A dull longsword and a heartbroken villager

A snake? Impossible, we're in the air.

"It smells so fishy." Levy sniffed, then covered her nose.

It smells awful, Levy really dislikes it.

"Bang!!!!!" A snake's tail slammed against the windowpane.

Snakes also exist in the sky. For example, the monster that Bray is facing now is a flying snake.

Its name is also quite simple and easy to understand; it is called Flying Serpent, which, as the name suggests, is a snake that can fly.

"Ugh, that's disgusting." Naruko leaned back, looking at the snake head that appeared the next second with disgust.

The flying snake arrogantly spat its tongue at Bray and his companions.

"..." If Bray weren't inside the airship right now, he probably would have drawn his sword.

Unfortunately, inside the airship, Bray had no way to deal with the flying snakes outside. He couldn't very well just cleave someone else's airship in two, could he?

However, the airships were not without weapons.

In this era teeming with monsters, it's quite normal for vehicles to carry weapons.

Rather, it's more accurate to say that unarmed vehicles would be destroyed by monsters in no time.

However, the airship's weapons seemed to be completely useless against this flying snake.

The bullets were blocked by the flying snake's bouncy skin, and had no effect on the flying snake's attack.

The flying serpent's long tail coiled around the airship halfway, intending to crush it.

"Crackling sound—" Under the powerful force of the flying serpent, the inner wall of the airship visibly dented, and then a section of the wall near the mine was dislodged.

"..." The airflow rushed into the airship, blowing the mine into a daze.

Bray's hair was blown around by the strong airflow.

"Ugh..." Levy hooked her tail around a chair to prevent herself from being swept out of the airship.

She also hugged Naruko, who was several sizes bigger than her.

"Eek...that was close! Is this airship going to crash?" Naruko patted her chest.

“Shut up, you bastard.” Bray glanced at Naruko with his right eye.

"It's not my fault." Naruko pouted, a little dissatisfied. She couldn't be blamed for her intuition being too accurate.

However, if this were in a feudal setting, Naruko would probably be executed as a shrine maiden who brings bad luck.

"Hey, dead fish eyes, look, that hole looks like it's about to be plugged." Sharp-eyed Naruko spotted some magical barriers trying to repair the hole in the airship.

Damaging the inner walls of an airship is a serious taboo, so any advanced airship will have a way to temporarily seal it with a magical barrier.

“…” Watching the barrier slowly close, Bray got off his seat and stood in front of the hole.

There is a hole here, and he has a sword.

He rested his hand on the hilt of his sword.

"Clang—" The blade was only half exposed before it was retracted.

The whole process was so simple and fast that it was impossible to react in time.

The panicked passengers didn't even understand what was happening.

"Sizzle—" The flying snake was inexplicably severed, and blood splattered all around the airship.

The dead flying serpent, though its body was stiffer, could no longer entangle the airship and slid off the fuselage.

If viewed from directly above, you would see the two sections of the snake's body sliding down, gradually shrinking, and finally being swallowed up by the sea of ​​clouds until they disappear without a trace.

“Sigh…” Bray sat down and sighed.

If only he had his own means of transportation, like the magic vehicle he drove in the Second Era.

That was truly both safe and enjoyable.

As Bray was expressing his feelings, the magical barrier completely blocked the entrance to the cave, and the turbulent flow stopped.

"Ugh!" Then, without taking another breath, Levy fell flat on the ground.

As for Naruko, she rolled onto the chair next to her.

Good, no one was thrown out of the airship.

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P.S.: I've been working a lot of overtime lately, so don't be surprised if I see it's a single update. Including the May Day holiday, I haven't had a day off for over ten days.

"Good morning, passengers." The captain stood in front of the passengers with a serious expression.

"The good news is that the flying snake was repelled by a helpful passenger." Although it was unclear which passenger had intervened, the captain was still very grateful to that passenger.

However, the captain here has more than just good news to share; he also has bad news.

"But unfortunately, I have some bad news."

"That's because the flying snake caused serious damage to the airship's power source."

"We are forced to land ahead of schedule, but please rest assured that the airship will not land too far from Bian Nan."

"If you are satisfied, we will also provide free transportation to Biannan."

The captain took off his hat and then bowed deeply with the flight attendants beside him.

"Bray, if I heard correctly, are we not going to stop in Biannan anymore?"

"Actually, I think you misheard me." Bray stared blankly at Naruko with his right eye.

Well, although this is unlucky, it seems acceptable to Bray, who is used to big events.

No one was killed, no one was injured, and most importantly, no one was involved in any strange events.

