Chapter 121: A dilemma
Falling, falling, weightlessness. This is what Cheese's consciousness feels in the first second after it returns to his body. He instinctively tried to struggle, but before he could make the actual move, a slender but powerful hand grabbed his arm, halting his downward trend.
"Did you have a nightmare?" Atta's sky-blue eyes could make those who stared at it forget most of their troubles, and it wasn't because of magic, but simply because of the sincerity in those eyes. With Atta's physical fitness, it was not difficult to catch the mage who fell from above, and although Cheese was an adult male, his weight was unexpectedly light due to his perennial abnormal schedule.
"yes, I had a terrible dream. The grey robe who had been pulled back to the worm said as he shook his hand, which he feared would turn into the eagle's claws. What happens in the spiritual realm is not completely inherited by the physical body, so there are cases where you wake up and only remember vague information. This situation cannot be completely avoided even with the corresponding training, just like Cheese now remembers the anomaly that happened in the spiritual realm, but he has no way of knowing the subtle changes when the anomaly occurs, only remembering that he has gradually become a half-human, half-beast monster. But it didn't matter, those details could be retrieved later through meditation, and now he only needed to know that the plan to find the worm's weakness from the spiritual side had failed.
"Then do we still have to climb up?" The female swordsman breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Cheese was in a good state of mind, although there was no tangible evidence, but anyone who saw the mage's appearance just now knew that his initial calculation had been empty, and now there was only the second chance that Cheese had said before.
The gray robe gritted his teeth and looked up, only to know that this tree was definitely much taller than what they could see from under the tree or from a distance, at least at this time, when looking up, the crown could not be seen at all, and the trunk that extended infinitely upwards had pierced into the sky. In this way, the steppe people believe that the tree connects different worlds, and I am afraid that it is not just a myth attached to it as a symbol. So the question is, how big will the worms clinging to this infinitely upward extension of the heavenly tree be?
Just like the Amaki they had seen before, was the worm they had seen at that time only a part, and in fact this terrifying existence also had an immeasurable body length? If so, then the second chance that Cheese had hoped for, that is, the plan to use the power of the fairy sword Vlacrag to force the worm to stop moving, was probably no longer possible. Because even if the worms had necks that could correspond to the spell, they wouldn't be able to climb that height. In the blink of an eye, the action that was originally in the hands of victory became as stupid as a mantis arm as a car.
How many years has it been? How much can six years slow a person down? I mean, it's just a sentence in a story or a story, but when that time is really manifested in a person, how does he perceive what he has gradually lost during that time, like awe. In the past, Cheese knew that he had the power to fight against the evil god, but he had never been so active as he was now in trying to defeat an evil god head-on, which was too crazy.
Cheese was disappointed in himself, he thought that this time had given him a chance to settle and digest, and gave him room to improve. But now it seemed that the space was so big that he was a little disoriented. Fortunately, the gray robe never thought that he was absolutely right, and when he realized his mistake and recklessness, the discomfort in his heart was quickly suppressed, and the most important thing at the moment was how to face the consequences of failure, that is, to pay the price. Cheese didn't think the worms would let them go as much as they allowed them to climb up.
"Listen, I made a mistake, I thought of our enemy too simply. So now, we're going to give up our old plans, and we, no, you, leave from here, take Batu and Lothar with us, and get away from here as fast as we can. The mage said this in a calm tone that he didn't expect it himself. Perhaps he does have the talent to admit defeat, but at a cost, it's not a good talent. Moreover, he once again seemed to have made too arbitrary judgments.
"You're letting us escape?" Atta frowned, things didn't seem to her to be like this. Even if the mage's trick fails, she is confident that she can rely on the magic sword to defeat the worm that seems to be useless except for the big one. And this is mainly because of the fact that Cheese's magic helps her and the cat goblin resist the negative energy that the evil god naturally emits. It's just that the female swordsman herself doesn't know this, and it's the first time she's used an evil god as an opponent, and she simply treats the other party as a huge monster.
"Yes, I want you to run away. There was no hesitation in Cheese's gaze, and his main target when he said this was not Atta, but Kairaz beside her. He knew that the latter, as a goblin who traveled back and forth between different worlds, must have some knowledge of the existence of evil gods, so while Ataha had illusions about this battle, he hoped that the cat elf would fulfill his mission to keep Atta safe and get her out of here.
Kailas's ears twitched as he exposed his hat, and the cat took a breath, then pulled out the rapier at his waist, and with a wave of his hand, the tip of the dagger pointed into the air behind Cheese, "I'd love to get out of here now." But only if we get rid of those guys first. I don't think we're going to be able to climb down leisurely with them. ”
The cat goblin was absolutely right, because anyone who saw those huge moths with human faces would have their hairs standing on end, and their muscles would be tense, and it would be very difficult to climb back to the ground in that state. Of course, before that, these facial moths are likely to pose a more tangible obstacle than mental stress.
"Do you think the herbs for insect control will be useful to them?" Cheese pulled out a small wooden ball from his robe, and the hollowed-out part of the wooden ball gave off a burst of herbaceous aroma. It's just a pity that when the first human-faced moth pounced, the mage subconsciously threw this delicate insect repellent tool as a throwing weapon, and then was easily dodged by the other party.
"Well, it doesn't seem to work. ”
"Ahh The spikes wriggled like the tentacles of an octopus and emerged from the orifices of the human face, waving fiercely.
"Compared to these things, the bugs flying out of those corpses are simply cute. The cat goblin shook his whiskers and commented.