After finishing my meals, I packed up some food and called over Wagyu and Rimuru.
"Alright we will go looking for that… Uuh, what was it?"
Suddenly, cocky mind reminded me.
"It's named Scorching Adamantite, idiot!"
"Ah! Yes, Scorching Adamantite! Let's go to the Lava Hot Springs!"
"Alright, master!"
"Guuuuu!"
When we passed through the big road that connects the East Rocky Mountains to the Forest and the Lava Hot Springs, we found that at least half the forest was completely burned out, somehow the fire calmed down until it completely dissipated.
"Aaahh, these Salamanders really messed up this big forest… It's so big I can barely see anything outside of it, I think those are plains… I wonder if there are any human town close by… I still remember that redhead girl in armor, I wonder why she was here? Such a dangerous Forest, well maybe it's safer now without the Emperors"
"Human? Master Kireina, have you seen a Human before?"
"Uh yes… when I was still a tiny caterpillar, I saw a redhead girl walking around alone, she went to the East I think…"
"You must be careful the next time, my grandfather once told me that Humans are incredibly powerful monsters that own half the world…"
"Half the world?! Are they that strong? But… with so many terrifying monster everywhere one would think that Humans are on the weaker side…"
"According to my grandfather, Humans are blessed by countless gods when being born, resulting in incredibly high base stats, every human child is around Emperor Class power… now, imagine an adult"
"Gaah! I hope your grandfather was just spitting nonsense! That's ridiculous!"
"Hahaha! I hope so too!"
"Guuu… Mastaa I will protect you!"
"Oh? Don't worry Rimuru, I am very strong now! I will be the one protecting you all instead!"
"Seeing my Master say such words calms my heart"
"Guu!"
After we came through half the road, we found countless big humanoid footsteps.
"These, are human footsteps?"
"No, watch carefully Wagyu, humans usually wear some type of armor on they feet, these must be trolls"
"Trolls…? In this forest?"
"Yeah, you haven't seen them before?"
"I… Actually I have never seen trolls in this forest, this is strange, neither my grandfather or my father ever told me about any humanoid monsters living on this forest aside from the Mountain Monkeys…"
"Are you implying that these guys just came here recently?"
"Perhaps… Something triggered the arriving of Trolls on this forest"
"But… what?"
"Guuu…"
Even though we found countless trolls footsteps we never came across an actual Troll in the long journey to the Lava Hot Springs, after finally arriving, we didn't wanted to rush things and started to investigate this mysterious place.
"Is it really true that there are actual Hot Springs on this place? I can only see Lava and hot caves everywhere"
"Hmm... Snif Snif Ah! I can smell something strange, Master!"
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EPIC OF CATERPILLAR
Fantasy*I am not the author of this novel * A young adult man dies from a fever and is reincarnated in a world of swords and magic dominated by a strange and mysterious Game-like System as the weakest being, a Caterpillar! Gaining abilities from the monste...
