Chapter 105 – Body Enhancement Surgery (5)

“I don’t think that will be possible.”

Then Tares, the man standing in front of him, sighed.

Since he had seen Kale Dawson who was hard to deal with even among the strong people get smashed by this guy.

Tares asked him with a nervous expression.

“Why?”

“…?”

Then he finally understood why they were asking him to give Ken to them.

Hansoo pondered for a moment and then spoke out.

“Mmm?”

If he were to go with the people here then it will be much easier to find out the location of the Temple from them.

There was no reason to go separately if they had the same destination.

There wasn’t much time.

It might’ve been different before this guy had come but even if they knew the location it will still be hard to get to it with their own strength.

Tares clenched his teeth as he thought of their friend who would be held there.

Crunch

‘He’s really strong…’

From the fear of the human-made ant tunnels swarming with clansmen searching for them.

Since other than eating the body fluids of the Grados, the parasites loved to feast upon humans as a special treat.

“But why are they keeping our comrade hostage?”

‘This weakling…’

But there’s nothing he could do.

Ken shrugged his shoulders and spoke.

“d.a.m.n…”

Tares frowned at the expected answer.

It was quite a well-known story.

A race that was the object of fear from their powerful body, beast-like ability to take on hits and secretiveness.

Since he went up from the Baladi level to the Margoth level.

Humans tried to search every bit of the Gragos from that point onwards but that wasn’t possible.

Even though it seemed like they had dug around like it was the human’s territory, it was dug around in the safest spots.

Because of this the location of the Temple fell into the depths of mystery.

“Wouldn’t it just be easy if you put in the Symbol instead?”

Since they just needed to recruit them if they wanted to know.

“I don’t now. It doesn’t seem like the symbol works on those who aren’t human.”

‘…Yeah. If they know about the Temple then it’s likely that they are Akaron.’

“You guys are doing all this for nought. There’s nothing you would find out even after all that torture.”

Tekilon nodded at Sofia’s words.

Tekilon clenched his teeth.

Sofia asked back.

Tares was the one who answered.

One of the 13 rules that had existed after the 3rd Great War.

It was one of the rules that had been created since they had so little numbers.

That information wouldn’t be easily told to other races.

Tares spoke with a bitter expression.

“Hmm.”

“We will send her back to her home no matter what. But there is no other way right? It seems like you know something.”

Tares wasn’t really surprised from the thought of Tekilon, who didn’t really look like an Akaron, knowing something.

‘They might’ve heard this somewhere like us.’

“I don’t know. The fact that they came outside… Means that they have the orders of the Temple. The Temple won’t remove the limitations until they complete those orders. Which means that Ailen kid won’t know the way to the Temple at all.”

That was the reason for the method that could keep the location of the Temple which acted as the most important location secret.

“…Oh yeah, she said that she had orders that she needed to accomplish. Though she didn’t tell us. Anyways it’s great. Having met people like you. We can’t save them with just our strength.”

Though they had spent a lot of time together they didn’t get to hear the stories about the orders and the temple.

And they were in a situation where they couldn’t save Ailen because they lacked strength.

Kyaaaak!

“Are we really there? Where is it?”

An extremely shabby hole compared to the surrounding tunnels that towered over tens of meters.

There was no way that they could go into every tiny hole like that within the complex ant tunnels just because of suspicion.

“Stay here.”

Hansoo jumped into the hole in the distance the moment he finished speaking.

Tares freaked out as he saw this.

Though it was covered up as a small hole in order to hide it from people’s eyes, there were 5th and 6th year level people swarming inside there.

But the more problematic thing was the surrounding patrols.

The moment noise happened inside there, all the clansmen would swarm here like ants.

Befitting of the Ant Tunnels.

But unlike the worries of Tares, the insides of the Ant Tunnels were quite quiet.

Tares looked at this surroundings but Sofia and Tekilon were also squinting their eyes.

After a long while of silence a person held onto a thing much larger than his body as he jumped up.

A reddish brown skin and a tiger-like expression.

“Ailen!”

Since Ailen’s body was basically covered with wounds.

And Tares wasn’t the only one who was enraged.

Tekilon made a helpless expression after seeing one of his race being covered in wounds.

If she had received the surgery then nothing would’ve happened.

‘Humans…’

To the point where he didn’t understand why Hansoo was trying to increase their numbers so hard.

Tekilon could only question.

“Let’s run away quickly.”

Hansoo shrugged his shoulders.

“It’s about time to run.”

Flapflapflapflap

And Tares made a confused expression as he mumbled.

Hansoo nodded.

There was a difference between taking one person and running away and killing everyone inside there and then running away.

Though this Tares seemed to have personal grudges, there was no need for him to share that.

Since he had saved somebody who knew the road, it was now time to ask about it.

“Which mission were you trying to do?”

And because of this Hansoo would gladly help with Ailen’s mission but he could only do so if he knew what it was.

Because she was stuck between either telling them or not.

Ailen looked at the people as well as Tares while she pondered but then clenched her teeth.

She had wasted too much time here and her body condition wasn’t good enough to get through this place alone.

Ailen spoke out after she finished thinking.

Tares made a surprised expression at Ailen’s words.

A mysterious tower located at the spine of the Gragos.

The depth of this tower that often blocked their path while they dug the ant tunnels couldn’t even be measured.

The people wanted to investigate this place with more detail but there were so many Baladis in the area to the point where most people couldn’t even approach it.

The others were confused but Tekilon’s expression turned grim.

The purpose for that structure was one.

The Baladi Tube that was stuck in the giant spine of the Gragos checked the fluid level that came out from the Gragos using the body fluid pressure.

If there’s plenty of body fluid then it will be filled up to the brim and if it was lacking then it would dry up to the bottom.

A mechanism built since the Gragos will roll around if there isn’t enough body fluid.

Hansoo nodded at those words as he flew his body towards the Baladi Tube in order to get Ailen over there.

Ailen quickly checked inside the tube through the transparent window on the green wall of the tube.

The body fluid that should’ve been filled up was gone and only a dark hole could be seen below.

“I’ll be right back so wait.”

Ailen fell down the tube and checked the height of the tube after leaving behind the people’s shouts.

Ailen clenched her teeth as she looked at the dried up tube.

It meant that more Akarons could live.

Ailen fell for a bit longer as she started to fall past the yellow area.

A stage where though there wasn’t a need to clash against the Margoths yet, they should have a look at controlling their population.

Soon Ailen dropped past the yellow and started to fall into the red part of the tube.

Now, one of two things will happen.

They needed to wage war against the Margoths.

‘…There’s nothing here either?’

The moment Ailen was shocked, the red tube ended as well.

Bubble bubble

Ailen quickly looked at the surroundings.

‘Oh my G.o.d. How did it get down here so quickly…’

Ailen clenched her teeth at the much more worse situation than it had been expected.

‘…I must get out without them finding out.’

The words of her returning were lies in order to lose those guys.

The moment AIlen was about to escape through the secret tunnel on the side of the tube, a splas.h.i.+ng noise was heard from behind.

While Ailen was shocked, Hansoo’s voice was heard from inside the liquid.

Hansoo also made a serious expression as he looked at the black walls.

Hansoo frowned as he looked at Ailen who was being very cautious of him.