Chapter 33: The Green Forest , The Deepest Part(1)

In the north, there are snow-capped mountains, in the south, a jungle, in the west, a desert, and finally, in the east, a great forest.

These four great natural places where humans cannot live are a kind of limit that humanity has encountered.

Even before and after the Great War, the area where ‘humanity’ resided was always limited to the center of the four magical realms.

Countless explorers lost their lives trying to venture into the unknown.

The pioneering projects of great leaders who made their names in history were also recorded as failures every time.

Humans, mere creatures resembling monkeys.

It would be happy for all creatures to live according to their own place.

Do not dare to go against the predetermined fate.

“…It’s delicious!”

In the middle of the night, deep in the eastern great forest.

Avalli exclaimed as she bit into the sandwich she had made.

‘When I grow up, should I open a restaurant?’

It wasn’t such a bad idea.

The food that contained Avali’s unconscious ‘magic’ was more wonderful than I had imagined.

Of course, it was clear that the magic contained in the food would cause trouble because of the magicians who noticed it…

Avalli, a visitor from another world, is still ignorant of this world.

Her long silver hair, which falls to her waist, sways as her jaw moves while she munches on her sandwich.

Her hair reflecting the soft moonlight and her eyes sparkling green give off a strange sense of sacredness.

Today is the third full moon that Avalli has encountered in this world of Sword and Magic.

She is currently wandering through the great forest to fulfill a request from her teacher, Lucy.

That request is none other than collecting magic stones.

The most important thing in Lucy’s research as a magician at the Magic Tower was the existence of the magic stone.

All the other equipment could be made by hand, even if it took a long time…

But the magic stone that was the core power source was an exception.

Since Avalli felt somewhat responsible for Lucy staying in Asha Village, she left the village right after the full moon, placing her clone on the bed instead.

‘… Actually, I could have done it a little earlier.’

She had put off all the magic she was learning from Lucy, cooking with Envel, Camellia and the village kids who always called her cheerfully, and the exciting duels between Arsene and Hans.

However, the night of the full moon was an exception.

Avali, who had returned to her usual appearance, was reluctant to stay in the village.

If the villagers knew about her strange appearance with silver hair and green eyes, she might collapse in an instant.

“Well, since we’re already here, let’s solve it together.”

Avali muttered, patting her stomach with satisfaction as she ate the last remaining sandwich.

If she saw even one demon nearby, she could immediately turn it into a magic stone and head home.

Originally, Avali was afraid of the forest due to the fear of being chased by demons, but she succeeded in completely overcoming that trauma during the last battle during the full moon.

She is quite strong.

Considering that this is a game world, it must be because she leveled up a lot.

Avalli’s guess was actually correct.

She had gained a huge amount of experience and grown as a result of fighting the demons in the depths of the Great Forest where she had fallen and advancing west.

Therefore, the demons in the depths that had to do their best to hide in the past would collapse in a few moves if they encountered Avalli now.

And it would turn into a magic stone several times larger and purer than the wolf demon from last month, enough to make Lucy foam at the mouth and collapse the moment she saw it.

“Let’s work hard and earn money, don don don!”

Avalli hummed happily and kicked the ground of the Great Forest briskly.

She was now fully aware of the astronomical value of the highest-grade magic stones.

Therefore, in addition to the magic stones needed for Lucy’s research, she planned to obtain a few more magic stones for her personal selfish desires.

It would be difficult to cash them out right away since there were many eyes searching for the source of the magic stone, but she could not help but be greedy when she thought of them as precious metals that could be redeemed someday.

The silver-haired girl ran through the forest with all her might, her eyes sparkling with greed for several hours without encountering any beasts.

“Huh?”

Only after moving a distance that was long enough for the trees to change color did Avali notice a sense of discomfort.

It was understandable that she hadn’t encountered any beasts until a moment ago.

To the west, that is, closer to Asha Village, relatively weaker beasts inhabited the area.

Most of those beasts were annihilated by Avalli when she escaped the Great Forest.

However, the area where Avalli currently resides is a bit different.

