Chapter 77 – Hunting the Stone Eater
“The quarry is a 30-minute walk southeast of the camp. Three people died from those monsters. Be careful.”
“Yes, don’t worry. How many are there?”
“I don’t know about that, but I know there are probably two or three.”
The person in charge answered my question with an ambiguous expression.
That’s a pretty vague answer.
Didn’t you see it yourself?
“Hmm, okay. Proof of subjugation?”
“Evidence? If you kill it, a body will remain. Kill it and call me, and I will go and check it out.”
After talking with the person in charge, we left the camp.
As he told me, after walking southeast along a clean plain without a single tree for about 30 minutes, I began to see a white castle in the distance.
Thanks to the wooden structures wrapped around the white castle wall, which spreads endlessly to the left and right, and the stair-like shape cut here and there, I could see how large-scale construction is taking place here and there every day.
As I looked at the white walls, wondering if the stones that make up the walls of Arpagon or Westway were made here, I saw black dots in the middle.
As we got closer and closer to the quarry, we could see that the black dots were holes about 2 meters in diameter.
A hole in the cliff! Amigara Fault! Junji Ito! Ugh! Head!
“Hanseong-nim, there is a hole in the floor in front of you. Be careful.”
Looking at where Natalia’s hand pointed, there were holes in the floor similar to those in the wall.
“Oh, why are there so many holes?”
“It’s a trace of Stone Eaters passing by.”
“These holes?”
“Stone Eater is a monster that eats stones and crushes them to turn them into dirt. It’s a helpful monster when creating farmland, but it’s a quarry that needs rocks.”
When I heard the explanation, it felt a bit like an earthworm, right?
“It’s a story about a monster that shouldn’t be here.”
“That’s right.”
I looked around while listening to Natalia’s explanation. The black holes in the middle of the white wall and the floor catch my eyes.
“By the way, is it a monster that walks underground?”
“Yes.”
“How do you hold it?”
I don’t know how to catch the kids hiding in the ground. I had to see him so I could stab him with a knife or whatever.
“Well, if you give it a vibration, there is a possibility that they will gather.”
“Vibration? Can I just run around here?”
“It’s dangerous for a human to do it, so I’ll have to ask for a skeleton.”
Following Natalya’s gesture, the troll skeleton stood a little further away and began to stomp on the ground.
“Can I wait now?”
“Yes.”
“⋯⋯.”
It’s been a long time since I’ve been watching with my arms folded. When I was about to yawn out of boredom, it was Roin who reacted first.
“Come.”
With the old man’s words, the ground that the troll had been stomping on suddenly began to rise.
As the troll skeleton stepped back, steel skeletons surrounded it.
– Kwaaang!
The rocky ground shattered and stone dust splattered, revealing the Stone Eater.
“Is it an earthworm? No, lamprey?”
Its brown, slippery body, which is only about 2m thick, resembles an earthworm when viewed from the side, but its huge snout drilled in the front part has the same teeth as a lamprey.
They’re rock eaters, so if you get caught there, you’ll just be crushed to death.
The Stone Eater appeared powerfully, but there was no sign of doing anything with its head raised.
The surrounding skeletons thrust their swords into the Stone Eater.
– Kikiiik!!
He let out a horrifying scream and swung his body protruding from the ground, trying to knock the skeletons away.
-Kwaaak!!
The troll skeleton inserted Zweihender and blocked the resistance.
I was watching the fight between the Stone Eater and the Troll Skeleton, but maybe it was because I was watching from a distance, so there wasn’t much excitement.
It’s just like watching a cheap monster war movie.
Can I hold it comfortably like this?
Even if you just sit still and watch, each one comes in 5 silver. Money is copied!
“I have no idea how I would have caught that thing without Natalia.”
“Lol.”
If it wasn’t for Natalie, I’d probably be doing all kinds of shit show to catch that one.
Phew, thanks to Natalya, life in another world is so comfortable. It was so admirable that I stroked her hair, and she made a happy face.
“Oh, he died.”
Hearing Roin’s voice, he looked back at the stone eater, and saw that the skeletons were pulling him out of the pit.
