Chapter 449 – The Holy Sword and the Arena (20)

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“Guys, stop for a second. What’s the matter… Guys?”

Yuri and Ariel strode forward without pretending to hear me. Leni said worriedly, as if I wasn’t the only one who felt the two were strange.

“You two seem a bit strange, ah!”

Before Lenny could finish his words, the two’s footsteps became quicker and almost turned to running.

“I-I’m in front of you!”

“Guys, stop!”

At the end of the passage was a door with a strangely geometric pattern. Before I could grab hold of them, the two slammed open the door and went inside.

“Wait!”

“Eugene, it’s dangerous!”

Lenny shouted from behind, but I had no choice but to follow. Even if there was a trap, I couldn’t leave the two alone.

The two of them were just standing tall in the room.

I quickly looked around the room while checking the minimap.

Fortunately, there were no monsters or traps around. I pulled them both back.

“Guys, wake up!”

“What, what? Why, it hurts.”

“That is what I am going to say. Why did you suddenly run forward? You don’t know what might be, and it’s dangerous.”

“Yes?”

Both of them looked like they were possessed by a ghost. Ariel asked in a puzzled tone.

“What do you mean you ran out? When did I…But where is this place? When did you come here?”

“You guys, don’t you remember the sudden run out of the room?”

“I don’t know what you mean…”

Is it short-term memory loss? Could this have something to do with the UI error I just had?

“Anyway, this seems to be the destination.”

At Ariel’s words, I looked around the room. Certainly, there was no time to think deeply about what had happened. I have a bad feeling, so I need to pack my things and get out quickly.

“It’s a little different from what I thought.”

“Iknow, right…”

The entrance and both sides were clean walls, but the cave wall was exposed and cracked in the front.

Contrary to the expectation that clear evidence could be found, the room was empty.

There was only a strangely shaped altar.

“I think I was just walking in vain? There is nothing. Let’s stop this.”

Did Yuri’s words become a trigger? Suddenly Lenny called me from behind.

“Yu, Yujin… Ugh…!”

“Lenny? What’s the matter?”

“I, in front of me…!”

Lenny cupped her head and pointed at her altar.

But there’s nothing on the altar…

“…!”

Something floated on top of the altar.

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A black orb floated on the altar.

Only the shape was a sphere, and further description was impossible. Because it doesn’t resemble anything I know.

It was like water droplets, like liquid metal, sometimes like wriggling rocks.

It was unpleasant to see him moving, but the sense of heterogeneity was greater than that. The feeling of seeing something different from the roots, not from this world.

“!”

The surface of the sphere cracked horizontally, splitting the surface in half. Then a darkness of unknown depth was revealed. I knew it instinctively.

That’s snow

The darkness turned its gaze around and met mine.

“Kuh…!”

When our eyes met, I couldn’t move as if paralyzed.

There is nothing wrong with the body.

All of a sudden, all the memories came rushing in like a flood. I’ve never heard of a lantern. The concept of reviewing all of one’s life so far right before one dies.

But it was different.

Memories flowed backwards, like playing a video backwards.

I couldn’t get my head around the flood of memories. The memories flowed so fast, like a scan, that it gave me a headache.

The battle with the hornets in the cave, and the fire play with Lenny before that.

Memories continued to flow.

Rebecca’s incomprehensible confession, the first meeting with Ariel, the glass and the goblin cave. Adventures and first sex with Lenny.

Finally, the memory returned to when I first opened the status window after falling into another world.

“…!”

After the memory replay was over, another phenomenon appeared. Suddenly, a woman appeared in front of his eyes.

The appearance of the woman was grotesque.

The scene where bones are made, blood vessels and muscles are attached on top of them, and finally skin is overlaid, as if a person was being assembled as a whole.

But I didn’t feel bad about it. No, I was rather feeling a certain kind of beauty.

The woman adjusted her body around, and she created a body that was close to my ideal type. A flawless, beautiful body close to the ideal type, as if I had read it in my head.

The woman sat astride her altar and she gestured to me.

There were no words, but the meaning was very clear. A lewd gesture to unleash my desire on myself.

The image of mixing bodies with a woman came to my mind, and then another image followed.

If I entrust myself to that woman, my power will become stronger.

My ability.

It is the ability to sexually arouse a woman.

However, if I received power from that woman, I could maximize my ability even more.

A true human aphrodisiac that makes you go into heat just by flirting with me and makes you unable to bear it if you don’t devote yourself to me.

I didn’t even have to want to. Because the women will stick to it.

It’s not just the physical arousal. You will get an ability close to brainwashing that will make you devote your heart to it.

If that happens, there will be no more pitiful things of being entangled by the kids and being unable to move while keeping an eye on them…

“…?”

For a moment. I stopped thinking.

Was I thinking that way about kids?

What this woman is saying is very strange.

The woman flinched as if her permission had been pricked. Then, as if angry, she sticks out her breasts.

“Kuh…!”

Once again, the image was forced into my head.

There are many women, and my body alone is not enough.

Tentacles sprout from my body and eventually, rape and devour all the women in the world…

What kind of bullshit is this?

