Chapter 946 – On the Last Ear
A mysterious phrase that Matan has awakened.
At first glance, it didn’t seem like a good thing for our Matan subjugation team, so we prepared our own countermeasures.
However, waiting did not change anything.
At least on the surface.
“Ummm…”
I stroked my chin, closed my eyes, sensed my surroundings, and found out something.
However, there is a possibility that even this fact is an illusion caused by great power… Let’s test it.
“Mr Pristan.”
“Hmm?”
I spoke to the giant man next to me in robot-like armor.
“I have a favor to ask of you.”
“What is it? You mean to deal with the ghost monsters under that pit?”
He clenched his fists as if he was trembling but excited.
I shook my head and said.
“Do you see that tall tower?”
“Hmm? Hmm. It’s an unknown religious tower that used to exist only in Matan.”
“Yes. Can you come over there?”
“?”
“…”
“?”
“…”
The staring eyes are burdensome.
“…Hey, eight days. Could it be that you’re asking Pristan to do such a trifling errand?”
There’s no way a super-high-class manpower like a ranker would be happy with something like an errand boy.
Also, I must lie down.
“Yes, Mr. Pristan, because this is something only you can do, and I trust you the most out of all the people here.”
Defense. I didn’t add the word, but I’m not lying.
Pristan was shocked.
“What, what?!”
“Eh.”
“?”
Now ex. Who made the sound
Turning around, it was Kitz.
The boy had his eyes wide open in shock.
Even that face was handsome, so I felt like shit in the world, so I threw the speed star skill, but Garcinido blocked it and glared at me fiercely.
Scared.
“Please, Mr. Pristan. This is only possible for you, the hardest among us!!”
“…Khahaha! Good! Our leader clings to me like this, but it’s not the right thing to do!”
Unlike before, Pristan wanted to do some gymnastics with a voice full of enthusiasm, and then ran at a tremendous speed that was unbelievable for such a giant.
I don’t know, but if you get hit by that rush, even a large, gentle monster will turn into crushed meat in an instant.
Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud…
Far away, the sound of his dull footsteps recedes.
I stroked my chin, convinced that I was right.
“Hey. I know that Pristan’s defensive power recognizes it, but isn’t it too much to send it alone?”
Maya, who is cute in the world when doing naughty things, but is usually squeamish, said the right thing.
The other rankers, O’Brien and Raina, seemed to be of the same opinion.
However, Paltraman didn’t criticize and put his hand on my shoulder and sighed. Said, running her finger.
“Hmph. Doesn’t Dre have an idea?”
“…Since when did you say you called him in a friendly way?”
Maiya growled at Faltra’s words.
Reina stares at me again, then our eyes meet and she turns her eyes away.
Uh
How can all of our female rankers be so cute?
I felt everyone’s eyes on me and cleared my throat.
“Everyone. Even if you walk a little bit, magic bullets are moved to a completely different place, right?”
Users shaking their heads.
This route, not knowing where it would lead, was an element that made it almost impossible for users to complete individual missions or join in the middle.
“Of course I can’t hear footsteps, can I?”
“Yes!!”
The female martial artist of Clan Maiya raised her hand and answered with her eyes twinkling.
He pointed at her and nodded her head, feeling that the exposure of her armpits and her side breasts was very sexy.
It’s not for nothing that school teachers like honor students who always answer questions in class.
“Now. Then how about now?”
…Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud.
The distant footsteps approach.
Pristan is coming back.
“…Uh?”
“Hmm!”
Those with keen eyes sensed what I was talking about.
Exactly.
The returned Pristan crossed her arms triumphantly and looked down at me.
I said I had a hard time, tapping his arm and giving him a thumbs up.
“That’s right. The current warped time and space of Matan has returned to its original state.”
“…!”
“That…!”
“Why did that suddenly happen?”
Confused users.
This time I spoke to my scholar brother.
“Scholar brother.”
“Hmm?”
“Please release the barrier that blocks the access of strange phenomena and ghost monsters.”
“…Is that okay?”
Scholar older brother asked, taking turns between me and Kitz.
I nodded, and Katz stared at me.
