Chapter 416 – 410 Underground Ant Den
※Beware of cruelty and gore※
The initial battle with the battle-type Chimera in the anthill caused quite a bit of noise because the party was nervous, but from then on, the enemy was dealt with as secretly and quietly as possible to avoid attracting the monster’s attention.
“A chimera will appear in the corner across the street. Five, four, three, two…….”
Spam.
“One is wandering around, but it is not approaching. How to?”
“I lure them in with the sound of stones.”
Tick, Tak-. Tok… Todo Do Dok-
… Big?
Abruptly—
The corpse of the complex chimera that was treated in this way awakens fantasy and buries it in the ground…….
“This is a wall on the left and right, and the ground above is not that hard. Same goes for the one below. Is it difficult to ask?」
“Put it in the subspace supply bag and bury it somewhere else.”
The body was stored in a large subspace supply bag supported by the Sky Knights.
The scent of blood floating in the air is easily dispersed by the lowest-class wind spirit.
It is an established fact that their intrusion is discovered. And since that was the time for an all-out war with the chimeras in the cave, it was part of the work to delay that moment as much as possible and reduce the enemy.
As I handled and organized the Chimera in that way and moved, I gradually heard the faint cries of the Chimera from the other side of the pitch-black aisle, as well as frequent noises such as kkaduk, kikkik, and kkeek.
The number of mixed chimeras encountered also gradually increased. It is proof that they are approaching the depths of the ant nest.
“Hwanyeon, can’t you feel the water nearby?”
Hwanyeon, who recovered her condition after sleeping for about two hours, shook her head.
“It’s hard to detect because it’s over the wall. But why is the water all of a sudden?」
Hwanin shared his predictions. The characteristics of the karst topography, the ground seen from the ground, and the possibility of Chimera’s escape route.
“Okay. I’ll release some more and find them.”
As it sounded plausible to her, Hwan Yeon attracted the few middle and lower level land spirits, as well as the lowest level ground spirits that were not often used because they were like blurry vision filters, and proceeded along the aisle.
Although it is an earth spirit that can enter the ground, it is difficult to investigate the way it perceives fantasy because it is very different from that of the earth spirit.
It’s much better to find out the status of the enemy through the passage.
Thanks to Hwanyeon, which sent spirits along the passage within the detection range to scout and explore, the surroundings and movement speed became faster.
And with the stench getting worse, the number of encounters with rotten flesh or parts of oysters and passages that had turned to mud began to increase.
Kyaa—
Kwajik!
Anne, who smashed the head of a small burrow, a cheetah + mole mixed chimera that pounced on the intruder, with the hammer of heaven, glanced at the bottom of the burrow where bones and unknown body hair rolled together, she said.
=The traces of activity are getting thicker. It seems that the direction we are moving is wrong.=
= But only the mixed chimera is still visible. How many Awakened Chimeras are there? =
= Even then, there were only four of them, so isn’t it difficult to make? =
“Even if there are, they’ll be gathered near Bardul or important facilities.”
=I guess so.=
“Anne, come out quickly. Block the entrance.”
=Wait.=
After throwing the corpse of the mixed chimera that was stored in the burrow and coming out, soil rises from the floor and completely hides the entrance.
Just by looking at it, you would never know there used to be an oyster here.
Right after he erased even the traces on the floor to conceal his existence and started moving again. Hwanyeon suddenly looked to one side and tilted her head.
“Wait, wait.”
= Why? Enemy?=
As if seeing the place through a distant spirit, he frowned at the far-away fantasy.
“No, enemies…… Is correct, but Hwanin, I found something. By the way… What is this. Is it a place where chimeras are made?」
“Which one?”
“Well……. Go straight ahead, left at the fork in the road, go straight from there and stay in the room on the right. It’s about 300m to walk there.”
As the aisles were long and narrow, I used to suddenly give directions like now, but this time it seems that something big has been discovered.
Hwanin pulled out the iron bars and said.
“Go that way.”
Following the guidance of Hwan-yeon, the Hwan-in group moved quietly and were able to enter a common space the size of an indoor gymnasium.
=Woo, what is this?=
=This is where the chimera is created.=
And I learned how chimeras are born.
Kid. Fit in
It’s okay.
Twenty-five car-sized honeypot ant-like monsters.
And people, monsters, and beasts that are slowly merging like gelatin in a large, swollen, amber transparent stomach like glass marbles.
