Chapter 970 – 970. Yggdrasil (7)
As I looked around the workshop, following in the footsteps of the discussants, I suddenly remembered something I had forgotten.
‘Oh right. What happened to Souta?’
Because I was taken to a place with such strange weather, I forgot about it.
When he was dragged in, it looks like he wasn’t dragged in because he wasn’t there…
Thinking like that, I tried the soul summoning technique.
But before my eyes, it wasn’t Souta…
〈Beings with necromantic attributes are not permitted to enter the current location.〉
An impossible message appeared to welcome me.
However, I felt reassured thanks to the message.
‘If you don’t get summoned here, it means you weren’t brought in.’
With that thought in mind, I turned my gaze back to the interior of the workshop.
A workshop so long that it can be described as vast.
It continuously grants debuffs, and furthermore, if you die…
Cheeeeek! Quad deuk! Quad deuk!
A place neatly made out of dolls.
It was only the sixth time I had seen a corpse being made into a doll.
The debaters were afraid every time they saw that scene, but I actually had doubts.
‘They’re not attacking our side, are they?’
While the bodies of those who escaped first continued to be discovered, no damage occurred to us.
[Maybe it’s because of internal strife like they said.]
Kang Han-na’s words were persuasive to some extent.
Those who ran away would also have noticed the ban on the use of consumables, debuffs, and food spoilage.
As it is a group of red summoners, there would have been little patience, and internal divisions would have occurred quickly.
But…
‘I don’t think so.’
I denied that possibility as I saw the dolls looking at us from afar.
As soon as the Towers running in front saw the doll, they stopped and started looking at me.
“Uh, over there… The dolls…”
“Uh, what should I do… ?”
The two guys swallowed their saliva and looked at me.
‘… Did you bring it here for no reason?’
I wasn’t expecting great skills, but I hate guys who are too passive…
I sighed inwardly and immediately shot three arrows at the doll.
Shoot!
The three arrows that flew like that…
Kwasik! Kwazijic! Kwaduk!
The heads of the dolls that were standing in the middle of the fire were pierced.
About twenty dolls fell to the floor with their heads pierced by the three arrows I shot.
But in the meantime, the two dolls were standing unharmed.
I gestured toward the doll and spoke to the pagans.
“Try dealing with it.”
“Ah…”
They are not fools, so they probably understood what I said.
Now this is a test…
The two guys swallowed their saliva once and then…
“Aaaaah!”
He started rushing towards the doll.
And after colliding with the doll, they started fighting.
Result…
“Phew… I won.”
“No problem!”
It was a victory for the debaters.
However, there was something disappointing.
Although they say they won in a short period of time, it would be difficult to call it a landslide victory.
The opponents were bare-handed puppets, and the earthen men fought with weapons.
But on the other hand, I was able to get some information about the doll.
‘It’s more troublesome than a human.’
If it were an ordinary human being, it would have writhed in pain and not been able to fight properly if its arms or legs were cut off, but dolls were different.
Even if his arms and legs were cut off, he attacked as if he didn’t feel any pain.
‘But you lost to a doll like this?’
Even if the guys who ran away first were the lowest subordinates of the organization, they weren’t worth losing to a doll like this.
‘Is it because the debuffs overlap and potions and consumables cannot be used?’
Unlike the debaters, those who ran away first will continue to have overlapping debuffs.
It seemed like the debuff was making the condition worse and causing mistakes to be repeated.
“For now, this place has been sorted out. Let’s go.”
“Oh, I understand!”
It was the moment to start again.
Let’s get together!
I heard countless friction sounds that made my ears itch.
The identity of the fricative sound is…
“It’s happening again!?”
It was the sound of the dolls that had fallen down after being pierced through the head by me earlier getting up.
Rather, the dolls that had been torn apart by the potters only rattled and could not get up.
‘I don’t have a good compatibility with Archer.’
The advantage of a bow is that it can kill an opponent at once by hitting his or her vital point with one shot.
But unfortunately, there seemed to be no vital points for the dolls.
You can make it impossible to recover by shooting a superconductor arrow or using magic, but…
‘Hmm… No. It just worked out well.’
I took back the bow I was holding and spoke to the potters.
“Try to fight.”
“Yes?”
“Are you saying that just the two of us are going to fight those dolls?”
I nodded without answering.
The two guys looked at each other with despairing expressions…
“Hey!”
“I’m dying!”
In the end, I decided that I was more afraid and rushed at the dolls.
