Versatile: Alternate World

Just as planned, the three who fused into one monster have finally been defeated. With the help of Atlas and of course, Gin. We managed to decapitate both remaining heads It's not hard, to be honest, and since their pattern of attack is pretty much just that slamming attack and manipulation of the fleshy membranes, it was very easy for us to dodge it and how low their defense values are.

Of course, the plan wasn't flawless. Since Gin was hesitating during the beginning, his cut wasn't deep enough that I have to use force to support Gin's attack and firmly bury the katana's blade into the neck of the fleshy monster and effectively cut off its neck.

The moment the fused body died and lost all of its HP, the walls and floor that are made of flesh and meat have disintegrated into pieces. Nothing was left behind and the floors and walls have returned to how it was how I remembered the place in the past timeline.

"Is that really it? I thought this will be a hard battle especially since the enemy is that fleshy monster. It looks pretty menacing and similar to those horror games that would then force you to do a "chase scene" and try to outrun the monster," Gin put the katana back to the sheath after flicking off the blood that stuck on it.

"Looks can be deceiving at times. Also, the reason it was weak is perhaps due to how we burned them earlier before they fused. If they have not been interrupted and successfully evolved without undergoing the problem in which the enemies suffer in."

Once the disintegration of all the flesh has concluded, the drops from the boss appeared on the ground. Just like how the lower-leveled monsters give out items, the items dropped are also quite sh*tty.

But there is one thing that I am intrigued with.

[???]

Type: Key Item

Info: No information in the database.

Note: Perhaps you can ask that flower guy what this sh*t is?

I have no idea what this is. It looks like a black pebble at first glance but there is no pebble this shiny and smooth that it feels more like plastic in your hands. It is also quite heavy and any second the item is in your hands, you will also feel like it seems to be sucking your hand in.

Just like what the note said, perhaps I should ask Merlin about this. The fact that it was a key item, there must be a reason it was also dropped after the death of all three targets. That also means the revival of the Cath Palug will now be prevented and the raid will no longer occur, right? Unless another f*cker tried to mess things up again, I am quite sure that the revival has been postponed.

"Hey guys, you all did great, take the drops and divide them among yourselves. You all earned it."

"Huh? What about you?" Shana looked at me.

"As I stated before, I don't need it. Take that and use it for whatever you all wanted to do."

Since I don't want to argue with them anymore, I returned back to the surface. The rotten smell that has been plaguing the whole place has finally started to disappear. It didn't disappear immediately but it is slowly returning. The city outside is also looking a lot better too than expected so perhaps that helped a lot.

"Is this what you guys are always doing things?" the bunny girl who keep quiet the whole ordeal has finally started talking. Of course, there isn't anything she could do with her restraints under her control of Tina, she could only stay back and watch everything unfold before her.

"That's just how things work. We take a job and we finish it. No matter how bizarre things could get, there is nothing we could do about it."

"So that means the ruckus you guys made back in the club, was due to a similar incident that would result in this kind of happening?"

"Perhaps. We arrived much earlier than anticipated so nothing major has happened back there so you guys are quite lucky. If you guys happened to experience the same incident, perhaps it's not just something like this would happen, perhaps everyone in that village would also turn in a similar manner where no one will recognize you as you all will be converted into piles of rotten flesh."

If that ever happened, there is nothing I could do about that. I stretched my arms as everyone emerged from the basement. We left the mansion after we cleared things up. Since the four hunted the living armors for quite a while and the majority of the living armors that we should have seen in the basement were also annihilated, the mansion is desolated from enemies for now. Of course, this place will continue to become an area where the Living Armors live, so it will not be forever desolate with enemies. Give it time and it will return to how it was.

We looked around the city and the citizens soon realized things and are now frowning at what they were doing. I don't know how long the event lasted but perhaps that took too long for them to just notice things just now.

"Let's go back to Merlin and report our progress. We need to get out of here before the NPCs would drag us to their current realization of things."

While the two cities are in the chaos of something that they seemed to have blanked out for the past few days, every one of us has escaped the place and used Leona to fly away from there. Whatever chaos that has ensued, it's no longer our problem.

Just like before, we returned to the forest and I once again performed the ritual of entering the Island of Avalon. I can see in the bunny girl's eyes that silliness on what I am doing while the four are focused and mentally taking notes on how to activate the way to enter the Island of Avalon without getting lost.

After the successful steps, we entered the Island of Avalon. The moment we entered, we already saw the Lady of the Lake standing on the water.

"Now that you guys have returned, I presumed the quest has been done successfully?"

I bowed down first before I started my report.

"Indeed, My Lady. We are here to report what happened to the targets and what happened after we finished the task."

"Alright, let's discuss the situation inside the castle. Merlin is also waiting."

Then, her eyes landed on the bunny girl with the restraints in her hands and legs that would prevent her from running away and fighting back.

"Why is this bunny girl restrained? Did something happen while the quest was ongoing earlier?"

"I will explain later on as she is also part of the circumstances that occurred while we are finishing the main task."

"Hmmm, alright then. Come inside everyone," her gaze is still on the bunny girl and the latter is getting sweaty just by being scrutinized by someone.

The same floating rocks appeared for us to step into the water and we were granted an audience immediately. We headed to the same table as before. When we arrived there, Merlin is enjoying the teatime alongside the lady of the lake.

Merlin gently put the teacup on the saucer as he smiled at us,

"Congratulations for emerging successful on the quest. I have checked and the thing that was weakening the seal that prevents the revival of Cath Palug has disappeared completely. Even the corpse that was used to rot away the seal has disintegrated too which is a piece of good news already. As such, thank you, everyone, for the hard work-"

Merlin's words were cut off when he detected something.

"Hey, you. With the wolf mask! What is that in your inventory? Pull it out?"

"What?" I was surprised since Merlin suddenly pointed at me and it seems he also forgot my name as he only calls me the one with the wolf mask.

"There is something in your inventory that somehow resembles a lot of the energy coming from Cath Palug itself. What is that you are hiding?!"

I think I already know what he was talking about.

"Are you perhaps talking about this? We received this thing the moment we killed the final targets and honestly, I also have no idea what this thing is," I pulled out the black thing out and placed it on the table.

"You received this after the death of the final target? I didn't expect that they are so close to reviving the Cath Palug. To think they would have it already!"

"What the heck is this thing though?" I frowned as it seems to be quite important.

"This is none other than the heart of the Cath Palug. Putting it back into the seal while the spell that was destroyed was active will fully revive the Cath Palug and will soon ravage the land."