Taming The Villainesses novel Chapter 429

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Priestess Miriam spoke.

“It sounds like we’re about to enter the city soon. Once we’re inside, let’s go our separate ways. That’s what we’ve decided.”

It had always been a temporary alliance.

We’d gained a lot by traveling together with this party, so it was a bit disappointing—but if that was their decision, we couldn’t very well refuse.

And I understood where Miriam was coming from.

The cold, unfeeling hunter had gotten injured saving someone else—an act that ended up jeopardizing their “mission.” She probably wanted to prevent anything like that from happening again.

And so, we agreed to separate after entering the city.

Honestly, it was already a huge stroke of luck that we met them and were able to infiltrate the city so easily. It was unfortunate, but unavoidable.

“This is the entrance.”

The hunter braced himself and shoved the rock wall inside the cave. Drurrrk—a low, heavy grinding sound followed, and a narrow gap opened, letting in a breath of wind.

Where wind blew, there was a path to the outside. Peering through the crack, I could see dilapidated artificial structures jutting out here and there.

It was the cityscape.

We had managed to enter this monster-filled city quickly and safely.

Surely now, even our pursuers wouldn’t dare get any closer. Unless they somehow mapped out every fork in this cave system, they wouldn’t be able to catch up.

With rising hope, we stepped forward.

“Move aside.”

Rene, the hunter’s warrior companion, nudged me aside where I was peeking through. Then she pushed the stone with both hands. Thanks to her, the narrow gap widened until a person could comfortably squeeze through.

Of course, Mirna trembled like a frightened kitten.

“I won’t get stuck again... right?”

She’d gotten her hips wedged in tight gaps before, and it clearly left a traumatic impression. Rene snorted through her nose and gave the rock another shove.

Now the opening was wide enough for two people to enter side-by-side. The hunter’s party slipped in without hesitation.

“May blessings follow you as well.”

Miriam’s parting words were calm and light.

A clean farewell. No mess, no clinginess—sharp and decisive.

Thanks to that, we had little time for sentiment. Ayra, watching the passage they’d disappeared into, spoke.

“Let’s head in too.”

Snapping out of it, we followed her into the crevice. I was the first to go. With a few heavy steps, I crossed into the city’s interior—

And immediately realized something strange.

What I thought was the ground beneath my feet was actually the outer wall of a building.

That’s right. I had stepped onto the wall of a building.

I’m not a chameleon or a ninja—what the hell was I doing standing on a wall?

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Confused, I reached out to touch the pavement-laced surface beside me. Suddenly, I felt myself yanked violently by an unseen force and lost my balance.

Thud!

When I came to, I was sitting on a collapsed walkway. Looking up, I saw the rest of my wives still standing sideways on the wall like nothing was wrong.

“Careful—the footing here is strange. Something pulls at you out of nowhere and you can fall easily.”

Heeding my warning, the ladies carefully made their way down to where I was. Narmee was the first to speak.

“This place is totally jumbled up. Feels weird.”

She was right.

As far as I knew, gravity only acted in one direction: from top to bottom.

But here, the city’s walls pulled at our feet like magnets. It was impossible to tell where the sky ended and the ground began.

The stairs, the paths, the buildings... all twisted into a maze with no visible end.

From a distance, the city hadn’t seemed this massive. But now that we were inside, its scope felt immeasurable. I remembered what Ayra once said:

This city is much larger than it looks.

I hadn’t fully understood her then—but now, I felt it in my bones. This wasn’t just a city. It was another world, where physical laws didn’t apply.

Shk shk.

Stella looked around and asked,

“So, where do we go now? The hunter’s party is already out of sight.”

Unlike the area outside the walls—where monsters had swarmed like ants—

The interior of Gargarta was eerily empty. Like an ancient ruin where people had all vanished simultaneously, then left to rot for ages.

Massive baobab-like trees had rooted themselves through the rooftops of crumbling plaster homes, giving it the feel of a scene from a myth or fairytale.

“As for where we go...”

I looked up.

Right above our heads, the sky yawned open—a massive rift turning slowly like a black hole.

Mirna murmured,

“It looks like the end of the world.”

The gaping hole’s width and diameter defied estimation.

And if you really listened—

Uuuuuuuuuuuuunnnngggg—

—a deep, heavy hum reverberated from beyond. It sounded like... the rotational groan of the Earth itself.

It gave me chills. Like this gaping maw in the heavens could swallow everything.

But no—if anything, it wasn’t sucking things in.

It was spitting them out.

If you looked closely, you could see debris falling from the hole above. One piece fluttered near me and landed at my feet.

I picked it up and read:

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Things you’d never expect to see in this world. Surely, more such debris was constantly falling from that sky.

Shk.

Then Ayra pointed upward.

“Everyone, look. There—stairs.”

She gestured toward a bizarre structure stretching up into the sky. Calling it “stairs” might not have been accurate.

Taking Stella’s telescope and peering closely—I saw it.

Warped, misaligned buildings floating layer upon layer, stacked like crooked stairs through the air.