“? What?”
“…”
“What’s that eye? It stabbed me… It was a joke Mr. Garcinido. Haha. How would you stab our precious warrior’s precious eyes?”
But Kitz still flirts with me.
I looked around and asked.
“What’s the matter?”
“Why ask permission from someone I don’t trust?”
“…”
No this bastard
Did you just say that?
If I didn’t say that, Pristan wouldn’t have gone!!
[Even if the kid’s guess is wrong, it’s just that he used Pristan, which seems to be safe even if attacked by grotesque phenomena or ghost monsters, and is simple and doesn’t seem to cause any harm.]
[As expected, Drehem is trash.]
Shut up you trash.
Don’t trash me
There is such a thing as the right place in the world.
What pissed me off even more was that the female players around me were cheering that Kitz was cute.
“Ah. You’re my boss, so of course you have to ask permission. Yes. The friend I trust the most is Pristan, and the one I trust the most is Katz, right? Yes.”
“It’s a really nasty soulless voice.”
The intangible doesn’t notice, no. I was quick to notice, so I punched him in the face.
Of course, they soon counterattacked with headlocks, and I had no choice but to struggle for my life.
And Katz said.
“…Hmm. Yeah, what. Scholar.”
“?!”
“Eh?”
Did you solve it?
That bastard, was he such a child?
Unknowingly, I and Intangible looked at each other and then slowly fell apart.
“Well… Yes. Dre, you’ll take care of it.”
The Scholar type is also needlessly high in reliability, just like the Scholar type.
Anyway, the scholar-hyung solved all barriers and spells.
And. I suddenly released my strength in a gap where everyone was nervous.
Coo coo coo coo.
“…”
“…”
Darkness radiated from my body, but nothing happened.
Be ashamed
“Now that. Are you trying to scare me?”
Maya’s pitiful eyes hurt my heart.
I cleared my throat and looked around at the people.
“You know now? Along with the warped space-time, the grotesque phenomenon has also disappeared.”
“…Ah!”
Maya was startled.
Buzz buzz.
Users whispered.
“How the hell did this happen?”
“Could it be that the seventh return was the last one? So the magic bullet’s curse was lifted?”
I pointed to the user I just mentioned and said.
“Almost got it right!”
“Uh huh?”
Seeing him bewildered, I said confidently.
“This happened not long after we completed the Seventh Homecoming. It must have something to do with it.”
At my words, the female fighter from earlier raised her hand and spoke cautiously.
“Uh… So what Mr. Dre said is that this phenomenon is related to the quest…?”
However, those who say that quests cannot be renewed for such things.
Of course, there was an answer to that too.
“The reason it’s not being renewed is because this is a special area.”
“Special… Ah…!”
O’Brien exclaimed.
Yes.
This place has to be special.
This is the devil’s nest.
Because this is where the bodies of the Eight Kings are coiled.
Perhaps there is a special wave blocking the renewal of the quest, or it may simply be that the quest is renewed only when the conditions for entering the next section are met.
“… Huh? Wait. That’s a bit strange.”
O’Brien noticed a sense of incongruity.
“Wasn’t the return route written to avoid a collision with the demon king? No, isn’t this magic bullet itself related to the demon?”
But why is the quest interrupted because the evil spirit’s nest is nearby? O’Brien asked me with his eyes.
“We used to think so.”
He said that the Matan quest would be a quest connected to the evil spirit.
It was inevitable that the existence of the evil spirit was too great.
That monstrous Kaiju drove users to death and madness just by existing.
“However, if you think carefully about history, the evil soul was only sealed in the already destroyed magic bullet.”
“…Ah…!!”
O’Brien exclaimed again.
It wasn’t just him, but several of them, including brilliant geniuses, scholars and homuns, opened their eyes.
“Wait, why are you talking about something only you know?”
Maiya frowned, and Paltra smiled at her.
“Don’t you know?”
“…You seem to be secretly quarreling with me lately.”
“I’m in the mood. What? What Dre’s trying to say is this.”
With Faltra all listening, she spoke clearly.
