City of Backstreet Nymphs

Chapter 182

182 – Nymphs and the Dark Game # 6

“Treasure that can be made into anything with a card… ! This is a great thing… ! Illinois wants to use this ankh to make various cards… !”

Jangle-.

Illinois stole the key necklace from grave robber Ankh.

However, the key held in Illinois’ hand did not grant any special power or emit a mysterious light.

Soon Illinois frowned and beat up the grave robber Ankh.

“This is a very disgusting Liar… ! I’m sure he lied to Illinois… ! I’m asking you to call a lawyer here… !”

“Let’s hit everyone together… !”

“I don’t know what’s going on with this Coris, but anything with the nymph sisters would be a lot of fun… !”

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo.

“aaah~”

The nymphs, whose lives were threatened, administered merciless justice, and in the end, Ankh curled his body like a bean worm and declared surrender.

“My, I lost…” ! Stop it… !”

I stopped the nymphs who were very excited.

And he spoke to Ankh, who must have changed his evil heart a little after being beaten by the nymphs.

“Now, quickly return the people you captured to their original state!”

Pod-.

I stole Ankh’s card.

Ankh’s pack of cards used this strange ancient key to turn people into cards.

“You need a key to return people to their original state. Only those who possess special spells can handle the five treasures of the seal. Unqualified people cannot use it… !”

According to Ankh, it seemed like not everyone could use that strange key.

I remembered hearing that an artifact with a powerful effect could determine its owner.

Just like between people, there is compatibility between tools and people.

“I’m saying I don’t think he’s lying… ! If you do something stupid, Oinoi will beat you up again… !”

Oinoi seemed to trust Ankh’s words to some extent.

Zek-.

Ankh took the key from Illinois, held it, and pushed the bottom of it toward the card.

Then, the key seemed to go in as if there was a hole in the card, and then a clanking sound was heard.

Paaat-!

Finally, the card radiated light.

When the light faded, a person with a quite familiar face was sitting there.

“Sa… Lived… !? My body is back to normal! My body is back to normal! Yes, the man Kim Dal-geon! “You won’t die like this!”

He was Kim Dal-geon, the missing member of the gang that Jin-ah Lee had mentioned.

Not an awakened person, but an ordinary person.

After that, Ankh released all the people who were tied to his deck.

The number exceeded ten, and everyone expressed their gratitude to me.

“Thanks to you, I survived!”

“It was an amazing duel!”

“I thought I was going to die forever, trapped inside the card! “There was no air conditioning inside the card, so it was very hot!”

Some people even shed tears.

I was rather moved by this sight.

Is there any other time that makes you more proud than receiving thanks from the people you rescued?

There was also another story that bothered me.

“Are you all living in cards?”

If you listen to what people say, the people who became cards had to spend time in a place where their lives were not stopped or stuffed.

“I was in a place like a hotel room.”

“I was in a place like a pension with a swimming pool.”

“In my case, it was a field.”

When I heard that the card itself was a space, something seemed to sparkle in me.

Wasn’t this ancient key a device that opens or creates small “Cracks”?

The crack was in the form of a Duel Stone card!

It was just my guess, but it was a reasonable opinion.

At that time, Illinois laughed sinisterly.

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“Mmm, freedom is not free… ! Freedom comes at a price… ! I’m asking you to pay the price for saving everyone… ! Everyone is clicking the like button on Nymph Foundation’s social media… !”

# # #

The rescued people were handed over to the police.

In a chaotic atmosphere, I asked Ankh, who was sitting on a chair at the police box.

“What is the purpose of your “Tomb Raiders”? “What on earth are these guys doing?”

“… ….”

Ankh pursed his lips.

Then Oi Noi raised his clenched fists high in the air.

“It is clear that he has not been hit yet… ! Everyone wants to beat up this Egyptian woman… ! It is said that the nymph’s fist has the effect of waking up the villain’s spirit… !”

Nymphs generally love peace and tranquility, but were merciless toward evildoers. Peace is not a state of reconciliation, but a state of mutual respect through strong force.

“Ah… okay… ! You can just say it… ! I just needed some time to gather my thoughts… !”

Perhaps the beatings from the nymphs had had an effect, as the bronze-skinned female Ankh trembled and was extremely afraid.

She seemed to choose her words and then opened her mouth.

“I… , the second daughter of the director of the Cairo Museum. Our Sekhmet family has been in charge of managing Cairo’s relics for generations….”

“The idea is to stop recalling the past… !”

“This Coris is also starting to feel very sleepy… !”

The nymphs rumbled like angry squirrels.

Illinois in particular was half crazy.

“There is no doubt that they are trying to evoke sympathy by talking about an unfortunate childhood and lumping together the facts of the crime like jumping over a snake wall… ! Illinois never sits idly by… !”

The nymphs had a very negative attitude toward receiving sympathy or having their crimes reduced, feeling that criminals actually had sad stories.

I also didn’t want the story to be long.

“Just tell me what you want.”

“… After a crack appeared in the world, a huge pyramid was discovered underground in Egypt. “Just in time, our Sekhmet family was able to handle the stone tablets and artifacts discovered in the pyramid!”

Ancient knowledge and spells discovered within the pyramid.

And through various sealed tablets, Egypt was able to leap into an economic powerhouse at once.

It is said that the Sekhmet sisters were the ones who stood out the most in Egypt.

Teto Sekhmet.

Ankh Sekhmet.

Her older sister was a woman who was ranked 4th in the S rank, and her younger brother was an A-ranked awakened person and a criminal.

“I felt inferior to my sister. My sister is this ugly… Even without tattoos she could handle artifacts. The darkness whispered to me. “She said she would give strength.”

