Chapter 640 – 640. Breeding Catastrophe (5)
It was the worst feeling to stab women who had conceived monsters in their stomachs to suffocate them and stab them to the abdomen to ensure that the monsters that were to be born were also killed.
Riod followed Eun-hyeon to help, and even Cha Han-seong joined in.
‘… It’s disgusting.’
When you died on Earth and were reincarnated on this continent and given a new life, the thing you didn’t adapt to the most was this continent’s way of thinking.
If you have power, you can intimidate and exploit others, and if you don’t, you will be unilaterally taken away and die.
This is natural, so unreasonable, and so many people’s lives are suddenly taken away.
In this world, this is natural and reasonable.
It took a long time for Cha Han-seong to understand and adapt to the logic of this world due to the values he had on Earth, but fortunately he was able to adapt himself.
While working as an adventurer, he learned skills to protect himself from other threats, and did not hesitate to resist unreasonable things and defeat the wicked.
However, the premise itself is different from that and the current situation.
Cha Han-seong, who had never had the experience of taking the lives of innocent people who could not resist, felt very resistant to this.
Even his superior, Riod, who had risen to the position of knight commander with a lot of experience, had great resistance to killing these women.
But even so, Riod and Eun-hyeon took their own breath.
There was something unnatural about Riod’s appearance as he swung his long sword and pierced only the necks of women.
It was similar to Cha Hansung being very shaken by this current situation.
Various emotions were mixed as the sensation of the blade piercing his throat passed through his hands and into his arms.
Anger, annoyance, sorry and guilt are very diverse.
Taking the life of a “Non-enemy” Really felt nasty.
The only thing Riod can do is to give them a peaceful rest by killing them.
Severing women’s throats with a sword is a very simple thing to do, but the actions of Leo and Eunhyeon carefully and respectfully inserting the blades into their throats show courtesy and respect for the deceased, who try not to damage the bodies as much as possible.
Cha Hanseong glanced at Eunhyun.
Unlike Leo, who showed hesitation at every moment because he still had a sense of resistance, Eun-hyeon’s actions were swift and without hesitation.
After inserting a dagger into the woman’s neck and confirming that she had stopped breathing, he naturally stabbed the dagger twice into her abdomen as well.
It is to kill the monster that will be born in the belly in advance.
Seeing that a series of processes were handled quickly and without hesitation, Cha Han-seong realized that Eun-hyeon had gone through this experience several times.
‘What kind of person is he?’
Eun-hyeon was a man who kept thinking about that.
Apart from being from the same Earth as himself, he has been acquainted with Riod since 20 years ago, and has a close relationship with the six heroes, and is even strong.
Also, if he hated this situation to the point of nausea, the sight of him not showing it on his face and doing what he had to do by enduring it in silence was even pitiful.
Why is he even doing this?
However, Cha Han-seong, who only knew fragmentary information about Eun-hyeon that he had personally seen, heard, and experienced, could not resolve the question.
“… Sorry.”
Subsequently, when all the women inside the giant ant nest were killed, Delia apologized to Eun-hyeon after destroying all the eggshells of the monsters.
“I insulted you with my values and standards without knowing the details or thoughts. I really apologize.”
Delia, who saw Eun-hyeon thrusting a dagger into the women’s throats while sincerely apologizing to them, realized that she had been mistaken, and she was ashamed to lift her face.
Seeing Delia bowing her head politely to herself with her stiff face and apologizing, her Eun-hyeon smiled bitterly at her and shook her head.
“It’s okay.”
It wasn’t once or twice that she had been misunderstood or criticized, and Eun-hyeon wasn’t hurt in the slightest by Delia’s heartfelt apology to herself after recognizing her even belatedly.
It’s just that her sense of justice and mission as a knight is stronger and more thorough than others.
Rather, she thought she was glad she didn’t have her Erin by her side.
Erin might have slapped Delia on the face, when she was a bit emotional.
The situation might have been more complicated if Belldandy, who wanted to say something to Delia earlier, hadn’t stopped her from trying to manifest her body regardless of the situation or place.
[… I’ll look at that apple this time and move on.]
Still, Delia’s polite apology made the uncomfortable Belldandy feel a little relieved.
“Let’s go.”
Eun-hyeon suggested moving right away without even taking a break.
After confirming that there might be several more ant burrows like this, she couldn’t proceed with her leisurely search.
Rio De, Cha Han-sung, and Delia nodded as if they were of the same opinion.
This is because the private mind of not wanting to stay in this place where the bodily fluids of monsters and the corpses of people are rotting was also at work.
Cha Hanseong moved his steps and was about to leave the anthill, but stopped for a moment and looked back.
“…”
It was because it bothered me to leave their corpses like this.
No matter how easily people die and their bodies are easily scattered on the road, it is taken for granted in the world, but is it right to neglect those who met their end while being brutally toyed with by monsters without any guilt?
However, even for a while, Cha Han-seong shook his head and looked ahead.
