Chapter 328 – 328. The Exposed Breeding Grounds (2)
Quaang!
“…”
Erin and Lily looked at each other blankly as Optimus punched, kicked, and trampled the collapsed building at the casino hotel building, and Erin and Lily were speechless.
The action of the blue steel golem, which was rampaging and destroying the hotel building, was carried out by none other than Emilia’s remote control.
However, it is a light movement that seems to contain some kind of emotion in the violence embedded in the movement.
“… Emilia, you seem very excited right now?”
As if they were eager to show off their new toy.
The breezy and light movements seem to represent the feelings of the remote controller.
Although the expression that the movement of a giant golem that seems to be about four times its own size is light and light is a contradiction in meaning.
That’s what Erin felt.
“I don’t understand the meaning of the word ‘exciting.'”
Emilia calmly responded to Erin’s words.
“Uh, yes… What… If you are, then so be it.”
After the building collapsed, the dukedom’s soldiers arrived late and looked shocked when they saw the size of Optimus beyond common sense.
“Eh, what the hell is it? That steel golem!?”
From a distance, I thought it was an unusually large golem, but when I saw it up close, it was not easy to decide to even stand up to its majesty.
Soon, the sergeant pulled out the sword worn on his waist and pointed it at Optimus, shouting.
“Don’t stand still, attack!”
Caang!
Following the commander’s order, the weapons of the soldiers who had attacked Optimus’ legs collided with the armor of the legs all at once.
However, the soldiers’ weapons bounced off with an absurd repulsive force, and they did not even scratch Optimus’s gloves, let alone damage them.
No matter how mere the weapons and strength of those who are just ordinary soldiers, Erin is fed up with the overwhelming defense power displayed by Optimus.
“… What the hell did you make of it?”
Suddenly, he summoned a huge wagon called a truck from his inventory, and when he started transforming into a humanoid and became a steel golem four or five times the size of a human, his heart really stopped.
[Three-digit magic]
[Fire Arrow]
A number of wizards who arrived late created dozens of arrows of flame and began to attack Optimus at once.
Kwaaang!
Optimus’s body was pushed back little by little by the impact of the magic bombardment that continued for over a minute without a break.
He stepped backwards on his legs, supporting and holding on to the weight of his being pushed downward.
“Detect internal damage caused by overheating. 31% drop in output. Cooling magic works. We record any problems encountered during the test run.”
The arrows of flame hit in succession caused a series of explosions, resulting in rapid overheating of Optimus’ internal parts.
The quickest and easiest solution was to exclude the wizards, who were virtually the cause, but Eun-hyeon did not allow them to fight back against humans.
“Emilia. Enough now. I… Did you say Optimus? Put it in now.”
“… I accept your order.”
Emilia, still unsatisfied with the progress of her test operation, put on a troubled expression for a moment, but in the end she accepted Erinn’s order.
For puppets, the orders of masters and submasters are absolute.
“You can try other golems inside instead. Is this okay?”
“Thank you for the sub-master’s consideration.”
Emilia nodded her head in affirmation.
When Emilia opened the inventory and reverse summoned Optimus, the soldiers and wizards of the dukedom began to panic as the giant golem suddenly concealed its identity.
“This, this magic can’t be… !”
Some wizards looked shocked when they read the possibility that it might be a high-ranking magic like teleport in the inventory magic.
In front of the casino hotel building where Optimus disappeared in an instant, a calm and futile silence came from a sudden catastrophic situation that suddenly changed.
“Bird, start searching for survivors!”
The sergeant who woke up late and came to his senses started to search for survivors who might be buried under the rubble of the building.
“Sister, did you really evacuate all the people inside the hotel in advance?”
“Huh. I also checked last. No one was inside the hotel and casino.”
Lily has been giving hints to all the staff and guests inside the casino hotel since last night.
‘If we don’t leave now, everyone will die.’
The strong suggestion from the ability of a middle-level succubus stimulated people’s anxiety and fear, and not a single one could resist Lily’s mental control.
“Awesome… I can’t give such precise orders or brainwashing…”
Erin looked at Lily with her eyes full of wonder and envy.
Among the several commonalities that exist between Erin and Lily, the most unusual commonality is that they have the brainwashing ability to manipulate other people’s emotions.
Even so, there was a clear notion of the difference in ability.
At the current level of Erinn, she can distort the other person’s emotions to bring out, erase, or amplify certain emotions.
On the other hand, Lily is different.
A level where she can infuse her opponent’s memories, common sense, and even emotions as she pleases.
Of course, if you inject an idea that requires precision, the power consumption increases rapidly.
Lily’s side is one step above the limits of the possible range in the use of brainwashing and mind control abilities.
Accepting Erin’s gaze at her, Lily smiled bitterly at her.
“Erin is amazing. The only power I have is this. I don’t know how to fight at all, and this is an ability I learned recently from Illyana-sama and was able to use it. I can’t compare it to Erin, who has been trained for a long time.”
“Still… Unnie can do things that I can’t.”
[Hmph, stupid thing. How dare you compare my miraculous power to that of the devil.]
The nine-tailed fox subconsciously felt bad that her Erin was viewing her powers below her succubus.
‘She’s not ignoring Miho. I am…’
What the girl is comparing is not ability, but the girl herself.
The power of the gumiho is definitely amazing.
However, Erin was frankly aware that she was not able to draw out all the power of such divine beasts.
The fact that he still hasn’t pulled out the Levantein gifted by Eun-hyun is proof of that.
And the envy that Erin feels for Lily is the feeling she feels for ‘she couldn’t do what she couldn’t do, and Lily did.’
‘I have to work harder.’
