Chapter 388

Chapter 388

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The Cave of Kothom, the High Priest of the Lamphere faction.

-Horrorock…

Kotom, the master of the cave, was currently resting with his eyes closed.

-I can’t wait to finish.

Kotom muttered as he rested. The war was on, and he couldn’t wait to end it.

-If it weren’t for the girls…

Kotom recalled the powers that controlled the center, north, east, and west of the lake.

-We should have wiped out the walruses and taken over the south by now.

If it weren’t for them, the war would have been over long ago. The difference in power between Deren and Lamphere was staggering.

-…hmm?

That’s when Kotom, who had been thinking about the forces in the lake with his eyes closed, opened them. Surprise and bewilderment danced in his pupils as he opened his eyes.

Sigh

-Disconnected?

Kotom raised the fifth of his eight legs and scratched his head, muttering to himself. As the High Chancellor, Kotom was connected to the centurions under him. But now that connection was breaking. Disconnection could mean only one thing: the death of the centurions.

-This fast?

It was also disconnecting at an alarming rate. It was clear something was wrong.

Sigh

Scratching his head, Kotom quickly raised his fourth leg and waved it, and a massive magic circle appeared beneath him.

-Horrorock… Who is this?

Siaak

Kotom warped to the area where the centurions had died, wondering who was killing them at such a rapid rate.

Swoosh swoosh

Arriving at his destination via warp, Kotom turned and quickly scanned his surroundings, and soon spotted the massive seahorse ahead of him.

-Calex!

Kalex, one of the High Lords of the Deren faction and Kotom’s arch-rival. Upon seeing him, Kotom assumed that Kaleks had killed the Centurions. It was certainly possible for Kaleks to have done so.

-…?

But it wasn’t long before Kotom couldn’t help but panic. Calex’s expression was filled with pain, and he wasn’t the only one.

-Bururu…

With a pain-filled cry, Calrex began to slowly fall forward.

-Ho, horrorock?

As he watched the falling Kaleks, Kotom couldn’t help but be puzzled. Why would Calrex suddenly collapse?

-…?

But it wasn’t long before Kotom noticed something strange. A section of the fallen Calrex near him was stained with blood. The problem was that it was coming toward him at a tremendous speed.

“What is it?

There was something in the center of the bloodstained area. Kotom looked closely at the center of the bloodstained area, and soon realized what it was.

“Human?

It was a human being.

-…?

Kotom couldn’t help but wonder why humans were here. Why are humans here?

“I don’t know what happened, but…

Puzzled, Kotom looked at the human, who had closed the distance in an instant, and dismissed the thought, raising his arms and swinging them at the human. With that, Kotom’s arms were pointed at the human, and soon they were buried in blood.

-…!

At the same time, Kotom’s pupils doubled in size. Kotom’s dilated pupils made him unable to speak. Soon afterward, Kotom’s eyes slowly began to close.

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[You have defeated Kotom, High Priest of the Lamphere Faction].

[3 minutes later, Lamphere, the leader of the Lamphere faction, appears].

“Done!

After checking the message, Ming Hu smiled and looked away from the message to look at Kotom’s arms at his side, opening the quest window.

Refurem, the god of luck and thieves, has a proposition for you: kill the Kraken, a race known to the gods as the Faradon. You don’t know why Leprechaun wants to kill the Kraken, or why he wants to do so. What is your choice: accept Refurem’s offer and kill the Kraken or refuse?

[kraken: 0 / ???]

Quest Difficulty: S

Quest Reward: ???

Slightly decreased affinity with Refurem when declining quests

‘So it wasn’t the Kraken after all.

The look of Kotom made me think maybe. But the wondering ended with the wondering. Ming Hu closed the quest window and looked at Kotom’s body. Many items had been dropped near Kotom’s body.

“Pick it up and let’s go.

Deren is about to be summoned. Ming Hu moved quickly, deciding to pick up the item Kotom dropped before Deren was summoned.

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[You have mastered the Cloak of Water].

After acquiring the last item, the Cloak of Water, Ming Hu turned his head and looked toward where Kalex had been. He didn’t know where Deren would appear, but the most likely place was near the body of the Archmage Kalex.

“Where is it going to come from.

Of course, it was only a possibility, not a certainty. Ming Hu walked over to Calrex’s body and looked around.

