The Return of Lilietta - Chapter 133

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Chapter 133

The Mimic was the demon beast she had analyzed most fiercely because it was her most horrific nightmare. Even the subjugation at age 17 wasn’t by chance, but carried out under thoroughly prepared operations.

Even so, she hadn’t anticipated the Mimic’s true form and struggled, but that experience became new nourishment once again.

Various simulations ran through her mind in an instant. She conjured up all sorts of ideas, evaluated and discarded them herself, then crystallized only the one method that seemed most effective into an operation. Then she added backup plans and alternatives for mistakes or variables.

Not a perfect ‘best’ plan, but an operation approaching the best.

‘…It’s possible. With this, we can definitely take down the Mimic with our current strength.’

Lillieta briefly looked back at Hanna and Richard.

‘And since I’m not alone… the probability of me panicking and ruining the operation will decrease too.’

Of course, since she wasn’t alone, the probability of others being in danger also increased.

‘If the operation fails, or someone makes a mistake…’

Mistake, failure.

The scene of Richard’s red hair and Hanna’s reddish-brown hair rolling around inside the Mimic’s mouth vividly appeared before her eyes.

Her breathing naturally quickened. She felt the urge to knock everyone unconscious, hide them away, and charge at the Mimic alone to spray bullets, regardless of whether her legs broke or not.

Rather than see that sight, rather than survive alone again in a sea of corpses and blood, it would be better for her to die in an explosion together with the Mimic…

‘…Let’s calm down.’

She recalled Hanna making her oath with tears in her eyes just moments ago. She recalled the night she had leaned against Richard to calm the explosions ringing in her ears.

It’s okay. It will be okay. She can do it. Everyone will be safe.

She bit the inside of her mouth instead of her visible lips and continued checking the operation.

“Master.”

Lindsey, who had returned at some point, quietly called to her.

“Welcome back, you worked hard.”

Lillieta nodded and immediately called Hanna and Richard to gather.

“Everyone gather around. I’m going to explain the operation now.”

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Beacon Garden was waging war in the middle of the night.

“If even one of these crazy bastards gets out of the Garden, it’ll be a real shitshow, Ethan!”

“I know, I know!”

“If you know, then block them properly! One’s escaping over there!”

“Fuck, this is really driving me crazy!”

Ethan spat out curses and swung his hand toward where Olivia pointed. Silver threads extending from his fingertips wrapped around a pitch-black hunting dog charging toward the Garden’s side door and sliced it to pieces. Instead of blood, thick mud burst out with a pop.

Similar creatures swarmed endlessly inside Beacon Garden. Hunting dogs made of something like black mud.

In the middle of that pack, Luca, enlarged and covered in blue fur, whined as he grabbed, crushed, and threw the ones biting and clinging to his limbs.

“Ah, I really hate these bastards, no matter how many you kill there’s no end and they’re dirty and smelly, huuung…”

“I agree, Junior Luca. I really hate these things too.”

Isaiah replied with a gloomy face while sending blue birds in all directions. His expression grew darker as his flower shop, filled with love and dreams, was literally being trampled by muddy feet.

Codename: Hounds.

A demon beast born from a pile of dead dog corpses, an endlessly dividing and multiplying pack of hunting dogs.

It was a colony-type demon beast where all those dogs moved like one body, and while each individual wasn’t very strong, if even one was missed, it would devour everything in sight and multiply instantly, making them troublesome to deal with.

To completely subjugate the Hounds required either firepower to blow away the entire pack at once or the ability to suppress many at once. Since the former was recuperating, what Beacon was currently waiting for was the latter.

“Why is that bastard Gid so late? When the hell is he coming!”

“Sorry for being late.”

A calm voice responded from overhead to Ethan’s shout. Soon after, Gideon dropped down from the ventilation window attached to Beacon Garden’s ceiling.

He stabbed his sword into the ground upon landing. Black Oaths spread like a tide, dominating the interior.

Realm Domination.

All the hunting dogs that had been running wild were pressed to the ground. Unable to rise and struggling, the demon beasts looked like dogs lying down and wagging their tails before their master.

Gid removed his hand from the sword in that state and lightly clenched his fist. Then a new unique technique that Rita didn’t know yet was linked.

