Chapter 72
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nTransator: Ekdud
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nChapter 72 – Incursion (2)
nKyaaaaak!
nHansoo shook his head even while jumping down as he saw the huge amount of beasts in the inner parts of the mouth.
nThat was just the start.
n‘There’s going to be more of them from now on.’
nThe Calamity Fish and Devouring and Vomiting Root had similarities and differences.
nThe similarity was that they were both impossible to kill from the outside.
nTheir main habitat was either the deep parts of the ocean or deep within the earth inside the World Tree’s Root where it was hard for humans to reach.
nThe outer skin was so tough to the point that a human injuring it was almost impossible and even if one did manage to damage it, if you take account of the fact that you need to count their giant size in kilometers then any plans from the outside was futile.
nAnd he had to attack it from the inside because of this.
nThe Calamity Fish had left the inner defenses to the tentacles but the Devouring and Vomiting Root didn’t really have a need to create a defensive system due to its peculiar trait.
nThe beasts, who were created from the
nEven if they made their way through while killing the beasts, they’ll still be trampled by the other ones who would continue to charge.
n‘This is why I gotta solve that before I go.’
nThe outer mouth was endlessly sucking in the Toxic Waters with a powerful suction strength and the beasts of the inner mouth were roaring in glee as if they were waiting for food to be dropped.
nHansoo stepped atop the teeth that were on the outer parts of the inner mouth as he bought a bit of time.
n‘Well. There’s a few guys copying me.’
nHansoo shook his head towards the few clansmen who he could see in the distance.
nIt’ll all be in vain.
nOnce all the surface around here gets crushed and the Demon Mouth completely fills this place up, those guys will be given two choices.
nTo either drown by going into the Outer Mouth where the toxic waters were going into.
nOr to go into the Inner Mouth before the entrance closes and fight with the beasts.
nOnce these things close their mouths then they’ll all get swallowed even if they’re bouncing atop the teeth.
n‘A moment is more than enough.’
nHansoo, who jumped in place a single time, pulled something out from his pouch.
nA small Divine Stone Fragment which was the size of a rice grain.
nHansoo took a glance at the Divine Stone Fragment and then scooped up a bit of the baby’s heart from his pouch.
n‘I need to use it a bit at a time.’
nHe needed to use the heart as the poison to catch the third guy of the Pillar.
nHansoo, who had scooped up a small amount of the heart, tied the Divine Stone Fragment and the baby’s heart piece together and then threw it into the mouth where the toxic waters were getting sucked into.
nPlop.
nSoon the fragment swept down the waters as it disappeared into the outer tunnel.
nKugugugugugugu.
nOnce it had almost drank up all of the waters in the Kukulja lake, it started to slowly close its mouth.
nThough it would rise back up because it was connected to the sea but those things had drunk so viciously that it had almost dried up.
nThough it was wide, it wasn’t very deep so it could not quench their thirst.
nKuuuuuuuu
nHansoo landed on the inner tunnel as he saw the mouth close.
nKyaaa!
nA large amount of beasts had already set up camp there.
n‘Well. This is just the starting point.’
nMaybe because they were located in the outermost Root but the difficulty of the beasts were not high.
nOf course they will continue to gather up to him if he were to continue to fight back and forth here.
n‘Get through them quickly.’
nHansoo extended the blade of his sword and then swung it in all directions.
nChhguguguguk.
nKyaaaaaa!
nThe Gertas dropped artifacts and runes in all directions as they got cut in halves.
nKyaaaa!
nHansoo endlessly picked up the things that were dropped as he continued forward.
nThis guy’s Root was quite similar to the World Tree.
nAs you went further and further up, the smaller roots would combine into each other as they become bigger.
nAnd of course stronger beasts appeared the higher you went.
nHansoo held onto the Galadriang’s Relic,
nAt that moment a sound of things getting slashed apart could be heard approaching him.
nKudududuk.
nUduduk.
n‘It’s about time we meet.’
nThey had separated into different mouths.
nOf course they would meet as they head upwards while killing the beasts since the roots combined.
nA person who was walking while swinging a giant sword and slashing the beasts apart could be seen in the distance.
n‘A bit below Kalz Morenn? Is he the new captain of the shock troopers?’
nAnd he could see somebody walking next to him with a cold expression in protection.
n‘He’s the captain of Lighthouse huh. Is that guy Michael?’
nHansoo suddenly thought of Keldian’s show off.
