This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 407 406. Humiliation
"Get it away! Quickly get this disgusting thing away from me!"

After vomiting, Bella jumped back, her face pale, and pointed at the poop that she had vomited all over.

Although the captain of the guards was puzzled, he still picked up the still struggling Puji as instructed and casually threw it back into the pile of Puji.

Then he asked, "What happened?"

"Too...too disgusting...ugh..." Upon seeing those chaotic blocks of color for the first time, Bella was completely unable to control the feeling of nausea. She vomited until her stomach was completely empty before she could barely recover.

Once her breathing calmed down, Bella refused to go near those poops anymore.

If she hadn't known beforehand that these were allied magical pets, she would have loved to chop them all into pieces and throw them into the sea to feed the fish.

On the other side, Lin Jun, controlling Puji, lay sprawled among the Puji, utterly dejected, not even bothering to clean the sticky vomit on her body.

humiliation!

For Dylan's sake, he even lowered himself and took the initiative to act cute and ingratiate himself!

The results of it? !

Puji suffered corrosive damage from stomach acid!
This foolish woman, the humiliation she suffered today will be repaid a hundredfold in the future... to Dylan!

……

Sophia's decision to send Bella to meet them was indeed correct; the captain of the guard had originally planned to evacuate immediately after confirming the pigmen's collapse.

In his eyes, every extra moment spent was an unnecessary risk to the safety of the hero.

In fact, he didn't even approve of coming down to rescue these people.

However, as Sophia's close follower, Bella insisted on carrying out the hero's instructions.

Under her urging, the guards had to help awaken the Puji Masters who had been drugged by the hallucinogenic spores.

"We...we're not dead?" A young Puji Master sat up, rubbing his forehead, looking around blankly.

"The church saved us!" another man exclaimed excitedly, looking at the guards. "May the God of Light protect us!"

When everyone awoke from their chaotic dream and realized they had miraculously survived, sighs of relief and lingering fear rose and fell.

Angela was somewhat surprised that she had survived, but when she saw the faintly visible fungal hyphae in her wounds, she was still a little bewildered.

Just then, two church warriors escorted Baron Morton and his daughter to the center of the crowd. The girl's face was streaked with tears, while Morton's face was ashen.

The moment they appeared, someone spat out a curse and shouted angrily, "Traitors!"

"Let me kill him! He's the one who killed so many of us!"

The survivors were eager to rush up and beat him to death, but the guards blocked their way, so it was clear that Bella and the captain of the guards had to decide what to do.

Baron Morton pressed his head to the ground, knowing he couldn't survive, and made a final plea: "I deserve to die! But I beg you... I beg you to spare Lucia, it has nothing to do with her will."

Lucia, standing to the side, sobbed uncontrollably, "Father..."

The captain of the guards drew his longsword expressionlessly: "There is only one fate for a traitor, and that is to lose everything he wants."

Baron Morton, tears streaming down his face, struggled to his feet and pleaded with all his might, "It's me! It's all my fault! She's just an innocent child! Please, for the sake of the God of Light, Ixion, spare her life!"

"Those who collude with the demons and harm their own people have no right to call upon the name of my lord!"

"Do not--!"

In Morton's despairing gaze, the captain of the guard beheaded him with a single stroke of his sword.

Lucia let out a scream that sounded inhuman, then collapsed to the ground, her whole body trembling violently. The immense fear prevented her from even crying out.

The captain of the guard flicked the blood off his sword and, without the slightest hesitation, walked toward the girl slumped on the ground. His tall figure cast a shadow in the moonlight, completely enveloping Lucia.

"That's enough!" Bella stepped forward and grabbed the captain of the guard's right arm, which was holding a sword. "The traitor has been executed by you in the deepest despair; he received his due punishment. But this girl, she is innocent!"

The captain of the guard did not forcefully break free, showing respect for Bella as a comrade-in-arms, but he still shook his head: "The Divine Word states: 'The blood of sinners cannot redeem.' The Law of the United Kingdom also clearly stipulates: those who betray their race are guilty of crimes against their families. If we spare her life today, it will only encourage other traitors to take chances, thinking they can save their families with their own deaths, and thus act with impunity!"

After saying that, he gently pushed Bella away.

During the previous journey, Bella earned the respect of the chief guard with her courage and wit. He regarded Bella as a comrade-in-arms. Although they disagreed now, he did not dislike her, so he maintained a sense of proportion in his actions.

Bella was pushed back a step, and as she watched the captain of the guard approach the girl again, she took a deep breath and said in a voice only the captain of the guard could hear, "But Lady Sophia... would she want you to do this? Would she be willing to see the blood of an innocent person stain the swords of her followers?"

The captain of the guard paused, turned around, and looked past Bella toward the distant ship on the sea, its silhouette barely visible in the moonlight. He seemed to be able to see through the ship's hull and sense the hero's gaze at that moment.

After a long while, he flipped his wrist, and with a crisp sound of the sword being sheathed, the longsword was returned to its original sheath.

“Given her condition,” the captain of the guard said, no longer looking at the girl, his voice carrying a hint of ambiguity, “living may not be easier than dying.”

After that, he said no more and directed the church warriors to quickly assemble and prepare to leave.

As for the surviving soldiers of Jingu City, their survival depended entirely on themselves.

They bear the highest mission of protecting the brave, and it is impossible for them to stay and act as caretakers for these wounded soldiers.

Fortunately, the survivors of Jingu City did not have any unrealistic expectations.

Back on the ship, the sails were adjusted, and the vessel, propelled by the power of the sea, gradually moved away from the shore.

For the brave party possessing the incomplete artifact "Ocean Scepter," the vast ocean is undoubtedly much safer than the land.

For a long time afterward, they tried their best not to go ashore.

However, Sofia could not remain completely detached from the increasingly dire war situation on the mainland.

At her insistence, the ship adjusted its course and continued to slowly head north along the coastline, trying to do what it could within its capabilities.

At the stern, Bella leaned on the railing, squinting slightly as she gazed at the receding coastline, recalling the scene before her departure with a strange expression.

She saw a Puji Master who had regained consciousness thank them while reattaching his severed arm.

Without any medical intervention, they simply pushed it back in, and before long, his fingers were able to move again.

It made her scalp tingle, and she even began to doubt whether these people were still human.

But considering that Sophia didn't say anything, it probably really is some kind of new technology from the kingdom...

However, the thought of those poops made her feel a little nauseous.

……

When the sun set again, Angela's party returned to Golden Valley City.

Half of their men were killed, but they brought back far more corpses than expected, and they were all still quite fresh...

On the other side, Dylan, who had just finished saying goodbye to Bianca after get off work, leaned against the store entrance, watching the girl's back as she walked away, and let out a soft sigh.

He felt that his tired heart had been healed by this energetic little girl recently, and he was sleeping much more soundly.

He was about to close the shop and prepare to rest when he discovered a note on the counter that had appeared out of nowhere!
The moment Dylan saw the above content, his heart clenched:

Want to know where your daughter is? 2 AM, abandoned village in the north of the city.
"Boss...did anyone enter the store just now?"

"Sorry, I wasn't paying attention!"

(End of this chapter)