It’s like ants clinging to huge prey.
“Ah, that one needs blood too.”
“Blood? Why?”
“The receptionist said he needed something and asked me to get some.”
“It was necessary to separate the gonads from that corpse in order to attract other Stone Eaters anyway. I’ll also draw blood while I’m separating the gonads.”
“Thank you. But what about gonads?”
“Stone Eaters attract other Stone Eaters by expelling a special liquid from their gonads. I use it as bait.”
At Natalia’s gesture, the skeletons began to disassemble the Stone Eater’s body.
Tributes are gathering for Elina.
Mmm, Elina⋯. I will definitely spray my semen on that white shirt.
*****
As a result of continuing to attract stone eaters until early evening, a total of five were caught.
After showing all the bodies to the person in charge, we left the quarry camp.
The quarry camp is surrounded by wooden fences and seems to be secure, but it is a terrible demonic place where men hungry for women lurk.
Natalya and Roin’s beauty is too great to rest in such a place.
With the calculation that if I moved quickly, I would be able to pass by the camping spot where I killed the Black Moon guys yesterday and open my seat in another vacant lot. As I moved, I saw an vacant lot lined with the corpses of the Black Moon guys I killed in the morning.
“If you just pass by here and go a little further, there will be another empty lot, right?”
“Huh. If you go there, set up a tent and prepare for camping, it will be just dark.”
“There are artifacts anyway, so there’s no big problem moving even if it gets darker.”
Natalya showed her necklace in her arms.
It is a light-emitting artifact that was used in the Goblin Lair in the past.
“Oh, Han Sung-ah. Can you see this?”
“What?”
I looked at the place Roin pointed with her hand.
On the way we were going, we saw what looked like human crawling marks. In the middle, blood is dripping.
“Is this the guy Hanseong saved?”
“I see. I put out his limbs for a harpoon, how far could he have crawled away?”
It would feel bad if we were left behind in the clearing where we were going to rest. Please don’t go far and die.
I was a little curious about where the corpse might come from, so I walked all the way along the road.
One step, two steps, even if you walk and walk, the traces that have been connected do not know how to break.
Soon after arriving at the clearing, we stopped walking.
The trail he crawled on continued past the clearing where we were sleeping.
“⋯⋯.”
“Is it rare? How could it have come this far?”
This is a bit strange.
I got my hands and feet trimmed. It would have been normal if he had been bitten by a monster long ago, or if he had died from excessive blood loss in this empty lot. To have gone such a long way
“It’s not the mark that the monster dragged, right?”
“Oh, look at this. From here on, there are no crawl marks. Besides, it must have stopped the bleeding, and from this point on, there is no blood left.”
Roin, who was looking at the floor, pointed to the end of the clearing.
Certainly, as Roin said, it was different from the previous marks.
“I don’t know what it is, but the marks have changed. Besides, there are human footprints.”
“He has a crushed foot and can’t walk. It’s a story about someone else’s footprint. The Black Moon guys have already come to pick you up?”
“Uhm… Footprints the size of a woman.”
“Woman…?”
Natalya, who was listening to the story from the side, took out an artifact and summoned a sphere of light to illuminate the surroundings.
“Shall we just walk all night? I think that would be fine.”
The smell of blood calls monsters. I don’t know if the monsters have already been stirred up. There were no monsters in the clearing where the Black Moon guys were killed. That said, the story is that monsters are gathering.
Although this clearing is quite far from the place, it is uneasy because the body of the person who should have died is nowhere to be seen.
“If we walk from now on, will we arrive in the morning?”
“Yes.”
“I’m tired, but I think it’ll be better.”
“Huh. My thoughts are the same. I think it would be better to just walk without sleeping for a day. Sorry?”
Roin suddenly apologized and hugged him.
“What?”
“I was going to have them knock on my baby’s room at night… Is it postponed until tomorrow?”
“Me, me too. I was going to kiss your cock hard.”
Like these cute girls.
“When I get back, I’ll fuck you until I pass out, so look forward to it.”
“Kyaheung!”
“Yes heh.”
He gripped both of their hips tightly.
