NOVEL NEXT Chapter 37: (1)
“We need a way to turn the situation around.”
The Panielun allied forces, who had been defending against aerial monsters for a long time, wouldn’t collapse like this, but it was inevitable that the soldiers would suffer increasing losses. They needed a solution.
“Help me! Save me!”
Desperate screams filled the air.
Even now, dozens of soldiers were falling to the ground.
That’s why Kaiyan wanted to help them.
“Shop.”
Leaving the swarming monsters aside for a moment, he summoned The Shop.
If it weren’t for the griffin, the soldiers at Position 12 would be more than enough to defend against regular monsters.
“First, How much G do I have?”
[Available G: 86G]
“I should have saved a bit more if I had known this would happen.”
Thanks to the purchases of archery books and items, his once abundant G had been depleted. But compared to the last time he checked, he had about 10G more, probably because he managed to kill some flying monsters.
“What should I buy that would be a great help in the current situation?”
He searched through the list to find an item that would be beneficial for the Allied soldiers.
His hand naturally gravitated toward toys.
“Indeed, there’s nothing as efficient as toys.”
Hadn’t he already experienced the tremendous effect of toys?
It was after spending a mere 30G to catch the hard-to-find Orc Lord. Toys were the best in terms of cost-effectiveness.
[Low-grade: ‘Who’s telling lies?’, ‘Throw it far!’, ‘Where are you!’….]
Unfortunately, he didn’t have many G, so he could only afford low-grade toys for now.
“Hmm… Let’s trust my intuition. ‘Throw it far!'”
The item list was too extensive to confirm the effects of each item individually, so he summoned the descriptions of the items that felt most appealing to him.
Just like when he purchased the item that helped find the Orc Lord.
[‘Throw it far!’: Low-grade toy, a toy that animals love, emits pheromones that attract animals when thrown, disposable, the amount of pheromones emitted increases the farther it’s thrown.] [40G]
“Is this the right choice?”
It seemed like he found the appropriate item for the current situation.
“Let’s confirm before purchasing.”
“Are harpies and griffins in the animal category?”
This was somewhat, no, quite ambiguous. Take the ground monster Shadow Tiger, for example. It was quite similar to animals, unlike other monsters. But no one called it an animal. The reason was that it was a fierce monster.
“Animals? Why are you suddenly talking nonsense? Calling monsters animals.”
Max scowled as if questioning why he was talking nonsense.
“Haha… No, it’s nothing.”
Seeing Max’s intense reaction, it definitely seemed like that wasn’t the case. It’s absurd to call monsters animals.
“They are animals.”
“Really?”
Just as he was about to give up on buying the ‘Throw it far!’ toy, the old knight who had been sitting and resting with nothing to do spoke up.
“Are animals something special? Those creatures are animals too. We just give them a different name, calling them monsters, because they’re dangerous.”
“So… you’re saying they are indeed animals?”
“I’m not entirely sure, but that’s what I think.”
Apologies to Uncle Max, but the words of the old knight had more credibility.
“Good. Let’s buy it.”
Without hesitation, Kaiyan purchased the item.
Since he was going to help the soldiers, it was better to do it as quickly as possible.
“A doll?”
The toy he bought was a small bone-shaped doll, about four finger joints long. When he applied pressure to it with his fingers, it felt soft and squishy, just like the chair in Tarien’s cabin.
“It’s too light. How am I supposed to throw it far?”
The problem was, as stated in the item description, that the farther he threw it, the greater the effect. But the doll was too light for that.
Even with overflowing strength, throwing it hard would only reach about 10 meters at best. If lucky, it might go up to 20 meters with the help of the wind. Such a distance would hardly be of much help to the soldiers that were hundreds of meters above.
“Arrows?”
He noticed the arrows stuck in the monsters’ corpses below his feet.
“Should I attach the doll to an arrow? Would it still work even if the item gets slightly damaged?”
Using an arrow, it wouldn’t be difficult to throw it about a few hundred meters.
But the concern was that in order to attach the doll to an arrow, he would have to cause some damage, and there was no guarantee that a damaged item would function properly.
“Krraah! Help meee!!”
“….”
As Kaiyan hesitated on what to do, a soldier fell from above.
Their eyes met for a brief moment, perhaps due to their heightened agility. Through the soldier’s pupils, he felt fear, sadness, pity, and various other emotions.
“…Why am I hesitating?”
Boldly attaching the doll to the arrow, more than half of it ended up damaged as the arrow went in due to the small size of the doll.
The damage rate of the toy turned out to be higher than expected, so even if it didn’t work, there was nothing to say in the current situation.
Thump, thump-
“Hey, where are you going?”
“Don’t go too far ahead like that! It’s dangerous!”
Ignoring the cries of the people, Kaiyan activated each skill one by one and walked toward the end of the cave.
To throw it as far as possible and towards the monsters, he needed to shoot upwards from the protrusion.
As he emerged from the cave’s protrusion, the situation at the Panielun fortress became more evident. Arrows were raining down by the thousands, and a horde of monsters was struggling to enter the position.
“…I don’t know how much it will help, but…”
Zing!
Knowing that with intermediate archery, he shouldn’t forcibly pull the bowstring to the maximum, he ignored that rule this time and pulled it to the point just before the bow would snap.
To make it fly a little farther.
“Save the soldiers.”
Thwack!
Swooosh!
He shot an arrow filled with earnestness toward the sky.
The arrow started ascending at an incredibly fast speed, defying gravity, narrowly avoiding the flailing monsters, and shooting straight up toward the upper levels.
“Kraaah? Kraaaah!”
“Kiiiaaah!”
“Fortunately, it’s working.”
The monsters attacking the point became bewildered as they suddenly flew madly toward the toy.
Contrary to his concerns, the damaged toy was functioning properly.
“Why are they acting like that all of a sudden?”
“Do those creatures seem insane to you?”
As most of the monsters flew after the toy, the soldiers defending the position came out of the cave one by one to witness the scene.
It was an inexplicable phenomenon from their perspective. Harpies, Giant Eagles, Griffins, and most of the monsters stopped their attacks and flew in one direction.
“Now’s our chance! Take down the remaining monsters before they return!”
“Fire!”
Pop, pop, pop!
Of course, there were monsters that didn’t chase after the toy. They were insect-type monsters.
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