The dungeon has been parasitized

Chapter 109 A Strange Feeling

"That black tower is magnificent! Didn't you build it yourselves?"

Yanami looked up, curiously gazing at the black tower that had disappeared into the top of the cave. It was the first time she had ever seen such a structure, and her eyes were filled with wonder.

"No, we don't know what it is either. This tower existed before we came here."

"I see... What's the use of this tower?"

"I already said—"

Hyacinth, a little impatient, was about to explain to Yanami again, but suddenly seemed to remember something and looked at Yanami with a slightly mocking smile.

"Hmph, that black tower is pretty powerful. It can launch light-speed magic attacks on intruders."

"Wow! That's amazing, really?"

Yanami's eyes widened, her tone filled with surprise and curiosity, which made Hyacinth feel somewhat helpless.

"No... I was just kidding, you actually believed me?"

"After all, seeing something like this always makes you wonder if it has some special purpose, right?"

"I don't know if it has any special uses. Although it seems like some people are researching it, we still don't understand what it is."

"It might actually fire a beam of light."

"Haha, maybe it really is possible."

"It would be bad if it launched..."

Looking at Hyacinth and Yanami, who seemed inexplicably excited, and Daisy, who had been helping to pull the mouse cart, he sighed helplessly.

Klein also looked at the strange black tower, feeling a strange, indescribable feeling.

I can't quite describe the feeling, but I can't seem to look away. I keep wanting to stare at the tower, but I don't know why.

Has my sexual orientation become a tower...? No way.

Or rather, I'm actually an architecture enthusiast.

However, a strange black tower always makes one wonder if it might have some strange purpose.

"If you're curious, would you like to go and take a look?"

Seeing Yanami looking up curiously, Hyacinth smiled and offered a suggestion.

"Huh? Can I get closer to take a look? Won't I get hit by the beam? And if you don't want to look, then forget it."

"Of course you can... and please don't bring up that joke again."

"I'm very grateful to be able to get close to you, but is this alright? Weren't you supposed to be going to see your leader?"

Yanami smiled, brushing aside Hyacinth's somewhat reproachful gaze, and asked her question.

"It's alright, because the council chamber is in the city center, the leader is there, and the tower is in the square there."

"In other words, it's just a stop along the way."

"That's right."

Hyacinth smiled and nodded, agreeing with Yanami's words.

"Let's go closer and take a look."

"So, you mean we've been getting closer all along?"

"Ahaha, is that so?"

Actually, while they were chatting, they were getting closer under Daisy's guidance, since their destination was near the Black Tower.

The three people and the mouse continued forward, chatting as they went.

"Speaking of which, I haven't asked you yet, how have you been lately, Yanami?"

"Hmm...so-so?"

Yanami thought about it for a while with some difficulty, and then gave a vague answer.

"So-so."

"After all, a lot has happened... for example, I had some contact with the fish-people."

"Murlocs? You actually came into contact with urlocs? I heard they're some kind of savages. Are you alright?"

"It was a close call, but the situation was a bit similar to when I first met you guys."

Yanami chuckled, while Hyacinth and Daisy seemed somewhat wistful.

"Don't remind me of bad things..."

As she spoke, Hyacinth sighed.

"However, you are very powerful after all. The fishmen definitely can't do anything to you, since you've already captured us."

"Back then, we were in a very sorry state."

"It's all because of that stupid daisy!"

"Hyacinth is clearly trying to show off, use... use explosives!"

"Ugh—! No, let's not talk about that!"

Seemingly touched on a sore spot by the daisy, the hyacinth hurriedly changed the subject, somewhat embarrassed.

"What I wanted to ask was... um, isn't the demonic tide getting increasingly fierce? Since the dragon's roar appeared, has the forest been alright?"

Hyacinth thought for a moment and found a good topic to change the subject.

"It seems like nothing has changed."

"Nothing's changed? Has the demonic tide affected your area?"

Hyacinth felt a little strange upon hearing Yanami's answer.

"It's not that there's no impact... but you see, since the forests have turned to carbon, the monsters probably don't want to come here much anymore,"

It's not that there was no impact, but Wild Dog Forest was indeed unaffected; it was the swamp that was affected.

A large group of pterosaurs came because of dragons; in a sense, Hyacinth did guess it.

"Ah, I see. But maybe some monsters that like to eat charcoal will come?"

"Maybe it's like what you said, but there are monsters like that?"

Yanami nodded in agreement, while also expressing her curiosity.

"Yes, they love to eat things like Flame Wolves, right?"

"This is a monster I've never seen before. I didn't know there were monsters that liked to eat charcoal."

"It seems to be about as strong as your Shadow Wolf."

"They're all wolves, huh? They're quite formidable."

"No... it's very powerful, but for you, it's really just 'pretty impressive,' sigh..."

Hyacinth sighed, a mixture of helplessness and感慨.

"By the way, don't you have any dealings with the merfolk?"

"Fish-men? No, we don't even speak the same language. We're demi-humans, and fish-men are humanoids. Besides, we haven't had any contact with them in a long time, and they're quite reclusive."

"Isn't there any way to learn the fish-people's language?"

Hyacinth shook its head and shrugged.

"It's not that there's no way to communicate. Some people have indeed learned the fish-people's language, but that's only for negotiation. After all, it's difficult to communicate if you're not the same kind of fish, and they live in relatively humid places, right? They don't have much contact with us."

"It is indeed a bit difficult to communicate with them."

"It seems you've already negotiated with them. It's good that no conflict occurred."

"Haha...yes."

To hide her embarrassment, Yanami gave a slightly awkward laugh.

After all, the hyacinth and daisy would never know that the person in front of them had not only communicated with the fish-men, but had also been deceived by them and almost died.

In the end, Klein gained control of the entire merfolk tribe.

If it weren't for Klein's interference, perhaps more of the fish-men would have survived.

However, all of this was because they attacked Yanami first, so Klein had no sympathy or pity for them.