Chapter 140: Encountering an Evil God (1/2)

The atmosphere changed right after that.

Lapis was holding Loren up and watching Gula’s massacre unfold when she noticed the change and reflexively tightened her hold on Loren.

“…Do you want to strangle me to death?”

“S-sorry. But…”

“Seems like something is coming. That smell is… getting stronger.”

The smell Loren mentioned was the sweet scent that was making him lose his mind, and probably was what had stolen the soldiers’ and villagers’ awareness. It had suddenly become stronger.

“Isn’t it better to make me unconscious now before it’s too late?”

Feeling that his senses were going hazy again, Loren prompted Lapis. Lethargy attacked his whole body, his awareness flickered, and he lost the ability to move. But if he did something strange or blurted out something weird while being held by Lapis, he would mentally die later.

Hearing Loren’s proposal, Lapis looked down at him with a troubled expression. He was in a quite battered state now. Even though it hadn’t come to anything fatal due to Gula stopping in the mid of his rampage, the backlash had definitely caused damage to his body.

“But in this state, just a single blow might kill you, won’t it?”

“How come the first thing you think of is knocking me out?”

If it was only to make him unconscious, a > spell would be sufficient; there was no need for a blow. Even though Loren’s magic resistance was high, if he himself didn’t wish to resist it, magic could work on him with no problem.

“You want me to use a sleeping spell?”

“Can I ask you to? I feel like it’ll become dangerous if I continue like this.”

Loren just wanted to quickly fall unconscious before he could do anything strange. But Gula came and placed her palm on his forehead before anyone could notice.

“Hey?!”

“I’m giving back what I bit off before, plus a bit of interest.”

Gula’s hand clutched at Loren’s forehead lightly. From that hand, Loren felt something he couldn’t comprehend pour into his body. He immediately tried to shake her hand off, but Gula didn’t let go and held on tight with a strength that made Loren unable to move even his neck.

“What are you doing?!”

“Heh, all done. Don’t you feel more comfortable?”

Gula smiled cheerfully and quickly let go of Loren, who was still trying to rise up even though his strength was no match for hers. He wanted to complain, but immediately noticed the changes in his body and swallowed the words down. The fatigue he had been feeling since Gula showing up had disappeared, and he didn’t feel the haze in his mind whenever he inhaled that sweet scent anymore.

“I munched on you a bit when you were going berserk to make you behave. I’ve just returned it, and I’ve also enhanced your resistance to the phenomenon happening in this place.”

Still keeping his eyes on Gula’s smiling face, Loren got up from Lapis’ arms. The pain has receded completely and his mind cleared up. The feeling of sickness and fatigue vanished from his body.

“Are you alright, Loren?”

Lapis asked, as she followed Loren and stood back up. He silently nodded.

He didn’t really understand what Gula meant by munching on him, but he guessed it was about his stamina and life force. She had taken away some of them to stop his rampage.

Her returning that force back to him was conceivable, but he couldn’t understand her intention of enhancing his resistance.

“What the hell are you thinking about?”

“Right, I wonder how will things progress from here? Well, in the worst case, I have returned enough stamina for you to run away. The aftertaste will be bad though.”

“Aftertaste?”

Lapis wanted to clarify Gula’s remark, but she didn’t elaborate any further. Her gaze turned away from them to somewhere beyond the remaining naked men.

“Since the scent has become this heavy, you must be over there.”

“Gula-chan… I feel so sad.”

Hearing the voice, Loren frowned in confusion. Lapis’ eyes widened, and she looked around restlessly, as if she had become suspicious of something.

“I’ve just woken up and spread my love around here, you know. Seeing my lovely captives being gobbled down like that makes me really sad.”

[What love?]