Girl Hero: Revenge on Goblins!
Chapter 159: D57. Secret Garden

Chapter 159: D57. Secret Garden

A thunderous roar echoed throughout the Underground Black Lake, sealed for who knows how many years.

Water columns shot up high, almost reaching the vaulted ceilings of the cavern.

On the shore, the Gleaming Scale Serpent anxiously flicked its tongue, ignoring the suddenly thick scent of decay filling the air, and shone brightly once more, attempting to locate the Hero.

But neither the terrifying Siren Shark nor the gallant Queen were on the lake’s surface anymore.

Only ripples spread out, one after another, across the pitch-black water.

[Battle concluded, proceeding with continuous Extreme Failure resolution]

1. Bubblefication form was polluted

2. Afflicted by the Witch’s Curse

3. The Siren Princess’s longing has disappeared♛

4. Exhausted, sank to the bottom.

5. 1

6. 2

7. 3

8. 4

9. Fainted after reaching the shore

10. Critical Success/Extreme Failure

D10=d10(7)=7

In the depths of the Black Lake, the Hero, who had exerted all her strength to strike the Witch’s Ghost and then sank to the bottom with it, was now clenching her mouth tight due to the sudden shock.

Having accidentally swallowed a mouthful when she fell into the water, her mouth was now full of the taste of rotten Magic Power, nearly making her choke.

Such foul-tasting water... I hope it doesn’t give me a stomachache later.

With worry, the Hero covered her mouth with her hands and gently fluttered her legs, floating in the pitch-black water.

Eyes too need to be—oh, she didn’t have to close them now.

The Hero maintained the form of the Serpent Queen of the Woodlands; her Emerald Eyes had no eyelids, replaced instead by a layer of Transparent thin jade over her eyeballs.

The surge of the Bubble Princess’s Magic Power within her had subsided, and the heat from the Blaze Power had also gradually faded, sparing her from the fate of depletion and sinking.

However, having lost the power to control the Water Element, the Hero could no longer stand on the lake’s surface and had to hold her breath underwater.

Then, a pleasing voice rang in the Hero’s ears, causing her to widen her eyes in surprise.

’For me, this ends here... but you still have much to face.

’So my strength will always be with you.

’Thank you, friend I’ve never met.

’Farewell.’

The voice gradually faded, but the Hero looked around in the water and couldn’t find the mermaid figure that was supposed to be there.

A friend... huh.

Looking down at the motionless Witch sinking into the darkness, she remained silent for a moment, then swam upwards.

[The Hero’s water affinity]

D100=d100(91)=91

With her decent water affinity and extraordinary lung capacity, the Hero held her breath and slowly swam back to the shore.

Seeing the unharmed Queen, the Gleaming Scale Serpent swam joyously to her feet.

With the mission accomplished and the crisis averted, the Hero smiled and gently patted the Familiar’s head, then dispelled her Transformation.

She then raised her hand slightly, and a Small Fireball appeared above it.

The Light broke the enveloping Darkness, and looking at the Black Lake that seemed to have become a bit clearer, the Hero exhaled a breath of amazement.

As has been said before, there are affinities in battle.

True combat is not a fair competition on the same stage; the enemy won’t wait for you to finish casting all you’ve learned before deciding the victor.

Thanks to her training and practice, she managed to consecutively use Sacrifice, killing the unguarded Witch’s Ghost.

But under the oppression of the Erosion Sound, had it not been for the Siren Princess’s help, it’s likely she wouldn’t have been able to touch the Witch at the center of the lake at all, and would have been swallowed by the destructive dark waves.

Counting this, the Witch’s Ghost is the second mage-type Magic Creature the Hero has beaten; the first was not too long ago, that Goblin Shaman who set traps in the mines.

Although there is a world of difference between the Goblin and the Siren Shark, the Hero then and the Hero now, what remains the same is that, at a disadvantage, she killed the mages before they could launch their Magic Attacks.

Had they successfully cast their Magic, the outcome would have been unpredictable.

But, if it were the Hero who was suppressed, surely the Witch would not have allowed her a chance to flee or to switch Transformation for combat.

That’s what real combat is all about.

The Hero also knows that it’s hard to say this victory was entirely due to her own Strength.

But after all, the one who survives to the end is the real winner.

’I wonder what will happen to this place in the future.’

As the surroundings returned to Darkness, the Hero touched her silent vocal cords.

Hmm, although the Bubblefication Transformation did not disappear, the Curse had returned.

But even if she wanted to complain to that mermaid girl, she probably wouldn’t be able to hear it anymore.

If it weren’t for the steady fall of water droplets still dripping from the cavern ceiling, everything that just happened would have seemed like an illusion.

[With the death of the Witch’s Ghost, the water of the Underground Black Lake—]

1. evaporated

2. was Purified by the longing of the Siren Princess

3. seeped into the mountain body

4. boiled after losing its Imprisonment

5. 1

6. 2

7. 3

8. 4

9. was absorbed by the Hero

10. Critical Success♛/Extreme Failure

D10=d10(10)=10

D2=d2(1)=1

→☆→☆→☆→✧←★←★←★←

The water of the Underground Black Lake, in essence, was Magic Power that had dissipated upon the death of the Witch.

Normally, no matter how powerful or alive, upon death, everything should return to dust, and their essence to the Earth, and their Magic Power should rejoin nature’s cycle, either inherited by the next strong being or giving rise to the birth of new Magic Creatures.

This is the law of Nature.

But the Witch, who resisted death and yearned for eternity, refused to acknowledge this rule.

Even in death, even in decay, she clung to these now unclaimed Magic Powers with astounding tenacity, keeping them firmly bound beneath the ground, and imprisoned herself in this area.

And when the Undead that dwelled here, led by destiny, was slain by the Hero, this body of water—