Chapter 433: Trespassers beworm

Chapter 433: Trespassers beworm

Beyond the room with the guard was a straight set of stairs going down into another large open cavern. Sofia could not see much from the token’s vision. The glowing algae only grew on the ceiling of the cave and not the floor, so it was impossible to tell what was going on in there, but there was one thing that she could not possibly miss, on the opposite wall of the cavern, thousands of meters away.

Red light...

That’s where it was. Ah! Wait there!

Sofia told the infiltrator to stop while she disconnected from the token’s vision in a hurry because she felt a slight tremor in her real body.

The apartment Sofia was hiding in was in complete darkness, she looked around, not seeing anything suspicious. Spreading some of her mana around to create an area she could feel with her mana senses, she found the source of the disturbance. A small procession of Kidjikkiks were walking near the building she was hiding in, one of them had fallen over and hit the wall of the building.

What are they doing? They’re carrying something?

Sofia caught a small mirror from her storage and used it to look out of the window without exposing herself.

A direct view was a lot more informative than her mana senses, about a dozen Kidjikkiks were going toward the doors the infiltrator had just gone through, they were each carrying huge bins full of metallic ingots over their head. The one who had stumbled and hit the building had spilled his bin, and there were small silvery ingots all over the ground.

No wonder the path is so beaten up, they just go and carry several tons of metal like this... Looks like it is mostly iron. Well whatever, I’m still safe.

Sofia changed her vision back to the infiltrator’s.

Turn back, hide near the doors. Yes, right there, stop, good. When the group of metal carriers comes through, follow them. ReAd lateSt chapters at novelhall.com Only

It took a few minutes for the group to go through, as they actually stopped in their tracks to wait for the one who had stumbled to pick up all the spilled ingots by himself and get back into the line on his designated spot. When the first carrier opened the doors, he was met with the same wall of spears the infiltrator had faced, and the interaction went about the same way. Finally they all made it to the other side and the infiltrator just tagged along, taking the last place in line. None of the carriers seemed to notice or react, and they simply made their way down the stairs into the dark cavern.

The red light is gone!

Sofia cut the connection to make sure she was safe.

The room was dimly lit by the ambient reflection of a deep red light.

I have not been seen yet but this is dangerous... It should be fine as long as I stay hidden. As long as this thing doesn’t randomly destroy buildings, there’s no reason it would ever find me.

I’m lucky I didn’t stay near the window...

Sofia very slowly moved to a corner and sat there, knees against her chest.

This should be safe... This should be safe...

She waited there for a while. She could feel the movements of the infiltrator but she did not want to reconnect to the vision token for fear of the red light worm feeling the mana connection somehow.

The red light never directly shone at the building she was in, it only ever reflected in there slightly, sometimes disappearing before coming back. Until it completely disappeared for a while, and Sofia was relatively confident that the giant worm was gone, either back into the lower cave or into the upper city.

Now that Sofia could stop staring at the Matriarchs, she could focus her attention on other things, and while she looked around to find the passageway the Red light worm used to enter and leave the cave which couldn’t be the guarded checkpoint, she found something else.

Are these...

Near one of the Matriarchs in particular, there was a bunch of junk. Clothes, weapons, armor, bags, small colorful rocks.

Oh... Yeah. That makes sense, does it not?

Why only use the Veik? Trial takers are also a resource that can likely be hatched into a different Kidjikkik type...

There isn’t a single bone left.

Can I...?

Sofia focused on one of the small colorful rocks and it disappeared.

Pick-up range up to three kilometers. This eye really is crazy.

The rock was waiting in Sofia’s storage, she brought it out in her hand, it was of a bright red color, and Sofia could feel no mana inside. She Identified it.

[Wasted mana heart of Speed]: An incomplete mana heart that has long set outside of its intended host. There is nothing of value left, but it can make for a pretty gemstone in the hands of a good jeweler.

Speed. A relatively unremarkable lesser god, from what I’ve read.

Death really does happen in the trials, huh. I always knew but knowing and seeing are not quite the same...

Sofia turned her eyes to that one Kidjikkik matriarch again.

Let’s just kill this one... There must be a battlefield between the Veik and the Kidjikkik if I leave through the other side, since this is where the Veik corpses come from. I’ll get my thousand kills on the soldiers and guardians there and be done with it.

I had my reservations until now, but this seals the deal. The kidjikkik are brainless worms mimicking an actual society, they’re born fast, have no personality, and they end up in a ditch when they die. I won’t be losing my head for them. Especially not when they use other trial takers as a hatchery.

Now, how do I kill that one Matriarch quickly and cleanly then make my escape?

I could just bolt it right now but that could attract-

The inside of the cavern was suddenly flooded by an intense red light.

Nevermind.

I should have just killed one and left as soon as I identified the matriarchs...