Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill: Volume 10 by Ren Eguchi

Author:Ren Eguchi [Eguchi, Ren]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2021-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6: Middle Management Blues

The next morning, we paid a visit to Hirschfeld’s Adventurer’s guild. It was located in a much smaller building than Karelina’s guild occupied, and in spite of the early time of day, the place seemed to be in an uproar. I struck up a conversation with a nearby adventurer.

“Hey, what’s going on? Did something happen?” I asked.

“Hmm? You must be new in town, huh?” He glanced over at me, then recoiled. “Whoa there, that’s a biggun you’ve got with you! And is that little thing a dragon?”

“It’s fine, they’re both my familiars.”

“Oh, a tamer, eh? Don’t see many of you folks around. Anyway, what was I saying... Oh, right! Everyone’s freaking out ’cause the forest to the south’s been declared off-limits.”

He explained that a number of adventuring parties had traveled into the southern woods recently, never to return to town. A B-rank party that had happened to be in the area was dispatched to figure out what was going on in there, but they had returned to town at a sprint the moment the gates opened earlier that morning. According to them, the woods had become the residence of a snake monster known as a woodland tyrant python.

In spite of woodland tyrant pythons’ serpentine nature, they didn’t actually make use of any venom at all. They were just really, really big and really, really hungry. Whenever one turned up in an area, all the other wildlife—monstrous or not—tended to make itself scarce. Considering the beast’s presence, it seemed more likely than not that the missing parties had all been devoured.

“I’m impressed the scouts made it back, considering,” I commented. From the sound of things, witnessing a woodland tyrant python and making it out alive was quite the feat.

“Yeah, they got real lucky. They spotted the very tip of the thing’s tail, and had the sense to make tracks without trying to take a closer look.” Oh. That’d do it.

Another huge snake monster, though? It was starting to feel like they were drawn to me, or something—Fel had dealt with them in dungeons, and I’d seen my fair share of them in the wild as well. Just how big would a woodland tyrant python be compared to all those other ones? Fel had the highest chance of knowing, being the oldest in our group, so I sent him a telepathic message.

《Hey, Fel, do you know about these woodland tyrant python things?》

《But of course. Put plainly, their brains are as small as their bodies are large.》 Well, somebody’s not mincing words. 《I once encountered such a python that attempted to have me for a meal the moment it laid eyes on me. It had no conception of my power. It died as it lived: stupidly.》

《I’ve run into one of those things too,》 added Dora-chan. 《Same deal—tried to eat me. That pissed me off, so I used my lightning magic and rammed a hole straight through the thing’s stomach, but it still didn’t die! Spilled most of its guts out as it ran away, though, so I didn’t bother chasing it.

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