Blood of the Hunting God

I have become stronger.

But now that he has become stronger, he can help Mr. Hunter!

"……sharp."

Clearly seeing the ingenious technique contained in the attack just now, the hunter couldn't help but praise the girl at this moment.

whoosh-

The sound of the wind approached quickly again.

Although one gargoyle monster was successfully trapped, more monsters had already caught up.

This is not the way to go.

The situation at hand must be resolved.

"Mr. Hunter, we have to go deeper, to a narrow place where these things can't keep up. Well, over there, Mr. Hunter, let's run over there!"

As Abigail spoke, she observed the surrounding situation.She quickly noticed a slanted hole in a pile of collapsed buildings, and quickly pulled the hunter's sleeve to point him in that direction.

"Um……"

Turning his footsteps, the hunter lowered his head slightly, avoiding the long ax wielded by a gargoyle chasing up from behind.

Then, he accelerated sharply and rushed towards the sloping hole on the ground, turning Abigail from the posture of being clamped around his waist to hugging him in his arms, and then he rushed directly into the hole with a sliding shovel among.

Bang!

A violent impact sounded from behind, and looking back, Abigail saw several gargoyles collide together, knocking down the entrance of the cave.

It was almost caught up.

After finally arriving in the capital of stars, did you encounter such a situation?

"Huh... In this way, I don't have to worry about those gargoyles for the time being..."

Feeling at ease, the girl breathed a sigh of relief, and then began to realize the situation she was facing at the moment.

I was lying in a familiar embrace.

Mr. Hunter hugged him directly in his arms.

After the crisis was resolved and the girl returned to her normal state, her cheeks turned rosy the next moment.

Chapter 25: Ants are cute, right?

Until the hunter stood up and put Abigail down from his arms, the girl was still blushing and a little at a loss.

"Let's go..."

Looking back at the cave that has now completely collapsed, the hunter turned his head to look in front of the cave. He did not know where the road in the darkness was spreading. He took out his cane and cast a lighting spell, and then looked at Abby. Gail, beckoning her to follow him.

"Uh-huh……"

Abigail, who still hadn't recovered, took several deep breaths, and trotted behind the hunter, moving forward together.

I don't know where this road will end up leading.

Maybe be able to reach another area in the ruined city?Or to some new place completely unknown?Or will it reach a dead end soon?

In any case, we have come here, and there is no turning back.

Taking a step forward, two figures, one large and one small, walked in the dark cave like this, advancing together under the dim light of the lighting technique.

The cave itself is quite rugged and winding, walking among the uneven stones, from time to time the hunter will reach out and pull Abigail who is short and inconvenient to climb beside him.Although the girl's physical fitness has improved a lot compared to before and she doesn't need this kind of help, but every time she encounters a higher steep slope, she still subconsciously stretches out her hand to let the hunter who jumped up first turn around and pull herself up. .

Speaking of which, it has been a while since two people acted together.

Abigail felt a little nostalgic.

However, this feeling of nostalgia was not long before it was suddenly interrupted.

"This smell..."

There was a rather unpleasant foul smell.

The stench condensed in the air coming from the front of the cave.

There is something ahead.

Possess something hostile, malicious, or repulsive.

"Be careful……"

As the hunter spoke, he took the lead while holding the cane, and his movements became much more cautious than before.

"Well, I'll be careful."

Abi

Gail nodded slightly, and walked behind the hunter.

Silently, the two of them slowly moved closer to the front of the cave.

crunch--

The ground under his feet changed from a solid rock to something strange at some point.

Abigail lowered her head to look at the ground. In the dim light of the lighting technique, she found that all kinds of miscellaneous things were piled up on the ground, some seemed to be the residue of furniture, and some seemed to be damaged Bowls and chopsticks, as well as fragments of clothes and bones.

These seem to be discarded garbage?

Is it garbage from the star capital above?

Why does it appear underground?

Could it be that it was brought here by something?

Thinking has not yielded an answer for the time being, but what is certain is that there is no way to continue to move forward in silence.

Ever since they stepped on the rubbish and made a sound, something has already come towards them.

The rustling things were obviously not human.

The hunter arched his body slightly, gripped his cane tightly and prepared to fight.After Abigail turned her head to confirm that there were no outflanking enemies from behind, she summoned the Moonlight Greatsword and held it in her hand, and guarded the situation ahead together with the hunter.

coming.

The girl could already smell the increasingly intense stench.

The first to appear were two slender tentacles, shaking slightly, as if they were detecting the surrounding information.

Then, there are sharp and huge pincers, six thick limbs and a plump body clearly divided into three sections.

Appearing in front of the hunter and Abigail, emerging from the front of the cave full of rubbish, is a huge ant about two meters high and at least seven or eight meters in length. An ant that is completely large enough to treat humans as food black red ant monster.

"It's so big..."

Although it wasn't that he had never seen this kind of creature, Abigail was shocked for a moment by the size of the creature and didn't know what to say.

"..."

The hunter who didn't speak, just stood in front of Abigail, quietly watching the huge ant in front of him.And the huge ant stood motionless, tilting its head slightly, as if it was looking at the two humans in front of it.

Silence lasted for a while.

Then the hunter suddenly moved, grabbed Abigail by the collar and dragged her to the side of the cave.

And the moment the hunter took action, a stream of red acid sprayed out from behind the ant monster, directly dissolving a shallow pit where the hunter and Abigail had just stood.

