Chapter 215 – The Trial of Two, Hydra (7)
After subduing the Hydra.
The male covered a rock on top of a makeshift mud mound and buried it underground, while the female went underground following Persephone’s guidance her.
‘It will be safe.’
Persephone, no one else.
Persephone will not touch the Hydra unless the Hydra reveals itself to be a female Hydra, in its original form as a snake.
Rather, they will target the offspring of the hydra.
Are you a cousin? Are you close? That has nothing to do with the guy.
It’s a guy whose hobby is to eat monsters underground to his heart’s content while avoiding Demeter’s gaze, and it’s rather comforting for me to see him come out like that.
Hydra’s children had husbands prettier than themselves before they were even born, but Persephone can be trusted.
“Quaaah!”
Stretching once, I cleaned up the remains of the Hydra scattered around.
The hydra’s venom no longer lingers on this severed head, but someone could come here and root the hydra’s venom and use it as a weapon of war.
If there is someone who shoots the hydra’s venom at God because he fears it, that will be a big problem.
Therefore, even if it was a waste, it would be absurd to carry the corpse of this Hydra to Thebes.
Hwareuk.
I started a fire with a flint and set fire to the remains of the hydra.
It didn’t burn well at first, but as soon as I focused on putting the embers where the guy’s blood drained, the fire started to burn the skin and increase the firepower.
Fire.
I made a little more fire.
There were quite a lot of hydra heads I cut off, and if you put them together one by one, they would outnumber the hydra’s body.
“Whoa. This is also a job, really.”
In the case of the Nemean Lion, there was no big problem if only unnecessary internal organs and flesh were disposed of.
However, as long as the existence of hydra is poisonous, if you tell people to eat it, you will ride the express train to hell as a group.
“Burn well. Burn the fat in the flesh as fuel, and burn very roaring.”
Fire.
In case the hydra’s meat was tasty, I cut it with a lion’s blade, but it only smelled bad and it was not edible.
“Keuh, is this the smell of poison?”
I didn’t feel it when I had sex with the hydra.
It was a sour and sweet bodily fluid at the time, and it didn’t poison me.
However, seeing the poisonous smoke coming out of the flames, like corrupt gas, I thought that the poison of the hydra was not normal.
‘I want to experiment.’
Where would there be no test subjects?
It’s fine if it’s a gigantes, it’s fine if it’s just a wild beast that came to kill me, or it’s fine if it’s a monster that smells rotten but can’t stand hunger and comes to eat hydra meat.
I just want to see with my own eyes how deadly the hydra’s poison is to living things.
“…Five.”
Well, something is coming.
At the edge of the swamp, in the wide mud, something like foam is rising and coming towards me.
“Did you notice that the hydra was dead? Now that the ruler of the swamp is gone, it’s natural that someone else will step up to take over the area.”
Chunk.
“Yeah. Who’s the one who creeps out when the strong one dies?”
Car shot.
Straw crabs come out of the swamp.
The sharp claws that stretched out to the sides were sharp enough to sever even a hydra’s head, and the mud of the swamp flowed down, revealing eyes that were looking straight at me.
“Eww. He’s a cheeky guy.”
Even though I killed the hydra, it seems that I have no understanding of who the hunter is now pointing claws at me.
“It’s just fine. Even if it’s not a mammal, let’s check it out!”
I put down the sword that had stabbed the hydra’s meat on the floor and ran straight ahead.
Kishisit!
As if I hadn’t thought I’d run for it myself, the crab in the swamp spewed mud-like bubbles towards me.
Is it poison?
Not. It’s just a bubble to obstruct vision.
The truth is over there, the tongs trying to swing at me.
“Hmm!”
After narrowly avoiding the claws, I grabbed the claws and jumped upwards.
Thud!
As soon as you step on the crab’s carapace, its legs spread to the sides.
Even if you’re bigger than me, you can’t stand me hitting you with all your might.
“You are weaker than Hydra.”
Crunchy!
I snapped the claws from behind.
The claws that had been swung at me cracked off the torso, and I tossed the claws I twisted with both hands into the distance near the burning hydra.
“Even the god Zeus would be curious. How strong is the hydra’s venom?”
I took out a marble from the pocket I had attached to the lion’s hide.
The beads were as hard as jewels, but contained the hydra’s poison.
And how to use it is so simple.
