Chapter 326 – 320 Krabin, the Village Next to the Forest
There was little information about the open labyrinth that occurred near Kravin Village.
“So that means the first discovery was about two months ago. We don’t know when the open labyrinth occurred.”
= Yes……. After that, I couldn’t afford to understand the situation in the forest because I was focused only on defense. From ten to twenty attacks once a day, sometimes every two days…….=
That’s why Hwanin, accompanied only by Raviola, went to meet the only surviving patient among those who had left the investigation at the time.
=The investigation team was made up of apostles, mothers, men and women from the garrison, and older brothers and sisters who were familiar with battles and were strong in vigilante groups. At that level, I should have been able to clear the level 2 labyrinth…….=
“Hyungjong Lee wouldn’t have attacked right away when the labyrinth was opened. The numbers were called and they would gradually eat away at the surroundings.”
When the village started to be attacked, most of the forest must have been encroached on by the labyrinth, so the number must have been too many for them to handle.
As a result, it must have been annihilated leaving only one survivor. Or are they still being used as hosts?
Hwanin, who found the survivor, found that his guess was roughly correct.
= No, there were many. Whopping… There were so many! Ugh, wherever you go, you can hear the cries of toads, the cries aaaaa … !=
However, it was difficult to obtain meaningful information because he was showing severe post-traumatic stress disorder.
= Black, black. When you hear a frog, the person next to you disappears. They were dragged screaming into the darkness…… Aww!=
Receiving a wave of tranquility only temporarily improved his condition, but Hwanin pushed himself rather strongly and was able to obtain some information.
The trees were so dense that it was difficult to move.
There were many monsters besides the parasitic tentacle toad.
The ground was so muddy that it was difficult to walk.
That there was a monster as big as a house.
= Oh! Aagh!! No no! No tentacles! Nope~!!=
Hwan-in, who calmed the survivor by concentrating the wave of tranquility on the patient who had another seizure, watched her fall into a deep sleep from exhaustion before leaving her house.
“It is difficult.”
The information obtained was different from what Hwanin had hoped for. It wasn’t magical information, and the state of the information provider was like that, so it wouldn’t be strange to say that he was hallucinating and remembering things.
This means that reliability is low.
=I’m sorry…….=
“Miss Raviola has nothing to apologize for, so you don’t have to.”
=…….=
After Raviola communicated with Prabur, she was visibly downcast and bemoaning herself.
Originally, the village had more than 1,000 people, but for 5 weeks, the number of people decreased to 800 people as they endured and endured the monster’s attack.
If she had been more straightforward, she would not have had to wait 5 weeks. If that was the case, the villagers wouldn’t have to die or be dragged away.
Raviola, who felt that 200 people were missing and died was her fault, could hardly regain her strength.
The only survivor of Kravin Village is Raviola’s family. Even then, Raviola’s brothers and sisters are all out to the city, and most of the people in charge who lead the village are wiped out during the investigation.
It’s safe to say that Raviola and her two captains are in charge of Kravin Village now, so it’s no wonder she feels guilty.
Hwanin looked at Raviola, who had a dark complexion, for a moment, then fell into other thoughts.
‘The parasitic tentacle toads that roam the forest are like worker ants.’
If you go inside the open labyrinth, a more powerful variant will surely appear. The superior entity of the gnomes, or the entity specialized in combat.
If you know the shape at least roughly, you will be able to extract information through research, but the survivors get upset just by bringing up the story, so that’s impossible…….
‘As expected, I have no choice but to get close to the labyrinth in an emergency and investigate it myself.’
The open labyrinth that occurred in Kravin Forest this time is not a labyrinth managed inside the city or managed by the city, so there is no information about it.
I want to prepare as much as possible before entering, but there is no information I need, so I have no choice but to run and get it myself.
Watching 20 armed soldiers leave the vigilante building and head for the roadblock, Hwanin picked up Raviola and headed for her house.
Hwanin gathered together her girlfriends and said.
