Chapter 392 – King of the Storm.

“Is it really right to go here?”

Usher asked Jeremiah, who was walking ahead, shuddering at the unpleasant feeling of being stepped on with each step and sticking to the soles of her shoes.

“Yes, because this is the only place on the quickest road to Sanctuary where they haven’t camped.”

Jeremiah answered calmly even as she wiped away the filth that flowed down her shoulder with her hand. They were moving forward through a passage that could barely fit a single person.

‘I can’t believe that kid had the key.’

As he moved forward, he glanced back at the boy who was somehow chasing after him. He remembered his conversation with Gideon earlier.

“They seem to be thinking of driving monsters this way now.”
“Are the Kamenciks able to tame even monsters?”
“Ha, they’re not wizards or anything.”

No matter how bizarre and crazy the Kamenschiks were, they were human. In the end, no matter how much you cherished a monster with primitive hostility towards humans, it was of no use.

“It’s just using methods that normal humans can’t imagine.”

Even the method of attracting these monsters now. Jeremiah was also a member of them, so he knew how.

“Monsters react sensitively to human body odors. Among them, women’s will go crazy.”
“Then if you just drive them towards us…”
“Did you forget? They’re human too. No matter how hard you drive them, the closer ones can’t escape their target.”

That’s why they use bait to drive monsters to the desired location.

“I was keeping an eye on the biggest lump among the ones that fell earlier.”

Soon, Gideon and Jeremiah stood in front of a large mass of slug monsters gathered together.

“Tsk, Pasitilla and these as well, all the monsters in Parz are disgusting.”
“Keuk-kuk, it’s just that dragons are exceptionally noble. Everything else is like this.”

As Gideon puts his hands together, dust rises from the ground and burrows into the slugs’ skin.

– It’s a good idea…?!

Even their complaints of pain exploded as they were for a moment, and between them, who collapsed the form, it was finally revealed what Jeremiah wanted to confirm.

– Prick! Jump!
“Mmmm! Mmh! Mm!”

Inside was a woman. She was naked, not wearing a thread, taking the slugs’ genitals into her cunt and asshole, plunging their mouths into their genitalia, flinching and rattling her breasts.

“So, of course, I’m going to go crazy and run.”
“Could this woman have attracted monsters?”

When slugs fell from the ceiling, there was an exceptionally large number of them gathered in one place for a very simple reason. Only then can they protect their means of reproduction. The space where they are now located is quite close to the ground even underground.

Due to the influence of the mangrove trees, except for Pacitilla, it was normal for the monsters living underground to not even try to come. But what if a delicious smelling prey right in front of you or a female needed for their breeding gently seduces and leads you to catch them?

What if it’s close to something you don’t like, but it’s not a place you can come into direct contact with?

“Yes, surprisingly willingly.”

The way they brought the monsters to this place was so simple. There was no need to prove his words.

“Eup! Paha! Chun!”

The woman whom she thought was being raped surrounded by them, one of the slugs pulled her genitals out of her mouth and she actively bit and swallowed the genitalia being pushed by the birds. Even shaking her waist to match them.

“It’s hard to watch any more.”
“Keuk?!”

Grasp! In the end, Gideon, who was worse than him, pierced her heart with a spear made of iron powder and killed her.

– Queek! Good luck!
-Hey hey!

Realizing that she was no longer of any help to her fertility, the gnomes rushed in and began to ravage the corpse of her woman. Watching them dissolve into sticky mucus, Gideon exploded them to death again, leaving the woman with only her bones.

“That’s ridiculous. Did this woman really do this herself?”
“Isn’t it surprising? She’s the words of someone who put religion before herself. This won’t be different for you either, right?”
“…”

Eventually, Gideon shuts her mouth.

“I can’t help it. Let’s leave this place tomorrow.”

His judgment was wise. If he left the ruins, it would only be a matter of time before he was eventually caught by the wizard, but even so, he couldn’t live comfortably here. Food is limited, and the followers of Kamenshik harass them in various ways. Even if you don’t go far, if you keep holding on, you will eventually have no choice but to break out or starve to death.

“No, one week. I’ll put it off for a week.”
“What?”

At Jeremiah’s request, Gideon glared at him with the eyes of a blue bird of prey flashing.

“What’s the reason? People are already at their limit. I can’t afford to hold out any longer.”

It was confirmed that there was still enough food to spare, but the problem was the spirit. Kamenshik attacked day and night, and many of them suffered from not being able to sleep properly. It hasn’t spread into a fight yet, but the frequency of accidents by those who have become very sensitive is increasing. A week was a very long time in this situation.

