Chapter 228: Corrupted Riot

Watching Weisite lead the Lionheart Guard soldiers in pursuit, Ailina sneered.

She pulled a brass whistle from between her snow-white, towering breasts. The whistle was very simple, even somewhat old, but Ailina still used a thin gold chain to accessorize it.

She blew the copper whistle lightly.

"……"

A silent and invisible wave spread from the copper whistle. Although silent and invisible, Weisite and his soldiers in pursuit all felt it.

The woman in front was using that copper whistle to summon something bad.

Weisite led the soldiers to stop immediately, raising the swords in their hands, watching the surrounding environment vigilantly to guard against monsters that might suddenly appear.

That woman certainly couldn't have suddenly stopped to do a boring action, not to mention that they had indeed felt a cold wave just now.

"Tick! Tick!"

Time passed slowly, and the cold sweat on Weisite's forehead gradually gathered on his chin, eventually dripping to the ground and splashing up wisps of dust.

'Why haven't they appeared yet?'

Compared to bullets that have already been fired, a pitch-black gun barrel is more intimidating.

By the same token, enemies hidden in the dark are more lethal and terrifying.

Just when Weisite and his men were about to lose their composure and intended to fight with all their might regardless of the consequences, Ailina on the opposite side suddenly turned around and continued to run.

'Uh! This is... being played?'

Damn bitch, next time no matter what tricks she pulls, I won't be deceived again; I'll just charge up and chop her to pieces.

Another marathon-style chase unfolded, only this time the distance was much shorter.

Ailina quickly found the underground cave where she had hidden the ghouls.

She was panicking inside; using the 【Undead Contract】 just now hadn't received any response, which made her impatient to see what had happened to the ghoul cave.

Until... Ailina was completely shocked by the scene before her.

Dark green poison mist condensed and scattered in the air, occasionally coalescing into rotting slime that dripped down.

Deep in the poison miasma, pale human-faced flowers emerged from the rotten soil, their distorted facial features on the petals changing expressions with the flow of the miasma—sometimes revealing a ferocious grin split to the ear, sometimes opening a pitch-black mouth to emit a silent scream.

Bone-like branches were knotted like withered hands, and translucent vesicles hung between the branches.

Vines wandered through the canopy, and the thorny stems were embedded with dense scarlet eyeballs, each eyeball rotating in a different direction.

When the poison mist passed, the vines would suddenly open jagged cracks, spraying foul-smelling purple juice. The ground was covered with a thick moss carpet, its surface constantly bulging with abscess-like protrusions.

Humanoid monsters covered in corrupted mushrooms crawled out, fern-like tentacles extending from their hunched backs, their knees completely fused with mycelium, dragging fluorescent green slime across the moss as they walked.

Ailina's first reaction was that she had gone to the wrong place.

However, when she noticed the withered mountain of corpses and the flesh-and-blood parts of the monsters exposed in the areas not yet covered by the fungal carpet, she immediately realized that this was the underground cave she had always used to cultivate ghouls.

It's just... it's just... how could it be like this?

Ghouls can't be domesticated? Otherwise, they will mutate?

*Swish! *

A sword light flew from behind, and Ailina dodged it without hesitation.

Afterward, she pulled out the copper whistle called 【Undead Contract】 and blew it hard again.

The silent and invisible wave spread again, and this time there was movement.

All the monsters in the entire underground cave, whether they were flesh-and-blood monsters or those strange plants, all turned their heads or parts similar to heads straight toward her—the scene was quite creepy!

"Woooo-roo-roo—ka-ka—roar—"

All kinds of strange roars came, and those flesh-and-blood monsters rushed over like a wave of corruption.

Ailina turned and ran without hesitation.

And Weisite, who had witnessed this scene of the corruption frenzy a step behind, was stunned on the spot, forgetting to even block Ailina as she ran past him.

"Form up~ Raise shields~"

Those flesh-and-blood monsters looked like they were running in a twisted and stumbling manner, but their speed was extremely fast.

Weisite immediately ordered his men to deploy defenses with all his might; there was no running away.

"Boom!"

The two sides collided, flesh and vegetation flying, blood and pus splashing everywhere. Just a brief contact, and both sides suffered huge casualties.

But those flesh-and-blood monsters were all existences without pain or consciousness; even when their entire heads were chopped off, the remaining limbs could still continue to attack, so the kingdom's most elite Lionheart Guard was immediately beaten into a steady retreat.

And what was even more terrifying was that these monsters seemed to be immortal; the fallen limbs would actually attract and condense with each other, finally gathering again into indescribable monsters to continue participating in the slaughter.

The brave Lionheart warriors were not afraid of any enemy, but facing such immortal monsters, no normal human could maintain high fighting spirit and morale.

"Run! Hurry and escape, these monsters can't be killed!"

"Monster! Go to hell! Ah~"

"My God! Is this hell?"

"Why would there be such monsters under the palace castle? It's that woman, that new Queen, I just saw her use an evil copper whistle to control these monsters!"

All kinds of roars and guesses accompanied by screams resounded throughout the underground cave and passage.

Until the first sacrificed Guard warrior crawled up again, looking at his former companions and comrades with his half-bloody head covered in ferns, the morale of the entire legion completely collapsed.

The rout was like a dam breaking, and Weisite, the only one who could control the situation, was already covered in blood, his wounds stained with green, and even his sanity had begun to blur.

*Whoosh! *

A vine covered in sharp teeth quickly wrapped around Weisite's ankle, and before his body could react, it quickly retracted. The huge force immediately pulled the newly promoted Viscount to the ground, and then more vines wrapped around, binding Weisite's body and shrinking back into the huge underground cave.

Only a short scream and the sound of constant chewing remained, drowned out by the screams of countless soldiers.

Without Weisite to preside over the big picture, the collapse of the Lionheart Guard soldiers spread completely, and everyone stupidly exposed their backs to those strange and terrifying monsters.

At times like this, as long as you run faster than your companions, you have a better chance of surviving.

Thus, when the first soldier cried out "I'm sorry" while mercilessly chopping off his former comrade's lower leg, the smart guys followed suit one after another.

This trick was very useful; a large number of wounded immediately blocked the escape passage, which wasn't very wide to begin with.

Only those vicious curses and cries sounded like sharper arrows, piercing the hearts of the fleeing soldiers. ===== CHAPTER 229 =====