Chapter 113 – Contract
#113.
The content of the contract is simple.
Gap-in Ga-on gives Milenya a ring with Trowell’s blessing and at the same time helps her live safely in this place.
And Milenya only needs to cooperate with Gaon’s one request from now on. Of course, if you make a request that is beyond your ability or obviously harmful, the contract will be invalidated.
In addition, until the end of the contract, everything about Gaon’s request will be kept confidential.
It was so simple that it was strange to read it once and not understand it.
I don’t know the exact time, but it was an opportunity to get something I’ve been looking for for a long time. There was no way Milena would refuse this offer.
“… Once I read the contract. But is what is written here true? To have a ring with Trowell’s blessing on it.”
Milena’s face was desperate. As if she would accept it immediately if the authenticity was confirmed, Gaon smiled and chined her side.
“Of course. Mr. Chorin, can you take it out?”
“Ah, yes!”
At Gaon’s instruction, Chorin put her hand in her subspace pocket hanging from her waist and took out her ring with an orange jewel.
The moment the ring came out, as if it resonated with the earth, it spread a woo-huong sound, and the light of the jewel began to flicker.
Milenya’s mouth slowly opened at the radiance of the flickering jewel.
“It’s real.”
Milena agreed at once, wondering if she could feel that she was real even without checking. She immediately nodded her head, bit her finger, bled, and signed her contract.
This contract is an item called the Oath of Mana. The moment she signs this place, it becomes both a promise and a curse and seeps into her soul.
The moment the contents of the contract are violated, the curse is activated and makes the body unable to handle mana again.
Since her elemental magic was obviously a skill using mana, there was no possibility of breaking her contract unless Milenya was crazy.
Ssuk-!
Milenya finished her autograph.
‘Good.’
The moment Milenya lifted her finger, her contract turned into a bluish cluster and split into two halves, absorbed into each other’s bodies.
There was a strange sensation, as if something were locked in my soul. The weight is added to the soul, and it becomes a curse as hard as the weight, and it sinks deeply into itself. It was a truly terrifying sense of restraint.
Of course, that was only for a moment, and before a few seconds passed, it completely disappeared and the usual senses returned.
Gaon recognized that the contract had been concluded successfully and told Chorin.
“Chorin, please hand me the ring.”
‘Yes, then take it here.’
“… Thank you.”
Milenya took the ring her Chorin handed her, stared at it with her complicated eyes, and put it on her own middle finger.
The brilliance of the jewel, which flickered and shook anxiously as if it would go out at any time, regained stability. At the same time, the ends of Milenya’s ivory hair turned orange.
“Ah…”
Milena let out a small sigh.
She’s probably going through a massive surge of strength by now. A ring containing Trowell’s blessing has the effect of exponentially increasing affinity with spirits.
It may seem like that is all there is to it, but increasing affinity with spirits is one and all for elementals.
With that alone, the Elemental Spirit can summon a higher spirit, and the magical power consumption required to summon it can also be drastically reduced.
Now, compared to just a few seconds ago, Millenya can be said to be twice as strong.
While waiting for her to adapt to her changed body condition, Gaon asked Chorin to give her the highest level magic potion obtained from inside her.
It’s good that Milenya’s power has risen, but she’s currently running out of her mana. Even if she became stronger because of this, she couldn’t show off her power. Let’s just say that providing magical potions is just a service.
‘Because I’ll have to move around for a while.’
Gaon had no intention of simply handing out treasures and leaving. All the series of actions she did after coming here were done for one thing only.
As he recalled the actions he had to take after leaving the anthill, Milenya, who had adapted to the changes in her body, could see her eyes open.
Gaon immediately held out a mana potion.
“Please eat.”
“This…”
“This is a high-end magic potion. I have to talk with the other two guild leaders, so please stop the ants in the meantime.”
“… Are you planning to sign a contract with both of them?”
“Yes, then please.”
Gaon left Milenya behind and headed towards Cain, who was shooting arrows.
As he approached, the Kritika guild members who were shooting arrows nearby stood guard and blocked the path, but Cain beat them off with a gesture and strode forward.
He even held out her hand.
“Are you here to make a deal? Come on, give it up. There is no time to waste.”
“Then I am comfortable. You can sign here.”
I liked his cool personality. She didn’t have to explain at length, she just handed over her contract, smiling contentedly at what was going on.
While he was signing, Gaon took over a booklet from Chorin. It contained an ancient alchemist’s recipe, and even if there was no immediate power increase, it was something that would come in handy later.
After signing the book, Cain received the booklet, looked at the author written on the outside, stood out, and put it into his bosom.
Having signed the contract so quickly, Gaon turned to his final opponent, Volkar.
It’s a bit difficult to know how to deal with a dwarf with such a fiery temper. It seemed like it would take a long time to go safely, but it was a waste of ancient artifacts to just gamble.
It was a time when I was worried.
─Kigigigiggeek!!
The queen ant let out a roar as if she had tugged at her a little. The sight of transparent blood dripping from the hole at the end of the tail and spewing out the light from the eyes was truly terrifying.
