Chapter 322 – 316 the Road to Kravin, a Village Next to the Forest.
The final number of tentacle toads, which was thought to be more than 40, was 87.
Hwanin killed all of the attacking tentacle toads without missing a single one. Whether it’s an accidental raid or the result of some organized action, if you encounter enemies, you have to kill them all so there’s no remorse.
After defeating all the attacking monsters, Isilite and Anne started searching for the phase stone in the corpse of the tentacle toad killed by Hwanin with a phase stone detection tool, and Yurpa investigated to find out the identity of the tentacle toad with the help of fantasy. Proceeded.
=Yuna, could you wash this clean?=
“Yes.”
When I put out something like a long hump with my hand wearing a special glove, Hwanyeon called the water spirit and washed the flesh clean.
Hwanin approached Yurpa and asked.
“Did you find out anything?”
=Um~ First of all, I think the type is a parasitic toad system. And at least 2 generations.=
The name is pretty intuitive. Parasite Todd.
“It means that they are the next generation of heterogeneous species that came out of the labyrinth and settled on this land. Are you a toad that takes its victims as its host and grows?”
= Right. However, there are several variants of the parasitic toad itself, and this seems to be a variant of variants. If you look at it, the eyeballs here are horizontally elongated. The original species is cruciform. And it’s the first time I’ve seen tentacles here.=
“…….”
=It must be that you paralyze the target with these tentacles and then lay the eggs, right? Seeing them swarm outside the labyrinth, it must mean that the labyrinth is running out of food.=
Hwanin looked down at the corpse of a parasitic toad that was tattered with the feeling of being caught on something.
What is it what’s annoying
“Yurpa. I washed everything.”
=Thank you.=
“…… What is it?”
An elongated lump of flesh that looks like a penis at first glance. I wondered if it was the genital organ of a parasitic toad, but Yurpa shook her head as if she didn’t know.
=It was attached to the inside of the snout, so I thought it was a tongue at first, but it’s too small and short for a parasitic toad’s tongue. I don’t know what it’s for.=
While saying that, Yurpada inspected the long, pink lumps that drooped like sea cucumbers.
Hwanin’s gaze turned to the corpses of about 80 parasitic toads that had been torn to pieces. Yurppa followed suit and looked around, showing a slightly concerned expression.
=Crabin Village…… Are you all right?=
Hwanin didn’t answer her question and calculated it in her mind.
In the case of an open labyrinth, backflow of heteromorphic species does not occur. Instead, the weak entities of the labyrinth steadily flow out and encroach on the surroundings.
Of course, it doesn’t flow indefinitely. The accepted theory is that the erosion around an open labyrinth is approximately 30 times the size of the labyrinth.
I couldn’t get my hands on the information that there was an open labyrinth near Krabin Village. What that means is that it hasn’t been long since the open labyrinth occurred.
Hwanin made up his mind and opened her mouth.
“Yurpa. Do parasitic toads have a leader individual in their flock, like a king or queen?”
=If it is a monster that occurred in nature, there is a high possibility, but I am not sure about the heterogeneous species.=
“Okay. Let’s have a discussion first. Let’s call Isilite and Anne.”
Hwan-in instructed Bi-sang to watch from the sky and summoned Isilite and Anne to find the phase stone. And she said what she thought.
“The interior of the open labyrinth is highly likely to have been occupied by a parasitic toad or to be a labyrinth of a parasitic toad.”
= Why? …… Oh, because they are flocking outside.=
“Okay. It is not yet clear whether the parasitic toad heterogeneous instinct is focused on breeding or killing, but the fact that parasitic toads travel in groups like this suggests that there is a high possibility that they came out because there is no place for them to occupy the inside of the labyrinth. .”
If three or four of them roam sparsely, it can be seen that they were pushed out of the labyrinth after being pushed out of the power struggle, but in this situation where there are close to 80 heteromorphic species flocking around, that interpretation is not possible.
Issilite murmurs.
=What is the purpose of so many people wandering around? Securing prey?=
=Okay. It might be catching prey and dragging it into the labyrinth.=
“…… So, I want to investigate the labyrinth of this parasitic toad.”
It is common knowledge that the deeper you go into an open labyrinth, the stronger heterogeneous species emerge.
Even if it is an old labyrinth, a high-grade heteromorphic species will appear inside, and a labyrinth that has just been created will not be very large and there will be few strong heteromorphic species in the center.
In addition, since it is an open labyrinth, you can leave immediately if you decide to escape.
