Chapter 420 – 414 Underground Ant Den
A phase stone is a second heart that is instinctively created in the pit of the stomach by creatures that manipulate phase power.
The first heart is the origin of life made of cloth. The second heart is the crystal of the phase power that is the source of the world’s wonders.
A second heart is absolutely necessary to go beyond a simple monster or monster and become a holy beast, a true beast.
Combining the origins of life and the source of mystery into one and evolving into a higher-level creature is the instinctive goal of lofty monsters and monsters.
Phase Stones are not created in all living beings by dealing with phase power.
An innocent mistake that can only be made by a creature with instincts located at the bottom of emotions, purely fundamental as a creature without the occurrence of more complex emotional exchanges.
When such a source is lost alive, the reaction is two-fold.
One is to escape from the flow of evolution and end life as an ordinary creature.
The other is to be deprived of the opportunity to become a higher-dimensional being, to become corrupted and to become a beast of vengeance and wrath.
The corrupted Bardul at the heart of the anthill was the latter.
Bardul, who spent his life in the forest of his own domain and nurtured the source of the mystery, one day sensed beings stimulating his nerves as he barely moved around the borders of his domain.
At first he thought he had nothing to do with it.
Four out of five females have no fur and no muscles, making them extremely weak. The remaining one was a male, but he was short and weak looking.
So I was thinking of sending the dominant wolves to get rid of the things that got on my nerves, but to my surprise, the weak male vomited his spirit to kill the majority of the wolves.
Bardul was curious.
On the outside, he looked weak as if he would die if he was hit, but is there some element of strength? If so, it might help him become stronger.
So he bit the wolves and he went out himself.
Subsequently, Bardul was taken by surprise as he fought the weak male. He wasn’t just an insignificant guy, he was a guy with the powers of a shaman sometimes found deep in the forest.
Not only that, but his reflexes and body vision were better than his, and the way he wielded his weapons was better than his.
However, he possesses a superior body, the power to break rocks, and an indomitable regenerative power that does not get tired even after fighting all day long. Compared to him, this male was a small body less than half of his own with unmatched stamina.
He has no reason to lose to a guy who can see that he is getting tired.
Bardul fought a male and learned the direction of his growth from that fight, and after this fight, he was convinced that he could become stronger.
I did, but my back was cut by a momentary mistake, and a series of unknown explosions occurred in my stomach, and the defeat deepened in an instant without any time to use my hands.
Bardul did not want to die.
He is the pinnacle of the great mountain forest wolf, who will grow endlessly and challenge the master of the thundering mountain. Oh, I’m going to die here by this small male?
Bardul fell down with a huge cut on his thigh and witnessed the diminutive male’s weapon lifted up as if it were about to be thrust into his head, and the huge, useless giant feet of Jinsu descending.
And…… He ran away
Taking advantage of the dwarf’s nerves focused on Jin-soo, who had been despised for being too slow for a subject as big as a mountain, he ran away into the forest.
Afraid that a dwarf male would pursue him, he fled deep, deep into the woods.
Bardul, who was running away and between life and death, at some point realized that his second heart had disappeared.
My second heart! The strength that has been built up during the 20 cold seasons!
The fact that he had lost the power to make him a more lofty being drove Bardul mad.
The little squire took his heart and ran away. He must be chased down, killed, and retrieved.
It should be, but the wound is too deep and regeneration does not take place well.
Bardul killed beasts and monsters at random, stuffed them into his body, and ate them. The pain of his body being torn apart was nothing compared to the fact that he had lost his second heart.
Even ashehealed his body, he felt his second heart gradually recede.
No no! Even though his body hadn’t healed from his nervousness, Var’dul started chasing his own heart. But it wasn’t easy for him.
The more he pursued the dwarf, the more he saw a place inhabited by things that looked just like him, teeming with people equally dwarfed but possessing powers that could not be ignored.
Besides, how fast the dwarf was, far from chasing with his own legs, the distance was getting farther and farther away.
But Bardul did not give up. His wounds worsened and his stomach and back were in pain, but if he followed his heart, he would be able to meet them someday and the day of the reunion would be the day the dwarf died.
He climbed a high mountain.
He ran through a thick forest.
He passed through a jungle full of poisonous insects, monsters, and monsters that were dangerous even to him.
He fought countless times He fought and ate. He could have been eaten.
After repeating it, my stomach stopped hurting at some point. He also gained new powers.
