My childhood friend the hero was genuinely angry

8 – Ultimate Magic (1)

A month has already passed since I received farmland and lived a farmer’s life in Alprada Kingdom.

If it’s long, if it’s long, if it’s short, a month is a short time. If you think about it during that month, it seems that a lot has changed.

“Lucy, are you awake?”

“Yes. Xerath. I just woke up.”

First of all, the first of those changes was that I and Lucy had a casual relationship.

Lucy, who suggested talking to me a few days ago, asked if it was necessary to use polite words awkwardly between people of the same age and living in the same house.

A little unexpected proposal, I couldn’t agree with her at first. I’m a commoner, and Lucy is from a royal family. How can we talk badly about each other? I’d rather have Lucy talk to me in plain language and I use respectful words.

But Lucy stubbornly refused. She argued that she was no longer royalty because she had been kicked out of her kingdom.

Is that how…? It’s a far-fetched argument to anyone’s eyes, but thanks to Lucy’s hard insistence, I had no choice but to agree with her words, and now we have a relationship where we speak plaintively to each other.

But since I definitely started speaking in short language, I think there are many good things. At first, for some reason, it felt like we had become more awkward, but after a while, we became much closer. Now, I feel like I have become close friends with her. This was the first change that happened to me.

“Ohh. You came out early today.”

“Yes. Mr. Frank came out very early too.”

And the second change was that I became very friendly with the people of the kingdom.

At first, the residents of the kingdom thought of me as some kind of god and gave me bright eyes. To be honest, I felt quite burdened by their eyes.

Because I’m just a slightly superior mage. And now it’s not even that, it’s just an ordinary peasant. I understand that they think I’m great, but I was worried about when we’d be able to be friends without hesitation, but we became close sooner than expected.

Is it because of the hard and difficult farming work together? It seems that the neighbours’ bond has developed faster than expected.

Now we’ve gotten really close, and we even crack jokes with the residents of the kingdom. I thought I couldn’t get along, but I got along so quickly, it was quite a meaningful second change.

“Whoa… It’s already harvest time.”

“That’s right…! It’s the busiest and happiest time for farmers.”

And the third change was that it was already harvest time.

The Harvest Festival begins soon. Although the crops I had planted were not yet ready for harvest, the Alprada kingdom as a whole was in harvest time.

I also decided to participate in the harvest season. At first, I didn’t want to participate in the harvest festival because I didn’t help at all, but the people of the kingdom strongly opposed it.

I made it rain, but they said that the harvest festival without me made no sense, saying that my credit was the greatest.

Ummm… Is that how it works? It certainly rained, so it might be said that it contributed to the growth of crops to some extent. I think I made a pretty big contribution myself.

In the end, I decided to participate in the harvest festival, and that was tomorrow. I hear that there are fun food and festivals waiting for me, so I am slightly looking forward to it.

‘When I think about it, I live a very peaceful and happy life.’

Three changes that happened to me, I was enjoying the changes and living happily.

The emotion I feel these days is happiness. I feel like I’m living a very small life, but I really liked that small thing.

Just a while ago, after being exiled by the empire, it was really bleak when I left the warrior party, but now that I think about it, being expelled didn’t seem so bad.

Of course, it wasn’t that he was doing a great job. I don’t have much status compared to the warrior’s party, and I can’t compare it in terms of money and wealth, but I do rewarding farming work, Lucy cooks for me when I get home, and the people of the kingdom are kind to me. .

I don’t think this kind of life is bad. Maybe that’s why some of the people of the Empire sometimes want to go back to farming.

“Wow… This is very fresh…? Huh…? What is this?”

As I smiled and gazed at the crops for tomorrow’s harvest, I made an unexpected discovery.

Among the fresh crops, I saw one crop damaged. When I got closer and inspected the crop, I couldn’t help but be amazed.

A crop with clear teeth marks, I wondered if it was bitten by a wild beast, but it was no ordinary wild beast’s teeth marks.

Black deep teeth marks, I know what they are.

“The beast’s teeth marks…?”

These teeth marks were undoubtedly those of demon beasts.

Why is the Demonic Beast here? I couldn’t help but tilt my head.

