I climbed higher along the forest path.
The forest grew steeper and steeper.
Along the path, stones that someone had piled up long ago lay in a row.
It was not a mountain path formed naturally.
It was a place where the stone steps themselves had become a path along the slope of a massive mountain range.
But from the top of the stairs
I heard the sound of a metal armor being dragged in.
Click. Click.
The trans guards appeared.
Behind them, giant centipedes crawled down, filling the stone steps to capacity.
Countless bridges scratched the stone.
And in the meantime, black sap bugs poured out.
It clings to the bodies of trees and monsters and injects a black liquid.
The corrupt woodcrows slowly rose.
A body formed by the fusion of an old tree and a human.
Its face was buried in tree bark, and rotten branches stretched out like windows.
Behind it, a shrinking monster dragged its body down.
When the arm gets cut off
Creak.
Two new arms grew from the severed spot.
Corrupt officials flew over the mountains.
Even as the rotten wing fell off, another wing grew from the bone.
Below it, corpse flowers were blooming.
At the center of the huge flower, a human face opened its eyes.
The root moves.
The bodies of the fallen monsters around were dragged into the ground.
A new arm grew between the petals.
The corrupt spiders crawled down the stone steps.
Dozens of bridges made of rotten bones and tree roots moved.
Black mucus was sprayed everywhere.
But the being in front did not avoid it.
The mucus touches the body.
Corruption spreads.
The skin turns black.
But
It did not stop.
The moment corruption tried to consume the body, it vanished just as it was.
Corruption immunity.
The wound remained.
However, corruption itself had no effect on him.
The mold giant shook its body.
Countless spores burst out of the head.
The number of black veins followed.
The blood vessels bulging out of the skin wriggle like snakes and rush in.
The corrupt parasites leapt into the air.
The many mouths attached to the rotten crustacean’s shell opened simultaneously.
Tsk.
And the corrupt gatekeeper rose from the stone steps.
A giant gatekeeper formed by a stone and a decayed body.
The monsters that had been lying dead around began to rise again.
The black root spirit rose from the ground.
The corrupt beast crawled across the ground, absorbing the surrounding corpses.
An arm grows.
A leg is made.
A head is growing.
And the black heart-shaped water, with its heart protruding beyond its chest, charged in.
Thump. thump. thump.
Every time my heart pounded, the life force around me weakened.
At that moment.
I moved my body quickly.
The ice spread from the fingertips.
Bang!
The ice pierced through the decaying monsters.
Then the blood surged into the air.
The red liquid turned into a blade.
Smack!
The wings of the corrupt and greedy were severed.
But it grew again.
Then this time, the blood hardened.
Blood boil.
Red spears were created in midair.
Dozens.
Hundreds.
They fly all at once.
Bang bang bang bang!
The decayed mass on the stone steps shattered into pieces.
However, the scattered small creatures began to come together once again as one.
The faces of the corrupt masked men wailed all at once.
The sawtooth oak uproots and walks over.
The plague predator leaps down the stairs on all fours.
And in the back, the dead monsters were rising again.
He looked at the stone steps, now turned pale.
Corruption does not work on oneself.
But the dead monsters keep coming back to life.
If that’s the case, fighting endlessly here was meaningless.
He hardened the weapon made of blood once again.
Ice covers it.
And I looked up at the upper part of the mountain range.
The stairs are not over yet.
From higher
I heard the cry of a giant centipede.
Kugugugu...…
The entire stone staircase shook.
He ran forward again.
A corrupt group was rushing in from behind.
In front, huge centipedes were blocking the way.
And at the very top of the mountain range—
The real curse of this place was waiting