Strength 99999 but the Holy Sister

Ryan didn't ask any more questions and checked and questioned those who had regained consciousness - they all had expressions of fear on their faces and their faces were pale.

"Are you ok?"

“It’s okay… barely okay… that was really scary… it was like a nightmare…”

The man calmed down his panicked mood and talked about his own feelings. In fact, he had retained his consciousness until just now, sometimes fuzzy and sometimes clear, but he knew from beginning to end what his body was doing and what was happening around him, but he was completely unable to control his body. No one would want to experience this daydream, the feeling of having a body that is completely out of their control, a second time.

Seeing that the person was fine, Elsa withdrew her gaze, walked towards the next person, and pointed her finger at that person's shoulder. In fact, Elsa deliberately slowed down her pace. She tried to consciously control her "magic dispel" power as Tricia said. In fact, Elsa could not feel that feeling very well, because "magic dispel" was an invisible and intangible thing for Elsa. Elsa herself had no idea of ​​its existence before, so if she wanted to try to control it, she could only grope and experiment one by one, just like a child who was just learning to walk.

For example, trying to accept the magic element, or reject it, or treating those who are controlled by it with the same attitude as treating a space ring - when you don't know the principle, you can only try and error one by one, and exhaustively come up with an answer that suits you.

However, even after Elsa had unlocked all the mental imprints of these people, she still had no clue. She still didn't know how she should control the power of "magic dispelling" for her own use. After all, the samples were too small, and there were only a dozen people here.

Aisha thought - if only Tricia were here, Tricia would probably be able to give some advice and guidance.

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The rain is still falling.

Fortunately, no one was killed in this attack by the black monster. There were a few people who were slightly injured, but they all recovered quickly under Marvin's holy light magic.

Elsa led everyone forward, and this time they had a clear goal.

They came to the location of the many-eyed monster, the Defiler, which was attached between several giant trees.

"That's where it was when I found it—but it's dead now."

Elsa pointed to between several giant trees, where there was no trace of the flesh ball with many eyes. All that could be seen was the damage caused by its explosion and the marks left by its tendrils on the trees.

"The black monster didn't appear, but the Filth One took the initiative. This is a worrying phenomenon."

The Filthy Ones that Elsa and Bramuth had encountered always appeared hiding behind the black monsters, like cowards - this description may not be appropriate, perhaps they should be called "commanders", commanding those black monsters to take the lead and act as cannon fodder, and then they would appear.

"but……"

As she spoke, Elsa stood right below and looked up. She could see that the scars on the tree trunks were spreading little by little from another direction. These seemed to be the traces left by the many-eyed monster as it moved here. Looking in the direction of the traces, she could see the shadows of the mountains in the distance.

Elsa narrowed her eyes slightly, and in an instant, her vision stretched, extended, and magnified infinitely, accurately displaying everything in Elsa's eyes. She saw a dark human figure standing upright on the top of the mountain range, staring straight in this direction.

For a moment, Elsa and the dark figure locked eyes.

Then the dark figure suddenly took a step back, and the next moment hid behind the trees and disappeared.

"Bremut, what are those mountains over there...?"

"It's in the direction of the forest's center, Lady Faris. Beyond that mountain range, you can see the central lake—what we can see is the northeast side of the ring-shaped mountain range."

"Look at how magnificent those rolling mountains are. The view there must be very open, right?"

"Yes... If you climb to the top of the mountain, you can see almost half of the forest. On a clear day, you can even see the town and the Rydes Mountains in the distance."

Brahmot said seriously, while Ryan and others beside him had a subtle look on their faces - because the Rydes Mountains no longer existed.

"Really? This guy seems to be coming from that direction—"

Aisha said, and then she averted her gaze, turned around, and moved her eyes in the direction she came from.

From here you can just see the spider cave.

"It's probably no coincidence that we met it. This guy came right for us. He even arrived here before us and ambushed us. He's very smart, as if he knew we would return to the spider cave."

Aisha's words made everyone solemn.

"Is it actively attacking?"

"Not only that, they're probably even 'watching' us right now. I just saw them, or rather, they—right there on the mountaintop. These so-called 'fouling ones' probably have a defined... tribe, just like us humans."

