Chapter 70 – Bugs
‘Dancing with wolves’ awakened by the sound of clattering horses’ hooves.
Opening your eyes may not be the right expression.
It was because she was riding the same horse as the princess just a moment ago.
But she can’t remember in detail what she was doing since last night.
Her mind is hazy, as if there is a fog.
All she remembers properly was the result of the duel she had with the princess.
After all, she couldn’t beat the princess yesterday either.
“I’m sorry…”
“Why are you shaking?”
“Nothing.”
It’s a lie.
She knew for sure why he was wiggling her back and rubbing her crotch.
The moment I remembered last night’s defeat.
It was because her crotch throbbed, recalling the memory of the great pleasure she felt in admitting her defeat in her humiliating posture, like an animal with her belly bared.
She hated to admit it, but she couldn’t deny the obvious fact that she felt great pleasure at the time.
‘No. No! Even if all the combatants are lost, I am the boss of the organization.
There are still people who put their hopes on me and entrusted their lives to me.
She must overcome the duel with Princess Yin as soon as possible and protect them.
It’s not the time to be like this!’
‘Dances with wolves’ shakes its head.
As she made up her mind, a sense of incongruity flashed through her mind that she had forgotten.
I learned something very important from my conversation with the princess last night.
It was about his abilities.
It was the information she needed to win her duel with him, but what was it?
“Ugh…”
As I tried to recall that fact, a throbbing headache overtook ‘Dances with Wolves’.
She frowned and touched her forehead.
After a while, when she returned to her posture, her headache and the feeling of discomfort she had just felt had long since disappeared.
‘Nothing strange.
As the princess ordered, she was wearing only her underwear under the poncho and leather coat.
The mark of a loser drawn under her belly button is still intact.
Have I become too sensitive because there is nothing to unravel?’
‘Dancing with the Wolves’ took a deep breath to calm herself, fidgeting with her pistol at her belt.
The pure white skin under the thick belt was painted with more graffiti than yesterday.
A lot of it was covered by the belt and underwear, but I could make out a few words like ‘loser’, ‘hole’, and ‘fucker’.
It was only when she looked down at them that she regained her composure.
Purreung
Could she have noticed her uneasiness?
Christine, the horse, snorts and stops her in her tracks.
“Are you trying to comfort the owner? That’s a very clever statement.”
The princess blew her whistle in admiration.
However, the response to ‘Dances with Wolves’ was different.
She exclaims as she leaps from her saddle.
“No, this isn’t like that!
There’s something around!”
“Master, the beast is approaching from a distance of 200 meters! At this speed, we will meet you in twenty seconds!”
Kang Ji-ah, who followed from a few meters away, shouted loudly.
Upon hearing her report, the drowsy expression on the princess’s face suddenly changes.
Standing erect on her saddle, he glanced around in an instant.
There’s nothing.
Because it is a dry plain, the visibility far exceeds several kilometers.
Even so, the beast that was said to be 200m away was not visible.
Then the only place left is the sky or…
“It’s under the ground!
Damn, since when did you come into the realm of bugs?!
There’s no way I wouldn’t have noticed that!”
‘Dances with Wolves’ explodes in anger.
They say they’ve been in a daze since last night, but I never thought I’d make a mistake like this!
She drew her pistol in each of her hands and drew her cleaver.
A cold sound of metal clanking echoes.
“Bug?”
“It’s a beast breeding south of Daejeon!
It looks like a mealworm that burrows and travels, but it’s big enough to swallow a horse whole!
They detect prey through vibrations, watch out!”
“It’s my fault. I took you hypnotized, the only one of us who is familiar with the situation here.”
“Hypnosis? What are you talking about? Don’t talk about forgetting the ghosts and prepare for the shock!”
A princess who does not move even in an urgent situation and mumbles calmly.
‘Dancing with Wolves’ screams at him, and at the same time, Kang Ji-ah’s warning sound is heard.
“They’re aiming for the master! They’re so huge, be careful!”
Hee hee!
The earth is vibrating.
The heavy vibration of something huge moving forward through the sand gradually becomes clearer.
The frightened horses raised their front legs and screamed.
As the horse’s back leans, the princess spurts off the saddle and leaps away from his horses.
Did you even think of being a bait?
‘Dancing with wolves’ screams.
“Princess!”
“Master! Master…”
“Sister, it’s okay. Trust your brother.”
Shin Eun-seo immediately catches Kang Ji-ah, who is about to run toward Gongju-in.
Kang Ji-ah’s movements stopped at the confident words of Shin Eun-seo, who had been with Gongju-in for the longest time among them.
The princess who jumped into the air gathers all her strength on her feet.
