Episode 93
cleanup
093 ? Spring Cleaning #3
The muddy lumps of flesh writhing on the floor are struck by Luna’s Silent Totem and are turned into fragments again.
Crunch!
Hey!
At that final scream, the cultist sorcerer Somnia shivered so much that the accessories attached to her body began to rattle.
“What? What are you doing? You stopped my spell from being activated in the middle? What are you?”
“I, I am Luna, the witch doctor of Ideophe! I am Luna, the daughter of the great night!”
Luna raised her thick Silence Totem high and shouted in a proud voice. Her appearance overlapped with that of the Jangpanpa guarding the bridge.
It sounds like something very solid.
However, the doctor Somnia just burst into laughter under her mask.
“Aha, you are from the Ideopa Archipelago. If you are the daughter of the great night, you must be a child of the Nox Child tribe. I couldn’t recognize you because you didn’t have a mask of warding off evil. Is that a silence totem? You must have made it well.”
However, it is hard to believe that Somnia’s attitude, which had been hostile until just now, has softened considerably.
Is this a picture of things going well for me because I met someone from the same hometown?
Of course, it’s not that I don’t understand. If I were to meet a Korean like me in this strange world, I would be very happy.
Somnia spoke behind the mask.
“I am Somnia, the daughter of the deep abyss. It is nice to meet you, my hometown friend. That is why I am saying this. Can you pretend not to see me? I have no intention of disposing of the body of my hometown friend.”
“That, that….”
“There’s no way a friend without a magic shield could stop me, a sorcerer. No, if you’re from the Knox Child tribe, you’d be serving the same hellish magic as us. Why don’t you join us?”
“What? Are you telling me to become a socialite?”
Luna shook her shoulders, seeming greatly embarrassed by the offer from the Pluto cult. I had already experienced it a few times, so I figured it was understandable, but it seemed like it was Luna’s first time.
“Imagine. The deep, hot magic of the formless world. We are bringing it to this earth, which we could barely sense through the mist rising from the cracked land.”
Somnia clenched her fists, which were outstretched in the air, and trembled. She continued to speak.
“Hell on Earth. The crumbling boundary between life and death. Our witch doctors who control the power of the dead will live like kings. They will not be looked down on for being superstitious.”
“Wow, King… .”
It won’t work. Luna was losing her mind as if she was possessed by some nonsense. I wondered how such a cult could be maintained.
Looking at it this way, it seems that they are maintaining their existence by seducing and exploiting innocent children like Luna. If this continues, Luna will become a cult member!
“Luna, you don’t need to listen to the stories of the cultists! They’re all lies!”
“I know. I just heard about it. You said Somnia, right? That’s my answer!”
Swish.
Luna clenches her fist and extends her middle finger.
“Eat this!”
That was a universal curse. At the sight, Somnia laughed, her accessories and mask rattling as if she was dumbfounded.
“Wow, I’m really dumbfounded.”
A body that laughs like that for a long time and then suddenly stops.
“Ha, that’s why I don’t like Knox Child kids. Kids from rich islands don’t understand my heart, which grew up on a barren and poor island.”
Sling.
Somnia pulled a dagger from her waistband.
“Okay, fine. I’ll kill you, stuff your stomach with cotton, and turn you into a silver snail. The sisters’ magic has a high response rate.”
To be honest, it looked more like an awl or a black horn than a dagger. It had a cone-shaped shape and crude patterns drawn on it, making it extremely ominous.
If you get stabbed by something like that, you’ll end up with all sorts of diseases, including tetanus.
“And you, Oldolgol, no, Hassan of Samaria! You fooled us so well last time!? We’ll tear you to pieces and throw you into the fires of hell, you son of a bitch!”
Suddenly an arrow was pointed at me and I was really surprised. I thought you didn’t remember me because there was no mention of me!?
“Oh, well, in a way, I was a victim too.”
“You have failed because of you!
Shit, they’re blaming me for their failures in doing bad things. This is just plain ridiculous. But since this is the average personality of people in this world, it’s not that surprising.
“Ugh!”
Somnia swung her hand hard around the strange dagger, slamming it into the floor.
Kkwaduk.
A dagger stuck in the ground, piercing through the flimsy brickwork of the culvert.
I wondered what the hell that guy was doing, but before I could even react, strange bones and flesh began to rise randomly through the walls.
