DUAL GATES THE WORLD FROM THE PROGRESSOR

Chapter 9: Watching a swaying tree...

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At this time, a large cavalry procession with horse-drawn carriages was passing through a road in the midst of an extremely wide and dense forest.

A knight on horseback, clad in full armor, who had previously been at the forefront, now slowed down and rode his horse into one of the nearby carriages.

The carriage window also opened slowly.

"What about the road ahead, Robert?" asked the princess, who was in the carriage.

Robert, who was now listening to the question, replied, "The road conditions ahead are still quite safe, there is no danger ahead."

Staring at that face full of doubts, Robert asked the princess, "Erm... Princess... Is there a problem...?"

"Just a moment…" the princess whispered as she closed her eyes quietly.

Not long after, Robert felt the aura of an extremely terrifying monster in front of him, and he felt not only one aura, but many auras!

"Alert for battle!!! Alert for battle!!!!! There's a monster ahead!! There's a monster ahead!!!!" One of the soldiers in the front row immediately shouted a warning to the other soldiers.

Stance!

The princess, who had now opened her eyes, whispered something to Robert, "There are 34 monsters, with 6 being at a very dreadful level, 13 at a moderately dangerous level, and the rest are monsters you can fight with our 15 warriors."

Hearing that statement, Robert's heart seemed to stop for 1 second. He never liked it when these monsters attacked with such a large number of monsters. It would be hard to believe that this incident was a coincidence!

"Then what should we do, Princess?" Even though Robert panicked a bit, he still maintained a firm expression on his face.

"Wait a moment..." The Princess then closed her eyes once more.

"Attack them! Attack them! Don't let those monsters rush into the Princess' carriage!" One of the other cavalry commanders immediately ordered the soldiers to attack the monsters that were rapidly approaching the princess's carriage.

Seeing the monsters attacking the carriage convoy made Robert realize one thing. "Win or die, that's the only choice."

There really was no other option to choose from, and it would be impossible to escape the horde of monsters this way.

While Robert was thinking about all that, suddenly the princess who was beside him whispered lowly to him, "There is no other way."

Hearing that whisper, Robert finally dispelled all his doubts.

Dismounting from his horse and pointing his sword at the monsters, he ordered sternly to the other soldiers, "We will die here! So cast aside your doubts and fight them with all the strength you have! Glory forever to the Arthia Empire! For Glory!"

Hearing Commander Robert's battle cry, the soldiers also dismounted and started to activate their strongest abilities and shouted in unison, "Glory forever to the Arthia Empire! For Glorious!"

"Attack!" And that's how the bloody battle between the 300 soldiers and the 34 monstrous beasts finally began.

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Returning to Kazuki's battle, at this moment he was fighting against the orc that he had previously targeted.

The orc's body was around 10 meters tall, making it the tallest monster he had ever encountered. Even the jelly monster he killed last month was only 3 meters tall!

Initially, Kazuki had intended to kill the orc by throwing a spear into its heart, but for some reason, the orc found out and avoided it, surprising Kazuki.

"Isn't the slime we killed last month completely unable to avoid it?" he wondered.

[...It's a Slime, those monsters are slow and have weak physical strength...] replied the system.

This was Kazuki's first battle against a monster from another world!

Roarrr!!!!!

Kazuki chuckled lightly when he saw that the monster was finally looking at him. Without thinking much, he immediately shot straight at the monster with his terrifying speed!

Dashhhhhh!!!!!

Swoshhhhh...!!!

The monster, feeling interrupted during its lunch, raised its battle mace high and slammed it into the ground.

Booommmm!!!!

The attack sent a shockwave through the surroundings within a 10-meter radius!

However, Kazuki easily jumped over it.

Jump!

Dashhhhh!!

He quickly shot up and raised his spear, preparing to stab the monster.

Raised the Spear!

Since the monster's hands were still holding the mace that was stuck in the ground, Kazuki decided to attack its head while possible.

Dashing through the monster's hand, he was finally able to reach the monster's shoulder and prepared to stab.

And he immediately thrust his spear into the monster's head!

Stab!

Contrary to his prediction, the monster shifted its head downwards and avoided the attack completely!

Avoid!

Then the monster immediately released its grip on the mace and swung its hand towards Kazuki swiftly!

Elbows!

Swing!

Kazuki, who saw the sudden attack, immediately raised his spear and jumped to the side.

Avoid!

Swosh...

The attack passed without hurting anyone.

Thinking of a method to defeat the monster, Kazuki finally came up with an interesting idea.

"What if I try that technique?" he asked the system.

[...That might be worth a try.]

"Okay!" he exclaimed with passion.

Stance!

Inhale!

Exhale...

"Huffff... Hahhh... Let's try it first!"

Standing in a very sturdy fighting stance, he raised his spear over his shoulders and pulled it back like a javelin athlete.

