Chapter 236 – Special Missions
Magical power that quickly spread from Natalya’s body rubbed the energy of death that had arisen in the body of the fat man, rapidly rotting the intestines and generating methane gas.
Unable to get out of her body, the methane gas that filled her abdomen ripped at her thick skin unsightly and swelled up unevenly.
Seeing her swollen corpse, Drake sensed that it was not serious and tried to step back, but Natalya’s magic was faster than her guy’s retreat.
The swollen stomach is filled with gas to the limit!! It exploded, splattering her intestines, blood, and ribs.
A cry of pain was heard in the thick fog of blood.
“Kwaaah!”
“Have you done it?!”
She must have suffered serious injuries that made it difficult to move at least. Natalya’s corpse explosions have always disappointed me.
In the bloody silence, towards the blood mist, Natalya’s skeletons creaked their joints.
The blood fog lifted and slowly the figure of the guy…
“What. Where have you been?”
Obviously, I couldn’t see the figure of the guy who should have been lying on the ground and wriggling. On the floor lay the unsightly corpse of a fat man with its stomach ripped open and entrails scattered everywhere, as well as pieces of black scales the size of the palm of your hand.
As I stared at the scene in dismay, the old man picked up a piece of black scale and turned it back and forth to examine it.
“Looks like he ran away. What do you want to do? It should be enough just to go back to camp with this and submit it to the Knights.”
“Hmm…”
Apparently, the guy was hit directly by his corpse explosion at close range. He may have run out of strength and not been able to get away. He’s free to attack, but he’s not running away.
“How is his condition?”
“There is not that much blood. It’s very likely that he just ran away because he was startled by the loud explosion.”
“Uh, yes… ? I got hit very close, though. The scales are also quite apart.”
At my question, Natalia shook her head.
“Unlike a large corpse, an explosion using a human corpse would not have done significant damage to Drake. The scales that fell here are probably all of the damage Drake suffered.”
It’s only reptile scales, but are these scales that good at defense?
“Is it that hard?”
“Would you like to see it?”
At my question, Roin took a dagger from his thigh and scratched the drake’s scales.
There was an unpleasant sound, like a nail scraping against an iron plate, and a small scratch on the drake’s scales.
“Even if you scrape it with a knife, it’s about this. It’s amazing that the corpse explosion did this much damage.”
“Uhm… It means that Drake will be mostly fine.”
“Huh.”
Slowly, I turned around and looked around. Fade is staring at the fat corpse with a puzzled look on her face, and her bald head sits on her knees next to the corpse, not knowing what it’s doing. These guys are not even helpful in the slightest. And I, likewise, have nothing much to do.
The only ones I could trust were Roin and Natalya, but Natalya’s steel skeleton was also shattered. Fixing it will take some time. In addition, his actions were quick, so it would be difficult for even a skeleton to get close to him. If he can’t approach, he can’t attack.
This time, I was lucky enough to have a corpse, so I could feed it the Corpse Explosion attack, but will I get the same opportunity next time? What can I do against a monster that is as big as an elephant and has agile movements that don’t match its size?
Came to a conclusion quickly. There is nothing I can do. Now is the right time, as he was startled by the explosion of the corpse and ran away. The best option is to quickly grab the scales and run away.
In the first place, the purpose of the request was to find traces of monsters, and since the request was accomplished, there was no reason to overdo it, and I had no intention of putting my women in danger. Convection, safety is paramount.
“Then let’s go back. You have achieved your goal.”
“I’m a little sorry. Drake’s corpse would be of great help in many ways.”
“Help?”
Natalya smiled bitterly, as if feeling a bit regretful.
“Materials can be sold to the Alchemist Guild at a high price, and Drake’s bones are also keel bones, so they become materials for dragon soldiers.”
“Dragon sickness… ?”
I’ve definitely heard of it. Isn’t it a skeleton made of dragon bones? Dragon… Drake, Reptile… Yes, not the same reptilian.
“I’m sorry, but I can’t help it. Let’s not do anything dangerous.”
“Yes.”
I approached the old man with Natalia and picked up a piece of scale to examine it.
It was black, and depending on the angle of the light, there was an incomprehensible pattern engraved on the beautiful piece of scale, which was shiny and had an iridescent sheen.
