Chapter 352: Seaside Birds of Ill Omen
352 – Seaside Birds of Ill Omen
After eating my fill of basilisk roast chicken, I rest, then the next day resume the exploration. Together with Aro, the nightmare, and the treant, we descend from the nest on the tree and walk through the forest.
Today’s objective is finding more of the admirab mandragora that ranks even above piperis is my mind… In addition to as raising Aro and the others’ levels. Their levels are low at the moment since they just evolved. With my support, they should be able to quickly get through their first third or so. Once that’s done… We’ll finally be able to enter the huge adam-filled ruins under the tree.
I’m not able to find any suitable monsters, but I look around restlessly, wondering if any mandragoras are buried nearby. Eventually, I leave the forest and arrive at a beach. I stretch my neck out and look over the water’s surface. The ocean waters look pretty, but the edge of the world is visible in the distance.
…It’s a bit anxiety-inducing, but it’s not a bad view. Though it looks like the forest has more monsters in the forest than here. Just as I’m thinking we should go back, I spot three of the human-headed birds, the sirens, crowded around something on the beach. The sirens’ heads… The eyes of their finely chiselled female faces goggle at me. Their long hair drapes on the ground. Blood drips from their lips. As always, their appearance induces a visceral feeling of revulsion.
Th-they’re dangerous. Their appearance is one thing, but each of them, even though their bodies are so small, are B ranks… We need to turn back as soon as possible… Is what I think, but then I spot a flash of something skin-coloured in their midst.
God’s Voice’s explanation of the siren species races through my mind.
【[Siren]: B rank monster】【A monster with the head of a human woman and the body of a bird.】
【The [Siren’s] song causes other creatures to relax, luring them to their death.】