Little bit
I put the bead in my mouth, licked it once, and then lowered my head into the shell I had crushed.
“Two!”
After licking the hydra’s poison beads, it collects the saliva in its mouth and spits it out toward the flesh of the swamp crab.
When I sucked on the beads, it tasted like her fresh saliva that I felt when kissing a hydra, but it was similar to the dirty blood that splattered in my mouth while fighting a male, but this venom was definitely like the original-
Key profit!!
The crab turns over in an instant.
The movement was so intense that the crab began to pulsate back and forth and go mad.
It wasn’t a move to shake me off, it was a move that made me struggle because it was so painful.
“Oh, um…”
I hopped away from him moderately and opened up some distance.
The crab in the swamp jumped into the swamp and flipped over, wriggling.
It was as if he was trying to wipe away the venom-stained flesh with mud, and I felt sorry for his desperate appearance.
“…I can’t use this.”
It’s like dying in real, terrible pain.
Something that should never, never be used carelessly.
If there is a being that I really want to kill, I should only use it for that being.
Even if
Even if that being is a god, even if he feels that kind of pain for the rest of his life.
* * *
About a month away from Lerne Swamp.
After I burned the hydra to remove the traces of the hydra, I returned to the Great Cadmos.
“Ah, no. What is that…? A water snake’s head…?”
“Hydra head.”
“Hey!!”
The soldier who saw me again at the entrance to Thebes fled in fright.
As much as the name ‘Hydra’ came under considerable pressure, the soldiers distanced themselves from me.
“If you bring something like that!!”
“Don’t worry. There’s no poison. If there was any poison left here, all life on its way here would have been poisoned by the hydra’s poison. This is just an item I brought as evidence.”
It was all burned and only the shape remained.
“Is it, is it really a hide-line… ?”
“Whether you believe it or not, that’s something to be investigated and confirmed at the Great Festival of Cadmos. I’m just telling the truth as it is. In my name. And, I swear to Zeus, my father in heaven.”
“Heh, heh…”
Although the oath to the god Zeus seems to be used more and more frequently, there is no clearer evidence than the oath to the god for those who do not believe.
“Then, I’m done.”
The place to go is the royal castle.
“Ah, Hercules! What did you catch again this time…”
“Hydra.”
“Aaaaagh!! Hercules is about to destroy Thebes!!”
“No poison.”
I passed the guards and headed to the royal castle where King Creon, the current king and regent of Thebes, was waiting.
“Is that really a hydra?!”
“Exactly.”
The king, who was sitting on the throne of the royal castle, but immediately hid behind the throne as soon as I revealed that he was a hydra, did not believe that the being I had captured was a hydra.
“Really, is it a hydra?”
“You…”
“Megara. Have you forgotten my name?”
“Because it’s been too long.”
When I go hunting once and come back, months pass by quickly, so I have no choice but to forget it.
If it wasn’t even a woman I had sex with, but a woman who was just a king’s princess.
‘But why does he not seem to like it even though I caught a hydra?’
To think that he just brought a monster to the capital, it feels like he’s showing some displeasure.
Well, it doesn’t matter.
“Is it really a hydra? It’s not like it spews poison even when it’s just dead, right?!”
“You don’t believe me. If I had known this, I would have brought the body of the Hydra as it is.”
“Hee, hee…!”
All that matters is that I caught the Hydra.
“As you’ll find out when you investigate at the Cadmus Festival, I sealed the Hydra. I cut off nine heads and put them in the basement of Lerne Swamp.”
“Hydra must be a being whose head resurrects infinitely, right?”
“When they resurrected, they immediately cut off their heads. I cut them over 1405 times. After that, they didn’t resurrect anymore.”
I don’t know if it was actually cut 1405 times.
In reality, it may not even be 100 times, but how will they verify that?
The only thing I can confirm is the tomb in Lerne Swamp.
And only that a hydra lives in the basement with all of her heads her cut off.
“I can show you proof if you need it, but it’s going to be hard to handle.”
“What is it?”
“I said it would be difficult to handle, so if you think you can handle it, ask me for proof. Instead, I will prove my sincerity with this.”
I put my thumb on my lips and my little finger on my forehead.
“I swear by the River Styx, I cut off all the heads of the hydra and left them in the Lerne Swamp. I caught the hydra by myself.”
Like that.
I was credited with hunting the Hydra.
