Chapter 754 – 745 Dark Forest
Hwanin, who was hiding in the clouds and looking at the entrance of the dark forest, caught a faint light at the moment when the distant forest was shaken by the wind.
A place more than 15km away if you look at the triangulation method.
「Hwanin. I think I saw a light over there for a while, but isn’t there an Evil Faction village over there?”
Cigarette lights are said to be visible from a distance of 1.5 km in the middle of the night. Of course, it will be limited to places with little or no light source, but the story is that the light can be seen from far away.
Any light visible from a distance like this must be something like a campfire.
‘An animal cannot make a bonfire. If it’s a monster or a low-level evil faction, you can use fire, but…’
Kang Hyuk-jun said he was in his mid-twenties. He must have been in the military, but he doesn’t even care about the light control.
It wouldn’t be a problem if it was normal now, but it’s safe to say that we are currently at war with Colido. I can not understand it.
Anyway, the fact that Hwanyeon asked like this means that you can’t see that place from the spirit’s point of view from your current location.
“The Hob I saw in the labyrinth I first fell knew how to use fire. This is also an Evil Faction area, so it may be other guys, but it’s worth checking out.”
Suspicion continues to bloom, but it is impossible not to move even if you are vigilant. Hwanin looked at the dark spirits flying around and asked Hwanyeon.
“Can we hide ourselves with the spirits of darkness?”
“Huh.”
“Then go down.”
Hwanin, hiding in the fog created by the Dark Spirit, escaped the cloud and went down to the forest with Immorel.
I don’t know who came up with the name Dark Forest, but Hwanin thought it was a good name.
Branches twisted grotesquely like tree ghosts and stretched out like witches’ fingers, and the leaves are sharp like blades and pointed like needles.
Instead of soft, waving grass, the ground is full of weeds with cactus-like thorns, and thorn bushes the size of a forearm are intricately entangled with blood-red thorns sticking out everywhere.
Normally, it is difficult to move, but to make matters worse, the damp and humid air is full of poisonous bugs, reptiles, and insects.
Moreover, since it was an old moon, there was little light, so it was difficult to move 100m because there was no light at all.
An ordinary person is in a situation no different from a blind man, but it was not a problem for Hwanin and the others.
Norn becomes a divine beast and has night vision, ultra vision that is even better than night vision, and sees the world as bright as daytime even without light.
Even the celestial body created to become the core has night vision.
Hwanyeon shares sight with spirits that are not disturbed day and night, and Hwanin sees through the darkness with the eyes of the soul.
After landing in the forest, the party quietly began to move to the place where the light could be seen without at least a restriction on the field of vision.
If it’s a problem, is it the dark forest environment?
Knock!
「Ah! Hwanin, I was bitten again.”
Wearing a black hooded robe and cutting down sharp bushes with the wind, Norn advances ahead, gets stung by a poisonous insect, and clings to Hwanin’s waist whimpering.
Seeing an insect that was a combination of a wasp and a praying mantis that escaped after stinging Norn, Imorell asked Norn, who pursed her lips.
= I was stung by the eagle of Araxas… Are you okay?=
“It’s not okay. It hurts.”
=If bitten, it’s a poisonous insect that collapses and dies before walking three steps…=
Hwan-yeon throws words at Imorel, who is a little bewildered.
“He is a god too. Because Shinsoo is almost immune to poison or disease. But Hwanin, why are you fine? The bugs don’t seem to come running at all.”
They say they barely reveal their skin, but those poisonous insects pierce through their clothes and sting.
Immorell either slashes venomous insects and venoms that come close with her gloved hands or presses them down with her fingers to burst them. Even if Norn gets stung, it’s okay! Level to do.
It seems that the two don’t have to worry about it, so Hwan-yeon hangs on his shoulder to protect him.
The fact that Norn was stung by an eagle just now was also because it stabbed Norn, who was blocking the road while avoiding Hwanin.
Hwanin, who applied healing ointment to Norn’s red forearm from being stung, looked around the dark forest, which looked gray thanks to the eyes of the spirit.
The snake with a hideous pattern hanging from a tree branch that seemed to have been forcibly broken and grafted several times creeped up higher up the tree, as if something unpleasant was approaching as the Hwanin approached.
Poisonous objects that look like plagued rats run away from Hwanin’s approach and dig around the roots of twisted trees to hide, while poisonous toads that look like they’ve got sore skin get farther away and inflate their bodies as if they’re going to spit out when they come closer.