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129. Can you understand?

Elsa didn't say too much nonsense. She left Ryan and the others where they were, and chased directly in the direction where the Filth One was found. Since she had found the Filth One, there was no reason to let it leave.

The heavy rain was still falling, and the forest under my feet retreated like the undulating waves. The sonic boom spread out layers of water bloom in the rain curtain, leaving a layer of narrow ripples in the forest.

Elsa's gaze never left the mountain peak toward the central lake. The dark figure of the Defiler disappeared behind the trees, seemingly using them for cover. But with Elsa's eyesight, she could clearly see every spot there, even the lines on the leaves. Her gaze easily locked onto the dark figure shifting the branches, now rapidly moving toward the summit of the mountain.

This filthy creature was different from the one Elsa saw yesterday. Its body was only slightly larger than an adult's, and its limbs and torso were no different from those of a strong adult, except that its head was rather deformed and very narrow. Its gray eyes occupied one-third of its face, and its eyeballs were large and hollow, as if it could see things very far away, just like Elsa.

Apart from that, there was only a mouth. Elsa didn't know where its ears and nose were, or maybe they didn't exist at all.

It looked back from time to time, but every time it met Elsa's gaze.

In Elsa's opinion, its running speed and the strength it displayed were far inferior to the Filth One she saw yesterday.

boom--

In just one breath, Elsa crossed a distance of several kilometers. The moment she fell, she almost flattened the top of the entire mountain. At this time, Elsa also blocked the way of the polluter, and the surging shock wave directly blew the polluter away.

"Don't run away. I want to talk to you—to be more precise, I want to ask you a few questions."

Aisha's eyes were sharp. She stood in the pit and looked at the filthy one at the edge of the pit, then spoke.

If possible, Elsa naturally wanted to communicate with the Filthy Ones. After all, in Elsa's opinion, the Filthy Ones were fundamentally no longer the same kind as monsters. They had their own tribes, and there was cooperation and communication between individuals. They also had wisdom far beyond the level of monsters - such creatures could no longer be equated with monsters with low intelligence.

But it was obvious that the Filth One had no such idea. Before Elsa could finish her sentence, it turned around and ran away, crawling all the way. It ran at an even faster speed, jumping in the woods, flying between the tall trees, leaving claw marks on the trunks.

However, the next moment, Elsa's heel hit its face, and with a bang, its body crashed into a thick tree that several people could hug together, and wood chips flew everywhere.

Elsa landed on the ground, and the heavy rain, wrapped in wind pressure, washed Elsa's coat forcefully, lifting her hood and revealing her cold face.

"—You can see everything down there, right? If so, what are you looking at? Are you keeping watch, or gathering intelligence?"

Aisha continued with her previous question.

Then the giant tree in front of him tilted and collapsed, black blood oozing out from the broken part, and the filthy man staggered out.

It did not have the strong vitality of the Filth One yesterday, and the wounds on its body had not healed. It screamed lowly, but it seemed as if Elsa could see the panic in its heart.

"If I were you, I wouldn't run away anymore—but, can you understand human language?"

The various races on the continent use a common language to communicate with outsiders, but the Filthy Ones, a creature that no one has ever seen, probably have not learned a common language. It is even unknown whether the Filthy Ones have such a thing as "language".

It stared at Elsa, trembling and shrinking its body, then quickly fled in the other direction.

Seeing this, Elsa stopped trying to stop him and followed him slowly, keeping a certain distance from the filthy one but not pressing him too hard, giving him enough time to escape.

Since there was no way to communicate, Aisha wanted to see where it would escape to.

There should be no reason for the Filth One to stay here. Before, it seemed to have been staring at where Ryan and the others were. Elsa really wanted to know why it did this. This behavior could hardly be called an instinctive biological habit, but rather some kind of strategic action.

So, are there other filthy people...

By this time, the narrow-headed filth had changed direction. Elsa looked ahead, her view suddenly widening. She reached the summit, the rain pouring down upon her face, but it couldn't obstruct her vision. She saw a series of rolling peaks spread out before her like a long, picturesque corridor. These undulating peaks connected and layered together, forming a circular mountain range. The heavy rain, like a hazy veil, obscured the entirety of the ring, but it wasn't enough to hide the enormous lake at its center—the central lake of the Great Western Forest.