Stunned, I looked at the woman.

“This crazy…!”

Now it comes into view When I came to my senses, I saw the woman’s figure straight.

It wasn’t human It only has a human form, but it is a bizarre appearance that seems to have been made by tentacles intertwined.

And tentacles grew from the fingertips and were approaching me.

“Kuh, Yu, Yujin, it’s dangerous…!”

Lenny’s cry brought me to my senses.

I knew instinctively that if I touched those tentacles, the future shown in the image would unfold.

“…!”

Suddenly, I realized everything.

I see. It was this monster.

Why was the arena built in such an absurd place? Because of this monster. As if it sent me an image, it seems to have given people who came into contact with it some kind of ability. It was because of this monster that I was able to control the monster like that.

The word monster is too tired. Yeah, it’s more like an alien creature.

Real alien creatures, not humanoid aliens conceived with ordinary shallow imagination. Even the term creature didn’t seem appropriate.

—–!

“Kuh…!”

This time a more direct mental attack followed. It was as if the sound of scratching an iron plate resonated in my head.

A terrible noise that gives you a headache. But blocking your ears doesn’t mean you can stop them. As if the holy sword were talking to my head, I couldn’t help it…

“!”

I reflexively drew the Holy Sword and cut off the approaching tentacle.

“!!!”

It withdrew in pain as if it had been hit by hydrochloric acid. A scream echoed in my head this time as well, but it wasn’t as painful as before.

‘Isn’t it too late?’

As soon as the words of the holy sword resonated in my head, the terrible noise in my brain disappeared.

‘Now you’re taking me out. Don’t you think you should pull out your weapon right away when you see something like that? Normally?’

The Holy Sword’s strangely grumbling voice.

I was saying something that I wanted to squeeze, but it rather reassured me. It’s strange. Was I relying on this guy this much?

The Holy Sword’s voice didn’t just give me relief. As if the fog in my brain disappeared, my vision became clearer.

Then, the hallucination disappeared before my eyes, and the shape of the sphere came back into my eyes.

What I thought to be tentacles from the meatballs were extending from the black spheres. Its shape was grotesque, like a pulsating branch.

The orb’s tentacles weren’t only coming towards me, they were also coming towards the kids.

But the kids were just staring blankly at the tentacles. It must have been a mental attack similar to the one I suffered.

Fortunately, Lenny didn’t seem to be hallucinating the tentacles. Still, maybe it was best to warn me, I just held her head.

I grabbed them by the scruff of their necks, threw them back, and cut off their tentacles.

—-!

It emitted a terrible noise that is hard to believe to be of this world.

‘Looks like he’s angry.’

I spoke without taking my eyes off the tentacle monster at the holy sword’s carefree words.

‘What have you been up to? There is no answer even if I talk to her.’

‘Isn’t that important? Focus on what’s in front of you.’

“!”

As the battle UI appeared in front of my eyes, the tentacle’s expected attack point flashed red. I hurriedly raised my sword to block the swirling black tentacles, and the holy sword spoke in a low voice.

‘Be careful. That’s completely unpredictable even for me.’

‘Let’s ask Kim who said it. What is that? I think he knows something.’

‘…I can’t tell’.

“Tsk.”

I clicked my tongue.

‘Yeah, I don’t expect you to know anything anymore.’

The holy sword answered in a slightly thorny voice.

‘I didn’t know, I said I couldn’t tell. Ask the goddess later And I don’t think it’s time to ask questions.’

“!”

I swung my sword again and cut off the flying thorny tentacles.

The tentacles didn’t even bleed. As if it’s at odds with the Holy Sword, it’s fortunate that if you cut it, it cuts as you cut it. But for now, the status quo is just that. The tentacles were sprouting spines every time I cut them.

I glanced back.

Yuri and Ariel were still unconscious as they were thrown out, and Lenny was barely creating a shield while holding her head.

‘It’s dangerous at this rate. Is there any way?’

‘There is not enough output. Focus your holy power on me a little more.’

‘Print?’

The Holy Sword said calmly.

That contradicts the divine power of the Goddess. It’s only natural that the divine power was created to fight that thing.

At the words of the holy sword, I had nothing to say and concentrated my holy power. Speaking of concentrating the divine power, it was just a strong skill cast on the holy sword.

‘Hey, higyak! This idiot…!’

The holy sword shouted at me with a scream, but that was okay. Perhaps thanks to the increased output, the recovery speed of the thorn tentacles when I cut them was noticeably slower.

Wait, what do you mean your divine power is in conflict with that guy?

Without thinking twice, I sent my invisible hand behind me.

“Kyaaaaagh! Hmmm-yaaan?!”

A cat’s meowing, incongruous voice resounded through the cave.

– Kang!

“Calm down, boys!”

“Hick, hit!”

The sharp sound of swords and metal colliding and shouts. It’s a real mess.

“Kyaek, stop!!!”

Yuri was the first to come to her senses.

“I told you before! Don’t do it when you’re sleeping! I was still having a good dream, but when I wake up like this, hey, hehe?! I-what is that?!”

Yuri grumbled at me and then screamed.

