Chapter 49:

You learned from these people that you can communicate normally, and you were taking care of your young woman named Marian when you first woke up. You learned that the girls in this cave were all caught here by the snake-tailed Medusa. ,Most of the few people are farm girls from nearby villages, and the elf girl is an archer in an adventurer team. Her companion was killed by Medusa, leaving only the only one still alive. It was caught in Medusa's lair as a trophy.
From her dirty and wrinkled soles and clothes, as well as the sluggish and hollow eyes of the elf girl, you can tell that she is probably the first batch of victims caught here.
"It will die... we will all die..."
The elf girl suddenly hugged her head, grabbing and pulling her hair like a torture with her fingers. Many of her hair was directly torn off by her rough/violent behavior, but she seemed to feel no pain, nervous. Laughed happily.
The other girls seemed to be accustomed to the madness of the elf girl, shrank and hid in the shadow of the cave. For self-protection, they usually encircled their bodies motionless with their arms, and did not communicate with other people.
"They were already like this when I came here. Maybe soon, I will become like them."
Marianne sighed with a bitter smile, her expression of sorrow and sorrow couldn't be concealed, she murmured to herself: "My husband and children were also killed by those monsters, even if I live alone, what is there? What's the point?"
There was an atmosphere of suffocating despair and depression in the cave.
You sit up on your back, and find that your wand and the cloth bag containing a lot of potions have been taken away. Without the wand, the speed of releasing magic will be much slower, and more magic power will be consumed.
Looking at the elf girl who is still madly self-abuse, you think about it, and release a low-level hypnotic magic toward her.
The elf girl's body fell softly on the side of the stone wall, her eyes slowly closed, and her breathing became even.
"You, you are the Master Mage?" Marianne looked at you in shock.
The other girls finally reacted, and their eyes became a bit excited when they looked at you.
Among the civilians, the status of magicians is still relatively high and unattainable. After all, except for the powerful nobles, the children of civilians generally don't even have the opportunity to test the magical talents. Even if the magical talents are detected, they may not have them. With so much money to train a magician, if it weren’t after discovering that you have a talent for magician, Shalena would not hesitate to borrow money from the union to send you to school in the magic academy. In addition, you are more upright and excellent. The results are directly admitted to the impoverished student quota of the Imperial College of Magic, no matter what the above conditions are missing, it will not work, otherwise, even if you know that you have magic talent, you can only feel helpless.
Most magician resources are controlled in the noble class, which can guarantee the absolute superiority of the nobles and the royal family, and also give the common people a sense of recognition that only the nobles can learn the privilege of magic.
Therefore, it is not common for magicians of civilian origin like you.
In fact, you are deliberately revealing your identity as a magician, because these girls have obviously lost their hope and instinct to survive. If there is no existence that can give them temporary spiritual sustenance, then sooner or later they will be desperate and Fear, becoming as insane as the elf girl, can only rely on self/abuse to get a moment of peace.
"Don't be afraid, I am a pastor from the Holy See. After knowing that I was captured by Medusa, my companion will definitely go to the Knights of the Holy See to rescue us." You said sincerely in a very serious tone. Coupled with your own convincing gentle and soothing aura, this group of young girls who are in fear and hopelessness once again ignited the hope of survival.
"Woo... I want to go home... I'm so scared..."
One of the girls finally couldn't help but cried out, and the other girls seemed to be infected by her emotions. Except for the oldest Marianne, they all hugged each other and cried.
You didn’t stop them. Sometimes crying is also a way to vent stress and fear. Only when they calm down and have new beliefs and goals, can you discuss ways to escape here with these innocent girls. .
After they cried, although their eyes were a little red and swollen, they obviously improved their mood and their spirits a lot.
Seeing this, you cautiously started to ask these girls, trying to learn more clues about your current situation from them.
"I was arrested when I came to the forest with my sister to gather medicine half a month ago. Those monsters took my sister away on the third day, and she never came back." The girl named Mina choked with sadness.
"Those monsters attacked our village. Except for me and a few young girls in the same village, everyone else had their necks broken and their bodies..." It seemed to recall some horror/horror scene. A young girl named Fanny paled, and the content behind it could not be said.