It was recently proven that the emergency can carry and fly up to 800 kg. If he spreads the program, he should be able to escape the labyrinth by hanging himself, Isilite, and Anne in flight.
Since it’s a forest-type labyrinth, there are no traps, so it’s an optimal situation for exploring the depths of the labyrinth in many ways.
=To help Krabin Village? I agree.=
Hwanin, who stared at her for a moment at Anne’s remarks, feeling her innocence, shook her head.
“It’s not that I don’t want to help, but the biggest purpose is to destroy the labyrinth after exploring how the core of the labyrinth is made.”
Entering the labyrinth to help people, and helping people while investigating the labyrinth.
The difference in meaning is very different. And the weight of the reason why Hwanin wants to attack the labyrinth is to help people is not even 2 out of 10.
However, Hwanin’s women only thought that destroying the labyrinth would make the nearby villages and villages safer.
After setting a short-term goal, the party began to accelerate their movement in search of Kravin Village.
Hwanin also took an emergency flight and periodically flew up to visit Krabin Village.
Since it is a village, the number of households will not be small, and since it is determined by the size of the village, I thought it would not be difficult to find it in the sky…….
‘I don’t see it. Did you camouflage the village with trees?’
Hiding the village with trees means that there is a monster flying in the sky.
By the time Hwanin paid attention to the search, recalling the fighter seagulls flying over the great lake of the forest labyrinth, the party was attacked twice more, although smaller in size than the first group encountered, not insignificant.
The women realized that the situation was more serious than they thought.
= Too many numbers. If the Lee Hyeong-jongs we have encountered so far have flocked to the village, the village has already…….=
As Isilite blurts out the end of her words, Anne mutters as if her heart is complicated, as if the shadow of her tree casts and sweeps her pale, shining hair.
=Because of the situation, you couldn’t meet the people or merchants coming out of Krabin. Since Hyungjong Lee wandered around like this, even if he tried to go outside, he wouldn’t have been able to.
In order to deal with a level 2 deformed species or a monster, there must be five people who have received the protection of phase power, or five normal people who have received proper combat training.
It is a general fact that if there are more than 10 monsters swarming around, 50 skilled soldiers are required in arithmetic terms, but 1.5 times more due to problems with morale, breathing, and limbs are required to predict a certain victory.
The problem is that you can encounter 20 to 30 parasitic tentacle toads.
In addition, as a result of checking from the sky, in order to get out of this place where the forest and jungle are properly mixed, it is wide enough that you have to ride a horse or que for almost half a day from the current location.
The odds of the waves getting out of the forest safely are infinitely low.
=But Yul said that when the size of the village is large, she tends to move the peddler or guild twice a month. =
Whether it was a place that sent an ascendant to Krabin Village, or an organization that had a product trade contract with Krabin Village. Since no news had reached him for at least a month, he must have at least recognized that there was a problem in Kravin Village.
It is possible that a response is in full swing.
= Also, since it is a village in a forest like this, it must have prepared for various raids, and of course there are defense walls, right? I’m going to build a village and live in this forest because I have that much potential, so let’s not be too pessimistic.
= Yes. And at a village level, there might be crystal spheres for communication. An army to solve the problem, an explorer who received a request, or a mercenary might be coming.=
“There are too few Phase Stones compared to the number of monsters. They may not all be heteromorphic, so it won’t be a very bleak situation.”
=Is it true?=
Seeing the female friends whose faces quickly brightened at her comment, Hwanin turned his gaze to the front.
Hwanin wasn’t optimistic about the situation, but he didn’t do anything to demoralize them with useless words.
If there is an original attack target, all nearby power will be concentrated there.
If the attacking side were people, I would suspect that there would be other tactics, but the opponents were monsters with low intelligence. If the parasitic toad is roaming the forest like this, it is also interpreted as meaning that there is no target to focus on.
‘Anyway, I really can’t see the village. There is a possibility that he was swept away by the Lee Hyeong-jong’s offensive, but since it is a world where supernatural powers exist, the village could have been hidden somehow.’
The party, who continued to move, eventually failed to find Kravin Village and ended up camping overnight in the forest where Hehyeongjong roamed.
In order not to attract unnecessary attention and attention, dinner had to be prepared and stored in the previous village, and the carriage could not turn on the lights inside, but the carriage was engraved with spells to block presence and block body odor, so there was no attack overnight.
And the next day.
Since it was morning in the forest, the party made a small fire in the cool temperature and settled for breakfast with vegetables, mountain vegetables, and mushroom bibimbap with hot soup, and started moving along the road again.
