Day 281-290/Day 286

Day 286
Due to the fact that we had been moving all last night, we had reached the Labyrinth City【Deegambling】, which was only a short distance away. A few more hours of travel and we'll be able to reach it. However, we were enjoying a temporary vacation in a natural hot spring that was springing up on the side of a certain mountain before that.
As we had been constantly fighting in recent days, in order to get rid of our accumulated fatigue, we happened to find a natural hot spring just before arriving at【Deegambling】and decided to enjoy it slowly.
At first, we couldn't enter the hot spring with a large number of people because it was only gushing out of the source. However, the huge open-air bath made by the topographical manipulation by [All Creation] was wide and deep, so we could soak our shoulders in it.
Since the location of the open-air bath was good, the scenery was also good, and we enjoyed a drink with Kanami, who was in the bath with us while looking at it. The various energies dissolved in the natural hot spring water penetrated deep into the body, and the deep taste of the famous sake enhanced each other and created a wonderful moment. After all, hot springs are the best.
My exhaustion is lifted from the depths of my body, and the effects of the hot spring water fill me with more vitality than ever before. Avenger and company were near us, who are enjoying themselves in a dreamy state of mind, look a little embarrassed by the fact that their naked bodies are exposed, but they are still enjoying the hot springs, but that's beside the point.
After soaking in the hot spring for a while, the monsters around gathered, perhaps intrigued by the noise coming from the hot spring.
* Red Apes are intelligent enough to handle pebbles and branches as weapons, and basically acts in groups.
* Capybaras are a popular pet animal, about the size of a human child, covered in brown fur, with an adorable appearance and a gentle temperament.
* Long-armed Bears are slender with bristles that cover their massive 3-meter-long frame and, most importantly, their unusually long arms.
* Silver Tigers are always targeted by poachers because of the high price of its beautiful silver fur, but its overwhelming fighting ability is said to have made it a reprisal target.
There are a wide variety of monsters that gather there. Such monsters seem to have an instinctive awe of us, and they stare at us all at once while being scared. If we try to do something, they will follow their instincts and run away.
If we weren't soaking in the hot springs, we would be hunting the monsters that had gathered there to eat, so that's the right reaction. But now that we were enjoying the hot spring, we didn't want to hunt the monsters. I wondered what's going on, because they didn't run away even though I stared at them, they seemed to want to go into the hot spring, but they couldn't act because we were there.
So we lightly beckoned to them, and the monsters, led by Capybara and the others, began to fearfully enter the hot spring, and they were enjoying the feeling of the hot spring. Since the races are different, it's hard to clearly discern their expressions, but I could tell that they were relaxed.
The bathtub was built quite wide, so there was plenty of room, but as time went on, the monsters that gathered in the bathtub became more and more numerous, and it began to feel cramped.
I had no choice but to build another one, and that one was soon filled as well. I added a third one and it was just the right size. I finished my work and slowly soaked myself shoulder to shoulder again. Nevertheless, since this is a world of the weak and the strong, it would normally be divided into those who hunt and those who are hunted, but here, regardless, the monsters are enjoying the hot springs equally.
It's not often that you see a Red Ape, which is normally the one to be eaten, relaxing next to a Silver Tiger, which is the pinnacle of the ecosystem around here. Since no pioneering work has been done in this area, the probability of this hot spring being known to humans and being ruined is low, so will this scene be repeated for a while?
I may have created an unexpected unexplored region. I stroke the head of a capybara as it brushes up against my chest. It's a rather large capybara, apparently the head of the herd. Capybara have a habit of rubbing their bodies against submissive opponents, so if the chief acts like that, the other things will follow.
The countless capybaras that rubbed up against it while sniffing their spidey noses were cute things, and I let Kanami stroke their smooth body hair as well. Am I the only one who thinks it's cuter to let Kanami hug the capybara while calling it cute and cuddly?
Aside from that fondness, I also made lunch, built a hut out of rocks in case I came back, and lightly trained the revenants to recover the magic and strength they had consumed in the hot springs, and I found myself repeating that it was evening.
I guess I took it too slowly than I thought. The magic of natural hot springs is unbelievable. I served Black Fomor meat to the monsters who had gathered there. It turned out to be an unexpected feast, but, well, a day like this is a good thing once in a while. We fell asleep as a group, surrounded by Capybaras and Silver Tigers, who had grown attached to us.
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