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Chapter 172:
Chapter 172:
Chapter 172:
*Spuirt*
Sheerazad’s forehead was gouged out.
Sheerazad’s eyes, wide open and slit vertically, were frozen in place, as if time had stopped.
*Thud!*
Sheerazad toppled over onto Otto.
“Ugh.”
Otto pushed Sheerazad aside and immediately got out of bed, his chest heaving in surprise.
“I almost got eaten. Phew.”
Otto broke out in a cold sweat and stuck out his tongue.
It was a lucky escape.If he hadn’t acted swiftly, he would have been at the mercy of Sheerazad’s wicked intentions.
‘After that, I’d be turned into a ghoul, unable to nail¹… Huh?!’
*Oof.*
Sheerazad slowly stood up.
Before he knew it, Sheeraza’s body was half rotted, and her body was infested with cockroaches.
She was clearly no longer human, but a ghoul.
“Huh!”
Otto exclaimed.
‘What the hell?’
He looked around in a state of panic.
At that moment, a decorative sword hanging on the wall caught his eye.
He didn’t know if it was sharp.
“You. How dare you.”
Sheerazad jerked upright and glared at Otto with long, slit eyes.
*Swish*
Otto swung the sword.
*Thud*
*Shudder*
Sheerazad’s body slumped to the floor.
No blood spilled.
Sheerazad, who had become an evil necromancer after her fall, had long since become a bloodless abomination.
Perhaps that was why she drank blood.
‘Is…. Is she dead?’
Otto questioned, examining Sheerazad’s condition just in case.
Sheerazad was indeed dead, unmoving.
Both head and body.
‘She’s dead. She’s been decapitated.’
Carefully, Otto retreated from Shahrazad’s corpse, murmuring softly to himself.
“If I had let my guard down, I would have died.”
The fact that Sheerazad tried to attack Otto was an obvious variable.
Even in the original scenario, Saladin didn’t sleep with Sheerazad.
Rather, he would enlighten her, convince her to repent of her sins and return back to the religion.
But the real Sheerazad was different.
After seven nights, she refused to recognize Otto as her husband and revealed her evil nature, obsessed with carnal pleasures.
‘Is it because I’m not Saladin, or is this the way she is?’
The exact reason was unknown.
What was clear was that if he had been caught off guard believing only in the scenario he knew, things would have gone badly wrong.
‘Thank goodness I had the vile death bead.’
It’s a good thing [Vile Death Bead] can be used without mana, otherwise he’d have been eaten alive.
‘I’ll grab the holy relic and get out of here before they find out about this.’
Once Otto was sure that Sheerazad was dead, he snatched the necklace from around her neck.
Then he pushed aside the picture frame in her bedroom, revealing the entrance to the treasure room.
Pushing the necklace in, he rotated it.
The door swung open, revealing the treasure trove.
*Sparkle!*
Inside the treasury of Sheerazad, a Sultan of Wealth, were more than tens of thousands of precious gold of all kinds.
And that wasn’t all.
There were also weapons, armor, and other types of artifacts.
Otto quickly picked up the dagger-like magic sword and removed the collar around his neck.
The dagger was enchanted with powerful magic, and it sliced through the metal collar as if it were slicing through tofu.
‘First, I need to catch my breath. The Revelation is… there.’
Otto reached for a large book that was kept in the center of the vault.
[Notification: You’ve got <Rev??> ??!]
The notification window was acting up again.
“Whatever.”
At this point, he didn’t even care anymore.
The first time he panicked, but now he’d gotten to the point where he didn’t care.
‘First, collect the Revelation, then get dressed.’
Removing the collar allowed him to use mana, and his subspace inventory opened.
‘Now I can breathe.’
After wearing only a pair of risqué undergarments and a robe for the past week, it was a relieving feeling to get clothed again.
‘I’m in a hurry, so I’ll just grab what I need and be off.’
As much as it tempted him to raid the treasure trove, it was impossible.
The capacity of the subspace inventory was limited.
‘I can’t resist.’
Otto grabbed the Revelation, and then packed up the rolled up red rug.
While he was doing that, he packed up the small items in the treasure trove.
*Blink!*
Sheerazad’s eyes flickered open.
Even as her head and torso separated.
*Stagger.*
The body pulled itself up, and slowly made its way toward the head.
Otto failed to notice.
He hadn’t noticed the movement of Sheerazad’s corpse, lying on the floor of the bedroom, as he sifted through the treasure trove.
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Meanwhile, waiting outside the palace, Camille’s stomach was churning.
‘I hope everything is going well. Today’s the last day.’
Camille stared down into the sewers, the appointed escape route, and waited anxiously for Otto.
It wasn’t that he didn’t believe it.
Otto was obviously strong, clever, and very good at improvising.
But it was too dangerous for even Otto to operate alone in the middle of enemy territory.
For Camille, Otto must have felt like a child left out at the edge of the waters.
‘Finish the mission quickly and escape. Just waiting around here is tiring.’
As Camille wishes for Otto’s safe return.
“Kehahaha.”
Kairos grinned, seeing through Camille’s expression like a ghost.
“Are you that worried?”
“Huh?”
“Your expression is becoming more and more rigid as time goes by, it’s quite amusing.”
“…..”
“Don’t worry.”
Kairos reassured Camille.
“That scoundrel is like a cockroach, no matter where you throw him, he’ll survive.”
“Is that so?”
“I hope he gets eaten by that crazy woman for daring to throw me into that pepper field.”
Kairos huffed, as if he was getting angry just thinking about it.
“Anyway, just wait and see. He’ll show up soon…”
Then.
“Aaaahhh!”
Screams began to rise from the far reaches of the sewers.
“He’s coming!”