Crossing a small stream, removing tree branches blocking the path, and eradicating parasitic toads (Hwanyeon, who was able to identify the object, detected the enemy first) and moved, the forest gradually became thicker and the trees grew larger.
After a few hours of walking along the road, around the time the sun was overhead.
Quet! Coo coo!
Bi-sang noticed the artificial smoke rising from among the unnaturally tall trees and informed Hwan-in with a coo.
After investigating the surroundings, Hwanin was able to find Kravin Village.
“It’s covered like that, so you couldn’t see it from a distance.”
As one of the first guesses, several zelkova trees growing tall and wide within the village were covering the village.
Because of this, the village could not be found because it looked like a part of the forest from a distance.
The village was safer than expected.
‘The number of households is 210. Assuming a family of 5 per house, the population is about 1,000.’
Among the villages I have visited so far, it is a small village comparable to Ouling.
However, there is no farmland around the village. It doesn’t even seem like they do trade, so what do the villagers eat?
Hwanin wondered and looked at the village where white smoke was rising as he cooked rice.
“I found a village. He said he was safe.”
= Ah! I’m glad.=
= That’s fine Then, if you clean up the heterogeneous species and destroy the labyrinth, you’ll be able to go back to the previous one soon.
“If you follow this road for a few more hours, you will come out, so cheer up a little more.”
=Yes.=
= Ong. =
Hwanin, who arrived after hearing Yurpa’s explanation at the 7m-high village fence built with a mix of stones and wood, was able to understand how the village was safe.
=It’s a simple spell, but a spell to block presence similar to the one engraved on our wagon is being activated through a countermeasure. I think this reduced raids and prevented battles from happening.=
As she said, there is very little human presence and noise coming through the roadblocks.
And, about 100 meters from the roadblock, the vacant lot was formed as a buffer zone between the forest and the village, and there were traces of overturned land everywhere in the vacant lot.
Hwanin noticed that it was the traces of the blood and bodily fluids of Heohyungjong.
It must have been a trace of trying to stop the monster from being attracted by the smell.
= Hey, stop! Who are you!?=
As we approached the doorway of the stockade leading to the road, a blue-haired female head with cat ears rose from the upper watchtower, and a screeching noise flew in.
A voice that exudes tension, like a cat entering the territory of a stranger.
A yurpa-like aura around her head, a jagged haze like an equalizer, makes her an occultist. Ratings are around 3-4.
=Now the forest is full of parasitic tentacle toads…… How did you get here?!=
Perhaps that woman is maintaining this countermeasure’s presence blocking spell. Hwanin, who made that decision, stepped forward and spread a wave of tranquility.
“This is my family, a spiritual pilgrim who wants to rest for a while in Krabin Village.”
The eyes of the occultist woman widened to the size of a lantern at the grayish-white light wave that spread out, and she began to panic.
= Huh?! Hey, Spirit Master…… Wait!=
The woman who shouted that in a voice full of bewilderment lowered her head and heard a small commotion from beyond the barrier.
= A high-ranking spirit master has visited! Hurry up, open the barricade door!=
= Yes? Who said you are here?=
= Oh my God! You mean you came through that monster’s forest?!=
Cudang-tang, thump. Click click click click-
There is the sound of something heavy hitting and rolling, followed by the sound of something like a wheelbarrow turning, and the door in the stockade begins to lift outward with difficulty.
It is a 5m thick barrier that connects wood-stone-iron plate-stone-tree.
Seeing that, Yurpa whispered.
=The solid technique is established so that each material can be raised to the limit. Finally, the reinforcement spell that weaves five spells into one. At that level, it will take a little time for Lady Anne to destroy it.=
= Are you saying that only that castle gate is endowed with six types of spells? That’s right.=
= So the village must be safe. Looking at the lady’s reaction earlier, it doesn’t seem safe.=
=Why?=
=When the village is in danger, the trash that wants to take a bite at that time is bound to get twisted. Maybe they saw us as such village robbers?=
=Ah.=
Koo Woo-
Soon, through the completely open door, the mystic woman, whose head was only visible, piled up with heavily armed melee men and women.
= How are you? I don’t have the spirit master’s aura.=
=Nuna, are you not mistaken?=
=Wow, but the girls next to you are so pretty…….=
=Wait! It’s in front of the spirit master… ! Everyone be quiet… !=
The In Miao woman who had just sticked out her head peeked out at the 2nd and 3rd grade professional workers, making her shut up, and then she steps forward to Hwanin.
