Chapter 569 – Side Story 72) Barbarian Knight (11)
Side Story 72) Barbarian Night (11)
Quaang-!
“Kkokkiyoooooh clothes?!”
The hammer stuck into the chicken head.
The psychic power imprinted on Henry’s Sanctuary Armor was [Body Enhancer], And the durability and power of nanoparticles were much stronger than other Sanctuary Armor imprinted with psychic powers.
Those nanoparticles aggregated into a hammer, and the hammer was driven into the top of the chicken head. [Charm.Coca.Tris]’S crown-shaped crest was crushed and turned into a miserable appearance.
“Kkokkiyooooong…”
The chicken head staggered at Henry’s attack. The eyeballs rotated round and round.
“Udadadadat!”
As it stumbled, Stone Shower controlled a pile of stones and attacked his leg. In the end, the chicken head lost its balance and collapsed due to the continuous intensive fire.
“Attack!”
“Aaaaa!”
“Oohhh-!”
As the giant chicken head fell, the heroes launched an all-out attack. Now, with his eyes closed, was a golden opportunity for the heroes to defeat him.
The heroes attacked him with all their might, but the most prominent among them were Arachne, the S-class hero, and Henry, the monster hunter.
Arachne held the chicken head so that it could not move, and at the same time, she made a ball of transparent thread and made it into an awl to attack his eyes. Henry also used the Sanctuary Armor this time to change his hammer into a spear and repeatedly stab him in the opposite eye.
It was because the most dangerous thing when dealing with chicken heads was the eyes.
“…Keep tight.”
However, the chicken head was also a formidable monster.
This guy was much stronger than the monster Henry had been fighting day and night for a month. If anything, would you have resisted the dark knight’s power of chaos?
Although it is said to be the weakest of the four kings of monsters, it was a monster so strong that the Dark Knight had to defeat it and subdue it.
“Damn it! Your eyelids are too thick!”
Arachne, who was intensively attacking the chicken head’s eyes, became tired of it. Even the villains, who are rumored to have strong bodies, did not pass through easily. Her attacks only ended up scarring her eyelids.
“Kuk!”
And so was Henry. He, who is the best monster hunter with a much higher defense than the monsters he dealt with last year, was also very embarrassed.
“Kkokkiyooooot~!”
Woojijik-!
Eventually, the situation we feared happened.
The chicken head, which had lost consciousness for a moment due to the unexpected attack, regained consciousness. There, as if he couldn’t stop himself with something like this, he cut Arachne’s thread that was entangling his body at once.
“Kkok kuk kuk!”
“Eww?!”
The chicken head, which pulled off his thread and stood up, grabbed Big Bear by its tail, which was eagerly biting its scales, clinging to itself. And threw it away
Quaang-!
“Ouch…!”
It was thrown so hard that the Big Bear, which was thrown off the cliff, didn’t fall off and stuck firmly to the wall. Unbearable pain spread throughout his body, and in the end, Big Bear, who could not stand the pain, lost consciousness.
His counterattack did not stop there.
“Must—–kiyooooo!!!!!”
The body of [Char.Coca.Tris], Who let out a loud cry, began to sway. Before long, the scales near the tail opened and released sticky eggs.
“That, that! Arachne-sama! We have to get rid of that egg right now!”
“Okay… Gah!”
Thud-!
Arachne, warned by Henry that she must deal with the egg quickly, tried to approach her, but she was stopped by a boulder that fell in front of her.
“Not me! That monster!”
At the moment of her attack directed at her, she thought that her ally Stone Shower was attacking her, but it was not.
The stone stuck in front of Arachne was none other than his feather. The feathers on its wings were made of stone, not hair.
“Top click!”
The chicken head spread its wings wide as it laid eggs, and soon stone feathers began to pour from its wings like heavy rain.
“Kuk! Avoid!”
The search team, including Arachne and Henry, had to run until the soles of their feet were on fire to avoid the stone feathers flying from all sides.
Damn-!
The chicken head bought time by blowing away its stone feathers, and in the end it achieved its goal. The 10 or so eggs he just laid had cracks, and soon after, monsters that looked just like him came out of the eggs.
“Beep beep!”
