Chapter 179

100.

When I think about it now, it was fortunate that I set it to the 100th floor so that it fell just right.

If the settings were properly set to ‘deep inside the abyss’, it would have been impossible to find at all.

After a week of entering the underground, they discovered the ‘device’.

“Is this the device?”

“Looks like… … It is.”

wiggle!

“Ugh.”

When Euril touches the ice lightly from a distance, the smooth surface trembles and contracts.

The dark red mucous membrane seemed to pulsate, as if some kind of liquid was flowing.

It is true that there was an image of a lever that was simply pulled with the word ‘device’ written on it, but I did not expect such a grotesque appearance.

“Looks like he’s alive.”

As Euril said, the device was a huge living creature.

The structure itself is not new. It seems to be a mother of some kind.

A weak flow of magical power flowed along the floor and ceiling of the abyss. It was a form commonly found in mothers.

What is still unclear is its size.

“How big is it?”

“I think it will be full behind this.”

The dark red lump is wriggling while blocking the street, so you can’t see the back.

I pressed my temples hard as I spoke. My head hurt and my stomach wasn’t feeling well. The appearance was for a different reason.

This is because the mother body in front of you is radiating tremendous magic power enough to affect the entire deep abyss.

“You should get rid of this.”

“Attack?”

“Well… … .”

I thought about it for a while.

Why did the invasion of the bottomless cave fail in the test play?

When I looked at the logs, all of them failed because I couldn’t reach the 100th floor within the time limit.

‘Conversely, if you succeed in reaching the 100th floor… … .’

The number itself is too small, but only logs that returned from the bottomless cave remained without any major problems.

In this terrain, even with Euril, who was virtually invincible, it was difficult enough that I had to use magic quite a bit from around the 90th floor.

Then, the difficulty is the process of reaching this place, and isn’t it easy after arriving?

“It seems there are no monsters around, right?”

“yes.”

“I will try.”

I pushed Euril back.

Auril’s ability is unmatched for neutralizing monsters, but it is unsuitable for penetrating these passages.

“First of all, this much… … .”

Raise your right hand.

A combustible gas, a hard lump of mud, a entwined flame, a sharp, long, straight line.

Poof, the spear of flame shot out at the moment of a light throw pierced the smooth surface of the mother body.

It was a magic that added a little explosion to the 3-star fusion magic [Fire Spear]. Just the right level of magic that doesn’t overwhelm the seal.

Perong!

“Ugh.”

The effect was adequate.

The explosion caused some liquid to pat and splatter. It was a fragment of the mother body that exploded. Thanks to the [Wind Curtain] that was spread out in advance, I was able to avoid being covered.

Slight tension right after.

Euril and I stopped to check the reaction around us.

“It is quiet.”

“Iknow, right.”

The monsters in the area were properly organized, so I watched them for a while. Nothing changed.

Not just quiet.

Even though a part of the body was destroyed, the mother’s reaction was not much different.

Originally, when the mother body is attacked, it has a habit of ordering a group of monsters to protect the mother body.

The obvious difference between the mother body in front of you and the other mothers is that part.

“I don’t think I have any protection mechanisms.”

This guy doesn’t interact with other monsters other than simply supplying mana.

‘It’s a part that was given up in order to affect a wide range.’

Then it makes sense.

Sky Centipede is also the parent of a monster, but there is a clear difference from the parent that appears in the Northern Neutral Zone.

In the ‘Crisis of the Northern Wall’, dangerous high-level monsters that can reach 100,000 even with a single parent flocked, while there are thousands of flying monsters controlled by one sky centipede.

This is because the number of monsters that a single individual can control has decreased in exchange for securing the mobility to fly.

In this case, since it affects the entire Abyss, it must be that the other parts have weakened.

“I’m glad.”

“I’m rather scared.”

“why?”

“Because that means these guys are smart.”

With the position of the 100th floor of the Abyss, it has already gained a defensive advantage. Giving up the ability to deal with crises is a reasonable enough choice.

In other words, it means that the mother body has the intelligence to judge it. In the first place, I gave the setting that there was a certain level of intelligence.

‘I don’t know to what extent.’

This is why monsters are bound to become a threat to mankind.

“I’ll have to go inside first.”

I move on, trying hard not to pay attention to the soggy feet.

Come to think of it, even when the sky centipede was captured, information about the inside of the mother body could not be grasped. How did the inside of that large body come to be?

“There must be something like a heart.”

Blood flows through the body of a monster, so it has a heart.

It was confirmed that liquid was flowing even in the colorful blood vessels of the mother’s body seen from the outside, so there must be a heart that makes such blood flow.

Inside, there was surprisingly a lot of empty space.

I was relieved by the fact that it wouldn’t have been an embarrassing task if I had to use magic to clear the road one by one because my stomach was full.

“Aren’t Auril wet?”

“little.”

“Even if it gets messy, be patient.”

“it’s okay. don’t mind.”

However, as time passed, the clothes eventually became dirty. If Baeller had come to a place like this, he would have been frightened.

