The Regressor Sells Giyeon 110

Chapter 110 – Fisherman Geography

#110.

“Guild leader. Shall we enter?”
“… Wait a minute.”

In front of the entrance to the 7th floor, Miranda, the deputy guild leader of the pre-new, asked Milena, who was immersed in her thoughts, about her doctor. At the sound of her voice, Milenya, lost in her troubles with her thumb and forefinger on her chin, shook her head.

After entering the anthill, three days had passed. It was progressing faster than expected. That’s because the number of ants on the 6th floor was very small. There are no monsters to block, so the forward speed has no choice but to be fast.

It was only up to the 5th floor that the investigation request was dropped due to the strange change in the ant burrow, so it can be assumed that most of them were subjugated, but the fact that there are few ants on the 6th floor is a little different.

On the 6th floor, there are special objects with wings or huge jaws digging tunnels, and since they are wide enough to operate, they are no match for the 5th floor.

Up to the 5th floor, no matter how many ants there were, it was enough to block the front and back, but from the 6th floor, it was necessary to block the front, back, sides, top and bottom. The danger is so great that casualties can occur at once if you are careless even for a moment.

That’s why reaching the 7th floor without a single casualty was very happy, but in other words, it was a problem because there was a high possibility that all the ants were gathered on the 7th floor.

Basically, the best thing to do is to get Sintu’s treasure without being seen by them. If they were caught, they planned to break through, take the treasure, and destroy the road using earth elemental magic.

If you just ignorantly destroy it by force, there is a possibility that the ant nest will collapse, but if you have spiritism, it is possible to block the road much more safely.

After that, it’s just a matter of getting out of the way.

However, this assumption is only when the situation in the anthill is the same as usual.

The fact that there are no ants that need to hibernate on the 6th floor means that they have already finished hibernation and are preparing for spawning.

No, it would be better if that was the case, but right now, let alone preparing for spawning, they must be gathering to prepare for intruders.

During spawning, there is at least an advantage that the queen ant is incapacitated, but now the vigilance is more extreme than ever.

This can’t be the worst situation because it means that you have to break through purely head-on.

At this rate, you may have to give up.

So,

“… Let the other guilds wait.”
“Yes?”
“I am thinking of proposing an alliance. Maybe they would accept it if they had the right brains.”

Joining forces with the iron brothers, Kritika, is the only way.

From the point of view of Milena, there was no other way. In this case, the distribution of the treasure is a problem, but it is a worry that can only be done after obtaining the treasure.

Milenya wants only one thing, a ring with Trowell’s blessing on it. If it wasn’t in Sintu’s hideout, she could just hand it over to another guild.

Above all, she could leave for another city without regret if she confirmed to Sintu that she did not have Trowell’s ring.

It’s an incredible trade.

Milenya crossed her arms and waited for the other guilds to arrive. Her gaze was on the other side of the dark ramp leading to the seventh floor.

***

Gaon’s group was waiting with bated breath in a passageway of a dark anthill. Among them, Chorin, who was concentrating on something with her eyes closed, spoke.

“Gaon-san, I’m gone!”

They were secretly looking at the three guilds in a passage about 500m away. The guild leaders seemed to have met 10 minutes ago and exchanged opinions, but after finding an agreement and deciding on their respective roles, they went down the ramp to the 7th floor.

Gaon nodded his head in satisfaction at the thought that it was as he expected, then raised his body.

“Good. Things went according to plan. Let’s hurry.”
“Yes! Shall we keep looking?”
“Please do so until you are within the queen ant’s field of view. Aren’t you tired?”
“Are you okay. When things get tough, I will rely on Mr. Gaon. Will you take good care of me then?”
“… Anything.”

After this, Gaon, who gave a simple answer to Chorin, who stared at him as if he was going to pamper him, quickly headed for the ramp on the 7th floor.

Below this, hundreds of thousands of ants will gather and be on strict alert. No matter how well prepared you are, avoiding their gaze is close to impossible.

In particular, the case of queen ants with special abilities cannot be overlooked. Collision is inevitable, so she has to secretly take care of Sintu’s treasure in the gap.

As long as the three guilds joined forces, no matter how many ants there were, it would not collapse easily. It would only be dangerous if the queen ant joined in. There is no disruption to the plan.

Five minutes later, when Gaon arrived at the ramp, he confirmed that there were no footprints left, and opened a piece of paper in his bosom.

It was one of the two remaining marts that had been sold. They don’t know which route they will take, but ants tend to flock to it anyway.

The other routes will have less boundaries, so you can follow the road as it is.

Of course, if it’s too far away, you won’t be able to see their dynamics, but because of that, there’s no problem because I deliberately picked out the appropriate ones.

Gaon moved slowly along the map. She advances through the anthill keeping her distance in step with the three guilds ahead.

The road to get there wasn’t easy. She entered from another guild and said that their nerves were focused there, but not all were driven there.

No matter how much you try to prevent intruders, you cannot neglect the boundaries of other routes. That’s why I would have left the minimum necessary number, but there were still too many.

