[Silver Ash] - Become The Strongest In Another World
CHAPTER 57: Meeting (3)

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"Not here either, huh … "

"We've been searching for two hours, but we haven't found them at all"

"What's okay to do, most likely they're far away, but ... To be at this distance in just a few days .. Aren't they too fast for a bunch of monsters? "

" ……… "

In the middle of a night filled with silence, Noelle and Cryll walk through a forest filled with lush trees.

What are they there for? It was definitely not for treasure hunting like they used to do.

Currently Noelle and Cryll are doing investigative work to find the remains of a group of monsters that escaped from stampede.

Cryll was not present during the stampede attack, but he learned of the situation from Noelle.

That's why, even though she never got involved with stampede in the first place, she took the initiative to help Noelle get her work done.

… Of course it's not free, he demands 40% of the pay that Noelle will receive from this mission.

And Noelle's reaction to that was …

"Seriously? You only want 40% … ? All right, I'll give it to you, but you'll have to free-fall from 20,000 meters to get the money"

"But that's impossible, right?! "

"Yep"

Cryll is forced to help Noelle voluntarily.

While Olivia is guarding the others at their camping spot, Noelle and Cryll continue to wander through the dense jungle in the middle of a summer night filled with insects.

"We still can't find it, huh ... Do we have to take a break and get on with it tomorrow? " question Cryll to Noelle without stopping her footsteps and continued to observe around.

Noelle did not turn to him, she simply shook her head while continuing to check with her detection ability.

"No, for now we'll keep looking until all these areas we've checked"

"Alright" Cryll did not issue the slightest refusal, even though he was already feeling a little tired, he should still be able to continue the search for a few more hours.

Unlike Noelle who has turned her race into a vampire, Cryll is an ordinary human being. He could match Noelle's speed and stamina thanks to the body strengthening magic he had.

It was for this reason that Noelle became very hasty in finding her prey, she did not need to think of Cryll as she would be fine as long as she still had mana to activate her body strengthening.

After all Noelle was planning to continue the journey tomorrow, so she wanted to complete this quest as soon as possible.

Yet even after the two of them continued their search for hours, they still did not find the intended group of monsters.

There's obviously something strange. Noelle and Cryll felt that too.

According to the report given to Noelle by the guild, the group of monsters that escaped should have consisted of a small group of Cyclops, some giant Wolves, as well as a large horde of Goblins.

It is not known if any Wyverns were following the escape, but even if they did, it would still take a great deal of time just to cover such a large distance from Suiren city with their current location.

Noelle had spurred his group's speed into maximum speed so that he could quickly reach the capital if he had intended, but it was very unlikely that it would be done by monsters.

Based on Noelle's experience and observations, he could guarantee that her flight speed far exceeded Wyvern's.

It should have been not so far away, but somehow Noelle did not find them at all.

Right now .. Noelle's heart was completely filled with strange premonitions and sensations.

"Mmmm ... Absolutely nothing, but at least we've found the remains of their tracks"

"It's troublesome"

Noelle and Cryll decide to return to the place where Olivia and the others are waiting.

It was really a futile search, but at least Noelle had found many traces of the monsters left in the forest in the form of destroyed land and some trees that had fallen from being hit by something.

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"Noelle, isn't it time we left? "

Cryll approached Noelle who was swinging her sword with a body full of sweat.

"really? I didn't realize it." Noelle replied as she wiped her sweat with the towel she was carrying.

Before Cryll called him, he was in the middle of his daily training.

The training he did was not enough, just swinging his sword continuously with the same movements up to hundreds to thousands of times.

Since Noelle had already mastered all the fighting techniques Vain had taught her, she only needed to make her body remember all those moves.

It was an exercise that Noelle did every morning before starting her activity. Because if he didn't do that, his body would only dull and his fighting ability would be reduced.

Noelle and Cryll walk together through the forest to return to the campground.

It had been 2 days since Noelle had rested in the forest with Cryll and the others, during which time she had recovered the fatigue her body and mental were experiencing. And in his spare time, he also took the time to train Charlotte and Chloe.

He was a little troubled because his fighting style was not at all compatible with Charlotte who used the Centipede whip sword as a weapon.