“Do you know about the spell that kills wizards?”
“What?”

Gideon opened his eyes wide. What is a wizard like? There is a story that if close to 30 Paladins gather together, they can fight against it, but that is an impossible story. At least, even under Bargazet’s reign, the number of paladins had never exceeded 20. Therefore, the only ones who could stand against him were the original witches and wizards.

But can you kill such a wizard?

“What nonsense are you talking about?”

Gideon couldn’t believe it. It wasn’t that wizards had never been helpful to people, but it was in very few cases. Most wizards have enjoyed all sorts of power, whether they like to run amok, occupy important positions in the Han Dynasty, or even occupy the throne.

Even so, I couldn’t resist them because their power was too strong to dare to fight against them with a human body. Wasn’t it because of such a wizard that they were hiding now?

If there was such a thing as a spell that could kill wizards, why wasn’t it known to the world long ago? In the past, countless people must have harbored an immeasurable grudge against the corrupt wizards.

“Of course, no one knew. The spell is still sealed deep within the ruins.”
“Are you saying that’s why you’ve been sneaking around all this time?”
“As expected, I knew. Thanks to you, I saw where it was with my own two eyes.”
“Then right now…!”

Gideon shouted excitedly, but Jeremiah could only shake her head.

“But I couldn’t figure out the spell. The place was tightly sealed with the magic of the Great Magic Age.”
“Is that the starting point after all?”
“No, maybe there’s a side road to get there.”

That’s why, while he was staying here, he continued to explore Kamenshik’s lair to find a detour into the sanctuary, even while receiving suspicious glances from people.

“So it’s a week. In a week we might be able to find our way!”
“Impossible. No more time.”
“How come?! If we can figure that out, we can survive safely!”

Even at Jeremiah’s words, Gideon frowned.

“It was said that it was sealed with the magic of the Great Magic Age. I also know because I have lived on the ruins of that era. How absurd that is.”

Do you really think that such laxity will remain in the legacy of the Tsushima era? Jeremiah kept his mouth shut for a while, but still couldn’t give up.

“Then, even if it’s just one day, I’ll find a way.”

Krikaliev had said that even the technology of the Great Magic Age was not perfect.

“Are you sane right now? You’re going to wander around their lair in this situation?”
“But this is the only choice. The spell that kills wizards. If only I could figure out the spell that Krikaliev talked about…!”

Even as she said that, Jeremiah was aware that her own words were being forced, so she couldn’t continue.

“Damn it! If I had the key there, everything would have worked out!”
“Wait a minute. A key?”
“You…”

Turning around at the moment he heard the voice next to him, he was able to spot Usher approaching him before he knew it. Come to think of it, wasn’t this guy a child of paradise? He asked with a curious mind.

“Do you know something about the key?”
“I’m not sure, but please tell me what you look like.”

Usher faced Jeremiah as he gulped nervously at the sight of Jeremiah looking at him. If it was a key, I wondered if it had something to do with what he was holding. Then he wondered if he was worried and then opened his mouth.

“It was obviously in the form of a long book.”
“…Book?”

He was disappointed for a moment, but that was only for a moment. Because there was something I remembered at first glance in the form of a book. Before she left the forest with Belka, she found a strange cave in the lake with her, two strange books that looked like magic tools she found and carried inside.

“I think I know what the key is.”
“What?!”

Jeremiah cheered and Gideon, who had been silently watching them, looked this way as if surprised. As soon as Usher remembered where he had put it, he fell into contemplation.

“That, I must have put it in my bag…”

The problem was that Erica had left the bag behind on the procession.

“Shit!”
“Is this how it ends?”

It was the moment when Usher lowered his head in disdain as he watched them sigh.

“Are you talking about a bag by any chance?”
“Uh?”

Turning around at the sound of Rachel’s voice interrupting them, Usher was startled by the familiar bag in her hand. Yes, it was his bag.

“Why is Rachel noona doing that?”
“I don’t know, but it was in the wagon I was riding in.”

Arriving here, he found a bag with her name written on it while moving the food in the wagon.

“No matter how you look at it, it’s not my stuff, but it has my name on it. I wondered if someone took the wrong thing from someone with the same name as me.”

As she said, the name Rachel was written precisely in small round letters on the strap of her bag. Her Usher approached her with a curious mind and opened her bag, but the contents inside her were also familiar.

“…I found it.”
“Right! It was exactly that size and shape!”

Among them, a strange magic tool resembling the book he found in the lake with Belka, proving that it was his, was also there.

‘Why?’

But why is his bag here?