Chapter 212 – 212. The Ghost of the Maw

The party walked for a long time after coming out of the open space where tall stone pillars of impossibly large heights were dotted here and there.

There really was no life in the ruins of Hell. True to Henry’s claim that all native life would have been wiped out, no life remained at the site of the Maw.

Just in case, I brought the Mushroom People and the jet black wheel, but they didn’t look very useful, so I sent them back to the base.

In addition, water droplets dripping down from the endless ceiling entrance slowly soaked our bodies, and the moss that bloomed brightly and the roots of dead plants sometimes caught our ankles. Overall, the place felt a bit damp and cold.

And the decayed weaponry and the bones of unknown intelligences scattered all over the place let us know that there were people who once took root and lived here.

‘It’s full of traces left by unidentified races…’

At a cursory glance, the people who lived here seem to have had their own culture and civilization… It seems that they all died at the hands of Henry, who lost his head and went berserk.

‘Out of all the places I’ve seen so far…The most normal and beautiful…’

From the black market to the back world full of errors, the worm paradise of the missing person’s forest, twisted mansions of horror, the dirty basement of the black market, and so on. Up to this point, all the places I had been around had been dirty or disgusting.

So I wasn’t expecting much, but the historic site was very cool except for the fact that it was a bit bleak and gloomy. I feel as if I have come to any foreign tourist destination.

‘It’s so peaceful, it’s rather uneasy…’

On the other hand, I felt a little uneasy as I looked around the ruins that showed no signs of an accident.

Yes, even if an accident broke out, it should have happened three or four more times, but strangely, it was because the road to this point was smooth and easy.

‘There shouldn’t be anything special at base camp…’

My anxiety increased when the guild chat stopped working.

Maybe it was because I came too far from the Crimson Zone, which was covered by six walls, but when I entered the ruins of Hell, I couldn’t use Hyeji Yoo’s guild chat anymore.

Thanks to that, I had no choice but to follow Henry’s guidance and walk through the ruins without knowing the circumstances. Please, I hope nothing happens while we are gone.

Whether they knew my feelings or not, the party was just busy chatting at the peaceful ruins of Hell.

“Kimchi jjigae is also tuna. Right?”

“No! Eunji’s sister! It tastes better with pork in kimchi jjigae.”

“I liked both.”

“No way. Oppa, you have to choose just one…”

“I respect your words. I like both.”

“Oh..! Hey!! Ganghwa Young!! What is a change of attitude? Me too! All of them are delicious too, oppa!”

“Eunji unnie… It’s already too late.”

“This!”

Eunji and Hwayeong clung to my right and left arms and chattered and joked. The topic was mainly about eating.. I was surprised that the taste of the two was so different than I thought. For reference, I’m the type who eats well when given, so it’s hard to choose between the two, so I’ve been giving only neutral answers.

“Sniff sniff.. Hmm..”

“Uh. Harin. Support that You can’t eat it.”

“No, brother. I know that too… Don’t treat me like a dog…”

“Ah.. Harin-ah, sorry..”

Like a puppy on a walk with its owner, Harin placed her nose all over the ruins, smelled her, and gently waggled her tail. She then sometimes shows interest in the bones of dead underground people, so she gets angry when I tell her that she shouldn’t eat them in between.

‘But what I’m doing is so dog-like…’

I feel like I want to wear a leash..

‘Uh..? That… Might be okay…’

Putting her dog on a leash on Harin, who could be called Mimi Inu with her tail and ears… She fantasized about taking a walk naked.

‘Looking at it… I think I’ve agreed to get a 24-hour foot job from Harin in the past…’

I forgot because I was busy living. Harin also had no time because she was in a different space for about a week in the middle. I’ll have to ask her next time she hangs out with Harin. I’m not sure if I’ll ever have time for that, but… There are so many women out there…

“No, but brother Jo Joon. My older sister leaves me with too much work.”

“Okay? Aram.. Sleeps a lot.. He looks a bit lazy.”

Ah-reum usually expressed her dissatisfaction with A-ram, her biological sister, to me. Now that A-ram isn’t by her side, complaints pour out as if a dam has burst. But as she listened, most of her complaints were about her sister hitting her.