“I don’t know. Because it’s a bug, it’s more sensitive to the subconscious mind than higher life forms.”
Other than that, I can’t guess.
When the medicine was all applied, Norn, who had red marks on his forearm like a mosquito bite, puffed out his cheeks like a blowfish.
It’s because I was bitten and stung 4 times while moving about 3km.
“Chi… Hwanin, can’t we just set fire to the forest? If the forest is on fire, all the bad guys will run out of the forest, so you can catch them then.”
“It is a very touching story. If fantasy summons the fire spirit and you create a whirlwind with wind, it will be possible to turn the dark forest into a sea of fire.”
“Are you setting a fire?”
“Uh? Are you really going to set it on fire?”
The delighted Norn and the astonished illusion. However, seeing Hwanin smiling lightly, he grumbles and laughs, saying, “Yes, that’s right.”
“Norn. I will lead, so you can follow from behind.”
Hwanin, who took out a Celtic stone ax for the first time in a long time, moved forward cutting through the bushes and bushes blocking his way as if swinging it roughly.
It would be neat to wield a light spear, but I couldn’t use it because of its brightness. The same goes for barrier panels.
Still, it doesn’t move in a straight line violently like the Norn, but it avoids moderately, and if the thorn bushes are dense and wide, ask Hwanyeon to remove them.
It makes quite a bit of noise, but the range of the fantasy spirit is 1km in radius.
There is no way the noise is transmitted to the Evil Faction village or other monsters or monsters.
“There are quite a few petty monsters.”
Passing through the bubbling swamp on a bridge made by an earth spirit, Hwanin asked her how she felt.
“Are there any guys with purple skin yet?”
“Huh. No animals, no insects, no reptiles. As you said, hwanin, isn’t it possible that Kang Hyeok-jun’s dark king ability has deteriorated a bit?”
“Then I’m glad…”
After changing ranks, they proceed without any problems and carefully examine the situation inside the dark forest, but it is too peaceful to be considered a forest where a soul pollution bomb has been activated.
Fantasia keeps burying nocturnal monsters and dog-headed child-sized kolbs as earth spirits that enter the range, but that is different from soul polluting bombs.
To be honest, Hwanin thought that the Dark Forest would be full of soul polluting bombs.
Wasn’t it for safety that he hid in the clouds and scouted from the sky and didn’t bring his girlfriends?
I did, but it’s a peaceful dark forest that makes me feel suspicious because I can’t get out of my pulse.
Hwanin, who had been running through the dark forest for about an hour, stopped at her signal.
“Hwanin, it’s the Evil Faction Village.”
“…”
Hwan-yeon’s voice is a bit stretched as if she’s spying on the village with a spirit.
“It’s bigger than I thought… Almost 2,000 people? There are the most dwarves, and there are quite a lot of beast heads and stocky ones. There are a lot of pig heads, dog heads, and hooked nose heads.”
Shadower, Sear Proud, Bardul, Ohum, Kolb, Hob.
“If you look at the population, it’s at the level of a small town. But Ohhume, Kolb, and Hob must be slaves.”
“… That’s right. The total number of dwarfs, brute heads, and shorthairs is only about 200. … Ah.”
Hwanyeon gave a short sigh, hugging his neck and furrowing his eyebrows.
「Even the demon handles spirits quite well, right? Some look suspiciously at the intermediate elementals I control. I don’t think I can explore further.”
“… The most important purple skin?”
“Everything except the hooked nose and dog head. Kang Hyeok-jun is in the biggest house in the middle of the village.”
The description of the town of fantasy that followed was quite unique.
Wooden pillars and supports were made, and a huge floor was laid on top of them, and on the second floor, those with intelligence built wooden houses, and the others, Ohume, Kolb, and Hob, lay down on the floor like sheep on a ranch.
“There must be a reason you could see the fire from a distance.”
“In Evil Faction Village, half are awake and half are asleep. A strange-looking plant is growing parasitic on the wooden railing, but that’s… It must sense ground vibrations. The head that looks like a pea with a mouth is looking in the direction of the sound.”
The description of Hwanyeon felt like a carnivorous plant that would live in a green pipe. An insectivorous monster that shoots seeds towards the sound.
Not only that, but O’Hume and Kolb that are awake above the barrier are roaming around and patrolling.
