250 – Fragment of the Past – 5
ㅡKeeeiik!
I gathered black salt in my left hand and poured it over his head, and he went mad with his legs snapping. His massive body swayed to and fro and his hair fluttered in all directions.
When the black flame was extinguished, a small red dot appeared in the center of its body. It was the effect of the vampiric impulse rune. I stepped on his legs and leaped over his head.
Ignoring the disgusting feeling of my palm, I settled down on the back of his head. He tore off his long black hair, grabbed him by the back of his head, and thrust the knife through his neck.
While dozens of legs trembled and started the final convulsions, I pushed the knife in and fell counterclockwise and landed with my neck cut in half. The black flame of the nightmare that lost its wings was extinguished with good timing.
The head, whose neck had been cut off by 2/3, seemed to be attached to the body, but bent down with a crackling sound. Sluggishly, his head was stuck in the poison swamp.
The torso, which had lost its head, collapsed sideways, bent its legs, and trembled violently.
I frowned and snapped my fingers to create black flames. Black flames burned up his corpse, leaving not a single upper part of it. A disgusting smell emanated from the burning upper.
‘It’s terrible.’
I wiped my hand that had touched his hair against the burnt wood. A thick layer of ash smeared on his palms, but he didn’t mind. It is far better to bury it with ashes.
After he made sure there was no more movement around him, he went back to Nyx hiding in the tree hole.
“Hoe eng ek… ….”
Nyx made strange noises with his mouth, and his large chest bent him at the knees, but in an awkward position, his eyes closed tightly and his ears covered, he huddled in a tree hole and trembled.
“Nyx? Are you okay?”
“Hey! Hee! Hohehehe!”
As soon as I did and tapped him on the shoulder, Nyx jumped up and went mad, as if struck by lightning. His head, half purple and half green, broke through the charred tree and popped out.
Splinters of wood and ashes mixed with his hair, which was already scattered, and the things that couldn’t stick to his hair fell on his shoulders and chest.
“…… Ah?”
Then, as our gazes met, I blinked his eyes a few times as if I had finally come to my senses, then dyed his face red and lowered my head. The heated skin soon dyed even the auricles.
I wondered why the woman I met from Brotherhood 3 to Immortal Centipede was so afraid of her bugs, but when she thought about it, all those memories were taken by another nyx. So it must be that the tolerance is gone.
“It’s okay. Because I killed them all Calm down, Nix.”
“Huhhhhh… ….”
I took Nix, whose entire face was about to explode, in my arms and pulled him out. His body as well as his shirt were covered in soot and ashes. He brushed it off with his hand.
After wiping his face, he tried to brush off the ash from his torso one last time, but, quite understandably, he paused when he saw the sweat mixed with his chest and chest.
Nyx covered his eyes with his hands, as if he was still ashamed of his madness earlier. He pondered for a moment before wiping the area around him without reaching his chest.
A few drops of sweat, stained black, flowed into the breastbone. Up until that point, it wasn’t something I could do.
“Have you calmed down now?”
Nodding. Nix just nodded without saying a word. Then he opened his mouth awkwardly, embarrassed, and asked a question.
“Yeah…… Over there…… Did you get your memories back?”
“What do you think?”
“hehehe…… I think you succeeded…… I’ve never said anything wrong…….”
“You got it right. To some extent, it has been successful.”
I stroked Nix’s hair.
It’s a half-success with only a few spells coming to mind, but the key is that my plan to find a landscape that feels as close to brunet 1-3 as possible worked.
“Chu, congratulations. Lol…… Then…….”
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Nyx’s face brightened slightly. He must have succeeded in recovering his memory, he seemed to think he could escape the poison swamp.
“I have to keep going.”
“…… Yes?”
I’m sorry to have blown away your expectations, but there is still work to be done. Upon hearing my answer, Nix’s expression turned noticeably darker.
“There is still one boss left. I want to catch him.”
“… ….”
“It’s enough for me to go alone, so this time I’m taking a short break on the high ground. Even without teleportation, a 20-minute walk should be enough. I will come and go as soon as possible.”
Of course, it’s a 20-minute walk from Poison Swamp, so it’s a bit of an unpleasant experience, but it’s still far better than having Nix tremble and follow me.
I hate bugs and insects so much, but I couldn’t take him to the dungeon where only extracts were collected from the poison swamp. No matter how much you want it.
But Nix hit the sledgehammer.
“Oh no…… Lol…… Retrieving memories is important, isn’t it? … You can’t let me waste your time…….”
“Where is this next place even creepier than the one we just saw?”
“No… ….”
Nix held his breath before finishing what he was about to say. Hiccup, a hiccup could be heard between the lips.
“Insects far worse than that are infested everywhere, eggs are clinging to everything from the dungeon floor to the ceiling and walls, and there are tons of blown human corpses hanging between the eggs… ….”
While my explanation continued, Nyx’s face gradually began to turn blue as he listened to it. The hiccups got louder and louder.
I deliberately frightened him, and after teasing and coaxing Nix for a long time, I was finally able to get a definite answer that I would be waiting quietly.
