Chapter 67

Chapter 67 – Bear-san Is Peerless

Author’s Note:

It’s the last post of the year .

Thank you very much .

The results from the detection magic showed that the monster horde was scattered all throughout the forest .

In the middle of the forest, goblins, wolves, and orcs were separated into different groups .

If the number of monsters in the report was correct, there were 5000 goblins .

However, the problem was neither their strength nor their numbers .

The problem was that I didn’t know if I had enough magic power .

Up to now, I have never used my magic power to the point of depletion . Just how much magic power I had, or how much of it I could release, I didn’t know at all .

In the game, there was MP, magic points . In this world as well, there was a maximum magic power capacity .

However, I didn’t know how to investigate it . Maybe there was one .

Hence, I didn’t know how much magic power I had .

Also, unlike the game, the magic power you used was not fixed .

In the game, you would consume 10 MP when you cast a fireball . In this world, there weren’t any standards regarding that .

Even if it was the same fireball, you could charge your magic power, and like that you could infinitely increase its power . In terms of MP, you could use 5, 20 or 50 .

I didn’t know how much magic power I could charge up .

This battle wouldn’t be against monsters, but against the amount of magic power I could use .

「Swaying Bear, thanks for all your work until now . 」

I caressed Swaying Bear’s head as reward for running from the capital without a break until now .

Then I recalled Swaying Bear and summoned Hugging Bear .

「Hugging Bear, from now on, we will be running nonstop through packs of monsters, so I am counting on you!」

I caressed Hugging Bear’s neck .

As I finished my preparations, I hopped on Hugging Bear and entered the forest .

Just after I entered the forest, a small number of goblins started to approach .

I instantly invoked wind magic and cut their heads off .

It was auto homing magic, a magic where you locked onto a target, then fired . After that, it would automatically seek at the target .

While using detection magic, I cut the goblins’ necks .

A white bear ran through the forest .

At the same time, goblins’ necks were cut .

I didn’t count, but I think around 1000 heads were cut .

My magic power had not dried up yet .

I launched magic in the direction of a pack of goblins .

In Hugging Bear’s path, there were goblin corpses without heads lying around .

A white shadow and wind magic ran through the forest .

Through detection magic, I could see that packs of goblins were disappearing . Only a few of them remained .

I didn’t know how many monsters I had killed .

I still had plenty of magic power remaining .

In the game, I would have known how many points I would have left though .

From my position, on the right there was a pack of wolves, on the left was a horde of orcs, and lastly, in the center were wyverns .

Since I didn’t know exactly when my magic power would dry up, I decided that exterminating the orcs would be more important than the wolves .

I postponed the extermination of the wyverns .

I had fought them in the game, but not in this world .

Fighting the monsters you knew you could fight first was the normal strategy in games .

It was really troublesome if the small fries surrounded you during a tough fight .

I brought out oren juice from the Bear Box and took a little break .

As I drank the oren juice, I asked Hugging Bear to go where the orcs were stationed .

「Hugging Bear, I’m sorry . Hang on for just a little bit longer . 」

I hadn’t killed even half of the monsters .

A few minutes later, I encountered the horde of orcs .

Unlike what I had done for the goblins, I increased the magic power charge of wind magic .

A goblin’s and orc’s neck strength was vastly different after all .

「It would be great if I could cut off their heads with twice the magic power . 」

I fired the wind magic towards the orcs .

The orcs’ heads were cleanly cut .

No problem, it seemed .

There were approximately 500 orcs .

Unlike the goblins, the orcs had higher endurance, and their strength was on an entirely different level .

That was why I would only kill them with ranged attacks .

The orcs brandished their weapons and rushed towards me with an abnormal speed for giants .

As Hugging Bear ran, some arrows came flying at us .

Orc Archers!

In the game as well, there were orcs that used bows and arrows .

The projectiles were really troublesome .

I wrapped Hugging Bear with wind magic .

There was magic coming at us as well .

「Are there Orc Mages too?」

The Orc Archers were using bows .

The Orc Mages were using staves .

The Orc Lancers were using huge lances .

The rest were using swords .

So annoying .

Numbers were numbers . With earth magic, I created 30 Earth Bear Golems .

At that moment, for the first time, I had the sensation of my magic being drained from me .

Was that a little too much?