In return, Vardul had forgotten that he was a noble wolf of the honorable mountain forest.
Then one day.
My heart! My heart!!
Oh oh oh oh oh !!!
The energy of the heart has disappeared. I thought it was an illusion at first. But after a few days, I realized that my heart had disappeared from this world.
Bardul, who had been traversing the jungle at the thought that he would never get his heart back, went completely mad and corrupted.
All the creatures living around were beaten to death and all were eaten. Nevertheless, Bardul, who ran wild with unresolved rage and madness, beat and killed many black, hard, strong, and dirty monsters, and even fought and defeated the leader.
In the process, he fought for three days and three nights, and thanks to this, the blood in his head drained a little, and the madness subsided.
Let’s kill the ones that look just like the dwarf. Let’s kill them all without leaving. All!
Bardul, who had been corrupted to resolve his lost grudge, controlled the queen ant with his newly acquired ability and moved in search of humans.
The first humans captured were beaten to death with bare fists. The body was thrown to the queen ant as food.
The second human caught was trampled to death, and the third human captured was torn to pieces.
In the meantime, the corrupted Bardul found that human brains were very tasty, and from then on he began to suck brains alive.
After eating brains, his intellect sprouted, and after realizing that the queen ant increased her subordinates, the corrupted Bardul began to create a chimera.
To kill humans more quickly. To capture more humans.
Completely forgetting that he was an honorable mountain forest wolf, the corrupted Bardul, driven by his hatred, malice and lust, destroyed several villages and summoned Chimeras endlessly.
In the meantime, the corrupted Bardul realized that his heart had reappeared.
What? Why did you disappear? How?
I don’t know, but it’s a place not far away. Need to get it back my heart!
…… But why should I look for it?
I do not know. I don’t know, but that’s mine. Mine should be in my hands.
The corrupted Var’dul predicted the direction of energy movement and led his horde. Along the way he destroyed three more villages and built a new nest.
While he was doing this, the energy of his heart did not go away, but began to come towards us.
Bardul, who became a monster, laughed.
He laughed and gave orders to the Chimera, which had swelled to thousands.
Go get my heart
Turn off, uh— ah…… !!
Hwanin silently stared at the monster that howled at him and spewed out a mass of death.
Bardul taught him the joy of battle. He wondered what had happened to him, that Vardul, whom he thought was dead, was here.
No, the situation clearly pointed to one fact.
‘They must have followed me.’
The place where I encountered Bardul was about 1,700 km from here when the scale of the map was correct.
The horse is 1,700 km, but the straight line distance from Seoul to Sokcho is only 150 km, but he followed himself from a place 10 times farther than that?
Hwanin naturally thought of the blood-colored phase stone that he made into his necklace and wore around his neck.
A phase stone that increases the regenerative power obtained from the pool of Bardul’s blood.
This would have been a milestone. It is an absolute sign that can be recognized no matter how far away it is.
…… Aaaaa!!!!
Hwanin’s eyes pass by as Bardul screams for his throat to burst.
Until then, my heart, which had been filled with curiosity and anticipation, cooled down when I looked at Bardul, Erosion, Queen Ant, and Awakening Chimera.
It was only for a moment, but I expected to feel the joy of that day again, but it was literally a vain expectation.
That’s not a warrior or a warrior, it’s just a monster.
Beep-!
As soon as the screams ended, the Awakened Chimera linked to the corrupted Bardul’s tentacles shot out a hazy energy, and the queen ant beneath her feet, half submerged in the rising water, vomited an acid solution from her snout.
Isilite’s two multi-sword blades passed by those attacks.
“Isilite, cut off her queen ant legs and her belly first. Hwanyeon, pay attention so that the ground does not collapse under Bardul’s attack.”
Immediately after the words are over, the trajectories of the two swords of light break sharply, one piercing the queen ant’s leg and the other piercing the queen ant’s wriggling belly.
Chwack- squeak-
What a profit…… !
Staring at it, she spreads her normal soul shield and slips away the flying energy projectiles.
‘Is it because the soul art has grown? The spirit shield moves quite far away.’
There is about 15m of ground between the Great Cavity and the passage on the 21st floor here, so at this level, the creation distance of the soul shield is 30m.
It’s like a huge increase in usability.
Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwang!
Feeling the ground on the 21st floor shaking with a roar like a grenade exploding, Hwanin watched Bardul’s reaction as he sent hatred and rage toward him.
