Elysion Online ~The Dragonewt and The Summoner~

Coconut Village was a village where firelight could be seen in places. As we approached, we could see the state of the village.

There was a distinctive smell of burning from the village. Houses were blackened and some were crumbling. Most of the coconut trees, which we were told were a specialty of the area, were burnt and blackened.

"Terrible..."

"It's too much..."

Lily and the others were bewildered by the devastation. It seems that the information is correct.

"...Nii. People are coming"

Nowa told me and when I turned around, I saw an old man with a cane walking toward me. He was probably the chief of this village.

"Are you a traveler?"

"Yes"

"Sorry...this village cannot afford to host travelers at this time...normally we would host them with our famous coconuts...but as you can see, we have lost everything"

"I hope you don't mind me saying...emm, I know this is hard for you...but would you mind telling me what happened?"

The old man sits on a stone.

"This village was attacked by bandits the other day...they came out of nowhere and fired arrows into the village"

And that's where the bandits are. I could understand if they were trying to scare them to get food or something, but...this attack is still strange. I could understand if they were bandit-like and just did it because they were pissed off, but I sense a plan.

"We lost our houses, our stockpiles of food and water...even our famous coconut trees were burned down..."

They lost it in the bandit attack...so the bandits' goal was not food or anything else and if they attacked the village and disappeared, it wasn't the village itself either. So what were they after?

"Umm...did the bandits only damage the village and its food?"

The old man holds his head up. I know it's hard, but I have to get him to answer.

"No...they want the young villagers...they have taken them in strange collars...all the children, the treasure of this village..."

Slave collars...I thought they were for subhumans, but I guess they are items that can be used on people too.

But still, all children...are they pedophiles and show-offs?

I'm not, okay? Because only lolicon is a title! I get sad when I say it.

Let's not think about stupid things. Now it's the bandit's intention to go after children...they don't think of them as labor or strength...then they would take adults over children. They could conceivably train them and raise them, but that's not likely either.

In the meantime, I'd ask the old man a question, but he didn't know...of course he didn't know. They wouldn't bother to tell him what they were up to. Of course, there was no information about their hideout either. So I was back to square one.

"I don't get it~"

『I don't get it~』

The girls imitate me. Don't imitate me. There's usually too little information...then a villager's voice rang out.

"Oh, my God! Smoke is rising from Nefert Town!"

What! Don't tell me bandits have targeted Nefert! There's Caro's caravan and Aladdin over there...and they're targeting children? Oh shit! I used warp gate but could not get to Nefert. Damn!

"Let's hurry up and get to Nefert!"

『Yes!』

Fly Hix as fast as I can. Just making sure to get there in time!

Ignoring all the monsters, I hurried on and came into sight of Nefert Town. Then something was flying around the town and attacking the town. Identification.

Chimera?

? ? ?

A chimera is a monster also known as a synthetic beast. I thought it could be summoned by synthetic summoning, but is that what it is?

There were other golems in armor, a white giant and a blue giant with a dangerous presence fighting it. Identification.

Armed Golem?

? ? ?

Homunculus?

? ? ?

A homunculus? Is that what that white giant is? I'm pretty sure that was the name of an artificial human created by an alchemist...but it's clearly not a person. And the blue giant is as expected.

Jin the Lamp Demon?

? ? ?

Anyway, I get my spear ready to fight and reduce the damage to the town. Then comes the infos. What is it? I haven't done anything yet, have I?

『It is time for the event to end. Forced logout is now performed』

Ah...today was the last day of the event! Oh no!

My body is disappearing...hey! Wait a minute! Just let me fight this one!

But no questions asked, I was forced to log out.

Waking up in my bed in reality, I involuntarily hit the bed.

"Damn!"

I've never been treated like this before...I looked at the time and sure enough, it was past midnight. It's my fault for not thinking of the time, but I can't get that scene out of my mind...it's going to take me a while to get to sleep. And I won't be able to log in tomorrow...that sucks.