Symphony for the Insect Princess

A great wizard? A great war spirit? A mere sixteen-year-old girl? Are you kidding me?

What concerned him even more was the fluctuation of the magic power... It was too abnormal!

No words could describe it, as if its existence was a taboo. Rodrigo felt—

...that's right.

Rodrigo suddenly understood what this feeling was.

When people stand on the roof of a tall building without guardrails, they sometimes suddenly have the urge to "jump down".

When people pick up a sharp knife with their bare hands, they sometimes suddenly have the urge to "cut themselves".

When people stare at the dancing flames, they sometimes suddenly have the urge to "reach out and touch it."

Everyone should have had similar feelings.

In psychology, this phenomenon seems to be a kind of "cognitive dissonance", more specifically called the "high ground effect"... But this is just a vague concept and there is no unified statement.

Just think about it.

This dangerous impulse, which should have lasted only a moment, lasted for five seconds.

Extended to ten seconds——

Extended to one minute——

Two minutes——

Ten minutes——

I long for it to stop, but it continues—

Always and always——

Magic fluctuations can contain a variety of useful information, such as the person's strength, level, usual magic type, style, and even personality and will... a lot of information.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a projection of that person.

If we calculate it this way,

What on earth is this girl...

And among the plant debris all over the ground, the girl slowly walked out.

His steps were unsteady and staggering, like a ghost.

The orange-red eyes were cloudy.

The strange ice-blue hair color mixed with a hint of silver-gray reflected the cold light, just like a real blade.

There is an extra thing on the head, which looks like a headband at first glance, but is actually something more ferocious.

A simple crown made of a single thorn.

"…What on earth are you?"

For some unknown reason, Rodrigo asked.

I thought I wouldn't get a response, but—

The girl's face was distorted, her mouth seemed to be torn open by something, opening and closing, revealing a hollow smile and spitting out words.

"The princess of endless chaos and darkness..."

Chapter 79 Tyrant (Part )

"…What on earth are you?"

For some unknown reason, Rodrigo asked.

I thought I wouldn't get a response, but—

The girl's face was distorted, her mouth seemed to be torn open by something, opening and closing, smiling and uttering words.

"The princess of endless chaos and darkness..."

With a snap, the girl's hand suddenly stretched out, without any reason, but tightly grasped five vines that were quietly approaching her from the side!

"Pinch your fingers."

She whispered a word, a term Rodrigo had never heard of before, and then a strange object—appearing without a summoning magic circle—stuck between five vines. It was a series of sticks of unknown material, strung together with several very strong ropes. Each pair of sticks held a vine. Their purpose was unknown.

——Tighten!

Without any warning, all the ropes were simultaneously tightened, bringing the sticks together! The five vines were instantly clamped tightly by the sticks, squeezing them as thin as paper and oozing a large amount of thick green juice! The vines twitched violently, as if in great pain!

And Rodrigo——

As if a tingling electric current ran through his brain, he suddenly had a strange sensation—his body was "connected" to something, and the next moment, his five fingers felt an unprecedented excruciating pain! Although his five fingers were not touching anything, it felt as if the base of each finger was being tightly clamped by a hard cylinder, and the pain was getting tighter and tighter!

“Gah… Gah… Gahh ...

Five finger bones were snapped almost instantly, and a surge of pain coursed through his body! It hurt! It hurt! It hurt! It hurt! Rodrigo had broken bones before, but this pain was abnormal, absolutely abnormal, far beyond the level of "broken bones"! It was like having a hot steel spike thrust deep into his bones and thrashing around!

Even Rodrigo, who knew nothing about the ancient art of "execution", knew what that unremarkable instrument made of rope and stick was.

It is a "torture instrument".

Moreover, it is a torture device that is "targeted at the fingers of the person being tortured".

The torture instrument acted directly on Posara, and the damage Posara suffered and the exaggerated pain were completely reflected back on herself.

"Posaro! Go back!!!"

The vines in pain broke off the parts that were clamped by themselves, and all the vines retreated frantically into the ground. Rodrigo did not suffer any new injuries when the vines broke. It seemed that only the injuries inflicted by Qimila herself would be reflected in his body!

(Calm down...Calm down...Calm down...)

The severe pain was like a maggot in the tarsal bone, and it did not subside at all. Rodrigo forced himself to suppress the thought of "just chopping off this hand".

Thinking with a brain tortured by pain.

(So, can she damage her main body by attacking her familiar? In that case, she can attack from a distance!)

All the vines burrowed back into the ground in the blink of an eye. Having lost her target, Qimila still had dull eyes. She shook her head and looked left and right, as if looking for new prey.

(Mother of Ultramarine, hidden in nature!)

A thin layer of magic covered Rodrigo, turning it into a protective color that was completely consistent with the surrounding environment, and the breath, sound and magic fluctuations were also blocked.

Around him are "animal-shaped plants" formed by the rosa centifolia, also covered in protective coloration. These creatures are shaped like dogs, but without heads, instead they have huge flower buds.

You must never let Qimila attack the familiar itself, so you must attack from a long distance!

(attack!)

The flower buds on the heads of the familiars opened simultaneously, and dozens of fist-sized honeycomb-shaped spheres flew towards Qimila! Qimila gently raised her hand, seemingly moving slowly, but accurately catching the sphere in her hand—

Then, all the spheres exploded at the same time!

The compressed magic within the sphere—magic transformed from the life force of the humans it had devoured—exploded as a shockwave, accompanied by tens of thousands of poisonous needles! Qimila was first engulfed by the shockwave, then pierced by the poisonous needles, turning her into a hedgehog. The extremely fine needles penetrated her skin and injected the toxin!

