Chapter 545 – Hatching
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A ghoul that keeps running in the dark.
-Kkieek!
The knights advance silently, crushing ghouls while maintaining a solid formation under soft lighting magic.
If you draw that in a picture.
Wouldn’t it be possible to draw a wonderful picture of hell with knights struggling in hell?
I walked forward, admiring the scenery that was so familiar to me.
The punitive force was advancing, fighting in two shifts.
And now was the time for our group of Mongoose Knights to retreat to a safe place inside the formation and take a rest.
Besides us, you can see knights walking in formation and drinking beef jerky and water.
There was deep fatigue on their faces.
Today is the 4th day that the Demon King subjugation team marched through the cave, enduring attacks from ghouls.
It was a forced march to see the end of this cave or escape as quickly as possible.
It was an ignorant thing to do since the entire punitive force were knights.
Since he had been marching non-stop for four days, fighting with ghouls in two shifts… No matter how strong his stamina was, it was inevitable that his condition would deteriorate.
Caria’s eyes are full of envy as she walks while glancing at me from the side.
Her face also seems to have darkened under her eyes.
In fact, Caria’s eyes seemed to be looking at me, but she was directed towards my back.
I can feel her warm breath evenly exhaling on the back of my neck. And… It was wet.
-Wow!
Karen slaps Hilda, who appears to be dead, on her back.
“Ugh!! What, what… Churp!”
Hilda wakes up in shock and looks around. And then she found Karen staring at her.
“B-already?”
Karen nodded her head quietly.
Hilda gets off my back with a shy expression.
And right away, Karen clung to my back instead of Hilda. I supported her butt comfortably.
Karen is shocked when she sees Hilda’s saliva on the back of my neck.
Her quiet gaze turns to Hilda.
Hilda blushes and scratches her head.
Karen wiped away the drool and immediately buried her face in the crook of my neck and fell into a deep sleep. And the nape of my neck started to become stained with wet saliva again.
I saw Karia looking blankly at me from the side.
“Karia, don’t be stubborn, why don’t you get some sleep too?”
“Gwae, it’s okay! I’m not weak like those guys!”
Although she pretended to be strong, Karia’s voice was a bit weak.
Her pride was causing her to be stubborn. Karia’s level as a knight is higher than that of Karen and Hilda, so she probably still has some things to endure.
The reason I started letting Karen, Hilda, and Bianca sleep on my back… Started when I saw Karen walking while dozing off.
After that, Hilda and Bianca were put to sleep as well.
Bianca piggybacked on me because she liked it.
Hilda refused to ride on my back at first. She went out of her way to follow me, but I think she didn’t want to burden me.
“Carrying you on my back is not a burden on me at all. I only have time to carry you now. I may not have time for this later. Recovering my condition even a little now, when I have the time, is an obstacle in an urgent situation later. Don’t you think it’s better than what’s happening?”
After hearing those words, Hilda ended up riding on my back.
Since discovering the sweet taste of sleep, I have been able to sleep deeply and moisturize my neck.
After struggling with ghouls for half a day, I had no choice but to fall into a deep sleep, treating even the noisy cries of the ghouls as a lullaby.
And what I said to Hilda wasn’t just empty words.
I don’t have a body that can feel the burden of carrying them on my back.
The avatar’s performance was already far beyond human limits, and in addition, the ghouls were providing constant recovery potions.
Although it was a short period of time, Karen and Hilda were able to maintain a much better condition than other knights just by taking turns sleeping.
Sleep is quite important to humans.
There is nothing better than sleep to relieve body fatigue and clear the mind.
Even among the executives of the punitive force, there was some talk that they should stop marching for a while and settle down for a day to rest.
It’s a shame that I can’t feel Karen’s soft torso because I’m wearing hard armor… But maybe that’s something I have to shoulder as a teacher.
As I carried Karen and walked her, I thought about the stagnant level of the avatar.
I achieved level 100 two days ago.
And there was no further change in the avatar’s level from 100.
It may have been because they asked for an absurd amount of experience starting from level 100, but that didn’t seem to be the case.
First, I guessed that it was a fairly high level even among demons.
There was a certain level of strategy in the Pantera community, but there was almost no information on the level 100 section.
