Legend

in combat, it would be more accurate to say that I’m looking for magic items that would be useful when camping out for adventurer requests.」

「I see.
……By the way, what do you plan to do with the corpse? It might be an abnormal species considering Pleiades never mentioned it.」

「Yeah, that’s true.
Let’s hide it for now.
We’ll look it up in the guild or in a book and if it isn’t an abnormal species, we’ll sell the materials and excess magic stones to the guild.
If it’s an abnormal species, then we don’t want to sell it here, it would be better to sell it at the guild.
However, considering that there were so many of them, I think they are just ordinary monsters.」

「Guru~」

Set gave a cry in agreement with Rei as he piled up the Goblin corpses into a pile with his beak.

「Sorry about this.」

Stroking Set’s back while thanking him, Rei turned to look at Elena.

Elena nodded back at Rei’s silent question.

Seeing that, Rei took out his dismantling knife and cut open the chests of the Goblin bandits to remove their magic stones.

As for their organs, he didn’t know if they would sell, so he just left them for now.

Normally, internal organs were the most perishable materials, but Rei’s Misty Ring solved that problem, hence his decision.

「The leather armour……is mostly destroyed and can’t be used.」

Using the blade of his knife, Rei peeled off the leather armour from the bodies of the Goblin bandits.

「Given their size, even if we could sell it, it would only fit a small person or child.
I don’t think there would be a demand for it.
You don’t mind if I just throw them away, right?」

Elena asked as she removed the leather armour from a Goblin bandit.

「Let’s do that.
Even though the item box has no capacity issues, it isn’t good to endlessly keep things we don’t plan to use.
And, above all, it takes time to take things out.」

(That said, not all garbage is useless.
For example, when I used that fire whirl.)

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Thinking to himself, Rei gave a sigh, thinking that even stones would increase the power of a fire whirl more than leather armour.

「Mm? What’s wrong? Is it fine to throw away the leather armour?」

「……Hm? Oh, yeah, do that.」

Briefly replying to Elena’s question, Rei removed the leather armour off another Goblin as he thrust his knife into its exposed chest.

Feeling the sensation of tearing flesh as he cut with the knife, finding the heart, he used the tip of his knife to gouge out the magic stone.

As expected of Goblins, their magic stones were small.
That said, they were still higher ranking species, so their magic stones were clearly still larger than ordinary Goblins.

After taking out the magic stones of all the Goblin bandits, he finally removed the magic stone from the Goblin Bandit Mage.

「Heh, as expected.」

The magic stone was about 1.5 times larger than the Goblin bandit magic stones.

By the time they had removed all the magic stones, about 30 minutes had passed.

This was just the time needed to remove magic stones and it would have taken them more than an hour if they had stripped other materials as well.

(Considering we’re here to hunt the Spear Frog, it was the right decision to only take out the magic stones for now.

Muttering to himself, he washed two Goblin bandit magic stones and the Goblin Bandit Mage’s magic stone, which he didn’t store into the Misty Ring, with water from the Dagger of Flowing Water.

「Should we do this first? ……Even if they are higher ranking Goblins, I can’t expect much since Goblins are Goblins after all.
Set!」

Calling out, Rei threw a magic stone over to Set.
Catching it in his beak, Set swallowed it.

「I knew it.」

There was no skill acquisition announcement in Rei’s mind.

As it was a Goblin’s magic stone, even Set and Elena seemed to have expected that.
None of them looked particularly disappointed.

Rei absorbed a magic stone using the Death Scythe as well, but no skill announcement was heard even after slicing one apart.

Because he was already half expecting it, his gaze turned to the last magic stone, the one belonging to the Goblin Bandit Mage, without a change in his expression.

Unlike the earlier failed magic stone absorption, there was only one of this magic stone.
Naturally, the question arose weather to give it to Set or the Death Scythe……

「Gururu~」

Set gave a cry as he rubbed his face against Rei.

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It was clear what Set meant by that.

That is to say, Set was telling Rei not to worry about him and to use the magic stone himself.

「……Is that okay? If you absorb this magic stone, you would probably gain some magic skill.」

「Guru~!」

It’s fine! Set seemed to say with a cry.

Rei smiled at Set and gently stoked his head as Set rubbed against him.

「Well then, I’m sorry about this.
I’ll do as you say.」

Holding the Goblin Bandit Mage’s magic stone in one hand, and lightly stroking Set’s head with the other, Rei took some distance before throwing the magic stone into the air as Elena and Set watched……

「Hah-!」

Swinging the Death Scythe, the huge blade slice through the magic stone.

However, there was no announcement message for skill acquisition in his mind……

(So it was no good after all, huh? Well, even though it’s a mage, it can’t be helped as it was still a Goblin.)

As he was thinking that, the next moment.

Thump!

It felt like something was flowing back from the Death Scythe, forcibly entering his mind.

「Ga……ah……?」

Fro the first time since coming to Elgin, he inadvertently dropped his Death Scythe and fell to the ground as if enduring something.

「Rei? Hey, what’s wrong? Rei!?」

「Gururururu!」

Elena and Set instinctively called out to Rei, who wasn’t behaving as usual.
However, Rei didn’t seem to hear them as he stumbled on the ground.

And……

「GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH-!」

He gave a loud scream and, the next moment, lost consciousness as he fell to the ground.