“Thanks to Hwanyeon’s tracking with a radius of 500m, most of the toads near the village have been dealt with over the past two days. This should give us about a week to spare before the other parasitic tentacle toads fill the void and attack the village again.”
As if she had battle in mind, Anne, dressed in a semi-combat outfit, with only her breastplate removed from the Light of Salvation equipment, replied while eating carrots and other vegetables.
=In the meantime, you’re going to attack the open labyrinth.=
“Okay. But she couldn’t get any useful information about the labyrinth. There is nothing more reckless than entering an attack in a situation where you don’t even know the level of the labyrinth. I’m going to go on a preliminary investigation with Byeongjae for a while, so I want you guys to prepare for a maximum of a week of exploration in the meantime.
=Master, what will the exploration crew do?=
“Me, Isilite, Anne, and Bisang, the four of us are going. Yurpa, please stay in the village and contribute to the defense.”
=I will.=
It’s a Yurupa that is difficult to show off its strength in areas such as labyrinth exploration, but if it’s her magic weapon crafting ability, she can use her strength quite a bit in defense battles like this, so it will be helpful.
“Aren’t you taking me?”
“It is true that your elemental response is of great help. However, Kravin Village is not entirely safe. You stay with Yurpa and help defend the village, and if Yurpa is in danger, she will protect Yurpa at all costs.”
At the meaningful story, Hwanyeon asked with her eyes strangely shining.
“By any means?”
“Say it for sure. Yurpa and your lives are more precious than villages or cities.”
=…….=
=…….=
The girls looked back at themselves and their hearts fluttered at Hwanin’s sweet words.
Naturally, her face turned red and she was a little embarrassed, but at the same time, I thought it was a little scary.
It meant that if something went wrong, he would give up the lives of thousands or tens of thousands of people without hesitation.
But if you think about it, there is nothing strange about it. Hwanin’s remarks were only to remove pretense and shame, because they matched their thoughts.
If they had to choose between the lives of the 800 people in Krabin Village and their master/master/own life, they would choose him too.
Not only for themselves, but for ordinary people, it is natural that close acquaintances and family are more important than the lives of people they do not know.
In addition, he cares about the defense of the village to criticize him for being cruel and cold-hearted.
When Hwanyeon raises her fairy wand, she summons a medium-level spirit with her ability to respond to spirits. In other words, it can exert the power of a 5th grade professional.
Here, Yurpado can also use level 4-5 power if he generously sprinkles combat consumables, so if a village defense battle takes place, they will be more powerful than anyone else.
Anne was a little worried.
‘Your remarks are so direct that others will misunderstand or despise you if you hear them…….’
What, does it matter? Doryeong is not the kind of person who would say such things without thinking in front of others.
When Hwanin’s women went out to the village market to prepare for the exploration, Hwanin took off all of her emergency gear, put only her saddle on her to lighten her weight, and soared into the sky.
‘It’s hard to see because of the camouflage color.’
I tried to find out how many monsters there were within a 20km radius of the village, but it was harder than I thought.
Even with the naked eye as well as with the spirit vision open, the color system of parasitic tentacle toads is similar to that of trees, making it difficult to distinguish them.
Coo. Cuckoo.
“Well.”
However, when Bisang found parasitic tentacle toads instead, it was possible to roughly record the distribution because the location and number were roughly informed by crying.
Draw a map in your notebook and record the location where the heteromorph was found. Places and characteristics that can be marked on the map are also written, and vegetation is also written down.
After repeating a 15-minute flight and a 15-minute break, Hwanin, who was recording the location and number of parasitic tentacle toads he found in his notebook, found a clearing with flowers in bloom and landed there.
“I’ll organize the information I’ve gathered, so take a break in the meantime.”
Cue~ Cue.
Bi-sang waved his stiff wings and let out a sigh, then pressed his forehead against Hwan-in’s back. Hwan-in smiled and took out fresh apples and peaches from his pocket and fed them to Bi-sang.
“Is it delicious?”
Kyup!