Hwan-yeon, who saw her translucent, jelly-like heart thump, said in a tone that she was sick of it.
“A person melts like a liquid and becomes translucent, but still alive? What creature is this…….」
=Wait, this is…… It looks like right before birth.=
What Anne pointed out was unlike the belly of other ant monsters, it was formed solidly in both color and shape like the mixed chimera that had been killed so far.
A chimera that wriggles its limbs intermittently as if it were about to be born.
Hwanin, who developed his spiritual vision with the power of the pattern, could see that everything in the stomach of the ant monster was wrapped in the light of life.
Hwanin’s gaze turned to the honey jar ant monster that was staring at them with disgusting eyes full of compound eyes.
Whether they are creatures that exist only for synthesis, the ant monsters do not show hostility or intention to attack even when they see the Hwanin party.
As Hwanin raised the light bar a little higher, the pitch-black space became brighter, and the shadow of the monster was cast on the wall due to the amount of light.
A large, amber-colored, transparent ship like a glass marble that emerges everywhere. The light penetrating through it casts a yellow color on the wall, and it is a gloomy scene where even the shadows are shaken by the movement of the monster that is fused inside the stomach.
When I lower my gaze to the floor, I see an unknown liquid flowing down the floor.
Perhaps the amniotic fluid spilled out of that ship as a complex chimera was born. Hwanin’s gaze calmly scanned the stomachs of the 30 honey jar ant monsters.
‘I can’t bring it back in that state. If left alone, it will only become a mixed chimera…….’
[Grumble-]
Isilite and Anne, awakened by the sound of bubbles in their stomachs, looked back at Hwanin.
=Will you kill them all?=
Instead of answering, Hwanin formed a longsword with barrier panels, and the women who read the meaning approached the ant monster with a heavy expression holding their weapons.
“You don’t know what will happen if the liquid comes in contact with your skin. Blast it from afar.”
=Ah, yes.=
=Yes.=
Isilite draws out her multi-sword blade and sharply rips off the bedrock on her wall, seeing the rattle Anne and thus tearing off part of her bedrock. And she’s about to cast a demon.
Slap. Chubby, chubby.
“Wait a minute. Over there, the worker Chimera is coming.”
From inside the cavity, several worker chimeras came in carrying something on the ant’s leg.
= Ugh… !=
= Ah…….=
Isilite and Anne let out a short groan at the shape of something entering the light source of the light rod.
A woman whose limbs were amputated by the root. Her brain had been dug out, her head above her eyebrows was hollowed out like a bowl, but to her surprise she was alive.
Chimera, a worker who entered the culture room, did not even glance at Hwanin and the others, approached the honey jar ant monster and handed over a woman whose limbs were amputated with her front paws.
The blunt ant jaws of the honey pot ant, which received it with her front paws, opened and something like a butterfly tube came out.
Fu-wook—
Stuck in a woman’s vagina And then, a creepy sound of sucking something resounded through the cavity, and after a while, the plump woman’s body began to shrivel mercilessly like an eaten squid shell.
Wow, wow. A honeypot ant monster that crushes bones with its front legs and sucks them out.
Hwanin’s eyes deepened. It was because the body of the dead woman had been sucked out of her intestines and bodily fluids, and the soul had not escaped.
Is the soul of this world dwelling in the brain? Or is there another reason?
Hwanin, who watched the honey jar ant’s meal, tapped the shoulders of Isilite and Anne, who were standing there blankly.
“Don’t tidy up.”
= Uh, yes…….=
=…….=
When I stabbed the bead-like stomach with a longsword created from a barrier panel, the amber liquid and something like melted gelatin poured out together with the sound of a water balloon bursting.
Hey hey…… !
=Kyaaaaag!=
When the honey pot ant monster with its stomach burst gave out a feeble scream, the worker Chimera nearby rushed at Hwanin.
Perseok.
The barbed wire in Hwanin’s hand shattered his head like a watermelon, and the chimera worker’s white body spread over the amber liquid.
Excluding the body part mutated into an ant, the soul slipped out of the body of a woman as beautiful as Yurupa, and she shed tears from her cloudy eyes and attained Buddhahood as it is.
“…….”
Fung— Fang—
Hearing the sound of water balloons exploding in succession, he turned around to find Issilite and Anne throwing sharp fragments of rocks from a distance, bursting the honeypot ant monster’s belly.
