In Terra, she is a hunter and a bad woman.

"Woo?"

The puppy girl tilted her head.

"Nothing, just follow me."

Maria put away her weapon, silently took the girl's hand, turned and walked into the depths of darkness.

The puppy girl followed closely.

Their figures slowly merged into the darkness...

……

rip - rip-

On the ground, fine dust was wriggling.

The hideous corpses were scattered on the ground, and the warmth had not yet dissipated.

But the bonfire gradually went out at this time, and even the remaining sparks were quickly dissipating.

After an unknown amount of time, the dust on the ground seemed to discover these creatures.

After a brief pause, it immediately flew up and wrapped up the corpses.

In just a moment, the ground was flat again.

Along with the blood and corpses, they all disappeared.

just like.

Nothing ever happened.

Nothing happened...

Chapter 7 The Secret of the Forest

Maria used to draw maps.

Of course, Maria drew the map not to find her way, but simply to make it easier for her to remember places.

As mentioned before, Yharnam is a dream of endless reincarnation.

Every time the dream restarts, everything will return to its original place, including some wonderful weapons and props.

In order to make it easier for herself to obtain these things in the future, Maria also drew a map of Yharnam.

Of course, this is also in the early stages.

In the later stages, Maria can even walk through Yharnam with her eyes closed, so drawing a map is completely unnecessary.

Of course, the purpose of saying this is to illustrate that Maria, a primitive person, can actually understand some simple maps. Even if many things are blurred, she can roughly understand the meaning based on the pictures.

But this map was so crude...it took Maria a lot of effort just to identify it.

By the time she found the other party's camp, it was almost daytime.

The sun rose slightly, and the whole forest came alive again.

When Maria arrived here, her first feeling was that something was wrong.

Nine out of ten things are wrong.

Judging from their attire, those people were similar to a mob. Based on past experience, there must be at least two of their camps that were dirty and messy.

But this camp...

“Very clean and tidy.”

Maria looked around, then looked at the several tents standing here.

"Woo?"

"Get behind me first."

Maria spoke coldly, drew her weapon, and slowly lifted the tent cover.

As the tent was opened, the dusty interior appeared in front of Maria.

Ok?

Maria didn't say much, turned around and continued to pick up the remaining camp covers. After making sure there was no one there, she looked around again.

"It seems like no one has been here for a long time... A lot of the supplies are covered in dust."

Very strange.

Judging from the state of this camp, it seems no one has been here for a long time. Although a lot of the food has rotted, there is also a lot that can be preserved and eaten for a long time, and there are also some other supplies...

“There are more and more problems.”

Maria narrowed her eyes, thought for a while, and finally made a decision.

"In that case, let this be our camp for now, puppy...puppy?"

Maria was calling the puppy girl, but when she turned around, she was stunned.

The puppy girl seemed to have discovered something and kept digging the ground. Her rough behavior made Maria stunned.

I finally took a shower, and now I'm going to get dirty again...

Thinking of this, Maria did not stop the girl, but turned around and started searching the camp herself.

"A little sugar, a little flour, the meat and vegetables are all rotten and inedible, and there's some salt and... Never mind, don't drink this water."

"There's plenty of wood, so if we save a little, it won't be a problem to last us a week."

"And... a diary?"

Maria took out the tattered notebook and turned her head again.

Among the three tents she opened, one was obviously not a place to live.

The room was filled with instruments that Maria was unfamiliar with. It seemed that the owner was here for research.

After thinking for a while, Maria decisively opened the diary in her hand.

……

December 12th, sunny. Research topic: "The Relationship between Giant Beast Legends and Forests."

December 12th, cloudy. Following the mercenary team into the forest outskirts. Everything is fine.

December 12th, cloudy. The recent weather has delayed our operations considerably, but fortunately, aside from some food being lost, the equipment and other supplies were safely delivered to their destination. This is what the locals call a safe zone... Although I believe there are better observation points, the mercenaries disagree, so we'll have to stay here for now.