He also agreed with Eun-hyeon’s opinion that it was urgent to search for other victims in other ant burrows.
The four of them left the anthill and moved through the passage.
The move was very quick and swift.
The search so far was not slow, but if you adjusted the pace with a proper rest time and a constant speed, the current search tended to reduce the rest time to a minimum and put more weight on movement.
But, of course, the battle with the monsters roaming inside the anthill also increased noticeably.
Kiaag!
The monster that let out a sharp scream was a large worm that stalked the inside of the burrow.
The worm, which was over 3 m long and had a fairly thick body, did not have much human characteristics like human grasshoppers and female spiders.
However, what made Cha Han-seong and Delia hesitate was the worm’s head.
Even though they do not have eyes, noses, ears, etc., They face them exactly and open their large mouths in the center of their heads.
The mouth resembled human teeth, and the two of them hesitated with goosebumps all over.
Thinking that that was also born from the belly of a human woman in the cave they saw, various thoughts passed through their heads.
Until now, I’ve been able to focus on killing monsters without thinking about it, but I can’t focus because it’s after seeing the sight.
“Calm down!”
However, in a life-or-death battle, even that brief hesitation can become a fatal mistake.
As expected, Riod’s reprimand came right away.
Standing in the front with a vicious sniper, Riod created a long sword with magic power in his hands, and confronted the worm crawling on the ground at a terrifying speed.
He condensed his fluctuating mana and swung it towards the worm in front.
There was a risk that the entire cave could collapse if it was wrong, so it was a sword with adjusted power, but it was powerful enough.
Riod’s purpose is not to exterminate that worm in this anthill.
He knew very well the role and position he had to play in this anthill.
[Olivion swordsmanship]
[Wind cut]
The sword of magic freed from the sword that Riod wielded jumped forward and collided head-on with the giant worm.
The fierce swordsmanship that caused a gust of wind was noticeably less powerful than Riod’s usual technique, but it had enough attack power to rip open Worm’s mouth and skin.
Kyaaah!
Wurm, who was directly hit by Riod’s attack, screamed and twisted his long body.
A second attack landed on Worm, who tore the skin from his face and frontal part and felt the pain tearing through his flesh.
[Bryunak spearmanship]
[Skin Piercing]
The javelin thrown by Eun-hyeon accurately hit Worm’s screaming mouth and pierced the inside of Worm’s body.
“Ah… !”
When Cha Han-seong, who saw that scene, realized what was going to happen and was horrified, Eun-hyeon, who had thrown a javelin, immediately approached the three of them.
[God’s Arms]
[Aegis]
Pew!
As the freed Eunhyeon’s magical energy scattered in all directions, the balloon-like body of the worm exploded, and the rupture of the fierce air filled the inside of the cave.
The flesh and bodily fluids of the monster splattered all over the four of them, but the shield of the goddess that Eunhyeon spread beforehand protected them.
“They are enemies. Don’t hesitate.”
“… Sorry.”
“… Yes.”
Cha Han-seong and Delia nodded their heads heavily after hearing Riode’s brief reprimand.
“Let’s move.”
The four of them moved while exploring the interior again.
The purpose was not to go upstairs and join the search expedition, but to deal with all the monsters in the anthill.
Taking a break of about 5 minutes every 3 hours, after half a day I was able to find 2 more ant nests and, as before, I killed all the women who were pregnant with the monster’s babies.
Even Delia, who had strongly opposed it at first, now had no choice but to join the action of the three.
Rather, they had no choice but to accept the sad fact that ending their lives was their only salvation.
As she kept moving and arranging the monsters in the third anthill, Eunhyeon sensed something unusual.
The existence of something that is approaching exactly this place at high speed.
It wasn’t a monster or a beast.
“… Riod!”
Hearing Eun-hyeon’s cry, Riod hesitated at her and it took one second to look around her.
And it took 0.5 seconds for Riod, who sensed the presence next to Eunhyeon, to notice that something approached right behind Delia’s back.
After that, Riod ran towards Delia without hesitation.
It took half a second for Riod to reach her after strengthening her body.
Riod slashed something sharp with his sword, rushing towards Delia’s chest from behind.
Kaaang!
Riod was able to confirm its identity only when the sharp object he cut rose into the air.
‘… Fingernail?’
The three sharp, long objects reminded me of beast claws.
Soon, the nails disappeared in an instant.
No, rather than disappearing, it is more accurate to say that the long thing has decreased, and that it has hidden itself in darkness.
“Haha, I guess it’s because I’m a human who came down here. It doesn’t seem normal.”
Then something slowly walked out of the darkness and revealed itself.
It wasn’t human as Riod expected.
It is the hooves that walk on the ground, resembling the legs of a beast covered in hair.
At the same time, the upper body with nothing on was the naked body of a human male.
Riod glared at its face for the last time.
It had quite beautiful features, but unlike human eyes, the eyes themselves were pitch black.
And a pair of buffalo horns on top of its head.
Riod put the identity of it into his mouth.
“… Devil?”