Seeing that bewildered figure, I couldn’t help but say a word even while swinging my sword.

“You sound like a dream. Have you forgotten where we are now?”

“Uh, huh?!”

“It’s dangerous!”

-Kang!

The tentacle that got in my blind spot was blocked by Lenny’s protection. However, the tentacle seemed to have no intention of withdrawing as it was, and pushed it back with a metallic sound as if it was about to forcibly break through the bluish shield.

“Fireball!”

A blast of hot air shot through me. Ariel must have come to her senses as well, and has finally started applying.

“Okay. I thought it was strange, but it was a dream. No, I couldn’t have fallen asleep, so it must’ve been a dream. I did attack first, but what the hell is that?”

“I don’t know either! Once you get it done!”

“Hmm.”

– Boom, Kwa Kwa, Boom!

After the fireball exploded several times, the monster finally became like a melted lump of metal due to the high heat.

“Have you done it?”

I couldn’t hide my ominous feeling at Yuri’s words.

“Hey, if you say that…”

“It comes alive!”

Damn, I knew this!

“Hmm. If the fire doesn’t work, this time…!”

-Bang!

It was the same no matter how many times it was repeated. As Ariel changes her attributes, she pours magic on her, and the same goes for Yuri’s arrows.

The metal tentacles were reviving with resistance. All we can do is just kill some time.

“Uh, what do you do?!”

But even that was over soon.

The metal tentacles inflated their bodies as if they were tired of fighting. The thorny tentacles that filled the room were aiming at us from all directions, as if to end it once and for all.

If this is the case, there is no way…

-Bang!

“This body appears!”

The door behind my back exploded, and the second bottle flew in.

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“This body appears!”

The second grader broke through the door, swung a greatsword the size of his body, and slashed off his tentacles. Well, he couldn’t see it because he was actually wearing a helmet, but he felt that way.

“No matter how important things are to me, isn’t it too much to try to enjoy the funniest part alone?”

Does this look like you’re enjoying it?! There were many things I wanted to tackle here and there, but the enemy in front of me was more urgent than that.

“Can you deal with that?”

“Of course. “

The middle class 2 immediately responded to my words and summoned a fireball right in front of his eyes. Fireball again? I hurriedly shouted at the second bottle.

“Wait, that one has resistance, so you have to deal with it in one go!”

“At once?”

The second grader looked back at me.

“Then can I use maximum output?”

“Yeah, shoot it at full power or something!”

The 2nd grader laughed again.

Previously, it was the refreshing smile of an owner saving a heroine in danger, but this time, the smile of a child who was allowed to use a new toy… Even in the midst of danger, I thought that this guy would do something absurd. This guy, what are you so excited about doing?

“You don’t have to say anything?”

During the second bottle, before I could add anything else, he started working.

-Go oh oh.

Chills as if the temperature in the room suddenly dropped.

The yellow fireball in front of the second bottle turned white, then blue, and then a black orb with silver borders. The black flame of the second bottle seemed to absorb all the heat in the room.

-Clack clack clack.

The middle 2nd soldier’s armor opened with a clanking sound. Inside, what looked like metal plates stacked on top of each other was burning red and emitting smoke.

The metal monster swelled up again as if it knew what was happening in front of it was no joke, but the middle 2nd bottle was faster.

—-!

Black flames shot forward with the sound of tearing the air.

What happened next happened so quickly that I couldn’t tell exactly what I was seeing.

An afterimage of a metal monster being sucked into a sphere.
It’s not just the monsters that have disappeared. The altar with the metal sphere, and even the wall behind it, were literally destroyed. There was a neat circular hole in the wall. It was in such a neat condition that even the dust that had glimpsed in the light seemed to have disappeared.

“…”

“Huh, huh, is that, is that even possible…What was that?!”

Ariel’s astonished cry. However, the second bottle did not seem to be able to afford an answer.

“Aww, hot, ha ha!”

-Tuk, tuduk.

The cracks in the black armor were red hot, and the heat could be felt even up here. The guy was busy taking off his armor and throwing it away. Thanks to that, the guy ended up wearing only a clingy bodysuit, and became quite revealing.

“So, what the hell is that?”

“Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa…Whoo… Whoop. It’s called the singularity ejector.”

“Wh…What point?”

Ariel asked back, but the middle 2 bottle was just talking about itself as if it were drunk on itself.

It is a partial embodiment of the flame that devours everything. No monster, no matter how terrible, can survive degeneration. It’s the first time I’ve used it myself. It was implemented with minimal output, but this much power is amazing. Still, the waste heat is unbearable.

“Chu, axis…? What?”

“Now, wait. Don’t talk about things you don’t understand. Anyway, is that monster definitely dead?”

“Haha. Of course. It’s just a small puppet. It must have already been destroyed, and a hole had been drilled several kilometers in front of it?”

“…”

I looked inside the hole.

The word hole, it was almost safe to say that a new cave had been created. What’s there How many kilometers? It must have been empty words, but the hole was so wide that I couldn’t fathom its end.

Once relieved, now curiosity took over.

So, what the hell was that?