Chapter 118: Black Monolith(2)
Chapter 118: Black Monolith(2)
“We’re all going to die together!”
Just as Barikmeteo was about to throw himself at the Black Monolith, the Saintess began to chant.
“Judgment of Light!”
A sword of light descended from the sky, piercing Barikmeteo’s limbs.
“Kyaaaargh!”
“You have to finish the job properly, heroes. Don’t you agree?”
Impaled by the swords of light, Barikmeteo let out a final, agonizing scream. To the very end, he muttered to himself.
Save me. I just wanted to live a good life.
This is the problem with this absurd, irrational otherworld.
What would have happened if I had never met Lina?
If I had been captured by those bandits, forced to live a life of abuse, would I have been in any position to tell Barikmeteo he shouldn’t have crossed the line?
Honestly, I don’t know.
Separate from that, however, the bastard still needed to die.
Barikmeteo looked dead, pinned by the swords of light.
But the Saintess, as if it wasn’t over, chanted another spell.
“Purification!”
Barikmeteo’s body began to dissolve into light.
For a guy who had given us so much trouble, it felt a little anticlimactic to see him taken down so easily.
That was all. I had no other particular feelings about it. If it weren’t for his wings, he would have been caught much sooner.
Lina watched Barikmeteo die and nodded.
As long as the Saintess was here, there was no need to worry about him reviving.
“Now, only this remains.”
Before Lina’s party stood a massive black pillar.
Lina called it the Black Monolith.
“Lina-nim. What exactly is a Black Monolith?”
Lina seemed to hesitate for a moment before speaking.
“The Black Monolith… is the core of their plan. It’s a device driven into the earth’s Dragon Veins to suck out its energy. The land where this is planted will slowly die.”
Kerry looked at the ground around the Black Monolith.
He could see the earth turning black and rotting. It certainly didn’t look like a good thing.
Lina struck the Black Monolith with her sword.
Surprisingly, it was cut down with ease. Though, I couldn’t be sure if it was only easy because it was Lina.
Lina asked the Saintess to purify the Black Monolith. The purified monolith turned to dust and scattered.
“So, since we’ve destroyed the Black Monolith, is their plan finished?”
“No. There are still Black Monoliths planted all across the continent. I haven’t grasped the exact number… but I know one thing for certain.”
“…”
“The Black Monoliths all resonate with each other, and if we destroy three or more, they will no longer be able to absorb the Dragon Veins’ energy.”
So we have to destroy two more of these things?
And there are probably more guys like Barikmeteo guarding them.
I’m starting to get the picture.
I didn’t know what they planned to do with the Black Monoliths, but it seemed that if we failed to stop them, the great war Lina saw in her dreams would break out.
That couldn’t happen.
If a war of that scale broke out, there would be no safe place anywhere on the continent.
So this was why the goddess sent a hero.
Natasha approached Kerry.
“Hehe!”
As if to say, ‘The work is done, now play with me,’ she licked his face.
Lick!
“That tickles, Natasha.”
Lick!
“Stop it. Hey. I said stop.”
Then, Natasha opened her mouth.
“Ke…rry! Hehe!”
“!”
What was that? Did Natasha just speak?
“Natasha? Are you back to your senses?”
“Ke…rry! Li…ke!”
Lick!
“…”
Natasha was talking. But it didn’t seem like she was back to her senses. As expected, my Natasha is a genius!
Lina’s party, surprised by Natasha’s state, gathered around.
“Did Natasha-nim just speak?”
“Natasha. It’s Granny! Try saying Granny!”
“Natasha. It’s Victoria. Do you recognize me?”
The Saintess just watched from a distance, looking bewildered.
She didn’t seem to understand what was happening. Can’t blame her.
“Grrrr—”
But perhaps the party had gotten too close.
Natasha started to growl, wary of the other women approaching Kerry.
Lina was shocked.
She had never seen Natasha act like this, not even once in her past life.
Then again, this was the first time she had ever seen a berserk Natasha obey anyone.
It seemed Kerry’s obedience training was having a tremendous effect. As expected of Kerry-nim.
Kerry grew curious.
If she could say the name ‘Kerry,’ couldn’t she be taught other people’s names?
“Natasha. Do you know anyone else’s name? This is Lina. Li. Na. Can you say it?”
Natasha mumbled for a moment, then spoke.