The stomach of the queen ant is ripped open due to multiple sword strikes, and hundreds of millions of ant eggs flow out, and the water that fills the Great Cavity turns white, but Bardul does not respond in pain.
Fit—
Kwaaaaagh-!!
He fired a loaded soul arrow and pierced the heart of the Awakened Chimera connected to Bardul’s tentacle, but only the Awakened Chimera that had been pierced screamed desperately and Bardul seemed unconcerned.
‘It’s not fusion, but parasitism.’
Hwanin, who was analyzing Bardul’s reaction, noticed that the corrupted Bardul’s pattern began to change, perhaps feeling a sense of danger from the invisible attack and Isilite’s multiple swordsmanship.
Perbung!
Surprisingly, he swings his tentacles like a whip at an invisible speed, striking the sides of two multi-sword swords and sending them flying, he starts throwing awakened chimeras in this direction.
To be precise, the corrupted Bardul changed his attack method because he thought that the one-sided attack would cause heat to rise up to the top of his head and cause his clothes to explode.
The enemy and the culprit are over there, but you have to worry about drowning yourself here?
If this continues, he won’t be able to close his eyes even after he dies.
Isilite’s pride was hurt by Var’dul’s response.
=…….=
No matter how far the distance was and the precision of the manipulation was low, he could strike out his sword skill.
When Isilite bit her teeth, Hwanin changed her instructions.
“Isilite, take charge of the flying Awakening Chimera.”
=Yes!=
The sword of light cuts and stabs the awakening chimera flying in a dizzying fashion, but as if to prove that the awakened chimera is not an idiot or a fool, he tries to block it somehow by striking and attacking multiple swords.
In the meantime, Hwanin gazed at Bardul, who was gradually rising along the surface of the water.
The remaining distance to the ceiling is only 40m
The queen ant had already submerged and disappeared. Bardul’s tentacles and the three Awakening Chimeras hide Bardul behind him to prepare for an invisible attack while continuing to fire energy projectiles to keep him in check.
It is Bardul who catches the Falling Awakened Chimera with his tentacles and throws it back.
Throw an Awakening Chimera to defend against multiple swords and prepare for an invisible attack by using three sturdy Awakening Chimeras as a biological shield.
It is truly the pinnacle of containment and defense.
“Not very stupid.”
That doesn’t mean she isn’t smart either.
If you were really smart, you would have noticed that Hwanin’s actions were aware of his reaction and coping style, strength and ability, and level of intelligence.
‘Even if I noticed, there wouldn’t be much I could do.’
Hwanin muttered to himself and pulled the awakened Chimera’s soul, which had been decapitated by multiple swords and was floating like a drowned body.
A deer monster that shines exceptionally vividly and subtly, a cat with a tail split into three, and a beast of prey. It must be a high-level soul.
“Hwanyeon, I’m going to shoot an enhanced soul explosion. Prepare for an explosion.”
“Yes!”
After warning Hwanin, she injected 5% of the pattern energy into each of her soul orbs, and fired a golden orb between the three awakened chimeras toward Bardul, who was so energetic.
And the two Soul Explosion Orbs that flew away leaving a solid golden line…….
Wow-!!
Instead of an explosion, it created overlapping implosions with a diameter of about 8m, swallowing the fallen Bardul and three awakened chimeras at once.
=…… !=
“Ehh?”
The air rattled by the implosion. The water surface is mercilessly pushed around the round implosion, causing waves.
In the place where the implosion that lasted for about 5 seconds disappeared, three Awakened Chimeras sinking into the water covered in blood, and a corrupted Bardul, tattered like a towel twisted from too much force, were revealed.
…… Cuckoo!
After spitting out his blood, Bardul swung his tentacles away from the two multi-sword swords that flew towards his throat, and glared at Hwanin with hateful eyes that would bite him.
“…… !”
The moment our eyes met, Hwanin intuitively sensed that it was dangerous.
I had been keeping an eye on him, wondering if there was a hidden trump card, but looking at the current attitude of the corrupted Bardul, it’s not just a trump card.
Along with goosebumps, the heart pounding joy comes out like adrenaline.
To express it, would it be joy? Hwanin fell out of the hole and shouted at her girlfriends.
“Isilite, Anne! Retreat!”
= Yes? Yes!=
… Okay… !!…
Even if this side retreats, that corrupted Bardul will pursue itself with tenacity.
