## Chapter 57 – A Cruel Behemoth
“Ah! Aaaah!! Hngaaah!! So manly, aaat!!”
“The tentacle is scraping my insides out!!”
Reactions varied beyond measure.
In some ways, I had long anticipated these easy reactions, and my heart twisted indifferently as I watched.
Women who were never mine to begin with.
Therefore, women I shouldn’t covet, shouldn’t desire like this.
The small animal-kin, easily bound by the tentacles due to their lack of strength.
And the beast-kin, strong but unable to overcome their breeding instincts, rolling their eyes back.
Each of them screaming out their own unique suffering and inner pain.
“No…!! Oppa… Oppaaaa…!! Save me…!!”
“Honey!! If this goes on… I’ll……!!”
And off to the side, the men, also naked and stuck to the wall, were starting to twitch, weakened by the spider venom.
The men with some natural drug resistance were the first to stir and look around.
The moment they opened their eyes and saw the miserable state of their mates, they thrashed wildly, not even realizing they were bound by tree roots.
“You bastard!! You’re worse than a monster, you bug!!”
“Honey!! No!! Hold on, I’ll save you!!
Damn it!! What’s so tough about this!!”
The commotion was so loud that the guards, barely conscious, startled awake.
“Ugh!! What is this!!”
“Where am I!! Eek!! Even the animal-kin?”
“I-It looks like a monster’s lair!!
The equipment…!! Where did it go!!
Damn it!! First, untie us!!”
It was utter chaos.
Everywhere you looked, no one was able to think straight.
They were simply panicking in the current situation, struggling without knowing what to do.
“An Enik… How can something like that still be in human territory…”
But one of the guards, who looked a bit older, muttered in a low voice, drawing my attention.
A man who knew of the Enik’s existence.
How did he know about the Enik?
“I fought them near Chaoxing when I was active!!
That’s an Enik!! It’s just a hatchling, not even an adult yet!!
Get a grip, you guys!!”
Before my curiosity could accelerate, the guard shouted at the others, and I felt a strange sense of wariness, urgently extending a tentacle to grab him.
“Ugh!! Uwaaa!! Ughwaaa!! Ack!!”
Perhaps it was an instinct to deal with threats.
Unconsciously, I twisted the man’s neck, feeling the tentacle crush and absorb his flesh and bones, and began to experience a moment of ecstasy.
Scenes, whether hallucinations or fantasies, flowed into my mind.
From a point of view as if looking up, an enormous tree unfolded before me, truly deserving the description of incomparable.
The sheer diameter of the tree could easily fill a soccer field, and its overwhelming majesty filled me with terror.
Countless insect-type swarms poured out from the tree, along with the monsters that seemed to be coexisting with them.
The scene of struggling to face and cut down those creatures vanished from my eyes in an instant, and I was able to return to my lair.
‘What… What was that just now…?’
This wasn’t the first time I’d experienced something like this.
The first time I met ‘the woman.’
The moment I indulged in the sweet taste of her blood, devouring her flesh and blood.
Just like then, several scenes that seemed to be her memories flowed into my head, and I wondered if I had absorbed this man’s memories by eating him.
Memories about the Enik of Chaoxing.
‘Incredible… That was… an adult Enik…’
An enormous size and majesty that made me question whether it could even be called a tree anymore.
And a swarm so vast that it felt grotesque, something I couldn’t even imagine with my mere hundred-odd spiders and twenty-odd Kernel Worms.
There were many types of creatures in that swarm that I had never seen before.
Creatures that looked similar to spiders, but were so large that they charged into humans like wild boars.
Creatures with flexible forms, like starfish or octopuses, that I had never seen before, flying and latching onto humans, parasitizing them.
Creatures that looked like swarms of locusts, sweeping through soldiers like swarms of bees.
And…
‘Giant Kernel Worms… They were there too…’
Recalling the giant Kernel Worm, the link between me and it, which confirmed my expectations, I was finally able to be certain.
The memory was like watching a world tree supporting the world, and a waterfall of swarms pouring down from above like a natural disaster, and I couldn’t calm my excitement as I continued to retrace the memory.
But the fact that this man had survived meant that the Enik had eventually been conquered.
Even though it was so huge. Even though it was so strong. Even though it had countless swarms.
Was the Enik just a helpless being in the face of humans?
Trampled by their countless legions of steel, powerful magic, and strong beings who surpassed humanity and possessed power surpassing the swarms, only to become a pile of firewood?
‘I have to get stronger… More… Much more than now…
And no matter what… I won’t get caught…
No matter what… more secretly…’
The determination not to collapse this time, and the determination to survive in order to see her again.
Those two resolutions were everything to a being as weak as me.
And as I reaffirmed those resolutions, I saw something.
A slightly different, inverted world in a different perspective.
‘I will never die…
I’ll do everything I can…’
The tree roots binding the bodies of the animal-kin women tightened even more, and bundles of tentacles spewing nutrient fluid were thrust into their mouths.
“Hic…!! Ugh… Ugh… Ugeuk……!!”
The animal-kin women, no longer able to resist, could only swallow all the nutrient fluid flowing into their throats, making gurgling sounds.
And above the heads of the women drinking the nutrient fluid, small creatures with four pairs of legs silently climbed down the wall and landed, sucking the women’s common erogenous zones into their concave mouths.
The animal-kin men, forced to watch their mates suffering, shook their bodies as if they were about to shed tears of blood, as the animal-kin women thrashed their waists like fish, their limbs bound while their erogenous zones were being sucked.
‘Anything that can be experimented on is good.
I’ll find out even one more thing.’
But I was just as crazed as they were, so I calmly watched their figures, my resolve burning with heat.
And as such, I quietly turned a tentacle to the side.
‘Are you hungry? Eat.’
“What are you thinking?”
Arachnella, who had been looking at me with suspicious eyes at the end of my tentacle, grumbled, and I clearly conveyed my intentions once again.
It was something that had to be done anyway, and there was a need to do it.
‘It’s exactly what it sounds like. Eat.
Just one that you like.’
“If it’s one that I like, I certainly won’t be able to eat you…”
Arachnella, who had been glaring at me intently, soon walked forward with the sound of gravel crunching under her feet and neatly slit the throat of one of the male animal-kin with goat horns with her fingernails.
A fountain of blood spurted from his neck, and the surroundings, which had been watching her actions with tension, were in an uproar at the shocking sight.
“Kyaaaaaaak!! Honey!!
Nooooooo!! Hnghnghngh……”
Moreover, perhaps because the female animal-kin with the same cloudy eyes as a goat, who was the male animal-kin’s mate, was looking at him and wailing even while being violated by the tentacles, the atmosphere was so bad that one might think the sewers were better, and it was becoming serious.
In that landscape filled with shock, only the sound of Arachnella, with a gloomy expression, tearing apart and eating the male animal-kin, from whom blood had been drawn appropriately, echoed in the lair along with the sorrowful sobbing of the female animal-kin who had lost her husband, and the moans of the other female animal-kin who could not hold back their pleasure even in this situation.