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Chapter 310

The greatest weapon of the Hydra, the Dragon of Ten Thousand Poisons, was the nine deadly venoms released from its nine heads.

Naturally, such creatures also had monstrous resistance to poison.

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A poison that could melt a living person into blood on the spot?

The Hydra was an existence that transcended such concepts, the embodiment of extreme poison itself.

A living creature that could be called poison itself.

Its nine poisons, each one of them alone, could create a great catastrophe.

Then for what reason had this thing dissolved and disappeared at once?

It wasn’t simply the seal chest that had melted away.

The moment its poison flowed out and touched me.

The Poison Gland inside me twisted as if it had its own will and melted the Hydra together with the chest in one go.

“……”

[……We should retreat first……]

“Uh…… yeah. Let’s go for now.”

Absurd.

Clack…… BEEEEEP!!!!

The magic alarm device began to ring violently.

Originally I had intended to steal quietly without a sound.

But as it melted, it seemed to have affected the alarm spell as well.

“Who’s there!!!”

I pulled the hood of the robe I was wearing low over my face, turning my back to the guards.

And I clicked my tongue briefly.

“Not sure if I should call this good or bad.”

“Reveal your identity!”

“Stop! Take one more step and I’ll cut……”

The guards drew weapons and threatened, but before their words finished their bodies collapsed at once.

“If possible, it’s always best not to meet.”

Since I had adjusted my strength minutely, when they woke up they would only feel sore.

After moving the fallen ones aside I opened the firmly shut window.

At the same time the light of dusk appeared outside and I could hear roaring sounds resounding everywhere.

A huge pillar of flame sent people fleeing in confusion, but strangely there was not a single casualty.

That flame……

[It seems to be Authority.]

“These days does everyone just carry Authority around? Who the hell is that?”

At least it was certain the age wasn’t very high.

But that kind of power with Authority……

“Not human?”

The thought crossed my mind, but being of another race wouldn’t make much difference.

Especially that flame Authority gave me a strangely familiar feeling.

“What on earth have you done?”

It was then.

As if she had been there from the beginning, the leader of the Moon Watchers reached the windowsill I was looking at and stared straight at me through the mask.

“Yeah, the Hydra melted.”

“What?”

“Never mind, come here.”

I gestured to her and then guided her to the place where the silver chest sealing the Hydra had melted.

“What is this……”

A trace of bewilderment passed through her altered voice.

“No. I didn’t mean this. As soon as the chest’s poison touched me it became like this.”

“This shouldn’t be possible……”

Unable to hide her bewilderment the leader looked at me.

“You…… just what did you obtain?”

Huh?

“……Well, well? And how would you know that?”

Unsettling.

Regardless, the leader of the Moon Watchers silently watched me as if urging an answer.

“Let’s get out first. My head is in confusion too.”

Perhaps she was of the same mind, she said nothing while I opened the space.

* * *

Belrest resort was of course in an uproar.

The attack of the Moon Watchers, a continent-wide criminal syndicate, was chaos enough, but on top of that the exhibition’s item was stolen.

This was not mere theft but was treated as a clear act of terrorism.

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Of course, no one knew the invader was the Moon Watchers.

They just thought it was an immensely powerful being that attacked.

The upper echelons of the Empire seemed to have noticed it was the Moon Watchers’s doing, but they did not announce it officially.

If the Watch had not stepped in, Belrest resort would literally have become hell.

“I heard roughly. Belrest resort was in chaos?”

Melissa asked me as if to say, did you handle it well.

“It turned bizarre.”

“Bizarre? A Hydra came out? Or…… it wasn’t there?”

“It was there. But it melted.”

“What?”

“I said it melted. The other side seemed just as flustered since they didn’t expect this either.”

“Ahahahahaha!”

Lispa, who had been listening beside us, burst out laughing.

“I half thought it might be so, and it really was. Leon, right now it isn’t easy to control the Poison Gland, is it?”

“For now, yes.”

Unlike other halls, the relic of the Hall of Ten Thousand Poisons truly was literally not easy to control.

“So what did they say they’d do?”

Melissa seemed to pay more attention to the Moon Watchers than that.

“They withdrew. With things like this all their plans lost meaning.”

The leader said once the Hydra’s threat disappeared she would compile and send information about Nyala and the cultists, then she left.

