Chapter 636 – 636. Domestic Catastrophe (1)
Despite dealing with the female spiders, the fight was not immediately ended.
Hundreds of baby spiders, hearing its screams, flock to the huge ant nest.
Although the fighting power of the little spider itself was annoying, it wasn’t that threatening.
But what really bothers me is the number itself.
If the body is small and the body is destroyed recklessly, the bodily fluids inside will splash out like an explosion, and the place where the bodily fluids come into contact will melt due to the high acidity.
It’s like a bomb with legs.
Cha Han-seong and Delia would not have been able to fully preserve their lives if Jun Riod, who ran at high speed, had not activated the barrier by infusing magic into the jewel received from Eun-hyeon.
Then, Eun-hyeon, who cut off the head of the female spider and killed it, came running.
“That…”
Cha Han-seong immediately recognized the object in Eun-hyeon’s hand, who was running at high speed.
Before reincarnation, on Earth, it was quite familiar.
In particular, it was a very familiar visual for Cha Han-seong, who was discharged from the army.
“… Grenade?”
Eun-hyeon, who was running towards the three of them while avoiding the group of baby spiders, pulled out the safety pin from the grenade without hesitation and threw it on the ground.
Chii profit!
The metal grenade shuddered and white smoke began to pour out of the open hole and fill the surroundings.
Cha Han-seong noticed that the grenade Eun-hyeon used was not an explosive grenade to annihilate the enemy, but a type of smoke grenade.
A big shock like an explosion is a natural decision because if you go wrong, this ant nest with a weak ground could collapse once again.
However, in this situation, what is the meaning of the smoke bomb used to cover the opponent’s view?
‘There’s no way that person used a smoke grenade.’
In this dark vision, the smoke grenade would not be a hindrance to the spiderlings, who had specially developed senses.
Leo was also looking for meaning in Eun-hyeon’s actions.
Riod found Eun-hyeon covering his nose and mouth as he ran toward them, and immediately understood his intentions.
“Both of you cover your nose and mouth.”
“Yes!”
“All right!”
The grenade Eunhyeon threw on the floor was a grenade containing insecticidal gas that acts as deadly poison to insects.
The little spiders that were approaching Riod’s party, narrowing the distance, collapsed trembling as their tiny bodies came in contact with the insecticide gas.
The baby spiders, which had no resistance to external poison, were helplessly corpses and were annihilated.
With one hand still covering his nose and mouth, Eunhyun pointed in one direction with his finger.
It was the entrance through which they came into this wide ant nest.
Liod, who interpreted it as meaning to leave this place quickly, nodded his head, and following Eun-hyeon in front, Riod, Cha Han-seong, and Delia all took refuge in the aisle they had walked through.
The four people, who had come out of an ant nest full of spiders and fled to a faraway place where pesticide gas could not reach, were able to breathe only after the safety of their surroundings was secured.
“… Whoa.”
Clap
After the stormy battle, Delia sat on her floor with the sound of her armor rattling.
It was because the fighting that Eunhyeon and Riod showed was shocking to the successor knight who had only joined for a year.
Delia’s legs didn’t have any strength anymore, perhaps because the tension she had been feeling was alleviated.
“Are you okay?”
Cha Hanseong checked the condition of Delia, who was sitting on the floor.
“Okay, it’s okay. I’m just a little tired. Get up again…”
Delia, who was breathing heavily, tried to raise her body, but her eyes met Eun-hyeon, who was looking at herself.
Perhaps because his gaze was burdensome, her Delia’s body stiffened.
“Let’s rest for 5 minutes and move again.”
“I will.”
Eun-hyeon turned her head again and took her eyes off Delia, suggesting a short break.
Rio de also accepted Eun-hyeon’s proposal after seeing Delia failing to pace her due to her nervousness.
Delia looked sullen as she thought that she had been holding her by the ankle.
In this situation, instead of helping her, she resented her own powerlessness as a hindrance to her.
Cha Han-seong, observing her face, handed her a canteen containing her bottled water.
“Drink.”
“Go, thank you…”
Delia took the water bottle Cha Han-sung gave her and immediately opened the lid and poured her bottled water into her mouth.
The sensation of cool, refreshing water riding down her neck brought stability to her body and mind, which were exhausted from tension and fatigue.
“… Uh?”
She belatedly realized that what she was bringing her mouth to was the canteen of her tea coldness worn around her waist, and Delia’s body, which was drinking a lot of her mineral water, stopped and stiffened.
It was because she remembered the image of Cha Han-seong holding this canteen to her mouth and drinking her bottled water in her mind.
‘This, this… Isn’t that an indirect kiss?’
It was not an idea to come up with in this urgent situation where life and death could not be known.
However, the reason why she couldn’t erase this thought that popped into her head was that Delia was her maiden in her prime before she was a knight.
“What’s the matter?”
Looking at Delia’s frozen state after drinking her bottled water, Cha Han-seong put on a puzzled expression.
“Oh, nothing… I drank a lot of water. Seniors…”
Delia avoided Cha Han-seong’s gaze with a strangely recalled expression.
“Hmm?”
Delia’s sudden awkwardness was very strange to Cha Han-sung.
‘Am I overreacting? .’
Delia was even more concerned about Cha Han-sung’s reaction, which she didn’t care about at all.
She immediately shook her head to get the thoughts out of her head.
