Chapter 301

Chapter 301

I've never been a proper torturer.

Not only because my family doesn't like the idea of me doing it, but also because the act of torture is still very difficult and disturbing for me.

However, my opponent is not a human, but a spirit so it’s a different story.

-You damned human. No matter what you do to me, I will never open my mouth!

A poor damsel in distress, trapped by her enemies, spewing out embarrassing words.

"Yes, I know, you higher spirits can't be damaged by ordinary physical attacks, especially the earth spirits, and even aura or mana attacks don't hurt you much, right?"

The ones who gained tremendous defense in exchange for their slowness were the earth spirits, or earth elementals as they were called in the game.

They weren't nicknamed ‘pig spirits' in the game for nothing.

-Ha, you know that and you're still going to open my mouth?

"Yeah. I know that's what you're most afraid of."

CS has something called attribute system.

You know, water is resistant to fire, lightning is resistant to water, that sort of thing.

And these spirits had something in common that interacted with each other.

"You know what this is?"

A black flame burned in my hand.

It was a flame created by mixing black flames with lightning drawn from the Black Mist. Upon closer inspection, red electricity surged above the black, blazing flame.

That's right. An attribute common to all spirits.

It was.......

-Eh, a dark elemental?! How could a human do that!

“Well, it’s a coincidence.”

The power of the dark spirits was a power that devoured and absorbed everything.

"Let's start lightly, shall we?"

Like dropping a ball of cotton wool, I let the flames from my hand fall onto the creature's leg.

-Crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

The creature suddenly grabs his leg and begins to twist and turn.

It's an exaggerated reaction that would make anyone who saw it swear at you for being such a dumbass.......

-Stop it! Please stop it!

"What? Do you want to talk?"

-I will talk, please! I'm going to say it, I'm going to say it!

Tsk-!

With the flick of a finger, the flame disappeared as if it had never been there in the first place but the marks on the spirit were clear.

His leg, baked by the flames and hardened to the consistency of porcelain.

He stared at his leg and grunted.

"Old man, he says he's ready to open his mouth!"

"Huh? Really?"

The old man, who had been carefully gathering grass in the back, looked up at my call.

Next to him, I see a teary-eyed, cheeky-eyed young man eating a bunch of nutritional pills.

"......What are you doing?"

"Ungi ahok's hio ahao ahana hui hao. Ehhhhhhhhhh!"

Roughly speaking, it's a grass that grew with the family's strength, so I guess it means he eats it all.......Isn't that a weed in the middle?

......It looks like he's eating it without stopping.

"Okay, tell me. Who are you guys and why are you so organized......and why are you doing this?"

To help him remember, I flick the tip of my index finger again.

He looks in my direction and opens his mouth.

-I, Kammuda, am the elixir administrator of the Spirit Realm! I came with my soldiers today because I sensed an intruder!

"...... Spirit Realm?"

"You're talking back again, aren't you?"

-Uh, the Dark Spirits hate humans too! Even you guys will have a hard time even approaching them!

"Don't worry, I'll take care of that. So, where are they?"

-that's.......

Huh-!

-Uh, the Dark Forest! It's a place we call the Dark Forest. It's a fortress and a paradise of sorts for the dark spirits, because the trees grow so high up that they don't let in any light despite being a forest!

He eventually blows their location. At the same time, a place flashed in my mind.

"If it's the Dark Forest, then......old man, what was the name of the dungeon we're going to?"

"What? Let me see......It's definitely the Black Forest......No way?"

The old man seemed to realize what he was doing, and he flipped open the map and showed it to the spirit.

"Is this the Dark Forest you were talking about?"

-Yes, that's right, this is the Dark Forest!

"Ha, I get the picture."

Spirits were categorized as monsters, but they were also creatures that could be contracted to grant new powers to players called Elementalists.

And there were quite a few such Elementalists among the top heroes. .......

"It's possible that the spirits are using us."

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure they are, otherwise they wouldn't be able to do this."

Perhaps the spirits were trying to lure the Elementalists who had contracted with them into attacking this place.

It would be too difficult for them to clear out the dark elementals' lair on their own.

However, the problem was why it didn't go according to the flow I knew.

The full completion of the original Spirit Realm would be much later but from the earth spirit words, it sounds like they’re already trying to act as a nation.

So what's so different about it.......?

"Ah."

It dawned on me how things came to this.

Perhaps it had something to do with Dark Spirit that was now my shoe.

‘...Was this the reason why his commission fee was abnormally high?'

It started to make sense why he lived in a shabby shack and didn't use good equipment for his quests.

In CS, when you're on a quest for Dark Spirit, you'll sometimes get a mysterious note.

The content usually included things like [Supplies are running low.], [We need magic stones.], [We need new weapons], which were hard to see as related to Dark Spirit.

For players like us, all we could think about was, "Did someone take the target's documents?”

And of course, who would have thought that there would be an organization to take care of.

In our minds, he's always been a lone wolf, working alone.

In other words, I could argue that the reason this situation happened is because I dealt with Dark Spirit quickly.

"Well. It's settled. Old man, let's go."

"Hmm? Where to?"

The old man asks, looking puzzled as I stand up.

"Where we should go, of course."

"If that's where we need to go, then......Black Forest? You're going there? Didn't he say that the Dark spirits or something are killing people there."

"So we should go."

"......What?"

"I thought you said we had to call in reinforcements."

A subject without a leader, battling a larger force, isn't this the perfect situation to take advantage of?

"Okay, we're going to absorb the dark elemental forces."

"How are we supposed to do that?"

"What do you mean, how?"

We'll handle it mafia-style.