The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life, Vol. 2 by Nonohara Usata

Author:Nonohara, Usata
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen Press
Published: 2019-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

03

“The subjugation of the fifty-third stratum’s boss, the King of Cursed Serpents, begins now. We’ll have our revenge!”

“Sir!”

More than a hundred elites handpicked from the Labyrinth Suppression Forces responded to the Gold Lion General Leonhardt.

The fifty-third stratum of the Labyrinth was now the forefront of the subjugation. Because Leonhardt had received the curse of petrification from the basilisk during the previous expedition and been forced to retreat, he had a personal vendetta against this stratum.

As they defeated ordinary basilisks and advanced to the back of the corridor, they emerged into a huge open room lined with pillars that looked man-made. That was where the King of Cursed Serpents, the king basilisk, lived.

A basilisk was a monster with a head and tail like a snake’s and a wide torso like a lizard’s, with four short legs sprouting from it. It was said to have evil eyes of petrification that cursed anyone they stared at, and this curse couldn’t be completely healed by cure potions. However, the odds of curse symptoms occurring weren’t very high. Even if it did activate, the protective spell Holy Talisman, which prevented curses and repelled the undead, could protect you from it.

It was also possible to reflect a curse of petrification with a mirror, so a basilisk’s curse could be reliably prevented by carrying a shield that’d been polished like a mirror. Incidentally, a basilisk was immune to its own curse.

Basilisks had petrification poison on their fangs, claws, and tails, and it was horribly strong. If you got poisoned, petrification would always activate. However, since it was not a curse, it could be removed with cure magic or a cure potion.

They were powerful S-Rank monsters that attacked with their long tails and heads, but people in Leonhardt’s Labyrinth Suppression Forces could defeat them.

The problem was the King of Cursed Serpents raising its head in the center of the spacious room.

Its body was several times the length of a normal basilisk, and its mouth was large enough to swallow a person whole. Several horned protrusions grew crookedly from the top of its head like a crown. It was as if the ribs of the prey it had devoured were piercing its skull.

Covered in verdigris-colored moss, its body had rusty-looking sediment floating around it. The pieces of sediment wriggled like a cocoon right before hatching and occasionally burst open and melted into the atmosphere before merging with the sediment in the Labyrinth to form a new basilisk.

The king basilisk had eight legs, double the number a normal basilisk possessed. Its large torso prevented it from moving to the edges of the room where pillars crowded together or from entering the corridor. However, once the battle began, it would probably create several normal basilisks, inundate the entire room with the petrification curse, and swallow those who had turned into stone.

Even Leonhardt hadn’t been able to escape this. The birth of several basilisks all at once had thrown the battle into chaos, forcing a retreat. The basilisk, identifying Leonhardt as the general, incessantly showered him with the curse.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.