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nSeeing that he hadn’t died and was collecting the forces proved that his skills were quite good.
n‘Well. I’ll try. Keldian.’
nIt would’ve been different if they hadn’t crossed roads in the first place but since it has become like this, it was better to have a good relationship.
nSince they’re now on the same boat.
nIt was some extra people who weren’t part of his plan but it wouldn’t hurt since they wanted to help.
n‘Anyways this is unexpected. I thought the Clan Lord would have escaped.’
nHansoo greeted the captain of the shock troopers who had an expression that wanted to send over a skill at any moment.
n“Isn’t it much better seeing me in a place like this?”
n“…What are you thinking?”
nMichael answered Hansoo’s question instead of the captain of the shock troopers.
nSince he could not figure out what Hansoo was thinking of.
n‘No. I can’t even tell if he’s a newcomer or not.’
nAt first he was befuddled, then he was enraged and then he was curious.
nThe reason why he had rated this Hansoo guy in front of him highly was partially because of his battle prowess but mainly due to his unknown intelligence.
nSince he had heard that this Hansoo guy had prepared everything perfectly in order to kill the Calamity Fish.
nAnd had successfully done so.
nBut coming in here without any preparations was not part of his plan.
nHe might’ve understood it if that guy had actually tackled through them, escaped this place with some unknown method and left them behind to fight while buying some time.
nBut for him to come into the mouth with them?
n‘Does he have the confidence to escape this at any time?’
nMichael shook his head.
nThe first thing they had done earlier was pouring attacks at it trying to penetrate through this thing’s skin.
nBut it was for naught.
nThe skin was so hard that the attacks didn’t even work properly and when they made a decent sized hole, the toxic waters that this thing had drunk rushed in at a rapid pace.
nEven if they did go through it, they’ll just get swept by.
nThey thought of escaping while this guy opened its mouth to drink the toxic waters but gave that idea up once they heard the outside clansmen’s message.
nSince the people who had been sucked inside the Root were doing the same thing.
nAnd the message said that no one had come out.
nIf the whole clan was to use up all their forces, a few people including himself would be able to get out but he didn’t want to get out this way.
nAnd that was why he had come to find this guy.
nWith hopes of him having some plans.
nHansoo laughed as he saw that Michael.
n“Didn’t you say you wanted to kill this thing? I’ve done this to fulfill your wish.”
n“…With just these numbers? We’ll get trampled on the way there.”
nMichael made a helpless expression.
nThey only had about 150 people including all of the Search Teams and the Shock Troopers.
nOf course these guys were the elites of the elites in the Red Zone.
nBut if it could be solved with just this then why would it be called a Calamity.
nThey will all get crushed apart by the ones coming down on the way up.
nHansoo shook his head at Michael’s words.
n“It’ll be easier to do it now.”
nWith those words, a very faint vibration could be felt from far away.
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nAn extremely large underground cavity.
nA large factory shaped building was located near below the World Tree.
nSomething that seemed like a relic of a highly intelligent race, a building that seemed like the product of modern technology was now covered with unknown mucus and suspicious looking roots.
nLike symbolizing the Elvenheim who had lost and gone extinct.
nBut surprisingly, the
nKiiiiiiiiiiiiik.
nAnd in the hundreds of millions of Cultivating Containers within the Plant, things were constantly getting produced.
nThough they weren’t being used properly under what the Elvenheims wanted.
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nThe main body of the
nSince he could feel his mouths penetrating through the earth and having reached the sea.
nSucking the toxic waters of the World Tree was quite a lot but sucking it directly from the sea was completely different in terms of quantity.
nThe toxic water that had multiplied a few times in quantity was constantly getting transferred to it.
nThe Main body then got those toxic waters and then focused on his main job.
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nIt took a part of it and used it to fill its stomach.
nThen it poured the remaining toxic waters into the
nSoon the Divine Stone Fragment which was embedded within the core of the
nKurururururuk.
nA huge amount of energy and toxic waters were being supplied to the Plant.
