Chapter 385 – The Cotton Field
The outline of what was walking out of the coffin was revealed by the light shining from the light sphere summoned by Natalya and the torch held by the village chief.
The first thing that caught my eye was the bumpy skin with cracks here and there, as if different pieces of skin were glued together.
That alone was grotesque enough, but it was pale like a corpse, bloodless, and even though it was moving, it didn’t feel like a living being.
The joints of the limbs are stiff, so the movement is very stiff. A bizarre movement, as if a lump of white clay were moving.
It doesn’t seem to be alive, judging from the feeling it feels and the thick energy of death flowing out of it.
Just looking at it is unpleasant and makes me feel bad.
“You rude unbelievers! Don’t even dream of returning alive! Become a sacrifice for our god!!”
“Whoa, so… Are you saying you threw the village children as food for that monster?”
At my question, the village chief opened his eyes wide and shook his head.
“Food? Feeding, do you think a gift from God would do something like eating food? The village children have become a by-product of the gift of the gods.”
“…”
I closed my eyes for a moment. I looked at the monster again.
His gaze went to the bumpy right shoulder. The young face was stuck in place with a distorted expression.
It looks as if only the skin on his face was peeled off and put on his shoulders.
The monster took a step. Blood oozes through the seams of the leather. Did all the blood on the floor come from that monster’s body?
If you ask if enough blood can flow out of a meat doll slightly larger than an average adult man to fill this cavity, of course the answer is impossible, but honestly I don’t know.
Judging from the village chief’s story, it seems that all the village children who disappeared became the material for the monster’s body.
Seeing the meat puppets walking towards the skeletons, the village chief exclaimed in excitement.
“Pay the price for disrespecting God with death!!”
“…”
Even if they ran away in the middle, the village chief must have seen the skeletons fighting.
You would have seen them slaughter the guards in an instant, but what is the reason why they are so full of confidence that one creaking meat doll moves?
There are reasons for human behavior.
The village chief is confident that he can win.
That meat doll called ‘God’s gift’ looks grotesque, so it doesn’t look like much, but the village chief must be familiar with the specifications of that meat doll. And he thinks that if he is a meat puppet, he will be able to defeat the skeletons.
The meat doll came closer. Even the smallest details that were not visible were all visible.
Meat dolls, of course, don’t wear clothes or anything like that. Although the leather, which is attached here and there, has a loose shape like the clothes of the ancient Greeks, it is absurd to call it clothes.
Therefore, my eyes could not help but naturally fixate on the non-leather part of the meat puppet’s body.
“Charm… ?”
The yellow paper on the meat puppet’s forehead was covering its face.
There were things like red letters written on it, so no matter how I looked at it, it only looked like a talisman.
And I know of corpses with amulets attached to their foreheads.
“Kangshi… ?”
Of course, he wasn’t running around with his arms outstretched, and he wasn’t even wearing a Qing Dynasty uniform, but he couldn’t shake the feeling that that meat puppet looked like a Jiangshi.
I don’t know what kind of god the village chief said was why he gave the Jiangshi as a gift, but if it’s dealing with the dead, this one is definitely one step ahead.
Kangshi’s body is overflowing with a thick aura of death.
Natalya, who has received the protection of the one who harvests death, can control the aura of death.
Then, with Natalya’s magic, she would be able to control the Jiangshi. You don’t even have to go hard. He should be killed as a gift from the gods he gazes upon with rapture.
What kind of expression would the village chief make if Kangshi’s hand pierced his stomach? I began to look forward to the thought of how miserably that arrogant face would be distorted.
“Hey Natalie. Can you touch that?”
At my question, Natalia frowned and shook her head.
“I’ve been trying since before, but it doesn’t work.”
“It doesn’t work?”
“I am already being manipulated by someone. There is no room for my magic power.”
Is there someone who controls Jiangshi? But being here…
“Where have the village chief’s sons gone?”
I thought the chief had fled with his two sons, but no one is seen in this underground cavity except for the chief, who is standing on top of an altar.