“Beep!”
“Bibi Big!”
Unlike [Charm. Coca. Tris], Which had a different cry and was generally reddish, the babies born from the eggs had a yellow body. Also, the size was a little over 1m. It was a look that anyone could tell that it was a chicken head chick.
“Keep it!”
“Beep beep!”
“Bibi Big! Bibi Big!”
When the chicken heads pointed with their wings to the forest behind them, the chicken heads, receiving the mother’s order, began to run towards it.
“Shit!”
“Oh.”
Where the chick heads were heading, there were Bloodshot and Monster Hunter Ice, which had a sniping point on a tree. The two bit their lips at the sight of the little monsters running towards them.
“Cubs don’t stay active for long! 30 minutes at most! Hold on for 30 minutes!”
Then, Henry’s voice reached their ears. He was the one who had already experienced the aggression pattern of producing offspring.
Originally, [Char. Coca. Tris] Live with eggs in their bodies, and then lay eggs just before hatching to preserve the species.
However, there are cases where eggs are laid in the same pattern as now, and that was when encountering dangerous enemies. It was to lay eggs and push them by numbers.
“At most 30 minutes? It’s easy to say! Come up this way!”
“Ah yes!”
Hearing Henry’s urgent cry, Bloodshot grumbled and lowered the rope to Ice, who was perched under a tree. As she grabbed her rope, Bloodshot pulled her up her tree.
Since the babies born now are just over 1m tall, they will not be able to climb trees, so they planned to spend time sitting on top of trees.
“Beep!”
“Bibi Big!”
“… Heh heh heh. It’s really funny.”
However, [Charm.Coca.Tris] Had legs similar to those of chickens, but at the same time had the elongated body of a snake. Cubs with folded legs climbed trees like snakes.
Fit-! Fit-! Fit-!
In a situation where he could not hope for the support of other heroes, Bloodshot began to buy time by shooting a pistol with a silencer attached.
“Henry, what should we do now?”
“That is…”
Henry bit his lip at Arachne’s question. He had a way to take him down at once, but the risk was just as great.
“If there is a way, just say it out loud.”
“… Somewhere in his body there is an evil spirit.”
“Reverse? What is it?”
“Among its scales, there are opposite-shaped scales. If you attack it, you can kill it in an instant. In terms of humans, it’s like the heart or neck.”
“It must be difficult to find.”
Arachne smiled bitterly at Henry’s words. It was 8m tall and 20m long. There must be thousands of scales on his body, if not better. Finding one of them has never been easier.
“It’s hard to find, but you can take it out completely instead. Instead…”
“Instead?”
“If the attack fails, it goes berserk.”
“Go crazy…”
It’s not that ordinary people run amok. A huge monster would run amok. This area will be devastated by his damn light.
“If I stab him and run away, will he come after me?”
“I’ll follow you.”
“How are you so sure?”
“It’s an experience.”
“Umm… You’re still young, but you’re going through hardships, Henry-kun.”
“That’s how you become stronger, and you can protect people.”
“…”
At Henry’s answer, Arachne looked at Henry with strange eyes. The more I looked at him, the more I liked him. He was a young man, no, a boy.
Heroes and monster hunters were no different. He has the same desire to protect people from enemies.
‘… No, I’m fake, but this kid is a ‘real’ hero.’
“I must survive here in order to protect more people in the future. Henry.”
“Yes?”
“If I buy you some time… Can you find the reverse?”
“That…”
Henry couldn’t answer.
It was sheer luck that I was able to attack the evil of the monster I fought last year. I didn’t aim for the attack, but when I attacked it, it was just that the place was near Yeokrin.
“Can you do it or not?”
“… I can find it. No, I will definitely find it.”
“Hehe. I was hoping for that answer.”
Seeing Arachne’s determined expression, Henry nodded. Then she smiled at her.
“Henry.”
“Yes, Arachne.”
“Next time, please call me noona. Considering my age, I might call you aunt… But I still don’t want to be called aunt when I’m in my 20s. Also, please don’t hate me because I’ve changed strangely. Then I might get hurt. Are you?”
“Yeah? What is that… Huh?!”
