be sure to collect it. By the way, even if you cut off the upper body, it can still live for a while, so if you try to take it home and use it for something dirty, you’ll get in trouble (from personal experience).’
“What the hell is P.J. doing?!”
Anyway, it seems that their weak point is their stomach, and a trap is necessary. If we stay in the cave, there’s nothing we can do.
The magic circle drawn in the corner of the ‘Arachne’ notebook is probably the magic circle of impaling.
I dug into the cave once and then widened it.
I drew the inverted magic circle on the ceiling of the hole I dug.
“If I don’t reverse it, I’ll be impaled. I’m good at that kind of work.”
“Is that so?”
Cher didn’t seem to understand.
For now, I make magic circles under the floor in all directions and return to the entrance.
I make some peepholes and lie in wait for Arachne.
Arachne doesn’t come down because they’re clinging to the thread.
I fired a magic bullet made of earth magic at the thread, and the thread vibrated in concentric circles. Even though I put a lot of magic power into it, it didn’t break through, so it must be made of really good material.
The Arachne felt the vibration and landed on the ground.
If they walk directly over the trap, the magic circle should be activated by Arachne’s magic power.
“Skewer them!”
“Skewer!”
As I looked through the peephole with high expectations, one of the Arachne came towards us.
The magic circle activated with a whirring sound.
BANG!
The ground exploded.
The explosion activated the magic circle drawn next to it. Then, another explosion occurred as the magic circle next to it was activated.
Boom!
The explosion occurred in a circle around the floor of the cave.
Boom, boom, boom, boom!
The ceiling of the cave collapsed, burying us alive. When I managed to crawl out of the rubble, I found that the whole area had been reduced to a scorched wasteland.
The only thing that had survived was the cave at the center of the explosion, which was still intact. The surrounding area, which had been hollowed out into a doughnut shape, was covered in the charred remains of Arachne, and the surrounding trees had been burned to a crisp, with scorched leaves floating in the air.
“It’s not impaled at all!”
“It’s not impaled!”
“Scribble is scary!”
“Scribble is definitely not good!”
I’ll definitely be careful of P.J.’s scribbles from now on.
Cher used water magic to put out the fires around us so they wouldn’t spread any further.
It seems that Arachne’s threads are weak to fire, and they’ve all burned away and disappeared.
We collected the magic stone from the charred Arachne and decided to leave for now.
When I looked back, I saw a burnt field in the middle of the dense forest, and the sky was visible there.
We headed north through the forest, where not even the sun shone through the trees.
“I’m hungry.”
“Me too.”
Cher was so hungry that her nerves were on edge, and she even attacked monsters that didn’t need to be defeated. She burned the inedible insect-type monsters with all her strength and moved on.
I also wasted my energy to defeat a slime that attacked me when I tried to drink from the river.
“Slime is not good!”
“I wonder if a monster with flesh will attack us!”
In the end, we arrived at the swamp without being attacked by any flesh-eating monsters.
The sun was already setting.
“Ham, ham!”
When we arrived at the cave, Cher said, “I’m definitely going to roast some ham and eat it.” I felt the same way.
“Finally, home!”
“We’re back!”
As soon as we arrived at our cave home, we got ready to cook the ham. Cher also got some firewood and started sharpening her knife. Meat tends to burn easily when cooked with magic, so firewood is better.
We cut a thick slice of ham from the one hanging at the back of the cave and slowly roast it over the fire we’ve built in front of the cave.
We wait, drooling as the meat juices drip down, and then take a big bite when it’s nicely browned.
“It’s delicious!”
“Delicious!”
The salty taste and delicious juices spread through my mouth. After devouring the extra ham, Cher began to bake bread. She baked the bread to a golden brown and popped it into her mouth in one bite. There was also some meat and bones left over from the Haze Turtle, so I made some soup and drank it. Even though it burned my tongue, I didn’t mind.
Once we had food in our stomachs, we felt calmer and realized how dirty we were. That’s only natural; we’d been traveling through the desert and being underground for a day.
We washed our dirty bodies in the swamp and felt refreshed.
“It would be nice if we had some alcohol.”
When I looked at the bed to go to sleep at home, Jennifer was snoring.
“Hey, what are you doing?!”
As I took off the fur coat, Jennifer looked at me like she was scared. Her clothes were in tatters, and she was injured with cuts and abrasions all over her body. In addition, the little finger and ring finger of her left hand were bent.
“Cher!”
“What is it?”
I called Cher and asked her to take care of Jennifer.
“Huh? She is still not back?”
“Please heal her wounds.”
Cher used healing magic to heal Jennifer’s wounds, saying “Eeehh~” the whole time. As she put Jennifer’s broken fingers back in place, Jennifer cried out, “Ugh!” But Cher didn’t seem to mind.
“So why are you still here?”
“I can’t get out. As soon as I entered the forest, monsters and plants attacked me, and I lost my way… I can’t sleep because of the strange bird cries… I can’t go home either…”
It seems that she has been baptized by the demonic land. She has completely lost her spirit.
“Hey, weren’t you a priestess? Can’t you use healing magic or something?”
“I used it too much and ran out of magic power.”
Cher tugged on my sleeve and asked, “What?” She didn’t seem to understand what Jennifer had said. When I explained it to her on paper, she asked, “is she fooling around?”
“No, what? Are you fooling around?”
I asked Jennifer, and she shook her head and denied it, saying, “No, I’m not fooling around, I’m not fooling around!”
“Well, never mind. We just got back from the desert in the south and we’re tired, so we’re going to sleep. Just watch the fire outside the cave.”
“What? Me?”
Jennifer pointed at herself and looked surprised.
“Yes, you ate our food and stayed here, so you should do some work.”
It seemed that Jennifer had eaten the smoked meat and vegetables on her own, and there were dishes left by her bed. I don’t eat in my bedroom because I don’t like bugs coming in.
When Jennifer left my bedroom, Cher asked, “What are you going to do?”
“I don’t know. I’m tired, so I’m going to sleep.”
“Yeah, I’m tired.”
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