‘I’m sorry to leave you alone, but I hate bugs that much, so I can’t take them with me.’
If he was moderately scared, he would have taken me as he wished. However, Nyx’s degree of disgust was far from moderate. If you didn’t like it that much, it would have been better to forcefully separate it.
I just need to be patient with the inconvenient road going there.
“Everyone, come back…… Also, I’m sorry I couldn’t be with you…….”
“No, it’s okay. I’ll be back soon, so wait a minute.”
“hehehe, yes… ….”
After greeting with a hug, Nyx magically built a simple hut and locked herself in it. Then he stuck his head out the window and looked at me.
After clearing the dungeon and coming out, I will shoot magic into the sky. Seeing that, I told him to come pick me up, so I was trying to check the direction I was moving.
I went back into the Poison Swamp, being escorted by Nyx. The terrain got progressively more difficult as we went deeper. The swamp was up to his knees, and the number of bugs attacking him increased.
If I hadn’t taken care of poison resistance, resistance, and immunity in advance, I would have collapsed from poisoning before I could go halfway there.
How long had it been since I walked while burning all the bugs that attacked me, I saw a huge hole pierced vertically right in front of me.
‘Over there.’
It was the entrance to the dungeon.
I stood nearby, looked down, confirmed that it matched the image in my memory, and then jumped down in the direction of the flow. A large pile of eggs was trampled under foot, making a terrible noise.
‘The damn egg pile is still there.’
The interior of the dungeon was as described to Nyx. It was a landscape that seemed to be bad for mental health as well as eye health. He wanted to burn it all off, his hands itching.
ㅡ Sasasa, sasak!
Is it to kill intruders, or to make food for eggs, like human corpses everywhere? I heard the sound of insects approaching from far away.
It wasn’t just that a few people were approaching, it was as if a wave made of insects had formed. Floor, wall, ceiling. Everywhere was full of bugs.
I was going to go straight with a short cut while catching only a few of them, but I changed my mind. I felt like I couldn’t take a step forward from this place.
‘I can start by throwing one at the vending machine.’
And, there was no situation where the efficiency of the Vampiric Impulse Rune and the Life Conversion Rune were maximized as much as the situation where several miscellaneous mobs appeared. I created a large black flame in my left hand.
I swung my arm while calculating the cost in my head.
As if proving that the biggest weakness of Bug-type and Insect-type enemies is flame-type attacks, the insects touched by the black flame jumped up and down without even a single exception.
I stretched out my left hand in front of him and radiated black flames. When the flames on the floor and the flames spewing from my palms merged, they melted without even coming near me.
ㅡKiiiiik!
Along with the sounds I’ve heard countless times, their upper and inner flesh burned and gave off a disgusting smell. Between the black flames, red dots appeared sparsely.
Ignored the red dot. Not yet.
‘7 Seconds…… 8 Seconds…… Now.’
Just after 8 seconds had passed since casting the magic, I stopped the magic and approached the flame floor and cut off the head of the guy in front of me. The life force that had been cut off rose at once.
Lay down a flame mat, breathe out flames, and if your health is low, get close and absorb your health. After repeating this process three or four times, the number of approaching insects was noticeably reduced.
I took advantage of the moment when their offensive had subsided and ran into the passage next to it. Since it’s a dungeon, you have to explore the interior for a long time to get to the boss room.
Their eggs and swollen corpses were spread all over the place, while repelling the attacks of bugs attacking from 50,000 places.
However, it was possible to go directly to the boss room if you knew the shortcut that led to the boss room.
It’s possible even in the first round, but it was good to say that you can’t find it unless you’re a pervert who touches everything.
‘Left at the first crossroads, and right at the next corner. The third in the room in front of it.’
As I remembered, I ran into the third room. It was a place where eggs sprouted much denser than other places.
It caused black flames and burned all the eggs in front of the entrance to the room. The eggs that were swept away by the fire exploded, revealing a small path buried between them.
The road was so narrow that one person could barely pass. I stepped into it without hesitation. Bugs followed me in one after another and died in the exact order they entered.
After filling up my stamina to the end, I ran into the boss room. As soon as he did, the bugs that had come rushing in like waves quietly retreated.
‘Let’s see, the boss…….’
Looked around. I prepared my mind and tried to find it, but somehow I couldn’t see anything in this wide space.
‘What is it?’
Obviously it should crawl on the floor as soon as the player gets inside.
Just as I began to question myself, I heard a sloshing sound from far away. It was the sound of eggs being trampled. I turned my head in that direction.
“…… Uh?”
What appeared was the dungeon’s boss. However, his appearance was completely different from what I remembered.
The size of the player character, which seemed to be four or five times smaller, shrunk to a level similar to my height, and walked on quadrupeds rather than insect legs.
Above all, there were centipedes wrapped around her body.
A body with a black back and a gray belly, a carapace unique to arthropods, and stocky legs that look beyond a hundred pairs. A long creature in the shape of a centipede was wrapped around the body of the boss.
“Why is that here… ….”
It was an immortal centipede.