Feuerkugel.

  It has a pretty decent name.

  But in reality, this is just a common fireball spell that appears in almost every game.

  I'm not sure how I vaguely came to know this magic.

  Anyway, thanks to it, I was able to easily defeat the Demon.

  I decided to coolly dismiss the minor questions and think about the future first.

  "Hmm…."

  The vilge was completely devastated by the sudden Demon invasion.

  Fortunately, the fmes have subsided, but their remnants are still smoking in various pces.

  Half-burned tree trunks.

  Roofs turned to ashes.

  And the corpses of Monsters scattered on the ground.

  It's hard to believe that a low-level Demon, who died so easily from a single fireball, could leave behind this much damage.

  "So, this is why vilges need adventurers…."

  It seems this much damage occurred because it was a remote rural vilge without a single ordinary adventurer.

  If I think about this other world as simply as in a manga.

  Someday, I too will disappear without a trace in an instant, just like this vilge.

  "Ugh…."

  "Hic, hic…."

  After roughly organizing my thoughts, I immediately turned around indifferently.

  Then, the children who were huddled together behind me began to hug each other and tremble even more violently.

  "S, save me…."

  "Mom…. Dad…."

  "I don't want to die…."

  Three children I accidentally found in a warehouse in a corner of the vilge.

  That pce was also burning fiercely with hot fmes.

  But it seemed they were able to avoid some of the fire damage because it was located in a corner.

  "……."

  The children were huddled together in the small warehouse, trembling with fear.

  It seems the adults had hastily evacuated, at least to save the children.

  If I had discovered them even a little ter.

  The children would have certainly met a miserable end in the closed space.

  "Sigh…."

  It was good that I rescued the children.

  However, a difficult situation arose where the children, like the vilgers, misunderstood me as a Demon.

  The culprit who devastated the vilge had already turned to ashes and disappeared without a trace.

  Isn't it too much to misunderstand someone as a Demon just because they are a race they've never seen before?

  "I'm not a Demon."

  Eventually, unable to bear it any longer, I uttered a word powerlessly.

  For some reason, the children were even more horrified and began to tremble with fear.

  "N, no way…. I've never seen a race with such big ears before…."

  "T, that's right…."

  "It must be a Demon imitating a human…."

  It's never easy to logically persuade children who look to be only about ten years old.

  Even the adults in this vilge didn't listen to me at all, so what's the point of talking to the children?

  Moreover, it's a situation where a race that doesn't exist in this other world has suddenly appeared.

  It's no wonder the children are filled with fear.

  "Think what you want, then."

  So, I quickly gave up trying to persuade the children.

  Instead of wasting time on something trivial.

  It would be much better to find something meaningful to do with that time.

  "Huh…?"

  "……?"

  "W, what is it…?"

  Then, the children showed a lot of embarrassment and began to cautiously look at each other.

  In particur, the expression of the boy who was speaking out the most became noticeably darker.

  "A, are you not going to do anything…?"

  Unlike the two girls who were bewildered because they couldn't properly grasp the situation.

  The boy frowned more and more and took a step back.

  "……."

  But I didn't answer the boy's question.

  In a situation where I was already firmly misunderstood as a Demon, I didn't feel the need to add any more words.

  -SwishIgnoring the children's murmurs that were coming from the side.

  I picked up a messy notebook that was lying alone on the ground.

  "Ah, that's the Vilge Chief's notebook…."

  As soon as I carefully opened the dry notebook.

  The boy, who had been secretly watching me, immediately reacted.

  "…So, this vilge didn't have any adventurers at all."

  It seems this notebook was the Vilge Chief's diary.

  It was bckened, so I couldn't know the details.

  Nevertheless, some sentences and words written in the notebook stood out.

  The neatly written letters filling the pages were quite eborate.

  And some of the sentences were telling what kind of vilge this was.

  Moreover─.

  "Were you guys refugees?"

  This vilge wasn't originally here.

  It was a refugee vilge that was created retively recently.

  The moment I confirmed that fact, I paused and fell into thought.

  "W, why does it matter…?"

  There were several shocking facts written in the Vilge Chief's bckened notebook.

  Of course, most of the letters were bckened, so I couldn't be sure if what I thought was accurate.