The Bear Golems ran to the orcs and stabbed the throats of the orcs with sharp nails .

I cut off their heads, too .

Even if the Bear Golems were pierced by arrows, they didn’t stop . They could block magic, and if they had wounds, I could use magic to repair it .

Wherever the golems and I went, a path of orc corpses was created .

「I still have magic power…」

I made sure I had magic power in my body .

「Just the wolves and the wyverns are left for elimination . 」

I fought this much, but thanks to the Bear suit, I didn’t have much fatigue .

「Let’s persist a little more . 」

The place where the wyverns were…

They didn’t budge from the center .

To restore a small amount of magic power, I changed to the white bear suit .

There wasn’t anybody here, right?

When I wore the white bear suit, it made me warmer, and I could tell that my magic power was being restored .

Now a white bear, I started fetching the corpses of the orcs and put them into the Bear Box while going back to the place where I killed the goblins .

I took the swords, bows, and staves as spoils of war as well .

In the end, the only things that remained were the heads I had cut off .

They were heads, you know? It was disgusting going near them, and it seemed that it wasn’t a part you could use . I just had no need to bring them back .

That was why the road I took turned from a path of orc corpses to a path of orc heads .

After I finished gathering the corpses, I decided to take a short break in my white bear suit .

When I sensed that a good part of my magic power was back, I changed to the black bear suit .

Now, let’s go kill some wyverns!

I hopped back onto Hugging Bear and rode to the wyverns’ location .

When I thought about it, even though I made so much noise while fighting, the wyverns hadn’t budged at all .

Was there a reason why?

When I approached the wyvern pack, I found out why…

「They’re sleeping . 」

Was it possible that somebody made them fall asleep?

I didn’t really know why, but I will kill them before they wake up .

I approached the wyverns silently, and cut their heads off one by one .

It ended anticlimactically .

Even though their companions had their necks cut right beside them, they didn’t wake up .

When I finished killing the wyverns, I put their corpses into the Bear Box .

Was it okay that it was so easy to collect wyvern materials?

When I finished collecting the corpses, the earth started to tremble .

「What?」

The ground was rising .

I jumped back .

In the game there were monsters that came from the ground as well .

Monsters like giant caterpillars or earthworms that opened immense holes and crawled out of them .

I didn’t notice it with detection magic .

Did the detection magic not reach deep underground? Or could I not detect it because it was under the wyverns?

「So disgusting . 」

A worm was coming out of the ground . It was bigger than the Black Viper .

The worm turned to face me .

Lots of saliva was drooling from its mouth .

The worm saw me as food .

A really big mouth was attacking me .

I dodged by jumping back .

It was big, but fast .

Even in the game, it was a monster I didn’t fight because of how disgusting it was .

It was said that when you attacked its skin, fluid scattered and a foul odor propagated .

Immediately afterwards, the skin regenerated . A really troublesome monster .

However, I had Bear Magic now .

With the same strategy I used to kill the Black Viper, I can kill this worm .

I created 10 fire bear cubs and made them run into the big open mouth .

The worm, thinking that they were food, hungrily tried to eat them .

The cubs, which had disappeared into the worm’s mouth, didn’t stop burning .

I thought that was the best magic against a giant life form .

Even if the exterior was strong, the interior was tender .

The worm thrashed on the ground for some time before it stopped moving .

「Hmm, will this sell?」

It seemed there were some places where people eat caterpillars, but I didn’t think someone would eat that…

Even if Fina and the rest ate that, I didn’t want to feed them something like this .

For now, let’s dispose of it, and I will think about it later .

If it becomes money, then it’s all good .

I placed the dead worm in the Bear Box .

Just the wolves remained .

I had magic power remaining, so I went to kill the wolves .

I dispatched the wolves easily .

The biggest task was putting the wolves inside the Bear Box .

I made the Bear Golems transport them to me and then placed them inside the Bear Box .

I put the last one in .

With that, the monster hunt was completed .

I hopped on Hugging Bear and got out of the forest, which reeked of blood .

The air was good .

When I looked at the sky, the sun had gone down, and it was evening .

I took the trip-only Bear House out and decided to stop here for a night .

Why was it that, even if my body wasn’t really tired, I felt really tired .

It had to be something like the tiredness of the soul .

I ate a simple dinner, and after I bathed, I went directly to my bed and drifted into the world of dreams .