“The reason we came to Matan was that while investigating the quest, we saw a phrase to use the Exile Church, and our clan members were kidnapped by them while investigating the quest, and there were eight monster kings here, and the quest reward was so huge. Because it did.”
And until now, we thought that the reward was absurdly generous because we were related to the Kaiou.
“That idea was wrong. Magic bullets were not the main quest location for the Kaiou.”
Growing gossip.
As Paltra said.
Magican was destroyed first, and then the evil spirits that were elsewhere were sealed in Magican.
Me, until now, we thought it became a ghost town after the evil spirits came to Matan, but it also makes sense that we placed monsters suitable for it in a place that was already a ghost town.
“…If the Kaiou isn’t the main quest, then what is the main?”
“What? Didn’t the system give us a hint just now? Magican has awakened.”
At that, a few looked more enlightened, and some, including Pristan, seemed still puzzled.
I resisted her desire to place my hand on Faltra’s bare shoulder and gave her a gentle pat on the back to thank her.
Paltra smiled enchantingly at me, and while trying to get her, her Reina roughly grabbed her and glared at her.
“What are you doing, little boy?”
“Looks like my contractor is trying to explain, don’t interrupt!”
Putting the cute fight aside, I raised my voice to finish the explanation.
“The phrase that the magic bullet has awakened is a hint. In other words, the enemy is the magic bullet itself.”
While everyone was silent and looking at me, I continued to speak in a clear voice.
“Matan’s nickname is Ghost City. The enemy is, of course, a ghost.”
But evil spirits are not enemies.
To be precise, it is an existence that does not need to be fought.
He just happened to exist here, and he is a being with a quest separate from magic bullets.
I… Looked at the presence in my heart and said.
“The obstacle and main enemy for the final return are probably the destroyed inhabitants of Matan.”
Horrible ghosts who remained unable to attain Buddhahood.
People of Mattan.
Spirits that were strong enough to kill even top users in an instant!
“They were the protagonists of this quest.”
Come to think of it, the Exorcist’s behavior was also strange.
The other time, when Maya and O’Brien fell into the trap of the spirits of the people of the Kingdom of Mattan, the Exorcism Cult was acting together with the users by using the perception change.
Generally speaking, it would have been easier in many ways to join the spirits and intercept the users while being attacked by the spirits.
However, the Gwiuikyo only waited and watched.
One reason.
The spirits of Matan are not friendly to them either.
The Exile Cult was just avoiding a fight by grasping certain rules of magic bullets.
“…Is that so. So the nobleman who was neither a demon nor a ghost was attacked…”
That moment when Kitz muttered with a face that he realized something.
Pod. Papapat.
Me. Kitz. Intangible. Even if you teach. Maya felt alive and looked into the distance.
Beyond a tiny, torn space.
Tall tower.
Perhaps, some building that looks like a palace.
There, something is aiming a bow this way.
Sharpened life skills sharpened and polished, and a bow flowing with incredibly powerful energy…!!
I couldn’t help but open my mouth at that incredible density of energy.
“Kits!!”
Before I could say anything, Kitz had already deployed a light barrier to protect us all.
And.
Aaaaa
An arrow shot like a beam of light.
The arrows were as thick as clubs, and contained a large amount of ‘Ryunar’.
“Oh my god.”
The scholar brother muttered.
Okay.
There was no way a ghost monster would use Ryunar.
Well, who?
And.
Aaaaa…
The arrow passed over our heads without any of the users hitting it.
Did I miss…?
I thought … For a while.
Kwajik.
Realizing what that arrow was aiming at, we turned slightly pale.
It wasn’t aimed at us in the first place.
What the arrow was aiming for… In that pit.
It was aimed at the monster called the king of ghosts.
[Quaaaaa-!!!!!!]
An old voice shaking the heavens and the earth.
Suddenly, the huge ghost who was hit by the attack was furious.
Kwak Kwa Kwa Kwa Kwa Kwam.
The earth shook, and a white hand radiating pure white light protruded from the abyss.
A hand jumped out, and the swamp-like abyss and spirits scattered everywhere like splashed water droplets.
Before long, the hand fell down on us.
Aaaaang!
Holy shit.
Excited!!