[Deren, the head of the Deren faction].

[Walruses near Deren will have their stats doubled].

And the moment I arrived near Calex’s corpse, the message I had been waiting for appeared.

“Blood Wave.”

Ming Hu immediately disarmed the blood wave as soon as he saw the message, then turned his attention away from it and scanned his surroundings.

“What is it?

But when I looked around, I couldn’t see Derren.

“No way.

Ming Hu lowered his head and looked at the ground in wonder. Could the ground he was treading on be Deren’s body? The thought crossed his mind. No, it had been there before, so it was possible.

“Hmm?”

But that was short-lived, as a familiar voice from above caused Ming Hu to lift his head and look up.

“Why are you here?”

Above Ming Hu stood the blue-haired man you had seen before, Deren in human form. Deren looked very surprised to see Ming Hu. He couldn’t understand how Ming Hu could be here.

“That’s good.

Regardless of Deren’s expression, Ming Hu was relieved, for he was afraid it might be any other Deren. Ming Hu looked at Deren, who was waiting for his answer, and opened his mouth to speak.

“It’s been a while.”

“Yeah, it’s been a while.”

Deren returned the greeting and continued to speak.

“But how did you get here…”

But Deren was forced to stop before he could finish his sentence. Deren turned his head and looked to his left.

“…?”

Ming Hu shook his head at Deren’s reaction. At the same time, a message popped up.

[Lamphere, the head of the Lamphere faction].

[Octopuses near Lamphere will have their stats doubled].

“Oh, it’s about time.

Puzzled, Ming Hu looked at the message and realized why Deren had reacted the way he did.

Sigh

Lamphere will emerge from where Deren is looking. When Ming Hu saw the message, he turned his head to where Deren was looking.

“Again.

Turning his head to see where Deren was looking, Ming Hu couldn’t help but smile, for there, approaching him, was a giant-sized octopus, presumably Lamphere, or a kraken he had seen once before.

-Oops, Kotom’s dead, and it turns out to be the four Deren.

Lamphere stopped moving and muttered. Was it because he was so big? Despite the distance, he sounded very clear, as if he were right in front of her. Ming Hu heard Lamphere’s words and turned to look at Deren. Deren, in turn, turned away from Lampere and looked at Ming Hu. His eyes were desperate for something.

“For now.”

Seeing the look in Deren’s eyes, Ming Hu spoke up.

“Let’s grab her and talk to her first.”

[Increases your intimacy with Deren the Water Dragon].

When he finished, a message popped up. It was a message about his growing intimacy with Deren. Ming Hu smirked at the message, glanced at Deren, then at Lampere, and opened his mouth to speak.

“Freeze it so it can’t move.”

“Got it.”

Deren replied, and Ming Hu started running toward Lamphere.

-human?

Lamphere muttered as Ming Hu ran. He didn’t know Ming Hu. He didn’t understand why there was a human Ming Hu here.

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As Lamphere stares at Ming Hu in wonder, Deren begins to freeze the water around him.

A water dragon was a water dragon, after all. The water around him froze at a tremendous speed, making it impossible for him to move easily. Of course, that was all it did. Aside from restricting his movement, Deren was unable to do any damage to Lamphere.

-Are you going to run away again?

Lamphere, who had been watching Ming Hu, turned his gaze from Ming Hu to Deren at Deren’s behavior. Then he moved his arms to break the ice.

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The ice began to crack and disappear as Lamphere moved his arm, and in the meantime, Ming Hu arrived in front of him. Of course, Lamphere didn’t care about Ming Hu at all; he was just moving his arm to break Deren’s ice.

“Is he going to fall off his arm first?

Ming Hu thought as he approached Lampere’s leg. The kraken he’d captured before had been a detachable monster, meaning that if he hit its legs, only the legs would disappear. Since this was the same kraken, it was possible that Lampere was a detachable monster.

“I’ll know it when I see it.

Soon arriving in front of the bridge, Ming Hu finished his thoughts. He could check it out now anyway. Finished with his thoughts, Ming Hu extended his fist toward the bridge.

Boom!

-Yuck!

A fist slammed into his leg, and Lamphere’s scream echoed through the air, and a message appeared in front of him.

[Faraden: You have killed the first leg of the lampreys].

[Only prestige 12 will increase].

[Level Up!]

[Level Up!]