104 – World 11. Rewards (1)
-it hurts! It hurts!!
Chemora screamed in pain as she clutched her sword-grazed arm.
The sword of soul decay cuts through the target’s soul, not the body.
The reason was that there was not a single wound even though the arm was brushed at the end.
‘That’s not all.’
At the same time as cutting down the soul, it even had the effect of gradually corroding the soul.
It was poison injected into the so-called soul.
That’s why Chemora is now emitting light.
‘the problem is······.’
The point is that it ‘gradually’ corrodes the soul.
In a word, it meant that he would not die instantly as soon as he was cut.
-It hurts!!
Moment.
Kwwaaang!—
Tentacles the size of giant pillars protruded from beneath Kemora’s feet.
A tentacle whose tip split into four.
However, it was much smaller than the 200-meter tentacle that Ksura created.
The tentacles could also be seen engulfing Chemora as soon as they popped out, then plunging back into the ground and disappearing.
‘Did he run away?’
After looking at the hole where the tentacle disappeared for a long time, I acknowledged that Kemora had escaped and stopped the volcanic eruption technique I had been using.
“after.”
When I stopped practicing the volcanic eruption, I felt my whole body become heavy like a wet towel.
But right now, the helplessness of not being able to defeat Chemora was felt even more.
‘As expected, it was impossible until I became a sword master.’
I had to guess as I had fought Kshura before, but when I bumped into him directly like this, I suddenly realized the difference.
Of course, I mobilized up to 10 elves, but I didn’t know that I would be defeated.
So I let out a small sigh and took off the assassin king’s cloak.
“Ah, Mr. Lee Seong-min.”
When he took off the assassin king’s cloak and revealed himself, Carina, who was nearby, came running.
“What did you just do?”
“Poisoned it.”
“Addiction? I hadn’t heard that it was possible…”
Karina said as if she was puzzled, and soon turned her head to the hole where Chemora had escaped.
“Are you going to follow me?”
“Well.”
Since he was cut by the sword of soul decay, there was a possibility that he would die, but he wasn’t sure.
First of all, from the fact that the opponent is a monster called a beast, and that I am a 5th stage object that is difficult to deal with even now.
‘Besides, I don’t know how the giant tentacles that swallowed Chemora will come out if I go into the ground and chase them.’
After much thought, I finally shook my head.
“No, go back.”
“Leave the chest and the hatchery?”
“I don’t know what will happen if I show up again.”
It would take several days to clean up all the hatcheries surrounding this rock fort.
In the meantime, if Chemora appears again, I don’t know how the situation will go, so I thought it would be better to prepare at least.
‘Besides, two elves died.’
It cannot be summoned until it returns to the hero card and recovers.
You can’t summon new characters because you can’t summon them.
To put it simply, for the time being, you could only use 8 hero cards.
‘It will take about a week.’
Not being able to use two hero cards for a week was the damage that Chemora had done to me.
However, apart from the damage I suffered, when I was feeling a strange bitterness, Silka came running from afar.
“Lee Seong-min! That’s amazing! To defeat Chemora.”
“I didn’t defeat him, but I ran away.”
“That is it. I decided that even Chemora was no longer dangerous.”
It must have been dangerous because it was affected by soul corrosion.
‘I just want it to die.’
Ordinary people would have little chance of surviving, so they could hope for it, but it was hard to be sure of the vicious tribe.
So I thought it best to prepare and clear the hatchery, so I turned to the rock citadel and said.
“I will go back.”
“ah.”
Silka nodded when she saw me and the almost messed-up elves.
Maybe he thought that it would be difficult to continue fighting like this.
“By the way…they’re elves too, right? I didn’t know there were still elves left.”
“…”
Tired of explaining, I was silent without saying anything.
* * *
– aaagh!
Like the hatchery, Chemora, who escaped using a special entity, a giant worm, screamed in constant pain.
He cut off his painful arm, but to no avail.
Even without an arm, the pain continued to be felt.
Thanks to this, Chemora vaguely grasped what had happened to her.
‘It’s not the pain that comes from the body.’
Knowing only that far, Chemora regenerated her arm to its original state.
Then, the ‘existence’ of the arm itself was ripped off.
– Kkeaaagh!!
Since he had ripped off a part of his being that made up everything he had, his power weakened that much, but he didn’t care.