Usually, Demonic Beasts appear on the front line fighting the Demon King. It doesn’t happen in a kingdom like this.

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When the harvest season for the year’s crops was approaching, it was time for the farmers to wait with joy for the harvest festival to conclude the year’s farming. However, the king of Alprada Kingdom could not be happy.

Because there are always unwelcome guests at this time of year. The really unwelcome guests by the name of Masu.

“Your Majesty… It seems that Demonic Beasts are overflowing from the Magical Mountain this year as well.”

Such monsters are born in the mountain in the north of Alprada Kingdom, Witch Mountain.

I don’t know why demon beasts appear on that mountain. I don’t know the principle, but even if you wipe out the monsters, the monsters will fill up again.

A mountain that is always infested with demon beasts, that’s why people call that mountain demon beast.

“Hmm… Is it already time?”

I don’t know how the monster mountain came to be, but what is certain is that the mountain causes enormous damage to the kingdom of Alprada every year.

If you’re bored, the Demon Beast that comes down to Alprada Kingdom and attacks the residents, especially at the Harvest Festival, becomes even more active.

The distance between Masusan and Alprada Kingdom is quite far, but since there is only Alprada Kingdom in the vicinity, the destination of the monsters who descended from Masusan had no choice but to be Alprada Kingdom.

“I’ll start on my own again this year.”

If we don’t wipe them out, farmers will inevitably suffer enormous damage. That’s why I couldn’t leave that magic mountain alone. As the king who has to protect the safety and peace of the kingdom, he decided to go on a subjugation with soldiers this time.

As a king, he was an excellent military commander in the past, so if he had to fight a battle like this, he would go out in person.

The kingdom of Alprada, which is not a kingdom big enough to have generals under it anyway, the king himself goes to Masusan every year.

“Your Majesty… Why don’t you take this opportunity to talk to Xerath? Surely Xerath will help you.”

In such a situation, one of his servants gave a piece of advice to the king of Alprada Kingdom.

This is Xeras, the wizard of the warrior party who is currently residing in the kingdom. He said how about asking him.

Certainly there was a lot of truth in what he said. Xerath was certain that if the king asked for help, he would readily step in and help. He is a very nice and kind person. He didn’t know anyone.

“No, we have already owed him a great favor. He is also a guest in our kingdom.”

But at those words, the king shook his head.

He was clearly a guest of the kingdom. Besides, he didn’t even belong to the kingdom where he received green wages, and he was just an ordinary farmer now. He couldn’t ask for help from someone like that.

Besides, he had already been greatly favored by him. It is the enormous blessing of rain in the midst of an ongoing drought.

In the first place, his role in being able to hold the harvest festival like this was very important.

That’s why he couldn’t rely on him this time either. It wouldn’t be polite to treat guests.

Guests had to enjoy the harvest festival like a guest.

“There is no law in the world to make a guest work. I will go out on my own.”

I decided to put an end to the idea of using his warm heart. He said that anything that could be solved sufficiently in the kingdom line, the kingdom would try to solve. The kingdom was not harsh enough to forbid precious guests from enjoying the festival and forced them to work.

The King of Alprada Kingdom, who decided to go out like that, told his remaining subjects not to worry at all.

It has been done every year anyway, and it will be the same every year this year.

The work of eradicating the beasts in the beasts mountain every year, the king of the kingdom of Al Prada led his soldiers and tried to go out on a campaign.

“Your Majesty…”

“Oh… Isn’t that Mr. Xerath?”

In the meantime, Xerath came to the king.

“I don’t know where you’re going, but please take this with you.”

“What is this…?”

“It’s just like an amulet that protects you in case of emergency.”

“I don’t know what it is, but thank you very much, Mr. Xerath.”

“I gave you this, so let’s go.”

And what kind of glowing blue magic item, he delivered the item to the king.

The king did not know what kind of magic item it was, but he had nothing to lose by receiving it. If a mage like Zelas gave it to you, he would have hoped that it would be of help to him, and there’s no way it wouldn’t be.

The king thanked Xerath and accepted it, and soon began preparing for the campaign again.