Solo Leveling: Ragnarok - Chapter 149

Chapter 149

Buzzzzz-
A bunch of bees flew down from the sky to merge into one on top of Suho’s hands.
Queen Bee Arsha.
The moment she revealed herself, she rested her hand over her chest to bow.
[It’s been a while, Sung Suho-nim. How have you been?]
“You have grown smaller since the last time I saw you.”
Arsha let out a bitter smile at Suho’s remark.
[Yes. My actual body has already departed from this village.]
Currently, Arsha was only the size of a small doll before Suho.
[My current appearance is a double of my body created using the remaining scout bees nearby.]
“Scouts?”
[Kieeeek! I knew it! You were on the same side as that demonic spectre race!]
As Suho’s eyes went up, Beru grasped Arsha’s waist strongly to growl.
Since Arsha was so small, Beru seemed large compared to her.
Asha replied nervously at Beru’s intimidating aura.
[N-Not anymore. I did think about it at first, but our goals did not align, so I just departed from him.]
“departed?”
[Yes, I’ve never planned to oppose you in the first place……. ]
“Huh, aren’t you Querehsha’s kin?!”
Esil’s eyes widened at the sudden emergence of Arsha.
But the most surprised one was Arsha herself here.
Arsha let out an exclamation whilst grabbed by Beru.
[……I wasn’t sure from afar, but to think you really were a demon noble. It’s an honor to be in the presence of a great demon noble.]
“Cough cough. R, right. An honor it is.”
Esil attempted to control the twitching corners of her lips while replying.
Then lifted her head up high to introduce herself proudly at Arsha’s humble remark.
“I am the eldest daughter of the Radiru Clan, Esil. And who might you be?”
[Ah, I see. So you’re from the Radiru clan. I am the queen bee, Arsha.]
“……what are you two doing right now?”
Suho made a bewildered face next to them.
Asha felt faint from seeing Esil and Suho acting so friendly with each other.
‘Who would’ve thought that there’d be a surviving demon noble still?’
That meant that the demon before her could become the heir to the demon king someday with a high probability.
And such a great entity was a comrade to Sung Suho, the heir to the fang monarch.
Furthermore, just how could the heir of fang monarch use the spiritualization power…….
‘I can’t even guess what’s going on at this point.’
And what a coincidence it was.
Just what was this small village for such diverse races to gather into?
And the fact that out of all the races, Arsha was the weakest, made her feel frustrated.
‘I knew that this place would cause more loss than gain.’
Arsha was belatedly regretting her decision to step into this place.
Anyways, in this situation, Arsha only had once choice to make.
To be submissive.
Even if her actual body was not here, for future instances where she could encounter Suho again, it was best to be on his best side.
[Sung Suho-nim. I truly did nothing here. All i’ve done is to survey the area.]
Arsha claimed her innocence.
Then even explained every detail of what she went through.
[After ‘that day’. I’ve been wandering about, looking for a place without you. But that proved to be a rather difficult feat.]
The issue was that Suho started to go through every dungeon in his attempt to become the guild leader.
A fate or stroke of misfortune. Everywhere that Arsha went, Suho was visiting the dungeon nearby.
In Suho’s perspective, he was just spending a day in each area, but to Arsha, she had no choice but to leave that region out of unease.
Then, Arsha made a choice after being pushed into a corner.
To move into a country without Sung Suho.
But the issue was the peninsula surrounded by oceans from three sides.
Mere wings of bees could not cross the pacific ocean nor the atlantic ocean to reach a different county.
[……and hiding in a plane was also impossible thanks to planes nowadays having heightened security to prevent villains from leaving.]
With all of these situations combined, Arsha only had one choice left.

North Korea.