After hearing it, she thought that Ah-ram was making fun of her younger sister, Ah-reum. Looking around, Aram seems surprisingly playful. On the other hand, her younger sister, Areum-i, reacts pretty well when touched, so I tend to bully her a bit.

‘Well.. Aram is a bit.. Siscon..’

Aram really likes Areum. She seems to like her sister on a par with me. It seems that she wasn’t very close with Han Tae, her younger brother.

“How is Mer these days?”

“Huh? It’s me.. I’m busy teaching Korean as the owner commands. The proportion of foreigners has increased considerably.”

“Aha.. I’m sorry I made you do too much work..”

“It’s okay, master. ‘Cause I’m satisfied enough Giving knowledge to humans… Is always fun.”

Mer said and smiled. While I’m gone, Ha Jin-seong takes care of almost all the chores, and Mer handles all the major issues, so I’m always sorry and thankful.

“By the way, Henry… Are you really coming?”

“Of course. It must be around here soon…”

“No…You said that an hour ago…”

“That, that. Look around a bit more It will be out soon!”

Ever since Henry entered the ruins of the Maw, he had not properly grasped the location of his body. Because of some kind of curse, he could only grasp the approximate position of the body with his power, but it seemed that it was rather impossible to find it as he got closer.

In the end, we decided to borrow Harin’s sense of smell. It recognizes Henry’s smell and makes him find his torso… For some reason, he felt a sense of immorality in ordering an adult woman to do something like a hunting dog, but Harin seemed happy that she could be of help to the party.

No, just taking a walk with me on the historic site seems to be enjoyable. I’m going to go for a walk more often in the future.

“Sniff.. Uh! There!!”

Harin, who was sniffing the ground with his nose open, looked in one direction and shouted, and then started running.

She tracked Henry’s body at breakneck speed, befitting a leading beast.

“Guys, run!!! You have to catch that!!”

“All right!!”

We ran after her because we might miss it if we just stared at it. Henry’s torso, which he followed and examined, was wearing a worn-out black robe and holding a scimitar in both hands.

“Keep it off!!!”

“This!! Harin-ah!!!”

Harin’s scream reached Henry’s torso first, so we sped up even more. Judging from a distance, she seemed to have cut her arm trying to keep her torso from going elsewhere.

‘Harin is also fast.. But she is faster than him..’

Henry’s movements were too fast for her eyes to follow. She can never catch it alone. Need a dig

“Harin!! Are you okay!!”

“Lord!! This guy…! Dirty fast!!! And I can’t see any gaps!!”

Harin’s arm was cut a little deeply. However, she endured her pain and evaded Henry brandishing her sword, blocking his path of progress.

However, it seems to be lacking gradually. It was because Henry’s torso accurately grasped Harin’s movements and then swung the two scimitars tightly, forming a shield.

“Henry! How can that body fail?”

When I hurriedly asked, Henry, who was clinging to his waist, answered bleakly.

“First of all, you have to subdue it. It’s already been too long since I’ve been wandering around alone, so I’m conditioned reflexively cutting through those who approach me..”

“This..”

In the end, it was a sound to catch and beat without killing until he collapsed.

“Guys!! Let’s go in!!”

“Yes!!!”

“Ooh!! Let’s go!!!”

Eunji and Hwayoung pulled the injured Harin back and pushed Henry’s torso like mad. Areumi and Mer also started looking for a gap to enter.

“Harin-ah, be patient.”

“Ughhhhh…”

In the meantime, I quickly healed Harin’s arm with the kicking flesh. Her blood gushed and her wounds healed quickly.

Her pain was so great that Harin Ji finally couldn’t stand her pain and let out a moan of pain.

“It’s done now.”

“Whoa.. Whoa.. Whoa..”

As soon as Harin’s wounds were healed, she got back on her feet.

“Go right away?”

“Yes!”

Harin rushes forward with a short answer. In the meantime, Eunji and Hwayoung, who were fighting Henry’s torso, began to be pushed back.

“Die!!!”

– KANG!!!

“Keah!! This bastard!!”

The goblin king’s greatsword, which Eunji wielded, collided with the scimitar and bounced back. Even Hwa-yeong’s skill, which attacked her from behind, was blocked, and in the battle with Areum-i, he counterattacked as if he had grasped her every move.