Seeing both of their expressions frighteningly hardened, cold anger soared to the top of their heads.
=Kyaaah!=
=Keyae-!=
The worker chimeras who came to feed them attacked the party who burst the belly of the honey jar ant monster, but they literally turned into porridge at the hands of the angry women.
Phut-
Eventually, the belly of the last ant monster in the honey pot exploded, and Hwanin smashed the head of the ant monster in the honey jar, which struggled with the stomach burst while walking through the cavity filled with amber amniotic fluid, and killed it.
Even if you die, there is no other soul. Only the soul of the ant monster in its original form.
= Doryeong…… How do these people…… ?=
Looking back, Anne and Isilite were looking down at the food the worker Chimera had brought.
“Are they people who can be restored with the recovery technique?”
=…… Even the cardinals of the order will have a hard time restoring this state. Must be at the level of a pope or a saint.=
“Right. Even if it can be restored, it is no better than an empty shell without a soul, so let’s give it rest.”
= Huh? No soul?=
“Okay. The soul did not come out of the body of the woman who had just been eaten. I wonder if the honey jar ants ate it and injected it into the chimera, but that’s not the case. It is unknown whether the soul was destroyed or the brain was destroyed and the body and soul were forcibly separated.”
=…….=
=…….=
Whoop, whoop- whoop- whoop-
Hwanin, who kept his mouth shut and looked at his girlfriends stabbing the heart of their prey, turned his gaze to the soul filled inside the cavity.
The souls of people have ascended to heaven as if they were bleached by intense thoughts, but the spirits of ant monsters, beasts, and monsters and monsters that seem to have been captured wander in the void and languish as if wandering through the nine heavens.
“…….”
Since one of the culture rooms was destroyed, it is only a matter of time before they are caught.
How many enemies do you know? You can get souls while fighting, but…….
Battles will continue to occur, but the more soul orbs, the better. However, the light gauntlet on his left arm had already reached its limit of soul orb capacity.
Regret passed by in Hwanin’s eyes as he gazed at over 70 souls, excluding human souls.
Can’t I take some? First of all, I forcibly turned all souls into soul marbles.
“Well?”
Then, the soul orbs begin to circle around the body like satellites.
Before, it was possible to force the soul to follow. However, the time that could be dragged on like that was short enough to be only a few minutes, and it didn’t seem like it was very good for the soul to be exposed to coercive force for too long, so I didn’t use it…….
‘Is this also the effect of growth?’
As I stare at the soul orb that revolves around my body, I naturally recall how much time I can bring to this state.
960 seconds. In terms of minutes, that’s 16 minutes.
Could it be because of the constant practice of soul art and the hardening of the soul every day?
Anyway, even though it was short, it was possible to keep the soul orb at +@, so Hwanin inferred the wolf and ostrich forms among the monster’s souls to Isilite and Anne.
A medium to high-level spirit, a spirit that triples only strength and agility dwells in their bodies.
“Go to the place where the worker chimera brought food.”
“There are no complex chimeras there. It’s just a worker chimera. And…… Not. Go and see for yourself.”
The moment I passed through the passage on one side of the story of a meaningful fantasy and entered it, a strong sound of grinding my teeth flowed from Anne.
Fantastic, who looked into Anne’s eyes at the sound, murmured softly.
“I think this is a food warehouse…….」
One wall of a large gymnasium-sized joint is crammed with women, beasts, and animals whose limbs have been cut off and their brains sucked into a hole like a beehive.
The number alone is in the hundreds.
On the other side of the wall, in what looked like a pigpen, were skinny women with huge bellies hanging from the wall in a row.
It’s not just women. Chimera, a worker in the body of a woman, was also included in it, and it is a place for breeding food.
The scene where a chimera, a female woman with ant body parts sprouting from her body, wanders around and takes care of a pregnant woman, literally a place where human rights have disappeared.
Hwanin quickly inspected the inside of the cavity and realized that there were two exits and entrances.
Kiruk?
Perseok!
Kyaaak!
Kwajik!
Every time the iron spear weighing about 3kg in Hwanin’s hand is swung around, the female head of the chimera worker explodes like a tomato that has fallen to the floor.
Every time the sword of light on the barrier panel embroidered the air, the chimera worker’s head fell like a ripe apple.