[What… It’s a good thing that four inexperienced guys are so self-improving.]
Instead of comparing it with the power of Shinsoo, the gumiho had a special feeling about the girl’s mindset, which she used as a driving force to further improve her level.
“Sister, Emilia. Let’s go.”
“Huh.”
“I accept your order.”
Taking advantage of the chaos as the soldiers searched the interior as they cleared the rubble of the collapsed building, the three of them walked through the back entrance of the hotel and into the basement of the interior.
Lily, who had previously remembered the way to the underground black market with Eun-hyeon, led Erin and Emilia to the black market.
“What, what! You guys… !? Whoa!?”
Fuck!
The gatekeeper of the black market saw three women descending the basement stairs and shouted, but was unable to speak.
Unexpectedly, he jumps from the top of the stairs and jumps at the gatekeeper, and without hesitation puts a knee kick in his face.
When the gatekeeper, who was unable to respond, hit his forehead, he was pushed behind him and collapsed with his buttocks on the floor.
“What are you doing!”
The colleague of the gatekeeper who had collapsed on Erin, who had suddenly launched a preemptive attack with a question and answer dance, hurriedly shouted and put his hand into her chest.
He immediately took out his knuckles, put them on her fingers, and thrust her fist into Erin’s face.
“You do not have to know!”
Her upper body ducked to avoid the flimsy fist attack.
She wrapped her right hand around the doorkeeper gangster’s arm that barely passed her right shoulder, and struck him hard with her left fist.
“Keep it!”
As his back bends, the gatekeeper’s body bends in the shape of ‘〉’ and at the same time he lets out a scream, twisting his arms with his right hand wrapped around them, causing his body to turn backwards.
While easily occupying the back of the gatekeeper, he bent his arm and strongly pressed him so that he could not resist, grabbed his hair with his left hand and pushed it against the wall.
Bang!
A bloody sound from the hard stone wall colliding with the gatekeeper’s forehead.
When he lifted the gatekeeper’s hair again, blood trickled out from the broken nose of the gatekeeper.
“I won’t let go of this right now… !”
Bang! Bang!
As he hit his head twice more against the stone wall, the gatekeeper’s body, which belatedly resisted, weakened and sagged.
“Big… Her…”
As I collapsed on the floor with my broken teeth and wiped out the two gatekeepers at once, Lily, who saw Erin’s performance as she slowly descended the stairs, called out.
“… Erin is so strong.”
I’ve heard that she got rid of her newcomer’s label in one year from being an adventurer, and achieved a rank of silver rank beyond the same rank.
This is the first time he has experienced the helplessness of a girl up close.
Lily thought she was amazing again.
“I? Are you strong?”
Erin asked with a puzzled expression.
She had never thought of herself as strong in her life.
“Because I subdued people like this at once. Not strong.”
“Uh, uh… Is it like that? I do not know.”
The reason why I couldn’t accept Lily’s praise as it was.
It is because of the ambiguous feeling that arises from not being able to accurately gauge what level of her self-esteem she is.
“I can’t even keep up with Hyuni’s toes…”
The existence of Eun-hyeon, who has never been defeated even in mock sparring until recently, is the final goal that Erin must catch up to and the object of her longing.
Despite putting a lot of time and effort into
Erin, who only cared about the gap between her undiminished self and her Eun Hyun, had no interest or awareness of how she was evaluated by those around her.
Guessing the girl’s thoughts, Lily opened her mouth with a wry smile on her face.
“You shouldn’t compare yourself to your master.”
It’s so cute that in her girl’s head, she only has thoughts of her teacher who guided her.
“So who are you comparing yourself to?”
“That, well… She’s like Erin, she’s an adventurer doing things or… Or how about the Armitas Knights?”
“Oh, there are them too. I had no idea.”
Erin smiled brightly as she nodded at her belated thoughts.
“For now, let’s get things sorted out here quickly. Will you open the door then?”
“Huh.”
Opening the heavy iron door, the inside of the black market was seen.
“Find out what’s going on, quickly!”
“I’ll go up to the ground right now!”
“Move!”
It was the opening itself.
A large-scale earthquake occurred in the aftermath of the collapse of the building on the ground, and the underground black market, which received the shock intact, did not collapse, but it was perfect to amplify the anxiety of the customers there.
“It will be easier than you think.”
With Erin and Emilia leading the way and Lily following, the three of them moved forward without hesitation.
The atmosphere inside the entire black market is so chaotic that it’s not just people who have been spurred on.
Oooooh!
Kyaaek!
“Eww…”
The voices of various monsters screaming and rioting in cages specially designed in the aftermath of the earthquake.
Erin and Lily naturally frowned and headed for the center of the sound.
“Hey, hey! That side is off-limits!”
One of the thugs from the Brodia Mafia, who was in charge of managing the black market, found three women approaching the cage of the beasts and shouted.
“Hey!”
As Erin, Lily, and Emilia continued their footsteps without pretending to listen or caring, gangsters gathered and blocked the three’s path.
“… Emilia. You can take it out now.”
“I accept your order.”
After receiving the order, the doll slowly walked forward and stood in front of the gangsters who were guarding them.
“Open inventory.”
Ugh
A large magic circle the height of an average man appeared in front of Emilia, floating in the air by interfering with space.
“Model name, ‘Bumblebee’.”
What appears in the magic circle is a steel golem painted yellow.
“The goal is to neutralize the enemies that stand in the way.”
The head of the golem, ‘Bumblebee’, which received the command of the command object, ‘Elder Brain’, lifts, and the golem’s eyes begin to glow with green light.
“The battle begins.”
The summoned ‘Bumble Bee’ took the master’s command and raised its large body from its knees.