"If you feel scared, don't think about it, take a good rest." Noting that the girl's mood is not right, you quickly soothed.
"Unlike them, I took the initiative to find these monsters."
One of them, a young girl with short shoulder-length hair, suddenly calmly said: "I have no parents. My master picked me up by the river and raised me. Two months ago, I went out to help Master get something. When I got home, I saw that the door was broken. When I rushed to Master's room, I found that the tables and chairs were all destroyed. Only a pool of blood and a broken finger were left on the floor. "
Although the girl's tone is very calm, you can feel the girl's unforgettable hatred and persistence from her calm.
"These disgusting monsters, my master..."
The girl’s chest fluctuated violently, she clenched her fist tightly, raised her exceptionally bright eyes and looked at you directly, "I don’t care if I can live, I just want to kill all these monsters. Give revenge to my master, even if it is the same to me, I will not hesitate."
You looked at this girl in astonishment. After a moment of silence, you spoke softly: "I think your master still wants to see you live well."
The girl shook her body and looked at you with a complicated expression. Turning her head away, she sarcastically said, "Holy Miss Mage, I advise you to stop lying to these cowards. No one can live from here. Those who went out, the monsters captured us to force us to squash with them and give birth to the offspring of the monsters. Once we lose the function, the monsters will eat us as food."
Her words once again frightened the young girls who had finally calmed down, and the most timid even couldn't help crying.
"No, don't...it's too disgusting, if you are forced to give birth to that kind of monster child...I might as well die now." The girl named Mina murmured in fear, and then picked up her foot A sharp-edged gravel slashed towards his neck.
"stop!"
You rushed to stop the girl’s suicide/killing behavior. Regardless of your hand scratched by the stone, you looked at her very seriously and said, "Don’t do such a stupid thing. Only if you live, you have hope. Think about yours. Family and friends, maybe they are still at home waiting for you to go back to reunite. If you just died like this, how sad they would be if they knew it!"
"But, but I'm so scared...oooo..."
The appearance of the girl is only about fifteen or sixteen years old, she is just like a flowery and charming young age. It is not difficult to see from her dress that she is also a loved one at home, and has not experienced any setbacks Tribulation, suddenly encountering such a terrible thing, has not collapsed until now, it is actually very strong.
"I understand that you are very scared now, but please believe me, someone will come to save us. Before that, Mina will be a strong and brave good boy?" You deliberately softened your voice and wanted to treat a child like a child. Coax her patiently and tenderly.
Under your comfort, Mina finally stopped crying slowly, looking at your scratched hand, a face of shame and guilt suddenly appeared on her face, "Master Magic, I'm sorry, I killed you... "
"It's okay, I'm a pastor."
You smiled and released a low-level healing technique to your hand. Under the treatment of the soft white light element, the wound on your hand soon disappeared.
The first time I saw this magical magic up close, the attention of several young girls was all attracted, and their faces showed curious and surprised expressions.
Only the girl named Yarell stood quietly beside her, looking at you indifferently, then turned her head away.
When your atmosphere gradually became harmonious, there was a creepy sound of creeping creatures slowly sliding on the ground outside the cave.
The expressions of several young girls instantly froze, and their expressions gradually became frightened.
Yarell, who was leaning against the wall, also opened his eyes.
After a while, a strange Medusa with a dark blue thick/strong snaketail appeared in front of you, with the thigh of an unknown animal in his hand.
The strange Medusa looked greedy and regretful and wandered over a few of you, and then threw the meat in his hand directly in front of you.
"This is... yours, food." The strange Medusa said slowly in a hoarse and smooth voice.
However, looking at this piece of fresh meat, none of the girls took it. Instead, they turned their heads pale and remained silent, as if they did not dare to see Medusa.
The unfamiliar Medusa didn't care about their thoughts, but looked around a few people, and suddenly fell on you.
"You... come out, Master Xifan... want to see you."
You couldn't help but froze. After confirming that he was referring to you, you couldn't help but sigh sadly in your heart.
It seems that things are worse than you expected.
Several other girls also looked at you sadly, seeming to think that your luck was very unlucky.
"Master Mage, don't talk to him...uh..."
