How To Suck Honey With Extras [EN]: Chapter 310

344. The Place to Truly Point the Sword (7)

I instantly closed the distance and swung my sword upwards.

I coated the blade with my aura, creating a gravity-enhanced strike that combined sharpness and heavy weight, sending him flying.

KWA-BOOM!

A deafening roar echoed as his body soared into the air.

“Too bad. If we were outside, I could roughly guess what you’re thinking.”

I have no idea what his ‘sphere of influence’ is, since there are no notifications popping up right now.

But I can guarantee this much.

“You’re definitely getting screwed over right now.”

I immediately jumped up to chase after him.

Can’t use spirit magic?

I can’t summon spirits to this place.

Magic can be activated without any issues since it consumes mana accumulated within the body.

“Chain Lightning.”

I created a chain-like lightning bolt, wrapped it around my sword, and swung it.

The chain of lightning wrapped around him.

“Have some of this as well!”

I brought down my sword, and with a crackling sound, a fierce flash of light exploded, piercing through him and causing another explosion.

‘If I keep pushing like this, I can finish him off…’

But I can’t let my guard down.

That monster is still there.

Even though it’s a mess from my attacks, and more than half of its vaunted eyes are crushed, cut, and burned, it still persists.

‘I doubt it even dies like a normal creature.’

The monsters that have appeared so far would have vanished with that much damage, but not him.

Is he on a different level?

‘Then I’ll just have to smash him until he disappears…’

It’s simple, but it’s the most reliable method.

Just as I steeled myself and was about to charge at him again, his body twitched and convulsed.

Reflexively, I jumped to the side to reassess the distance and stay on guard.

“…What?”

I soon realized the strange feeling.

A hand appeared from behind him… from beyond him, grabbing him by the scruff of his neck.

The pupils in his eyes contracted rapidly.

As if terrified.

And he slowly took his eyes off me and stared at the figure behind him.

A figure wrapped in black bandages from head to toe.

“…That’s…”

I, too, stared blankly as the figure grabbed the monster and disappeared somewhere.

But I couldn’t bring myself to chase after them.

The reason I was so surprised was none other than this.

“…The monster that harmed Aileen?”

Not my memories, but the real Aileen’s memories.

The monster was identical to the one that remained in his memories before I took over this body and became who I am now.

And at that moment, a new message appeared on the message that had stopped responding since I arrived here.

What does this mean?

But there’s no time to dwell on it.

Something shone.

The pendant I had obtained from Epheleo earlier.

A hidden item whose effects I hadn’t yet confirmed.

“Wait!”

Before I could even voice my question, a pure white light, as if washing away all the darkness, erupted and engulfed me.

* * *

“Aileen just jumped down here without a plan?”

“Y-Yeah…”

“And you just stood there and watched?”

“…No, I didn’t just watch.”

Sylvester, looking embarrassed as he explained, stood before Kruse Elfamant, who pressed her temples as if struck by a headache, still watching the open surge [a sudden powerful forward or upward movement].

“Do you know the identity of that monster, Elfamant?”

“Identity or whatever… it definitely seems like something we shouldn’t touch.”

“What do you mean?”

“I don’t know its identity. But around that surge, space and even mana are all distorted and cut off.”

“Like a gate?”

“It’s different from that… it’s probably an existence we can’t dare to face…”

A meaningful tone.

She wasn’t just being sarcastic; she frowned as she glared at the black surge.

“Anyway, we can’t just stand here and watch. We need to hurry and find a way…”

It was then.

Something was spat out from the surge.

The three of them reflexively prepared for battle.

They were relieved and bewildered to see that it was a person.

Because only one person was spat out.

“Ernil?!”

Sylvester was bewildered but quickly caught the falling Ernil.

“…Is she okay?”

He examined her, but it didn’t feel like the worst-case scenario.

She had only lost consciousness.

But they couldn’t rest assured for another reason.

“Wait a minute. Why is she the only one who came back?”

As Kruse pointed out, only Ernil Alfrens was spat out from the darkness.

Then what about the other one?

“Why isn’t Aileen coming out?”

But who could answer that question?

Only an awkward silence filled the space.

345. The Truth Is Here (1)

I wish they had dropped me off a little more gently.

I wish they had lowered me down softly and kindly.

Muttering such ungrateful complaints, I braced myself for the end of the fall.

The darkness ended, and a pure white light assaulted my vision.

Frankly speaking, it was blinding.

“Kugh!”

As expected, a solid impact slammed into my back.

I seemed to have fallen straight to the ground.

“Lucky for me, my body is strong… Is this why they say your health is your wealth?”

If anyone heard my mumbling, they would definitely say no.

Well, I don’t care about that.

I rubbed my aching back and stood up.

“Seriously. Do you not care whether I fall or not? …Anyway. Hmm?”

As I stood up, I closed my mouth, feeling a sense of unease.