  But the few lines of sentences that I could barely read through the soot.

  Clearly implied something more than just a simple vilge diary.

  One of them was the fall of humanity.

  It was an unbelievable story that this other world was already almost completely taken over by Demons.

  "……."

  Only then did I understand why the vilgers were so wary of me.

  Why they didn't let me go after not doing anything for a year.

  Why they never stopped suspecting me for even a moment.

  -Thud!A rapidly depressing feeling.

  When I closed the notebook I was reading, my head somehow started to spin more and more.

  I never thought the other world I was in would be in such a desperate situation….

  "By the way, what exactly is this Scroll?"

  It's a depressing situation in many ways.

  But that doesn't mean I can just be slumped over.

  Too much information was pouring in at once for me, who had just started living in this other world.

  First, I needed to change the subject and return my depressed mood to normal.

  "S, Scroll…?"

  "I think they're talking about that…."

  "The Vilge Chief used to manage that…?"

  The Vilge Chief's bckened notebook contained a lot of information besides the depressing content.

  Among them, the only content I could confirm was the Scroll.

  I couldn't help but be interested because I could immediately tell that it was a very ominous object just by hearing about it.

  "Ah…. That's a Parchment with Magic in it…."

  "Magic?"

  My eyes widened momentarily at the unexpected information.

  "W, wait a minute…. Why are you telling her that right away…."

  "That's right, we don't know if that person is good or bad yet…."

  The boy betedly made a shocked expression as if he had just realized something.

  Unfortunately, it was already water under the bridge.

  "Lead me to the Vilge Chief's house."

  .

  .

  .

  Like the other houses, the Vilge Chief's house was also completely burned bck.

  Ashes rustled between the remaining pilrs.

  And unstable debris tilted precariously whenever I stepped on it.

  -Rustle, rustleNevertheless, I continued to take steps forward.

  I walked slowly through the debris that had colpsed without a single intact pce.

  "Oh, what should we do…."

  "We're in big trouble…."

  "…Even if we find it, we won't be able to use it anyway. So, don't worry too much."

  My mind was slightly distracted by the children's fussing that I heard muttering behind me.

  I shook my head and forcibly regained my scattered concentration.

  Since I had virtually dragged the children along against their will.

  I had to put up with this much murmuring.

  "……?"

  Soon, I let out a short sigh and turned my gaze back to my feet.

  Then, among the charred wooden debris.

  I happened to notice a spot where there was less ash piled up.

  I gently reached out and slowly brushed away the ash.

  Underneath it, a small, half-burned wooden box slowly revealed its appearance.

  -ClunkThe box, which had turned into charcoal due to the fire, had already lost its function.

  Thanks to that, I was able to easily open the box without much effort.

  And I was able to quickly grab the old Scroll that was inside.

  "Ooh…."

  An object that looked very unusual at a gnce.

  Traces of time remained in various pces, but the luxury it exuded was still intense.

  Moreover, unlike the other objects that had been burned bck.

  This Scroll alone maintained its intact appearance without any damage.

  "Sh, she found it…."

  "Are you sure it's okay…?"

  "I told you it's okay. No one has been able to use that Scroll until now."

  As soon as I found the Scroll, I heard the children muttering behind me again.

  Again, I calmly ignored them and carefully unfurled the rolled-up Scroll.

  Then─.

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  [Notice] Transcendent Magic has been discovered.

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  Just like before, a transparent notification window popped up in front of my eyes once again.

  The content inside was something I couldn't help but doubt.

  "Transcendent Magic…?"

  Since it was a Magic Scroll kept in a remote rural vilge, I honestly didn't expect much.

  I was just a little interested in the fact that I could actually see a Magic Scroll.

  I didn't have any expectations beyond that.

  But surprisingly, the Magic contained in the Scroll was by no means ordinary.

  And it even had the unbelievable title of Transcendent Magic.

  "H, huh…? The Scroll disappeared…?"

  "Did she use it…?"

  "No way…."

  As I blinked my eyes bnkly and tried to understand the situation.

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  New!【Magic】Magirauve

  Steals the opponent's Magic.

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  The Magic notification window naturally popped up.