It felt rather empty, like they had prepared so much but it ended too easily.

“That thing. If you lose control and it touches someone……”

“I have to get used to it. There are more variables than I thought.”

This was the first time, so I was honestly a little bewildered.

Since my current body didn’t synchronize well with the Poison Gland, this was happening.

* **

Leon had summoned three spirits.

The Spirit of Earth, Grivy.

The Spirit of Flame, Sur.

The Spirit of Poison, Serqet.

The three differed in form and power, but they all had two things in common.

That they were Leon’s spirits was the first.

Second, that they were different in form and structure from existing spirits.

In terms of ability alone, Grivy was the lowest.

Sur, who was born from Cthugha’s flame, and Serqet, who was born from Leon’s poison, had gained enormous power from birth.

Nevertheless.

“You! Don’t do that!”

-Kiiiiiing……

Grivy being the eldest of the spirits had no problem at all.

A spirited Flame Spirit or an eccentric Poison Spirit might not listen to her.

No, at first they really didn’t.

But somehow Grivy instantly subdued those two and proved her role as eldest spirit.

Usually Grivy played with Arsha Cascadia, the youngest of the Cascadias, but she sometimes placed importance on communication with spirits.

“All here? Since the youngest came today I’ll explain again.”

With a serious expression Grivy began, and the Flame Spirit Sur fluttered his wings nervously.

By contrast Serqet sprawled like a broken cat, twisting her body strangely as she silently stared at her.

Thump!!

At last Grivy secretly took out an item—it was a golden pig figurine.

“Our piggy bank has collected this much money.”

-Beeeep!

Sur flapped his wings and roared valiantly.

“That’s right. We’re almost at our goal. All the errands we did and diligently saved paid off.”

As Grivy’s eyes sparkled, Sur also flapped his small wings valiantly and agreed.

“But lately there are no errands……”

The problem was that just when they were nearly at their goal the supply had been cut off.

-Beeeep!

“No. That’s bad.”

She firmly denied Sur’s opinion and bravely stood.

“Let’s go. If there are no errands, we’ll earn money ourselves.”

-Beeeep?

“We’re three after all. So let’s go adventuring. If we find treasure our piggy bank will be stuffed full.”

Sur agreed eagerly, but Serqet rolled languidly on the floor showing no will.

“You don’t want to?”

-Kiiik.

Unlike Sur, Serqet flicked at nearby things with her hand as if uninterested.

Then she diligently climbed the shelves and found the bottle of liquor Leon had hidden.

“No! If you drink that you’re a bad kid!”

Despite Grivy’s dissuasion, the creature hugged the big bottle tight and refused to budge.

“You! Not listening?! Then we can’t play happily together!”

-Kiiik.

Indifferently it popped the cork with its teeth, licked the liquor that flowed out, then gave a short Pah! sound and lay on its back scratching its belly.

Seeing this, Grivy puffed up her cheeks.

Serqet looked down at her with a face that said plainly.

Wanna fight? You gonna?

At this Grivy stamped her feet and stretched out her hand.

Serqet exhaled poison to block her power.

But.

Clack!

-Kiiik?!

The earth tendrils formed from Grivy’s hand ignored the poison and grabbed Serqet and pulled her down.

“Bad younger sister gets smacked!”

BOOOOM!!

Grivy’s small fist delivered a nuclear strike to Serqet’s head.

To the eye it was a cute flick, but to the one hit it was such a terrible shock that Serqet couldn’t even scream and collapsed flat.

-Kiiik…… kkik……

Seeing Serqet like that, Sur shook his head.

Its meaning was simple.

-Most have their own plans. Until they’re beaten.

In the end Serqet had no choice but to surrender.

For Serqet it was incomprehensible.

She could understand the Poison Spirit herself or the Flame Spirit Sur, but where on earth had Grivy gotten such absurd strength.

The fact she had no way to answer that burned her inside.

In the end, riding on Grivy’s two shoulders, the two spirits had no choice but to follow her proudly out of the mansion.

“From now on we’re going adventuring. We’ll find treasure and fill our piggy bank!”

Seeing the three spirits’ proud steps Melissa chuckled as if they were cute.

“They’re so cute. But. Is it okay to leave them? What if someone hurts them.”

“Who. What kind of gutsy bastard would.”

“True……”

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