Chapter 417 – 411 Underground Ant Den
At the story of finding the culprit behind this situation, the corrupted Vardul, Anne sprayed her exposed skin with enough lethal blood.
Since she had never shown herself so angry before, she sent Issilite and Hwanyeon a little worried gaze, but she didn’t even know that their eyes were focused on herself.
Rather than simply being outraged by what innocent women have been subjected to, it seems like her PTSD has kicked in.
Seeing that, Hwanin realized that his judgment was overdone.
If she stays like this, when she meets Vardul, she may lose control and rush, or her coordination with Isilite or the precision of her skills may deteriorate.
A clouded mental state ahead of a big fight is likely to become a problem.
Hwanin took off her gloves and gently held Anne’s cheeks, revealing her emotional turbulence enough to make her eyes glow even in the dark.
“Anne.”
=… Doryeong.=
As soon as Hwanin’s eyes met, his life as sharp as a blade softened noticeably.
Hwanin gently caressed her cheeks and nape and kissed her soft lips.
I felt startled when her soft lips touched her, but I shyly responded to a soft kiss that touched her heart, not a sensual French kiss in her bed.
When her 30-second brief kiss was over, her neck, which had been hard as stone from her anger and tension, was as soft as usual.
Anne, who was holding the back of her Hwanin and buried her face in his shoulder, sighed softly, she said.
= I’m sorry. I was so angry that I lost my temper for a moment.=
“Did you think of a memory you don’t want to recall?”
= Yes……. I witnessed an incident similar to this in a village I stopped by while traveling alone.=
About 10 years ago. Anne, who was returning to the Parish of the Church of the Land God in a nearby city after completing the assigned mission of the Order, came to visit a certain village.
In general, the village tends to maintain a family-like atmosphere in order to fight off attacks not only from outsiders and people, but also from beasts and monsters.
However, the place Anne visited was strangely awkward.
An unsettling air felt before or after an event has taken place.
A heavy and stuffy atmosphere where you can feel the anxiety and fear created by people.
Anne noticed that something had happened to this small, peaceful-looking village in the field, and she stepped out to help them as a priestess of the Church of the Land God.
At the time, she had just reached the 5th grade and was full of her confidence, so she had no hesitation in her actions.
Anne visited her door to door, and if anyone was injured or ill, she healed or cured them through sexual magic, and collected rumors.
She met the people of the small village, but they laughed awkwardly and evaded her questions.
Thank you for your treatment. Yeah? No, no problem. Rather, it is a fruit/vegetable I grew, so please try it. I bet it will be delicious.
Thank you so much for healing my sore spot. Oh, the strangest thing is……. Oh, by the way, is Holy Fighter a Fleur? This is a wild vegetable I gathered in the forest, and Fleur-nim will also like it.
It was a time when she still didn’t know much about human malice, so she looked for people more diligently, even though she thought she was strange.
Three days later, on the nighthehealed all the people in the village.
The third daughter of the village chief, at the time she was just an adult, she came to find Anne and informed her that it would be better for her to leave the village before something bigger happened…….
=The next day the child went missing.=
“Did the village chief imprison the young women and make them into seeds?”
= Huh? How did you know that?=
「Ugh. Really?”
=…… Yes. At that time, I was able to notice one thing. When I ask a question, people always glance at the village chief’s house.=
=The village chief must have been no ordinary person.=
= He was a 4th grade Indonian magician. A practical magician who has not received formal magic training. Anyway, that person…… The young woman who had no owner of hers was all locked up in the basement of her own house and left to give birth. =
Since it was also a tropical region, the village chief did not even give them clothes to wear and gave them only the minimum amount of food they needed to survive. He raped women and made them give birth to babies every day.
When she found out that she was looking for the third daughter of the village chief who had gone missing, Anne thrust a giant warhammer at her village chief and she shouted, “How could a man do such a thing?”
However, the village chief asked what the problem was.
‘The world is overflowing with women who don’t even deserve to live. What’s wrong with her catching such women and allowing them to live like humans at least?’
‘Is that living like a human?! Being raped and having children without freedom in a dungeon where there is no sunlight, naked?!
‘They are worms who don’t know how to seduce men, don’t get married, have children, don’t contribute to the village, and can’t even do their job properly. We are doing our best to increase the population by giving seeds to bitches who are like livestock who only eat food so that they can have children. I’m working for society without receiving money, so shouldn’t this be something I should be thankful for?’
‘…… !!’
Anne was horrified. How can she say this outright, can she even believe that she is right?
Not wanting to further quarrel with her chief, she put up pressure on her chief by using her status as a rare class member.
Let go of the women right now. Otherwise, I won’t stay still.
The village chief was displeased with Anne’s actions of suppressing her with her power, but she knew full well that it would be reckless to have a conflict with a holy warrior of her church, so she obeyed Anne’s will.
She was Anne who brought out the skinny women like cattle…… She was greatly shocked by the actions of the women that followed.
‘Do, I want to go back……. Please let me go back…….’
Rather, the women were more afraid of the outside and cried and begged Anne and went back to the basement.
‘Look at that. This kind of treatment is perfect for bitches like this.’
