Chapter 349 – 343 Anomaly
Hwanin, who received the red phase stone from Yu Lepa, took off his glove and held it with his bare hand.
“Did you figure out what the effect was?”
= You can know the exact effect by appraising it, but you have to go back to the village to do that. There’s a precision appraisal tool in the wagon. But since he has a phase flow, it’s easy to know. How do you feel now?=
“Is it a feeling?”
It’s a weird feeling The feeling of flowing out of the phase stone through the skin in contact with the phase stone fills the body in an instant.
Level 2 blood-colored phase stones with regenerative effects that are still in use now make the body slightly warm or cool when held in the hand. However, this feels like a warm spring breeze that fills the inside of the body and makes it feel reassuring.
“If it’s red, it’s related to vitality and stamina, but it’s not the least regenerative effect.”
=Does it feel different from the one you carry and the regeneration phase stone?=
“Yes. It feels like something makes me feel better.”
Hwanin’s answer shows Anne’s curiosity.
=Then do you want to expand your vitality?=
“What is that?”
When Hwan-yeon, who was sitting on his wrist and touching the phase stone, asked, Anne explained instead.
=If the amount of damage that a person can withstand is 100, if you make and use a phase stone, which is a life extension, increase the number you can withstand by 200 or 300 depending on the grade. Because it raises the absolute value rather than the ratio, it is a function that the unemployed or the magician with weak physical strength prefers more than the profession.=
‘It’s like an option that increases the maximum hp in the game.’
“So it’s saying that it’s okay to be hit by the 11th when you hit the 10th, so it increases your toughness. Are you good?」
Yurpa grinned.
“It is the most expensive of the red phase stone functions. If you are a baron who is unemployed, you will always use at least one regardless of whether your rank is high or low.”
“Five. That’s why you said it was almost twice as expensive as the average price for 6th graders.”
= If it is level 6, it will be raised almost as much as a level 3 stamina-oriented melee job, but how can I test my strength… Father! Now, darling?!=
Thinking of a way to check the effect, Yurpa was startled to see the Hwanin slash her palm with a dagger.
No, that’s the simplest way!
“The pain is the same. It’s not that my body has become really hard…….”
= No no! That’s a health boost or a defensive function of the gray phase stone! Life extension literally increases the amount of time you can endure from the time you start bleeding until you die! Ouch?! You can see bones, even bones! Miss Anne!=
=Wow, I sometimes think about it, but the doryeong is also a real stage performer.=
Anne gives a small grumble as she gives treatment to the Hwanin’s palm, which is wide open and red blood is flowing.
“There is Anne and there is a Yurpa recovery system. It makes a fuss.”
Hwanin smiled and checked the scars on his palms, which left only red marks, and put the phase stone in his pocket.
“Rather than selling this, I will process it and use it for the party.”
=Doryeong should use it rather than us.=
“…… Anyway, are there any other acquisitions?”
= Yes. Since it was a beast type, there was no magecraft or anything like that, and there was no magecraft equipment. Instead, a yappy phenomenon occurred on the burnt back skin…….=
After hearing the story, Hwanin nodded and told his girlfriends that they did a good job.
“I suffered. I got that and a decent phase stone, so that should be enough. Then we will explore where the core was going.”
= Doryeong. Were there no survivors elsewhere?=
“Okay. It seems that the core of the surrounding hostages has all been gathered there.”
The eyes of the party returned to the place where Hwanin pointed with his finger, a place like the witch’s forest that was revealed due to the fog receding due to the fierce battle.
In spawning ponds with cores, the number of heterogeneous species was surprisingly low.
No matter how far away they are, heteromorphic species tend to gather around the edge of a large spawning pond of this size, but there are almost no heterogeneous species on the edge of the core spawning pond.
There were only three or four of them, so before they started screaming and making a fuss, Hwanin’s soul arrows flew off their heads and died, and Hwanyeon’s beckoned body buried them in the ground.
= Why? Did the core eat it?=
“There is a possibility of that. Considering the size of the core, other heteromorphic species are just a bite away.”
In addition, even if the spawning pond is deep, it is at the level of going back and forth 10m. There must have been no feeling that the spawning pool was so wide to the core.
Thanks to this, Hwanin, who reached the forest where people’s vitality can be detected without being led by a large number of heterogeneous species, slightly raised his eyebrows at the environment different from what he thought.
It was because the trees that grew so densely that people couldn’t even pass by surrounded them as if they were surrounding a certain point.
“…….”
The floor is also not a dirt floor, but is covered with leaves and wood chips, so the smell of earth, beetroot, fishy water, and the unpleasant smell unique to amphibians are floating in the air.
Usually at the end of a place like this…….
“Ms. Ciella. Where is life force being detected?”
=I am inside.=
The place Ciela pointed to was the innermost space on the map.
Hwanin, having a rough premonition, gestured to Isilite and Anne to precede them, and then took the black spear and the light rod magic tool himself.
=Darling, is there something over there?=
“There will be.”
But it won’t be dangerous. Hwanin ordered Romdis and his party to follow him slowly, then strode out with Bisang.
“…….”
Hwanin narrowed his brows when he saw that eggs several times larger than the existing frog eggs had fallen everywhere.
When I look back, I can see that the water that came out of the spawning pond led all the way here. The fallen frog eggs are connected to the waterway in a straight line from the inside.
=Doryeong!=
Hearing Anne’s cry, Hwanin signaled to Yu Lepa who was approaching from afar and hurried toward her girlfriends.
And the place that appeared was the entrance to a huge tunnel 20m high and 70m wide.
Surprisingly, the forest is forming a tunnel. The walls were made of intertwined trees, leaving no gaps, and the ceiling covered the sky to such an extent that no light could penetrate.
