Chapter 558, Section 557: The End
Ironjaw led the main force of the mercenary group and Tanaka's clone into the water, but some members remained on the ship to guard it.
After all, the ship and the employer who stayed behind still needed protection.
As for being betrayed or even killed by one's employer?
Ironjaw hardly considered this possibility.
After all... why should we?
Apart from the dozen or so ordinary Poogies that wasted magic potions and the two employers, everyone else on the ship was one of their own.
If you don't have any bad intentions, the employer should be grateful. How could you possibly be the one to be cheated by the employer?
If something really happened to them underwater, the brothers left on the ship certainly wouldn't let it go easily.
However, the already dead Iron Jaw had no idea.
Shortly after they entered the underground city, the members of the group that he thought "would not give up easily" had already joined forces and turned the ship around to sail back the way they came.
They had no idea what was happening.
My memory was still stuck in the jubilation after the last mission ended. When I came to my senses, I found myself drifting on a vast ocean.
There were only a few of them, and two equally bewildered outsiders.
At first, they surrounded the two outsiders, trying to force them to reveal the situation.
Since they are outsiders, even if they didn't do anything wrong, interrogating them won't cause any loss.
But the other party produced a pass stamped with the seal of an Imperial Marquis.
Now the mercenaries dared not act recklessly; they didn't want to get into such trouble.
Then, they were attacked by monsters that emerged from the mist.
Although the number was small and the problem was quickly resolved, the uneasy feeling made everyone tense.
With a shortage of manpower, they dared not go into the water casually, and the environment made them feel uneasy.
So the snake people discussed it and decided to first find a way to reach the shore and leave this dangerous sea area, and then find out what had happened.
And so, the boat sailed away from this area of water early on.
So when Louisa rushed out of the underground city and returned to the sea, she could not see a single ship in sight, only a vast fog and an empty sea.
Inside the cabin, Tanaka clutched his severed arm tightly, his body trembling uncontrollably from the intense pain and lingering fear.
"That Puji... is different, completely different! Familiar control, this skill means someone is controlling it from behind, right? Who is it?"
Kiro shook his head.
"He won't say anything again." Tanaka muttered under his breath, but as his gaze swept over the scattered white fur at the fox-man's feet, he realized that this was probably some kind of price for the other party using his ability.
Seeing that Kiro was one step closer to the bald fox, he swallowed back the other curses that were about to come out of his mouth, and just gritted his teeth, waiting for the tearing pain in his severed arm to slowly subside.
However, he didn't know that this time, Kiro truly didn't know.
In countless premonitions, Kiro could only be certain that there was some kind of will behind the Fungal Creep and Puji.
He had even heard the other party's voice within the fungal web, and knew that all the parasites called him "Boss".
But what exactly is that will? To what race does it belong? And where does it hide?
He knew nothing.
The only certainty is that if I do nothing, the whole world will come to an end in the hands of that being two years from now.
This time, the seal could not be completely broken, but given the circumstances at the time, there was no room for pursuing a perfect ending.
With his abilities being activated so frequently, his body was nearing its limit.
【Moderation】This should not be used consecutively.
Forcibly activating it each time severely depletes his lifespan.
Kiro clearly sensed that if things continued like this, he probably wouldn't live much longer.
But... he had no choice.
There are some things that, if he doesn't do them, no one else will ever be able to do them.
As the sun slowly sank below the horizon, the exhausted Giroux fell asleep right on time.
Perhaps due to overwork, or perhaps because the deep-seated anxieties finally broke down, he had an incredibly vivid nightmare. In the dream, he returned to the terrifying apocalypse he had glimpsed when he first used Temperance…
...
"Mom, when is Dad coming back?"
"Dad and the uncles went to pick bad mushrooms and will be back a little late. Xiaoyu, you should eat your dinner first."
"oh……"
Kiro stood in the shadows not far away, watching the lizard-woman mother and daughter.
The mother forced a calm expression, but her eyes held a lingering sorrow.
The "dad who went to kill bad mushrooms" she mentioned was probably a member of the Fourth Counter-Offensive Regiment, which had just been completely wiped out.
The dinner the woman mentioned was nothing more than half a piece of black bread so hard it hurt her teeth.
Since the true purpose of the mushroom farm was discovered and people broke with it, they have been unable to obtain food from the fungal carpet, and a food crisis has loomed over everyone.
But this torment won't last long.
The last pure land on this continent is about to fall.
Suddenly, the giant bell on the tower rang out, its dull thud crushing everyone's hearts.
Puji's here!
Before the bells had even ceased tolling, the pale golden barrier that had protected the fortress from the encroachment of the fungal carpet shattered crisply before everyone's eyes, turning into a shower of golden dust.
A blood-red curtain of light surged from the horizon, rapidly polluting the heavens.
Seated atop the Blood Throne, overlooking this tiny fortress, is none other than Marshal Louise Mad Blood, the one who dragged the world into a sea of fire.
Beneath the blood-red curtain lay a vast, seemingly endless army of soldiers, far exceeding the numbers in any recorded war.
At the very rear of that massive army, a shadow as huge as a mountain moved slowly; its sheer size was enough to make even the bravest warrior's legs go weak.
On Kiro's side, all that remained was this lonely fortress and a last force of just over ten thousand soldiers, a mixture of remnants from various tribes.
In this suffocating moment of despair, it was the Demon King who stepped forward!
He charged headlong into the blood-red curtain, carrying immense magical power.
The devastating aftershocks of the battle swept over like a storm, and Kiro had to hold onto the wall tightly to avoid being knocked to the ground.
However, the Demon King, who had only merged three bodies and whose third body was still incomplete, was ultimately unable to defeat Louisa.
During the stalemate, Black Dragon King, Jida Envoy, Great Magic Mushroom, Sword Saint Mushroom... one by one, the generals under the command of Mushroom Garden joined the battle.
Under the combined attack, the Demon King could not hold out for long. His body eventually exploded into countless viscous droplets, which scattered and fell to the earth, never to be reassembled.
In his dream, Kiro knelt heavily on the ground, his fingernails digging deep into the soil.
Endless regret nearly tore him apart. It was all because of himself that he acted far too late, failing to remove all the Demon King's seals in time, causing the world to fall into such an irredeemable state.
In a daze, he heard the little lizard girl beside him, nestled in her mother's arms, call out happily in a clear voice:
"Mom! I see Dad!"
...
"You...do you even know how valuable a Hall of Fame-level combatant is? Even in an emergency, couldn't you have just cut off his other arm? Why did you have to smash his head? Besides, you didn't even find a ship..."
While Lin Jun kept complaining, she controlled the knight Puji to poke the pig's forehead intermittently with its tentacles.
Meanwhile, "Marshal Louisa of the Bloodthirst" was squatting obediently in front of Puji, her head slightly lowered, like a little girl who had done something wrong and was being scolded, not daring to argue.
(End of this chapter)
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