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
“Come, the entrance to the deep abyss. The dusky dawn where the boundary between the living and the dead is broken down…!”
Thud. Thud.
The lumps of flesh absorb mud and water, swelling their size.
Gulp.
Okay.
It soon clumped together into something about half the size of Luna, each shaped into a strange human or beast. If you were to make a ragtag goblin out of clay or something, it would look just like this.
They don’t look that strong, but there are quite a lot of them. Ten? Twenty? They keep increasing! Shit, isn’t this cheating? The voodoo priest is fucking strong! Did Luna choose the wrong skill tree?
“Ha, Hassan, let’s run away for now!”
At that moment, Luna grabbed my arm and quickly walked away. So I also chose to run away after Luna.
Behind us, Somnia’s loud voice can be heard.
“You can’t run away from death!”
* * *
We ran without looking back. There were so many zombie goblins chasing us from behind that it was difficult to deal with them.
Of course, if there were only zombie goblins, I could have dealt with them somehow. The powerful cultist Somnia wouldn’t sit still unless she’s an idiot.
It was just too crazy to fight goblins and Somnia at the same time, so it was important to somehow shake them off.
Woof, woof!
“Eww, shit!”
Then something bit my ankle.
I turned my head to see what was happening as the pain of my skin being pierced pierced through, and there it was, a four-legged beast with flesh and leather tangled together, holding onto my ankle and stretching it out.
Arrr, karrr!
And the loud barking seemed to indicate our location.
“Shut up, you punk!”
I was so angry that he dared attack my body that I hit his head with the club as hard as I could.
Bam-.
Kagan!
Then the creature screams in pain and collapses to the ground, turning into flesh and rotten mud once again.
“Huh, Subal, Luna. What on earth should I do?”
Luna is a voodoo witch from the same Ideopa. Maybe she knows some kind of effective strategy? I thought, but Luna shook her head as if there was no other answer than running away.
“The Tartari tribe is the best in Ideope when it comes to making idols and silver jambi. They can’t possibly beat them in handling that many at once…!”
“Fuck, then I guess I should just run away!”
“But it’s weak to fire, so you can burn it….”
Luna clicks her tongue at the sight of the grass and gas surrounding her. She must be angry because she knows what will happen if you light a fire in a place like this.
Could this place be considered Somnia’s home ground? As expected of a cult, she seems to be skilled at cowardly tricks.
So we ran as fast as we could and found a ladder leading to the exit of the underpass. However, the ladder that we could climb up to was already horribly destroyed by something.
“I think Somnia broke it!”
“Sval, I’m done!”
In the end, we were trapped in this smelly and horrible basement, unable to do anything.
Kwaaah!
At that moment, a zombie goblin opens its mouth wide and lunges at me. In its hand is a sharp piece of bone that seems to belong to some beast, held like a dagger.
It was a very crude weapon, but if you got stabbed by something like that, you would definitely get infected with germs.
“Hey, you fucking filthy little shit!”
So I swing my bat with all my might and hit the bastard in the head.
Phew, crack!
Even in this situation, it was refreshing to see the bastard’s torso itself shattered into pieces and flying everywhere.
If my weapon had been a normal sword, the edge would have become dull in no time after cutting through that dirty, oily hide a few times.
Keaaaak!
“Get behind, Inma!”
Bam-!
I continued to swing my club at the zombie little devils that were rushing at me.
Then, strangely enough, the weight of the club I was swinging started to feel lighter.
Thump, thump.
It’s not that I forgot the weight because I was excited, but the weight of the club itself felt slightly lighter, which made me feel a lot more comfortable.
I don’t know what it is, but it’s really amazing!
“Bogs, everything is over!”
So I swung the bat here and there with one hand and broke the heads of all the dead beast babies. It was lighter but still powerful, so the zombie babies were dying with joy.
Kkieeeek!
“Luna, are they nothing special?”
“That, that’s right! What is it! If it weren’t for the magic of silence, it wouldn’t be easy to turn it back into dirt!”
“Have I gotten really strong?”
Could it be because I gained confidence in battle after facing the great sword warrior Schizo?
Or maybe the new club you get has additional damage against the dead and undead. In fact, it was a national rule to use bludgeons against undead monsters.
Krrrr… .
Ugh… .
Anyway, now the zombie cubs have stopped charging at me with all their might and are looking around.
