Infinite Competitive Dungeon Society - Chapter 295

Chapter 295

Chapter 295 . Coming Closer, Going Farther (1)

The change was quick to happen . The devil doll controlled by the Death King suddenly slumped down as if its strings were cut . As a lich sensitive to mana, the Death King immediately noticed this change and shook his stick in wonder . But it was too late . The devil doll only made creaking noises in response .

[Hm, it’s not moving, even though this doll is like a clone of mine . ]

Of course, it didn’t move . The devil doll should have turned metallic . Seeing as how it was making creaking noises, it was most likely struggling in its own way . Unfortunately, the Death King no longer had control of the devil doll .

With the doll unable to move, it let go of Mother . Daisy’s magic was quicker than the Death King, and I was even faster .

[Oh my! Hero, you are quite fast!]

The Death King put the devil doll away and used magic to secure Mother, but Daisy’s magic countered his and I safely took Mother in my arms . But when I received her, I frowned .

“She’s perfectly fine?”

[Hahaha, as long as you promise to cooperate with me, she’ll be fine! Now, if you know what situation you are in, we should have a nice conver…!?]

The finger he was sticking out towards me turned silver .

[I am Dortu . Pointing at Master is rude . ]

[Something’s here . ]

He whispered . He immediately looked around, but he couldn’t see Dortu . Naturally, someone who controlled undead couldn’t perceive Dortu . Dortu wasn’t born like any other elementals . It was possible that even elves couldn’t perceive Dortu .

[But this won’t change anything . I made sure to put extra care into her, you see . I’m the only one that can cure her . ]

There was nothing more foolish than putting in effort to control an unperceivable situation . At least in this aspect, the Death King seemed to be better than the other kings . Rather than looking for Dortu, he was threatening me, who controlled Dortu .

[If you don’t return her to me soon, my mana inside her will go… BOOM! I assume you won’t like that . ]

He laughed mischievously .

[Come on, Hero . Think about it . There’s no need for us to fight . Aren’t you curious about the things I know?]

“Question, do you only have one devil doll?]

[Hahaha, you’re asking if I took other hostages? A precious magical tool like this, even I only have one . So turn it back, Hero . Otherwise, your mother will be in a pickle . ]

He shook his wooden stick . As the strings danced, the devil doll creaked creepily .

I didn’t dare believe him easily, but he certainly only had one wooden stick, and even if he didn’t, I just had to take care of him before he could do anything else . As such, I immediately took action .

“Dortu . ”

[I am Dortu . Assaulting the enemy . ]

In that instant, the lich’s abdominal bones shattered . The metallicised devil doll had penetrated his stomach . It seemed he didn’t expect me to steal control over his doll . His momentary lapse in judgement had dealt him a huge blow .

[Kuhuk!]

“Looks like you’re physically weakest out of all the kings . ”

Though I said it half-jokingly, the devil doll strengthened by Dortu’s ability was probably strong enough to deal critical damage to even the Beast King . Of course, that didn’t mean Dortu was always that powerful . It was just that the previous attack carried a world-shaking amount of mana .

Dortu took the mana within the devil doll and attacked the Death King . This doll had the ability to hide its presence and was powerful enough to slaughter dozens of succubi . It could even instantly come back to the Death King while carrying Mother . Since such a doll was being used as a one-time assault weapon, its power was imaginable .

The doll’s attacks didn’t just end with breaking the Death King’s bones . As the doll slowly broke down, the Death King’s lich body began to turn silver starting from his stomach . The silver color also spread from his previously metallised finger, spreading to his fingers joints, hand, wrist, and so on . It was as if the power of metal controlling the doll was devouring the lich .

[You’re mutating the body of a king!? What power is this!?]

“Didn’t you say you placed your life force in a container? I’m just changing one lifeless object to another . It’s no different than transforming the devil doll into metal . ”

[Impossible!]

That’s what I also thought, but after taking 300,000 mana from me, Dortu made it possible . Perhaps, the elementalist skills I finally mastered was also helping .

Seeing his body turning into a piece of metal, the Death King glared at me and shouted .

[Hero, I enjoy talking things out rather than resorting to force . But if you go any farther, I will blow up your mother . I am not kidding!]

