## Chapter 97 – Zombie Parade
It was a monster straight out of a malicious elementary school student’s nightmare. Bloated, rotting flesh and skin crudely stitched together as if forcibly attaching low-quality friends. And above all, its enormous size! To admire gigantism was the privilege of children! The Flesh-Golem had burst forth from such a child’s nightmare and roared!
ㅡGguuoooaaaaaaarrrr!!
“Uwaaaaaaaah!!!! Get the fuck up, you bastards!!!”
I, too, often had dreams of being chased by monsters made of flesh when I was young. So I know very well how terrifying they can be. I barely managed to calm my mind, which was about to fall into extreme panic, and woke up my companions.
“What is it, Barbarian? You’re being awfully nois— Uwaaaaaaaah!!!”
Copson, startled out of his wits, shot up and broke through the roof as if he were flying. Elise and Cloudy were already awake. The three of them immediately jumped out of the way.
“It’s an undead! Prepare yourselves!”
“What is that thing?”
The Flesh-Golem was toddling along, reaching out with both arms as if a newborn were seeking its mother’s milk. But it wasn’t a cute baby craving breast milk, but a desperate monster craving our deaths.
ㅡGguuoooaaaaaaarrrr!
As the monster slammed its fist down, our precious sleeping place from just moments ago was utterly destroyed. Fragments of branches and rocks flew, and dust billowed.
Seeing something someone worked hard to make being smashed like that, I could guess at the destructive nature of the brat. A monster that couldn’t even understand words!
“Ba, Barbarian! Barbariannnnn!”
“Calm downnnnnnn!!!”
We, who had already escaped the range of its attack, created some distance while drawing our respective weapons. Copson, holding his sword, called out my name in a panic. But my name wasn’t Barbarian.
ㅡGguuoooaaaaaaarrrr!!
“What! What! What is that thing?!”
“It is a Flesh-Golem, an evil creation! Be warned, it is a considerably powerful being!”
The Flesh-Golem looked around in the dust. Was it looking for us? The monster, having cleared away the dust, approached again.
ㅡThump, thump, thump.
Its footsteps carried a heavy weight. The monster’s body, illuminated by the flames of the bonfire, was truly hideous. It was as if a super-obese, robust newborn, cursed with an anti-humanitarian curse, had been in its mother’s womb for a full 48 months before being born, and then inflated to a size of 3 meters.
It reveals the creator’s abnormal sexual desires.
Usually, when guys who make things like that create something, they adopt the optimal design based on their sexual desires.
They’re all tumors of society that need to be killed.
“E, Elise. Th, that pattern, that pattern!”
But there was a somewhat familiar symbol drawn on the thing’s chest.
“I see it!”
It was the very same symbol that was engraved on the kobolds’ idol and the skeleton mage’s skull. The necromancer’s symbol! Was it that guy’s doing! The adventurer zombie trio we found earlier must have been attacked by these guys!
“That Flesh-Golem is a demonic creature of a different faith!”
“A demonic creature of a different faith!”
Elise shouted as if spitting out her anger.
“Exterminate it! Let the severe divine hammer fall upon the evil creation!”
With that, she raised her mace high.
Wait, Elise. I appreciate your enthusiasm, but can we really defeat that thing with our current strength?
It was smaller than an ogre, but I couldn’t say for sure whether we four people could do anything against such an overwhelmingly large enemy.
We don’t even have a mage. Even though Cloudy is strong, taking down a large monster is a different story.
“May the light illuminate the darkness!”
A ring of light was created above Elise’s head as she violently recited the prayer.
It was the Holy Light, a divine spell I had seen once before. Holy light poured out, illuminating the surroundings.
ㅡGguuooo!
The Flesh-Golem seemed to be in pain from the light.
“Look! At its pace! Is it not exceedingly slow!”
Elise, distorting her face like a grim reaper, shouted in an intense tone as if spitting fire. Seeing her unbelievable fighting spirit, it seemed she firmly believed that we could defeat that monster.
“I, it does seem slow!”
Copson shouted as if defending himself. As he said, the Flesh-Golem walking towards us was extremely slow. Judging by how it broke the trees, its strength seemed very strong, but on the other hand, its movements seemed extremely clumsy.
“…I sense a presence. Be careful.”
Cloudy, drawing her twin scimitars in both hands, took a stance and spoke.
“There is a caster! In order to control such a monster, there must always be a caster! Be vigilant! There is a very high possibility that they will use magic!”
ㅡGguuoooaaaaaaarrrr!”
We formed a slightly wider formation. Copson and I were positioned on each flank, with Elise and Cloudy in the center. Frankly speaking, I didn’t know if I could cut that thing with my sword, but I took my position like that for now, following Elise’s instructions.
“Ugh…!”
“Kgh…!”
Copson’s and my bodies were just trembling like aspen trees.
Seeing that thing slowly walking towards us, I just wanted to throw away all my fighting spirit and run away. The weakness-despising passive skill was activated. Of course, the weak one was me. From now on, 200% additional damage would be inflicted against strong enemies.
It was the level of additional damage where you get hit twice as hard for every hit you take. That meant that getting hit just once would mean certain death.
It was then.
ㅡWhoosh!
