Chapter 698 – The World Behind (4)

Silk said the threat was gone immediately.
The jewel on her brow no longer flashed with a sense of danger.
Even so, it was necessary to at least confirm what was happening here.

We left the hallway together.
It was originally a fairly large building.
The reason why so many male bodies were gathered must have been because there was room to accommodate them.

Walking through the corridors and peering through the open doors, we noticed a large number of dead women.

“Is this world really like this?”

At my question, Finis shook his head in despair.

“I don’t think so. I have a feeling something is wrong, brother.”

I looked at Basuk.
In the first place, she was powerful enough to become the guardian of an SS-class dungeon.
It seemed that if I could get her memories back after crossing over to the other side of the world, she would have the most information to wake up to.

She was furrowing her brow.
She was full of discomfort, but she couldn’t tell if it was because she saw the corpses of women, or because of some memory she had awakened after coming here.

After passing through the long hallway, I saw a large door.
As if to explode in anger, Pades kicked the door.

Bang!-

A large, thick door shattered with her mighty force.

The reflected scenery was not very different from the world I originally lived in.
Blue sky.
It was dark inside the building, but that was because the sunlight didn’t shine.
Judging by the time, it was probably morning.

A wide forest with thick vegetation was visible, and there were sparsely built medieval fantasy-style buildings.

If it had been this kind of scenery that I had seen right after I got out, I wouldn’t have felt this horrible feeling.
But I have already seen serious things going on in this seemingly peaceful world.

Silk said.

“Enemies are coming from afar.”

The jewel on her forehead shimmered.
Do men here have a special ability to smell a woman from afar?

That was the number of people inside the building, but it was unclear how many men would come to this place.
Power is our top priority, but I don’t know why we have to fight that endless fight.
At least until now, I hadn’t seen a single living female body.
There is no target to protect in the first place.

As I was thinking what to do, Basuk grabbed my arm.

“Let’s go back.”

Looking at her face, he was still frowning.
I could see why she said she wanted to go back now.
It looks like he realized something.

Her gaze was directed into the distance.
In the very distance, a faint, surging light was seen.
Perhaps it would have been easier to tell at night, but the light was too faint to be seen by those with normal eyesight.

I vaguely thought that maybe there was something there.

Following Basuk’s words, I turned my back.

“Let’s go back.”

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“What? What’s the matter?”

When we went back, Olivia, Cynthia, and Charlotte, who were still here, were startled.
There wasn’t much blood on my body, but the bodies of the dungeon guardians who fought against the male bodies were literally covered in blood and flesh.

I calmed down the serious-looking women.

“It’s okay.”

As soon as the guardians of the dungeon crossed over, they each warped and disappeared.
I could see why they had disappeared by looking at their bodies that had just returned.
It seems that he went to a place with clean water and washed.

I asked the wet Basuk.

“Do you remember anything?”
“Yeah…”

She slumped to her knees.
We also took our seats and sat around her full of her thoughts.
The guardians of the other dungeons who went to the other side of the world together didn’t seem to remember anything in particular.
Therefore, I had no choice but to wait for Basuk to tell me something.

Olivia, Cynthia, and Charlotte also looked crazy with curiosity.
But I didn’t know anything either.
I went to the other side of the world, but all I saw was a ghastly sight, male bodies in heat.

Basuk took a deep breath and opened his mouth.

“I’m sorry. I needed time to sort out my emotions.”
“It’s okay, so speak slowly.”

At my words, once more, “Whoa…” Basuk breathed out and said.

“It’s because of Bloha that the world over there has changed like that.”

As soon as the name came out, the guardian women of other dungeons reacted violently.

“Ah! That’s right, that name!”
“Ahhh…”

She covered her head with a desperate expression or even shed tears.

“Bloha is a divine creature that is born once in a thousand years. Once such a being is born, it will rule the world for a thousand years. When the next Divine Being appears, they compete to determine who will rule for the next thousand years. Bloha was born as neither a woman nor a man. Such beings usually bring disaster. We despaired of the fate to come, and soon took measures.”
“Measures?”
“It was my first time trying it, so I wasn’t sure if it would work or not. However, disaster was clearly expected, but I couldn’t just let go. Originally, the highest priests who were supposed to assist the king gathered and cast magic.”

I could have guessed that one of the highest priests was Basuk.

“Originally, it was to hasten the birth of the next king, who should be born in a thousand years. It was a huge mana drain, and the lives of top priests were cut off in the process. As a result, only me and the newly born king were left.”
“Then you’re talking about success!”
“Yes… But the new king was still young and needed time. I needed space and time to nurture her because if she fought her Blo Ha in that state, she would lose. So I needed the next means.”

We all listened to Basuk’s words seriously.
Somehow I could guess what she was trying to say.

“It was hard to do anything in that world. No matter where you are or what you do, Bloha’s eyes will reach you. So I went ahead and proposed to Bloha myself. How about expanding our influence not only in this world, but also in other worlds?”
“You can’t!”

I was surprised.
I guessed that this world was the space to raise a new king, but the flow of the story Basuk told was different from what I expected.

“Sorry. But at the time, that was the only way. Or else our world was bound to be covered in darkness for a thousand years. That’s why I did the groundwork. To make this world full of mana and not much different from ours. In other words, they planted fruit trees. When the tree produced fruit, Bloha planned to come over and eat them. Such a plan was not made by me alone, but was made with the best priests who had already died.”
“Fruit trees…”

It was, of course, symbolic.
The substance that the symbol signified was dungeons and hunters.
Monsters and hunters have mana, and if their number increases, the mana density of this world will naturally increase.

“But that wasn’t all. Naturally, the top priests, including myself, had no intention of letting Blohaa come over to this world. It was just to buy time until he raised a new king and developed the strength to stand against Bloha. That’s why I made a door that will appear someday. When I was ready, I crossed over to this side of the world and blocked all the doors to keep Bloha from coming. The impact was so great that it brought about many changes. It was a change that I and the highest priests did not expect.”
“What is it?”
“Once I lost my memory. For decades, until today, I don’t remember any of it. I had a long sleep during that time.”
“Then…”

There was something missing from this story.
A very important part.

“What happened to the new king? Is he grown up?”

The world has changed like this for decades.
I don’t think the period of becoming an adult will be the same in both worlds, but I wondered if it wasn’t enough time for a new king to grow up.

“The new king we have awakened is gone.”

At Basuk’s words, everyone groaned.
In particular, the faces of the female guardians of the dungeon became disastrous.

But unexpectedly, Basuk’s face was not so dark.

“I realized it today. What became of the new king when he disappeared. That, too, was something neither I nor the highest priests expected. The king disappeared as he opened the door to this side of the world and created a dungeon. However, only his body disappeared, but his soul remained intact. The soul was formed from mana and inhabited an individual.”

Having said that, Basuk looked at me with deep eyes.
Naturally, everyone’s eyes turned to me.

“What? Me?”

I was startled.