"success!"

Just one liter of this plant toxin is enough to kill tens of thousands of people. Even if Qimila had somehow strengthened her body—

"Burning fire."

"Eh--!?"

The ground suddenly shook, and Rodrigo stumbled and fell to the ground, using both hands to support himself.

"It's so hot ...

The sudden scorching heat made him scream. With him as the center, half the street turned orange-red, like a red-hot copper pillar! Under the terrifying heat, his leather boots melted through instantly, and his feet came into direct contact with the ground! Rodrigo suddenly straightened up, and even his hand, which had almost melted to the ground, was pulled up. The skin on his palm was peeled off, and the pain was unbearable!

But his feet weren't so lucky. His palms peeled free just in time, but they were already completely glued to the scorching ground, unable to separate! The scorching heat spread through his legs and throughout his body. Rodrigo felt like he was falling into magma, the heat of hell licking his body. Even so, he had to use the last bit of consciousness he had left to force himself to stand firm! If he fell at this moment, he would be burned to charcoal!

“……!…………!”

Rodrigo heard screams, silent screams, as the rosy vines twisted their bodies in agony in the heat, their emerald green vines charred black! Seeing his hard work suffering, Rodrigo felt like his heart was being torn apart, but there was nothing he could do.

——No way!!!

“Kill her!!!!!!!!!”

The ground heaved up with a thud, and most of the city block collapsed. Giant trees, hundreds of meters tall, burst through the surface! These "giant trees" were composed of countless enormous vines, and the flowers at their tops were crimson red, their petals shaped like jagged teeth, with a twisted, bloody mouth in the center!

Qimila was pulling out the thorns on her body one by one with lifeless eyes, as if she didn't notice these huge green monsters - the mature form of Posora!

at the same time--

“Over here!!!!”

"Teams 3 and 4 lost contact here—"

"What are these things!?"

At the other end of the block, reinforcements from the investigation team happened to arrive at the scene—of course, they were immediately blinded by the "giant trees"!

(Reinforcements from the investigation team? I was originally planning to evacuate them, but now… forget it! You all will die together!!!)

"Posaro! Don't let any of them go!!!"

“““““““███████!!!!!!””””””””

The mature Posora trees screamed and twisted their bodies, their giant flower-shaped mouths gaping open. Countless fine vines stretched out from their trunks and simultaneously swept towards the ground! Their target was everyone, including Qimila and the investigation team!

“They’re coming!!!”

"Attack! Attack!!"

The investigation team also immediately organized their formation. Hundreds of staffs and giant swords burst out with dazzling magical light. The magic power of a hundred people gathered in the same place, and even the space was slightly distorted!

Caught between the two, Qimila remained expressionless, as if dead.

Just raise your hands to the reinforcements of the investigation team,

Gently open and close your lips,

"Tepes."

Then he raised his hand toward Rodrigo.

"Lingchi."

Snap, snap ...

Chapter 80 Tyrant (Part )

Kasolu City, underground, water conservancy center——

The magic warriors stood neatly against the wall, emitting magical radiance to illuminate the dark old waterway. Sarco sat cross-legged on the ground, his magic clearing away the dust from the ground. His brow furrowed as he stared at the drawings before him: a plan of Kasolu City, a map of the underground water conservancy hub, and several tables.

The city of Kasol was built on the site of a former city. In the distant past, local residents constructed a comprehensive water system beneath the city, centered around a vast underground water vein. Now that the groundwater has dried up, the water system has naturally fallen into disrepair, but it remains relatively well-preserved as a relic.

The water system is spider-web-shaped, covering almost the entire city. Saco's current location is at a node on the periphery of the spider web.

When the other three great wizards/war spirits encountered different degrees of "troublemaking", only Sarco did not get involved in those messy disputes. He was not unaware that the other three were in trouble, nor was he completely uninterested, but now it seems that

It was a real help to have someone to keep them busy, so that we could get some time to do some real, useful research.

"Um……"

Tiny particles of magic light emanated from his fingers, scribbling on the Kasolu map, a few scattered octagonal lines. He then looked at the several great secret treasures at hand (which he had collected during the chaos in the Pantheon and the Tower of Babel a while ago) and the stack of tables that listed the locations of the great secret treasures discovered so far, both by them and by other investigation teams.

He waved his finger and made a cross on the map again, then picked up the map and looked at it carefully in the direction of the magic light.

Each eight forks corresponded to the location where a great secret treasure appeared. Overall, the distribution of the eight forks was completely chaotic, but—

"……really."

If compared with the distribution map of underground water conservancy hubs, it is completely different.

node.

The water conservancy system is distributed like a spider web, and the intersection of waterways is a transfer node.

Almost every great secret treasure is at the node of this spider web.

Moreover, the closer to the city center, the more densely populated the great treasures appear. The currently known location farthest from the city center is a small town outside the city that was destroyed not long ago. Although there are no eyewitnesses, it is obvious that the dispute was caused by the appearance of the great treasure, and that place is also the farthest node in the water conservancy system.

The only exception is the square in front of the City Lord's Mansion, where Butcher died and where the most great treasures appeared at the same time - two on Butcher's body and one found in the crowd at the edge of the square, a total of three.

There is also a node underground in the square, but there are three of them in one node, which is obviously abnormal - but if you think about it carefully, the two great treasures on Butcher's body are most likely found by him somewhere else and brought over, which makes sense.

Also, the most important clue is the one that is most easily overlooked.