My luck seems to be pretty good today.

"Hey, you seem to be in a good mood."

“No,” Bray said sternly.

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Just as the captain said, the airship landed ahead of schedule.

The airport where we landed was Bianxi Airport.

Hey, you didn't mishear, you really didn't mishear, and of course you didn't misread.

The Bianxi mentioned here is indeed the other city mentioned before, which uses the same naming method as Biannan.

"Baa~" A sheep slowly walked past Bray.

"Baa baa baa~" Then came a chorus of sheep bleating.

“Brave, it’s sheep!” Levy squatted down, carefully observing the passing flock of sheep.

Although Rebecca eats a lot of sheep, she rarely sees any alive.

Levy has seen quite a few cows, including some that can stand up and talk.

I've never seen a sheep.

“Yes, it’s sheep.” Bray nodded blankly; he was now in a vast grassland.

He should have been at the airport.

However, Naruko's decision to spend a few days in Henshi led to a series of events.

First, Naruko, along with Bray and Levy, got lost.

Bree had assumed that Naruko, being a native of the East, would be very familiar with this place.

But he was wrong.

Naruko was a former lady of a prominent family, so how could she possibly be familiar with the geography of the East? Her familiarity with other continents was even more profound.

"If you don't know the way, why are you so confident?" Bray stared intently at Naruko with his right eye.

"Eek, do I look confident?" Naruko scratched the back of her head a little embarrassedly.

"..."

When Naruko said she was going to take Bray and Levy to play in the west, she was more than just confident, she was practically inflated with arrogance.

"Huh?" Levy, completely unaware of the gravity of the situation, was still watching the sheep leave.

"Hey, we've already accepted a commission."

"Damn it, now you're blaming me? Your dead fish eyes were practically brimming with excitement just a moment ago!" Naruko tilted her head back and glanced at Bray with disdain.

Although Bray was expressionless, based on Naruko's ecological research on dead fish eyes, she was sure that this guy himself really wanted to play.

"..." Bray lowered his head, realizing his thoughts had been exposed.

“It’s not my fault! It’s your curiosity that’s wrong!” Naruko said triumphantly.

Every time Naruko saw Bray lose, she would feel so proud that her body would swell up like a balloon.

"How...do we get to the south?" Bray finally asked after a long pause.

Putting everything else aside for now, we must at least get to Bian Nan to complete the commission.

Although in reality, if Bray doesn't go to this kind of recruitment request, other adventurers will, so it's basically a task that can be "cuckolded" whenever he wants.

However, Bray really didn't want to back out of this normal request.

After all, it was a routine request that hadn't been made in a long time, and I didn't know if I would ever get another one like it.

Even though Bray encountered a minor mishap because of this commission, he still insisted that the commission was perfectly normal.

The mere mechanical disaster is nothing compared to the demigods that appear every now and then.

“Brave, it’s Grandpa!” Levy watched the flock of sheep leave, and then saw an old shepherd following at the end of the flock.

“Um…Grandpa.” Bray instinctively responded with a sound of remembrance for Levy.

Wait a minute, grandpa? A passerby? You can ask for directions!

"What a lovely little girl," the old shepherd said with a kind smile when he saw the adorable Levy.

But he didn't stop walking; he continued to follow the flock of sheep.

"Hehe~" Levy cutely curled up into a ball.

The old man was very pleased to see Levy like this.

However, he did not stop walking; although his steps were slow, he kept walking.

"Wait a minute," Bray decided to call out to the old man.

"Hmm? Is there something you need, young man?" The old man turned to look at Bray, but showed no sign of stopping.

"No, I want you to stop for a moment."

"Haha, stop? Of course you can." With that, the old man took a few more steps.

Seeing the old man's actions, Bray felt a headache coming on.

"Where can I catch a long-distance bus nearby?" Bray caught up with the old man and asked.

"Ah, long-distance transportation," the old man mused, then walked with a slightly happier air.

“…” Bray quickly adjusted his pace.

"Hey...can't you stop for a moment?" Naruko, who was forced to follow, looked at the old man with a conflicted expression.

Levy didn't feel anything special and skipped along to keep up with the pace.

"Stop? Of course you can." The old man was still the same as always, talking as he walked.

"Why don't you just stop?" Naruko said irritably.

"Long-distance transportation," Bray emphasized, repeating the question from a few seconds earlier, as if afraid the other person might have forgotten.

"Yes, yes, long-distance transportation."

"There are magic vehicles in the town near my ranch. Would that be suitable for you?"

“Suitable,” Bray answered without hesitation.