“What is this?”
As I tilted my head while examining the scales, the old man approached me.
“What’s the matter?”
“Look at this. There is something engraved on the scales.”
“Really.”
“Wasn’t the scales you were holding there?”
“Huh. I didn’t see this pattern on other scale pieces. What is this?”
“Do you know what Natalia is?”
After examining the scales with Roin, he handed them to Natalia. Natalya also tilted her head while looking at the pattern engraved on the scale fragment I showed her.
“Hmm… I don’t know exactly, but I think it’s probably runes. My major isn’t runes, so I don’t know what it’s about.”
“Runes?”
“Yes. It is a letter with magical powers. If it’s a subspecies that uses runes… There are Yongin people.”
“Did the Yongin use runes?”
“I don’t know the details, but I know that the magic system is different from ours.
“Hmm…”
Magic system.
According to Natalya, there are two types of magic that humans use: white magic and magic that uses the divine protection.
They said that monsters use magic using the magic stone inside their body.
It is said that the Yongin people use another magic called runes.
Even if it’s the same mana, is it different for each race?
I shook my head to clear my thoughts as I felt my thoughts getting complicated. I’m not even a wizard, so what am I going to do while worrying about something I don’t even know.
“Looking at the runes engraved on the scales, that drake might be a monster that the dragon race used to work on.”
“You minister to monsters? Are you controlling it?”
“Maybe…”
“Aww! You bastards!”
The bald man next to the fat man’s corpse screamed and stood up.
I turned my head at the loud noise and saw a bald guy glaring at us.
The eyes are bright red and tears are flowing.
“What?”
“How dare you, my brother… My brother!”
“Brother? That fat guy?”
“What have you done to my brother!”
Ah, your brother? It worked well as a bomb. The words rose to his throat, but he suppressed them.
“We didn’t even kill them, so why the fuck?”
“If you hadn’t exploded it, I could have saved my brother!”
“Dog sound! That bastard was trampled to death by Drake! We just exploded corpses!”
It’s so absurd that it simplifies the language circuit.
The fat man ran away to live alone, but was stepped on by Drake, broke his back, and died instantly.
In that situation, the only way to feed Drake an effective hit was to explode the corpse. The corpse explosion startled Drake, and he escaped. Now that bald guy is blaming us for his brother’s death, not realizing that Natalia’s magic is what he can talk about.
Crazy guy
“I can’t forgive you. I can’t forgive you! I made my sister like this… Are you going to come out fine? Kill me… !”
“Stop!”
Fade attacked the guy who was trying to pull out the longsword he was wearing around his waist. Fade, who knocked him to the floor, shouted while holding onto him tightly.
“Calm down! You know they didn’t kill them!”
“Leave this! Let go!”
Like earthworms, I watched Bald and Fade roll across the ground in pools of blood.
The bald guy is a third-class mercenary at best. If he had attacked with a sword, the steel skeleton would have killed him right away.
Like Fade, who hates the death of people, he is desperately preventing anyone from attacking us in order to save his bald head.
The bald head, who had been crushed by the fade and rubbed his cheeks on the ground, opened his mouth wide and screamed.
“Aaaaa!!! Ah!!!”
“Please calm down!”
The bald man’s screams slowly turned into sobs.
Man, seeing his own brother explode right in front of his eyes, he must be insane. It’s a reality you don’t want to believe.
My brother dying in front of my eyes… It’s a terrible experience that I don’t want to go through again. I’d rather be a bad nightmare, horrible…
… Experience? Brother? Younger sister?
I am an only child. Why do you sympathize with that man’s feelings? Can you understand the sadness of losing your brother?
The bald head banged his forehead on the floor and began to cry.
“My little brother… Uh huh…”
He frowned in displeasure at the fact that he sympathized with such a bald head.
The bald head began to weep and fell to the ground, and Fade carefully raised himself up and came towards us, shaking off the dirt and blood from his body.
“I just, I just needed someone to blame. My family died right in front of my eyes.”
“… Take no interest.”
Whether others are sad or not is not my business. All that matters is my girls. I can’t be in this place anymore because I hate the sound of the bald head’s ugly crying.
“Hey Natalie. Roin. Let’s go.”
