“Heal.”A drop of water flew out of Myles’ palm and struck the pig.A ghastly amount of black vapors escaped out of the Plague Pig’s body the moment a single word escaped out of Myles’ mouth. The Plague Pig which had been suffering for a long time with all kinds of illnesses now felt the changes in its body, and that quickly brought its feet to a halt. All the boils on its body were gone. Even the dirt and filth on its body was gone, making it look like the cleanest pig in the world. The anger in its eyes also faded away, though the pig still seemed to be in shock.It thought nobody could ever help it, but this stranger that had come out of nowhere was able to miraculously heal it.And this brought tears to the pig’s eyes. Until now, everybody kept running away, but this young human didn’t.The plague pig turned into a humanoid pig and spoke, “O, Great Human. I, Porcius, owe you my life.” He fell to his knees. “Ask anything, and I’ll do it for you.”Blood rose into Myles’ throat, but
Myles moved his hand, and Albert’s body was pulled toward him. Albert ended up landing behind Myles, surprising everyone.Porcius increased his speed and speedily left the region fast and reached a place where there was knee-deep water infested with Bonebugs.Bonebugs were nasty amphibious bugs that would enter another being’s body and eat their bones until all the bones were consumed.They were numbered in hundreds of thousands. All of them flew out of the water and scared the living daylights out of Justin and others.Just when Albert was thinking his life was saved, he and everyone else was surrounded by the overwhelming number of bonebugs. Fighting such a number with a sword wouldn’t be possible for him even if he were in good health. As all of them came buzzing toward him, Albert gave up on his life.“You filthy little shits,” Porcius started stamping on the water. “Pig’s Feet Shredding Water!” Water droplets flew like needles and pierced through multiple of the bugs. In a matter
The stone soldier followed the female golem for a while until she started acting like she lost her way.The stone soldier locked his arm with hers and took her with him. Just what Myles and others wanted.The stone soldier, however, brought the female golem to a secret place and tried to go hard at her, but she slapped both of his cheeks with both of her hands.She THEN made her weird gestures, which nobody other than Myles understood.“What’s she doing?”“Is that the sign language of the dumb?”“I have no idea.”Myles then said, “She’s saying she’s only interested in a strong man, and that he needs to absorb some crystals and grow stronger first if he wants to have her.”“And what’s he saying?” Biskie asked.“He says he’s going to try and ask his boss if he can give him a stone crystal or two,” Myles explained, “and she asked him if she could accompany him.”The stone soldier initially rejected that idea, but after the female golem pleaded a little, he took her along. He was about to
Ria wanted to test her strength against the stone hulk as much as she wanted to find out how to bring him down.Porcius backed away and turned back into his humanoid form. “If physical attacks won’t work, this is going to be tricky.”Ria turned into her hybrid hawk form.The stone hulk grew the size of his arm and punched at her. Ria caught his fist with her talons and lifted him up and tossed him toward the ceiling. She soared and attacked him with her sharp wings. “Hawk Assault!”The stone hulk’s body was split into tiny pieces.“Wow, she’s so powerful,” Biskie was extremely impressed. “To be able to cut through tough rock so easily…” she wondered when she would be able to do such a thing.“Is it dead?” Casey’s mouth opened wide after Ria grabbed hold of the two crystals.The stone hulk’s body started rebuilding on the ground, and Ria felt the crystals getting pulled toward him. She clenched her fists, but then the crystals still forcibly flew out of her hands and merged with the st
“We’re all fucked,” Albert said, the hairs on his arms already standing up. “The nether demon must have come here to collect the crystals. What wrong timing! We’re not going to get out of this place alive.”“Is she really that strong?” Justin asked. “Weren’t you an alpha in the past? Can’t you defeat that thing?”“I’ve never fought one,” Albert took a step back. “I might have stood a chance in my prime, but now, I don’t think I’ll be able to beat that thing.”The nether demon took her time to walk to the stone hulk. “I see that you’re struggling to defeat a bunch of trash, except one person.” She considered Porcius to be strong, but the rest were pretty weak in her eyes.“Forgive my incompetence, Young Lady Puck,” the stone hulk fearfully said. “I deserve to be whipped a thousand times.”“Mm,” Puck took a look around and saw that more than ten power crystals and thirty star crystals were gathered in the hall. “I can see that you’ve worked hard and gathered many crystals this time, so
Nobody had ever seen the Nether King before and lived to tell the tale. Only the nastiest of tales were spread about him by other dark forces in the dungeon.Why did the dungeon appear in the Wolf city? What was its purpose? Nobody knew. Since it was a source of crystals, everybody raided the dungeon even though it was so risky.If hideousness had a face, it would look like the Nether King. With his face scaly, spotty, and foggy with chilling vapors releasing from the cracks in his faces, he looked menacing to say the least.His sheer presence had made everyone feel paralyzed against their will. Even Porcius felt his arm trembling from the profound chill when the Nether King’s gaze briefly settled on him.“My daughter…” the Nether King glanced over his shoulder and looked at Puck. “I told you to not roam around without guards.” As he said, a person riding a horse came out of the dungeon. It was a Nether Knight, and Puck’s personal bodyguard. The spear in his hand gave off the chill of
