Chapter 725 – 725. The Serpent’s Tail (6)
[Summon begins.]
“Ah… !”
“… !”
Confused by the familiar voice, Erin and Lily realized the seriousness of the situation belatedly.
The crystal ball, which had absorbed all of the devil’s mental body and mana, floated into the air and began to do something, scattering wild mana.
Erin hurriedly leaped close to the crystal ball and tried to destroy it.
Whoops!
It was already too late.
The wind of magical power raged around the crystal ball, and the wind became stronger and began to swallow the surroundings.
“Not… Okay!”
As if to laugh at Erin’s cry, which was full of her urgency, the storm of crystal balls gradually swept through the dungeon and bounced off Erin’s body.
“Erin!”
Lily caught Erin’s body falling to the floor in vain.
“Are you okay?”
“Fine… Ah. But sister. Than me now…”
Erin looked up at her with her hardened face.
As soon as she came to her senses, she moved right away, but ultimately failed to destroy her crystal ball.
I broke out in a cold sweat because I couldn’t imagine what kind of result the crystal ball, which was constantly generating gusts of ferocious magic, would lead to.
With Lily’s support, she raised her body again and attempted another attack at her crystal ball in the center of the blast.
[Barbarian Witchcraft (狐族姚術)]
[Fox fire]
Instead of the small size normally used, a huge blue spark made to the maximum size that can resist the impact of the gust flies and comes in contact with the gust.
The wind, which revolved around the crystal ball, eventually engulfed the flames of the fox fire and raged more violently, but the divine beast’s magical power did not reach the crystal ball.
Eventually, the magical powers of the gust of wind that swirled right above the crystal ball began to condense and form something gigantic.
“That…”
“Hole?”
To be precise, it is closer to the concept of ‘door’.
In it, which was formed with the most ominous magical powers, something swayed and began to appear.
Erin felt a gaze peering at her from inside the black hole.
“… !”
It is a reptile’s eyes that emit light with sharp eyes.
Eventually, what appeared from inside the hole was the snake’s head.
“Um, what is that… !”
However, it wasn’t the snake’s appearance that shocked Erin and Lily.
The fundamental problem is the size of the snake that appeared.
It was so enormous that it seemed as if it could easily eat at least one human male with a robust physique.
And, starting with that head, a long, thick body that slowly reveals itself.
It is impossible to estimate the length of the torso that continues to flow endlessly.
“That…”
A body with an enormous length that immediately reminds me of the expression that the end is unknown.
A mouth so large that it may be able to easily chew through a human body.
Eventually, the snake, revealing its whole body inside the black hole, slowly headed toward the ground using its flexible body.
The speed at which it moves quickly and smoothly is fast enough to be no different from normal sized snakes.
I was taken aback by the sudden appearance of a giant snake, but I realized belatedly that I shouldn’t let it run rampant on the ground.
Erin, who quickly came to her senses, called Lily right away.
“… Sister!”
“Huh!”
She immediately grabbed Erin’s hand and led her on her back.
Erin stepped on the collapsing remains of the dungeon and climbed up one after another.
Even though she was carrying a person on her back, Erin, who was not far behind in speed, quickly chased after the giant snake, but the giant snake was already on the ground and roaring.
Kyaaaaagh!
The giant snake that appeared in the center of Count Ephrate’s mansion, causing strong vibrations, began to smash the building by swinging its huge body around.
It was only for a moment that the wild swinging of his head and the bouncing tail shattered Count Ephrathe’s mansion.
Erin and Lily came up to the ground belatedly, but the stomach was already devastated.
Erin immediately found the location of Eira and Cha Hanseong.
With all of her sensory organs spread forward and her uniquely developed senses of sight, hearing, and smell mobilizing, it was not difficult nor did it take long to pinpoint the location of the two.
She took a deep breath and screamed as hard as she could toward the location where Eira and Cha Han-seong were.
“Whoa, Eira unnie yee!”
Even on the side of Eira who heard her loud cry, she pinpointed Erin’s location and looked in that direction.
Erin immediately sprinted with Lily on her back, and she joined Eira and Cha Hanseong.
“Sister! Are you okay? Where are you hurt?”
“I’m fine. Than that…”
Eira narrowed her eyes and glared at Count Ephrathe.
Sensing the intense anger in her eyes, the Count frowned and made no reply.
“… I know very well what you are thinking. But I don’t know.”
“Are you saying that now!?”
Eira’s emotions, which she had been holding back, finally exploded.
Roughly she clutched his collar and let out her exasperated words.
It was supposed to have come out of the dungeon of Count Ephrate’s mansion, but it was a daunting task to catch and pull it out because he, the owner of this estate and mansion, did not know.
However, it was also unfair on the part of Count Ephrate.
“Really… It’s an unknown magician. The devil didn’t say a word that he could wield such magical powers!”
It’s true.
Count Ephratte and Lucy were only mutually supportive, acting for the benefit of each other. If Lucy had known from the beginning that she had the power to summon and control a snake that was no different from her calamity, he would have started other businesses. I would have proposed or run away from her.
Compared to his ambitions and greed, he was a bird heart that cherished his own life.
“Ha, finally… You mean you acknowledge your relationship with the devil?”