Demon God.

It was said that such a so-called being was sealed in a stone tablet discovered in an underground pyramid.

The grave robbers who were looking for an opportunity stole it and entered this competition to break the seal.

“There are a lot of dangerous guys out there these days.”

Typhon, a possessed monster who claimed to be both a destroyer and a god, came to mind.

It was a powerful being, and it was certainly dangerous.

That guy appears twice in a row.

Is it a coincidence?

“It’s a pain to delve into people’s hearts.”

Ankh had an inferiority complex and wanted to be greater than her older sister. She said that the voice inside the stone tablet tempted Ankh into stealing the “Sealing Arms.”

“The magical power of struggle through play is the key to unlocking the Demon God. And it can appear in the world using a strong human soul as a medium. “There are a lot of strong duelists in this tournament.”

Is this a true story?

I was able to figure out that just as Typhon stole the body of S-ranker Hex Pascal, this demon god was also targeting the body of an awakened person.

In the case of Hex’s rampage, the damage was minimized because it was inside the crack, but what if something like that happens in Seoul, a city with a population of 10 million?

“… I can still stop it…. Let me help… ! That, at least, seems like the best atonement I can make for being possessed by something….”

At that time, Ankh spoke carefully.

He seemed ashamed of himself because he was tempted to say, ‘I will give you strength,’ due to a gap in his heart of inferiority.

Of course, Illinois “Can’t believe at all…” !” She growled, but I was able to read her sincerity in her golden eyes.

“Everyone makes mistakes. However, not everyone can regret their mistakes and try to correct them. Also, I think your tattoos are pretty cool too.”

I heard that Egyptian awakeners carve hieroglyphs such as “Eye of Horus” Into their bodies like Korean awakeners carve chips.

Ankh’s left arm had a tattoo like that, and I thought it looked pretty cool.

Ankh himself seemed to want to cover it up, as if it were something shameful.

“Well… That’s cool… ! Don’t say things like that so casually… ! Anyway, you have to hurry! Those guys who realized that Atlas and I had failed can force the ritual… !”

Ankh told me the coordinates where the grave robbers were staying.

And I was greatly surprised.

“The basement of the finals stage?”

A special stadium where Teto and Seo Ye-rim announced the opening of the competition.

There were grave robbers staying underground.

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“Even Ankh failed. She was wrong in trying to entrust such an important role to a girl who was only twenty years old. “Now that it’s like this, I have no choice but to make a decision.”

“We break the seal with only what we have. I’ve gathered enough souls. Even if Advent is incomplete, the Demon God is the Demon God. “We will be able to obtain the immortality we have longed for.”

Zek-.

Two men wearing robes each had a dagger from their waist and a beetle-shaped ruby-colored gem placed on a stone slab.

There was no time to delay.

Ankh and Atlas.

With the two people captured, it was clear that it would only be a matter of time before the hideout of the secret society “Tomb Raiders” Was revealed.

“Dragon’s dagger-.”

“Orb of the beetle, I offer up the struggle and soul contained within—.”

Jejeojeok, Jejeojeok-.

The stone tablet with the vicious snake on it split and something like dark gas began to leak out.

It attacked the two men in an instant.

Saaa!

“Huh… !?”

“Apopis… Uh, why are we taking our lives…? !?”

The two men, who looked sturdy even under their robes, were now as thin as a scrawny mummy.

The black gas seemed to gather more and more in front of the men, and eventually it turned into a snake with a face resembling a shark.

『Susssss….』

Apophis, the demon god of night, darkness, and snakes.

The snake realized that its power, which had just been awakened from its seal, was very poor.

The power would have been completely liberated if the seals had been released by putting life into the five sealing spheres, but the only tools used for liberation were a dagger and two beetle jewels.

But it didn’t matter.

The snake had already marked someone with its bowl.

If you possess the vessel and absorb the fighting spirit of others and cause confusion, the snake’s condition will also improve.

Sssssut-!

The snake escaped the cramped room like a gas and passed between the legs of countless people stepping on the ground.

And finally, I found the dotted bowl.

She was a very good possessed body.

It seemed like darkness itself, perfect for Apophis to embrace.

Perhaps she is something like a shaman or a divine woman in this world.

━Shaaat-!

Flinch-.

A woman whose neck was bitten by a snake and her body convulsed.

“…… !”

Jangle, jangle-. Jalang, jalang-jalang-!

The ropes and bells installed in the secret room where the woman was sitting began to ring at once.

Hwareuk-.

When the amulets stuck everywhere caught fire, Teto, a priest who was watching the whole situation like a CCTV using the “King’s Staff” With the function of clairvoyance, spoke to Seo Ye-rim in front of him.

“The imperfectly resurrected snake took the bait. The snake used the body of a nearby S-class awakened person as a vessel. “Up to this point, everything is just as we promised.”

“What?”

Seo Ye-rim frowned at the change in the situation from the story she knew.

She had a vague understanding that the released snake demon would use a nearby S-class ranker as its vessel.

So, Seo Ye-rim and Teto were sitting facing each other.

If one of the two is possessed by a ‘demon god’, they can be subdued immediately.

“Is the plan going as planned?”

However, neither Seo Ye-rim nor Teto showed any signs of being hit by the possessed monster.

Did Korea’s S-ranker Cha Yu-ra ignore today’s operation and enter Seoul?

‘No, Cha Yu-ra is in Jeju Island right now. Teto and I are probably the only S-class awakened people in Seoul right now. To whom….’

Suddenly, Seo Ye-rim seemed to remember something.

It was another S-class awakened being that was said to exist in Korea.

Zek-.