Chapter 211 – 211. Encounter

Once it was clear where to go.

You need to go to the ruins of Hell indicated by Henry’s head and the center of the macula indicated by the arrow.

The problem now is the dynamics of Seonshin’s converts.

‘Since there is a guy with 777 luck, he probably fell on the easiest ruins in the pit…’

As a rough guess, it’s highly likely that they started at the Ruins of the Maw. There’s a guy with 777 luck, but there’s no way he started from a nest where the difficulty is the hardest.

‘If they didn’t realize the advantages of Hell, they would definitely be expanding their territory…’

Then, it would be nice if he ran into Henry’s torso and died, but that couldn’t be the case.

‘Perhaps Henry’s torso will be hunted in reverse… So, as soon as possible… It might be better to go to the ruins of the Maw and bring Henry’s body out…’

It would be better to recruit Henry and go than to go directly to the macula.

‘Ayla is more efficient in fighting in one place, so I think it’s better to keep the base.

In fact, I’m not really good at judging either.

The power of the Shinshin side, which I heard from Ella, Bella, and Helen, was quite powerful.

Ella and Bella only said that there were a few strong-looking people, but Helen knew exactly what they were, and it seemed that there were four or five strong people on the level of Cheshire or Parers out there.

‘I don’t know how they’ll move…’

Their most important goal is to get Nick back to normal.

The important thing is that I don’t know how to get Nick back to normal… If that way is to meet the seeker, they’ll attack our Crimson Zone, and if their destination is in the macula, then to the center. You may encounter them along the way.

‘In the first place, the Crimson Zone hasn’t been fully explored… So they might be here somewhere.’

The jet-black cockroach is mapping the crimson zone with her brood, but it’s so wide that we haven’t fully figured it out yet. Therefore, there was a good chance that they were dropped here somewhere.

In a word, we don’t know when or where we’ll run into them, and while I’m away, we might rob all of our bases, get out through the door to Hyoseon Girls’ High School, and then rob the main camp.

And that meant, on the other hand, that while they were away, we could destroy their stronghold, make our way through the exit, and rob their stronghold of thousands of survivors.

“First of all, Eunji, Hwayoung, Mer and Cheshire, let’s go to the historic site with me. Ayla protects the base… Juha and Harin follow Sora and help with the cleanup work…”

By the way, Sora and her priests are currently purifying the Crimson Zone. We shouldn’t completely purify the entire area for parasitic humans, but it’s better to expand the area we’ll settle in.

Therefore, the personnel who would protect the base and protect Sora had to remain here.

“Me?”

“I am..?”

At that time, Areumi and Aram, who were not given roles, asked at the same time. Honestly, I wish they both stayed…

“Uh.. What are Areum and Aram going to do? You can stay here and guard the base, or you can go to the ruins with me.”

“I will go too.”

“Uh… I’ll stay…”

“No, sister. Let’s go too.”

“Beautiful. Unnie, it’s hard.. I’m tired after going to the black market.. Going alone..”

Areum-i and A-ram had different opinions. We put them in the same group, but it can’t be helped because opinions differ.

“Then, Areumie will come with us.”

“Oh yea!”

“Ah.. I wish.”

When Areum said she would go with me, Harin was envious as well, perhaps because she wanted to go with us. She looked a bit sorry that her tail was drooping.

‘If this happens, the meaning of dividing the group will disappear.

When this happens, there are too many people on the way to find Henry’s body.

We need someone to protect the base, so we have no choice but to leave at least one person.

‘Because if I can only get Henry’s torso, I’ll have Cheshire-class power right away…’

I’m planning to take a few mushroom people and parasites with me on the way anyway, so I’ll have to leave Chessie behind as well.

“Cheshire. I’m sorry…”

“Are you okay. I just need to stay here with Ayla.”

In the end, Cheshire decided to stay and put Harin on our side. With this, I decided to go to the ruins of Eunji, Hwayoung, Areum, Harin, and Mer.

“I will be back. Everyone be careful.”

“Jun, be careful.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll be taking good care of you.”

I left Ayla and Cheshire’s support behind and went in the direction Henry pointed out with the others.

******

Five hours have passed since Nick’s party entered the Crimson Zone.

They still haven’t gotten out of here. Rather, it was farther than Jo Jun and his party, who had just started moving towards the ruins. This is because the confined nest itself is very far from the ruins where Henry’s torso is located.

“It must be far away, right?”

“I think we need to go a little further.”

“Ugh..”

Beasthunter Killian’s answer made Anna tremble in disgust.

She couldn’t get used to the disgusting smell coming from the flesh. Even when I went, there was only an endless wall of meat, and her Anna felt like she was about to lose her mind. She felt as if she was going to develop mysophobia, which she never had before.

“I don’t know how long I have to go.”

This time, Aran, the dragon blood knight, continued to complain.

Unlike Anna, he had no complaints about the six-walled Crimson Zone itself. It was just that he was so bored that he was grumpy.

He’s a fighting fanatic, and his body itches, wanting to quickly fight the headless hitman. However, when he accelerated, the rest of the party couldn’t keep up with his stamina, and even so, after abandoning the party, Killian had a way to go to the destination, the ruins.

He was even lowering his stress by continuing to complain without being able to do this or that because he was on a serious road and he was sure to go round and round here and lose his way.

Of course, the people around him were extremely stressed by his babbling, but everyone held it in because it was much better to hear his lamentations, irritated mumbles, and complaints than to see him run amok. Above all, there was no one who could say anything because it was Aran, who was regarded as the strongest among his companions.

“Haa.. Aran, please be patient. There is no way to keep looking…”

– Woo woo woo…!!

“Just… What did you mean?”