“…”
Count Ephrathe closed his mouth at Eira’s words, trembling with contempt, and avoided her gaze.
Unlike the previous times when he had thoroughly denied his relationship with the devil, the heinousness of changing his words in an instant was contemptible.
“Sister… Now is not the time for this.”
“… Yes.”
I had to calm down and think about what to do first.
Ayra roughly released Count Ephrate’s collar, as if throwing it away.
“Evacuate the people. Summon all the adventurers who can fight and have them fight back. For now, I will maintain the authority of the lord you have.”
Count Ephrate’s punishment is next.
Now, the first priority was to evacuate the innocent villagers who might be caught up in the disaster.
“I will watch over you.”
There was a concern that Count Ephrate might escape alone taking advantage of this confusion, so Lily volunteered to be his watchdog.
As an outsider in the field of battle, it is almost impossible for her to deal with that huge snake.
Rather, it is a more efficient choice to focus on evacuating people by using her dream magic ability.
“Please. Erin. Han Sung-ah.”
“Yes. Sister.”
“Yes. Senior.”
“We are… Let’s stop that.”
“Yes. Sister.”
“All right.”
Is it possible?
To be honest, the question that popped into the heads of the three people was the same.
Can you fight against that giant snake, defeat it, protect people, survive and return safely?
No one could come to a definitive conclusion on that fundamental question.
It was just putting the idea of ’someone has to do it’ into action.
Kyaaaaagh!
“… !”
A huge snake with a long, thick body looked up at the sky and roared.
The sound is thin, thick, and intense enough to rip your ears apart.
Faced with such intense intimidation that made them tremble for a moment, all of the people trembled without even screaming.
“Ha!”
As if to shake off that roar, Ayra was the first to step out.
The sound of shouting with all my might was too small and shabby to resist the loud roar of the howling snake, but that didn’t mean it didn’t have any effect.
At least it had a definite effect on the two people next to me.
Aside from Erin, Eira and Cha Hanseong are the knights of the kingdom who protect the people of the kingdom and defeat the enemies threatening the kingdom.
The option to resign from this position did not exist from the beginning.
“Sister! Let’s go!”
“Huh.”
At the voice of Erin, who followed her energetically, Eira replied with a smile.
Strangely, even when faced with her catastrophe, Eira was strangely not afraid.
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“This place…”
Coming out of the black hole, the nine-tailed fox frowned at her as he looked around her in the dark.
The air was very stuffy and full of dust, because I realized that this place was underground.
And she stared at the hole in the ceiling that was the only light passing through.
Thud! Wow!
Kyaaaaagh!
Rough vibrations resonate irregularly and continuously, and a thin, deafening high-pitched roar never ceases.
That alone was enough to convince me that the ground in this place was in an uproar.
The screams of many of her people and the sounds of the battlefield were no different from the usual environment she was so accustomed to.
“That cry… Is it a basilisk?”
The nine-tailed fox immediately recognized the identity of the Demon Beast that was rampaging on the ground.
Basilisk.
It is a monster in the form of a snake with a large, elongated body that can easily swallow a stout human male.
All of the small monsters are just prey, and except for the ancient monsters located at the highest level, there were no monsters that could defeat the Basilisk in the Pandemonium.
The toxic substances produced within its body possess strong acidity that melts even the toughest weapon or armor just by touching it, and the scales covering its gigantic body boast powerful defense power that cannot be pierced by ordinary attacks.
What’s really scary is that their hunting habits are very intelligent and vicious.
Therefore, in the destroyed dimension where the nine-tailed fox was located, the beast called the Basilisk was an absolute existence that humans could not compete with in a different sense from demons and was a disaster itself.
“You said you would call me, but… I really hope it’s possible.”
The nine-tailed fox stared at the hole in the ceiling through which the light came in with a bewildered expression.
The sky beyond the hole, contrasting as if it were the exact opposite of the black hole he passed through, is very clear and clean.
He really felt that he had gone beyond dimensions and into a parallel world with other possibilities.
It was ironic that it was none other than her, the dark-haired mad witch who destroyed the world along with herself, who made this miraculous phenomenon possible beyond her irrational and dispensable.
The reason why she destroys all humans on the continent and crosses over to another dimension to create her disaster is because she wants to win the one man she loves.
“Crazy bitch.”
Although the nine-tailed fox had a partnership with her witch for mutual benefit, she could not sympathize with her thoughts, her way of thinking, or her principles of action.
Emotions such as love, obsession, jealousy, and desire are all useless.
She once gave her heart to a human, but since she had the bitter memory and experience of being betrayed by that human, the nine-tailed fox does not sympathize with her behavioral principle due to such feelings.
I couldn’t understand the madness of a witch who did this for a man, for her own sake, but the reason why the nine-tailed fox had a cooperative relationship with her was for a good reason.
“Then I’ll move… Hmm?”
Using the dimensional passage opened by her witch, the nine-tailed fox, who had crossed over to another dimension of possibility, immediately began her movement to fulfill her pre-planned contract with her witch.
But she felt a familiar power over her senses and halted her actions.
“This… The magical power of a divine beast like me?”
The nine-tailed fox felt the presence of a divine being with the same power as himself.