The clash of two mighty fists set the whole floor on vibrations, startling every creature in the dungeon.“Freezing Fury!”Shadowy ice energy spread through Rashn’s fist and seeped into Myles’ arm, making his eyebrows twitch.“Overflowing Spirit!” Myles body leaked out bright white flames that not only countered the black ice but also set the nether king on flames.The sable crystal in Rashn’s chest sucked away the flames pretty quickly.Rashn’s nails grew in size as he swiped his hand at Myles. “Grim Reaper Fetching Soul!”Myles cross-blocked the attack, but Rashn’s hand slipped right through Myles’ arms and struck his chest.Rashn yanked his hand and out came a translucent thing out of Myles’ chest. Myles caught Rashn’s wrist with one hand and shot lightning out of the other hand. “Heavenly Jolt!”A white bolt of lightning struck the black crystal in Rashn’s chest, making him cough blood and forcing him to let go of Myles and move a few steps back.Myles was also down on one of his
Myles and everyone else teleported not far from the entrance of the dungeon, where Myles had left his mark on the wall.Nobody other than Porcius had a clue as to what just happened. The last thing they remembered was getting away when Myles and Rashn collided, but now, they were at a completely different place.“Where are we?” Casey looked around.“This is close to the entrance,” Albert responded, “though I have no idea how we got here. Surely, we didn’t get blown away to this place, or did we?”Justin looked at Myles who was already walking toward the exit. Porcius was right next to him. (Did they somehow bring us here?)Ria had a vague understanding of what had happened. (I felt like my body moved at an extremely high speed. My body might be able to withstand such speeds, but moving at such speeds should burst the capillaries of others. But they all look fine. How? What kind of magic is so powerful that it defies science?)Myles, on the other hand, felt like he might lose his consc
Aero’s attack was deadly enough to easily kill a group of individuals without them even realizing what happened.The table where Myles and others were sitting was utterly destroyed.However, nobody was harmed because Myles had warped them a few meters away at the last moment. The only being he didn’t warp was Dusty.Dusty took the attack head on and was injured just a little. “This is…” he didn’t take more than a second to understand who it was. “Don’t say anything and just run away!” he shouted in ant language.“What nonsense are you talking about!” Aero attacked him with his spear-like limbs. “Her Majesty trusted you and sent you on a mission, but here you are, eating sugary things!”“You idiot! I didn't have any other choice!” Dusty defended himself. “I was forced to work for these humans!”“Shame on you! How can you work for humans?” Aero grew all the more aggressive. “You surely deserve to die!”“Who is that bastard?” Sercy asked angrily because part of the cafe was destroyed by
General Aero of the Battle Ants leaped toward the two old timers and used his jelly-like body to set himself on fire, causing a nasty explosion that covered almost a hundred feet in every direction.It was so hot the ground cracked and the metal melted.Aero used this opportunity to fly away fast. Some automated machine guns recognized this intruder and shot at it, but Aero was able to easily slip past the bullets and flew away into the distance, covering a mile per second.Wise Servant and Sweet Beggar stepped out of the explosion, and Wise Servant sucked in the explosion and contained it in her single hand and squashed it into nothing. The compressed flames no longer existed as a candle light would turn off.“Are you going to go after that thing, or do you want me to go instead?” she asked him.“You’re the wiser one,” Sweet Beggar picked his teeth. “So you should go, since you decided to let that little ant go.”“I thought he might lead us to the one that escaped last time,” she rep
Outside the forever S-rank dungeon where the Battle Ants were present, Wise Servant and Sweet Beggar stopped playing chess and started drinking a strong tea made out of boiling many potent green herbs.And both of them felt energized and relaxed right now as they sat laid back in their chairs.Wise Servant lost in chess once again. She had been trying to win just one game of chess against him for so long. She grew experienced enough to be easily called a grandmaster of chess, but still, she was not able to win against Sweet Beggar just one more time. All she wanted was for him to forgive her and say ‘I love you’ just once more.Both of them had long crossed 100 years of age. So, they weren’t thinking of sex or anything like that. They were purely thinking about each other’s souls.Wise Servant had already beaten him 999,999 times, but she really wanted to win another game; however, Sweet Beggar didn’t make it any easier for her. He remained ruthless all the time so that she couldn’t e
