Episode 498 Stone statues being punished (1)
As we headed underground, the smell got worse.
“Ugh… the smell.”
Ray opened the door with mana all over his body.
Koo Goo Goong-!
The huge stone door opens slowly, revealing the horrors of the 16th floor.
Eventually, when they set foot on the ground on the 16th floor, only the corpses of monsters were lined up in front of them.
“Keeeh!”
The goblins, who are more sensitive to smell than humans, clutched their noses in agony.
The smell of rotting corpses.
But it seemed that that was not all.
“Return mana to the whole body. Otherwise, sooner or later you will collapse.”
When Ray advised, the goblins hurriedly wrapped themselves in mana.
The amount of mana you have may not be able to be maintained for a long time at the right time, but it will be less than not having it.
Ray explored his surroundings.
Maybe another monster will pop out.
As soon as I got out of the stone door with my nerves on edge, I could see the monster corpses filling the hallway.
There was not a single living monster.
At best, it is a static layer. At worst, it is the scene they will soon find themselves in.
Ray took a closer look at the monsters.
Judging from the lack of trauma, it was not likely that someone had attacked him.
Presumably these monsters also died from suffocation or poisoning.
“It’s worse than I thought…”
Ray thought he needed to find out the source of the smell.
But to do that, you need a safe place first.
No matter how much the smell spreads everywhere, there is no safe place on this wide floor.
He spread mana widely among the goblins.
“Haste.”
As his body suddenly became lighter, the goblins looked around his body with startled eyes.
In this way, you will be less fatigued and move faster, so it will be easier to explore.
He led a group of goblins and searched from place to place.
Since I didn’t feel the presence of monsters around me, it was rather comfortable to be able to walk around with peace of mind.
I must have been walking around for an hour, but with no results.
The dungeon is wide.
It’s even more strange that it’s the size of a mountain range that has been swallowed whole, so it’s rather strange to go around the whole thing in an hour.
Unlike him who was patient and trying to find a safe zone, the goblins were already reaching their limits.
“Kieheek…”
It seemed that Mana was starting to run, as he seemed to be out of breath.
Ray expressed magic just in case he wanted to.
“Cure.”
The mana emitted from him purged the poison around him.
For a moment, the miasma resisted the mana, but was pushed back by his mighty mana.
It made breathing a little easier than before.
The goblins relaxed their trembling bodies.
“Kueeee…”
“Kieeee…”
You won’t be able to use magic forever, but it will be enough to take a breather.
Ray sat down in the relatively clean dungeon hallway.
“Let’s rest here for a while.”
At his words, the goblins also dragged their hips to sit down.
The Goblin Queen approached him with a rather serious face.
“The poison is getting stronger little by little.”
Ray nodded at her words.
He knows too.
I walked all the way for an hour, but far from being in an environment free of miasma, it was rather filled with miasma.
Perhaps the monsters tried to go up to the 15th floor because there was no safe place anywhere on the 16th floor.
‘If this happens, we have no choice but to remove the cause as soon as possible.’
If left as it is, the goblins would die before going down to the 17th floor.
“I’m not sure, but it’s probably the source of the poison in front of me.”
The goblin queen has a better nose than the other goblins.
In particular, he smelled the monster corpse very well, and he told me that the smell of the corpse was coming from across the hallway.
Ray took a look around.
An extreme environment in which plants cannot grow.
Because even the monsters were soaked in poison, they couldn’t bear to eat each other and were just dying.
It was to the point where I couldn’t understand why the dungeon had such a floor.
After resting for a while, the goblin group’s complexion returned, and Ray immediately stood up.
While mana was recovering, he went around purifying the hallway with magic, but within two hours, the hallway was filled with poison again.
If it was a moderate amount of poison, it was his mana that would completely get rid of it.
It clearly showed how powerful the poison that spread throughout the dungeon was.
How many more hours would it take?
After wandering around the corridors for a bit, they were able to arrive at the ‘source’ within no time.
huge stone chamber.
It shouldn’t even be the entrance to the basement, but there is a door.
Swallowing a gulp, he opened the door.
Iron spatula-!
That’s right-!
The door opened with the sound of a chain winding.
A stone statue was placed there.
Dok- Dok- Dok-
A stone statue of a girl who seems to be quietly praying.
Poison dripped drop by drop from her mouth.
No matter how much it flowed out, the poison had already formed a small pond.
“Is this poison…?”
The venom that you can definitely feel is no joke.
If you touch your body even a little bit, you will die without knowing when you were poisoned.
