Chapter 738
The Flat Push Plan: Encountering an Opponent Possessing the Power of a Flat Push Plan
Chapter 738 The Flat Push Plan: Encountering an Opponent Possessing the Power of a Flat Push Plan
Lefia felt a little embarrassed. Although they were both people who often spent time with Mr. Broly, only she and Miss Ais had received the full benefits, while Tiona had received nothing.
Well, they did gain some practical experience, but compared to the temporary skill [Invisible Wings] they received from Mr. Broly, his gains were negligible.
Loki mentioned that acquiring the temporary ability (invisible wings) requires fulfilling certain conditions, one of which is maintaining a good relationship with Mr. Broly. Diona should meet this condition, but I wonder what the other conditions are. Perhaps I should find an opportunity to ask Mr. Broly if he could grant Diona the same temporary ability...
Lefia thought to herself, clearly no one had told her the specific meaning behind the wing skill. This elven girl hadn't yet understood the price she should pay for obtaining the wing skill—it was a dowry that would take away her future, something like that.
"Miss Lefia, come here quickly, we need to go into the food storage."
Just then, Broly, who was in front, turned around and shouted to the women following behind him. He then reached out and grabbed at the seemingly sturdy green wall blocking the food storage area, tearing it apart like a block of tofu.
Lefia and the others, who had jogged over, felt a sinister sensation as they looked at the food storage room with its gaping hole. It was as if the cave before them was a ferocious beast waiting for its prey, its jaws wide open, ready to devour them.
"Let's go in."
However, neither Broly nor Ais stopped and went inside first.
"These wriggling green things look just like living chunks of meat. If we just barge in like this, won't we fall into an enemy trap?"
Looking at the scenery of the surrounding cave, Lefia couldn't help but ask a question with some concern.
"That's possible, but I will protect you all, and I will protect Lefia."
The swordswoman turned around and spoke to Lefia, while also glancing at the white priestess following behind.
Phil Weiss: "..."
Was the Fiora looking at her to reassure her, to let her know that the curse of total annihilation would never befall them?
"You've got guts! Knowing there might be a trap, you still dare to force your way in here?"
The green flesh wriggled and opened a gap on its own. A tall, white-haired man wearing a sheep skull mask stood on the other side of the gap, speaking loudly towards them.
"Since you are so courageous, it would be a bit impolite for me, the villain, to continue hiding."
The white-haired man raised his hand and snapped his fingers in their direction.
"Come out, my lovely flowers!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the ground rumbled and the sound of rocks cracking filled the air. A huge number of man-eating plants appeared around Broly and the others, along with the path they had come from, and these monsters densely surrounded them.
"Are there any other beast tamers...?"
Asphie tensed up. Surrounded by so many carnivorous plants, it seemed that even if she could become invisible, it would be difficult to escape. She was now grateful that she and her fellow members of her clan had not trespassed earlier, but she was also worried about the current situation.
"Didn't they say there was another guy? Where's that woman named Ruivis? Is she planning to ambush us from the shadows?"
Bert, the werewolf, asked the question, while Broly searched through the dense swarm of carnivorous plants. If the other party was hiding among these monsters, given that the other party could fight the previous swordswoman to a draw, it would be quite troublesome. Hmm, he would probably have to kill the surrounding plant-type monsters in circles to prevent the murderer from Rivera Town from getting close to Lefia and the others and posing a threat to them.
"Hmm? You're actually more wary of that guy, Ruiweis, than me?"
The white-haired ghost was a little annoyed, so he looked directly in the direction of his companion.
"Rivice, what are you still doing hiding there?"
Rives was indeed hiding among the carnivorous plants, and she was indeed planning to ambush and kill them, but she didn't expect that the white-haired ghost would expose her whereabouts.
"Olivas, are you an idiot? I was hiding among the carnivorous plants, which would have been a much better way to keep those guys occupied, but you, you pig-like thing, exposed my location!!"
Realizing her whereabouts had been exposed, Revis could only emerge from behind the carnivorous plant. She looked at Broly and the others with a hostile expression, but instead of looking at her incompetent teammates, she looked at her own teammates.
"Hiding your tracks and launching sneak attacks is a sign of a lack of confidence in your own strength. My army of carnivorous plants has already surrounded these intruders, yet you are still hiding and launching sneak attacks. If these guys misunderstand that I am also not confident, then that would be terrible."
Ruiweisi's lips twitched. It's not the god-like opponents you should fear, but the pig-like teammates. Just because their own monster army surrounded the intruders, they think they have an absolute advantage. It's ridiculous. Didn't they see that none of the people surrounded on the other side looked scared?
She had already decided to back out.
"Olivas, isn't that the name of the dark faction leader who caused the 27th floor labyrinth nightmare six years ago? But isn't he already dead? Are you an imposter?"