Maybe 10 minutes passed.

Considering that it was moving most of the time, even if it was only for 10 minutes, it was still enormous.

The concentration of magical power was gradually increasing, and it was around the time when I felt that I had reached the center.

“I know everything.”

I found a room full of an enormous number of eggs. There is a strange corner to describe it as a room because it is definitely inside the monster.

A monster’s egg looks like a test tube wrapped in a film instead of a shell. As the incubation period approaches, the size gradually increases, but it is still small, so it seems that there is still time left for hatching.

“I’ll break it right away.”

The moment Auril took a short breath.

Blasphemy!

The ice that spread from under my feet in all directions filled the room, and then shattered into pieces with a crackling sound.

“You didn’t use magic on that either?”

“It’s a bit bitter.”

“little… … .”

It was a simple water magic operation that spread moisture over a wide area.

Instead, Auril brushed off her hand, saying that her hand would become like this. Charle, jewel-like ice grains poured out. There was no sign of distress at all.

After passing through the room full of eggs like that, I continued to destroy the inside at random, and reached the destination I was aiming for.

“That… … .”

“It must be the mother’s heart.”

thud. thud. thud.

The pulsating heart of a monster that swells up and contracts quickly.

You can see the thick blood vessels clinging to the floor constantly wriggling and supplying blood. It was big enough to hold five fairly tall men.

“What are you going to do?”

“I’m going to break it right away.”

If it’s the heart of the mother’s body, you can already secure it from the corpse of the sky centipede, and since this type of monster only exists in the Abyss, it’s not worth much.

Watching it made me feel bad for no reason, so I made a large “fireball” and fired it.

Hwaaak!

While the large heart burned black in the flames, it was confirmed that the concentration of magic power around it was rapidly decreasing.

“Is it over… … ?”

The moment the blood supply was cut off, the flow of magical power within the abyss was also cut off.

“Oh, the lights are on.”

As if to prove that fact, the magic lantern hanging from the waist began to emit light again.

It ended so simply.

“In case you don’t know, let’s dig into it some more.”

“yes.”

I didn’t feel comfortable going back like this. I roamed the mother body with Auril, destroying everything in sight.

After about an hour, there was nothing I could call a mother body anymore.

Only the flesh of something is scattered here and there.

and one after another.

[…] … It appears to be successful.]

The communicator, which had been weakly crackling, began to make a proper sound.

It seems that the reason why the communication device failed was not because of the distance, but because of the mother’s magical power.

After all, Neil is great.

“Article 179. Can you hear me?”

[Yes? Ah yes! I can hear you!]

O’Neill’s voice, which seemed to be embarrassed, quickly came to his senses.

“Currently, it is around the 100th floor. How is the situation upstairs?”

[The demons have weakened. The closer to the ground, the stronger the trend, so all captured monsters died instantly, and it was confirmed that the movement speed dropped significantly even near the 40th floor.]

[Are you able to communicate with Sir Rockstrin now?]

[What happened down there?]

The angry voices of the other wizards were also heard. The top seems to have been going without any problems.

“The mother body was destroyed, but it is too soon to be relieved. The demons are probably trying to get out of the abyss in a weakened state.”

[All right. I will order you to strengthen the line of deterrence.]

Since the mother body that supplied magic power was lost, monsters that still have energy will scramble to find food and try to escape from the abyss.

Of course, most of the monsters will be busy eating each other in the process, so you don’t have to worry about the well-established barriers collapsing.

One problem remains.

“It’s still down there.”

I pointed to the lamp of hope and said. The streaks of light have now clearly taken on a dark color. Surprisingly, it was purple, not brown.

“If it’s too far, you don’t have to go.”

“no. I think it’s right downstairs.”

Recalling the time of Brea, a light as deep as this appears only when it is close to the visual range.

Terra is probably just downstairs.

“Let’s go down.”

I also found a passage that goes down a little while ago. Unlike before, the width of the aisle was incredibly wide.

I lit my lamp and slowly descended the gentle slope.

“… … ?”

A little slow to respond.

It was because nothing particularly changed while descending to the 100th floor, and it was always just the scenery of a dark underground cave.

The sudden appearance in the light was very strange.

“… … under.”

Person?

It was a boy who looked to be about fifteen years old. with eyes closed.

Hagiya, both Rama and Brea were in human form. There was nothing particularly special about it.

It’s been a long time since I haven’t used it, so let’s look at the status after a while.

[STATUS]

eternal damnation, terra

Attribute: Earth (9 stars)

Affiliation: Kingdom of Aindarok

status: –

Personality: Fairy, Curse, Hatred, Despair, Revenge

I didn’t even have time to go through all five personalities.

“I can smell it. It smells like a disgusting black fairy.”

coogu palace.

The wall behind me suddenly rose up. The way out has disappeared. I reflexively raised my magic power.

“If you put me in a place like this and sent me as a snack. okay.”

In the darkness, pitch-black soil rose up. The shape of a wedge as sharp and sharp as a blade is not something that can be imitated with some flimsy magic.

“I have to catch it.”