Henry, who looked at Arachne at the meaningless words, was frightened. This is because her lower body swelled up rapidly.
It wasn’t long before he knew what ‘even if it changed strangely’ meant.
“Whoa… I can’t get used to this look at first.”
Arachne, who used her own psychic powers in earnest, murmured, frowning on her. Her appearance had changed a great deal.
Her upper body was unaltered. What changed was her lower body.
Her legs, which had been two of hers, had grown to a whopping eight, and her gross hairy hair. Most shocking of all is that her lower body has turned into a giant spider.
It was as if her figure had been cut and pasted from the top of her spider.
“No matter what, I’ll buy you time, so you have to find out what the reverse is, Henry.”
“Ah, Arachne-nim! For a moment… Kkeutssok!”
Arachne didn’t even listen to her answer and rushed towards [Cheon, Coca, Tris]. It was as if a tank was charging.
Henry, who was momentarily taken aback by the change in her and Arachne’s appearance, soon gritting her teeth and ran after her in front of her. He noticed the idea of buying time alone to discover the reverse. Arachne becomes more dangerous if she does not quickly find the wrong object and stab it accurately.
“Ahhhhh!”
Thud-!
Arachne dared to engage in hand-to-hand combat against large monsters. Running at her full speed, she ran into the chicken head with her body.
But he didn’t even budge. To be precise, at the moment of impact, she shook her body to disperse the impact.
“Keep tight!”
Soon after, the chicken head started to peck at Arachne by shaking her head back and forth!
“Haha!”
Emitting an endless stream of transparent thread from her hand, she wove her thread and used it as her shield. She also curled up her beak at the same time, struggling to keep it from opening.
Squeak-
Then she tried to wrap Arachne with her body this time. But this time, the chicken head attack went back to nothing. I moved quickly and climbed up the guy’s body, not suitable for his size.
‘Where are you! Where the hell are you!’
While Arachne was desperately buying time against [Charm.Coca.Tris], Henry was looking for the reverse. It was not easy to find the opposite-shaped scales among the dense scales.
“Oh?!”
Could it be that the god of fortune was watching him? As Henry was nervously examining the scales, a scale of a different shape came into Henry’s eyes.
“Found!”
Henry’s face brightened.
But I couldn’t help but laugh.
Thud-! Thud-! Thud-!
“Kuk!”
It was because the chicken head was moving its body around to grab hold of Arachne, who had climbed onto it.
“Arachne-nim! I found the evil! But we have to stop him from moving!”
“Keukssok! Well done! Haaaaa!”
Whiriririririk-!
Transparent threads spurted out from Arachne’s body. Threads spewing out of the body wrapped around the chicken head.
“Kkooot! Kkokkuk!”
“As it is…”
But he couldn’t stop him. He succeeded in entangling his entire body with thread, but his strength was so strong that he could not stop it.
‘What am I doing?’
Arachne thought that her appearance was ridiculous. If he were his own personality, he wouldn’t have done such a risky thing.
She became a hero because she could make a lot of money. She had never fought for her life like this in any battle. She even made an excuse and didn’t go out even though she was ordered to go out when she reported that an S-class villain had appeared.
‘Am I crazy? Why are you risking your life here?’
To be honest, she was confident that no matter what monsters appeared, she would take one of her body out. That’s why she didn’t refuse the order of the head of the Guizman Association to go on a search.
Even if everyone here dies, only you can live.
For her, the most important thing for her is her own life. Then it’s money.
But why?
“Ahhhhh!”
She was desperately fighting her monster, risking her life. You can’t escape if you’re this close.
“Arachne!”
“…”
Henry.
Yes it is because of him
I changed because of him.
Shining brightly despite being still a child.
Because I want to protect people in a subject that needs to be protected.
I am doing something that is not like me.
‘Yes, I’m doing this because I have to be close to him. That way I can make a lot of money.’
Her rationalization of her own behavior so she-
“Look at me, you chicken head!”
“Keep tight?”
He made eye contact with the chicken head.
Damn it-!
At that moment, she turned to stone.
Even her thread wrapped around the chicken head.
For an instant, the chicken head stopped moving.
“Ahhhhh!”
Henry stabbed him in the back.