However, the appearance had a sense of heterogeneity to be called poison.
From the outside, it is a transparent and clear pond.
It looks like there is no problem using it as drinking water, but in reality, it is a biochemical weapon that kills living things in an instant.
Curiously, there were no traces of dead monsters around the most toxic statue.
After leaving the goblins behind, he entered the stone chamber and looked around.
Inside the stone chamber full of toxic moss, there was only one stone statue of a young girl.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t get close to the statue of a girl in the middle of the pond.
I tried spreading mana to see if there was a venom gland underground, but fortunately it didn’t seem to be the case.
After examining the stone chamber for a while, Ray soon turned his attention to the stone statue of the girl.
But something is familiar.
“huh?”
He narrowed his eyes.
Somehow, the clothes the girl is wearing look similar to the formal clothes given to saints in the holy kingdom.
Is that all?
Seongguk takes a rather unusual posture when praying to the goddess.
Kneeling on one knee and praying with one side bent at an angle is a characteristic of the Holy Land that serves Goddess Gaia.
Oddly enough, the stone statue of the girl was extremely similar to it.
Ray looked more closely at the statue of the girl.
The mark of the Seongguk, which must have been engraved on the back of the robe, was hidden by the statue’s hair, but it was certain that it was very similar to the robe of the Seongguk.
“Couldn’t it be Gaia again…”
Suspicious of the goddess for a moment, he shook his head.
No matter how, could the goddess be involved in such a thing?
But if that’s the case, how should I explain the girl’s wedding dress?
Ray shook off his thoughts and went straight to the pond.
Mana was wrapped around her body, but poisonous air entered her body just by breathing.
It was truly a colossal venom.
“Cure.”
When the mana was gathered and the magic was manifested, a faint light was transmitted to the pond.
Whoa-!
With the resonance of mana, the pond seemed to respond for a moment, but it soon became quiet.
It must have been that his mana was pushed back by the ignorant miasma.
It wasn’t like drawing mana from the air like before, but using mana absorbed by monsters, so the density itself wasn’t that good.
“I can’t solve this with magic.”
If it was poison spread in the air, it could be solved, but I thought it would be unreasonable to block the source.
Even if you bury it in the ground, the situation will only calm down for a while, because the poison pond will recur.
Ray looked at the statue of a girl.
Then, the only way left is to destroy the statue of the poison-spitting girl and bury the pond deep underground.
he groaned.
“Kkeuh….”
All you have to do is break the stone statue.
something feels awkward
Moreover, even if the pond is sealed, the miasma will rise again.
how do i do this
Thinking deeply, Ray remembered a magic he had been trying since the other day.
‘Drain.’
If it was that magic, wouldn’t it be possible to melt the current miasma with mana?
It is a poison that even pushes mana away.
It was not unreasonable to head to the deepest part at once if it could be absorbed completely.
However, in order to do so, he needed time to study magic, and the question was whether the goblins would be able to withstand that time.
“You won’t know until you try.”
It is better to move either way during the time to think.
Ray pulled out a small bottle from his leather pouch and carefully shook the soil around the pond.
He only lightly touched the poisonous soil around the pond, but the poison came up to the point where his hands that were full of mana were tingling.
Gulp –
If you do something wrong, you will die.
It was not easy to even touch the poison that could be said to be the source of Manaro now.
Being careful not to get dirty, he put the bottle in his leather bag and left the stone chamber.
The goblins, who tilted their heads, followed him without knowing why.
“Where are you going?”
When the Goblin Queen asked, Ray, lightly poisoned, replied with a bluish complexion.
“I need to get out of here before I die.”
Due to the poison coming in through the breath from earlier, the whole inside is shaking.
Right now, he was sweating by wrapping mana around him to subdue the poison.
He wanted to get out of the vicinity of the stone statue even for a moment.
The goblins, too, seem to have reached their limit, and their complexion is not good.
Now, the first thing to do is to get away from the pond and restore yourself.
I hurriedly moved my steps and reached the corner of the hallway, and Ray moved his hand slightly.
“Cure.”
It’s a magic that wasn’t used much outside.
After arriving on the 16th floor, it was transformed into a life magic that was used like everyday life.
After removing most of the poison spread in the air, Ray sighed.
Quickly pours mana into the body to subdue miasma.
His fingertips are a little numb, probably because he touched the soil near the pond.
“If this is the case, one month will not be enough…”
More than one month in this environment.
Just thinking about it made me break out in a cold sweat.