Mina, who was comforted by you before, plucked up the courage to speak out, but when Medusa looked at her, the timid girl suddenly fell to the ground with scared face.
You took a gentle breath and showed a gentle smile at Mina, "Mina, thank you."
The helpless girls could only hug each other in fear and cry helplessly.
When you were about to leave with the unfamiliar Medusa, Ariel’s voice suddenly came from behind, "...Do you have anything to leave to your family? If I can live, I can take it for you. give them."
You glanced at the girl with some surprise, and after looking at the unnatural look on her face, you smiled with your lips pursed, and lifted your hand to remove a small wooden horse pendant with a smooth edge that was almost faded on your neck. Passed it to Yarell.
"I have an older sister named Shalena. She is a high-level swordsman and the head of a mercenary group. This is the first gift she gave me when she was a child. If you can see her in the future, please Say thank you to her for me. Being her sister is the luckiest thing in my life."
Yarell looked at you with a smile on his face in amazement, before lowering his head and saying, "...well, I will try my best to help you tell her."
"Thank you, Yarell."
You thanked the girl very sincerely, and followed the dark blue snake-tailed Medusa to leave the lair.
After you go out, you find that this is not just a small nest, but a huge underground palace, like a bee hive distributed with different passages and large and small caves on the stone wall, the one you were in before It’s just one of the caves. Above the palace are cages made of tree vines and wood. They are filled with prey captured by the Medusas. Half of the prey in these cages is actually human. They are strange races that you can't even name.
"...Miss May?"
A weak and hoarse voice came from your side, and you subconsciously looked at it and found that the man who called you was actually the chief of the Marquis Mansion.
Several guards from the Marquis's mansion were also locked in a cage with him. They were injured to varying degrees on their bodies, and their expressions looked desperate and numb.
"General Manager, why are you also..." Your eyes widened in shock.
"After our convoy was attacked by Medusa, only a small number of people escaped. The others were either killed or caught here... If you see the young master, I beg you to find a way to save it. save him!"
This usual elegant and arrogant and invincible general manager actually knelt down to you, showing a humble look of pleading with a somewhat vicissitudes of life.
You can't help but feel a shock. Unexpectedly, that little young master with cruel and violent personality would be willing to do this for him.
But it's a pity, let's not say that you don't have a good impression of Alec, and you can't protect yourself at the moment, so it is naturally impossible to agree to his request.
Before you said your refusal, Medusa, who led the way in front of you, grunted her teeth in a threatening manner towards the chief executive.
"Shut up! No more noise... I will kill you!"
For fear of angering this Medusa, you dare not talk to the general manager anymore. After following him through a dark and cramped tunnel, the light suddenly brightened.
The first thing that catches your eyes is a huge stone statue that is at least five stories high. The stone is like a female Medusa with snake tail, snake hair and coquettish face. She maintains a posture with one hand raised, her face slipping. A few drops of solidified tears fell, and although the appearance was quite terrifying, the expression on his face was extremely sad and gentle, like the sadness and sorrow of the loss of a loved one.
You thought that Medusa really didn't have a female Medusa as the rumors did, but looking at this stone statue, you became curious again.
But this curiosity was soon suppressed by the fear of the unknown danger that was about to face.
Regardless of your calm and calm appearance before, in fact, your inner fear is not less than those of the girls. If it is true, as Ariel said, Medusa will arrest you for reproduction, and then treat you as Eat food, you may choose to be like Mina, and choose to end your life simply and neatly before all this horror happens.
Don't be afraid, just bear with it... Maybe... Maybe there are other opportunities?
Although you know that there is little hope.
But unless there is really nowhere to go, you will not choose to commit suicide until the end. After all, there is hope when you live, and there is really nothing left when you die.
You don't want to experience the helpless despair for the first time.
When you are anxiously guessing about the terrible situation you may face next, Medusa, who leads the way, has taken you to the entrance of a beautifully decorated palace.
"Here, here...you go in, Master Xifan...waiting for you inside." Medusa with the dark blue snake tail lowered her head to look at you, and said slowly.
The gaze he looks at you makes you feel a little chilly. If it weren't for the "Master Xifan" in his mouth, he would have eaten you with no bones left.
