Chapter 164 – Western City Morphea (4)
“Are you talking down here?”
“Yes. The compass points down here. How can this be any different?”
One common thing that dirty guys do is to build their hideout in a dark cave or underground where no one comes.
It would be a good idea to build it in a place where it can be seen clearly. It’s just my wish.
“So are you going in here? I don’t want to go in…”
“If there are foolish people here, there is no reason for us to pass by. Especially if they are the ones blocking God’s path.”
Yuria made a disapproving expression, but Freya firmly cut her off.
“If you’ve come this far, there’s no reason not to go in. Well, to put it another way, there’s equipment in this shitty place. It’s equipment that can be used to summon Elsha.”
“Then the moving order is the same?”
She nodded her head in response to Lien’s question.
In our union, I think that position is the best no matter what.
The leader is Lien.
Lien would be best suited here when quickly and quietly suppressing an enemy that suddenly appears.
Yuria and Renia have a bit of a flashy feel when they subdue their enemies.
I have become stronger now, so I can overpower most enemies, but there is something that happens every time.
Next is Yuria.
She is here and she is the one who can facilitate the battle whether it is close range or long range.
Therefore, she can provide immediate assistance to Lien, and if an enemy appears that Lien cannot deal with, she can also act as the first to attack from behind.
Since it is a Dragon Knight that has been used for many purposes in games, it still plays a good role today.
Then comes the middle.
Actually, I think it would be better for me to go next to Lien, but if I go that way, everyone will be against it, saying it could put me in danger.
Everyone here thinks that not getting hurt is incomparably more important than defeating Void.
It’s not like I can’t understand that kind of thinking anymore.
It means that you value me that much.
Next is Freya.
I think this is the best position for the Crusader, who can support us from behind while giving us buffs.
You can give skills that protect the person in front of you, or you can help by momentarily restraining enemies that the person in front of you cannot deal with due to lack of hands.
And the last one is Renia.
Since he can be said to be a long-distance attack expert, I think it would be right to place him at the very back as rear support.
And even if an enemy appears right behind you, it’s not like Rayna can’t take it down on her own.
Because the strongest person here is Renia.
We all agreed to move in this order and we stood in front of the entrance indicated by the compass.
When I look around, I see buildings surrounding this place in an open area, so I think this might be the city’s plaza.
There is a large hole in the middle of the square, forming something like stairs that you can go down.
It is said to be an artificially created structure because it has stairs and the like, but the rough surface does not seem to have been built by city builders to perform any function.
Looking in from the outside of the entrance, numerous torches are burning brightly on the walls of the inner passage, as if to prove that someone is staying here.
“Just looking at this tells me there’s someone here. So, shall we go down?”
Everyone agreed with me and went down, maintaining the formation mentioned above.
The stairs going down were so long that I couldn’t clearly see the end.
What kind of guy is hiding in a place like this?
Looking at this structure, it is clear that he is a disgusting being, as he desperately feels that he does not want to reveal his existence.
How far did it go down?
When we arrived at the end of the stairs, we were greeted by an incredibly large space in the basement.
The inner space was lined with rooms carved out of stone, and the entrances to the rooms were blocked by iron bars, making it feel like a prison.
We quickly exited the stairs and hid behind the structure to hide ourselves.
If all five of us moved at once, someone might get caught, so we moved one by one as carefully as possible.
“Hmm… What on earth are you doing here… I have no idea.”
“It must have taken a lot of time to create this much space, but I think there must be some reason why so many rooms were created.”
I’m not sure what the intention was, but the fact that a large space, almost like a plaza, was created underground has a certain intention.
“The problem is that I don’t think it will be easy to move any further than this.”
As Lien said, this space is currently a plaza with almost no cover, with numerous rooms surrounding it facing the center of the plaza, so if we move incorrectly, our movements will be exposed.
If this happens, there is no point in sneaking in.
“Wait! Is something coming out there?”
While we were thinking about how to move, Yuria carefully pointed in a direction with her finger.
As we looked in the direction Yuria was pointing, a person approached one of the many rooms.
Is that… A person?
I don’t know what kind of person he is, but judging by his current attire, he doesn’t seem like an ordinary person.
At first glance, the person wearing dark-colored, shabby clothes looked like a common urban gangster.
Come to think of it, Cherry said that Morphia City here is controlled by people from the underworld.
Could it be that this place was not created by Void, but is a hideout for people from the backworld?
Among them, there was a person who could brainwash living things, I thought.
But that thought immediately disappeared as the changes unfolded before my eyes.
That’s because a person who looked like a gangster came out of the room, inserted what looked like a key into the iron bars, opened the door, and took out the person inside.
The person inside walked out weakly, looking skinny, as if he had been trapped for a long time.
It wasn’t strange up to that point.
The problem came after that.
When the person who looked like a gangster said something to the person who came out of the room, the person started holding his head and suffering.
Then, my body changed and I became familiar with it.
“Is that… A ghoul?”
“I guess so? It looks like you came to the right place.”
A person took the form of a demon.
This alone proves that this is a place related to voids.
The person who turned into a ghoul before our eyes walked slowly in the direction pointed by the gangster and disappeared before our eyes.
Starting with that person, several people began to take out the gangster from the room, and each person began to change the appearance of the demon.
There were many different types of demons, but one thing they had in common was that they were not high-level demons.
After those people turned into demons, they moved in the same direction that the person who had first turned into a ghoul had walked earlier.
“I have no idea what this space is doing.”
I agreed with Lenia’s words and nodded at her.
This is a place where many of these people are trapped and fused with demons…
“Some of the people who came out earlier entered this city during the day!”
While we were thinking about it, Yuria said that it was amazing what she had discovered.
“Is that really true? So… That means those people were people who lived here or came to visit the city?”
Did they brainwash people, move them, and then gather them here?
And… Fused with a demon?
“Maybe this is a testing ground for Voids.”
“A testing site?”
The scene that unfolded before my eyes looked like an experimental site where numerous people were drawn in and fused with various demons.
“If you think about it, fusing a demon and a human would not have been an easy task. There would be no guarantee of success in one go.”
“For that purpose, they captured people and used them as test subjects. It certainly seems like a possibility.”
In the first place, the fusion of demons and humans was a concept that did not even exist in games.
Since coming to this world, when I look at things related to games, the only phenomenon I don’t know about is the fusion of Void’s demons and humans.
However, in reality, achieving success itself would not have been easy.
Arceus, who probably knew how to fuse demons and people, would have created his minions through various experiments like now.
“Besides, it would be even better if there was an entity here that could brainwash people. You can brainwash people who have fused with demons and use them as your minions.”
“Then let’s wait for a while. When the gangster takes out all the people over there, we can catch them and interrogate them to find out.”
We watched with as much silence as we could as the thug took the people out of the room.
How much time has passed?
Seo-eun, the girl who took out people in her room and turned them into her demons, seemed to have done her job. She whistled and tried to walk in the direction where the people who had turned into demons had gone.
〈Power of God: Bondage〉
But before moving in that direction, Freya created a ring of light and bound the gangster.
“Uh, what is this? Uh…!”
Suddenly, the bound hoodlum was startled and was about to scream when Lien quickly ran up to her, covering her mouth and immediately dragging her to our hiding place.
I have a lot to ask this guy.
