Here, the Lord said this is a good thing

Countermeasure is a very interesting word. When applied to "enemy", it generally means that this type of "enemy" cannot be eliminated by conventional or existing means.

Ye He found this very interesting. He already possessed orbital-level weapons, negative energy weapons, miracle weapons and other super-dimensional attack methods.

He didn't know how these knights and King Borodin could survive his attacks.

If Ye He doesn't get the answer to such an interesting question as soon as possible, he won't be able to sleep tonight.

So he dressed neatly and without saying hello to anyone, he triggered the entry qualification to the special maze mentioned on his personal panel.

Unlike his previous experiences in other mazes, this time, Ye He suddenly lost consciousness.

"Ok?"

Ye He's aura suddenly disappeared in the room, immediately attracting the attention of many people.

The saints brought back by Ye He looked at each other in confusion. Catalina next door also put down the information in her hand and looked curiously at Ye He's room across the wall.

In the Holy See on the Holy Mountain, two powerful men who had been paying attention to Ye He narrowed their eyes at the same time.

Where did this guy go suddenly?
……

"Wow... Wow..."

The tide kept hitting the rocks on the shore, and the salty, cool sea breeze blew across the beach, waking up a young boy who was lying under a coconut tree without any coconuts.

The boy opened his eyes and looked blankly at the shimmering ocean in the night.

He blinked, and a will that did not belong to this body completely awakened in this body.

"Unexpectedly..."

Ye He, who replaced the boy's original soul, raised the boy's hands and looked at this body which was obviously not his original one with great surprise.

"...Is there such a thing?"

[Entered a special maze: Empire. 】

[Coordinates: The outermost part of the Second City, a coastal fishing village. ]

[The ancient empire language system has been adapted. 】

[You have 360 ​​hours, please start exploring as soon as possible. ]

The personal panel is still there, but it no longer displays Ye He's original physical fitness and skills. It only conveys the most basic maze information to Ye He.

Ye He stood up and stretched his body. He had heard that some mazes would change the adventurer's state and assign a new identity to him.

But a situation like this, where a person has changed his body... has probably never happened before, right?

If it were any other adventurer, he might panic because he had lost his original strong physical fitness and various abilities.

But Ye He didn't care, because...

Silver and golden ripples flashed by the body of the boy controlled by Ye He, and the three nanorobot systems quickly "came back online".

The personal panel retains the weapon summoning ability belonging to Ye He’s original body!
No, to be precise, this ability is originally a function of the personal panel. Since the personal panel is still there, it is normal that Ye He can still summon weapons.

Ninety percent of Ye He's combat power comes from the weapons stored in these two ripples, so for him, changing his body actually has little impact.

Caesar had been released by Yehe to the land, and quickly expanded the "map" in Yehe's vision.

Ye He also started walking towards a path he had just discovered. After passing through a small coconut grove, a small fishing village that was obviously very backward in economy and culture appeared in front of Ye He.

This small fishing village has declined, and there are not many people left in the village. Poverty has forced the fishermen who wanted to leave to abandon their homes. Those who are left are either the elderly or children who are even smaller than Ye He is now.

Many households have lost their residents and their simple wooden houses have long been collapsed by the sea breeze because there is no one to protect them. Fortunately, these households were already penniless, so there is no point in even discussing the losses.

Based on his own observations, Ye He selectively skipped the houses where only half-grown children lived, and went straight to the doorstep of an old man who was probably the village chief and lived near the center of the fishing village.

Although the decline of the fishing village has led to every household here no longer locking their doors at night, Ye He still reached out and patted the door instead of knocking.

The sleeping old man was awakened by Ye He. He stood up and reached the door in just two steps with his old and slow steps.

"Baru? It's so late, why aren't you sleeping yet?"

The cracks in the door were large enough for the old man to see Yehe standing in the moonlight. Of course, this small fishing village had long lost its value for being visited by bandits.

Its decay and future of quietly disappearing from the map are obvious.

"Which direction is the second one?"