Is there really no room for people to hide?
At my question, the old man who was quietly watching from the side opened his mouth.
“There seems to be nowhere to go further out of this cavity, nowhere to hide. The way in was out of the way. It seems that the village chief’s sons never entered the cave from the beginning.”
“You bastard of the 10, did you go crazy until you were about to be scoured?”
I need to know one perseverance. Like a son of a bitch.
I turned my gaze back to Jiangshi.
“Then, the village chief is controlling that Jiangshi?”
“I don’t know. I don’t feel any special magic from the village chief…”
“Tsk.”
The absurd idea of killing the village chief with a jiangshi that the village chief enthusiastically cheers on seems to have to be abolished unfortunately.
“Anyway, the result of us winning doesn’t change. Only results! Only results remain in this world!! It’s Natalie! Summon the troll skeleton! Let’s crush his overconfident god’s gift terribly!”
“Yes!”
What can I do with just one Jiangshi, and besides, this cavity is wide enough. We can also call the Troll Skeleton, our full power.
Roin, who watched the troll skeleton stand up, pulled out a dagger.
“I’ll go back and catch the village chief.”
“Huh.”
As soon as Roin fell outside, Natalia’s troll skeleton lifted the gigantic Zweihender. You can’t avoid the Troll Skeleton’s Zweihender with the slow, creaky movements of the Jiangshi!
God? Jiangshi? Meat doll? A magician who controls? The only thing that complicates your head any more than this is the specifications! Don’t finish it in one blow!
“I don’t know what it is, but take it!!”
Along with my cry, the troll skeleton’s Zweihender struck at Jiangshi like lightning.
Quaang-! With the shock, blood pooled on the floor splattered in all directions.
“Have you done it?”
Due to the fog of blood floating in the air, the Jiangshi could not be seen clearly. She opened her eyes and waited for the blood fog to dissipate.
Through the fog of blood, the figure of the Jiangshi came into view.
“You’re standing still… ?”
Zweihender hit the Jiangshi’s body. He landed right on the guy’s left shoulder. However, he couldn’t penetrate Jiangshi’s body!
“What hardness… !”
Natalya seems surprised too. The steel skeletons surrounding Jiangshi rushed in unison.
Sides, armpits, abdomen, back, chest, neck, face. He threw out his knife as if he would turn him into a hedgehog, but nothing penetrated Jiangshi’s body.
He even showed off the trick of catching a sword that flew into his face!
Grab the sword, extend your other hand and grab the skeleton’s arm. And gradually hugging the body.
“Uh, huh?”
Natalia opened her eyes wide in embarrassment. Surprisingly, I was the same. The skeleton is being sucked into the Jiangshi’s body.
It’s hard to think that even if you hit it with a knife until right before, it’s hard to think that it’s a normal body. Just like a slime eats food, Jiangshi absorbed the steel skeleton. And Jiangshi’s size grew bigger than before. The aura of death that had been spewing out grew thicker.
“This, this, what is this… ?”
“The steel skeleton… Ate… ?”
Ate. No… As the village chief said, it became a by-product of the Jiangshi’s body.
“Hey Natalie. Unsummon the other steel skeletons!!”
“Ah yes!”
At my instruction, Natalya hurriedly came to her senses and began to move.
The steel skeletons hurriedly began to distance themselves from the swords that were stabbing the jiangshi.
It didn’t get cut off by other knives even while absorbing the steel skeleton. At first glance, it looks like slime, and even if it is absorbed, the hardness of the body does not change.
In other words, a steel skeleton could not inflict effective damage on Jiangshi. And, it is a story that if caught by the Jiangshi, it will only become food.
And a steel skeleton was worth 1 gold per sphere, that is, about 10 million won.
That bastard Jiangshi ate all my 10 million won!!
“Hanseong-ah!!”
Roin’s voice came from the side of the altar.
I saw him holding the village chief and pointing a knife at his throat.
If the jiangshi is hard enough to kill, you can threaten the summoner, the village chief.