At the sudden appearance of the enemy, some rushed to kill Hwanin while others approached the passageway to escape, but the worker Chimera, who went to the passageway, was cut into pieces and turned into chunks of meat stamped by a press machine.
It took only a moment for dozens of Chimera Workers to turn into chunks of meat.
When the Chimeras were all sorted out, Anne, who approached with an expressionless expression, asked Hwanin, whose eyes were shining with golden light.
= Doryeong. Women…….=
“The light of life is about to go out. Even if it’s not…….”
Iron puck.
As if the birth had taken place, there was the sound of a wet rag rattling from one side.
I looked around and saw a baby wriggling between the woman’s groin, still with a huge belly, with tiny insect limbs attached to her body.
“…… Second-generation worker Chimera.”
And Huduk, Cheodeok, and Tududuk. On top of it, other second-generation Chimera pups and chunks of intestines poured out with a sound I never wanted to hear.
The woman’s head was bowed down, and her stomach became slim.
The second-generation chimera is born, and it seems that the genital area has been greatly torn and poured out by the insect’s sharp legs.
Then, another woman pushed from her swollen belly like Namsan, and an insect leg sprouted. After a while, the weight of the belly tore open and the second-generation Chimera babies poured out along with their intestines.
Literally a hellish sight.
= Uh… Ugh…….=
As Anne watched the scene, her hand holding the hammer of punishment trembled, then she said to the Hwanin with her face filled with tears.
= I have to kill… Do you?=
“…… I do.”
= No…… I, the holy fighter of the Church of the Earth God, will send the poor women back to the earth…….=
“Even the chimeras in the belly must die. Leave this to me.”
=…….=
“Trust me, I will reap the life inside of you painlessly.”
= Yes…….=
Watching Isilite wrap Anne’s shoulders and lead her towards the aisle, Hwanin stretched out her hand towards the women and released a wave of energy absorption from her.
Dooung—
Along with a wave that is invisible to the eye, a solid golden line is connected to the woman’s heart as well as to the belly of Hwanin.
The women whose light of life was dim in the first place lowered their heads within 10 seconds, and the golden glow connected to the women’s hearts also lost its light.
And when another 30 seconds passed, the lights connected to the ship began to fade one by one.
“…….”
After a minute, there was no living life left in the pigsty.
Hwanyeon asked Hwanin, who slowly clenched and opened his fists with an expressionless face.
“Hwanin, should the women bury them too… ?」
“Okay. Bury the food in the hole in the wall too, so that others don’t dig it out.”
“Yes.”
After arranging the culture room and one of the food warehouses, Hwanin looked at Anne, who was swaying with murder and jealousy.
“Are you okay?”
= Yes. I’m cool.=
“Okay.”
Seeing that he does not lose his reason in anger and is calm, it seems that he does not have to worry about unexpected actions.
At that time, Hwanyeon stood on Hwanin’s shoulder and tugged at his ear.
「Hwanin. Give me an earth spirit stone. I just remembered something good.”
When I gave her a spirit stone the size of her body, two thumbs, Hwanyeon, who held the spirit stone the size of her body tightly in her arms, focused her mind and said with a slightly tired face.
“First of all, I’ve been all over the 500m radius. I found two more places like this. If this is the center…… Not. There must be more outside my detection range. And I also found the place where Hwanin mentioned the water. I’ll draw it on the map.”
When the map on the 23rd floor is opened, Hwanyeon grabs a ballpoint pen the size of her height and draws a picture. She is said to have helped Yurpa with the crafting of magic tools, and she has quite a bit of drawing skills.
「Um…… The road winds this way like this…… Looking at the steps…… Is it around here?」
“Did you line up the spirits and send them through the wall?”
“Yes. I just sent it in a straight line.”
Since it is difficult to move around and understand the depths of the earth, the story is that they lined up dozens of spirits, including the lowest level, in order to erase all the blanks, and scanned them as they came across.
Hwanin praised the drastic reduction in the time spent exploring the anthill.
“Good job. Where is the water?”
「Here. It’s a really big cave, and there’s a big river running through the bottom. It extends outside of my range, and I couldn’t see it all the way because it was dark, but as you said, it might be connected to the outside world. And…….」
Hwanyeon looked at Anne, whose expression was hardened, and continued.
“There was a monster that looked like a corrupted Bardul.”
Anne’s life grew stronger.