Then Kazuki shouted, "Yoshhaaa!"

throw!!

And the spear immediately shot out at a speed that exceeded even the speed of sound!!!

Swooosshhhh...!!!!!

"Grawrrr!!!"

But the monster was also not a submissive masochist, then the monster raised its club and used the weapon as a shield, the size of the club was large enough to cover most of its body.

But this is one chance that means a lot to him!

Trinkkk!!!!

The spear finally hit the mace, but there was a strange incident that happened, namely the mace suddenly cracked!

Crackkk!!

"Wow?!" Kazuki was stunned by what he saw.

"Isn't my throw not that strong?"

[...I don't know, don't ask me.]

The monster was also surprised by the cracked mace, but the monster was grateful that the spear didn't hit its body.

Just as the monster was about to release the spear from its mace and continue to fight, suddenly the bast*rd who threw the spear was below him holding a sword!

"Hello! Did you have a good day, buddy!?"

"Kreukk?!"

That was what Kazuki said with a carefree smile on his handsome face when he quickly slashed one of the nearby monster's ankles!

Swing!

Scrashhhh!!!!

Roooaaaaarrrrrrr!!!!!!!!

The scream was quite loud, in fact it was too loud for Kazuki who had only spent his life in a peaceful and quiet place!

Because his leg was cut off, the sight of that powerful monster finally fell.

Collapsed!

Without thinking much, Kazuki immediately shot towards the monster's head!

Dash!!

The monster that was lying on the ground tried to drive it away by swinging its hand towards Kazuki.

But Kazuki wouldn't fall into the same hole, so he immediately executed a fatal slash to that hand.

Draw swords!!!

Slash!!

And the poor monster's hand was finally cut off.

Scrash!!

Roooarrrrrrr!!!!

Raising his sword as high as he could and pointing it downwards he was ready to kill the first monster with his own hands.

But before Kazuki killed him, he uttered a sentence which he said sincerely.

"The law of the jungle preys on the weak, this fact may be sad, but I wish you could live in a different world and have a much better and more enjoyable life."

Even though the orc didn't understand what this bast*rd was saying, he understood that what he said was something good.

Then Kazuki directly thrust his sword into the head of the monster that had put up no resistance.

Stab!

Jleb!!

Scroshhh...

“Huufff… Haahhhh…” Kazuki inhaled and exhaled tiredly

Ding!

[Congratulations! You has Level Up!]

"System, open statistics!"

[System Statistics]

Name: Kazuki Igarashi

Levels: 350

Title: (Hidden)

Strength: 4,000

Agility: 5,500

Stamina: 4,000

Intelligence: 1,000

Vitality: 3,000

Luck: 2,000

Ability: None

Skills: Appraisal, Spear Throw, Sword Slash, Motivator

Kazuki enjoyed reading those stats until he noticed that he now had the 'Motivator' skill.

"Hey System! What is this?" he asked the system curiously.

[...The skill is the result of the achievement you got today.]

"Did you make sure that you weren't talking nonsense?"

[...I am an honest System.]

"What the hell?!!" Kazuki still couldn't believe that his bullsh*t could motivate those monsters! He thought all that to the point of forgetting that he had not gotten off this monster's head yet.

"Oiyaa~..."

Jump!

After landing on the ground, he then saw the face of this monster full of smiles.

"I'm just curious, did before when the angels of death who came to pick him up also smiled by putting on a friendly face like a close friend?" Kazuki fell into deep thought.

Shaking his head, he then looked for items he could loot from these monsters.

“Whether or not a loot was dropped or not…”

Kazuki kept looking but it was useless.

[...The loot is his body.]

Hearing the answer from the system, Kazuki also asked, "... What can it be used for?"

[...To make weapons, potions or clothing, that's the normal thing to do in this world.]

"I don't need that, I thought that every monster I killed would leave something behind, like the jelly necklace..."

[...That necklace might have been an ordinary necklace, but it was swallowed up by that Slime and unknowingly absorbed a lot of power from the Slime's core in its body.]

"Can this monster have something swallowed like this necklace?" asked Kazuki while showing the necklace he was currently wearing.

[...Please rip the stomach and search it if you are still stubborn.]

"Yes yes, okay I understand~..." he whispered while looking into the distance.

He then saw several trees that seemed to be moving several kilometers away from where he was standing.

"...Twitching? Some of the trees are moving? Are the trees moving?" he was completely confused about it.

[... Now let's try to motivate this tree to move, will it move?]

"Of course you can't..."

[...Then the answer is obvious.]

“Does that mean…” he muttered as he couldn't contain his excitement.

[...What's moving are monsters!]

"That's right! That creature I'm looking for, let's go there and level me up!" he roared excitedly as he dashed swiftly towards it.

[...Hooray!!!!]