Chapter 964 – 964. Rainbow Fruit
Colman took the role of the tank, and I aimed for openings, thrusting my sword. Of course, the Baron wasn’t just a punching bag. He also counterattacked. He launched bone spikes and swung his claws. But the most threatening thing was his grip. Once caught, I’d be crushed like my leg had been.
In that sense, Kang Seok-soo’s magic was a great help. Kang Seok-soo didn’t try to harm the Baron directly, but instead, he created openings with magic when Colman and I were in danger.
The battle continued for more than 20 minutes. Colman and I were so exhausted that we could barely speak.
“You insects! How dare you! Oh, Brahmasen! I will offer these guys to you soon! Watch over me!”
The Baron charged again.
I was lucky.
The Baron, who had comfortably ruled the city just because he was born a noble, didn’t know how to fight.
“Oh, Goddess!”
Colman cried out to the Goddess and swung his holy mace. The mace crushed the Baron’s thigh. The Baron fell to the floor.
‘Now’s my chance!’
I quickly ran and stabbed my sword into the back of the Baron’s neck, causing lightning to surge. Red lightning crackled from the Stormbreaker sword, which had merged with the Hwaryeonbi.
The red lightning was effective. The Baron’s body trembled like an aspen leaf.
“Kuh, ah, aaaaaah!”
Just because he had become a monster didn’t mean he was immune to pain. No, it might be that he felt pain because he had reason.
I turned my eyes to the side.
The light of the rainbow fruit had become as faint as a candle in the wind. When that light completely faded, I would be able to kill the Baron.
“He’s getting up!”
At Colman’s words, I pulled out my sword and created some distance. The Baron got up. He let out an annoyed roar. It was deafening.
“I’ll knock him down again.”
Colman ran towards the Baron.
A mistake happened. Colman’s leg faltered. It was because of Colman’s depleted stamina. And mistakes are fatal. Colman was grabbed by the Baron’s shoulder and leg.
“Aaaah, aaaah!”
The Baron twisted and squeezed Colman’s body as if wringing out a rag. Colman’s armor shattered, and red blood splattered on the floor.
“You filthy heretic!!!”
Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!
Colman swung his mace, hitting the Baron’s head. The power of the holy mace was gradually weakening.
“Yujin! Kill him! Hurry!”
“You’ve done well, Colman!”
After confirming that the light of the rainbow fruit had completely disappeared, I ran behind the Baron and stabbed my sword into him. The hard bone blocked the sword’s path. I gritted my teeth and used all my mana to thrust the sword in. The sword reached his heart.
“Kuh-eok! Oh, Brahmasen…!”
The Baron’s body fell forward. Colman was crushed under his heavy body. I pulled out my sword. Colman was already dead, so there was no point in taking it out now.
“This should be the end of this dungeon.”
My revenge against the Baroness was also over.
I approached Kang Seok-soo. But there was no joy on Kang Seok-soo’s face. Rather, it was distorted. It was the face of a loser.
“Kang Seok-soo. What’s wrong?”
“The rainbow fruit is glowing.”
What he said was true. The rainbow fruit, which had lost its light, was glowing again. At the same time, the Baron’s body twitched. The wounds I had inflicted, the pierced heart, were regenerating.
“Damn it. What is this?!”
“The rainbow fruit. That’s probably the source of that monster’s power. You could call it an engine. It must be operating by consuming fuel like an engine.”
“…Fuel?”
“It must be the people in this city. Otherwise, there would be no need to keep them locked up.”
In short, all the people in this city were sacrifices. The rampaging monsters were killing people and offering them as sacrifices to the evil god.
“Since the strongest inquisitor among us is dead, there’s no hope. I’m going to wash my hands of this.”
Kang Seok-soo took out the Thread of Origin and poured mana into it. The thread burned.
“Sung Yujin. You should give up too. There’s no answer. We failed the raid. It’ll be a bit of a blemish on our careers, but… it’s a new monster and a new type of dungeon, so we can make excuses. Sung Yujin?”
