"Whew!"
"Good thing we weren't too slow this time. We should reach Carne Village by tomorrow morning at the latest. Then we'll head a little farther north, and we can gather herbs in the forest."
"If we keep up the pace, we'll be back in E-Rantel by the day after tomorrow at the latest!"
"Yeah!"
When the members of Swords of Darkness spotted the forested mountains around Carne Village in the distance and noticed the increasingly clear signs of human activity on the ground, they finally relaxed a little. They began discussing the goblin raiders they had encountered earlier.
"Still..."
"Speaking of which, Annie, your Fireball magic was incredible! You didn't even need to chant—you could silently cast a single Fireball and take out one goblin, and even those trolls ended up with their heads burned to a crisp... We've never seen fire magic that precise and effective before."
"Yeah, it was astonishing!"
"Kid, I can't help feeling that wasn't even close to your limit. Though maybe I'm just imagining things."
On their way here, they had run into a group of ugly monsters who wanted to rob them—the goblins and trolls that were scattered all over the continent. Before they could drive the overrun monsters away or kill them, a little girl standing in the back of the wagon had easily wiped out the troublemakers with one Fireball after another. Even now, they were still amazed.
"So what?"
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"Listen, you guys! A few days ago, I fought a really huge Undead Lich who was nothing but a skeleton, and a pretty, female Succubus Dark Warrior! Then that powerful Lich got burned into a flaming skeleton by my fire!"
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Annie had no qualms about bragging about her first achievement since coming to this world. In front of the