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[The goddess 'Artemisia' states that if you really want to defeat that flesh golem, you should get going as it is already halfway to the town.]
"It's already halfway?!"
Evan almost shot up from his seat, only to remember that there was someone sitting on his lap. He then silently lifted the girl up before turning his attention back to Artemisia.
"That thing's agility was low as fuck, how did it cross those kilometres of distance in just a bit over thirty minut-Oh.
It's been more than just a bit over thirty minutes."
[The goddess 'Artemisia' states that the explosions from your battle with the demon; Lensa, alerted the town and they send out scouts to investigate, however, the scouts ended up encountering the golem halfway through and are currently running for their lives.
She goes on to predict that they would most likely take defensive measures against the flesh golem, however, said measures would be futile as there is no entity capable of battling the creature in that small town. Even its B-rank adventurers are all far too weak.]
"No shit, that's why the town was targeted in the first place."
Evan spoke up before relaying the new information to his party members, along with his plan to put on a show that heavily involved a certain unwilling high demon.
"Come on, Pride.
You weren't here while we were working our asses off to defeat the demonic hand members, so you could at least help us take out their creation."
Pride's brow twitched repeatedly upon hearing Evan's words that made it sound like she was slacking off, heaving a sigh of exasperation as she gave her reluctant approval.
[The goddess 'Artemisia' says that if you do not hurry, someone else may come over and steal your thunder.]
"So basically, someone of similar or higher strength than me is in the area and is heading towards that town, huh?"
[The goddess 'Artemisia' nods in affirmation.]
"I see."
Evan nodded to himself, before turning to Kuro, only for an idea to flash in his mind as he spoke with a grin.
"I would have asked Kuro to teleport us halfway using his shadow travel, but how about we make it a race?"
Hearing his words, Eliza and Pride heaved exasperated sighs while Greed's eyes shone with interest.
[I wanna race too!]
Kayla's energetic voice rang out as she jumped atop Evan's shoulder in her cat form, with the young hero turning to Eliza and asking for speed buffs.
"Are you guys serious about this?"
"Yep." "Pretty much." [Yes!]
The three simultaneous replies made the battle priestess sigh once more as she called up the radiant codex and applied basic speed and stamina buffs on the three of them.
"Alright, guys.
We're gonna have to go out of the town using the other entrance and then boost off to the destination.
Our finish line is…let's say wherever the golem is at the time.
However, we wouldn't engage the golem until it reaches the town, okay? We'd just turn back and run out of its range so it doesn't change its course.
Cool?"
The other two nodded in affirmation, with Kayla returning to her humanoid form and floating up in the air.
"Ready? Set. Go!"
**BOOOMM!!!
The three racers instantly shot forward the moment Evan spoke the word 'Go', their feet cratering the ground and kicking up a huge cloud of dust as they zoomed off into the distance.
"I wanna say 'Boys would always be boys' but Kayla is a girl and she's with them."
"I would have agreed with you if one of the 'boys' wasn't my brother."
Pride replied to Eliza's words as she blew away the dust around them, turning to the cat spirit who was quietly drawing his transfer magic circle on the ground.
"The other one of the 'boys' is my boyfriend so I kinda get how you feel."
The high demon turned her gaze back to Eliza who looked at her with slight confusion before speaking.
"The you of a month ago was so embarrassed to say that, now the word flows from your lips like water down a stream."
Eliza's cheeks turned slightly red as she coughed awkwardly and replied.
"You see…people eventually get used to things…"
Pride only shook her head before picking up the unconscious Faerora and speaking.
"Let's get going before that idiot forgets that his plan requires both our presences for it to work."
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Surrounding Bultom Dungeon City in a semi-circle, were fourteen smaller satellite towns, with two of them having been abandoned within the past four decades, making it so only twelve were currently inhabited by people of various races.
As for the citizens of one of these satellite towns, they all felt that their town might become the third to get abandoned.
This was natural, as if the gigantic monstrosity that was barely half a kilometre away from their town could not be killed, then they were pretty much fucked.
The day started as a normal day for them, only for there to be a series of large unexplainable explosions coming from the distance, with the town guards and adventurers moving to check the situation out and find out the causes of these explosions.
Unfortunately, they encountered a giant monster that seemed to already be making its way towards their town.
Upon bringing this information back to the town, the lord called for a state of emergency and assembled all of the town's fighting forces at the walls to prepare to intercept the incoming monster.
When the thing got into their range of sight, everyone watching couldn't help but take a step back in disgust.
It was a huge twenty-five-metre-tall humanoid creature that seemed to constitute of a mix of rotting corpses and masses of pure black rotten flesh covered in melting skin, with an ominous black haze surrounding its entire being.
What they presumed was its face had large brown veins showing underneath its rotten flesh, with large eye sockets containing similarly large green pupilless eyes. It had no nose and its mouth looked like its upper and lower lips had been haphazardly glued together with black flesh.
If they could get a closer look, they would have realised that maggots filled most of the holes on this creature's body, and it had weird liquids dripping from under its fingernails.
The presence of rotten corpses on its body was enough to inform them that this creature's appearance was somehow linked to the recent increase in undead monsters all over the entire Duchy.
The presence of rotten corpses on its body was enough to inform them that this creature's appearance was somehow linked to the recent increase in undead monsters all over the entire Duchy.
Although they had fought off smaller waves of undead, they had never had to deal with anything that was more than level 200 before.
As such, having to deal with one giant level 250 undead right off the bat was quite the hurdle for them.
They had already sent a fast messenger over to the Bultom City to call over stronger B-ranked adventurers to take on the creature.
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