It was the moment when his body was pulled by gravity and touched the ground.
He stomped his foot hard and made a loud noise.
Boom!
The impact was so strong that the hooves of nearby horses slightly bounced off the ground.
The vibration was clearly transmitted to the beast in the ground as well.
The next moment, the jaws of a huge beast burst out of the ground with a sound like oil exploding from the ground.
Watching closely under his feet, the princess jumped right before the beast jumped out and escaped the attack.
It was a very agile attack.
It would have been difficult to deal with it if he had not known in advance that the beast was coming.
As the beast thumps its massive body, its sand is scattered in all directions.
The sound of the wild beast chewing the air hits my ears, as if I had mistaken it for snatching prey.
“It’s ridiculous. Seeing that and avoiding it…
With human reflexes, how?”
“Dancing with wolves,” He murmured.
It’s hard to believe, but it actually happened.
Her eyes trembled.
The beast, as she said, looked like a caterpillar.
Inside the wide open mouth, you can see the fangs that look like fishing hooks are tightly packed.
The slightly curved tip of the teeth is a beast’s unique body structure for injecting miasma into its prey.
If you get bitten even slightly, you won’t be able to save your life.
It was fat like a sweet potato and looked at least 10 meters in length, and it had a terrible appearance with wrinkled and even rough outer skin covered with sticky mucus.
Although most beasts are hideous in appearance, this one was particularly grotesque.
Is the lack of eyes an evolution by the ecology of swimming under the ground without a single light?
The beast, realizing that it had been fooled, let out a piercing roar.
It was as big as his body, and it was an unpleasant cacophony.
The beast bent over like a worm and pointed its mouth toward the ground.
Since he had failed in his hunt, he must have intended to hide again and seek an opportunity.
“No. 7!”
Boldly enough, the princess shouted, standing just one step away from the beast.
Unknowingly, he calls Shin Eun-seo, as was his habit in the hunting unit.
Of course she knew what she had to do.
Bang!
Aww!
The wild beast, which was trying to hide by digging into the ground, let out a scream as green blood flowed from its mouth.
It had its head driven into the magic barrier created just below the soft sandy bottom.
The densely grown fangs break in groups and fall down into the rainwater, just like caterpillars falling from a shaken pine tree.
The shocked beast twisted his whole body like an earthworm trampled by the soles of his shoes, writhing in agony.
“Master!”
Kang Ji-ah, who jumped off his horse, approached Gongju-in in a month, and he nodded.
The beast’s entire body, excluding the tail, is exposed on the ground.
Now was the right time to attack.
Two body-enhancing wizards radiated eye light and prepared to attack.
Then, ‘Dances with Wolves’ stopped them.
“Wait a minute, their weak point is closed! The vital organs are concentrated there.
Can you pull it out somehow?”
“It’s going to be difficult on my own, but I think it’s possible if I join forces with Mengmeong.
Let’s try it now while he’s out of his mind.”
“I don’t really want to catch it because it’s dirty and sticky at first glance… I can’t help it.”
Kang Ji-ah lets out her complaint, but unlike her words, her eyes are burning with fighting spirit.
They approached the rear end of the beast, driven into the ground like a stake, and seized its massive body.
Because of the slippery slime, it was impossible to hold on to his skin, and he had no choice but to force himself into the beast’s flesh.
As both of their hands are driven in like nails, the beast, feeling threatened, groans and wriggles its body.
But it was already too late.
“Huuuuu!”
“My, the smell…!”
Ji-ah Kang screams and Gongju-in cheers, and the beast’s tail comes out like a thick tree uprooted.
A sharp gunshot pierced the air as the white, swollen tail, like that of a queen ant, was finally exposed on the ground.
‘Dances with wolves’ poncho and leather coat fluttered, raising both hands, revealing bare skin wearing only a belt and underwear.
But she has none of her shyness.
It was because it was natural for her now.
The magic bullet fired by ‘Dancing with Wolves’ tears the beast’s flesh.
His stomach was exposed, and his dark red internal organs were clearly visible.
Feeling threatened for his life, the beast burrowed into the sand again and moved his mouth, only to ram his head into the solid barrier still guarding the surface.
Kweeeeek!
The beast roared with all its might, and the ground shook with a thumping sound.
“Keugh!”
As the desperate beast shook his body, even Princess Gong and Jia Kang could no longer hold on to the body of the beast.
The struggle to get free was so desperate that the flesh near where they had pierced their hands fell whole from the beast’s torso.
Like a lizard cutting off its tail, the flesh was cut off.
“Okay, just let it go!”
At that time, ‘dance with wolves’ was shouted.