Convergence.

The widely spread realm rapidly compressed. The black Oaths gathered like a whirlpool to one point, forcing the beings within the realm to cluster together.

Olivia gasped anew at the sight.

‘Not just Realm Domination… that’s an even more ridiculous technique. What the hell do you have to do for an Enhancer to be able to use that kind of unique technique? Is he still really an Enhancer? Didn’t he change into something like a gravity manipulator?’

When the mud clump dogs were compressed and crushed, they merged with each other and transformed into one giant hunting dog. The enlarged creature tried to slowly rise, resisting the dominance maintained even more strongly in the converged realm.

Oli snapped to attention at the sight and shouted at the top of her lungs.

“Senior Is!”

“Ready, Junior. Shall I sprinkle it?”

“Yeah, now!”

“Got it.”

Isaiah swept his hand down like an orchestra conductor. The summoned creatures that had flown in all directions returned according to his command, clutching lime sacks from various parts of the Garden.

Quicklime was stockpiled in large quantities throughout various areas because it was used in botanical gardens for humidity control, soil improvement, and pest prevention.

Moreover, quicklime also causes strong heat and drying effects the moment it touches moisture.

Blue birds circled above the hunting dog. Lime fell like snow over the staggering mud demon beast. In the white floating powder, the giant mud cracked and dried as steam rose.

Kuheooeong!

The Hounds shrieked and tried to escape from the lime powder, but couldn’t break free from Gid’s compressed realm.

The trapped hunting dog struggled, shaking its body in the narrow space. Crumbled mud dripped from its movements, revealing the interior. A pure white dog skull embedded in the squishy mud clump like rotting flesh.

Ethan’s extended thread wrapped around it and pulled it out with a yank. The mud monster’s form immediately collapsed and turned into a pile of dried dirt.

“Fuck, finally over.”

Ethan muttered curses and casually threw the extracted skull to Luca. Luca caught it with his wolf-like muzzle, crunched it to pieces, chewed for a while, then spat it out with a ptui.

Olivia crouched in front of the shattered bone fragments, processed her Oaths into hydrochloric acid and poured it while grumbling.

“I really don’t know what the hell this is in the middle of the night…”

White foam bubbled up as the bone fragments completely dissolved. Confirming the sight, Gid drew his sword and withdrew his realm.

Ethan, who had run around the most, collapsed exhausted, while Is sent summoned creatures in all directions again to check if any had escaped.

Oli clicked her tongue and gestured at Luca, who had returned to human form and was making a tearful face with bite marks all over.

“Come here, Luca. The recovery isn’t working well because of the decay effect, right? Since Sister Sera isn’t here, I’ll at least cast some purification magic for you.”

“Huong, thank you, big sister…”

While everyone was cleaning up, Gid looked at where the Hounds had been, stroked his chin, then looked at the resting Ethan and asked.

“Ethan, how did you say you discovered this thing?”

“How did we discover it? The detection magic Oli set up in Beacon Garden activated, so Senior Is called everyone together. Except for Rita who’s recuperating.”

“The Hounds got caught by Beacon Garden’s detection magic?”

“Why’s that?”

“When this thing is in colony state, each one is so weak it’s no different from rotting mud. It wouldn’t even be distinguishable from the dirt scattered around the flower shop, but the detection magic activated?”

“…Ah, fuck. Don’t tell me?”

“Contact the Tritoma network and find other anomalies immediately.”

Ethan, who had been sprawled out, jumped up and ran toward Beacon Garden’s lighthouse tower. Gid then asked Oli, who was treating Luca.

“Oli, did you leave a message for Rita?”

“I sent one when the battle started. Told her I’d communicate again when the situation ended, so don’t throw a fit and stay put.”

“Any reply?”

Oli took out her hand mirror and tilted her head.

“Nothing came. Is she sleeping?”

“Rita?”

“Since it’s home and not a battlefield, the probability she’s sleeping deeply and missed the communication is… damn, there’s no way Rita Pascal would do that. I’m talking nonsense, like some glasses-wearing nerd.”

Olivia cursed at herself and frantically tapped the hand mirror. Gideon also took out his communicator with a hardened expression.

They soon realized that communication wasn’t reaching Lillieta.

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