Even the zombies are scared, it seems they are a bit different from the skeletons of the necromancers we faced before.
“Tch. I guess it’s worth it to wear the stigmata. You even use a strange club. Does that itself act as a kind of silent totem?”
Then, in the darkness, Somnia appeared again, parting the grass in the culvert.
It gave off a tension that was on a whole other level than that of a crude zombie, and cold sweat ran down my back.
“I didn’t want to use this method because I thought it wouldn’t leave a circle.”
Somnia soon took out a bunch of strange root-like things from the pouch on her waist.
Then, he lifts the mask slightly to the mouth area and stuffs a lot of the grass into his mouth, chewing it thoroughly.
“Ugh, kekeke, euaaa…!”
Beastly moan.
The sound of joints and bones snapping and twisting reverberated loudly through the underground water.
The muscles and flesh of the man wearing thin cloth were firm and bulging, and he was noticeably red.
“A flying toad on the ground!!”
Somnia went berserk with an unknown scream, swinging her fists around.
bang!
Soon the guy’s powerful fist crushes the head of one of his zombie goblins nearby.
That’s right!
Subal, attacking your own comrades? I don’t know what that means. Is it because you can’t see anything? Anyway, the problem is that the power seems quite strong.
“Fuck, that kid even dopes! What a coward!”
“You swallowed a raw hesitant flower! That amount would be enough to make even an elephant lose consciousness for a day!?”
“Kkieek!”
Gulp, drip, drip.
Blood flowing from Somnia’s fist as she smashed the heads of all her zombies.
Also, from under the guy’s strange mask, a clear liquid that is either his saliva or tears continues to drip.
“Yalungbalung blackie!!!”
Tadah.
Somnia, who had killed her own zombies, now lunged at Luna. Luna was so frightened by the immense pressure that she fell flat on her face.
“Heehee!”
“Beat it!!”
A red-tinged fist rose towards Luna’s defenseless head. If Luna’s head was hit by something like that, it would be separated from her body!
“Sval! Luna, bow your head!”
So I kicked my legs with all my might and rushed towards Somnia.
As I grazed Luna’s head with my tightly clenched club and struck the bastard in the stomach, a loud “Bam-!” was heard along with a solid impact that was transmitted to my hand.
Subal, is this exactly what it feels like to hit a telephone pole rather than a human body?
I don’t know why my hand that hit me feels more tingly. My skin feels like a rock, and it feels like even a blade wouldn’t penetrate this skin.
“Geuuuuu-!”
However, Somnia raised her fist as if the attack was completely ineffective, and took a few steps back hesitantly.
The only problem is that now the target of his attacks has shifted entirely to me.
“Greaaaah!!”
Somnia lunged at me, screaming beneath her mask.
Phew!
The soles of the feet of a guy raised high.
As it crashed down hard, the soft, rough brick floor of the canal buckled and debris flew everywhere.
Kwaruruk-!
“Shit! This is fucking scary!”
However, since the attacks were large in size and had long intervals between them, avoiding them was not too difficult.
Phew, bang!!!
However, it was certain that if I couldn’t avoid it, I would die instantly. Each and every blow was like an ultimate attack!
“Long live the sun!”
“It is in a place where the power of light cannot reach.”
“Oh, you piece of shit! Lord Knox!”
『Graceful Night’s Cloak』 is activated.
『Consume task values to adjust the detection probability of covert actions.』
『Current task number: 214』
213.
212.
“Rustle rustle!!”
But even though I mustered up my courage and activated the Night’s Cloak, Somnia’s fist flew straight towards me.
This was because it was a grace that reduced the noise of secret acts, not one that made the appearance itself transparent.
Sval, everything I can use right now is blocked.
Crunch.
Somnia’s fist clenched with a ferocious sound that felt exaggerated, and then it shot out at my head like a bullet.
“Chew!”
I barely managed to avoid the guy’s attack by lowering my head.
Phew, boom-!
The attack, which extended in a straight line, eventually penetrated the stone wall and lodged deeply. Somnia flinched as she tried to pull her hand out.
“Grrr… .”
In that brief moment of pause, I shouted at Luna and asked her.
“Luna!! How is there no way!?”
“Hey, there is something like that!”
Luna rummaged through her pockets and threw something at me.
It was a red-petaled plant with its roots cut off.
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