“Li…na!”
“That’s right! My Natasha really is a genius!”
“Hehe!”
Natasha beamed at the praise. Lina, too, seemed happy as the corners of her mouth turned up.
But that was short-lived.
“Li…na… ba…d!”
“!”
What? Why? Our Lina is so nice!
Seeing the shocked expression on Lina’s face, I almost felt bad for her.
“Natasha, Lina isn’t bad.”
Even at Kerry’s words, Natasha shook her head in denial. So she can even shake her head now.
Lina fell into despair in an instant. Being called bad by Natasha was quite a shock.
But, as if she couldn’t go down alone, Lina dragged Victoria into it.
“Victoria… What about Victoria, Natasha-nim?”
Victoria’s name is a bit long. Can she say it properly?
“Vic…toria!”
“Oh, you said my name! Natasha.”
Victoria’s face lit up.
She seemed strangely confident, and it looked like being her ‘sex partner’ was the source of that confidence.
But Natasha was merciless.
“Vic…to…ria! Bad!”
“Why! Me too? Didn’t we get along last time? Don’t you remember?”
Lina seemed to find some comfort in not being the only one called bad and cracked a smile.
“Natasha, what about Granny?”
“Gran…ny!”
Natasha seemed to be thinking very hard. But soon, as if she had made up her mind, she spoke.
“Gran…ny. Ba…d!”
“Granddaughter. Raising you was all for nothing… Tsk.”
Now, the only one left was the Saintess.
She was standing a little apart from the group, looking sullen, but it felt wrong to leave her out.
“Natasha, what about the Saintess?”
“?”
Natasha tilted her head as if seeing the Saintess for the first time. Was it because she was a new addition?
“Hmph. Perhaps she secretly likes me? After all, my beauty often captivates even other women…”
Just as the Saintess, emboldened by Natasha’s curious reaction, stepped forward, Natasha growled as if to warn her away.
“Grrrrr! Rrrrr!”
“…”
“Saint…ess… ha…te!”
“!”
After “bad,” now came “hate.” The once-triumphant Saintess awkwardly returned to her spot.
The others who had been called “bad” felt a slight sense of relief.
Why was Natasha calling everyone in the party bad or saying she hated them?
Did I raise her wrong somehow? I wanted to raise a kind Natasha.
But Natasha’s next words proved that there was no problem with her education.
“Kerry… li…ke! Kerry… mi…ne!”
Of course. There was no way there was a problem with her education.
Natasha simply wanted Kerry all to herself.
*
Barikmeteo was dead, and the Black Monolith was destroyed. It was safe to say we had no more business in the Dream Forest.
Except for one thing.
“Now we need to find the treasure Barikmeteo hid.”
“I don’t know. I think it would be better to hunt down our enemies as quickly as possible…”
This is the problem with our hero. She has no greed!
It wouldn’t be strange for someone like Barikmeteo to have a considerable amount of treasure.
He seemed like a greedy bastard, after all.
“Who knows, there might be useful clues at his base. It wouldn’t hurt to check it out.”
When you complete a subjugation, taking the spoils is the natural order of things for an adventurer!
There’s no such thing as a profitless subjugation.
“…Yes. If you insist, Kerry-nim, I understand.”
The party decided to split up to find Barikmeteo’s base. Since it was dangerous to go alone, we formed groups of three.
Actually, pairs would have been the most efficient, but Victoria stubbornly insisted on following Natasha and Kerry, so we had no choice.
Looking at Victoria’s lustful eyes, it was obvious what she was after.
This damn noble in heat!
Anyway, Victoria, Natasha, and Kerry began to search the forest. I figured our group would probably find Barikmeteo’s base the fastest.
Because I had tracking magic.
From the moment we set out, Kerry had been using his tracking magic to scan the forest. Treasure awaits!
“Kerry, have you found any clues?”
“No, not yet… More importantly, please take your hand off my ass, Victoria.”
“What? What’s the problem? There’s no one here to see.”
“What do you mean no one’s here? Natasha is watching.”
Victoria ceaselessly groped Kerry’s ass.
It was because Kerry had put his foot down, saying sex would have to wait until after they found the treasure.
Natasha walked quietly, holding Kerry’s hand.
But even the docile Natasha, who had only been holding his hand, began to sneak a hand onto Kerry’s ass.