Within Caesar's extreme detection range, Ye He did not find any trace of the "city", which was the real reason why he stepped into the fishing village to ask for directions.

"You...as expected, you are leaving too?"

The old man was startled by Ye He's question at first, but then he immediately relaxed weakly.

This made his decadence seem even more serious.

"Okay... see that mountain over there? Just over it is the second city.

You need to prepare at least one month's worth of dry food (15 days)... You must not have any, come in, I'll give it to you."

After saying that, the old man turned around and took a step toward the back of his house. He also waved to Ye He, indicating that Ye He should follow him into the house to "get some dry food."

But Ye He still stood in the moonlight, neither going in obediently nor turning around to leave.

"Ok?"

The old man turned around and looked at Ye He with his cloudy eyes in confusion.

"Will you not reveal your true identity when there is no moonlight?"

But Ye He touched his chin and looked at the old man thoughtfully.

Although the smell of blood in the fishing village was very faint, it was obvious enough for Ye He.

He had smelled it a long time ago. This was not fish blood, but the smell of human blood!
Caesar's investigation did not allow Ye He to discover the traces of murder by these fishermen who had turned into monsters inside, but...

How is it possible that a fishing village that has fallen to such a state can still have a dozen fair-skinned children, and elderly people like this one who, although skinny, is not malnourished at all?
Their "nutrition" is closely related to the smell of human blood that permeates the fishing village.

This was Ye He's judgment based on experience. Of course, there was more direct evidence. Caesar, who had penetrated deep into the old man's body with the air, had directly discovered the abnormality in his body.

Sure enough, seeing that he couldn’t trick “Baru” into leaving Under the Moonlight, the “old man” stopped acting.

His old face began to twist, and when he opened his mouth, many rows of round sharp teeth turned outward, dislocating his jaw and expanding into an extremely hideous mouthpart!

[Look directly at the "abnormality", your inspiration +10, sanity -10. ]

[You are immune to this sanity reduction. ]

"Oh?"

Ye He blinked. What was this hint?
Inspiration? Reason?
Ye He only knew that he seemed to have a data point that exceeded the limit, which represented the strength of his mind. What was the name of that data point?

Never mind. It doesn’t matter.

"boom!"

Before the old man with monster features pounced on him, Ye He fired a shot in advance.

This time he did not use his usual large-caliber pistols, but an SPRS-15, which is an ordinary firearm.

Because Ye He had to consider the endurance of his malnourished body, dual-wielding the shotgun and using his entire body to dissipate the force was not satisfactory. The old man was blasted back into his house and sank into the darkness without moving.

The loud gunshots also woke up all the "villagers" in the entire small fishing village. The gunshots spread into the forest on one side, causing some sleeping night birds to fly up in fright.

It also spread to the sea, and a dangerous aura that surprised Ye He immediately emerged from the side where the sea was.

"Oh? Could it be?"

Ye He put the shotgun in his hand on his shoulder and looked towards the other side of the sea with some interest.

This sticky, filthy, cold breath... a normal person would be terrified by it, and would subconsciously stay away from it driven by the will to survive.

But can Ye He be considered a normal person?

A self-disciplined boy stepped out from the silver ripples and raised his gun towards the fishermen who were awakened by the gunshots and had already revealed their greedy appearance like monsters.

Ye He himself flew up by stepping on Camelot's silver disc.

The self-disciplined boy below has begun to release firepower, destroying this small fishing village that has long lost its meaning of existence, along with the fishermen who have long turned into monsters.

And through his elevated vision, he quickly discovered many monsters crawling out of the dark sea.

Their humanoid bodies were on all fours, their heads swollen like corpses that had been soaked in sea water and turned into giants.

In their mouthparts that were torn all the way to the chest, there were circular teeth like those of the fishermen just now, just like lampreys, which were extremely creepy.

[Look directly at the "abnormality", your inspiration +20, sanity -20. ]

[You are immune to this sanity reduction. ]

"these things……"

Ye He ignored the meaningless prompts on his personal panel and looked down at the destroyed fishing village.

These monsters...could they be the mutants of adult fishermen in the fishing village?