Unlike the densely forested outer reaches of the mountain range, the inner ring of this range was extremely sparsely green. At first glance, it was mostly bare rock, with lush greenery only near the central lake. Overall, the range resembled the craters in lunar photographs I'd seen in a past life, or rather, the splashes of water caused by a rock falling into the water—the sheer rock faces gave off that impression.

Although this was not Elsa's first time here, the vast and magnificent scenery still made her feel excited.

At this time, the Filth One climbed over the mountain and moved towards the central lake, but it did not go straight to the central lake. Instead, it kept running and jumping between the steep rock walls - its sharp claws and slender and deformed limbs were capable of walking freely in such harsh terrain, which was something that ordinary humans could not do. While running quickly, it looked back at Elsa.

It seemed to want to use the terrain here to get rid of Elsa.

But Elsa still followed it slowly not far behind. Although Elsa did not have a body structure that was convenient for moving in such a place, her hands were much more stable than the claws of the Filth One. These rocks were like foam bricks to Elsa and broke into pieces with a single squeeze. This allowed Elsa to maintain her original speed. Instead, the Filth One ran slower and slower, and then it even slipped and fell directly onto the rocks, spilling more black.

"useless."

Elsa stopped chasing and watched the Filth One struggle slowly. It finally got up. Covered in wounds and panting heavily, it looked exhausted. It stared at Elsa for a long moment, growling deeply.

Just as it didn't understand Elsa's words, Elsa didn't know what it wanted to express.

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130. Unconfirmed Rumors

The filthy one roared at Aisha in a low voice.

Elsa was unmoved.

However, the next moment, it did something that Elsa could not have imagined - black blood flowed from the wounds and mouthparts on its body, and then it slowly raised its hand and actually stabbed its sharp claws directly into its head.

But at this moment, Elsa's figure appeared in front of it. Her slender hands were steady and powerful. She easily grasped its sharp claws, and suddenly turned her wrist over, put her four fingers together into a palm, and stabbed directly into its arm like a knife. The Filthy One roared in pain, and Elsa's fingers had broken through the skin and muscles of its arm, grabbed its bones, and with a pull and twist, she directly crushed the bones in its arm.

Black dripped down Elsa's sleeves. Elsa looked at the Filthy One, who was a head taller than her, and looked directly into the deformed gray eyes.

"—Are you planning to commit suicide?"

The Filth One just roared loudly, its huge mouth tore open, revealing its sharp teeth, and it bit directly at Elsa. At the same time, its other arm also stretched out its huge claws and stabbed at Elsa - but before its attack was launched, its jaw and arm disappeared at the same time, and then a sonic boom sounded. A circle of air waves suddenly spread out along with the cracking of the rocks under its feet. The rain in the air suddenly disappeared, and countless pieces of gravel rolled and splashed.

The Filth One flew backwards and rolled for a long time before stopping. Unlike the Filth One yesterday, it did not grow new limbs and continue to crawl up. Instead, it made a vague sound and slowly disappeared with the heavy rain falling again. Soon, it turned into black debris and disappeared into the air.

[-Kill the filthy one*1-]

【-level up! -】

[-Gained free attribute points: 1-]

This time, just like every time before, I got a free point.

But with the death of the Filthy One, the scent of the black monster and the Filthy One in the air did not disappear.

Elsa looked away, her nose twitching slightly.

The rustling sound of falling rubble was heard, and a black monster appeared from the top of the mountain, howling to the sky. It was followed by the second and third. Soon, the black tide had merged into one, and without exception, all of them were staring at Elsa with a fierce look.

Elsa frowned slightly.

"It seems that I was brought here on purpose..."

So in the end, it had no intention of running away - it must be said that it seemed to have fallen into a trap and was completely surrounded by the black monsters.

Looking at the increasing number of black monsters, Elsa roughly counted them and found that there were at least four or five hundred of them. If it were Ryan and the others, they would definitely die if they encountered such a situation.