“Look at this! Natasha is learning from you, isn’t she? You know how fast she picks things up!”
“Huhu. What’s wrong with learning something good? Well done, Natasha.”
“Hehe!”
Kerry shook his head.
Trying to concentrate while feeling two women groping his ass was no easy task.
But I had to hold back here.
If we had sex before finding Barikmeteo’s treasure, it was obvious we’d spend the whole day fucking and never find a thing.
This was the Dream Forest, thick with fog. Without the Saintess’s buff, the curse would eat away at our minds.
The buff lasted for about half a day. It would be good if we could find it within that time.
Kerry spread his tracking magic, continuously searching the area.
He was looking for anything suspicious.
The fog was thick to begin with, so visibility was short. This meant tracking magic was far more efficient.
But that was no excuse for Natasha and Victoria to ignore their surroundings and do nothing but caress Kerry’s ass.
“…Please focus and help me look, Victoria.”
“I am looking hard, what’s the matter?”
“The only thing you’re looking for is my ass.”
“Still, I’m not touching the front, am I? You can forgive this much.”
“Hehe!”
As expected, talking to them was useless. Kerry gave up and resolved to find it on his own.
How long had we been wandering the forest?
Finally, the tracking magic sensed something suspicious. The shape of the returning pulse formed in my mind.
“A cave…? It’s pretty big.”
There wasn’t a single proper building in this forest, the abandoned house our party found being the last one.
So, could Barikmeteo have lived in a cave?
Seeing as he lived in a dreary forest like this, it seemed entirely possible.
“Did you find something?”
“There’s a cave.”
“A cave, you say. A good place for a fuck.”
“Hehe!”
“…As I said before, we do our work first.”
Kerry followed his tracking magic to the cave’s location.
A cave large enough for even Barikmeteo to enter came into view.
Entering the dark cave, the first thing we saw was a pile of straw that seemed to have been used as a bed.
Judging by the impression left on it, the owner seemed to be about Barikmeteo’s size.
“I don’t see the treasure you mentioned. Are you sure this is the place?”
“How should I know?”
But the cave did seem to have a smell similar to his.
Other than the straw pile used as a bed, there was nothing else in the cave. This bastard lived a damn simple life.
Is there no treasure?
He looked like a greedy bastard, so I thought he would have amassed a fair amount of wealth. Could it be that he wasn’t greedy for treasure after all?
But it was too early to give up.
Kerry lifted the pile of straw. There was nowhere else to search. Be here. Please!
Just then, in a corner of the straw pile, something hard clicked against his fingers. Kerry lifted it up.
“This is… a treasure chest!”
“Oh, you’ve found something interesting.”
Isn’t a treasure chest the ultimate dream of an adventurer?
As Kerry rejoiced, Victoria hugged him from behind. While hugging him, she subtly fondled his cock.
Natasha didn’t just watch, either. Imitating Victoria, she joined in, touching Kerry’s cock. This woman is teaching her such wonderful things!
Kerry endured his growing arousal and opened the chest.
“Please be gold! Or even silver!”
If this thing was filled with gold or silver coins, it would be an absolute jackpot.
“Just open it already.”
Annoyed by Kerry peeking into the chest with his eyes half-closed, Victoria threw the lid wide open.
Inside… it was truly filled with gold coins!
“Jackpot!”
“This should be worth quite a bit of money.”
Even to Victoria, the successor of a domain, it was a considerable amount of gold.
Natasha didn’t know what it was, but seeing Kerry happy, she became happy too.
“Phew. With this, our fortunes have turned.”
We’re a party of six, so do I have to split it six ways? But the Saintess’s share is as good as mine, so it’s not bad.
“Kerry, if you like money so much, come live with me in my domain when our journey is over. I’ll let you eat and spend as much as you want.”
“Thank you for the offer.”
But, as expected, my own money is better than someone else’s, and it’s more comfortable to spend.
Just as Kerry grabbed a handful of gold coins from the chest, he saw something else underneath. It was a orb! A Magic Storage Orb. The important thing was its grade!
For Barikmeteo to store it with his gold coins, it had to be a fairly high grade.
“Kerry, this looks similar to the orbs you carry.”
“Yes. It’s probably the same thing.”
Please, be Hero grade or higher. Kerry used the Goddess’s Eye on the orb in his hand.