Having teamed up with the White Witch, Asphie's mind was already replaying some things related to the White Witch. Now, upon hearing Revis's address to the white-haired man with the goat's head mask, she quickly thought of the culprit behind that nightmare incident, which led her to directly question the masked man opposite her.
"I did die at that time, but I was resurrected by that person."
The white-haired ghost removed his mask, revealing his true face, which indeed looked exactly like that of the former dark faction leader.
"That lord?"
Ais frowned, while Lefia looked nervously at Philwis beside her. The White Witch's eyes widened, and she bit her lip until it bled. She looked at the white-haired ghost as if she wanted to devour him.
"Well, since you might become one of us anyway, it's okay to tell you in advance. It's the fairy of the dungeon who gave me a new life."
As the white-haired ghost spoke, a large orange-yellow magic stone appeared on his chest.
"Magic Stone, are you a hybrid of human and demon?"
Asphi asked.
"That's right, it was that person who granted me a second life by implanting magic stones. I can hear her voice. She wants to see the sky, she wants to possess the sky, she wants to let her sleeping deep underground see the sky. Orario is too much of a hindrance, it must be destroyed. Compared to those ignorant humans and gods, she is more suitable to rule the world."
Unlike the gods who call everything entertainment yet claim it's respect for life and are utterly inactive, she bestowed upon me mercy. I am her chosen one; only I can fulfill her expectations, only I can accomplish her wish—to destroy the city above us.
The white-haired ghost seemed to have fallen into a state of self-satisfied madness, acting like a commentator, recounting his own story and the purpose behind it all.
"Olivas, you bastard, you've caused me so much pain, and you still dare to show your face in front of me?"
Phil Weiss stepped forward, glaring angrily at the white-haired ghost opposite her.
"Hey, are they the survivors from back then?"
"You dare say that?!"
The White Witch immediately raised her short-handled staff and began chanting the lightning magic spell "Supreme Staff of Dionysus" at extremely high speed.
The flashing lightning hurtled toward the white-haired ghost, but a man-eating flower was controlled and blocked in its path. The lightning was instantly reduced to ashes, but its power was also exhausted.
"Heh, if you want to attack me, you'd better take care of my cute flowers first."
The white-haired ghost laughed wildly and waved his hand, ordering the man-eating flowers surrounding the crowd to launch an attack.
"Ais, Bert, Tiona, you two take care of protecting Lefia and the others. As for these monsters, leave them to me. The monsters on the forest path were too weak, and they didn't give me a chance to warm up properly."
Broly gave a brief instruction and then dashed out of the crowd.
"Sigh, what an idiot. Instead of struggling and resisting in the encirclement, he actually ran out to die. Even if you have the potential to become a monster, there is no need for that person to bestow the favor of the dungeon. Man-eating plants, don't hold back on that guy, just devour him."
The white-haired demon gave the order, and Broly was already jogging, making contact with the first carnivorous plant that charged at him.
"Bang~"
The giant man-eating plant was blasted away by its roots. After its head exploded, the plant's body flew out and crashed into the rock wall next to the white-haired ghost.
"?!"
The white-haired demon slightly widened his eyes and soon saw the Saiyan boy sweeping away his own carnivorous flower monsters like autumn leaves in the wind.
It was as if their own army of man-eating plants wasn't a monster of the strength of the deepest rifts, but just a small insect that could be easily crushed on the roadside.
The man-eating flower monster was disappearing at an extremely fast speed, and the white-haired ghost's confident and composed expression had also vanished.
"Giant Flower, you come at me too." He even sent out his trump card, the Giant Flower King, which was definitely a Lv.6 enhanced monster and three times larger than the man-eating flower.
but……
Broly was like a speeding jerk; after the giant flower king rushed over to block his path, he ran it over like a speed bump.
The giant flower, a Lv.6 enhanced monster, was no different from those man-eating flowers that were only Lv.4 or Lv.5 in strength.
After the update, Broly's 11-second ability value perfectly demonstrated what it means to have a numerical crushing effect with both his left and right punches dealing high damage.
"No, what kind of monster is this?! My giant flower!?"
Olivas was on the verge of tears, but now was not the time to worry about that.
The enemies he attracted were too strong, so he had to run away while the carnivorous plants were still around.
The white-haired ghost moved quickly and found his companions who had already shielded the carnivorous plants in front of him amidst the chaos.
"Rivice, didn't you say you had a backup plan? Now, it's time to activate our backup plan!"
The red-haired woman glanced at him and immediately detonated the firestones she had previously set up.
A deafening explosion echoed throughout the food storage area, and huge chunks of rock began to fall from above; she had actually blasted the cave apart.
"No, the backup plan you're talking about is us taking them all down with us?!"
The white-haired ghost was stunned.
"idiot."
Rives only replied with that one sentence before rushing deeper into the cave.
If she had the time, she actually wanted to retrieve the magic stone from the white-haired ghost, that idiot's body.