“…Go ahead. I’m going to kill that bastard and then leave.”
“Why go that far? This is a dungeon. Even if we fail, a dungeon break won’t happen. We can just try the dungeon raid again later.”
“I’m the type who doesn’t let anyone who touches my woman get away with it.”
“…Woman?”
Kang Seok-soo looked like he didn’t understand. Soon, he disappeared.
“Krrr…”
The Baron got up. I summoned all the bombs I could summon and threw them at him before running away.
Boom! Kwa-kwa-kwa-boom! Boom!
I transformed Stormbreaker into a shield and partially blocked the explosions. My back was a little hot, but it would take some time for the Baron to recover again.
‘If what Kang Seok-soo said is true… wouldn’t the light of the rainbow fruit weaken if I killed all the people in the city?’
Before they were offered to the evil god Brahmasen or whatever, I would kill them all.
‘If I use a nuclear bomb…’
I could wipe them out in one go.
‘But the sacrifices have already been gathered to some extent. After using a nuclear bomb, will I be able to handle that guy?’
Colman was dead, and Kang Seok-soo, who had been covering me, was gone. It was impossible for me to handle the Baron alone. Heavenly Heart was on cooldown, and even if I surprised him with a full recovery, what if he regenerated again with the power of the rainbow fruit?
‘There’s got to be a way…’
A few ideas came to mind. One of them was Absolute Authority. If I used that one-time use item, I could get rid of the Baron. But it was too precious to use on the likes of the Baron.
‘Summoning Elena is also an option. With Elena’s power, I could wipe them out.’
The summoned Elena had Limit Break. If she used her original power for one minute with Limit Break, the Baron wouldn’t be able to handle it.
‘Summon Elena… no. There’s random summon, isn’t there? If I hit the jackpot with a random summon, there’s no need to summon Elena.’
Even in this situation, I was itching to use random summon. In this urgent situation, I wanted to test my luck.
‘If I summon Elena and use her for one minute and then she’s reverse summoned, I won’t be able to have sex in the real world.’
Even if that wasn’t the case, if I summoned her inside the dungeon, she might not be able to go outside with me when I succeeded in the dungeon raid. Because I didn’t enter the dungeon through normal means.
“It’s meaningless!! You will die according to His will!”
The Baron’s angry voice echoed from behind. I stopped running and frowned.
‘Let’s go with random summon.’
I made up my mind. I couldn’t use random summon because of the cooldown, but I had a way to reset the cooldown.
[Skill Cooldown Reset Ticket
Resets the cooldown of a skill.
Price: 2,000 points
※Caution
Only 1 stack will be recharged for consumed stacks.]
[Using Skill Cooldown Reset Ticket.]
[The cooldown of the Random Summon skill has been reset.]
‘I have 1,150 points. That’s enough to use random summon.’
[Consuming 500 points to start random summon.]
[Revr from the Wargamer world has been summoned.]
[The Wargamer Yuhui world is deactivated.]
[The summon duration is 15 days.]
‘Wargamer? That world is a sci-fi fantasy game world.’
A bug appeared in front of me. It was a light pink caterpillar about the size of a human head. It floated in the air. Its 20 legs wiggled simultaneously. The single fist-sized golden eye on its head stared at me intently.
Looking at Revr’s appearance, I remembered its identity.
-Did you, call me?
A murky voice entered my mind. It wasn’t telepathy. It was telepathy.
‘A seriously dangerous guy has been summoned!’
Revr was a villain called the Parasite Lord in the [Wargamer] world. Its origin was a mutant born on a polluted planet. It could use telekinesis, telepathy, and teleportation, and it could divide its body and parasitize living things. It could parasitize people and monsters, as well as robots and androids.
Revr was a natural disaster. It traveled around planets and continued to reproduce, that is, parasitize. The planet where Revr appeared would be destroyed.
“Are you going to parasitize me?”
-If, you allow, I want, to parasitize.
“…If I allow? Since when did you ask for permission to parasitize?”