“Ah, a Kolb is being eaten by O’Hume.”
Is it homologous predation? If it’s natural, then it’s natural. The forest doesn’t seem to be a bountiful place for nearly 1,800 monsters to live on.
“Hwanyeon, are there any roads around the village?”
“There is no road, but there is something like an underground den outside the roadblock. It’s a place where you grow mushrooms, herbs, and stuff like that.”
“Is that food for the high-ranking evil faction? There seems to be no interaction with other villages at all.”
However, this does not mean that there is no route of infection. Since they were fighting with other villages, it could have spread the infection through battle.
After confirming a few more things through fantasy, Hwan-in went clockwise from the Evil Faction village where Kang Hyuk-jun was located and grasped the surroundings more.
But little was new to be discovered.
There is a huge tree growing in the village, and there are about 17 evil gargoyles on top of it, and Kang Hyuk-jun is lying in the middle of the tree, looking almost like a zombie.
As expected, the situation in the dark forest seems to be the only way to catch and confirm Kang Hyuk-jun.
“Oh, the reaction is quick. We’ve already captured Immore.”
If there was a Yurpa, it would have been possible to secretly approach it using techniques such as disappearance of presence or phase change, but that was impossible.
Even if he disappears with the help of the spirits, he will surely find out soon because there is a shadow language.
For this reason, Hwanin chose the simplest method.
After instructing the middle-class spirits to Norn and Immorel, they rushed first to attract attention.
As they circle the sky above Evil Faction Village, shaking off their six wings and blasting a blast of harmless wind, the carnivorous plant on the tree wall immediately turns its head and fires seeds at the two like a machine gun.
Too-ta-ta-ta-… !
… ^%#@&!@~… !
… Big~… !
… Kerrrr… !!
Evil factions of the slave class were dragged into the turmoil and screamed, and as the turmoil spread like wildfire, evil factions that could be said to be real poured out from the second floor of the village.
Then, arrows and projectiles containing witchcraft, spirit magic, and phase power start pouring down on them.
Norn and Immorel’s body specs and abilities are too great to be hit by such an attack.
Hwanin, who watched the frenzy while killing the presence on a suitable tree, took advantage of the moment when all the nerves of the village were focused on Norn and Immorel and flew to the village with the help of the spirit of fantasy.
The vibrations generated by touching the ground are neutralized by the Earth Spirit. The noise is blocked by the spirit of wind, and the light of the aura that activated Grimoam’s power is hidden by the spirit of darkness.
So, by combining the set effects of the artifacts with the intermediate spirits, he ran 1km in an instant with the physical ability of a 7th-class warrior.
… ?!
… !
Curry?!
Kyaaaaa!!
The moment I was caught by the carnivorous plants on the wooden wall and several hobbs and kolbs, I detonated the new spirit drink I had prepared.
Doo-kung-!
A pillar of light that cuts through the darkness soars about 100 meters from the tree barrier in Evil Faction Village with a heavy sound.
Along with that, starting from the nearest barrier, the Evil Factions collapsed in a semicircular area.
A parasitic carnivorous plant with its head drooping down the barrier as if it had withered.
‘I don’t understand why the blue spirit and dark spirit spirits can project from a distance, but the spirit spirit cannot.’
As I watched the scene and jumped over the wooden railing, I heard the high-ranking evil faction’s voice.
= What is this light… !?=
=Did the Seeds of Light attack? … ?!=
「Hwanin. The effective stun range of the new spirit spirit brew seems to be only about 170m.”
“Narrow. Doesn’t that work well for Evil Faction?”
=The seed of light has attacked!=
=Find it! Find and kill!!=
= No! Kill the flying insects in the sky!!
“Uh, a few high-ranking evil factions are on their way up to ride the evil gargoyles. Ah, all the low-level spirits in the Spirit Spell run away, so the Shadowers are helpless. Great.”
Hearing the high-ranking Evil Faction’s Goseong and Hwanyeon’s relay, Hwanin quickly scanned the Evil Faction village, which was about the size of a very small administrative district (Li) in modern times.
About 2/5 of the Evil Faction village was covered in the light of the new spirit spirit. However, in terms of the stun effective range, it is not even 1/20.
‘You don’t have to cover everything. Now…’
The giant tree in the center of the village comes first. The point where Kang Hyuk-jun and about 200 high-ranking evil factions live together.