In the dungeon swarming with ants of all kinds numbered in trillions, with more of them joining the ranks as seconds passed by, this dungeon was becoming more and more of a threat to the very existence of not just the Venture city but the very existence of humanity.The queen of all ants, Queen Wiggles, was currently crunching on wafers and looked to be in bliss.“Mm… these are the best things I’ve eaten in a while,” Wiggles looked at the captain ant that brought her a single packet of wafers. “What are these things called?”“Wafter, Your Majesty,” the captain ant kept his head and antennae lowered.“Water… it’s crispy, sweet, and easily melts in your mouth,” Wiggles was drooling. “I think I can eat a mountain of these. Why did you bring only one of these?”“The guy that entered the dungeon had only one of these in his bag,” the captain ant replied.“Oh, I thought you managed to leave the dungeon and then come back inside,” Wiggles said. “But some fool entered the dungeon, huh. Did you
Sercy found an A-rank healer, but he asked for a lot of gold in order to heal Judas and Glint because it wouldn’t be an easy task.“Instead of money, I’ll give you the spoils of an A-rank dungeon we’ll clear,” Sercy told him.“That’s even better,” the healer happily agreed to it.After forming a contract, he came to the Dawn guild to heal Judas and Glint. However, when he approached Judas, Judas attacked him by grabbing his throat and lifting him up.“Who do you think you are…” Judas coldly said. “Did I give you the permission to heal me?”“Judas!” Sercy unleashed a flaming punch and struck his face, sending him flying into the wall right next to him. His head went halfway through the wall. “How drunk are you to attack a guest who came to help you!”Judas pulled his head out of the wall and spat a few pieces of bricks out. “I’m not drunk, Sercy. And I don’t want to get healed because I’m perfectly fine.”“No, you’re not fine. You are mentally disturbed,” Sercy blurted.“Hmph, you thi
In Basil District.Sercy and Ria were heading toward a certain address.“Why did we have to travel so far?” Ria expressed discomfort without hesitation. “Couldn’t you find any healer near our district?”“I could, but I doubt they can fully heal Judas and Master Glint,” Sercy replied. “Judas has been drinking a lot. I’m sure his liver and other organs are not healthy. We need a proper health potion that can improve his health significantly. And Master Glint also needs to drink a health potion because he’s not eating properly.”“His daughter died long ago, so why is he still depressed?” Ria asked.Sercy glanced at her with a bit of a surprised look. “You lack emotional depth. Were you not raised by your parents?”Ria frowned. “Do I have to be raised by my parents to know a father’s love?”“...Not really,” Sercy said. “Some lives can be explained by pen, but some… only by pain. By emotion. If we haven’t experienced the same emotions ourselves, it’ll be hard for us to put ourselves in oth
The glass cube was torn open like it was jelly, which genuinely dropped Sercy’s jaw for a second.Dusty was also not expecting that at all, but he grinned as he unsheathed his sword, ready to attack Myles. However, just when his eyes looked up and his gaze was set on Myles, he suddenly felt invisible pressure crushing him down from every direction.Myles was not even moving his eyelids, but Dusty couldn’t move. In fact, his body was trembling slightly. (What’s this feeling?) He looked very anxious. (This regal aura he’s giving… It’s as if I’m looking at Her Majesty. No, perhaps, dare I say… he’s even greater than Her Majesty Wiggles?)“Myles!” Sercy yelled. “How did you do that? I mean, how could you do that!” She quickly caught Dusty with her hand. “What if this little monster is more dangerous than we think?”“Then why are you holding it in your hand?” Ria asked.“B-Because he’s like a little doll,” Sercy said. “I feel like squeezing him to death.”“Eeek!” Dusty was terrified by her
Myles and Ria came to the canteen while Biskie and Casey were so tired and beaten they had to take rest in the basement training grounds. Myles wasn’t the one who fought them, but they fought each other to the extreme just to test them and so wounded themselves a bit too much.“Our guild has good core fighters now,” Sercy told them while they were eating crunchy leaf burgers. “We only lack a good healer. If we can get someone who can not just heal the wounds but also boost our skills, it’d be wonderful.”“Someone who can do those things will be in high demand,” Ria opined. “Do we have enough money to recruit such a person?”“Money? Screw that,” Sercy snorted. “I want someone who will willingly work with us and share our burdens and not expect too much in return. I don’t want those types that go after money and fame as they cannot fit into anything. They are only going to abandon you when a better opportunity knocks on their door.” She then looked at Myles. “You explored some districts
Dusty stealthily entered the guild building, expecting there to be tight security. However, all he found was an old man mumbling something in his sleep.“What’s this? They have the dragon king’s item, and they’re this relaxed?” Dusty frowned. “Are they that confident in their abilities, or are they just that stupid?”Nevertheless, he kept his guard on and traveled in the hall while using the objects as his cover.He saw Sercy who was loudly talking at her reception desk.“I’m telling you that I will buy those lands!” Sercy was shouting. “Sell me those infested lands, you bastards! If you do that, We’ll become ghost-venerers for you and clear three dungeons of your choice in the next year. How does that sound?”“Five dungeons for three years is okay for me.”“Three years is too long, and five dungeons is too much,” Sercy said. “Three dungeons and one year is final.”When a dungeon breaks, the nearby lands and environment get corrupted. This would cause the value of that land to drop, e