[All I was doing was to move north to get to a different county. And I encountered Harmakan nearby.]
“Harmakan?”
[Yes. the great chief of the demonic spectres. He was using the villains of Jisan Prison to grow his forces and asked me to survey the area.]
[So you did help him.]
Arsha hurriedly continued on at the strengthening of the grip on her waist.
[I only helped them because they told me that they’re using villains that deserve death in the first place! I would’ve never helped if I knew it’d come to this.]
Arsha was truly frustrated.
She met Suho while he was solving the case of the villains.
But if the villains were to cause issues again, then there was a chance that Suho would come find her.
[The plan that Harmakan told me in the first place was to kill the villains of Jisan Prison to use as the ingredient for his spells. ]
Arsha gladly accepted the offer since she thought that Suho wouldn’t care about the death of villains.
What Harmakan wanted from Arsha was to survey the situation within the prison and track down the path the villains took after escaping.
[I was to receive a few villains that I could create lancer knights out of from the help. But it was revealed that…….]
Arsha thought that Harmakan would kill every villain as soon as they made their escape.
And a few of them would be spared to be fed her royal jelly to become the knights of the queen bee.
But the moment that the villains made their escape simultaneously, her plan got foiled.
[Harmakan favored souls drenched in evil.]
In order to make his spells stronger, Harmakan desired to dirty up the souls of the villains more than they were.
And that was a rather simple task.
The villain that led them, Hwang Dongsuk, was greedy in nature so a few words was enough to set the plan in motion.
The moment that the villains and Hwang Dongsuk arrived at a nearby village, their repressed nature got set free.
And it resulted in a cruel scenery.
The moment that the awakened with supernatural powers got their freedom from the laws.
Opened up the gates to hell.
[This town already had a thick layer of Harmakan’s spells. And those spells urged on the greed of the villains further.]
Suho’s gaze fell on his side as he listened to Arsha’s story.
The villains that still lived attempted to avoid his eyes to the best of their abilities with a regretful face.
The sudden appearance of Arsha was but a momentary distraction.
The moment their wrongdoings were laid out in plain sight, they started to feel afraid for their lives.
Of course, they were not killed by the shadow assassin Kang Taesik’s sword, thus have yet to participate in the devastation of this town personally.
But they still aided in the destruction of the town, and the fact that they haven’t killed a person was…….
Because they were in a neighborhood restaurant and pubs to indulge in things that they couldn’t in the prison.
Fwsh.
[Should I kill them all?]
Shadow assassin Gang Taesik emerged at Suho’s gaze, then lifted up his dagger to cause the villains to pale.
“No, wait.”
Suho lifted his hand to stop Gang Taesik.
“Don’t kill anyone from now on.”
[……yes sir.]
Gang Taesik lowered his dagger at Suho’s firm command.
Suho commanded not to kill the villains not because of pity.
“It looks like the spells of the demonic spectre get stronger the more we kill.”
[you’re right. As expected, you managed to see through Harmarkan’s spells immediately!]
Arsha couldn’t help but be surprised at Suho’s words.
The spells of the demonic spectre race that toyed around with souls were so complicated that no other race could easily see through its structures.
Arsha only knew because she heard from Harmakan, it was impossible to figure out from seeing it alone.
However, it was not difficult for Suho.
After all, a new type of system message continued to pop up above the villains that died earlier.

[Extraction impossible. There is no soul.]
[Extraction impossible. There is no soul.]
[Extraction impossible. There is no soul.]

The disappeared soul is most likely at the hands of Harmakan.
And the story that Arsha told of Harmakan using the souls of villains for spells.
The answer was obvious after combining these stories.
The more that died here, the stronger Harmakan’s sorcery would become.

[Sung Suho-nim. If you can give me a chance, I can lead you to safety out of this village.]

Arsha volunteered to lead Suho to an escape route.
Even if the entire city was covered by the demonic spectre’s illusion, Arsha has already managed to make her escape.
However
“No.”
Suho firmly declined her offer.
Not because he couldn’t trust her.
“You gotta face them head on at times like these.”
Suho looked forward with glinting eyes.
Towards the death knights sent by Harmakan approaching.
Thud.Thud. Thud.Thud.
Empty husks of full body armor were walking towards them.
With a chilling energy of flickering aura.
“W, what is that?!”
The villain’s face paled at the approach of the enemy.
But.
It was the opposite for Suho.

[Death Knight]
[Death Knight]

…….

They had name tags above their heads.
The corner of Suho’s mouth couldn’t be helped but be lifted up.
“Harmakan… was it?…… he might actually be a good guy after all.”
[What a good brat he is.]
Beru also laughed eerily after Suho.
Once Suho looked towards Esil, she understood the meaning behind that look to retreat backwards.
“……creating monsters out of the souls of villains that won’t even give me experience points.”
Suho smiled knowingly to raise both of his swords and shot out towards the mob.
“Growl!”
It was time for leveling up.
Rumble!
At that moment.
Hamarkan’s two large hands emerged from the ground to rip apart the buildings nearby. Then those buildings were used to whack Suho down.
Boom!
“What an interesting ability it is.”
Suho chose to attack head on.