=It’s big enough for the core to come in and out.=
= Something is not right. There is also a fishy smell and a little rotten smell.=
“Go in.”
Instead of a lantern magic tool, Hwanin clicked on a light rod and a gray light source illuminated a radius of 40m.
The women who went inside, relying on the light, vomited at the sight spread out in the large cavities on the left and right.
= Woo-wook, Lee…… What is this
The walls of the trees were all covered with gray slime, and countless naked women were hanging from the walls.
That number is well over 60 people.
Hwan-in’s gaze goes to the woman’s belly, which is normally swollen like a pregnant woman.
As if something was constantly moving inside, the skin on her stomach was repeatedly protruding and retracting in disorder.
The pubic area, exactly the vaginal hole, was deeply inserted like a tube from the wall, and the same was true of the mouth. A suicide prevention and feeding tube was inserted into the throat, and the eyes and ears were also covered with hardened mucus.
Hwanin’s gaze descended to the floor filled with mucus.
On the floor, something like a slug the size of a large dog wriggled, tending to the women chained to the wall with the tentacles of a parasitic toad on its back.
When women clean up their bowel movements and the time for childbirth is imminent, they pull out the pipe blocking the pubic area and insert tentacles into it to try to force childbirth. It feeds on something like the slime that surrounds frog eggs.
Hwanin wrapped her tentacles around what appeared to be a larva of a Mexican salamander and cut down the slug monster that passed in front of her.
If there is a difference between those women and the women caught by the parasitic tentacle toads outside, Hwanin judged that the purpose of the outside was to reproduce in large numbers, and the purpose here was to breed a small number of strong individuals.
“Kill them all.”
=…… Yes.=
=Yes.=
As a sign of that, Isilite drew her knight sword with her stiff face and went out to slay the slug monster, and her Anne, showing her loathing, began striking her slug down with her hammer of wrath.
Romdis, Rektal, and Ciel, who arrived afterwards, were also startled to witness the scene unfolding before their eyes, but immediately began to move quickly at the instructions of the fallen Hwanin.
“Mr. Romdis, go with the two of you and rescue the women from the wall. As for Yurpa, just take out what’s in the women’s stomachs as you did before.”
=Old!!=
=Yes!=
“We’ll keep this sorted out.”
It was an extension of what they had done many times, so they got used to it, and since this was the end of the labyrinth of spawning ponds, the party moved more vigorously.
Most of the women hanging on the wall maintained their sanity and reason.
= Wooweeek! Coolhehe…… !=
Romdis flew along with Rektal, pulled out a coffin that was well over 40 cm long from his mouth, removed it from the wall, and lowered it to the floor. The women vomited what was inside and thanked them with tears in their eyes.
= Thanks, remorse, sense… Buy, I do…… Cool.=
= Whoa…. Save me, thank you… Thank…… Wow.=
=The person you should truly give thanks to is the Holy Son over there. See the one with black hair over there? That’s him.=
= Ah…. Ah…….=
=Ah, beast god…….=
Then, Yurpa uses her telekinesis to pull out the monsters from the women’s stomachs, and Siela takes care of the woman’s details and uses her treatment and recovery appropriately to treat them.
= Profit, profit! Oh, this monster! Die!!=
Most of the women wept and beat to death the monster that came out of their belly.
The anger used as a tool for childbirth for more than two weeks is just pitiful from the point of view of watching.
“Come on, I’ll wash you, so if you can walk, come and stand in front of me.”
Finally, Hwanyeon washed the women after treatment with the spirit of water and handed out blankets one by one, pointing to the bag containing the blankets.
Of course, there was a woman who was in a state of difficulty walking, but a woman who had the strength left helped her by her side.
It is a sense of camaraderie that is revealed in the fact that they went through rough times together.
Seeing the women relying on each other, Hwanin thought that they would not be ostracized in the village.
It’s not just one or two, the number of women saved so far is 25 in the second round, 35 rescued this time, plus the 60 saved here, the number is 120.
A number that corresponds to 15% of Krabin’s population.
=Thank you for your hard work, Holy Son.=
“Mr. Romdis also worked hard. This allowed him to move quickly and rescue people.”
=I’m just proud of the fact that we’ve been of some help to this.=
In a cup made of wood, Hwanyeon makes hot water with Yurpa’s magic ball, and Isilite pours warm tea that calms her mind and distributes it to the women.
=Miss Raviola said that she estimated 140 villagers taken away. We’ve saved 120 people so far, so we’ve saved almost 80% of them. I’m glad it didn’t take more damage.=
“If it hadn’t been for you, the rescue would have taken more time. There must have been fewer survivors.”
Hwanin looked at the women huddled together and drinking hot tea.
The women rescued this time were in better condition than those caught by the parasitic tentacle toads. Most of them are awake and don’t seem mentally driven too much.
However, even when the condition is good, these experiences are enough to be traumatic.
Hwanin sensed that the gazes of 60 people looking at her were full of anxiety, and fired a wave of tranquility with her calm face.
Ripples of grayish-white warm light reflected off the walls several times and covered the inside of the cave before disappearing, and tears began to flow from the women’s eyes again.
= Black and white. Lived…… I live now…….=
= Ugh, huh…….=
= Mother. Aww….=
It was because of the relief that came from knowing that this was reality and that they too had been rescued.
After shedding tears like that, I’ll be able to control my emotions, albeit a little bit.
Hwanin left behind the women’s cries and looked around the interior decorated with spawning grounds.
I expected him to be here because the core is heading…….
‘There is nothing that looks like a core.’
I was vaguely thinking that it was something big because it was a heart, but is it conceptual rather than material?
‘Or it could be sunk at the bottom of the spawning pond.’
Hwanin, who was lost in thought for a moment, started looking at the hollow of the tree again, wondering if he had missed anything.
