The Diary of a Middle-Aged Sage's Carefree Life in Another World: Volume 3 [Parts 1 to 8] by Kotobuki Yasukiyo

Author:Kotobuki Yasukiyo
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 7: The Old Guy Finishes His Part-Time Job

RUOOOOOOOOOH!

A mighty howl in the dead of night woke Zelos and the others from their slumber. All of them brandished their weapons and assembled at the bridge.

Having known in advance that the worksite was going to be out in the wilderness, they’d all brought combat equipment with them. But knowing that they were unlikely to face any human foes, most had just brought equipment made of leather—in short, armor that was easy to move around in.

The dwarves each leaped out into the night as soon as they were dressed in their armor, while the others present prepared weapons for themselves in a panic. And as they all got outside, they spotted a beast with a huge frame howling on the other side of the river.

The upper half of its body was somewhat like a human’s, but its lower half looked more canine than anything.

Protruding from its back was a sea of legs, layers deep, all writhing like a bed of insects. Its head, meanwhile, was stretched out like that of a crocodile, and didn’t have any eyes.

Well, the head didn’t have eyes, but the monster did—plenty of them, actually. But they were the eyes of the human faces that half protruded from the creature’s abdomen, moaning and staring out with anguished expressions. Zelos wasn’t sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt like he remembered seeing one of those faces somewhere before.

“That really the same kinda thing we fought during the day? It looks nothing like it.”

“This is just my hypothesis, but...I wonder if it might’ve eaten the other one that was left? Which could have given it the power of two of the things, and made it turn into this... I mean, given their gluttony, they probably didn’t have any food left, apart from each other.”

“So they’re eating each other?! And they can absorb the power of other monsters they eat, you say...? Hang on. If one of those things ate a mage, then...”

“They might become able to use magic, yes. We can’t let our guards down.”

It was a common stereotype of fantasy stories. Usually, it would’ve been a preposterous suggestion; but here, at least, Zelos was correct. The beast he’d defeated the other day and the one from just earlier had both been the same size.

Even accounting for body type, humans could only be so different from each other in size. But the difference between the two monsters they’d killed previously and the thing coming toward them now was more than just that. It ran at a speed that belied common sense, and it was able to jump easily more than ten meters into the air. As it landed, its bones broke under its own weight—but even then, it simply regenerated at rapid speed.

“It’ll be here quickly. That speed... That’s going to be a threat.”

“That’s only if it’s got hard ground to spring off, though, right? We’ll try the same trick we used on the last one.”

Again, the

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