That should be it, because they were roaring because the self-disciplined boy had destroyed their homes and loved ones, and rushed towards him like crazy.

But their number is less than a hundred, so how can they possibly be a match for the self-disciplined boy equipped with the Vulcan cannon.

The deadly bullet chains swept through, and they were beaten into a paste just like the monsters in the fishing village.

Although their physical strength is increased due to the layer of light green mucus covering their body surface, it is only relative to ordinary people.

Facing the Vulcan cannon's ammunition belt is still meaningless.

Ye He just glanced at their corpses and continued to focus his attention on the sea.

That terrifying, cold, threatening will...seemed to have intensified with the deaths of these fisherman monsters.

Under the dark sea, a pair of eyes like a scarlet full moon suddenly opened.

It crossed the sea and space and looked directly at Ye He who was standing in mid-air.

[Look directly at the source of low-level anomalies, your inspiration +100, sanity -100! ]

[You are immune to this sanity reduction. ]

"Oh? So cool?"

Ye He felt it roughly and felt that this thing seemed to have nothing to do with [Yuan]. It was much lower level and was completely not on the same level as the [Yuan Beast] that Ye He had encountered on the sea.

It was not even worthy of being hit by Ye He's Sword of Heavenly Punishment. A pair of submarine-type missiles flew out from the silver ripples that unfolded behind Ye He. After leaving several tail flames in the air, they all sank into the sea.

After a while, balls of light exploded under the sea.

A small area of ​​boiling sea was soon filled with dark green blood. Some eyeball debris floated to the surface and were gradually cooked by the boiling sea water.

It smells pretty good!
"Rubbish."

This is Ye He’s evaluation of this “source of low-level anomalies”.

He shook his head in boredom, then looked back at the mountains in the distance.

I hope there will be some more interesting and stronger opponents on the other side of the mountain.

For example, those knights... or... Borodin!

Ye He, who was full of fighting spirit again, waved his hand and brought the self-disciplined boy on the ground back into the silver ripples, and then prepared to fly towards the mountain to find the "Second City".

But before he could act, a bright "blue comet" rose on the other side of the mountain.

It turned a corner in mid-air and flew straight towards Yehe.

After passing over a forest tens of kilometers long in a straight line, this "comet" finally stopped not far from Yehe.

A blue armor that Ye He was very familiar with emerged as the light converged. Finally, the one who appeared in front of Ye He was an Ice Knight who looked exactly like Lux after the armor was complete.

Or Ye He could call her by her name:

[King's Knight - Ice]

Despite the mask, Ye He could still see the surprised look in the eyes of the "Ice Knight".

She passed the boy standing in the air and kept looking at the wreckage on the rapidly cooling sea surface.

"Did you do this?"

"Yes."

Although he didn't know how she would view him, Ye He still admitted it generously.

He also wanted to know how these knights and kings in this special maze viewed the sources of these anomalies.

"Just you?"

The Ice Knight's gaze fell on Camelot at Ye He's feet.

The ability to fly seemed to be worthless in this era, and she could not sense any aura of a strong person from Ye He.

So she really couldn't recognize Ye He's achievements.

But her performance has also told Ye He and the others' attitude towards the source of the abnormality.

Should it be regarded as a disaster and an enemy?

"According to the King's bounty order, you can obtain the title of Baron by killing a Level 1 [Disaster], but this knight does not recognize your strength unless you can prove yourself in front of me."

The Ice Knight raised her head proudly towards Ye He. Although she didn't mind that the young man from such a remote place didn't recognize her, she was also unwilling to admit that a man could have such powerful strength.

Just as Ye He discovered from the will left by these knights in later generations, this era when the ancient empire shone its last glory was also an era where women were respected.

"Hehehe..."

Ye He smiled gently at the Ice Knight, although he had briefly dealt with the remaining will of the Ice Knight when Lux completed her armor.

But he was not sure whether this guy had the same shortcoming of mental cleanliness as the remaining will of later generations.

Now... he can give it a try!
(End of this chapter)