She forced herself to tell herself that now was not the time for such thoughts.
So while Delia was taking her break and her Cha Han-seong was watching, Eun-hyeon had a conversation with Leo De.
“Your face is worried about something.”
“… I was thinking about that spider.”
“Is there anything that bothers you?”
“Have you ever seen a demon that looks like that? No. The locust in the shape of a man I saw before.”
“… Does not exist. Could it be that they are monsters of a kind that you have never seen before?”
Riod silently nodded her head to confirm Eunhyun’s affirmative answer, and hardened her face.
Even Eun-hyeon, who had experienced and seen many things while living a life several times her own, was a monster that she had never encountered was enough to make Riod nervous.
“What worries me most is how they look.”
“Look?”
“You are in human form.”
The female spider had the lower body of a giant spider, but the upper body of a human woman above it.
Human locusts resembled humans with limbs attached to their bodies, and their eyes, which were unnecessary in the dark, degenerated, and their bodies were transformed into long, slender limbs optimized for jumping and speed.
Even if there were dozens or hundreds of baby spiders, what I felt after seeing grasshoppers and spiders was a strong feeling that they were basically based on human bodies.
“… Why does it have a human figure as its basic base?”
That caught Eunhyun’s heart.
A number of possibilities came to mind, but none of them convinced me yet.
Above all, the information needed to make a judgment was too lacking.
“… Is it.”
Riod could only nod his head slightly.
He also followed Eun-hyeon and tried to think about the questions he had, but no conclusion came out.
“Let’s move. For now, joining your knights comes first.”
Eun-hyeon acted by putting the yet unresolved question back into his head and resetting his priorities.
“I will.”
Riod nodded and ordered Cha Han-seong and Delia again.
Eun-hyeon, who was standing in the foreground by activating her senses to maintain a vigilant front, recalled Erin as she searched for a cave that went up.
‘He must be worried.’
Considering Erin’s startled cry as she threw herself through the cracks in the ground following Riod, it was only natural that she would be worried about herself.
[… Are you aware that you are worrying Shinsoo Ai?]
‘What… There wasn’t any.’
Eunhyun laughed bitterly inside and responded to Belldandy’s scolding.
However, it is also true that he couldn’t leave Riod alone like this, and after weighing it in his head, he still does not think that his judgment of following him to this place was wrong.
In fact, he had a plan in mind for such an occasion.
[Whoa. The child is really reckless.]
After reading Eunhyun’s thoughts, Belldandi sighed lightly.
‘Please.’
[… I get it.]
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It was close to a miracle that the search expedition that entered the sinkhole was able to retreat without major damage in the chaos of the ground and ceiling collapsing.
It was not that there were no minor injuries caused by the engagement with the human locusts, but the fact that there were no fatalities as well as serious injuries was the only luck that existed among the misfortunes.
But even then things weren’t so good.
The atmosphere of the Knights of Artia, the main axis of the search expedition, was currently generally chaotic.
Although there were no serious injuries or deaths, it was because there were four survivors who were unable to retreat and fell down the anthill and became isolated.
Even the fact that one of the castaways was the captain of Artia’s knights was causing a great stir in the morale of the knights.
“… Hyun is an idiot.”
Erin pouted her lips and she cursed at her husband, who had thrown herself and jumped as another of her castaways.
She told me not to worry about her like that, but she felt sad that she didn’t even listen to her words again.
It would have been less dissatisfying if he had taken himself with him, but Eun-hyeon left the words to herself to act with the search expedition and went alone again.
If she had at least a crystal ball for communication, she would be able to communicate with her even from a distance, but Erin didn’t bring her own crystal ball on this expedition.
I always thought that I would stick to Eun-hyeon and not fall, but I didn’t expect this situation to happen.
It would be fine if it was Eunhyun, but apart from that, I couldn’t help but feel worried.
“When I go back, I really have to tell Illyana-sama to punish her.”
While Erin was suppressing the feelings in her heart that she was feeling for Eunhyun, she heard Eira’s cry.
“Please let me go downstairs and search!”
“Calm down! Ayra!”
“But the captain… Father… !”
The fact that Riod was included among the isolated knights made Eira quite agitated.
“Sister…”
Erin sympathized with Eira’s inability to judge her properly, as she worried about her father, Riod, just as she herself worried about Eun-hyeon.
But once she got her body up in her mind that she needed to calm her down.
[It’s a divine child.]
“Reel?”
Erin looked bewildered at the voice of her goddess calling her.
“Ah!”
Seeing her Belldandy appearing in front of her, she belatedly let out her exclamation of Erin’s presence.
Even if she didn’t have a crystal ball for communication, wouldn’t there be a connection point between herself and her Eunhyeon, the apostle of her goddess and the follower of the apostle?
Why didn’t she come up with this idea right away?
“Beh, Lord Belldandi! Hyun is ok? Is she not hurt?”
In the eyes of others, Erin is now betting her words on empty space.
It was easy for her to look like a crazy woman, but now Erin didn’t care about that.
Belldandi smiled and nodded her head, reassuring her Erin.
[The child is unharmed. Those who are acting together are all moving without major damage.]
“Thank god… Phew…”
Erin felt relieved after hearing Belldandy’s answer and wiped her chest.
[She brought a message from the child.]
“Are you Hyun?”
