Chapter 1073 – Ancient Ones

I grabbed him and got out of the secret room. And I tried to find the bag I had thrown away earlier and put it in it.

“Why isn’t this bastard in the bag?”

This bastard is a little big, so it won’t fit in the bag I brought.

I had no choice but to tear open the bag and wrap the jeweled skull in its leather. There are some protruding parts, but at this level, you can carry it without much fuss.

At first glance, this jeweled skull is huge and shiny.
If you just carry it raw, you’ll get a lot of aggro.

Let’s go now.

“Fuck you. If you say anything outside, I’ll just kill you.”
“Quiet… Stay…”

I bit my molars tightly and threatened once, and he replied in a crawling voice. It’s an ancient being, it’s Nabal, and if you get caught by me, you’ll die.

If you don’t want to die, beg for your life.

“Yes. Be quiet like that. Answer only what I ask and never say anything else.”
“I get it…”

Did ancient humans sacrifice their blood to this pathetic bastard? There was no such thing as a catastrophe. My condolences to the people who died at this cowardly bastard.

Anyway, when I went up to the ground carrying it, the hot sunlight was beating down on me.

Is it roughly noon?
It ended earlier than expected.

The exploration in the first place was over soon. I spent some time catching and shaking this baby, but it didn’t take long.

“Hmm.”

But this bastard… I think it would be really fucked up if he suddenly went crazy and fired mind waves in all directions. There are too many civilians around. I’ll have to be careful not to do that. At the sight of something suspicious, we will destroy it immediately.

And that one, I think I have to put back the lock I broke.

Should I report this to the church?

Not.

Even though Captain Barkerell was a man with whom he could communicate, he was fundamentally a paladin, so he would go mad saying that he would kill him as soon as he reported this. For now, only I know this. Anyway, this demon incident will strengthen our defense.

Even if the cultists come after the aqueduct and this jeweled skull, they should be able to stop it.

I have some locks, so I can buy a few and put them on.

ㅡQuaang!

So I hit the ground and ran home at full speed.

*           *

After returning home, he explained the day’s work while showing the jeweled skull to the women who were all awake and eating.

“Such a terrible being!”

Hilde, who had pointed her finger at the jewel skull on the table, scolded him fiercely and poured out abusive language.

“This evil being that lives on human blood must be annihilated from this world! Mr Katt! We must extract the information and then destroy it!”
“Yes. Father. I think it would be better to kill him.”

Ahri, who was sitting next to Hilde, helped with her expressionless face.

“Calm down. I have my own thoughts. Of course, I can’t tolerate this kind of existence…”
“By the way, Kat.”
“Well?”
“I went alone again. I said I would go with you.”

For a moment, Cloudy put on a sad expression and said while brushing my cheek. No…! This is not like that!

“No, Cloudy. I just found this in the slum area in the first place. Well, there really wasn’t anything special. I just found it using Vgal and checked the stability. There wasn’t much of a fight or anything like that.”
“Is that so?”
“That’s right. Unlike the last one, this was a really trivial thing. I brought it here to quickly find it and show it to you.”
“Then…”

Cloudy nodded his head, and Karin next to him nodded as if he was convinced.

“Yeah. I’ll let you go because you didn’t fight. Anyway. This is a race with some ancient knowledge, and they’re even fucking good at talking?”
“Right.”
“Hmm…”

Karin said, running her finger across the surface of her jeweled skull her, as if intrigued. Even if it didn’t have a brain inside, it would be a good decoration.

“Ah, but it’s really fucking disgusting. Well, there are all these things… Look at what’s inside.”
“Ugh… What the fuck. What the hell did bastards do in ancient times? And is that a human brain?”

Liztina and Winia were already frowning in fright. I don’t know about anything else, but it’s a fact that the two of them have their own normal sensibilities.

“No. It’s too big for a human brain. Is that the body in the first place? Did you just extract the brain of a certain race and lock it in an artifact?”
“Fuck it could be. Bastard. So you don’t know who you are? They say you can’t talk because you don’t have a sacrifice?”
“For now, that’s the situation.”

If he can’t open his mouth because he does n’t have blood, as he said, we can’t even figure out his identity right now.

“Hmm… I’m very curious about what kind of knowledge they stored and why they sealed it like this.”
“No, witch? Can you recognize this?”

As Risha spoke, Karin poked Risha’s side her with her finger her while laughing as if she were teasing her person her.

“Of course! Isn’t this her original major? Just leave it to us!”

Then Lisa shouted with confidence.

“Ohhh! This has been happening for the first time in a while! Our witch knows something!”
“Today will be the last time she will say that! Today will be the last time she speaks as if she does n’t know anything, even though she is called a witch!”

From what she said twice, she seems very confident.

Okay. I don’t know anything else, but adjusting things like this is Risha’s specialty her. It would be enough to touch his brain her or extract his knowledge her.

Hehe, yes. Risha looks after me. But you have to be careful with this. Since I touched it earlier, it shoots a mental wave and attacks me.”
“Muh, what?! What the hell is that, Katt-sama!!”
“Bastard? Psychic?”
“Ah, it’s nothing.”

I briefly explained that I was briefly exposed to its defenses of her while experimenting with destroying it. No need to worry. Because it was an attack that didn’t really suck.

“It’s a mental attack… It was dangerous. But Katt has strong mental power, so there was no problem?”
“My mental strength is a bit strong.”
“Fuckin’ bastard invincible now. But…”

— Chirit.