Then, she greeted Hwanin by slightly lifting the hem of her robe, which was as blue as her hair, like a dress.
=Greetings from Krabin’s Raviola to the senior soul priest who is traveling along the spiritual pilgrimage path.=
“Nice to meet you. She is called Hwanin.”
Hwanin also put her hand on the garson and slightly lowered her head to answer her, and Raviola opened her mouth with her slightly nervous face.
=It’s dangerous to have a long discussion here, so I’m sorry, but I’ll get right to the point.=
Raviola, who looked at the forest behind her illusion with slightly uneasy eyes, spoke to the women standing behind her illusion.
=Just in case you don’t know, would you allow the drivers to do a physical examination before going to town?=
Hwanin noticed that this village had been cut off from the outside world for quite some time by not recognizing himself.
Even so, it’s a physical examination.
“… May I ask what it means?”
Hearing her visionary’s voice lowered slightly, Raviola felt fear constrict her heart.
This, is this the coercion of a senior soul master?
More than that, Raviola, realizing that she had made a misleading remark, waved her hand hastily.
= Gg! In other words, since all three soul knights seem to be high-ranking professionals, they probably wouldn’t have been attacked by the damn frog! Those dirty frogs are only targeting women, so I’m afraid the party might get hurt, and if they do, it’s hard to get them into the village…… ! Of course, no serious tests are done. It’s only at the level of checking the chest and stomach!=
The damn frog she’s talking about seems to mean a frog with parasitic tentacles, but to say that she’s only targeting women, and that she’s being victimized soon…….
Hwanin realized that this was the identity of the annoyance he felt yesterday.
If that’s the case, the mass of flesh that Yurupa doesn’t know how to use must be used to parasitize women.
“Have you ever been parasitized by a monster even without contact?”
=No!=
“Then you don’t have to worry. I came all the way here and dealt with close to 150 parasitic toads, but they wouldn’t let me touch my skin even once.”
= Oh, uh…….=
As if there were no exceptions to her, Raviola looked extremely troubled and grabbed the hem of her robe, and Anne, who had covered her body with her cloak, stepped out.
=Doryeong, it’s not like you’re asking me to show your naked body, but it’s just a matter of showing it for a while. Hey, Mr. Raviola? You’re not asking me to do it in front of the guys over there, right?=
= It can’t be! Ryu, Shahen, you guys are going back first.=
=Yes, sister.=
=Uhhh.=
A man with a giraffe’s head and a man with a boar’s head glanced at Hwanin and hurriedly entered her room at Raviola’s instruction. All that remains is Raviola and her three women.
“All right. Sorry for the sharp response. These are my women too.”
= Ah. Sorry for the misleading remark!=
Hwanin, who grasped the situation, took a step back and silently unfurled the soul arrow and soul shield to prepare for the eventuality.
It’s unlikely, but if Raviola tries to harm her girlfriends, she will immediately smash her head. In a remote village like this, it wouldn’t be strange if there was such a thing as a sacrifice.
Hwanin withdrew, but Yurpa was unable to suppress her doubts and doubts and revealed her concerns to Raviola.
=Lady, wait a minute? She’s just been told that she’s infected by contact, so we’re a little concerned too? So could you please don’t come too close?=
= Oh, it could be. Wait…….=
Raviola hesitated for a moment and looked at her phantom.
She sensed that she wanted her to step aside for a moment, but her demeanor revealed by her demeanor that she had absolutely no intention of stepping out of her seat.
=Wow.=
As if she couldn’t help it, Raviola blushed slightly and removed the hem from the side of her robe, revealing her own small breasts and even her lower belly just above the pubic bone.
Raviola, who supported her underbust to accentuate her bosom and also confirmed her toned tummy, explained as she tidied up her outfit.
=If you get hit by a fucking frog, your stomach and chest will noticeably swell. It’s like it’s full of lumps. The reason I asked for a physical examination was…….=
= Ah. Certainly our dew and yul unnies have big breasts.
When Anne laughed at Raviola’s gesture of glancing at Isilite and Yurpa’s breasts, Isilite undid the front of her cloak as if embarrassed.
= Can I show you this? =
Anne shows her abdomen and upper breast first, and Isilitte and Yurpa follow suit, showing part of her breast and belly.
Raviola, who confirmed that part, immediately bowed deeply to Hwanin and apologized.
=Sorry for doubting! Since it has been confirmed that there is no problem, I will escort you into the village!=
