I Own A Brothel In Another World (Ch. 1-196)

Chapter 72 - The True Demon of Lust ❤❤

After a few hours of walking, we reach the place described to us by the mayor and other people. There's a huge cliff in front of us, on the verge of the lush forest. Bountiful moss covers almost all of it, making it look more like a grassy wall than a stone precipice.

We need another half an hour to find the entrance to the cave system. All these weeds make it hard to spot, covering it like a tight, green curtain, merging with the scenery all around. Thankfully, Crawford's familiar helped us by making contact with other spiders and asking around. I would rather not use my borrowing skill for recon ability and save it for the upcoming fight.

Alan clears the bushes and vines with his big axe, uncovering the dark tunnel leading into the cliff. There's nothing special about it from the very first glance. It's the perfect hideout, without any signs of mortal dangers. All you could perhaps expect from it is a bear, some wolves or other wild animals. But, somehow, my senses are already telling me that this is it.

Crawford starts chanting something under his nose while repeatedly tracing a small circle with the tip of his staff. The lines he is making start leaving a bluish trail until they form a solid smudge. Small, electric discharges jump across the ring, clearly announcing that the spell still matches his area of expertise.

After a moment, he stabs the empty space in the middle of the circle with his staff and it explodes into five lightning bolts that shoot towards each of us, including himself. I flinch seeing the incoming spell, but it hits me and disappears inside my body without me feeling anything.

I pat my clothes in confusion and then notice that our surroundings got a little brighter and a light blue hue can be observed. Glancing around, I see everyone having the same circle Crawford was tracing above their heads now, looking like blue, lightning aureolas. As expected, there's one just above mine too. Neat. We don't need torches now.

We get into the previously discussed formation—Kyrie and Alan in the front, me and Crawford in the middle and Edgar in the back. Everyone draws their weapons, prepared for combat at any given moment. I don't draw out my hilt yet; it can serve as a good element of surprise with my costume.

Ready as much as possible, we start moving forward through the natural cave. Unfortunately, it seems that it won't be as easy as walking a single path while following the stone tunnel straight to the designated boss room. This isn't some dungeon designed by a dev or a game freak but an actual cave system with a multitude of natural corridors. It's a full-blown network of passages.

After the first three times that we have to walk back due to us running into a dead end, I start mapping the area so that we won't be going in circles. Everything looks pretty much the same. Stone here, stone there, stone everywhere. A few stalactites over that ceiling, a few stalagmites near that turn. Thanks to me having my hands free, I can sketch our little journey.

That is until we start hearing some weird, occasional rumbling and gnarling from up ahead. A careful peek inside reveals a small group of monsters looking like a boar mixed with a porcupine. They have the size and shape of a wild pig, but most of their body and back is covered in sharp spikes. And I know very well that these are not just decorations. We've stumbled on a passel of Razorspike Wildboars.

"There are six of them here, but what are they doing?" Kyrie asks after watching the boars turn over rocks and pace back and forth without any greater meaning.

I point at one of them after it turns towards us. "Look at its eyes. They are glowing in bright pink. I'm pretty sure that's from some kind of a Charm spell and ability that works on monsters. We are against an Arch Succubus in the end."

"So, they are most likely placed here by that monster as sentries?" Alan chimes in. "Why didn't the villagers mention any of them?"

"They must have been intercepted before getting too deep into the cave system."