I Was Kidnapped By The Strongest Guild
Chapter 455: Pomeranian Formation!!!!

"Uncle."

The one who appeared was just Master.

Yet his presence alone felt as reassuring as having a thousand soldiers.

"Are there always this many monsters around here?"

"The mastermind has appeared."

"Mastermind?"

Master's eyebrows twitched as he slowly raised his fist.

His target was the turtle divine beast in the distance.

I hurriedly tugged at Master's sleeve.

"...So those strange creatures are divine beasts?"

"Yes."

The moment I nodded, Master flew toward the Guardian divine beast.

As I covered my ears against the explosive sound, Master returned with the unconscious turtle divine beast in his hand.

"Wow..."

Taking down the Guardian with a single strike.

That's our Master for you.

I found myself clapping without even realizing it.

"Doesn't seem like there are many of them."

"No, some stayed behind in the village to protect the people."

"Hmm..."

Wham-!

Even while talking to me, Master continued reducing the number of divine beasts in real time.

With each punch, one divine beast and a dozen or so monsters went flying.

His skill was so extraordinary that I wondered if he was really an adventurer like us.

'Amazing.'

Master cleared out most of the monsters in the blink of an eye.

I ran down the newly cleared path without hesitation.

The others followed behind me, and Master trailed us without asking about the situation.

We arrived at the entrance of a cave.

"Gyeoul, is Bom in there?"

Saebyeok looked up at the cave ceiling, which was several times our height.

It was a natural cave with pointed stalactites growing from the roof.

"Yeah... she seems to be at the end of this cave..."

A cave of unknown depth.

Though it gave off an eerie atmosphere, I had no intention of being intimidated.

I swallowed hard and stretched my foot toward the cave entrance.

Hissss-

Green gas leaked from the entrance, and arrows flew from deeper inside.

There were several traps, but they posed no problem for us.

Swish-!

Master caught an arrow aimed at Levinas's shoulder.

Startled, Levinas ran to my side.

"King...! This place is a little scary...!"

"Yes. It's scary with the gloomy atmosphere and arrows flying around."

"The nice snake... Bom must be even more scared all alone...?!"

"Yes. She must be terrified. Let's hurry and reassure her."

Levinas shook her head at my words.

Why was she rejecting the idea of reassuring Bom?

I stared at her with round eyes in confusion.

"Levinas can reassure Bom from right here!"

"From here?"

"Yes! By singing a song! I'll sing so loudly it reaches the end of the cave!"

Inhaaale-!

As Levinas took a deep breath, I could see it.

Her mana surging dramatically.

**

Bom was conscious but couldn't move her body.

Though terrified, she couldn't even tremble.

She could only stare down at her now enormous body.

The form of a giant snake.

Large enough to swallow Josephine in one bite, yet she couldn't move even a speck of her massive body.

'What is this...'

Why had she become an Imugi?

Wasn't she a snake beast-kin?

Josephine appeared between Bom's empty eyes.

"My, it seems your friends have arrived. We need to hurry."

Friends.

Had her friends come all this way?

Bom felt like she might cry.

Unfortunately, they weren't tears of joy.

She knew her friends were amazing, but Josephine was truly dangerous.

She didn't want to see her friends get hurt.

Nor did she want them to see her enormous snake body.

Would the children be frightened if they saw her like this?

Would they even recognize her?

Bom wanted to flee, but sadly, she couldn't move her body at all.

"Rejoice, Bom. You're about to become a dragon."

A dragon?

Wasn't that a being that required countless eons of training?

She hadn't lived long, nor had she trained.

Though she didn't understand why, Bom instinctively knew.

If she became a dragon here, her mind wouldn't be able to handle it and would surely go mad.

Would she become an evil dragon driven to insanity?

It would be terrible if she attacked her friends.

She wanted to cry out with her massive body for them to stay away, but the only one who could move here was Josephine.

"Dragons are truly fascinating. To think an Imugi becomes a dragon through the power of decree."

Josephine smiled as she held out a black orb.

As the floating orb absorbed into Bom's body, she felt mana overflowing within her massive form.

"Now, Bom, all I have to do is declare 'You are a dragon!' and you'll become one. Isn't that exciting?"

No.

No.

No.

Bom repeated these words in her mind, unable to voice them.

Yet the energy surging through her body only served to peel away the giant Imugi's skin.

"Dra..."

Dragon.

Just as she was about to utter the word Josephine had been longing for:

-Boooommm! Boooommm! The kindest snake beast-kin in the woooorld!

A booming voice echoed throughout the cave.

The voice, infused with the Long-lived Horned Rabbit's mana, reached the furthest corners of the cave.

"Huh...?"

With Levinas's song, Bom regained control over her body.