The village headman’s pig face laughing at her and pointing out her stupidity was engraved in Anne’s mind like a stigma.
The women’s rejection, the village chief’s ridicule.
The heavy gazes from the villagers who had gathered in the uproar threw Anne into confusion.
Did I do something wrong? Was it really like that?
=The situation did not end there.=
“It looks like the third daughter killed the village chief and started a fire.”
=…… No wait. Were you there at the time? How do you know so well?=
Anne’s face turned comical, as if her astonishment, absurdity, and doubt suppressed other emotions.
When Hwanin let out a short laugh, the calm atmosphere became much lighter, and small smiles appeared on Anne and Isilite’s faces.
But Anne soon changed her somber expression and continued her words.
= It’s as Doryong said. The village chief is her third daughter…… She is both a daughter and a great-granddaughter, but anyway. =
Her third daughter, who happened to see her mother dead skinny and crushed to be used as fodder for livestock, had been plotting revenge against the chief ever since.
And when Anne came and disturbed the village, she tried to kill the village chief, and it ended in an attempt, and the village chief cut off her wrists and imprisoned her in a hidden place on the second basement floor.
=When I went down to the basement and took everyone out, he also escaped from the basement and hid in the house. And that night, he set the house on fire and stabbed the village chief from behind as he tried to put out the fire.=
= He said his wrist was cut off. How did you stab him to death?=
In response to Isilite’s question, Anne sharpened the bones of her forearms to make them pointy, then performed a stabbing motion.
=…….=
“…….」
=When the village chief died while trying to put out the fire, the villagers who brought water threw away buckets and just watched the village chief’s house burn. In the fire, all the women in the basement died, and the third daughter also died from excessive blood loss.=
Although she was stabbed in the heart, she could have been saved if she wanted to save her as long as she had sex. But Anne couldn’t move because of the chaos in her heart, and her village chief died.
She tried to save her third daughter, but she shed too much blood and went through terrible things that she couldn’t physically tell the village chief. Even though she was the worst human being, even murdered her father, she refused treatment saying she didn’t want to live anymore and left said to have breathed
= I thought I had cleared the case…… I guess it wasn’t.=
He also rescued women from the spawning pond, and it was okay because he was the Heterogeneous species who did that, but…….
‘This time is no different from being hurt by a person, so the memories from that time overlapped.’
Hwanyeon, who patted Anne on the head, asked.
“What happened to the villagers?”
=I got out of the village the next day and I don’t know because I haven’t been around since then……. You could be living a normal life as if it never happened or what…….=
Answering her fantastic question, Anne was no longer letting go of her flesh.
=The village would have disappeared soon. If it was a grade 4 purgatory, the village chief would have been the center of the village, but even the village chief’s house was burned down.=
=Yes.=
= A group that has lost its central point is bound to disintegrate. The thieves I was the leader of were also divided into two after following the master.=
= Oh, did you? What happened after that?=
= Half of them foolishly tried to attack the master and were massacred, and the other half…… I do not know either. You could pack a mount and leave for another area and live well, or you might have been subjugated.=
After saying that, Isilite patted her on the shoulder and comforted her.
= Anne had a terrible experience because she was looking for a place where she stood out from the bad side. Even if she keeps remembering, she only hurts your heart, so stop forgetting about it. It’s not your fault, is it?
= Yes…….=
“But is it like this only with Luke, or are other races like this too?”
= Our Fleur…… It can be said that there is no case like this at all…… Girl? Flavius are people who live noble lives in high places in the first place, and Sabi is a tribal-oriented society, so I don’t know what it will be like there.
“Hmm. I want to see Flavius as well.”
= Flavius is also fine. Because women only have wings like female joins. Instead, it only has white wings.=
Hwanin, who took out his watch while listening to the conversation of his girlfriends, confirmed that 10 minutes had passed and thought about the next course of action.
After destroying the culture room and food storage, they will soon be discovered and the search for the intruder will begin…… May be In this situation, if you go to catch Bardul, there is a possibility that you will be attacked back and forth.
However, Bardul can escape if you find and wipe out other culture rooms and food warehouses and wipe out the mixed Chimera forces.
=I want to see Mount Beltical once again.=
=I heard it was a very big mountain?=
=It’s not like a mountain, it’s like a pillar of the earth holding up the sky. It’s so big and so so so high. The clouds were so thick that they couldn’t even pass the hillside.
“Is it that big? I miss you too.”
=Me too.=
Hwanin lightly clapped his hands at his girlfriends, who glanced at him and talked in whispers, drawing his attention.
“From now on, we are going towards the Great Hollow, where Bardul is supposed to be.”
Anne, whose expression was completely relaxed, raised her hand and asked a question.
=What if you get attacked while attacking there?=
“It was 10 minutes ago when we were cleaning up the food warehouse and culture room, making quite a bit of noise. Still, the chimeras aren’t coming. Fantastic.”
“Life is detected, but there is no significant response.”
“From this point of view, it can be seen that there are not so many troops.”
There may be a separate location for troops to be stationed, but considering the fact that there is no noticeable life form within a 500m radius around the Great Hollow and that Bardul runs away, the priority now is to subdue Bardul.
