Abyss crawling part 14: Humans

Immerse herself in the cool water mixed with the fragrant scent of perfume, although Ilirielth always felt bored with the life in the palace, she could never get bored of those bathing sessions. She missed her nanny who was a strict person, always complained about every little thing she did, but always took good care of her every time she need. Ilirielth used to close her eyes and let her body relax while enjoying her nanny's beautiful singing. Drowning in the good old memory, it took Ilirielth some time to open her eyes and regain her awareness of the current situation.

She found herself in a strange place. The humidity in the air and the steady sound of water reminded her of her country's bathhouses, the ground was floored with white pure marble, and the place looked very clean. She was currently naked and the disguise spell the female giants cast on her already expired its effect.

" She awake! I must tell granny!"

Ilirielth was startled as a sudden voice rang through her ears. She turned back to find a young girl with twin pigtails hair smiling cheerfully. Her mouth was wide-opened when she saw that girl's appearance. She looked just like a normal human.

' This can't be.'

Rather than being happy to finally meet a human for so long, there was a pain in Ilirielth's heart. The young girl ran out but Ilirielth didn't ask or chase after the girl. She was trying to get a hold of herself. She recalled what happened just before she passed out and the pain was replaced with worry.

'' No… I have to find him."

She tried to stand up but her legs were strangely heavy and thus she slipped head first to the floor.

" Ouch!"

Ilirielth was hurt which was extremely strange. There's no way a person who reached level 200 could get hurt from this silly stuff. Her head should have been literally as hard as steel. She quickly opened her status window and she was shocked. Her levels which took her decades to get reduced to only 20. All of her stats were drastically reduced, gladly her skills were still there but she had no idea if she could still use them.

' What is this, am I cursed?'

She couldn't help but become panic. On the floor, there was a puddle of water, and inside of it, a green light was blinking. Ilirielth touched her neck, it felt itchy, and she could feel a strange object being put inside her neck. As Ilirielth was still scared and confused there were two voices entered the bathhouse.

" For god sake Sally! I told you that you should clean her first before using the perfume."

" But Granny! You told me that the perfume could erase any bad smell!"

" Smell and cleanness are two different things. If you put perfume on a sh*t, it'll just become a good-smelling sh*t!"

Before Iirielth was an elder woman wearing a blue dress that didn't suit her age, on her right hand was a mental staff, she didn't look strong at all but Ilirielth couldn't see the woman's stats. The old woman and Ilirielth stared at each other for a while then [Bonk!].

" Ouch! What was that for!"

Ilirielth held her head, and tearing up, she didn't know why. She had suffered from worse pains but somehow the light tap on her head from this elder woman made her cry.

" I'm just checking if the thing on your neck is working and it seems to work just fine. "

The old woman tapped on Ilirielth's neck.

" Young girl, I can't trust you yet so there's a bomb inside your neck. If you try to harm us I can always activate it."

The woman pointed to a red dot on the head of her staff. Ilirielth looked dumbfounded.

" Bomb? What's a bomb? And what's this place? Where's my friend? What did you do to him?"

The old woman looked at Ilirielth, surprised for a moment, and then let out a sigh.

" I see the outside world was still like that huh? So to put it simply, if I tap on this red dot, your head'll explode. Could you at least understand that?"

Ilirielth face paled and she quickly nodded. Seeing her reaction the old woman laughed.

" About your friend, I have no idea who that is. Were you brought to this place along with someone? But if he's a human then there's no reason I didn't see him."

" He… is not a human."

The old woman went into deep thought and then she let out a broad smile.

" What an interesting story! A human, No. You're an elf? Or half-elf? How could you become 'friends' with a creature in this place? Quickly take your bath young girl. You have many things to tell."

Ilirielth just wanted to rush outside to find Iliriendil but she knew nothing about this place and with her current stats that would be no different than suicide. Holding her fist, she reluctantly followed the old woman's words.

Exiting the bathhouse, Ilirielth entered a garden, she became dumbfounded at the sign of humans, there were just around 20 of them but that was already a miracle in this kind of place. Most of them were very young, around their teens or twenties. No one had any sign of mutation, but all looked exhausted for some reason. Their attention all turned to Ilirielth when she walked out of the bath. Currently, she only had a tower on her body and her face flushed red because there were boys in that group too. She hid behind the granny but the old woman seem to be dissatisfied.

" Oh dear, for so long I've forgotten about those silly kinds of stuff. Just get your head straight, there's nothing to hide!"

The old woman pulled the tower from Ilirielth's body, Ilirielth's tried to hold it but this old woman was so strong for some reason. Leaving her in her birthday suit in front of those young boys (No NTR No NTR I repeat no NTR!). They were all blushing and the reactions under their crotches were indescribable…. But as soon they saw the lower part of her body which was ugly mutated. They all turned away. The old woman shook her head.

" Tsk. It seems that your fate had already been decided."

Just saying that the old woman walked into a very neat house. There was a big bookshelf and metal box that had some kind of lightning element inside of it. Sitting on one of the wooden chairs the old woman took out a cigarette and smiled at Ilirielth.

" You'll soon become a part of our family. Now it's time for the introduction. I'm Morla, you could call me granny if you want. Even if you're an elf I'm confident that I'm much older than you. Unless you were born before the dawn of darkness. (The occurrence of Mordox)."

The old woman Morla did something and her age appeared on her status. Ilirielth could not be shocked to see this person age. How could a human live this long? She was even older than ancient relics.

" Morla san, I'm Ilirielth, a half-elf. I was kidnapped here by the demoness Lilith. Please tell me about this place, I need to find my friend. If I can find him. I promise to think of a way to get us all out of here."

"…."

A burst of laughter came from Morla, the old woman laughed like mad while constantly coughing. Ilirielth expected Morla to be just like her a victim of Lilith but the next thing Morla said caused her to shudder.

" Ah… Lilith, that naughty brat. It seems that she's having some fun with her new toy again."