Chapter 60 – Gaiden 2: The Demon Cult
There are villages of considerable size.
This village is a village inside the territory of a certain marquis family.
Mercenaries and adventurers often visit, and merchants come and go, so it is a town equipped with several inns and services.
Although weak, the wall built of wood and stone was firmly defending the village, and the villagers defended the village with weapons in their hands.
Witchbeasts attacked from around, but they were easily defeated with the power of adventurers and mercenaries.
And as much as that, the village was always full of energy.
There are mercenaries, a group of professional killers, and adventurers, who are slum beggars and chores who carry weapons.
Well, when a person dies, his body is rummaged through, and you don’t know when a fight will break out, but this is the basic of the basics in this world, so there is no problem.
Of course, there are laws here too, so reckless murder is not allowed, but the laws of the empire are not noble enough to protect even the poor and garbage adventurers.
Fortunately, however, there were not too many corpses in one day, as the town had plenty of work and the security was well-maintained.
But now, the village was enveloped in complete silence.
It was as quiet as a mouse and no sound was heard.
All that could be heard was the ominous cries of non-humans.
“Find! Find! Find all all! ͭ Find all ͊ and bring them to me ̈!͌!!̿”
As if a non-human were forcing himself to speak in human language, the language of the Empire spread in an awkward and awkward voice, and at the same time the ominous monsters around him moved.
They were so terrifying that just looking at them gave me goosebumps.
Some had gray bodies, stooped at the waist, and hopped about, sticking their long tongues out of their mouths.
Some had unusually large mouths with split jaws and long, crocodile-like teeth.
Some had small, thin arms and two abnormally sized legs rushing here and there.
Some were slithering around with slender arms and legs on a body measuring up to 2M.
Some crawled around in the form of beasts, with sharp teeth clinging to each other over his mouth and into his throat.
Some had eight claws on each foot that went up and down and looked around drooling.
Some had abnormally swollen muscles.
There was a monster with dozens of hands on its back and a huge mouth on its belly, as if several corpses had been melted and glued together.
One had a monster with a face split into four parts and a creature’s eyeball at the end of the split.
Some had black tentacles attached to the round body, and the upper body of a person was attached to them.
In some cases, the whole body was covered with tentacles, and there was a guy whose tentacles wriggled even in his mouth.
Some were headless, with sharp blades reminiscent of scythes on their arms instead of hands.
There were monsters, some literally just black bones.
Some were black-skinned, dinosaur-like beings with bones all over their bodies.
Some had strangely massive, muscular bodies with bat-like wings on their backs.
Some remind me of birds instead of legs, but there was a being with enormous thick legs and pieces of flesh attached like feathers and a huge beak on its face.
There was a being with tentacles instead of hair on a head that should have hair, and a green, ominous-looking liquid dripping from one hand.
There was an existence that had something rough like a red blade attached to one arm, and sharpened it by scattering it with a hard-looking tongs attached to the other arm instead of a hand.
Besides that, there were all sorts of monsters, and those monsters followed the words of the man with the number 6 written on his face while wearing a robe, rummaging through the village in silence.
A red fog spread inside the village, and dozens of people passed out or collapsed on the roadside.
There must have been adventurers and mercenaries with some experience, but all of them left for the land of dreams and slept soundly.
And those humans were being moved by monsters.
It was truly bizarre to see huge monsters carrying people, taking care not to injure themselves with their arms and mouths.
However, since monsters are monsters, one mercenary opened his eyes, probably because he was bitten in his mouth while carrying people and it was uncomfortable to be moved.
“Hee! What are these!!”
The man let out a loud scream as he was bitten by a terrible monster and was moved, and three more adventurers awoke nearby.
Each of them was transferred to a monster with huge arms, a monster with bird legs, and a monster with eight claws growing up and down, and then opened their eyes and struggled.
As soon as they awoke and saw the monsters carrying them, they immediately drew their weapons and rammed them into them.
Huge axes, short swords, daggers, and one-handed axes were wielded by the monsters.
Caang! Kaaang! Cacan! River!
However, the blades were all shattered without carving a single scratch, let alone getting stuck in the skin of the monsters.
As a result, the eyes of the mercenaries and adventurers were wide open, and the monsters started to growl because they succeeded in touching the planting of the monsters.
The man who had been giving them orders simply lowered his hand and said.
The voice was so calm and so cruel.
“Kill, catch, eat or not, ̑̀ ̡ ̇ ̡ ̇ do it”
Although he was clumsy and couldn’t understand the middle part, the meaning of the words was conveyed properly to the mercenaries and adventurers, and their faces turned white and they began to struggle even more.
But they didn’t get out of the way and soon became silent.
Quagjak! Quadd Deuk!
The mercenary, alive and fresh, was put into the mouth of a toothy monster up to its neck and ground into a blender, while each adventurer was crushed by huge muscular arms, their upper bodies distorted by the legs of a bird, and ground by the monster’s eight claws. He was torn apart and died.
What’s unusual about this is that they didn’t eat humans like witch beasts, but started moving other humans after killing them.
Originally, no matter how much their minds were manipulated, demons possessed the instinct to covet human flesh and followed it faithfully.
In other words, no matter how much you can control the beasts, if there is human flesh in front of you, the beasts are orders and nabal, and they focus on eating human flesh.
However, the monsters here were faithfully following orders without being shaken in the slightest, even with human flesh in front of them.
In addition, just by looking at their appearance, we could see that they were not beings that were automatically created in the natural world.
And the person in charge of those monsters was laughing viciously as he watched them.
“It was a perfect success With this, the number of test subjects has increased Our ͪKing is ̏ ̏҉ pleased
The man with the number 6 on his face smiled and looked at the people being moved by the monsters with the same gaze as if he were looking at animals for animal testing.
There was a feeling of merciless contempt for humans in that gaze, which aroused her fear.
However, no one was currently awake, so no one could see his gaze.
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Caang! Kaaang! Kakakang!!
Meanwhile, away from the town where demons kidnap people, the demon slayer and Grandel are fighting fiercely.
When the demon slayer’s twin swords rushed in sharply and quickly, Grandel handled his own great sword freely, blocking or passing away his attacks.
“It’s quite good!”
Whoaaaaagh!
Grandel fired the jade flame burning from his sword at the demon slayer, and the jade flame continued to immortalize the demon slayer.
However, the demon slayer suddenly stopped and turned his head to another place, and the demon slayer was enveloped in jade flame.
However, the face of the demon slayer who was hit by the jade flame was peaceful, and the jade flame quickly disappeared.
As the jade flame faded, the demon slayer took out 8 special daggers, 4 each, and threw them at Grandel.
The dagger that flew through the wind was easily melted in Grandel’s jade salt.
However, more daggers were flying quickly.
2 bags were flying left and right while rotating sideways, 3 bags were flying upwards and spinning and flying behind the back, and 3 bags were flying straight ahead.
In response, Grandel raised his sword and rotated his body.
As a result, the jade salt rising from her sword coolly melted the daggers filling the surroundings.
However, the demon slayer had disappeared from Grendel’s eyes.
In response, Grandel secured her body so that she could swing her sword at any time. At the same time, she heard the sound of something falling from the sky, and at the same time, Grandel swung her sword at her in the air.
Kagaang!
The demon slayer who had fallen from the sky was colliding with Grandel’s sword with two crossed swords.
A shockwave of magical power exploded like that, and a confrontation lasted for several minutes.
However, the confrontation was broken by the golden airflow around the demon slayer.
And when the golden stream disappeared, the demon slayer was gone.