If so, the correct answer is to choose a battlefield that is comfortable for you.
Of course, you can’t just retreat.
Now, the corrupted Bardul is changing its shape, as if a muscle fiber is being compressed as if something is changing.
Can’t he just leave it?
Hwanin made 4 stacks of Soul Explosion with the soul beads of a mid- to high-level monster and put 10% of the pattern energy into it.
Then, a more dangerous vibration than the four lower spirit marbles tested outside began to hum.
The implosion-type soul explosion from a moment ago only scattered golden light. Is this the effect of overlap?
Hwanyeon asked in a trembling voice.
「Wha, Hwanin? It’s not going to explode…… ?”
“Why not?”
“It’s crazy!? We all die…… !”
“Hwanyeon, don’t miss him and keep an eye on him. If you miss, I’ll punch you in the ass.”
“Hey!?”
Hwan-in, who stopped Hwan-yeon’s scream, threw a golden orb that emitted a dangerous glow toward the corrupted Bardul, whose muscle fibers seemed to be compressed.
‘Come!’
After imposing on his body the mid-level wind spirit that hovers around Hwanyeon.
“Run!”
=…… !=
=Ouch!=
I started running through the passage of the anthill with all my might.
Anne, who was slaughtering the Mixed Chimera and the Worker Chimera who were coming down with a wall blocking her side, followed Hwanin running at 50 km/h and shouted.
= Doryeong! What kind of retreat is this all of a sudden?!=
“The corrupted Bardul tried to do something dangerous, so he threw a powerful soul blast orb! Fantastic, make a hole in the ceiling in the front corner!”
「Oh really!」
Hwan-yeon, who was in Hwan-in’s collar, collapsed the ceiling dividing the floors according to his instructions, and when the three of them jumped up from the hole and tried to run again.
…… Too much light—!!!
They were shaken by shocks that were incomparable to the vibrations and binge drinking they had so far.
The ground shook up and down and left and right as if an earthquake had occurred, and they fell face down on the ground, but Hwanin immediately stood up and grabbed Issilite and Anne, who were bewildered, by the arms and raised them up.
“Forcibly run!”
…… Coo coo coo…….
The ominous vibrations felt under his feet caused the women to feel goosebumps running down their spines to their wombs, and panting after him.
Heavy impact sounds followed.
… Thud…… Kugung…….
Is this what it feels like to feel your heart drop in anxiety? Or is this how it feels to be followed closely behind by a god of death aiming a scythe?
The three of them did their best with all their heart, and sprinted through the passage of the anthill, raising even the strength they had been suckling from birth.
“Welcome! Hole!”
「Aww!」
Fortunately, I didn’t run into a chimera or an ant while running. If you had met…….
Coo cooo coo…… !
= Huh!? Do, Dolyeong! This is the sound of the ground collapsing!=
“Focus on running while talking!!”
Hwanin would have had to face the worst situation he thought.
Being buried alive, having to climb up through the ground of hundreds of meters with the ability of intermediate earth spirits and illusions.
Oxygen and escape methods have been prepared in advance, but the safety has not been proven through tests, so I don’t want to experience that kind of experience if possible.
With such determination, Hwanin ran at 45 to 55 km/h thanks to the effect of the decree and asked Hwanyeon to drill a ceiling in a designated place, and Hwanin accurately drilled a hole to keep pace with the party’s escape.
… Coo cooo coo…… !!
“Hey, it’s getting closer and closer…… !!”
“It’s on the 7th floor now! There is not much left on the ground, so do your best!”
Kwakwang!
Hwanin, who climbed through the ceiling again and climbed to the 6th floor, bit his molars.
‘A slightly curved spiral course from here to the point 10m underground.’
The distance is approximately 3 km.
Will I be able to reach it on time?
What is now vibrating beneath your feet is probably a phenomenon that emerges when several sinkholes merge to form an ubala.
Dolone, I thought that a sinkhole would occur when I threw the Soul Explosion Orb, but the shock was enough to cause Uvala.
It was a bit hard for Hwanin to believe that one marble had the power to destroy the Great Hall.
……… Thud! ……… Thud!! …… Thud!!!
The vibrations of the ground behind my back extinguished one after another quickly approached. Hwanin noticed that Anne, who was running in front of him, was about to turn around and shouted.
“Hoouk, don’t look back and run!”