That was why he could only teach the melee combat techniques he had, the rest he would leave it to Charlotte to create his own fighting style.

Noelle also never thought of using the whip as a fighting weapon because basically, the whip was a torture device.

Too many risks are owned by the user whip, such as accidentally attacking his own colleagues because the whip is quite difficult to control.

Fortunately Charlotte was able to freely control the direction of Centipede's attack as she pleased, so she was a little relieved now.

"We returned .. "Noelle listlessly said that and was immediately greeted by Olivia who was ready with her gothic armor.

"Nn, welcome back .. Are you tired? "

"No, I'm ready at any time, and .. What is it" Noelle said as she pointed at the large mat laid out on the ground.

It was unmistakably the same mat he used to travel yesterday, but what he wanted to ask was what was on it.

On the mat were many tea cups and woven baskets and several dishes filled with biscuits.

It's not wrong if it's a picnic.

"Nn, because the journey will probably take a long time .. I prepared all this."

Olivia stated that with a proud face while puffing out her chest that had grown bigger lately.

"No, I know that, but .. Ah no, it doesn't matter .. But you might have to limit your own rations so that your weight doesn't increase right? "

"Regeneration is everyone's friend! "

" ……… "

Noelle did not say anything else immediately sat down and prepared Verstand in her hands while waiting for Cryll and the others to be ready.

His muscles were still tightening due to the effects of his previous workouts, but it didn't matter because this trip would only deplete his mental health.

Eventually after a while, Cryll comes with Stella and Charlotte behind them.

—Obviously by carrying some baskets that seem to be filled with fruits.

Noelle thinks this trip is starting to look like a weird family picnic.

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"Ahh, already seen." Olivia's shocked voice leaked out as she and the others were busy with their tea party.

"Where? " Cryll asked her while looking in the direction Olivia pointed.

He tried to use reinforcement magic on his eyes and tried to focus his gaze forward.

" … You're right" said Cryll with a slight grimace.

Unlike Noelle who was able to endure it thanks to the pain-freezing skill, Cryll simply did not have that. So he could not maintain the strengthening magic on his eyes for a long time.

Cryll grimaced a little with that reality. He did not understand what he had to do in order to obtain the skill.

He turned his eyes forward and muttered.

"Somehow can we get there sooner than the plan .. As expected of Noelle."

"It's easy for you to say, but my current situation is not good at all."

"Woah, Noelle! What's wrong with you? You don't look alive."

Noelle's helpless voice really surprised Cryll who had been focusing on his search since.

That was why when he saw Noelle lying down with empty eyes and skin paler than usual, he was completely shocked.

Noelle sighed for a while, then replied languidly as she continued to hold Verstand in her hand.

"I'm just maximizing the use of the psychokinesis ability from Verstand .. I think it'll be easier because I've used 『Scwerth Catastrophe』, but … Spurting this carpet to fly at high speed while using wide range detection really hurt my head."

—So that's why you look paler than usual …

At least that was what Cryll wanted to tell her, but Cryll knew that those words would not help at all, so he kept quiet while thinking about a solution.

" … Do you think .. How much time do we have before we get to the city? "

Noelle closed her eyes for a moment while taking everything into account.

" … With the current speed as an assumption .. I guess we'll be there within 6 hours, but .. We can't get down in a city with this state of affairs, like this, so we have to go down a few kilometers before reaching the gate, that way .. About 5 and a half hours .. Maybe."

Unlike the usual Noelle, this time he seemed hesitant while answering limply.

He didn't know if his prediction would be correct, but he had already drained every cell of his brain just to make that estimate.

And it made his head even more painful as he continued to try to stabilize their position in the air.

After Cryll gets an uncertain answer from Noelle, he immediately shuts up and thinks hard about things he can help.

Not only Cryll, but Olivia and Charlotte also looked at Noelle anxiously while they did nothing.

The only thing Olivia can do here is to donate her blood to Noelle secretly in order for Noelle's magic and physical strength to recover immediately, as well as form a wind barrier to protect everyone on the mat, but he still felt sorry for not doing anything.

While Charlotte, she had done nothing in the first place, so she could only hope that Noelle would not force herself.