The fight itself didn’t take as long as expected.
About 10 minutes?
And the result…
“Huh! Huh!”
“Okay… It’s done.”
It was a victory for the debaters.
Parts of dolls were scattered at the feet of the potters.
‘You fight better than I thought.’
Even if the opponent had bare hands, they were all dolls that were stronger than a human.
Once you get hit by a fist, it will hurt much more than if you were hit by an ordinary person.
At least the situation is better.
The moment a body part is caught by the doll and dragged away, the game is over.
I was able to come to one conclusion by looking at the clay potters fighting with the doll.
‘It seems the debuff is more painful than I thought.’
Although it was the doll that killed the gang members, it was revealed that the final cause of their death was the debuff.
But there was one more reason I didn’t expect.
Cheeeeek!
“Huh?”
An arm came out from the giant machine next to it and began collecting parts from the broken dolls.
And then…
Cheeeeek! Quad deuk! Quad deuk!
I started to reassemble the broken dolls and create new parts.
And the completed parts…
Let’s go! Let’s go!
“It’s annoying…”
It started to be reassembled.
The debaters began to look at me with puzzled eyes, not yet able to catch their breath.
“Uh, what should I do?”
“Well, as it is…”
“…”
Fighting itself is a burden, and since it keeps replaying, I decided there was no answer.
And their judgment…
“Let’s take it out for now.”
I also actively agreed.
“There is no reason to lose strength to these dolls now. Let’s go quickly and catch the culprit.”
“Oh, yes!”
So I started running at a faster pace than before.
And in the back, the dolls that have finished playing…
Paaaaat!
It started running towards us.
‘The speed is also decent.’
From the moment we started fighting earlier, I continued to check the dolls’ level.
The reason was simple.
‘The ability to handle dolls… It would be nice to have it.’
It was because I wanted to learn if I could learn with Enel.
However, after hearing what I said, Kang Han-na expressed a negative opinion.
[I am against it. No matter how convenient it is, the ingredients are dead.]
‘But…’
When I said that, I felt uncomfortable.
It was too inhumane to consider only convenience.
[It doesn’t matter if it’s inhumane. I just don’t like the idea of you using a corpse doll.]
Haha…’
[I also have a separate body that I made, so why are you using such a crappy doll?
I kept running while listening to Kang Han-na’s nagging.
And as I ran like that…
Whip! Chang!
(No more, no more…!)
(Ugh!)
We were able to find the guys who ran away earlier.
The guys were running away like crazy without even putting up a proper fight with the doll.
There are three people left.
But the three people who were running away from the doll…
(Save me!!)
(Let go of this!!)
(Aaaaah!)
As soon as we arrived, we were reduced to two people.
One person surrounded by dolls was beaten up in an instant, and quickly became a body made of blood clots…
Cheeeeek! Quad deuk!
After entering the machine, it began to be assembled into a doll.
And the remaining two…
“Hey! “Run away!!”
“Holy shit!!”
As soon as he saw me, he gained strength and started running again, as if he had welcomed the messenger of death.
‘… ‘If anyone sees me, they’ll think I’m a real Shinigami.’
I laughed and shot an arrow at the dolls blocking us.
The arrow flies cheerfully…
Shoot! Quack! Kwaduk!
We pierced the heads of the dolls that were blocking our path.
I, who was in the rear, ran out in front of the protestors and shouted.
“From now on, run at full speed without thinking about swinging your weapon. “If you fail, I will abandon you!”
“Ugh! Yes!”
I ran at full speed and pierced the heads of the dolls that kept attacking me.
‘It’s not a critical point, but it can stop temporarily.’
The dolls whose heads were pierced were not damaged, but fortunately they did not wake up right away.
Thanks to that, I was able to break through without difficulty.
As I ran like that…
“Chu, it’s the exit!!”
The guys who were running away from before arrived at the door of the workshop first.
As soon as they saw the door, they hit it with their bodies…
Kwadaaang!
The door broke without any force due to the force they were pushing.
I heard shouts of joy from the guys running out the door.
“D-I finally got out!!!”
But the voice of joy was short-lived…
“W-this place…”
“What… What’s this… !”
A voice filled with despair was heard.
I wondered what on earth he was seeing, so I ran as hard as I could.
And it wasn’t long before I was able to go out the door.
Outside the door that went out like that, there was a flat land so wide that the end could not be seen, and in that flat land…
“Wow… What is this again? .”
There were so many dolls piled up here and there on the plain that it was impossible to count them.