The giant slayer Dan-tae, who was about to say something to the dragon-blood knight who complained every ten minutes, stopped his steps when he heard a strange sound coming from afar.

It was the same for the other couples.

“I saw something…”

The Heretic Stalker Caesar muttered as he looked in the direction the sound came from. He took Rosario from his bosom and prepared for battle. However, Michael patted Caesar on the shoulder and shook his head.

It meant avoiding it.

‘Are those parasitic humans finally coming out…’

Michael thought it would be better to avoid them than engage them. He thought it would be better to let them pass than to run into them and draw their attention, just as he had been avoiding them until then.

Michael was slightly nervous and informed the others.

“Because they are mentally connected… They could come in droves. So, let’s avoid fighting with them as much as possible. It will take too much time to kill them all one by one.”

“Hmm…”

“Aran-sama… I know you’re bored, but… Still, a hit man without a head would be more delicious than idiots like that.”

“That’s right. I can’t help but be patient…”

At Michael’s persuasion, his party all hid themselves in a corner and watched the approaching enemy.

“Uh?”

At that time, Michael, who was observing the enemies using foresight, was taken aback when he saw monsters that looked completely different from what he expected.

‘Mushrooms? Those aren’t parasitic humans… What are they..?’

Clearly, the description of the parasitic humans he had seen while penetrating the Crimson Zone was a white-skinned monster with a bizarre appearance. However, the beings in front of me were huge mushrooms.

Even the description of parasitic humans was different. Michael immediately grasped the details of the walking mushrooms.

[Mushroom Man: Unlike his appearance, his strength is very high and most of his hitting attacks are shed. Slashing or thrusting attacks are suitable. If spores flow from the corpse and breathe in, toxin builds up in the body, so be careful.]

“The Mushroom Man and the Slave Brand..”

“What are spores? Slave?”

Michael mumbled something and Roy asked what it was.

Michael, the great sage, always knew everything, so Roy naturally asked what it was, but Michael couldn’t properly answer Roy’s question. This is because the detailed description of the slave label was not visible.

There was no explanation as if a black curtain had been put on it. Michael senses something strange.

“I don’t know.. They say they are labeled as slaves.. Are they the livestock of parasitic humans?”

The moment Michael guessed about the slave brand, the mushroom men tore the flesh wall and took out the parasitic humans hiding in it and started killing them.

– Pooh!!!

-Kwajijik!!!

“Keeeee!!!!”

Two parasitic humans who screamed in agony and turned into minced meat.

‘Judging from the killing of the pack, it doesn’t seem like the livestock of a parasitic human… It’s a slave brand…’

Michael had the idea that they were acting on someone’s orders and that the Mushroom Man’s owner might be cleaning the Crimson Lands right now. And there was only one human that he could figure out who could crawl into the abyss and do such a thing.

‘Cultist… He was raising monsters like that..’

Michael shuddered as he checked the number of mushroom people. There were well over seven Mushroom Men killing parasitic humans. Maybe more than those. At that thought, Michael’s eyes darkened.

‘As expected.. If you run into them, you have to kill them.. Cultists are too dangerous…’

Michael made that promise and waited for the mushroom people who had achieved their goals to leave. However, the Mushroom People did not leave and were waiting for something.

‘What are you waiting for? Could it be that the cultist is coming here in person? If so… This is a great chance to kill him…’

However, the person the mushroom people were waiting for was not the owner, Jo-jun Jang. They were waiting for the follow-up team.

-Kisshashasha…

– Uh uh…

Small swarms of insects swarmed behind the Mushroom People and ate the flesh of the dead parasitic people, and red roots crawled into the remaining bones and landed on them. Then, a skeleton with roots and bones intertwined rose from its place.

‘A subspecies of the parasitic tree..? And … What else is the black wheels? In addition, all of them are enslaved.. Those.. Are all.. Servants of cultists..? Poetry, fuck..’

Monsters that multiply by themselves. Michael sensed that he was fucked. At that time…

“Wait for a sec! Come with me!”

Women’s voices came from behind the monsters.

“Ha ha… Ha… Everyone… It’s too fast.”

“Hey, aren’t you too slow?”

“Joo, Juha Onee-chan.. Oh, Unni-chan? Oh, anyway, let’s go together. I am slower than my older sisters.”

“Heh.. It’s like a Japanese kanna with no guts.”

“Ha~ah.. Onee-chan.. Sora deducted points. And Juha, you use the North Korean dialect again.. Deducted points.”

“Oh no! Sister Aram!”

“I didn’t do that too much! I don’t even have a brother! Don’t keep evaluating!”

“Hehe…They’re both cute…”

Michael went blank in his head. Their conversation was not in English, so I couldn’t understand it at all, but the atmosphere they gave off was very peaceful.

‘No… Such a peaceful conversation in the hell…’

Michael wondered what to do with them. It’s right to kill him, but the risk of getting it wrong before he can get Nick back is too great.

If it had been the cultist himself, he would have just carried out the attack, but Michael decided that killing his comrades was too much of a risk to reveal their location or identity. The enemies also probably haven’t figured out their location yet, so it’s easier to deal with them if you attack them from behind first.

So Michael took his party and just quietly tried to slip away by the side road.

“Hmm.”

However, the Dragon Blood Knight Aran seemed to have a different idea.

“Hey! You!”

The Dragon Blood Knight stepped forward.

“I think it will be quite fun.”

Then he drew his greatsword and shouted.

“Let’s die and die with me!!!”

He was a fairly unruly person.

Michael prepared for the battle with his heart towards Aran.

He had so many things he wanted to say to him, but he didn’t dare to say anything because he was the strongest on the team.

“What are those…”

A-ram, who didn’t follow Jo Joon because he didn’t want to work… Decided to stay at the base for no reason, but was punished.