There is no other choice, you can only take a deep breath, lift up your steps and walk up.
Before reaching the highest level, you heard a slippery dull voice with a weird mockery.
[I heard that Master Xifan found a human female breeder? We all know that human females are fragile, timid and difficult to feed. Even if they can’t enjoy themselves, they always cry and cry. It’s really annoying. They are delicious as food. If you treat human females as breeders, you are too hungry to eat. Come on, do you want me to give you a female lizardman? 】
[Tsk, don’t compare your ugly and smelly dying breeder with my breeder. I can’t flatter your taste. If you dare to send me a female lizardman, believe it or not, I’ll strip it the next day Did the skin deliver it to your door? 】
Although you don't understand the language of these Medusas, you can tell from their tone that the owners of these two voices seem to be full of hostility towards each other.
Will going out at this time transfer their anger to you?
You know very well that with your strength, even the weakest Medusa can't be beaten.
【Ok? ...Have you smelled a very attractive fragrance? 】
[It seems to be... this smell is too attractive...]
[Is it a newly caught prey? 】
[No, no, how could the prey have such a delicious and sweet smell? 】
For a time, countless fascinating and slippery voices all around one after another, causing a deep chill on the soles of your feet.
When your footsteps were stiff on the steps, an emerald green snake tail suddenly appeared in front of you, curling your waist and dragging you up.
You haven't slowed down yet, you can feel several cold and horrible vertical pupils falling on you.
You blinked your eyes blankly, and when you saw the picture in front of you clearly, your heart seemed to be tightly gripped by the invisible hand, and you didn't even dare to take a breath.
As far as they could see, at least a dozen Medusas with snake tails of different colors gathered together. They were all unusually glamorous and coquettish, but they were tall and strong, as if the upper body of a human male had a clear chest. Abdominal muscle lines, but harmoniously below the waist and hip, are followed by a smooth and thick/long gorgeous snake tail covered with fine scales.
And they are surrounded by female partners of different races, and you are the only human race present.
You can feel that they are looking at you carefully.
[This is... a human female? 】
[Why, why is it such a small one? 】
[God, her skin is so white and her eyes are so big (gulong)... One, it must be delicious, right? 】
[This human female smells too good, right... Me, can I take a bite? Really! Just one bite! 】
[If you want to be stripped of your snakeskin by Xifan-sama, you can try it... Wait, why do you get excited underneath? 】
[It's not just me! Don’t you get excited too? 】
If you don't know what terrible content they are communicating, you just find that these Medusa's eyes are getting darker and hotter as they look at you, as if you want to be exposed/bone/obscene/obscene.
Suddenly, the young Medusa wrapped your body with snake tails exhaled an obscure and sharp ancient language, and then you found that these Medusas in front of you arched their backs and hugged their heads tightly as if they were cursed, their tails convulsed. Twitching like this, his mouth also made a painful and screaming howl.
What's wrong, are they killing each other?
You shrink your shoulders in shock and fear.
When the Medusa boy stopped, these Medusas also recovered, but their eyes looked at the Medusa boy with some dread and resentment.
[Master Xifan, I seem to be from your breeder...smell the scent of Master Murius, Master Murius will never leave his breath under anyone, unless it is the breeding he wants …. If you do this now, it should be regarded as betraying the of our faith. After all, the great Morius is the high priest appointed by the god. One of the dark red snake-tailed Medusa gritted her teeth and said unwillingly.
[Murius was not only caught by the weak humans, but also had his eyes gouged out by them. What qualifications does this waste have to be our high priest? 】
The green snake-tailed Medusa boy sneered disdainfully and said: [Now I am the heir to the high priest appointed by the God of Medusa. After the inheritance ceremony, I will officially take over his position, and the waste will be left to Let humans be slaves. 】
[As for the breeder he fancy...]
The emerald snake-tailed Medusa boy suddenly lowered his head to look at you, raised his cold and sticky palm and stroked your cheek, watching you biting your lip in panic and bewildered, the boy's vertical pupils slowly revealed a A faintly gentle look of affection.
[Naturally, I will inherit it. 】