“Of course, I don’t charge recklessly. When you get closer, you first understand the inside through communication with the spirits of fantasy, and then organize the details. For now, consider that your goal is to subdue Bardul first.”
=Yes, Master.=
=Okay.=
After resting for about 10 minutes, the group set off again and, together with Anne, who returned to normal, headed for the Great Hall, excluding all chimeras they encountered.
This process became increasingly smooth and gentle.
The mixed chimera would often lose her head without even discovering her party, and she was unaware that she was dying.
Even if they find the party, they will be split in half without making a sound, or her head will be crushed with a dull noise.
Even though dawn is approaching, Hwanin and the two women’s physical specs are at a level where they can’t lose concentration even if they stay up all night for a day or two, and Hwanyeon’s skills in dealing with spirits are gradually increasing while going through a full-scale actual battle in an anthill.
Until now, Hwanyeon had not properly experienced combat and exploration.
When she was just born, she was exploring the tyrannical dragon’s labyrinth, but at that time it was more about Isilite’s fighting than a battle.
Anyway, Hwanyeon, a step forward from using only the energy detection of the earth spirits and grasping the enemy and the state through the spirits’ eyesight…….
“Uh. The vibrations from the ground seem to be getting stronger. Wait……. Ah, over the wall.”
“Yes? Oh, the wind is telling me that two mixed chimeras are eating the worker chimera over there.”
It is possible to detect the vibration of the ground or determine the number and type of enemies by smelling the wind.
Thanks to that, it became easier to find the way and find the enemy.
The difficulty level was downgraded to the level of finding it while looking at the mini-map because it knows which direction the Great Cavity is and there is even a cheat map finder illusion that can check beyond the wall.
After advancing for about 30 minutes, blocking some of the burrows and killing about 60 more worker chimeras and mixed chimeras, the underground cavity finally entered the detection range of the illusion.
The shape is a limestone cave, and there is a severe level difference in the ground, so the ceiling is close to 100m at the highest point.
Inside, a river with a width of 30m and a depth of about 10m flows rapidly…….
“There are almost no mixed chimeras, but instead there are 13 awakened chimeras. Among the Awakened Chimera with an aura, some are in human form…….」
Anne asked Hwanyeon, who closed her eyes and hugged an earth spirit stone the size of her body.
=Who is the corrupted Bardul?=
「Is this the corrupted Bardul? Seeing that he doesn’t have an aura, I think he’s right…….」
=What does it look like?=
“…… A wolf? It looks like a human race, but there are a lot of places where there is no hair on the body, and there are big lumps attached to it. And the stomach is open, and dozens of really gross tentacles are wriggling inside. There are several women skewered on those tentacles.”
= What is it, Bardul from the inlang side? But how did you get the ants?=
“The one Bardul is sitting on is an ant. My stomach has just stretched out and my heart is pounding. Barduldo is big enough to be 3m, but the ant is bigger and longer than that.”
Upon hearing the description of the fantasy, Anne’s expression became serious.
=Queen ant? Hey, what does that ant look like? Is there something like a plant growing on your body?=
“No. It’s just joints and rose thorns on my head?”
= I’m glad it doesn’t seem like this road queen…….=
=Anne, what is this road queen?=
=Uh, it’s a city extinction-class dangerous monster that controls creatures it touches by spraying spores.=
Hwanin, who was lost in thought for a moment, asked Hwanyeon, who was looking at him, a few things.
Is that all of the living things in the Great Cavity, or are there any more hiding in the water or the ground?
“…… Wow! The ground in the Great Hollow is full of ants with thorns all over their bodies! Even if you estimate it, there are over 50 of them!”
“…… “
=It must be an escort ant protecting the queen ant. She knows that she is hiding, so she won’t be attacked by diversion =
= 13 Awakened Chimeras, queen ants, unknown corrupted Bardul and more than 50 escort ants…….=
If the standard is the three-headed wolf chimera, it will be difficult for GFRIEND to handle 13 awakened chimeras. In addition, escort ants and an unidentified chimera wolf.
If you spread the light pillar of tranquility, you might not know, but you can’t add an element of uncertainty to the strategy.
Hwanin came up with dozens of battle plans, discarded them, and chose a fighting method, but felt that there was no way.
He has no way of solving it without harm.
Of course, the direct method is difficult, and the lure is also difficult considering the chimeras everywhere. The rest of the way…….
“Hwanyeon, what is the shape and speed of the river flowing through the Great Cavity?”
“Hmm, it’s a form where a river flows out of the wall and disappears into the wall. The speed seems to be the same as when Byeonggi runs at full power.”
If so, about 100 km/h. This is a level that exceeds the current speed of some hardcore rafting rivers several times.
A river 30m wide and 10m deep flows at 100km/h. It is said to be a large cavity, but it is not circular, but more like an S shape laid down like a limestone cave.
“…….”
Hwanin’s eyes shone coolly when he saw the intermediate earth, water, and wind spirit beads stored in the light gauntlet on his left arm.
There is no need to risk yourself by running head-on in the enemy’s lair.