Actually, I had been suspecting it for a while now.

I recalled the situation a moment ago.

“…I definitely beat up that monster in that darkness… the monster was dragged away by someone, and I was forcibly ejected by that guy, right?”

And I confirmed that Ernil was ejected right to where Sylvester and his group were.

And I should have been next.

“The problem is…”

I carefully looked around.

The scenery is clearly different.

I’m somewhere in a forest I don’t recognize.

“Where am I?”

It seems I’ve fallen somewhere completely different all by myself.

…My luck is just amazing.

* * *

It sounds like an excuse, but I had thought about preparing for a situation where I might be accidentally flung somewhere.

I’m someone who can have an accident at any time!

And a good citizen like me is always the one who gets caught up in such accidents.

Even if it’s a demon realm, I was confident that I could survive properly.

Escape and survival.

I always keep those two things firmly in mind.

“…But where the heck is this?”

Even I can’t figure out where this place is.

“It’s a forest, but…”

The problem is that there are a lot of forests in this world.

If you go out of the house and walk a little, you’ll find a forest.

Hooray for eco-friendliness.

First, let’s take a broader look.

I briefly checked my body’s senses and gained confidence that I could use my powers without any problems.

I used gravity control on my body and shot up in an instant.

Only after soaring hundreds of meters into the sky did the surrounding scenery roughly come into view.

“…Where the heck am I?!”

I still don’t know.

It’s a forest I’ve never seen before, and even when I compare it to my memories, there are no matching features or anything.

And I’ve had a strange feeling since a while ago.

A stirring as if I’m about to face something ominous.

A feeling as if I need to notice something as soon as possible.

“Ah… right! Status window!”

Maybe there’s something left in the messages.

I believe in you! Please, give this lost lamb a navigation system!

“Damn it!”

But expectations are always shattered.

It seems that viewing my stats or seeing the abilities I’ve already acquired is not a problem.

Putting aside everything else, Note 6 is bothering me.

I don’t know what resources are, but is it related to this situation?

I’m getting more and more confused?

Where did you really send me?

This is a bit troublesome.

I need to finish things up quickly and go back; I have a mountain of things to do.

I need to check the progress of the store I entrusted to someone.

But it doesn’t seem like that will be easy.

“There’s a city…”

I went higher into the sky to broaden my view, and I saw a large city beyond that place.

“Oh my god.”

But I had to break out in a cold sweat when I saw the overall shape of the city.

It felt more bewildering than welcoming.

“…That city is…”

I have a sense of déjà vu [the feeling that one has experienced the present situation before].

But it’s not a terrain I know, nor is it a record in my memory.

“Isn’t that the city Ashilla showed me?”

The city of a past civilization that Ashilla showed me before…

It has the same shape.

“Whatever it is, I’m screwed.”

Those words came out reflexively now.

It seemed like I had caused a super-sized accident.

* * *

Why is a city that has already been destroyed right in front of me?

Anyway, it would be good to go to the city.

I want to get some food if possible, and I also need information.

Unfortunately, I opened the subspace pocket, but there was nothing there.

I still had Kilmuris [likely a weapon or item], so it remained, but I lost other funds and supplies.

“Other than that, I only have a few gold coins that I always carry with me.”

There are almost no helpful items.

I decided to head to the city.

And as I headed there, I learned one more important thing…

“…A monster?”

A monster I encountered on the way.

It’s an ordinary troll.

It’s glaring at me, and I was about to summon a spirit to defeat it easily, but.

“Undine!”

…But there’s no response.

I quickly reconfirmed my senses, but the response from Undine, as well as the contracted spirits themselves, cannot be detected.

“It just keeps getting worse.”

I need to deal with the monster first.

Change from spirit magic to magic.

“Lightning Bolt.”

The discharged flash of light blows away the troll’s head.

The other monsters hiding behind it seemed frightened by the sight and ran away.

“The level of the monsters is at least not that different from what I’m aware of.”

Now that it’s been determined that I can’t use spirit magic, I judged that it would be troublesome to get caught up in annoying things, so I hurried my steps to the city.

Fortunately, I was able to arrive without any problems.

I made some preparations and decided to enter the city, approaching the gate.

But I soon stopped.

‘I probably can’t just go in.’

I don’t have any identification to prove who I am, so even if I go in through the main gate, they won’t let me in.

Moreover, when I looked from afar, it seemed like they were using some kind of magical tool when screening people at the gate.

If I just push my way through, the obvious result is that I’ll be caught for illegal entry.

‘Well, if I don’t have it, I don’t have it.’

After deliberately going around, I approached the fortress wall, roughly grasping the thickness of the wall and other objects beyond it.

‘Teleportation is… not going to work.’

It seems like there’s some kind of magic that detects spatial teleportation.

It’s probably to prevent intrusion using teleportation.