Recognizing the scream from the depths of the sewers as Otto’s voice, Camille unsheathed his sword.
Kairos, the Soul Knights, and the magic swordsmen also readied their weapons, poised for battle.
“Run!!!”
Otto shouted to his companions as he reached the end of the sewers.
“Don’t wait for me, get out! Run first! Quick!”
“What are you talking….”
Camille couldn’t finish his sentence.
“Guaaaahhhh!”
“Groooaaaaa!”
“Grrrr!”
Behind Otto came a horde of ghouls that could have numbered in the thousands.
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About 15 minutes ago.
‘Time to go.’
Having gathered all that he needed from the treasure trove, Otto set off at a brisk pace.
In truth, his steps were not quite steady.
No matter how much he managed to take, he felt sick to leave all this treasure behind.
‘Greed only leads to trouble. Let’s not be foolish and regret things.’
With that, he began walking away.
The time Otto spent in the treasure room lasted only five minutes.
It was enough for him to fulfill his mission quickly and with as little indulgence as possible.
“I’ve been up all night and I’m tired. I need to get out of here as soon as….”
At that moment.
“Huh?”
The headless body of Sheerazad picked up the head that was lying on the floor and placed it on the severed end.
*Squirm*
Then the severed section quickly mended.
“He, Heek?!”
Otto exclaims in horror.
“Did you really think you could kill me?”
Sheerazad asked Otto in a grotesque voice that could not possibly be human.
*Shudder*
Otto was so alarmed by what he saw.
Sheerazad’s appearance was so grotesque that he was paralyzed with fear.
Its head was attached to its body backwards, so that its body was looking backwards while its head was glaring at Otto.
“Foolish man, I am a being who has achieved immortality.”
“Well, I see you are, haha.”
Otto flinched and backed away from the freakishness of it all.
This side of Sheerazad was something no one had ever seen before, not even in a game.
They’d known she was an evil necromancer, but they hadn’t expected her to possess an undying body.
And then.
*Crack*
*Snap* *Snap*
Sheerazad’s body began to contort with an eerie sound.
The posture of lying upside down with the stomach facing the sky.
In the meantime, the head was tilted in the opposite direction, facing straight in front of him.
“C-Calm down. I’ve obviously made a mistake, haha, I think we can talk it out amicably….”
“I’ll kill you.”
*Thump* *Thump* *Thump* *Thump*
Sheerazad turned upside down and scrambled on all fours, her long tongue lashing out.
“Aaaaahhh!”
Otto screamed and ran away from Sheerazad.
*BAAAM!*
In his haste, he broke through the bedroom door, nearly destroying it, and rushed outside.
“I-I just need to get to the secret passage!
Otto sprinted frantically toward the secret passage.
“Where are you running!”
*Thump* *Thump* *Thump* *Thump*
Sheerazad followed closely behind Otto.
“Get him!”
“Kill him!”
Before long, the female warriors and guards from the Forbidden Zone of Daviha also pursued Otto.
“I will definitely kill you!”
Nadia, the Knight Captain, shouted as she caught up to Otto and unleashed a barrage of attacks.
The anger that had been building up against Otto for the past week poured out as if it had been waiting to be unleashed.
“Eeeek!”
Otto didn’t bother to reply.
‘Not much further.’
He ran as fast as he could, breaking free of [Daviha].
“Guaaaaaaa!”
“Guwaaaaaaak!”
“Grrrrrrrr!”
Ghouls, which must have numbered in the thousands, chased after him with terrifying speed.
“Where do you think you’re going to run!”
“You’ll never get away!”
“You!”
“Do you dare think you can escape!”
Suddenly, a group of naked, bald, muscle-bound men stood in Otto’s way.
“You guys are the most disgusting, get out of my way!”
Otto shouted, as he slashed at the four bald musclemen with a single blow, killing them all at once.
As horrifying as the Sheerazad and the ghouls were, the naked bald musclemen were even more repulsive.
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“Holy shit!”
Camille exclaimed, and started running.
“Hey, you brat! What are you draggin’ back?”
Kairos shouted as he too dashed off in front of Otto.
“Aaaaahhhhhhh!”
Otto managed to escape from the sewer.
“Guaaaaaah!”
“Guwaaah!”
“Guwaaagh! Guwaaaaaak!”
Thousands of ghouls also exited the sewers and chased Otto’s group.
“Where do you think you’re running to, bastards? You’ll never get away!”
Sheerazad screamed in a blood curdling wail as she relentlessly pursued Otto and his group.
That wasn’t the end of it.
*Neeeeeeigggh!!*
The cavalry that had come out of the palace galloped at a terrifying speed.
“What are we going to do, we’ll get caught!”
“Pansy, do you want us all to die!”
Camille and Kairos shouted at Otto.
Looking at it calmly, Otto’s escape with his enemies was a masterful piece of modern trolling.
Special operations is all about covertness.
The key was to get out after infiltrating.
But bringing enemies along like this?
As Kairos said, it was like asking to die together.
But Otto hadn’t dragged them along haphazardly.
“Get on quickly!”
Otto, who had been lagging behind, sprinted ahead and shouted to his companions.
*Flutter!*
Otto was flying very low on a large red carpet.
The rug Otto had taken from the treasure trove was a mysterious flying rug.
“Jump on! Hurry! Quickly! Quickly hop on!”
And with that, Otto loaded his companions onto the flying carpet and soared into the sky.
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
Sheerazad, who had been reduced to a helpless dog chasing a chicken, screamed after the fleeing Otto.
Even a high-ranked necromancer with an immortal body couldn’t catch Otto and the others as they flew through the air.
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TL/N:
1. Otto using nail as metaphor for his ****