Gaon, realizing he was running out of time, thought there was nothing he could do about it, so he immediately took a blazing halberd from Chorin and threw it at Volkar, who was fighting the ants in front.
“Hey! Get this!”
With his cry, the halberd flew furiously through the air and flew towards Volkar. Volkar, who had just crushed an ant and exhaled, heard Gaon’s voice, turned his head, and saw the halberd ramming down with the momentum to split his head.
“This fucker! I almost died!”
Volkar glared at the halberd in his hand, wondering what kind of bastard would dare to stab him in the back of the head.
Dwarves are a race of artisans. Although Volkar held a halberd instead of a hammer, his innate keen eye did not go anywhere.
Thanks to this, he was able to notice how good this halberd called Inferno was. Gaon’s voice was heard again as he smiled like a child after swinging his halberd to split a few ants.
“I will give you that. Let’s make a deal later! All right!?”
“What!? You give me this? Then make a contract or whatever! With just this, I can crush all these ants!”
Fortunately, the gamble paid off. Gaon, who wondered what would happen if he ran out of money like this, sighed in relief at Volkar’s words of willingly accepting the contract.
In this way, he successfully completed his contract. Now was the time to launch a counterattack in earnest.
Gaon took over the spare spear from Chorin and sent a telegram to the three guild leaders, who were each busy dealing with the ants.
– No matter how much you kill ants, it’s meaningless. You have to kill the queen ant. Doing so will paralyze your chain of command and allow you to get out of here more easily.
Killing the queen ant closes the crack. So it’s a method I wouldn’t choose in any case, but now wasn’t the time to care about such things anyway.
Above all, the fertility of the ants was so great that even if the cracks were not maintained, there was no significant effect on the maintenance of their population.
So he could choose the option of killing the queen without any remorse.
At Gaon’s words, Cain, a handsome man with a sharp impression, asked. They didn’t show much backlash, perhaps because of her fatal wound to the queen ant and the distribution of the ancient artifact.
-Do you have any plans? If you listen to me, you seem confident.
– Of course there is. Milena, Volkar, and Cain. We need the strength of all three, so please cooperate. Let me explain.
Gaon’s explanation continued. He didn’t say anything, but he could tell by the look in their eyes that they were listening.
… In fact, I didn’t know if Volkar was really listening because he was trying to test Inferno’s performance at the front, or he was excitedly killing ants, but he was originally going to be given a simple role, so there was no big problem.
Anyway, after explaining all the plans, Gaon made eye contact with Milenya and Cain, excluding Volkar, and announced the execution of the plan.
-Now!
“Launch!”
At the same time as Gaon’s signal, the best members of the Kritika guild, led by Cain, aimed the arrows containing the fluttering flasks forward and fired them at the queen ant.
Each arrow with its own unique ability and aura gave off a very strong presence in the dark anthill. The eyes of most of the ants gathered there, and soon, as if they sensed a sense of danger, they began to gather together to greet the queen on behalf of the queen.
These guys couldn’t guess at all that it was rather a goal. Watching the ants gather, just before the arrow of light could reach them, Milenya knelt down on one knee and slammed the ground with her two palms with a powerful shout.
As if in sympathy with her, the giant standing behind her slams her land with her fist! As soon as I slammed it down, the ground rose up and formed a wall just like before.
A high earthen wall blocked the gap between the ant army and the guild union. The walls were not very thick and solid. It filled the gap with the outside by wrapping it round as if the purpose was simply to block the view.
That was the moment.
Beep-!
The deafening tinnitus echoed loudly inside the ant nest. In handling some mana, the inexperienced personnel stumbled and struggled to control their bodies, as if their semicircular tubes were shaken by the merciless detonation.
But what about the ants if they prepared in advance to this extent?
Even in the case of them, their eyesight had deteriorated considerably while living underground. The moment their eyes, accustomed to the darkness, were exposed to that gigantic light, they would never be able to regain their sight.
There was still a constant thumping sound. It seems that the flying ones lost their sense of balance and could not maintain flight any longer and fell.
Milenya waited a few more seconds for the light to stop completely, then removed her hands from the ground and tore down the wall she had been erecting.
The sight that was revealed was nothing short of spectacular. Tens of thousands of ants covering the front were screaming and crawling on the floor.
Even the queen sat down, losing control of her body. Now was the chance.
-Let’s go!
When Gaon sent a telephony to the three, everyone shouted.
“All out! Kill all these fucking ants!”
It was Volkar who moved first. As if he had been waiting for this moment, he grabbed a halberd bigger than himself and rushed forward with his short legs.
Milena gritted her teeth at the sight of her blending into the ants’ gap without thinking about it.
“Kuh! Like that ignorant dwarf! Miranda, tell everyone to run as fast as they can without breaking the heat. Assist the Iron Brothers Guild!”
“Yes!”
The Prenewal Guild, which was mostly able to perform simple elemental arts, took on an auxiliary role, and the Kritika Guild used alchemy-made items to kill the ants around it with various tactics.
The beginning of the counterattack has finally risen.