Behind the Flesh-Golem, a ball of fire burning with a purple light flew from the depths of the darkness. Seeing it, a thought flashed through my mind. That’s right. It was that damn curse magic that I had been hit hard by in the dungeon and twisted my body!
That evil flame that had torn out my heart!
“Shit!”
Instinctively, I threw myself to avoid the curse magic. The purple fireball passed right by me and flew towards the back. Elise shouted, “The caster is attacking!” I immediately rolled on the ground and got up. Cloudy grabbed my shoulder as I stood up. Our eyes met for a moment, and then—
ㅡSwish!
Cloudy dashed straight into the darkness.
It meant that she would take care of the caster.
No, damn it, how are we supposed to catch this without you!
“You can leave the caster to her! Saintess! Copson! Focus on the monster! It is a strong enemy, but with the strength of the three of us, we can surely defeat it!”
“What the hell are you talking about!”
“It’s not nonsense! I will cast a buff on you! We can do it!”
At the same time, Copson’s and my swords blazed with divine power.
ㅡTzzzzzzt!
Cloudy had also rushed out, and Elise was out of her mind. Buff or whatever, abandon them here and run away? The thought flashed through my mind, but—
“I will face it head-on, so you two flank around and aim for the monster’s legs! It’s slow, so you can definitely do it! Trust me!”
ㅡI decided to put it aside.
How could I abandon my lover and comrades and run away?
I didn’t care about the other bastards in this world, but Cloudy and my comrades were exceptions.
Having said that, Elise rushed out with lightning speed. The Flesh-Golem swung its arm. Elise dodged it with a somersault and plunged into the golem’s embrace, smashing her mace into its belly.
ㅡThwack!
“Victory!”
The monster’s belly jiggled and burst open. Black blood splattered. It was an incredible impact. The enraged monster threw a punch.
“I offer it to the God of Order!”
But again, she dodged.
Elise, kicking off the ground, avoided the punch and hammered down on the golem’s arm as if she were hammering. It was an incredible force. She used her small stature and agility to inflict damage on the giant golem.
“D, David and Goliath!”
It was a mythical sight in itself.
I witnessed the figure of David, the brave warrior king who killed the general of the ancient Philistine nation with a slingshot. A divine enlightenment erased the Buddhism in my heart and began to fill it with something Christian.
“Alright, fuck it! Copson! Run!”
“Ugh… Alright!”
Elise’s desperate fight continued. The Flesh-Golem’s slow attacks could never harm the trained human weapon that was the Light Holy Cross nun. Elise, letting out a furious roar calling out to God, tore apart the monster’s flesh.
Copson and I, kicking off the ground and running out, passed by its sides and reached the back. The blades were burning with holy light. I steeled my heart.
Wasn’t I the one who had even taken down a ghost with this Bankai (卍解)?
Be strong, Kim Kat!
For the King of Israel, David!
“Die, you fucking ball-less bitch!”
Using the madness caused by fear as a kind of stimulant, I slammed a full-force horizontal slash into the back of the monster’s knee.
ㅡSizzle!
The blade, wrapped in holy flames, burned through the Flesh-Golem’s flesh and blood as it dug in. One hit wasn’t enough. I swung my sword like crazy, slicing off flesh. Slicing, stabbing, and searing the flesh. Copson was the same.
It was a haphazard attack that could only be done against a slow-moving opponent.
ㅡGguuoooaaaaaaarrrr!
“Hey, hey! Elise! The aggro’s shifting!”
Then the monster roared again. I would have screamed too if dwarves were stabbing my legs. It turned its body and reached out its arm towards us.
“Techyaaaaaaaaaaaaat!!!”
“Tzrueyaaaaaaaaaaaak!!!”
Copson and I, who were utterly terrified, screamed as if they were not of this world and ran away as if running to the end of the world. I was planning to meet Jack Sparrow there for a moment. At the same time as the flames of the sword subsided, the paranoid courage that had soared also shattered.
It was a great relief that I didn’t piss myself.
“Light Bolt!”
ㅡThwack!
Then an explosion was heard. I, who was running away in a frenzy, turned around and headed back to the battlefield. Elise was fighting alone. We had to cut its legs while she, the tank, was fighting head-on.
Otherwise, the raid would fail.
“Elise! One more buff!”
“Understood!”
The Flesh-Golem’s head was on fire, perhaps because it had been hit by a Light Bolt. The monster floundered. I couldn’t tell if it felt pain or not. Anyway, now was the chance.
ㅡWhoosh!
The sword blazed again.
“Unstoppable urge Dejaaaaaaaaaaaat!!!”
Letting out a destructive battle cry, I swung my sword with all my might. The sword, imbued with holy power, dug into the rotten, twisted calf. If I brought down its legs like this, the thing wouldn’t be able to bear its weight and would fall over. That was the condition for victory.
“Now’s the time!”
We, who would not miss such an opportunity, immediately headed towards the lower body of the fallen monster and proceeded to hack and slash the rotten flesh. We agreed to slowly cut away from the legs first, as we would be attacked if we got near its arms.
Elise literally became an avatar of violence, smashing her mace like crazy. Copson and I, too, were inspired by Elise’s mythical violence and stabbed our swords next to her. It was a sacred slaughter. After winning, I even felt a reverent feeling.
After cutting off both legs, we took a breather.
