Chapter 232 – Discovery
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“With my ability, I will be able to break through.”
Edward’s words drew the eyes of Philip and Richard to him.
“Is that piece of flesh weak against fire?”
Philip saw Edward burning zombies to death, and inferred his ability.
“Yes, it works quite well.”
“Ha…But you were sucking your finger while we fucking ran away.”
“That, that’s…”
The prickly Edward notices Philip.
“I can’t help the past. Let’s wait a little longer. Philip. Time is ambiguous.”
As Richard said, I decided to wait a little longer rather than break through.
Even if we break through now, the sun will set soon.
There might be some variables, but I couldn’t think that I would be able to go to the place Edward said within the time.
Fortunately, the flesh does not enter the building.
‘It’s probably not that you can’t break glass…Do you not know that we are inside?’
Or it could simply be wrapped in a mass of flesh like other buildings, regardless of the party.
The problem is that I can’t see any holes through which I can escape undetected.
I thought about whether the flesh might luckily disappear if I waited, but there was no change in the flesh surrounding the building until the day got dark.
Of course, I can’t wait here for days.
Due to its mobility, it did not bring much food.
I thought it would be as short as two days.
I took a long schedule for about 3 days and brought food.
I’ll have to wait as long as possible tomorrow morning.
“Recover well while resting. Escape tomorrow as soon as the sun rises.”
At Philip’s words, Edward and Richard nodded.
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“Why the hell did this happen?”
Carrie looked around and wondered, but none of us had any idea why.
The inside of the city was showing a more bizarre appearance than when viewed from the outside.
Dark red lumps of flesh wrapped around the building.
Some buildings looked like they were entirely covered in flesh rather than vines.
“Unho, look at this. Is this serious?”
Carrie showed me the screen the drone was filming.
Most of the city was covered with grotesque dark red flesh that stretched out from somewhere.
“Ugh! What is that…”
Carrie frowns at the large lump of dark red flesh about the size of a compact car wriggling on the road.
‘Is that guy a monster too?’
It looked ugly, but it also looked like slime.
Can we assume that this type of monster appears here?
I got curious.
“You want to catch it?”
Grace asked as I approached holding the spear.
She nodded her head at her and poked the tip of her spear into a chunk of her flesh.
“Woo, Unho. Be careful…”
Carrie said anxiously.
– Tup!
A lump of flesh grabbed the spear.
When I tried to pull it out, I felt a lot of tension.
-Toduk!
The spear was pulled out with force, but it was difficult to pull out with normal human strength.
I looked at the tip of the window, but there didn’t seem to be anything wrong with it.
“Grace, be careful when using your weapon. These guys snatch it.”
“Okay.”
Grace nodded his head nervously.
At that time, the mass of flesh grotesquely wriggled and began to transform.
“Kh, crab?”
When Carrie saw it, she screamed in surprise.
It’s like…But…
The crab’s hand was a human-like hand with fingers. The four pairs of legs also looked like human feet.
Besides, I couldn’t even see his face.
It is said that Geragi has a very hideous and grotesque appearance.
“I’ll get your attention.”
I decided to catch him with Grace rather than myself.
It was also for Grace.
You never know how many monsters like this will emerge from this place in the future.
Knowing what kind of habits she has will make it easier for her to deal with unexpected situations later.
What I thought was colorless.
Grace had her ax stolen by a fleshy crab monster not long after the battle began.
He thought that the power to hold on was considerable, but he did not know that he would not be able to shake it off even with the power of an awakened person whose body was strengthened.
“This… I can’t put my hands on it.”
Grace was perplexed.
She had a jungle knife and a spear as well as an axe, but she seemed hesitant to get her weapon taken away again.
That’s why she can’t fire a loud gun.
She could be said to be in a state of being unable to do this or that.
However, it may be possible to inflict damage only when the level is high enough to manifest magical power.
It is a high-level monster that is difficult to deal with at Grace’s current level.
‘These guys… I don’t know if they’re still alive.’
Looking at the level of the monsters, I thought that the survival of Phillip and his party would not be easy.
Should she still hope that a day or so has passed?
“Grace, stand back for a second. I’ll try to deal with you some more.”
Since Grace couldn’t use her hands, she decided to try it alone.
He’s a guy who doesn’t like to fight.
Less than a bug, though.
Soggy flesh arouses instinctive disgust.