Satisfied with the snack, Hwanin, who watched Bisang sit down on his stomach in the middle of the flower garden, opened his notebook and filled in the route he visited the day before yesterday and yesterday to calculate the location of the newly appeared toad.
Starting from the village, the open labyrinth was said to be located in the northwest, and the direction the village was attacked was mainly from the north.
And if you calculate the location of the newly discovered monsters while flying today…….
‘It’s a shape that descends south.’
Since the toads are occupying the territory from the north to the south, the hypothesis that they are pouring out of the labyrinth became clear.
The problem is that the speed at which the toad occupies the empty area is faster than expected.
‘At this rate, instead of a week, the empty seats will be filled in three or three days.’
I didn’t know what side effects the dead toad’s corpse would produce, so I left the things I found today…….
Hwan-in, who was thinking about whether he should go back now and bring Hwan-yeon and deal with the toad, felt that a small creature was caught in the presence detection.
“…… ?”
Bi-sang is just resting while touching and eating the yellow and white flowers in the flower garden, as if he hadn’t noticed the presence.
‘Isn’t it a dangerous object?’
If it was dangerous, the emergency would have noticed it first. Enemy perception is much better than your own.
‘Two… Size is small. It seems to be about the same as fantasy.’
It’s not accurate because the presence is faint, but it seems to be hiding behind that tree and looking this way.
At that time, the emergency jumped up and began to stare at one side of the forest. Yes, when you feel hostility, you react like this.
The moment Hwanin took out his scale, he felt something flying in the shadows of Bisang.
The direction is not this way. It’s the little things that are hidden.
Hwanin, who had left it because it wasn’t flying at him, could see that a needle that flew at the speed of a javelin hit something small.
Gureuk.
Appearing with a satisfying sound was a tawny toad the size of a truck, with black spines around its pointed snout like that of an Amish mustachioed toad.
It’s a somewhat unsightly appearance with shiny jet-black eyes covered with white spots and vein-like patterns, but since it’s the size of a 1-ton truck, I naturally frown in disgust.
Hwanin, who witnessed the thorny toad leisurely walking towards the place where the needle was shot with its black eyes glistening, narrowed his brows for a moment.
Are you ignoring yourself?
Hwanin wondered why the monster was ignoring him.
Because you don’t consider yourself an enemy? Or are you more in a hurry to pick up something you spit on? If that’s not the case, do you believe in your own strength and don’t even consider this side your enemy?
It was not understood by Hwanin’s standard that he was not a heterogeneous species with great power like the dragon I saw in the tyrannical dragon’s labyrinth, and left a target that could be an enemy and did his own thing…….
“…….”
I stopped trying to understand the behavior of the monster because I wanted to understand what to do.
First of all, it is certain that the spiny toad is a relative of the parasitic toad. Hwanin made a bunch of soul arrows and shot them at the thorny toad at the same time.
Bubbuck!
Rolling!!
The spirit arrows flew silently and easily pierced the toad’s body.
The thorny toad with six holes in its body flipped over and struggled, screaming kureuk, gueek, and then turned over and began to stare at Hwanin.
The black eyeballs turned bright red, and the tan leather turned red like blood, and a red liquid that was not blood began to flow.
“…….”
Feeling uneasy, Hwanin spread his soul shield to block the front, while at the same time blowing a soul explosion orb into the hole in his body and detonating it.
Whoa!!
A spiny toad exploded like a firecracker from an explosion that started inside. Crimson bodily fluids and bits of flesh flew in and clung to the soul shield, sliding down slowly.
Kuheung.
If there are no other monsters around, the emergency alert is released.
Hwanin patted Bisang on the back and approached the place where the thorny toad had stung him. If he didn’t get it wrong, the sign was still there.
What was it that made the thorny toad even ignore him?
Arriving there, Hwanin witnessed an unexpected situation.
= Heying… !=
=Oh, don’t come!=
A fairy with butterfly-shaped wings was covered in a sticky green substance like glue and struggling, and a fairy with dragonfly-shaped wings stood in front of such a butterfly fairy and trembled at the sight of Hwanin.
