Chapter 73 (1/2)

Chapter 73

Chapter 73: Poison Marsh

“―― Hehe, great haul today”

Once I was done sending the rest of the half-dead Goh their stuffOf course, I set Reuard the rear since I didn’t want any surprises

Let’s have a look see here,

Jagged Knife: This knife has no rust, but the edges are very jaggedOne of the Goot them both

Goma’s Spear: A short spear that just screams shoddyIt’s basically a tree branch with a claw froe monster tied on

Rusty Sword: A rusty swordAwful quality

Torch: A torch with a long handleNo, it’s not lit

Bone Club: A hard club fashi+oned out of some monster’s bone

Stone Adze: An adze like those froeIt’s round

The above were all I could salvage in terms of weaponryI know it all raded stuff Takanashi+-san

“Right, so the only useful ones are the knife and sword… and maybe the spear”

I didn’t need the other 3It’s not like I couldn’t make use of them, just that they’d be a chore to carry

For me personally, the other loot from the Gomas were a lot more valuable than the weapons

Torch Oil: The oil used to light a torchLooks like they put it on a piece of cloth before setting it on fire

Go: This shi+t fucks you upI’m ready to use it on myself if push comes to shove

Go GoourdIt reeks of alcohol, so I’ it boozeWas it used as disinfectant? Not a chance

Rock Salt: I just eat it hoping it gives eon salt you can put on snake meat and Shrimpworms alike

Redshroom: This fella here saved ht I’d find Go them

Plumshrooerous as fuck, but it turns out that it’s not actually poisonous…

Goelse they have, but practical nonetheless

Go, this one’s froot done in by a pawn AntIt’s also dirty like everything else they have, but practical nonetheless

And that’s everything

The two bags will be super useful, and I could make Reo inside thes, I could now carry a lothad been always packed full as of late

“Since I’ht as well power up Rem too”

I mean, do I not have 3 fresh pawn Ant corpses just ripe for the picking? These were all the ones the Goenerously killed before I aood as Mantis parts but Reh that doesn’tthe Gomas, not at allI’d become able to tell by intuition orked and what didn’t in tererAnd Gomas simply didn’t at this point

“Rise from chaos, bind in foul blood, stand on stained earth――Vile Mud Doll”

Let’s just see what happens with 3 whole Ant bodies…

“Wow, pretty daood!”

Re with all the Ants, and when she cae

She still had the basic Mantis shell ar were reinforced with black pawn Ant shell arinal skeleton body was the skullRem’s body now looked like it was in full plate armor

“GAGA!”

And the Mud Doll herself was also happy

Ok then, no point in hanging around here any to the next Square already

“―― Arff!”

I could hear a dog’s barking froe

“Oh, no, that’s not a dog…”

I recognized this kind of barkBut before I could get hts in order, they’d already arrived

“Arf!”

“Arr arff!”

This annoying barking was not fro, but froed lizard

“Goars!?”

I hadn’t seen these dinosaur monsters in a while actually

With their large blocky heads and maws lined with razor-sharp teeth, a total of three, four, five… fuck me, there were a whole seven of them

“Open, Rotten Bog!”

They were all running at

me at full speed, and I plastered the path in front ofacid almost reflexively

“Arrrf, gaarrr!!”

I’d seen them do this before tooThe Goars had an acute sense of s was a bad ideaOne even cried out in disgust as if fro

Alright, so before they think about ju over to this side, I’ll make my attack

“――Redhair Twine!”

I su and lashed them at the nearest Goar

“Orf, gyauunn!”

The Goar’s hard gray skin sizzled as the tentacles twined around it… but with a forced shake of its body, the s

“shi+t, that didn’t work, alright, run!”

“GA!!”

I couldn’t win this one, and having decided so, I turned 180 degrees and made a break for it

Redhair Tas going to me useless on themWith their stony skin, I don’t think the Red Knife would fare much better either

The only way I knew to beat a Goar was to place it inand bind it down for a whileThat’s what I ended up doing last ti that I needed that much time and effort to take care of just one

Even taking on 2 simultaneously was impossible, let alone 7

“Arf Arf!”

The one that I hit with Redhair and two others looked like they were getting ready to ju the dead Gomas, and weren’t focused on meIn practical terms, I had to take on 3 of them

“Grab ‘em! Blackhair Bind!”

Like I’d done before, I used rab the GoarIt landed with a splash and a coarse sizzleOne down, right in the

But I had two more I needed to deal with

“ Spiderweave Wind!”

Ai for the moment when they landed, I shot two sticky spiderwebs at the 2 lizardsI summoned these webs from a shadow of a pillar close to them, like I’d done for the Gomas

“Now’s our chance, Rem! Run for it!”

This was all I could do in terI sih their tough hides, if I did, I’d have used thes

The Go should need just a littlearound before all the blackhairs caet out even earlier

I needed to use this little bit of tih to lose them, or find a place that can hide me

“shi+t shi+t, why is being a Shaman so damn shi+t!”

Just when I thought I hadwin, out coh thu, I just needed to run!

“Haah… haah… t-that was not fun…”

With a stroke of luck, I chanced on a crack in the wall large enough to barely let ed to lose my pursuers

I was relieved, and yet, knew that this sort of thing was going to happen over and over fro-away Skills more than offensive ones

“Now that’s strange, the co the same way anymore”

I was focused running for my life, so of course I hadn’t had ti back to the crack in the wall, but the Goarsfor mePlus, I didn’t actually remember the way back anyith how desperate I was

“Let’s just hope this direction works too…”

I trusted the compass, and went for it

The stone passage soot wider and so

“Oh, a Skeleton”

I s and Zoroups of two or three, at reatly thankful for

As for the way I took care of the with RemYup, this was the appropriate difficulty for me

That’s not to say I underestimated these small-fry, cause I totally didn’tThese were the li to make full use of them for combat practice

And so I continued onexperience but not much else

That said, fighting was still exercise, it was pretty tiringJust walking on and on was tiring me out too

I seriously needed a Fairy Square right around nowBut instead, I got so unexpected

“… Huh? The walls here, they look kind of purple”

All of a sudden, I realized that the stone walls around uess is that it’d been getting radually, and nohen I finally noticed

“I, I can only hope this thing isn’t broken”

At so chased around by the Goars, the co in a completely different directionAnd that was the direction I’d been following for a while now

This just gave eon’s scenery meant that there will be new types of h to be weaker than Skeletons

There was a good chance that there’d be Mantis class powerhouses in this new place too

“No other choice though…”

I had no choice but to head deeper in if I ever hoped tobackwards wasn’t an option either

screwing up htly purple, stone passage

And soon after, the scene changed even more drastically

“What the actual hell is going on with this place?”