It's Not That I Like Using a Blunt Weapon!

Still... what a big beetle.

If you stay about the size of a palm, you could sell it to good people, but the scale with people is completely reversed.

The whole body is black, the horns branch like trees, and a few tortoise mushrooms stick to it.

The giant beetles were hunting us anyway. The movement is slow, but the strides are different from those of us who are so small.

"Intercept?"

I turned my heel back to make sure it was big enough to fight back into the middle of the mountain.

"Innocent. I can't believe I'm fighting such a big monster..."

Mira says, but I give it back with confidence.

Well, let me handle it.

I hold the hammer and rush.

"Blunt weapon skill Blitz !

Shake the hammer wide and pull it out vertically. The moment it hits the back of the beetle, the metal hammer flashes and doubles its destructive power.

Pull out the beetle's torso.

"Oh, a blow!

Mira-san clapped fiercely even though she was expressionless, so I returned the gats pose.

Well, if you're serious, it's like this. There's nothing to my right when it comes to handling blunt objects. Nobody wants to line up in the first place!

Still, it's too light to applaud. I thought it was as strong as a rock dragon because it was a monster from the Sealed Magic Pot .

"Hannah, no!

Mira, who was giving me an applause, shouted. At the same time, a big shadow rose from behind.

Looking back, isn't there a beetle that you should have just knocked down?

"You're kidding, right? Woah!

Dodge the corner that the beetle swings down at the edge.

Watch out. I was freaking out.

Indeed, I should have crushed the beetle's body to pieces. In fact, his torso is still sinking.

But right now, the hole was about to regenerate. Something like springy cotton emerges from the gap between meat and meat and returns to its original shape.

Mira-san snaps.

"That's a mycelium...!

Mycelium?

Did you say it was the mushroom body?

"Mushrooms must have grown beetles."

"Well, what do you mean?

"The larvae of beetles grow up eating mycelium. That was originally just a beetle. I grew up parasitized by mushrooms."

"Ah, that's the effect of growing tall - how long?! There was a scam!

Who wants to be so big?!

"That's not all. The mycelium of Tolf Mushrooms grows with beetles that have eaten themselves. Mira and the others pulled the mushrooms out of the horns of those beetles buried on the ground."

"Wow...."

You didn't want to know, or you were glad to know before you ate...

The point is that tortoise mushrooms are forbidden mushrooms that are so delicious that they should never be eaten.

Your body gets bigger, but the mycelium takes over and eventually loses its will.

That's why eating makes you mad.

Perhaps if you eat mushrooms on the spot, you'll be friends, so you won't be attacked.

Instead, if you don't eat mushrooms on the spot, you'll attack them and join them.

That's the instinct that torugh mushrooms are attacking us with, so to speak.

It looks like we need to kill the mycelium that's nesting inside our bodies in order to defeat it.

"Well then - how about this! Blunt Weapon Skill Fire Making Hizukuri !

I'll hit the hammer again.

In a moment, the hammer was dyed bright red and the surface of the tortoise was lit.

Fire is a hammer that can transfer heat to the struck object. As the name suggests, blacksmithing is a treasure.

The effect was amazing. Burned by a hammer, the burned part crumbles and the mycelium is dead.

But it's not an efficient way to do it. The enemy is huge anyway. I hope the whole fire burns down, but it's going to go out faster than I thought.

... I can't help it. Should we continue this way until the tortoiseshell is no longer playing?

"Hannah, look at that...!

"Nh? Fuck!

It was hopeless for me to get upset and bring it into a protracted war.

Two or three beetles of similar size are approaching us from the top of the mountain.

Oh no. We are struggling together, but it would be very troublesome if we came to more than one.

"I'm sorry, because of Mira...."

Mira, who was completely weak, blurred such a thing.

"What are you talking about? It's too early to give up!

"But, even if you defeat a beetle, it won't sell like this anyway... Mira hasn't changed into a nuisance...."

"No, no, no! If you process it properly so that it can be eaten... ah!

"What's wrong?

I've come up with something. Find a way to defeat the Tolf Bugs quickly.

Breaking my blunt weapon skills isn't the only thing that matters.

Machining, machining.

Now is the time to show off your on-site architectural skills!

However, there is a problem. It will take too long to execute the operation.

I didn't expect the herd of tortoises to forgive me such a respite.