Chapter 300: 『The Starved Hunters』
300 – 『The Starved Hunters』
…The number I’m sensing with [Presence Perception]… As my best estimate, there are fifty. In reality, there are slightly more, I expect.
The ones the Lithovars captured to sacrifice to the manticore were mainly adventurers. In other words, the number of people that have suffered at their hand shouldn’t be too many. They live in the forest and avoid contact as much as possible thanks to their strange customs, so compared to bandits, the damage they cause should be much less, I expect. It won’t be to the scale where they’re regarded as dangerous by some lord, and I think it’s unlikely that they could have incurred the wrath of some powerful person.
So this fifty… They’re probably the main body, not decoys. It’s hard to imagine that more than this were mobilised.
“The enemy is coming! There’s over forty of them! The difference in strength is too much! Let’s hurry back to the village before we’re surrounded! As for the truga… Please wait until you can see them! They seem to have noticed us, but they shouldn’t know our exact location!”
Bella informs the others. The man who brought the truga to his lips panics and stops.
“N-no way!”
“That’s too many, weren’t there only supposed to be about thirty?!”
The Lithovars are bewildered.