= Heeing…… !!=
= Oops…… !=
“Crying!”
Hwanin, who was holding his breath while sprinting without stamina distribution, judged that the sound of the ground collapsing was not continuous, but short and short, so that the ceiling was not collapsing.
If that’s true, it won’t be the worst. However, we do not know when the ceiling will collapse due to the shock of such ground subsidence.
A mass that exceeds millions of tons and approaches hundreds of millions of tons. If the ground falls from above, not even water, it is a disaster in itself.
Hwanin continues to save the spirit he saved, and if he falls, he contemplates whether to use it to make a cushion by creating a wind with Hwanyeon…….
“Hey…….”
Hearing the sound of Hwanyeon crying in his ear, he laughed and raised the power of the wind.
And, like when the emergency sprints at full speed, it was manipulated so that a strong wind blows from behind.
“It will cause a gale! Be careful not to fall!”
As the strong wind blows their backs at a speed of nearly 50 km/h, the group’s running speed is as fast as a car on the highway.
Rapidly diminishing aura.
A straight course that gradually approaches the end.
And rattling—a fine, rapid vibration that fuels anxiety.
Hwanin intuitively realized that the ground was about to collapse all at once. How many seconds are left? 20 seconds? 10 seconds?
The thickness of the ceiling to the ground is about 22 m.
Thinking that he had to make a decision, Hwanin closed his eyes and then opened them.
“Everyone stop.”
Women who stop as if they had waited as soon as they spoke. Hwanin immediately told Hwanyeon.
“The ceiling to the ground is about 20m thick. Whoa, can you break through?”
What came back instead of an answer was a fantasy that uses strength through question and answer dance.
The ground shakes finely and huge piles of dirt and pebbles pour over your head.
And the moment a ray of light, weaker than a pencil lead, opened.
=Huh!=
= Yay!!=
“…… !”
Isilite, Anne, and Hwanin jumped up at the same time.
The four of them got out of the ground with a pop and closed their eyes tightly against the pouring sunlight.
Kurruggg—…… !!
At that moment, the ground made a roar and a radius of several tens of kilometers began to sink.
Bright sunlight from the sky. The ground going out wider than quite a few cities with a roar.
And Hwan-in and his women who stop rising and are about to fall.
=…….=
Anne sighed inwardly and closed her eyes.
Dew will be able to get out of this place using multiple sword skills as a stepping stone. Doryeong also has barriers and soul shields, and his technique and tricks are the best in the world, so he must be able to escape somehow.
However, she is left with only a fall.
‘I’m sure he’ll do a lot of sex practice.’
If so, she would have learned the wings of the starlight, and she would have been able to fly for a few seconds.
It’s a pity that for a while she neglected her practice, focusing only on developing sexual skills.
=What is that expression of resignation?=
Following her delicate voice, Anne, who grabbed her chin and arms, opened her eyes, and at that moment, with her tremendous power, she was hurled high into the sky.
= Aaaaah!? What are you doing? … !=
What is this idiot even if she tries to escape herself? … ?!
Anne, thinking, opened her eyes wide as she watched the heavenly knights pouring down from the sky, blocking the sunlight.
= Knight Anne!=
=Don’t worry! We are here!=
=…… !=
Tuduck, Anne, who was held by the arms of the six men, felt her body float up and down, and she felt relieved and relieved deep in her heart.
On the other side, Dew Seul-i was also being rescued by the sky knights, and Doryeong is flying with Bijangi on his back, knowing when he came.
Anne asked her knights in a slightly trembling voice.
=Uh, how did you come on time like this?=
To Anne’s question, the girl with her red hair and her cute freckles smiled and answered.
= It’s thanks to the Yurpa Knight and his unit’s Yellow Sorcerer crew. A large seismic wave had risen underground, and the Yellow Sorcerer squad member noticed that something had happened and posted a report, and the Yurpa knight who was with our unit commander suggested that we wait in case we didn’t know.
It must have been the aftermath of a battle, so it meant that he was roaming the sky just in case.
=Oh, how surprised I was when the spirit knights and the saint came out through the ground.=
Anne is so generous with her company herehaha…… She let out a weak laugh of relief, then she looked back at her startled, shaking her body.
… Cooooo…… !!
The wild beast’s roar, dotted with resentment, anger, and hatred, pierced the sky in the vast sunken terrain, raising a cloud of dust.