The two men who were about to land an extra hit stopped their pursuit when they heard her voice.
She also gave instructions to Shin Eun-seo.
“Remove the barrier to enter the ground.”
“…”
Shin Eun-seo looked at her blankly, and the princess nodded her head.
Seeing this, she dismantled the barriers that prevented the beast from escaping.
Freed, the beast in an instant burrowed into the soft sand and disappeared.
It only took a few seconds for the large body to disappear beneath the ground.
It was formidable speed.
The princess asked as she watched the hole being filled.
“I threw something at the end, are you okay with that?”
“It’s okay. Remember the bomb that brought down the cliff last time? I threw it into the wound.
If it explodes in a cramped place like a tunnel, no matter how huge it is, it will be crushed without a shape left.”
“As expected, the workmanship is excellent.”
“Are you cheating? I don’t want to hear from you who beat me many times.”
“Dances with Wolves,” Clicked his tongue with a tsk.
Then I heard a faint thud from the ground and felt a slight vibration.
Moments later, a fountain of sand and green liquid spewed out of the hole the beast had dug.
The beast’s corpse, which had been turned into porridge by the pressure of the explosion, was pushed all the way to the ground.
She muttered as she watched her silently.
“I’m glad.”
“That’s right. Thanks to you giving me information about him, I defeated him without any damage. Thank you.”
“No, that’s a relief, of course. I meant it’s a relief to be able to completely destroy his corpse.
If you kill the beast and dispose of the corpse, the miasma will permeate it.
Even without the addition of such a guy, this land is already defiled enough.”
“It’s the poison of an ancient beast that is turning the entire south of Daejeon into a desert…
Have you ever thought about getting rid of it?”
When the princess said, ‘Dancing with wolves’ sneered.
It was a self-deprecating laugh.
“How many times do you think we’ve tried in two hundred years?
Even the aristocrats of the highest ranks could not solve this problem.
The people here didn’t choose any means…
It wasn’t long before I even came to the point of relying on scammers who claim to be experts.
Of course, now I realize that all of them are useless.
Even…”
She swallowed her words for a moment.
“Even the magic banned by the government, the magic that uses people’s lives in exchange, had no effect.
It’s clear that my parents experimented with their own lives.”
“Shouldn’t you rather have left this place to do that? No matter how important your hometown is.”
‘Dancing with Wolves’ didn’t answer.
After her moment of silence, she turned to face her god standing on her horse.
“The horses have red pouches on the sides of their saddles, so activate them.
Because there can’t be only one bug.
It is a magic tool that temporarily blocks vibrations from occurring.
It’s a must when passing near a mining town.
There’s never-ending noise in the mines, so it’s always bug territory.”
“Uh, does the mine work in that situation?”
“It’s thanks to the magic tool that spreads a lot of noise throughout the area.
That’s what makes bugs unable to identify their prey.
If it goes away, it won’t go a day and I’ll be annihilated.”
“I see.”
Shin Eun-seo, who nodded her head, channeled her magical energy into the magic tool hanging from her saddle.
Then the red pouch shone softly and made a hum.
It started working
“I don’t have to worry about bugs anymore, but these are consumables.
Get out of town as soon as possible.”
‘Dancing with wolves’, riding on her horse with agile movements, said, and the princess riding behind her nodded her head.
“The hideout where your gang’s non-combatants are hiding is right near this town?
Guide me there Micah, throw that bastard there and go.”
As I listened to his words, the headache came again.
‘Dances with Wolves’ raised its head.
“Did I… Even say that?
I don’t think I would ever talk about non-combatants, especially to strangers like you…”
“What are you talking about, you said it out of your mouth.
Come on, don’t think too hard. Grab the reins and guide me.”
The princess speaks in a soft voice.
She thought desperately in her slowly growing head.
Duties as the boss of the organization, vigilance toward the princesses, measures for the future, and so on.
It was about time complicated thoughts filled her head.
Right!
“Ah…”
The princess snaps her fingers.
Hearing that sound, ‘Dancing with Wolves’ opened its eyes wide.
It was because the headache disappeared in an instant.
Feeling her refreshed as her throbbing headache went away, she involuntarily leaned her back against her princess’s chest.
“What was I talking about?”
“I said I’d take you to your gang’s hideout.”
When the princess answered as if she had waited, ‘dancing with wolves’ felt a pleasant relief.
The discomfort she had felt a moment ago had long since disappeared.
I felt like I had to listen to him, and it felt so good.
“Yes, it was. I’m sorry, I’ve been distracted lately…
Ok I know this place Just follow me.”
‘Dancing with the Wolves’ smiled and slammed the reins.
