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Chapter 17 - The Plagued Village

Riding under the moonlight while sitting on Kaiser's back 6 days have passed since we left for the Emeraldorr.

We traveled through many ruins, plains, and vast deserts, all filled with vicious monsters. They were formidable, but compared to the foes I've faced in the palace, they seemed... not weak, but inexperienced like they hadn't yet reached their full potential.

Afterward, we came across another desert filled with desolation, or perhaps our speed couldn't let us see anything as Rogrendria was casting a protective barrier around us. Yet it felt weird for not being able to see a single human so far.

I wondered if it was the fear of Rogrendria or something else that didn't let even heroes come near it. It was something I could never understand or imagine...

And so another night had passed and the day had arrived as we began riding on horses.

Yet something felt wrong...

Whroooooom!

Causing tremors within the surface a herd of large sandworms appeared ambushing us as they circled around while surfing in the sand.

Sigh...

It never ends does it...

Devour!

...

At the same time, looking at Belle and Rogu I felt a bit of annoyance as they kept arguing with each other the whole way without resting even once or perhaps they were already relaxed and it was just me doing all the work.

So I said, "Sheesh look at you two arguing like kids instead of imagining how many things we'll get to see in Emeraldorr."

And so they both yelled at me with a "Huuuuuuuuh!?"

But then Rogu continued just to make Belle mad, "Well I've been seeing the world through my dreams so I don't have to be excited since I know what's going to come but Belle-chan hasn't seen the current world in eons and yet she's busy arguing with someone as cute as me."

"Ara~ Look at Rogu-chan how he's so carefree thinking that he has all the freedom without forgetting he's Kazuma-kun's pet and our maid," Belle replied in response to piss Rogu off right back.

And as usual, Rogu went into his frozen shock mode.

(I guess that gets him every time she says... I mean it is kind of funny how one of the most feared beings in this world, tried to possess my body but ended up becoming a literal familiar and losing all his invincibility.)

After a while, Rogu gains back his composure as he comes back at Belle bragging about him being a mythic beast.

Then Belle just said something along the lines, "You're just a twerp and a failure of a fox who couldn't outsmart a human..."

Sigh...

(This isn't ever going to end, is it?)

...

[Two Hour Later]

We'd come so far from the second desert that we were at its end there was a lot of greenery beginning to be visible.

Yet their rant had never stopped not even once and my stomach had been growling.

...

[Another Two Hour Later]

After coming through all the way we finally detected the presence of several life forms far ahead as we began seeing farms.

It was a human village! Yet something horrid was ongoing as we all felt it.