After hearing the explanation, they started staring at the jewel skull.

“You dared to do that. Skeleton bastard.”
“I can’t forgive you.”
“That’s not a very good sign.”

It was as if life was overflowing from those eyes, and in an instant, even I was terrified. Yes, that’s what this crazy skeleton bastard did to me! He deserves to die!!

“Father. But he’s not talking.”

Ari also had similar eyes and spoke to me.

“Ah, that’s because I told you not to say it. Then let’s start talking. Hey, fuck you. You answer our words honestly from now on.”

Grab the skeleton’s head and say so.

“…I get it.”

The guy answered.

“Uh! Uh fuck for real!”
“Where are you talking!!”

Karin and Liztina were shocked, and everyone else held their breath. The only ones who didn’t show much reaction were Cloudy and Ari.

“Hey. But you said you couldn’t break it with your bare hands, right?”
“Uh. That’s right. I did some experiments with it at first. If you cover it with mana and cut it, it cuts, but it doesn’t hurt at all with bare fists.”
“Ohh… That’s right.”

That was the moment.

ㅡQuaang!

Karin slammed the skull down with her fist.

“Hooooong!!”

Suddenly, Liz Tina landed her kick on the skeleton that had risen in shock.

ㅡSungwoong!

The moment the flying skeleton was about to hit the wall, Risha summoned her black magic grip her, and she grabbed the skeleton like a catcher.

It seems that the two noonas wanted to try it once.

Soon, the clutches of black magic returned with the skull back.

Of course, the skeleton was intact.

“Wow, is this really fine?”
“You said you could just withstand this much attack?

The two women said it was a bare-handed attack, but it was so strange that they endured their attacks.

“Aaaaa!!!”

A mournful scream erupted.

The guy should be a bit more fit.

“As expected, ancient beings are ancient beings…! But as long as I can kill them anytime, it doesn’t matter! I want to do it too!”

Hilde also intervened in the event, grabbing her club her and striking the bastard in the skull.

“Huh… So Kat. Does this guy know a lot? But he can’t figure it out right now?”
“Uh. So, I think I need Risha to take care of it.”
“The one that absorbs the Bigalo?”
“Let’s do that after asking Risha.”

Is there any other way than that?

“Leave it to her original daughter her.”
“Yes. But you have to keep a close eye on it while you have it.”
“Whoa, do you worry about such things? It seems that the original woman has not given her trust lately. Don’t worry.”
“Of course Lisa believes! Be nice to me.”
“I see.”

So trustworthy…!

“Bastard. But what exactly is that knowledge?”

Then, Winia asked.

“Yes. I’m also a little curious. Didn’t you hint that you knew something?”

Liz Tina also looked at me while she was punching.

“It’s just something ancient knowledge. Forgotten taboo knowledge or some kind of secret knowledge. Or forgotten magic knowledge… He just brushed it off like that. First of all, it gave off a nuance as if he knew something great.”
“Hmm… It’s ancient knowledge. Could it be the knowledge from the era before the Icon Wars? If so, it seems to be quite useful. Karin! This time, a pincer attack from both sides!”
“Uh!”

After hearing the answer, Riztina continued to engage in violence with Karin again.

“Ancient magic…”

Winia murmured and brushed her lips.
It seems that Winia is a bit interested.

“Why, Winia, are you interested?”
“No. I’m just curious, I’m not very interested. They said I had to sacrifice blood in the first place? I can’t because it’s disgusting. Something like that.”
“It’s not like that.”

Offering human blood as a sacrifice to such a thing in itself stimulates my anger to the point where I can’t stand it. If that’s the only way, I’ll make it with Bugal’s rice.

“Certainly, such a being would be something the cultists would target, father. A lich would not mind human sacrifice. He may have sacrificed a large amount of human slaves’ blood… To gain dangerous ancient knowledge.”

That’s right.

“That’s it, Arya. What would happen if something like that fell into the hands of evil beings?”
“To put it in my father’s way, the world will… Go away.”
“Yes! To prevent such a thing!”
“We need to work harder.”

Saying that, Ari smiled.

“As expected, our Ari knows something.”
“Everything my father told me.”

As she was stroking Ari’s head, Hilde, who was using a club to massage her skull her, shouted.

“We must stop this from going over to the cultists at all costs, Mr. Katt!!!”
“I think so!”

Are you going to hand it over to Richie?

“Then Katt. Did you do something righteous today?”
Hehe, ah. This means that as the days go by, I am accumulating more and more righteous things.”
“That righteous heart makes Katt stronger. Shall we rest today?”
“Ah. There are still some things left to do. After eating, I went to buy some locks. I broke all the locks there. I’ll have to get them restored.”
“Oh, then there are traces left? But then, should I inform the church or the lord? Isn’t that a facility managed by them?”
“That’s what it is again… I need to think about how to do this.”

It would be okay if I just said that I investigated it on my own. It’s that secret place, you just have to destroy it.

Let’s first buy a lock and think about it slowly.

*           *

A few days after that.

The monitoring of the jewel skull was thorough, and Risha was conducting experiments using it very smoothly.

Right now, all sorts of black magic energy and magic circles are prevalent in the basement. At its center, Skeleton is undergoing brain surgery by Risha, with her crystal skull dissected. If it was Risha, she would surely be able to pull out the information that came into his brain her.

And today is the banquet day.

It is said that the demon raid incident that hit Isvant has finally been completed. So Isvant planned a banquet, and of course I was invited.

Let’s go and ask about the aqueduct.