“You won’t be able to now . ”

I also glared back at him . Now that Dortu made his move, there was nothing the Death King could do . If I had to point out the reason for his loss, it would be that he was a lich, as Dortu didn’t have the ability turn living beings into metal .

[I’m the king of the dead . Don’t think you can win against me with something like this…!]

From the unmetallised part of his body, his mana began to boil . The Death King gave up on trying to control the curse on Mother and concentrated all his mana into his body . But this was exactly what Dortu was waiting for . He greedily devoured the Death King’s mana and sped up the metallisation process with it . Against Dortu, the Death King was nothing but prey .

Not long afterwards, the Death King realized there was nothing he could do . Blood red light shone from his eye sockets as he roared .

[You’re the one who made this decision . Without me, you won’t be able to resolve that curse . The moment I lose my body, the countdown will start, and in less than five minutes, your mother will lose her life . Not to mention, you won’t be able to find my life vessel . When I return, you will have another decision to make . I won’t be so nice next time around . ]

With that, he turned into a metallic doll . Daisy scrutinized his body and looked at me with her eyes shining .

“He’s not, dead . Turning him into metal, can’t kill him . I have to… kill him . ”

“I know . You can finish him off . I hope Licorice and Lotte will come back soon with his life vessel . ”

“But, Kang Shin’s mother . ”

Hearing Daisy’s worry-ridden voice, I smiled . Even now, the curse located in Mother’s heart was beating threateningly, but I coincidentally learned how to deal with curses like this today . When, you ask?

“Sumire, take Mother!”

“Y-Yes! Eh? S-Shin-nim!?”

After handing off Mother to Sumire, I used World Trickery . It would have been perfect if I could use Sky God’s Play, but I had already used it in my fight with the Beast King . Fortunately, it wasn’t absolutely necessary to have it for my plan .

The method I thought of was simple . Among the monsters I’ve fought, there was one called the Superior Doppelganger . These monsters had the ability to get bigger or smaller . Thus, I transformed into a Superior Doppelganger and made myself undetectably tiny . Though it was a rather roundabout way, this way, I could still make myself tiny using World Trickery .

After transforming, I flew into Mother’s nostrils and continued through her esophagus . Though the Death King had said she had five minutes, it wouldn’t be strange if there was even less time .

As I flew towards Mother’s heart, I suppressed the feeling of urgency and tried my best to stay calm . Thankfully, I had experienced something similar before and could easily find her heart . Immediately, I noticed a black tumor-like curse growing on her beating heart . I held myself back from cursing aloud and reached my hand out towards it .

“Huu, let’s do this . ”

I initiated Peruta Circuit .

While maintaining a small enough size to not harm Mother, I sucked the curse in using Peruta Circuit’s power . If I hadn’t fought the Beast King, I would have never imagined being able to do this .

“Come and fight me!”

The black curse resisted fiercely, but it couldn’t hold out against Peruta Circuit’s pull . Soon, the curse reluctantly hopped off Mother’s heart and charged towards me . In exchange for receiving it directly, I drew the curse into Peruta Circuit’s spin . Naturally, it was safer to take it with my hand than my heart .

“Come, come!”

With my mind focused entirely on Peruta Circuit, I began to drip with sweat . The curse felt acrid and stuffy, and it was constantly trying to devour me whole . But I concentrated my mana onto the hand I had reaching out . The mana whirlpool carrying the curse moved towards my hand and it began to turn black . It seemed it was impossible to defend against it completely .

“Just hold out a little longer…!”

A few seconds afterwards, the curse staying in Mother’s heart was pulled away completely, focusing on my hand, which had a much more appetizing mana .

“Done! … I’ll see you in a bit, Mother!”

With a black curse-filled pearl in hand, I quickly used Return . The transfer point, of course, was Rome, where Hwaya and I arrived before . It was still overflowing with zombies .

[Guooooooooo!]

“Thank you for being here!”

Almost like it was waiting for me, a zombie pushed its head towards me . I wanted to give him a big bear hug if possible, but I was in a rush . I touched him with my hand and shouted .

“Cadeceus!”

Exactly 10 seconds later, one zombie carrying a death curse exploded .