The Tanaka Family Reincarnates-Chapter 386

A Monster You Don’t Know? A Monster You Didn’t Wanna Know. [Part 2]

“A monster wielding such nonstandard flames… I know no such monsters,” said William, who had memorized every monster ever recorded in history, in a trembling voice. Many monsters could produce fire, but a species that could continuously produce such outrageous flames didn’t exist in his memory.

“Truly. This is my first time seeing a monster with flame-wielding ability powerful enough to cover the forest and the campsite in flames.”

Melsa embraced William’s quivering shoulders as she gazed at the approaching fire. Through a gap between the flames, she could discern a towering blaze moving toward their group.

‘That is most likely the main body. Approaching in a straight line, no doubt the monster is aiming for us. As we have zero information on the enemy, we can’t think of any strategy to deal with it.”

“An unknown monster to us, huh… Umm… Is there any possibility that it’s a… thousand salamanders going berserk under the influence of rampage mouse?”

‘Could it be that the power of the flames is enhanced through the tyranny of the majority and rampage mouse’s [berserk] status effect?’ Emma spoke of the hypothesis she thought of to William, who kept shaking his head as he browsed through the [Monster Library] inside his brain again, yet failed to find any information.

“If it’s unknown… Is it a new species?”

If William didn’t know, no one would know. If so, George thought that perhaps a new species of monster never seen before had appeared.

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“Unlikely. Assuming a thousand salamanders go on a rampage, flames of this size are still impossible, Nee-sama. Something as ridiculous as turning a large forest into a sea of fire in an instant is a difficult feat for any monster. And Nii-sama, if a new species of monster with such extraordinary power appears… huft.”

‘The country will perish…’ William swallowed his last few words back because the King was also with them at the moment.

Hunters feared nothing more than a monster they had no information about. All the more so if that monster held unprecedented abnormal power.

“…I have to head to the capital quickly… but I guess that’s impossible now, huh…”

The King also frowned in anguish upon seeing the Stuarts’ solemn faces.

The flames suspected to be the power of an unknown monster had already spread beyond the forest, covering the road leading to the Royal Capital in the distance, including all paths of retreat, in blazing fire.

From the moment they noticed the fire pillar until the moment they were surrounded, everything happened in a flash that they didn’t get the chance to escape at all.

If it was like this, it seemed like the flames would reach the Royal Capital first before them.

“Yes… We didn’t even have enough time to think of a strategy.”

Arban wiped the cold sweat trickling down his forehead as he stared at the forest. The pillar of fire had been heading straight towards them without hesitation, and it wouldn’t take long for it to reach here.

“Attacking preemptively while hiding themselves… Now I see that monsters are quite surprisingly cowardly creatures.”

‘Fight us fair and square, will you…’ The King grumbled to the unknown monster.

“No, that… Asking that from a monster is quite…”

‘That way of fighting doesn’t apply to monsters, you know.’ William was about to retort, but realizing it wasn’t proper to talk back to the King, he hurriedly shut his mouth again. However, unknown monsters were so dangerous that the thought, ‘Hey, might as well say what I want if I can’t return home alive anyway,’ had crossed his mind for a second.

Then,

“A-ARGHHHh!!”

A knight suddenly shrieked.

“I-It’s burning!”

The arm of one of the knights standing on the edge caught on fire.

“Ah, ahh, why… why… I can’t put it out…”

The other knights around him tried to put out the fire but to no avail.

“H-Hot! Ah, ah, arghh!”

Unable to stand the heat, the knight started rolling around on the lace substituting fireproof cloth.

“Impossible?! It still won’t die out even when poured with water?!”

“What more can we do?”

Even though the other fellow knights poured water on the knight rolling on the ground, wrapped him in the fireproof lace, and covered him with their own body with the determination to die, the fire on their friend’s body remained burning.