A second ant monster popped up from behind, then a third, and a fourth.

These things crawled on the top and sides of the stone wall, or approached directly from the ground, and their speed was astonishingly fast.They seem to have some kind of telepathic ability that ordinary people can't detect, and they can communicate with each other and hunt without anyone noticing.The ant monster that had been standing in front of it just now stayed still in order to confuse the hunter and Abigail, so as to give its companions a chance to sneak attack.

How much is a monster with a bit of intelligence.

The cane transformed into a sharp long whip in an instant, and the hunter threw out the whip in an instant, and the three approaching ant monsters were thrown out in an instant, and a large piece of flesh and blood was torn off from their bodies.

"Mr. Hunter, let me do it here!"

Then, taking a deep breath, Abigail took a step forward, suddenly raised the moonlight sword that gathered light, and then slashed down hard.

The next moment, the raging blue-green magic light directly covered the entire cave, swept it in with a roar, and crushed the attacking monsters in an instant.

"In this kind of cave with no forks and only a straight line, my ability can still come in handy."

Saying this, Abigail waved the big sword in her hand, showing a slightly proud expression.

"Hmm... very powerful..."

The hunter on the side watched the girl's movements, and after a little thought, he gave a thumbs up and nodded in approval.

"However, I don't know how these ants grew so big, and where did they get these garbage-like things. I always feel that there is something wrong. Could it be that we have overlooked something?"

Soon the two continued to move forward, Abigail and the hunter continued to move forward, and found more piled up garbage items in the cave, as well as those ant monsters wandering around.Abigail became more and more confused. She didn't quite understand the reason why these ants changed and why these items appeared.

It didn't take long to get the answer to that question, because after the horrible stench had crept in, the two of them came to a rather empty, what appeared to be a collapsed ground, a huge puddle that smelled like a septic tank.

"Is that...the sewer?"

Abigail raised her head and looked up, and saw the structure of sewer stone bricks, which were obviously artificially built, above the tall rocks.

The sewers in the star capital collapsed, making a lot of garbage and sewage enriched in this underground space, providing food for the ants, causing them to mutate and appear to skyrocket in size?

While thinking seriously, Abigail heard a viscous sound in the sewage

sound.

Lowering her head again, she saw a huge white ball inside the excrement, a white ball with countless things wriggling inside, and an ant monster dragging the ball.

That's the queen that the ants living here have.

Abigail looked around again, and saw dense insect eggs, each of which was the size of a human head or even the size of an adult, distributed in this garbage puddle that smelled like a cesspool.

And one after another, at least hundreds of huge black and red ants crawled out of the garbage dump, all looked at the hunter and Abigail who came here, and said After a short pause, all rushed forward in a swarm.

Chapter 26: The Abandoned Swarm

The pungent stench continued to spread and gather, so strong that it made one want to vomit.

Abigail originally thought that after experiencing the corrupt field and the cursed forest, she had a certain degree of immunity to the smell, but at this moment, facing the pus stinking out of these killed ant monsters She still felt a strong nausea when she smelled the mixed stench of the smell and the sewage from the garbage dump.

These extremely large numbers of ant monsters did not threaten Abigail and the hunters. Even if the number increased by three or four times, the result would be the same. The combat effectiveness of the two sides could no longer be compensated by numbers.However, these things that are covered in sewage and garbage, and exude a rotten stench will emit a large amount of dirty pus when their bodies are cut off, and they can also continuously emit a strong pungent smell. corrosive liquid, so the smell permeating this place became several times stronger within a short while after the battle started.

Especially after the hunter shot and exploded the fat ant monster that looked like an ant queen, countless mucus and unformed eggs flew out of the huge white meat ball that exploded, flying around like a dung rain.

Well, a rain of thin dung.

Thinking of Abigailton in this way made me feel even more disgusted.

However, although she was very reluctant to smell this smell and wanted to leave here quickly, Abigail knew very well that this abnormal state must be investigated, so she held her nose and walked forward. Go and walk up to these ant monsters.

"Is there something in these sewage that caused the mutation of these ants?"

He stretched out his hand, intending to touch these chopped ants.However, after hesitating for a while, Abigail finally summoned the Moonlight Greatsword, and used the sword to poke the ants, further cutting the flesh and blood of these things to investigate the situation inside.

"This is……"

Spots of light like a starry sky are flowing between the flesh and blood, collapsing bit by bit.

The power to dominate the starry sky?

Why does it appear in this kind of place...

Abigail couldn't think of a reason. She didn't think it was necessary for the church to conduct any power experiments on ants in the sewers. With the power they possessed, there was absolutely no need to pursue this kind of inferior combat power for mass production.

"it's here……"

The hunter who found something waved not far away.

"Yeah, come here right now."

Standing up, trotting around the sewage puddles on the ground and some overly sticky garbage and ant residues, Abigail quickly arrived at the side of the hunter, looking in the direction the hunter pointed just now.

It was at the edge of this sewage lake, a fractured and subsided area, where the turbid water flowed down like a waterfall, falling deeper into the ground, because there was no light at all in the cave below. Because of this, there is no way of knowing where these streams will eventually lead.

However, for Abigail at this moment, the focus of her attention is not on this.

"Those things... Could it be..."

From among the collapsed rubble, on some uneven stones extending from the water flow, you can see some things that were brought down by the waterfall and blocked by those stones.

Dead body.