The massive Imugi form began to shrink.

[Bom is the kindest snake beast-kin in the world]

The Long-lived Horned Rabbit's power to erase mana overlapped with the power of decree that determined the Imugi's future.

She is a snake.

While this would be a devastating sentence for an Imugi who had accumulated training, for the young Bom, it was like a miracle song.

"What the..."

For the first time in her life, Bom could see Josephine flustered.

Bom felt a sense of triumph seeing Josephine's stupid expression.

And even in that moment, Levinas's song continued.

-Snake! Snake! Defender of justice! Invincible warrior!

-Snaaaake~

As she perked up her ears, she could hear the other children's voices too.

Tap-tap-tap! The sound of feet running quickly approached.

"......"

Josephine touched her lips and turned around.

At the same time, Gyeoul came running from around a bend in the cave.

"Bom!"

This child, smaller than herself, felt infinitely reassuring.

Bom could understand why Gyeoul was called a king.

"Bom, are you okay?"

"Yes. I'm fine."

Though they hadn't even escaped yet, she felt a sense of relief.

As Bom smiled, the children began to appear a moment later.

"Everyone, formation!"

"Yah!"

Saebyeok took the front position, with Gyeoul behind her aiming her bow.

Levinas stretched her arms toward the sky in what looked like a cool pose, while Gaeul circled around them.

'Oh.'

I should join them too.

Bom, who had been watching Josephine nervously, slowly inched sideways.

Since Josephine seemed dazed, she could move easily.

"Bom stand here too!"

"Okay."

Facing the completed formation, Josephine ran her hands over her face.

Her shoulders slumped, and then she suddenly threw both hands up.

"Haha... I surrender."

"...Surrender?"

"Yes. I have no intention of fighting. I just wanted to conduct an experiment. But it seems the experiment has failed..."

Sigh.

Gyeoul examined Josephine as she let out a sigh.

There definitely didn't seem to be any other tricks up her sleeve.

Hmm...

Should we restrain her first?

As Gyeoul slowly approached Josephine:

"Yah!"

Gaeul, who had been circling around the children, threw Woodcalibur at Josephine's head.

"...!"

Josephine hastily tilted her head.

Her movement lacked the agility typical of beast-kin.

Was Josephine's physical ability no different from an ordinary person's?

Gyeoul watched as Woodcalibur flew past Josephine.

Woong-!

A portal suddenly appeared and swallowed Woodcalibur, then a new portal formed behind Josephine.

What emerged from the portal was none other than Woodcalibur.

Thwack-!

"Eek!"

With a dull sound, Josephine collapsed.

As Gyeoul slowly looked to the side, she saw Gaeul with her eyebrows raised in an angry expression.

Was she upset about what Josephine had done to Bom?

This was the first time Gyeoul had seen Gaeul this angry.

Gyeoul quickly patted Gaeul's head.

Immediately, Gaeul smiled brightly as if nothing had happened.

**

We tied Josephine up tightly.

We bound her with rope and wrapped her with tape.

After immobilizing her arms and legs, the rest of our group finally arrived at the cave.

"...Is it already over?"

"Yes."

"...What's going on?"

Seeing Han Yeoreum's puzzled expression, Bom's eyes grew round.

Master, Nora, and even Marin.

She looked at everyone with wide eyes.

"Did, did everyone come?"

"Yes. Everyone came to save you, Bom."

"Why...?"

Yeoreum approached the hesitant Bom.

Without a word, she smiled and patted Bom's head.

Bom flinched but didn't pull away.

"We can catch up later, but for now..."

Yeoreum glanced at Josephine.

Despite being completely bound, Josephine was just smiling happily.

"We should clean things up first."

"Yes. The village is a mess with monster corpses. We should go help clear them."

"Right, we need to clean up the corpses and those divine beasts too..."

Pat pat-

During Yeoreum's sentence, a soft footstep sound was heard.

It sounded like a small creature crawling on four legs.

"Huh?"

Turning toward the sound, we saw the turtle divine beast crawling toward us with determination.

The dullness in its eyes had cleared, though it still looked somewhat desperate.

With a bump on its forehead from Master's hit, it looked rather pitiful.

Creep creep-

It crawled toward us at the maximum speed a turtle could muster.

Its eyes seemed to be asking for help.

"Meow! Meow!"

"Squeeak!"

Swish-

Spider silk from behind covered the turtle divine beast's body.

Ah.

It was being chased by Seol and Kkamang.

They must have come through the portal because they were worried about us.

"It's good we saved all the divine beasts."

"Yeah. The villagers will be so happy. I think our Gyeoul might become a hero."

"Oh, come on. We all did this together."

Though she said that, her tail wagged quickly.

She was eager to go show everyone the divine beasts that were their guardians.

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