Are You a Jinx? (Continued)

"Is that so? Then there's really no other way!"

William sighed helplessly.

"Why don't you just go to Pleasure District? As long as you pay, there are plenty of Cat Person there you can pet!"

Ange said quite frankly that other women would never utter the phrase "Pleasure District" from their mouths.

Who would go to a place like that!

"But now that you mention it, I do think there's a place where we can try your method!"

William stroked his chin, his eyes darting to Anya and Chloe, the Cat Person from "The Hostess of Fertility."

He figured that if he bribed them, these two shameless guys would agree to his demands.

"Can you please tell me now, or I'm going back to my post!"

Seeing that William had unconsciously fallen into deep thought, Ange said in a slightly unfriendly tone.

I'm a girl talking to him, and this guy still dares to daydream.

"Sorry, sorry!"

"I got a little lost in thought!"

William said this with a slightly embarrassed expression, but the next moment his expression returned to its previous seriousness.

"I just have a vague feeling that something is about to happen!"

Puff!

Ange couldn't help but burst out laughing, instantly forgetting her earlier annoyance.

"Are you imitating the commander? Isn't that going a bit too far!"

She nudged William in the waist with her elbow, and tears streamed down her face as she laughed.

Stop laughing, something really has gone wrong!

William's deep voice abruptly interrupted her laughter. She opened her eyes, which were aching from laughing, and looked at the densely packed space leading to the 51st-floor chamber.

"Are you... a... jinx...?"

Although she was a seasoned, high-ranking adventurer, she was still a girl, and when faced with this worm-like monster, she suddenly started to stammer.

"Don't just stand there!"

"Go quickly and tell everyone, I'll go check it out first!"

After giving a deep, resounding instruction, William abruptly disappeared from Ange's side.

"There are so many! And they're so big!"

William sprinted across several hundred meters in seven or eight seconds and arrived in front of the cave.

The full form of the worm monster then appeared before his eyes.

Its entire body is mostly yellowish-green, and the bulging joints have colorful patterns. Its upper body seems to weigh down its long lower body, rising up like a small mountain.

However, instead of sharp mouthparts like those of a worm, it has fan-like wings growing from the second segment from its head!

Its size is also quite huge; it has to rub against the walls to move forward in caves that are four or five meters high. Fortunately, its movement speed is as slow as that of worms.

The monster made a sound similar to vomiting, and then vomited a rather violent amount of purplish-black liquid from what should have been its mouth.

"[Thunderstorm! (Thunderstorm)]"

Black electricity instantly enveloped his entire body, allowing the monster's purple liquid to spray onto him.

Sizzle!

That was the sound of rocks and ground being eroded and melted; only a few drops of the purple slime that William had deflected landed on the stones at his feet.

The half-meter-high rock was melted away completely in an instant, leaving not a trace.

William frowned, flicked his wrist, and the silver-white throwing knife plunged directly into the worm monster's brain.

Clang!

The throwing knife, which had been embedded in the hilt, fell to the ground with a thud.

But to everyone's horror, the blade had completely disappeared, leaving only the bare hilt on the ground.

The wound from the knife wound on the monster was also oozing the same liquid as when it sprayed venom.

The enemy began to cry out in pain, and the three-headed worms that had crawled out of the cave sprayed venom at William's position with unwavering ferocity.

William tapped his fingertips three times in the air, and three pure white electric currents surged from William fingers, heading towards the locations of the three worms.

"No magic stones fell. So they weren't releasing venom from their venom sacs after all; it's all venom under their green skin!"

To test his hypothesis, William fired three electric currents at different parts of the worm's body.

But the worms, like monsters struck directly by a magic stone, turned to ashes instantly.

Normal monsters will not turn into black ash even if they are killed by adventurers, as long as they are not directly hit by the magic stones of the monsters.

The Supporter class is also based on the way monster magic stones are dropped.

But this new species is different; I've already separated it into three locations to pinpoint the location of the monster's magic stone.

However, it turned completely into ashes.

The only valid conclusion is his earlier assessment: this monster's internal venom will corrode its own magic stone as it nears death.

"William, how is it?!"

Riveria's voice came from the forest behind them; it was Riveria leading all the combatants of her Familia.

"It's a new breed of monster!"

"The venom is extremely corrosive; using melee weapons will dissolve it!"

"But the movement speed is relatively slow!"

"The biggest problem is that the quantity isn't obvious!"

William succinctly recounted the intelligence he had gathered in those few minutes of probing to everyone!