Every time I turned a corner, I ran into five or six ants. It didn’t leak anymore after 10 times.

Gaon and the others didn’t even have useless conversations so as not to waste their stamina. Ha-yeon, who would usually grow up to freshen up the atmosphere, also just controlled her breathing and swung her spear.

And after about 5 hours, they sat down on the floor watching the guild union take a break.

In the case of the 7th floor, the whole is made up of the queen’s spawning room. No matter how large the queen ants were and how many eggs they spawned, each floor was not wide enough to accommodate tens of thousands of them.

That’s why the three guilds also thought of entering the 7th floor. I would have given up if it had been wide enough to take a few days to advance.

I have to travel a distance that would be difficult even if I just go, exposed to the attack of hundreds of thousands of ants, but I can’t afford it. If you were told to fight for days without sleep, no one would accept it.

Even if it was a guild leader who trusted and followed them. That’s tantamount to committing suicide.

They split the group into two, each taking turns holding back the ants, taking a break and moving on.

As much as they suffered so much, the effort of Gaon and the party decreased. This is because as time goes on, more and more ants join them.

Another 5 hours passed like that. Sintu’s lair was only about 30 minutes away. Gaon comforted them and moved forward, but Chorin shouted.

“Miss Gaon! The queen ant has appeared!”
“Has there been a crash?”
“We haven’t hit it directly yet, but the queen herself led the ants to block the road! She is trying to break through in the guild.”

Sintu’s lair is located behind the spawning chamber. Of course, the ants did not dare to let them pass. Even as a queen, she would have no intention of letting intruders into her nest live.

“Okay. Then, let’s slowly close the distance. Wait until the two collide in earnest. Got it?”
“Yeah, you two sneaked past when you were both distracted, right?”
“You’re right. Also cancel the blockade. It won’t work on the queen ant.”

Ants make several queen ants in case of an unexpected situation. The spawning room they were about to pass through was the queen with the greatest power among them, and the monster with the artifact was located.

There are two main ways to use the power of an artifact. One is to inject one’s own magic power to sever the connection with another dimension and obtain ownership at the same time, and the other is to swallow it and assimilate the body and artifact.

Normally, if you hold an artifact in your body, your body will burst and die due to the repulsion of that energy, but with a very rare chance, your body will adapt to that energy and undergo evolution.

In that case, not only can you use the supernatural abilities embedded in the artifact, but the body acts as a medium to connect other dimensions, so the cracks do not close and become sustainable.

Even if a person could gain enormous power, he would not choose a method in his sane mind, but this did not apply to monsters who lived solely on instinct.

The queen ant that moved now was an entity that accidentally ingested an artifact and was able to handle its power.

The one who boasted of a large body has become a monster with a height of several meters due to evolution. If you measure his body length, it would be well over several tens of meters.

But that wasn’t the point.

‘Did they say it was a mirror of truth?’

It is the true identity of the artifact that the queen ant has.

It is a great item that can see through lies in the smallest way and can nullify illusion magic in the large scale.

In any case, the important thing was that if she came within the queen ant’s field of view, she would be exposed to any degree of stealth.

She had to move out of sight to get out of his sight.

‘That’s why we need three guilds.’

There are as many as three strong 7 stars. In addition to them, all of the 100 guild members were at least 5 stars, so it was obvious that the queen would not be able to afford to take a second glance.

─Kieek!!

After a few minutes of crossing the cave comparing the strength of the two factions, a loud cry was heard from beyond.

The two of them were fighting in front of me. After a while, as if in response to the sound of crying, the hot air blowing from across the aisle swept across the aisle along with the sound of an explosion.

Gaon immediately gestured to Chorin. As she got closer, Gaon hugged her. The queen ant can also sense mana. As long as she couldn’t use magic, he preferred to carry her in his arms.

After exchanging glances with Ha-yeon once, Gaon stepped outside without making even the slightest sound, let alone leaving footprints on the ground using the Poongwolbo.

As we went beyond the ceaseless explosions, a huge cavity appeared that was incomparably larger than the passages we had passed so far. The ceiling alone was hundreds of meters high, and the width seemed to be dozens of kilometers.

And in the center, about 100 people were moving forward, slaughtering ants. The dwarves primarily blocked their rush, and the elves and humans and others used spiritism and all sorts of magic to suffocate them.

Each guild leader also showed a dazzling performance.

Volkar Mountain, the guild leader of the Iron Brothers, swept away the ants using a halberd clad in the power of red flames. Cain fired an arrow made of alchemy to inflict a wide-area attack.

With the power of the three combined, the ants could not easily break down the square, and the number continued to decrease.

Of course, the situation on the guild side was not good either. They are moving forward little by little, but the pace has been too slow.

‘I’ll be fine right now.’

However, in Gaon’s view, they can still hold out in full swing. At least until he got his treasure, he would be playing sluggishly with the ants without much damage.

He smiled contentedly at the thought of being completely out of sight of the queen ant and secretly moved in the direction of Sintu’s lair.