The only information I found was that the operator would contact me when I reached level 100?
Although it is also a ‘kadera’.
There was strangely no information.
I guess I’m the first… ? Probably not.
Sunni’s interference with Panthera access.
The level no longer rises from 100.
Information that Pantera’s operator is contacting level 100 users.
The community carder seemed to have some credibility.
Doesn’t the operator have to recognize level 100 for the level to increase or for there to be a response in some way?
But it was also something that couldn’t be solved here.
The fifth day of the cave march.
At some point, the ghoul’s attack stopped.
Have we run out of more ghouls to deploy?
When I couldn’t see the ghouls I had seen for days, I felt empty.
I don’t know what kind of whim it is.
The punitive force decided that this was the time and urged them to move faster.
And the punitive force arrived at a large cave.
On one wall of the cavity, there was something that looked like a large egg about 10 meters in size.
I wasn’t sure if it was an egg or a rock, but it looked like an egg to me.
There was a strangely familiar energy flowing from there.
It was a little different from blood magic or black magic.
What is it? As I was digging through my memories… I heard Burwell’s voice.
“I will check inside the cavity to see if there is another way. First… Please do not approach that huge rock.”
The punitive force carefully examined the common safety area, excluding the giant egg.
“I can’t see any other passages. The only place left is…”
The eyes of the officers of the punitive force naturally turn to the giant egg that partially obscures the common wall.
The huge egg was giving off an atmosphere that no one should touch.
However, the punitive force’s worries did not last long.
-Jeojeok…
This is because the egg was cracked.
And a dark red energy emanates from the gold.
Only then was I able to remember where I felt the energy.
It was the magic of an erosion body that I felt for the first time in a long time.
Big, bright yellow eyes can be seen through the cracks in the broken egg.
“Huh!”
The knights who saw that swallowed their breath.
-Come to your senses!
The eyes of the knights of the Kingdom of Laun, who had been momentarily dazed by Burwell’s shout, return.
“Prepare for battle! The Holy Knights are moving forward!”
-Atrocious!
The nine Holy Knights quickly surround the egg and form a formation.
-Too-duk…
The first thing I saw was the head of a monster that looked like a snake and had the dark red skin characteristic of an erosion body.
At first, I thought the egg contained only a snake’s head.
That’s because his head was that big.
But that wasn’t it.
There was a dimensional rift inside the egg, and the erosive body was pulling out the body of a huge snake from the dimensional rift, starting with the head.
There was no time to think about why there was a dimensional rift in a place like this. Because the energy I felt from him made me nervous.
‘Top level… No… Maybe even better.’
A monster has appeared whose danger does not seem to be reduced even when compared to Demon King Gregory.
The tail was not visible.
He couldn’t even pull himself out of the dimensional rift.
Only the head and torso emerged from the dimensional rift and were wrapped in a coil.
This is my first time seeing such erosion.
‘Can’t I just remove my entire body? How long is it?’
The giant snake eroder raises its head erect and looks at us. Then, a mouth opened that could easily swallow a house.
“Stick to me!”
When I saw that, I used my thoughts to create a force field that could protect the group.
The shield was seen blooming in the Holy Knights as well. However, the shield could not cover the entire scattered punitive force.
The breath filled with dark red magic swept the ground for a long time.
The protective shield of the Holy Knights fluctuates.
The knights of the Kingdom of Laun, who were not covered by the shield, were swept away by the breath.
With a single blow of the corrosive body’s breath, one-third of the knights of the Kingdom of Laun disappeared.
“W-what is this…?!”
Count Hubert opens his mouth in horror at the sight.
Karia looks around with her anxious eyes.
It seemed like she was looking for her own father, the Black Bear Knights. Fortunately, the Black Bear Knights were safe.
When Karia saw that, she breathed a sigh of relief.
The Holy Knights, led by Burwell, rushed to the erosion body. It seemed like they thought that if they left the erosion any longer, there might be some damage.
-Kkieek!!
To make matters worse, ghouls began pouring in from the common entrance.
“Gu, stop the ghouls!”
Count Hubert saw this and gave an urgent order to the surviving knights of the Kingdom of Laun.