By absorbing the opponent's magic stones, one should receive a significant boost.
However, the enemy that came this time was too terrifying.
Yes, Ruiweis suddenly understood why the fairy clone she summoned in Rivera Town last time had fled as soon as it appeared.
"wait for me……"
"Want to run?"
As she leaned back and jumped into the fissure she had ordered the carnivorous plants to dig the night before, causing herself to fall deeper into the underground city's labyrinth, Revis saw the white-haired ghost, that bastard who had realized what was happening and wanted to run away with her, being caught up by that little human who was far stronger than them, who charged straight through the carnivorous plant swarm.
Before his vision was obscured by falling rocks, that bastard Olivas's legs were broken by that man's kick.
The other person was grabbing Olivas's hair like a dead dog, staring in his direction, which made him feel uneasy, as if the other person was going to chase after him. Fortunately, perhaps due to the collapse of the entire food storage cave, the other person did not pursue him.
"Bang~"
The boulder blocking their path was kicked away, and Broly led a group of people out of the collapsing food storage area. Once outside, he threw the wailing prisoners he was carrying among the crowd.
"Yeah, in order to capture this guy alive, I let someone else escape."
Broly scratched the back of his head somewhat embarrassedly. If he had just captured the leader directly, none of them would have escaped. However, he subconsciously went to clear out the man-eating flower minions, intending to leave the two obvious leaders for last.
"Ah, you just killed so many man-eating plants and were able to capture a beast tamer, that's already outrageous."
Tiona started complaining loudly.
"By the way, why didn't you kill him? Did you want to extract information from him?"
Bert the werewolf was somewhat puzzled by Broly's act of capturing the enemy alive.
"Ha, trying to extract information from me? That's impossible. I won't..."
Olivas, who had lost both legs, was about to say something tough when Broly shook his head and answered the werewolf's question.
"Oh, it's not that I want to interrogate him, it's just that Miss Philweis's tragic fate was probably all caused by this guy, so..."
Broly looked at Philwis, who had been staring at the white-haired ghost with a fierce look since she came out. After the white witch looked over in surprise because of his words, she said to her, "Miss Philwis, this is your enemy. You can deal with him. I hope that by dealing with him, you can get rid of the influence of the 27th floor nightmare incident on you as soon as possible."
Philweis's lips twitched twice before she finally bowed deeply to the Saiyan boy. She hadn't expected that the boy had captured the white-haired demon for her sake.
"No, what are you going to do?"
When he saw that Philweis did not draw her sword to kill him directly, but instead disemboweled him and reached in to grab his magic stone, the originally tough white-haired ghost panicked immediately.
There are different ways to be killed. A quick beheading is the most swift way to be killed, but being dragged by a magic stone like this is undoubtedly a slow, agonizing death.
"what……"
The pain from having the roots that connect to the magic stone in his body, which are like plant roots, snapped one by one caused Olivas' eyes to become bloodshot.
"Such torture..."
The white-haired ghost suddenly realized something.
"I see, so that's why..."
Before the man could finish speaking, the White Witch pulled all the magic stones from his chest.
You're a weirdo just like me...
As the magic stone left his body and began to dissipate like a monster that had died in a dungeon, Olivas, in his dying moments, had his last words appear in his mind.
The white-haired demon's dimmed pupils reflected the white witch's twisted expression of hatred. Unlike Olivas, who could accept her identity as a monster and live peacefully, Philvis was constantly suffering because of her identity as a monster.
But while she could tear off the white-haired ghost's magic stone, she couldn't tear off the magic stone within her own body. Suicide was not allowed by the filthy being that turned them into monsters; there was the command implanted in her consciousness, and the comforting words from the Supreme God after learning of her situation.
"Miss Phil Weiss, are you alright?"
Seeing the white witch standing silently with blood dripping from her magic stone, Lefia suppressed her discomfort at seeing a humanoid being killed and went over to talk to Philwis.
"I'm fine, thank you, Rafia."
The White Witch turned her head and gave the elven girl and the people behind her a genuine smile from the bottom of her heart.
Regardless of what the future holds, at least she has now personally avenged the enemy of this body. She is grateful to Lefia for her concern and to Broly for helping her capture the enemy and being willing to hand him over to her for disposal.
"The investigation mission should be considered complete. Can we go back and report now?"
Broly nodded to the White Witch who was giving him a grateful look, seemingly indicating that she didn't need to worry about it, and then spoke to the people around him.
"An investigation mission..."
Asphie wanted to complain about what kind of investigation mission this was, since it was clearly an extermination mission, but in the end she said nothing.
After all, the Hermes Familia were carried away without any damage to complete a well-paid quest and also averted the risk of being reported to the guild by that man in black robes.
Of course, on the way back, when Asphie learned that the person who commissioned the mission was a private soldier of the guild god, she still cursed him for abusing his power.
(End of this chapter)