=There it is again!=
=Kuaaaaa
A 5th grade Seer Proud with gray hair, dark purple skin and red eyes rushes at Hwanin with a double-edged ax that could be used by a devil.
Likewise, Bardul, whose gray hair and leather are dyed grayish purple or black purple, reveals the beast’s teeth, pulls out his nails long, or grabs swords, claws, and greatswords and attacks them, while some Shadowers are aiming arrows containing phase power from behind.
Hwanin, who took out a non-lethal weapon called the scale, concentrated his mind to read the attacks of the three evil faction vanguards and struck his chin with a stick, causing concussion or bursting his balls and breasts, rendering him unable to fight.
While doing so, he quickly scanned the high-ranking Evil Faction in confusion.
‘The grayish-purple skin was instantly purified by the new-style spirit drink. But not black and purple.’
Hwan-in, who has lightly let go of the arrows aiming at the head and heart, rushes in again and throws a steampunk dagger filled with Yurpa’s special paralysis poison and hits it so that it grazes the outside of the thigh or arm, etc., Where there is less blood.
=~~… !=
= Kaa…=
Paralyzed, trembling, shadowy archers.
“I’ll retrieve the dagger with a spirit, so run to the tree in the center of town.”
Hwanin nodded and said Kwaang! With enough force to dent the ground, it hurled itself at the giant tree in the middle of the village like a cannonball.
A bold act to commit because there is no such thing as a shaman to protect the village.
At that moment, Perbung, Koo-Goo-Gung—! The wind blows, the ground explodes, and the ground on one side of the first floor sinks.
It is the aftermath of the phantasmagoria breaking the ground in order to prevent Kolb and Hob shaman from doing unkind things.
In the meantime, when he reached the giant tree on the second floor of the village, the eyes of dozens of high-ranking evil factions who had been flocking to him due to Norn and Immorel’s provocation were focused on him.
A new-style spirit drink that burst right after.
A pillar of light soars along with air waves resounding in the air, and all the evil factions within a radius of 85m shake their heads and faint.
The pattern of Norn and Immorel, who had only avoided the attack at that signal, also changed.
By knocking down the Evil Factions that go out of town from provocation and throwing them into the town.
‘Remaining Core Power is 62%’
10% of core power is used at a time, but only 62% of core power is left because the core core power used four times in Colaido has not been fully recovered.
If you think about it, there are only three new spirit spirit spells that can be used.
“Hwanin, over there and over there.”
Where Hwanyeon’s fingertips are directed, the flames of the fire spirit burn brightly. It is the location of the triangular vertex centered on the giant tree.
Hwanin, who immediately flew to the place and fired the new Spirit Spirit one after another, stormed inside through the windows throughout the giant tree while watching Norn and Immorel grab the evil factions who were still awake and throw them into the triple pillar of light.
“That’s the stairs. Kang Hyeok-jun is on the 3rd floor, but he is still lying in bed.”
After taking a quick look at the unbelievably tidy interior of the Evil Faction residential area, Hwanin runs upstairs, passing by the Evil Factions who have fallen under the Spirit Spell, following Hwanyeon’s guide.
Could it be because of the three overlapping spirit spells? All of the Evil Factions that fell inside the giant tree had ashy skin, and none were black or grayish purple.
“Hwanyeon, is Kang Hyeok-jun fainting? Or are you ‘pretending’ to faint?”
“I don’t know. Maybe it’s a dimension wanderer’s characteristic, Kang Hyuk-jun’s aura is very faint. Isn’t it strange to think that, assuming that he has a phase reverse flow like you, he can withstand this spirit spell?」
“Yes.”
Agreeing with her opinion, Hwanin went up to the third floor and scanned the inside of the fairy tale wooden house with the eyes of a new-style soul to check the traces of traps or shamans.
Clean. As if he didn’t care about the attack, or as if he was waiting for an uninvited guest.
Hwanin, whose face hardened a bit, strengthened it by sending aura and deep core power to the phase countercurrent, breaking open the door where Kang Hyeok-jun was and jumped in.
And Kang Hyeok-jun opened his eyes and met his eyes.
“…”
“… Excuse me for a moment.”
Hwanin looked at him with a mixture of red and black, very handsome to be a man, but with dark shadows, approached him like lightning and lifted his stomach.
His skinny body sagged limply.