The current Avalli could be easily defeated, but when she fell to this world, she had to fight desperately, risking her life, to barely defeat one entity.

Therefore, Avalli three months ago avoided combat as much as possible and focused on survival.

Therefore, most of the demons around here should still be alive and well.

“… Hmm.”

No matter how much I search, I can’t find any entities.

Since it’s the first time I’ve been to a place in three months, there must have been changes…

But in this current situation where I can’t find even a single trace, I feel a clear sense of discomfort.

Fortunately, Avalli recently learned a magic that could be used in this situation from her teacher, Lucy.

It was a detection magic that was located between the spatial and kinetic systems, and if we had to categorize it, it would be a kinetic system.

Avalli moved the magical power inside her body as Lucy had told her.

She didn’t use any auxiliary means such as forming a seal.

This was because Lucy had strongly urged her while teaching her the magic.

‘If you increase the output like that, it will become a really serious problem.’

Rather, Lucy taught Avalli how to cast magic with minimal force.

Since she already had transcendent magical powers that were beyond human classification, all she needed was a little direction.

And the best way to do that was through spells.

“The flow of all things will unfold before my eyes.”

Words have power.

Even more so in words that have been systematized over a long period of time.

Detect.

The magical power that poured out from Avalli’s body began to thoroughly search the surroundings with the clear goal of ‘searching’.

The magical power that brushed past the ground conveyed all the heterogeneous discomfort felt in the surroundings to Avalli, the caster.

If it were a normal person, the brain would immediately be destroyed and shattered with the overwhelming amount of information—

[Characteristic: One who drank the well of wisdom.]

[You drank the well that provided endless wisdom in the past. Your wisdom stat increases significantly, and you gain a correction to the abilities gained from wisdom.]

[Wisdom +100]

[150% correction to wisdom gained from all characteristics, skills, and equipment]

One of the characteristics that Avalli had chosen in the past began to naturally organize all the data entering her head.

The whole process felt like a completely different type of Detect that Lucy had used.

If Lucy’s Detect simply reads the ‘color’ of magic, Avalli’s Detect is a kind of radar that searches for ‘everything’ and then analyzes and transmits it.

The realm of ‘Great Magic’ where dozens of people would have to gather and prepare for several weeks to achieve similar effects.

“There it is!”

The magic that Avalli used for the first time in the proper procedure soon brought her the information she wanted.

In the southeast direction, about 2km away, there is a place where the afterglow of magic remains strong.

I will have to go there to know for sure, but… it is probably a trace of space magic.

Avalli ran towards that place at incredible speed and thought about what Lucy had taught her in class.

Space magic is the most difficult of the three energy systems.

There are only a very small number of magicians who use space magic properly on the entire continent, and in most cases, they only fix the coordinates of other magic.

Even those few magicians are said to only be able to move inanimate objects or their own bodies, so it is an extremely difficult magic.

“… Hmm.”

That’s why, the moment they arrived at the place that Detect had detected, Avalli couldn’t help but let out a small groan.

This was because she could sense what kind of magic had been used in this place.

A kind of superhuman intuition that was possible because several magical characteristics were overlapped in her body.

‘Teleportation. And it was on a huge scale.’

It seemed that all the monsters in this area had been gathered together and moved somewhere.

Avalli could do the same thing if she used ‘magic,’ but it would probably consume more magical power than she could imagine.

What on earth is happening in this great forest?

If Avalli’s friend who was well-versed in the world of ‘Sword and Magic’ was here, would she have been able to immediately notice the whole story of the incident?

Such questions arose in Avalli’s mind, but of course, no answer came back.

Even if you have transcendent magical power, you can’t reach the realm of omniscience.

“… There’s nothing we can do.”

If something is happening in the great forest, the aftereffects will definitely reach Asha Village where she is staying.

Before that, it is necessary to understand the situation.

Fortunately, the magical reverberation left by the space-travel magic is strong around here.

With Avalli’s ‘magic’, it is possible for a girl to move to the coordinates indicated by the reverberation without much expense.

‘Yup!’

The moment Avalli let out a cute shout inwardly, the space around her was distorted in an instant—