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nThe Plant, which was able to send out beasts all around the World Tree Mountain Range despite having a lack of energy and toxic waters, shined brightly in red with the plentiful amount of toxic waters and energy as if it could now work to its fullest and started up.
nChiiiiik.
nThe Plant, which was the result of Elvenheim’s alchemistry, started to create a huge amount of beasts according to the saved DNA information.
nIn numbered many many times larger than usual.
nKurururuk.
nThe main body happily stimulated the fragment more as it sucked in the toxic waters more fervently.
nKiiiiik.
nThe beasts who woke up from the Cultivating Containers inside the Plant made confused expressions but then made vicious roars as they spread out through the Root’s tunnels.
nSo they could fulfill their objectives.
nKwarururu.
nInside that Plant, millions of Ghweche seeds were endlessly pouring in while sucking in the nearby toxic waters.
nBy the time the arrived balloons gathered around a certain location inside, the divine stone fragment that Hansoo mad mixed in and sent up was almost about to explode.
nSince though it was dead, the baby heart piece had constantly stimulated the fragment to give off energy.
nSoon the fragment which had reached its limit started to pour out a huge amount of energy in all directions.
nChiiiiiik.
nThe moment the extremely bright light, which had the ability to scorch Hansoo through his Reinforcement before, touched the surrounding toxic waters, the waters turned into vapor instantly.
nAnd the toxic vapor that had remained after caught on fire.
nThen an explosive chain reaction happened.
nBooboobooom!
nThe gas lit on fire and the explosion from the gas blew up the nearby balloons.
nThe toxic waters evaporated from the explosion and then more gasses came out.
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nThe main body which was fully immersed in controlling the Devil’s mouth in order to suck in the Toxic Waters looked at the Plant which had turned into a sea of flames and roared out in rage.
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nCrunch.
nThe people flinched as they saw the tunnel of the Root shrink suddenly.
nSince it felt like the Root had been enraged.
nHansoo nodded as he saw this.
n‘It blew up properly.’
nOf course killing the main body with such an explosion was just in his dreams.
nSince the main body was not weak like that.
nBut that plant would’ve been destroyed to the point where it would not be able to function temporarily.
nAccording to the information he had received from the Elvenheim he had met in the Abyss, the durability of the Plant was not that high.
nSince their race didn’t have any enemies during the time they ruled this world.
n‘We have to move while the Plant is stopped.’
nThe Plant which was condensed from the technology of the Elvenheim was sadly made too well.
nIt would recover after a while and then completely focus on creating beasts.
nThey had to tackle through during the time when the new supply of beasts had been cut off and get to the Main Body.
n“Let’s go.”
nMichael looked at Hansoo with an expression full of suspicion.
n‘…What did he do? Does he know what’s at the end of this Root?’
nFrom the way he was speaking it seemed like his plans had succeeded.
nMichael did not understand this.
nNo one knew what the main body of the Devil’s Mouth was or what would come out at the end of this tunnel.
nBut how did Hansoo know of it to set up such a plan?
nMany thoughts flashed by Michael’s head but the conclusion came out rather quickly.
n‘I just need to focus on getting out of this place.’
nAs long as that guy was not suicidal he would’ve prepared a method of surviving.
nIf not, then they’ll blame him for that when the time comes .
n“Let’s go. Prepare your formations. Shock Troopers stand in the front.”
nSince Hansoo was doing his part, he needed to do his own part.
nIf he were to fight with that guy because of his pride and make Hansoo lead them onto a strange path then they’ll only receive damage.
nHansoo nodded while looking at Michael who started to control his clan.
n‘You made a wise decision.’
nHe didn’t want to fight a bloodbath with these guys here either.
nEvery grain of battle power was precious.
nHansoo quickly stored the small Divine Stone Fragment that he had made for emergencies as he quickly moved his footsteps.
n‘Collect two Relics that are here on the way there.’
nThe Relics of two of the Five Great TIger Generals who had died after coming in here in order to retrieve the Plant.
nWith those he would have three in total including the Galadriang’s Relic he had.
nIf that were to happen then he wouldn’t need to think much anymore.
nSince he would be able to use the Relics properly then.
nHansoo started to proceed head on.
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