-You, are different, from ordinary, humans, I, know, your abilities. I want, to form, a friendly relationship.
“Well, my abilities are pretty awesome.”
I remembered when Mireyeong was first summoned to me. Mireyeong also knew something about me.
-I want, more worlds, more planets, to reproduce.
“Reproduction, huh. I understand. I like sex too.”
-I, cannot have sex. I have no reproductive organs.
“I know. You dickless bug.”
-…….
Kiiiiiiiiiiit!
A crazed sound was heard. Four monsters appeared around me. The monsters charged fiercely at me.
“Hey, do something about those guys!”
-Can I, parasitize?
“Yes! You can parasitize everything here except me!”
-Good.
Small bugs the size of a thumb appeared from Revr’s back. It was Revr’s ability, division. The four small bugs flew towards the monsters. The monsters didn’t react to the bugs. They didn’t seem to sense the danger itself.
The parasitic bugs burrowed into the host’s body. Even bone spikes with the strength to block sword energy couldn’t stop the parasitic bugs.
-Parasitism, good heart.
The parasitism was over in an instant. The monsters that had been running at me stopped abruptly. Small, tentacle-like things popped out of the monsters’ mouths, eyes, and ears, wriggling.
“Hey. We need to kill a really strong guy. So reproduce as quickly as possible.”
-Okay. There are, many, hosts, nearby.
The parasitized monsters moved. Revr and I followed the parasitized monsters. The parasitized monsters reproduced like zombies. They reproduced by biting humans or monsters with their mouths. It didn’t take long to reproduce. Although there were individual differences, it took 30 seconds at most to complete the reproduction.
‘The parasitism speed of humans is slower than that of monsters. Is it because humans are smarter than monsters?’
The parasitized monsters and humans scattered in all directions, continuing to parasitize.
-Reproduction, very good.
“You bastard! What are you doing to my sacrifices! Brahmasen is enraged!”
Thump, thump-thump.
The Baron’s voice echoed loudly from afar. The thumping was the sound of him approaching this way. His figure came into view. His face was twisted with anger.
-What, is that?
“The guy who killed my woman.”
-Weak. But, I am, weaker.
Revr immediately judged the difference in strength. I didn’t know what Revr’s original stats were, but now its stats were adjusted to mine. However, Revr’s strength was not physical strength. Its parasitic ability, like a plague, was Revr’s true strength.
“Kill him.”
-Isn’t, revenge, something, you should, do, yourself?
“I’m the one who summoned you.”
-Okay.
Revr used telepathy. A horde of zombies swarmed from all directions. The parasitized monsters and humans rushed at the Baron.
“No matter how many of you there are, you can’t beat me!”
The Baron wasn’t easy to deal with. He crushed monsters with his hands and threw humans. But the parasitized humans moved even if their heads were broken or their arms fell off. The parasitic bug somewhere in their body was the main body.
I watched the situation with a smile.
The Baron had the upper hand at first. He trampled monsters and humans with his immense power. But as time passed, the Baron’s overwhelming divine power could no longer be seen.
If the Baron defeated three enemies, more than ten enemies would appear and cling to him. Those ten would soon become thirty, and thirty would become a hundred.
It didn’t take long for thousands of them to cling to the Baron.
“Aaaaaaaaah! Oh, Brahmasen!! Give me strength! Give me strength!!! Aaaaaaah!!”
The Baron was eaten alive by the sacrifices he had offered to the evil god. The regenerative power that the rainbow fruit had given him became poison. He was eaten alive for almost an hour.
-City, reproduction, complete.
“Isn’t that guy parasitized?”
-Your, revenge, I deliberately, did not, parasitize.
“You could if you wanted to?”
-A little, difficult, but, possible.
“It’s okay. Don’t do it. I have to kill that bastard myself. And thanks for your hard work.”
I walked to the garden of the castle where the rainbow fruit was. Revr quietly followed behind me.
I felt complicated as I looked at the Baroness’s corpse, and then I took the rainbow fruit, which had lost its light.
The rainbow fruit disappeared from my hand.
