Chapter 194: A Boiling Crowd (1/2)

”Shit! How come they're already here so fast?!” Calvin yelled in his heart. He was now forced to admit that the deformed man had indeed planned everything that was about to happen in this village for a long time.

The four women were absolute beauties and there were resolute looks on their faces.

It was then that Calvin remembered Old Zhong's story about a group of women trying to recruit people from the Village of Kingse to their cause.

These women were probably from the same group.

But their beauty wasn't that important for Calvin at this moment.

What he was worried about was the heart that they were carrying, ever so slowly, but surely towards the village center. The heart was huge, it wasn't pushing out any blood, yet it throbbed as if it was alive.

Calvin swept his gaze across the women and found out that they were humans.

Unlike the deformed man who had already sold himself to the Goddess of Pestilence and Famine. These women were genuine humans. But in that case, how did they get through the veil that was supposed to turn everything that it touched into mincemeat?

'Was it malfunctioning?'

Calvin doubted.

But for the sake of his curiosity, he picked up a severed finger from one of the monsters and hurled it over to the veil.

The finger sunk directly into the veil and not even a sound rang out, nor a splash of blood as the finger was immediately consumed.

Calvin's pupils constricted.

'The veil sure was working, yet how did these women go through it?'

Calvin took a second glance at the four women and he finally discovered the answer to his question.

It was the Sinister Heart!

It naturally radiated a Nether Qi that was so strong, it covered the entire body of the four women.

But the answer that Calvin arrived at posed another problem.

Nether Qi was corrosive to life.

If these four women were genuine humans. How did they withstand the influence of the Nether Qi? This was the question that Calvin couldn't find the answer to. No matter where he looked, the women looked clean, yet they weren't influenced by the Nether Qi at all.

Calvin had an idea or two as to why these women seemed to be immune to Nether Qi.

It involved a particularly rare constitution. But Calvin didn't even consider that as a legitimate answer for something so rare like that couldn't possibly be gathered in one place. Moreover, there were four of these women.

Was he supposed to accept that four owners of an incredibly rare constitution just happened to be serving the deformed man?

Calvin refused to even think about this theory.

If that was the truth, then this deformed man sure did have the luck of a light novel protagonist.

The rock he happened to pick up was actually a thousand-year-old jade. How was Calvin supposed to accept that?

But still, Calvin's question was legitimate. The fact that these four women managed to go through the veil meant that they were extraordinary, or they had something extraordinary on their bodies.

The four women continued on their procession as Calvin watched their every move while he was being hidden by his Emperor's Veil.

To be honest, with the invisibility granted to him by the Emperor's Veil, he could probably try to kill them with a sneak attack. But of course, the fact that Calvin hadn't done such a thing meant that it would be a futile endeavor.

First of all, Calvin's class wasn't an offensive class at all.

He might be able to defend himself, but he was ultimately unable to deal any substantial damage to them.

If this trend continued, then the deformed man only needed to keep him in one place and he would be uninterrupted throughout his ritual.

”Fucking hell... I have to stop them somehow. Is there anything that I can do?”

Calvin swept his gaze across his surroundings.

He then discovered that the village had fully awakened.

There were all sorts of monsters walking on the streets and wherever Calvin turned his head, he would discover a variety of Corpse Eaters as well as Specters. There was even a battalion of a hundred Santelmos at the next junction ahead of him!

”What in the actual fuck did this village actually go through in the past few years that it amassed so many of these monsters.”

Calvin couldn't help but curse.

”Shit. Is that another fucking Sabbath?!” Calvin's scalp tingled when he saw a group of women crying and dancing about in the distance. The village was now getting more dangerous as time went on to the extent that Calvin doubted if the entire village could even contain these many monsters.

After all, despite being a member of the same species, there were variations to Corpse Eaters.

Just how Hags, Ghouls, and Witches belonged to the same species but in a different variation. If one gathered these same species, yet different variation monsters in a single room...

They would fight each other to death.

This was a widely-known phenomenon, and in fact, some people even used this method to nurture an incredibly strong monster.

They would gather powerful monsters in a battle royale and the sole champion of this slaughterhouse would be the monster that they would use against their enemies.

It might not be that efficient, and it was also expensive, but it sure was effective.