"Noelle, how far away is your detection right now? "

After a moment of silence, Cryll finally asked in a powerful voice.

"Hmm? If it's physical detection, maybe about 1 kilometer, and magic detection ... Maybe about .. 800 meters? I don't know, I don't really feel it."

"Mhmm, mine should be enough, other than that ... Miss Olivia .. Can you use gravity magic to lighten the weight of everyone here? " Cryll asked somewhat awkwardly to Olivia.

After all, he was quite familiar with Noelle, but not with Olivia. Because, Olivia often looked at him with a scary look filled with envy.

It made Cryll involuntarily feel disinclined towards her.

And it was also funny in Noelle's eyes. Because for him, Cryll is a man who will not be reluctant to anyone and look at everyone equally.

While Olivia takes care of the barrier and reduces everyone's weight with gravity magic, Cryll will use detection and Noelle will continue to control the mat with her psychokinesis.

That's Cryll's simple plan. Although it sounded trivial, it would lighten the burden Noelle received.

"Nn, it should be ..『Druckbereich』."

As soon as Olivia finished reciting her incantation, a blackish purple magic circle began to appear and circled fiercely around them.

The magic circle disappeared, and instead, the bodies of everyone on the mat faintly began to glow with the same color as the magic circle earlier.

"Excellent ... My body has really become lighter." Cryll in awe began to feel his own body and look around.

Everyone's bodies had been coated by that blackish purple light, as a sign that gravity magic had been used.

Of course it is all thanks to Olivia's magical ability which can be said to be almost perfect.

『Druckbereich』 is one of the variations of gravity magic that has the function to form an area where gravity and friction force are fully controlled by the user.

And Olivia had used that magic to lighten everyone's weight on the mat.

Amazed by that, Stella asked Olivia with sparkling eyes.

"Hey hey, can this magic be used on a person's body permanently? "

"Stella?! " Cryll startledly called out the name of his fiancee, but Stella ignored him and continued to stare at Olivia.

And Olivia just with a smug face answered him.

"Fufu~ I thought Stella would ask that! "

Then he then returned to his usual flat face.

"But unfortunately, this magic is only temporary."

He easily dropped Stella's hopes.

"Can you calm down .. I need to familiarize my body and mind now … "

While Olivia passionately explained her magic to Stella, Noelle could only shut up and grimace in pain.

He had already turned off his detection ability because the search role would be given to Cryll, but still he still had to move the mat for the next few hours, so he had to rest his mind at least for a while.

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"Well, from here we just have to walk, right? "

Cryll asked Noelle who was lying on the ground with a tired face.

Right now they were somewhere in the middle of the forest, some distance away from the main street.

A few kilometers ahead was a sturdy fortress built to protect the city from monster attacks.

After a long and arduous journey (only for Noelle), they will finally arrive in the next town soon.

"That's how .. From here we can only walk or rent a train because there are already too many people to fly or run fast."

Noelle in a lifeless voice answered Cryll.

"From that .. Cryll, can you carry me until we get to the city gate? I'm too tired to walk .. You should still have a lot of energy left, right? "

Just carrying Noelle shouldn't be a problem. Noelle weighed only about 66 kilograms. That was no problem for the already trained Cryll, and he also had body strengthening magic just in case.

To be honest, even Cryll was surprised that Noelle was much lighter than he thought. Although in fact it is the ideal weight if considering the age and height of Noelle at this time.

"Alright alright, I will take you until we get to the city, but ... How about your other equipment? "

"Bring them up, they're not too heavy."

" ……… "

That's not a problem either, but Cryll really hopes that Noelle will put all her equipment into their 『Spatial Storage』.

Although Cryll doesn't mind that. After all Noelle's gear consisted of only two long swords weighing an average of 1.3 to 1.5 kilograms.

Noelle would wear her armor as she was carried by Cryll, and behind the cloak itself were several sets of throwing knives, as well as a box full of long needles that Noelle used to throw weapons.

So the total weight won't bother Cryll that much. And also, Cryll already owes Noelle quite a bit of money, so this level of help is not a problem.

As they had planned, finally Noelle's group came to town by walking .. Except for Noelle who was in a semi-conscious state gave up her trip to Cryll.

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