January 1th, ■■, heavy rain. The research process has been much more troublesome than I expected. So far, I haven't gotten any useful information. Funding is almost running out, so I need to find a way to write a letter back to the academy to ask for some funding. Lately, nothing much has happened, but those Sarkaz mercenaries have started to act strangely, and their words are making the team a little uneasy. We'll need to send them out next time.

January 1th. Today has passed the deadline the locals reminded me of, but... after all, we've already spent so much money, it would be too embarrassing to not be able to accomplish anything. I can only bite the bullet and continue researching.

January 1th, ■■■■■■■, something's wrong, something's very wrong. Logically, the supplies should have arrived a week ago, but it's still ■■■■■■. It hasn't rained recently, so it's unlikely the weather delayed them. Luckily, the wolf howling a while ago ruined everyone's appetite, so there's still plenty of food left. I just hope those people can hurry.

February 2th, cloudy. Food is starting to run low. Everyone's consciously eating more. This isn't good. The more dangerous the situation, the more control is needed... The search team has begun returning to search. Hopefully, there aren't any issues with logistics. Some have already left the team, and I don't know if they've made it out yet.

[■■■■■■, food is running low. The hunting and gathering teams are also finding less and less food. Many are experiencing malnutrition. The search team returned today, but only one person, ■■■■■■, has returned. Medical staff suspect he's been affected by some kind of spiritual Originium technique.]

Hunger has left everyone with no energy for research, so it's been temporarily suspended. ■■■■■, the food supply has been dwindling these past few days, thanks to those Sarkaz. ■■■■■, the atmosphere is becoming increasingly tense.

This time everyone heard the wolf's howl. The forest seemed to come alive...■■■■■■】

[The giant beast really exists, I■■■! ]

This forest is alive! We are going to be...

【■■■■■】

【Note the moon】

……

The strange words passed through the book and into Maria's mind bit by bit.

Although Maria had never learned the language of this world, she could inexplicably understand the words above.

Although many of them were in tatters due to wind and rain, Maria could still understand the general meaning.

"A group of researchers came into this forest and ended up lost and mad?"

Maria frowned.

There are too many things recorded in the diary, and it is a bit difficult to sort out any useful information from it at once.

But what is certain is that during the long period of hunger and endurance, these people had irreconcilable divisions in their team... The thugs that I just saw were probably from this team.

And the wolf howl...

"That might be my goal this time... and the behemoth it mentioned."

The more Maria thought about it, the more she felt that she had to face more and more problems.

This left her in a long silence.

At this moment, the puppy girl next to her seemed to have dug up something and worked even harder.

Not long after.

A tall, strange axe was taken out by it...

"This is……"

Chapter 8 Gentle Maria

"The breath of the beast..."

Maria's eyes were fixed on the big axe in the hands of the puppy girl in front of her. Her face was calm, but countless emotions suddenly stirred in her heart.

But when she saw the puppy girl holding the axe excitedly, she fell silent again.

Maria recognized that look.

This is……

Lost and found!

This is what this puppy girl has, she just found it again.

This made Maria stop what she was doing.

There was no doubt that she felt the breath of a beast from this weapon... Maria herself didn't know how to explain this feeling. It was like a person would be afraid when seeing snakes, scorpions, and centipedes. It was almost a wild instinct.

She has always been extremely sensitive to this kind of thing.

So, after the puppy girl took out the weapon, she immediately realized that she had to get rid of this thing.

but……

The puppy girl, however, was ecstatic about the weapon.

This silenced Maria.

"Is this child... related to the beast?"

"The Son of God?"

After a pause, Maria silently stretched out her black-gloved hand and supported her forehead.

"Am I also thinking based on intuition like a beast..."

After saying a few self-deprecating words, Maria stood up silently.

After coming to the puppy girl, she took the axe from her without saying a word.

This made the puppy girl very anxious.

On the one hand, she wanted to get her things back.

On the other hand, she was afraid of Maria's power.

With the two conflicting emotions coming down, she could only stand beside Maria with tears in her eyes, staring blankly at the axe in Maria's hand.

But Maria had no interest in snatching things from children.

After carefully observing the weapon, she lowered her head silently.

"This thing must have been buried here for a long time..."