Because of that, the pain of grinding himself has disappeared since being cut by the sword of soul decay.
-Sigh. Sigh.
Gradually, the pain subsided and she calmed down, letting out a rough breath and ripping off one of her own tentacles.
Fortunately, the tentacles were not part of his body, but were deformed to be close to weapons, so it was not as painful as tearing off his arms.
-this······.
However, the fact that he was beaten by a player who was not a big deal.
No, beyond being hit, he ran away in a hurry.
It came as a different kind of pain, a shame that Chemora had never felt before.
-You bastard like a bug! I will kill you!
Inside the hatchery, Chemora’s screams, stained with anger, echoed.
* * *
Returning to the rock fort, I immediately disconnected and called District 1 to call some of my colleagues.
To be honest, I thought it would be enough to call just one person, but I called three people to make sure.
They were Lee Si-yeon, Shin Ji-ae, and Choi Ga-yoon, who had been together briefly before.
When I contacted them, they immediately came to District 4 and listened to what I had to say.
“Summarizing, you didn’t know how the monster named Chemora, who was attacked by you, would come out, so you called us, right?”
“right.”
Lee Si-yeon, with short, short hair, nodded as if she liked it no matter what.
“But will you be okay?”
“Are you okay?”
“It’s a long-awaited opponent.”
As soon as I heard Lee Si-yeon’s words, I knew what he meant.
“Because the situation is the situation.”
At least from the 8th world to the 10th world, there were only a few times I fought properly.
At best, there was only one adversary who fought last.
Considering the power I possessed, it was only natural.
In response, Lee Si-yeon said that if it was a 5th stage entity in a place where power was limited, I would be the opponent I would fight with all my might.
To put it simply, when I was asked if I could blow away the experience points that would be helpful in the future like this, I replied that it was okay because of the situation.
“Well, if you’re okay with that, that’s fine.”
Lee Si-yeon also said that she would do as I wish without saying anything more.
At that time, Choi Ga-yoon, who was next to me, presented an opinion with a thoughtful face.
“If we catch a 5th level object, the public value will go away. Wouldn’t it be better to capture it and have Seongmin kill you?”
“capture?”
“Because it’s enough for us gathered here.”
exactly······.
“I don’t know how the public value is applied, but if I kill it, the corresponding public value will come in.”
“Then it’s decided. By capturing it.”
It was Choi Ga-yoon who talked like a caught fish, but no one refuted it.
That includes me.
‘In the first place, Choi Ga-yoon alone will defeat Chemora.’
If Lee Si-yeon and Shin Ji-ae join in, it will not be difficult to capture Chemora.
Of course, Carina and Muel, who were listening silently next to their colleagues, still looked like they weren’t used to it.
“Oh right. If you catch Chemora, what did you expect from the heterogeneous union?”
So far, I’ve only said that I fought Chemora after receiving a request from the Rock Fortress for the sake of simplicity.
Of course, he told me about the battle process, but he didn’t tell me about the reward for the request.
“Many trees and herbs from the Elven race. The rest of the races…”
Anyway, in order to answer Lee Si-yeon’s question, I mentioned the reward I would receive from the elves, but I had nothing to say about the other races.
“Why? Didn’t you say you wouldn’t give it to the rest of the races?”
“No, to be precise, it must be true that there is no useful reward.”
“Where is that?”
Lee Si-yeon replied as if he was talking about such nonsense.
“If there is no reward, we have to find it and tear it apart.”
“…”
Looking at Siyeon Lee, who is very confident, I asked in case of doubt.
“What are you trying to rip off?”
“That’s it. You can find it.”
Lee Si-yeon, who said she would look for it herself, perhaps because she hadn’t seen the rock fort or the different races with her own eyes, opened her mouth again.
“It’s unacceptable to pay a bargain for a subject who asks for help.”
It was Lee Si-yeon who said that she would not leave her alone if she said something else about the reward later.
‘What am I going to do?’
Looking at Siyeon Lee, who was sincere in gathering allies, I thought, but it was just a matter of giving the proper reward to the different races anyway.
‘I won’t do anything stupid to me and my colleagues who dealt with Chemora.’
Not worrying too much, I took out three hero cards and put Lee Si-yeon, Shin Ji-ae, and Choi Ga-yoon in turn.
Having prepared a countermeasure that would not matter if Chemora survived and attacked again, I decided to connect again.