“Such crazy!!!”

“OMG!!”

As the three of them were pushed back, Mer and Harin jumped in. Harin held him in check in front of Henry, and Mer swung her scythe at Henry’s back in an effort to sever her torso vertically, but she also dodged him. After accurately grasping the trajectory of her scythe…

‘No, do you have eyes on your back? Do you think your senses are that good? The head is here…? Can’t you… Read the flow of air with your skin… No… Rainwater is dripping from the ceiling… That kind of thing is possible…’

There is no gap to the extent that it almost feels like attacking Cheolongseong. It’s as if he observes his state from a top view and catches all the invisible parts.

“Um… This… Strangely… I think my arm is numb. Why do my body senses…”

Henry said that his arm seemed to go numb at that time.

‘Wait… Maybe…’

I shouted at Henry’s head.

“Henry! Close your eyes!”

“Huh?”

“It looks like your vision is being shared with your torso, so close your eyes!”

“Ah! This!! Got it!”

Henry hurriedly closed his eyes. I also covered his ears with a piece of tissue paper, hoping to detect movement by sound. I hurriedly bandaged his head to see if I could even read the flow of air.

Then, Henry finally began to allow attacks without being able to completely block his back.

‘As the distance got closer, each other’s senses became strangely connected..’

It’s been so long since the head and body have been separated that Henry’s head can’t completely dominate the torso, but as they get closer, the senses are half-connected, and it seems that they accidentally share them without even knowing each other.

So, in a word, since Henry’s head was watching the battle situation from a little distance away, his vision was naturally shared with his body, blocking all attacks like a monster with all-round senses.

Anyway, wrapping Henry’s head in a bandage limited his five senses, which slowed his movements a bit.

“Now!! Kill half of them!! Because I can stick them together even if my limbs are cut off!!!”

“Pa, cut off limbs!!! Oh, no!!!”

Not paying attention to whether Henry shouted or not, Eunji swung the greatsword of the goblin king stained in shadow and struck Henry’s torso.

In addition, Hwayoung, who caught the man behind, used the blood of Harin, who had been spilled on the ground, to explode bloodstains on Henry’s legs and back.

-Chae Haak!!!

-Kwagwang!!!!

Henry’s torso, which was blocking Mer’s scythe by crossing the scimitar, stumbled forward as an explosion suddenly occurred from behind, and Eunji’s greatsword blew off his leg in the gap.

It certainly had the effect of blindfolding Henry.

“Turn it off!!!!”

“Oh, fuck!! It’s a surprise!!”

“It hurts!!! It hurts.. No.. How long has it been since this pain.. Huh… It hurts..”

My leg was cut off, so of course it hurts.

Anyway, Mer, Harin, and Areumie pressed Henry’s fluttering body, and Eunji and Hwayoung struck him down and snatched the scimitar that he was holding tight.

“Ugh.. This knife handle and.. The skin is attached.”

It seems that the sword and hand became one because he held it for so long. I managed to catch it anyway.

‘This… I think it would be stronger if I didn’t attach my hair…’

If the head is separated, the fighting power will be higher, but if it is, it will be difficult to control the body properly, so I think I will have to attach it.

“Henry. What should I do now?”

“Uh.. First, bring my head to your body.”

“Yes.”

As Henry said, he brought his neck to his body.

Then, like blood vessels wriggling from his body, they pulled his head and connected it. Even the legs that were cut off were put back together in the same way. There is no blood coming out of the severed part… It looks like a strange body.

“Ha.. That’s okay. Stuck I finally have control over my body… Hey, Merci? Won’t you get out of the way?”

“Ah, yes.”

At Henry’s words, Mer quickly stepped aside.

“Huh-huh… I really never thought I would be able to get my body back.. Thank you so much. This grace… I will never forget it for the rest of my life.”

Henry bowed his head towards me and his party. Soon he said he would formally serve me, and I realized that a connection had developed between him and me.

With this, I got the Ghost of the Maw as a companion.

Now go back to the base, get the necessary items, and go to Hwangban…

“Ugh…!”

At that moment, my head pounded and a warning was sent that the stronghold was dangerous.

It was the cry of the jet black wheel.