The flesh monster’s skin didn’t have great defense, and as soon as it was stabbed with a spear, it was swollen.
It should be said that it feels like stabbing a piece of meat.
Seeing him quickly filling the spot where the window had come out with flesh, it didn’t feel like he was being damaged.
The regenerative power also seemed to be considerable.
Just stabbing it doesn’t do much damage.
Then.
I put magical power on the spear and gave it rotation while stabbing it.
-Pop!
The strong rotation of the spear caused his flesh to burst and his arm tore off.
“It works!”
Carrie sees it and cheers.
However, he soon stumbled and his arm began to regenerate.
The arm that fell off wriggled and moved towards the flesh monster before being absorbed.
What the…
The playback speed is also not a good guy.
He spun the spear and stabbed it with a series of blows, bursting his flesh.
-Puffer puffer boom!
In an instant, all arms and legs fall off, leaving only his torso.
-Procrastinating…
A flesh monster that regenerates without getting tired of it.
To prevent him from regenerating, he continued to pierce the spear and burst the flesh.
“Gye, it keeps playing? E-can you catch this?”
Carrie said tiredly.
I thought it wouldn’t be infinite… But…
It was a nightmare-like regenerative power for ordinary people who were not me.
In particular, he is not very compatible with Aurora or body-enhanced Awakeners.
‘Should I use an attribute attack?’
However, my attribute is almost one of physics.
Are there any weaknesses?
Is there such a thing as a core?
Concentrating my cognitive abilities, I took a closer look at him.
It was felt.
Something similar to a nucleus with exceptionally concentrated energy.
The nucleus kept changing its position in the body of the creature.
Its regenerative power is also crazy, but its core, which seems to be its weakness, continues to move. It was quite difficult for normal Awakeners to deal with.
Still, it was a goal that was not difficult for me.
The rotating spear stabs the moving core.
-Puong!
A large hole was pierced in the flesh, and something shiny bounced outside.
– Tok. Tok.
I looked into what it was.
A small stone that emits a soft blue light.
Hearthstone?
If I’m not mistaken, it looked like a magic stone.
“Ooh, luck!”
When Grace sees the flesh monster, she screams in surprise. He was squirming and filling the hole in the window.
“Huh…Isn’t this a weakness too?”
Still, it seemed that the playback speed was noticeably slowed down.
Did you increase your regenerative ability by drawing magic from the magic stone?
He’s a worse guy than you think.
Is attribute attack the answer?
I took an incendiary grenade from my inventory and threw it into the hole it was playing.
I thought I wouldn’t have anything to write about because I hadn’t enjoyed it.
-Puong! Fire!!
– Jjiik!!
It doesn’t seem to have a mouth, but it burns with an unpleasant smell while making strange noises as if in pain.
Does it work?
The flesh monster tried to survive by regenerating while it was burning, but in the end it turned black and stopped moving.
It worked better than expected.
It felt like the speed of regeneration couldn’t keep up with the fire.
Wouldn’t it have endured quite a bit if he hadn’t expelled the magic stone in advance?
I picked up the magic stone that fell on the floor.
In terms of size, it was the size of a medium-sized corroded body.
However, there was no response to the quest.
He’s tough, but he’s also a guy with no substance.
I’ve been through this situation before.
The monster longevity hornets in the south of Daejeon.
Those guys also belonged to the axis with no substance.
‘Still, since they gave me magic stones, should I say I’m better than them?’
Try to comfort yourself in that way.
‘Is there a separate body after all?’
In this world, the monsters are too strong compared to the level of the Awakeners.
But it can’t be helped.
All I can do is apply training to magic or aura.
The rest was a matter for the Awoken to solve.
“Unho, are you okay?”
Grace came up to me and talked to me.
It seems that I, who had been standing still and thinking about the flesh monster for a while, became worried.
“Uh, just thinking about it for a second. Let’s go.”
At that time, Kamang sent a message.
「Kamang: Unho, found a human.」
I looked up at the sky at the report of the black fish.
It was spinning around at one point in the dark sky.
It was like a sign that there were humans there.
“Carrie, fly the drone over there.”
“Over there? Okay.”
I guided Carrie’s drone in the direction the black man was pointing.
Carrie, who was watching the drone filming screen, exclaimed in surprise.
“Huh? Unho! P, it’s Philip!”