Elsa slowly drew the heavy sword from behind her, leaned on the ground, and then suddenly jumped up. At the moment when her sight was about to pass over the mountain where the monsters were, the black sword light suddenly burst out with a sound wave that was enough to shatter boulders. In an instant, a dazzling arc of light, completely different from the black, distorted the rain curtain and the sight, spreading out with Elsa as the center, and in the blink of an eye it spread over a distance of thousands of meters, sweeping through the middle of the black wave.

At first, there was silence, with only countless exploding blood mists and pieces of flesh splattered everywhere, and the top of the mountain was cut open, turning into countless fragments. Countless pieces of gravel were shattered and rolled down the mountain, raising a large cloud of earth-yellow dust.

Kill 3 filthy ones

【-level up! -】*3

[-Gained free attribute points: 3-]

Strange—I seem to have leveled up quite a bit since I first encountered the Filth, but does each Filth still provide one level? Doesn't the experience required to level up increase with each level?

This thought flashed through Elsa's mind, but she didn't think about it too much. Instead, she quickly scanned the area - there were still a small number of black monsters that were not in the path of the light arc, and thus escaped the disaster. However, with the death of the filthy ones who controlled them, a large number of those black monsters fell, and only a dozen were still alive.

Elsa put away her knife and punched, shaking the mountain in front of her. Large cracks appeared on the exposed rock wall and large pieces of rock rolled down.

Elsa didn't kill the last Filth One, but only killed those black monsters.

She leaped in front of the Filthy One. This time, the Filthy One she saw was still in human form, but with very sharp barbs growing out of its arms and elbows, and its head and shoulders seemed to be leaning forward. Its deformed body was not so much hunched over as it was degenerating into a reptile. Such a body structure seemed more suitable for crawling forward like a lizard.

"You really have a tribe—are you going to lead me to the next trap? Or are you willing to sit down and communicate with me?"

The "lizard"-like filth creature pounced directly on them, and was then lightly kicked away by Elsa and flew hundreds of meters away. It flew directly from the mountainside to the foot of the mountain, and hit a protruding rock straight through. It stood up stubbornly from the rubble pile after a long time, but its chest was sunken, and a lot of black blood was flowing out of its mouth and nose. It was gasping for breath, and a mouthful of black blood and broken meat flowed out when it opened its mouth. It was obvious that its life had suffered serious damage.

Elsa stood not far in front of it, waiting for its next move.

If it ran away, Elsa would continue to follow it to see if she could get anything else. If it didn't run away, she would have no choice but to kill it. It didn't run away, but instead stubbornly pounced on Elsa, and was cut in half by Elsa with a knife.

A prompt appeared on the panel again, saying that the level and free attribute points increased by 1 after the polluter was killed.

It's only been two days since I returned to Weilin Town, and I already have 7 free points.

At this point, there was no trace of the Filth One in the vicinity, and no black monsters were left alive.

Elsa looked around and squinted slightly - the corpses of some black monsters were lying scattered around the central lake.

Previously, Elsa had not noticed the corpses because her vision was obscured by the rain and the mist on the lake. But now, standing at the foot of the mountain, Elsa could see them very clearly. The corpses looked like they had been dead for some time and were not just killed by Elsa. The wounds on most of the corpses were very hideous. They were not caused by any weapons at all. Instead, it was as if some blunt object had pierced the body and torn it apart. Some were burned into charcoal by fire, some were directly crushed into meat paste by some heavy objects, and some corpses were in the lake - at the edge, the black monsters could be seen sinking under the water, and there were obviously some in deeper places, but they were blocked by the turbid water during the rain.

These corpses spread from the vicinity of the lake to the surrounding mountains. There were at least hundreds of corpses piled up. If the corpses in the lake were included, the number would only double.

It seems that this is a new discovery - a huge battle had already taken place here before Elsa came here, and it seems that the ones fighting against the black monsters were not humans, but some kind of huge creatures.

——Dragon.

Elsa immediately thought of Kus's unconfirmed rumor. She took out the magic stone from her space equipment, injected magic power into it, and gently threw it above her head - fireworks bloomed in the sky.

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