Episode 439
Episode 140. The King of Centipedes (2)
The giant centipedes that were blindly heading towards the cave stopped moving for the first time.
More than a hundred centipedes were killed by Yuma’s single sword.
The procession had no choice but to stop as the giant centipede, several meters tall, died like a flying insect.
The centipedes turned their torso all at once.
Hundreds of bizarre eyes glistened black as they stared at Yuma.
The centipedes in the forefront were the first to change course and start charging at Yuma. Yuma clicked his tongue inwardly and slashed the centipedes that attacked lightly.
‘It’s disgusting to see monsters pouring red blood…
Centipedes pouring red hot blood just like humans and other creatures.
While cutting carelessly, Yuma thought about how wild these things would be in other areas.
It wasn’t difficult to kill centipedes, but there were so many of them that I couldn’t help but keep covering my eyes.
Soon, Yuma created an aura orb as if he was annoyed. Twenty aura spheres began to flow through Yuma’s body, and soon spread out in a fan shape and shot in all directions.
The auror sphere broke the carapaces of the centipedes and clawed at the ground, spinning fiercely. As the rotation speed of the sphere increased, the number of centipedes caught in it increased, and soon the sphere unfolded like a whirlwind to form a pillar.
In an instant, the topography changed and the darkly colored area became brighter.
Like an iceberg breaking, the dug up heap of rocks was swept away by the whirlwind caused by the sphere and flew wildly. The centipedes that had been hit on the head or body by the large rocks wriggled, and Yuma trampled on them mercilessly and moved forward.
As we got closer to the cave, the resistance of the centipedes intensified.
‘It’s a mess. Marlon must be inside the cave, but could there be more centipedes in the ground than this?’
It was unpredictable whether it was the queen or the nest inside. It would be enough to destroy everything and go back, but I felt a strange feeling of incongruity.
‘I don’t think the centipede is a general-level demon like Vargas or something like that. Strangely, I felt very dirty…
Even the more intense resistance was of no use to stop Yuma.
Yuma was able to pass through hundreds of centipedes and arrive in front of the cave without getting a single scratch.
If there is a battle between Marlon and the Centipedes going on inside the cave, or if Marlon is using his powers, he should have a clue.
The inside of the cave was just full of darkness.
Yuma manifested a rigid body and stepped inside. When I floated an aura sphere like a torch and illuminated the wall, it was full of strange letters that I couldn’t read.
It was an ancient script used in Xilism.
The letters were all written in blood, but I couldn’t tell if they were human or centipede.
“You disgusting bastards…
I tried to move my steps while spitting out words, but I felt a familiar energy flow from deep inside.
It was the energy of fire.
However, unlike the appearance of the cave, the structure was deeper and wider than the imperial garden. The entrance was narrow, so I thought it wasn’t long, but the energy of Hua’an was too far.
‘That’s why there was never a pillar of fire rising from the entrance of the cave even though there were so many centipedes.’
It was said that the energy was far away, but if it could be felt from this distance, it was clear that a fairly intense fight was going on. Or that a fight is about to begin.
fault!
When he opened the swift speed, the stones caught on Yuma’s feet flew away as powder. I deliberately ran without hesitation without hiding my energy.
While going inside, the giant centipede was nowhere to be seen.
‘I killed all the centipedes outside, so why aren’t there any centipedes inside? There must be dozens of centipedes that went into the cave just from what I saw.’
I looked to see if there was another way, but the cave was made up of straight lines. It is wide enough for four or five people to walk at a time.
In the first place, it was a difficult area for those huge centipedes to enter and exit in groups. There was no way the centipede could move faster than its swift speed, but it was strange that there was no trace of it.
‘Could it be that the bizarre characters written in blood were traces of dimensional magic?
It’s kind of annoying.’
After gaining his unique aura, he was able to detect most magic, but that didn’t mean he could know all the magic that existed in the world.
In particular, since most of the magic used by Rizol was more special than dragon magic, Yuma had no choice but to guess based on the circumstances.
Did it run for about 10 minutes? Yuma was finally able to confirm that the fire energy was getting close to him.
I could see the back of Marlon, who was exuding speculation with the fire as high as Mantu.
“Marlon!”
When Marlon heard the voice, he didn’t look back. However, Yuma could tell that Marlon was in a very angry state because the murderous behavior he was giving off was unusual.
Marlon had his eyes fixed on a monster in front of him.
The monster had a more hideous and disgusting appearance than any creature Yuma had ever seen.
A huge body that seems to have been patched together with the characteristics of a centipede and all kinds of monsters. A distorted face attached to the center of its body like a tumor, and two legs of different lengths, thick and huge.
‘What kind of guy looks like that…
is he a demon?’
It was like some kind of synthetic life.
Yuma, who thought it was just disgusting, stood next to Marlon and realized that he was quite dangerous.
The only intact part of his body, which seemed to have been forcibly patched up, was his arm.
Even at first glance, he felt tremendous strength and elasticity, and it was clear that the huge mace in his hand was made of Seruka steel.
The bizarre appearance and Seruka’s mace didn’t match at all, but the guy’s arms covered in gray hair were none other than those of an ogre.
It was not an ogre-like creature like Maktoum, but the arm of a real ogre.
‘It looks like Risol used the ogre to make something… It looks like he was the one who was in charge of the centipedes.’
The only thing that resembled an ogre was its two arms, but the monster’s sense of intimidation was incomparable to the monsters it had killed so far.
The flames were not spreading properly near him, even though the energy of the fire was burning intensely as if it would burn the entire cave.
It seemed as if the ogre’s arms weren’t enough to burn, or as if the energy pouring out of him and the energy of anger were struggling.
The giant centipedes that entered the cave were not covered by ‘dimensional magic’ as Yuma expected.
The ancient letters drawn on the wall were to ‘absorb’ the centipede, and the absorbed life force was passed on to the monster.
”…Yuma.”
“Quench your excitement, Marlon. 저 괴 물 새끼가 검은늑대들을 죽인 죗 값은 지금부터 톡톡히 받아 낼 거니까. Somehow, while coming, I thought I was in a bad mood, and then there was this terrible thing.”
“That’s not all. He’s a human we know. It was a voice that barely contained its anger, as if it were vomiting blood. Marlon was trembling and looked like he was about to explode.
“Human?”
Grrrr!
The moment Yuma asked, the monster’s head on the body rotated like a cog wheel. Then he rolled his milky-white eyes and looked at Yuma.
[Yuma… Khehehe. I waited.] A gloomy voice.
It was definitely the first time I heard it, but it felt like I had heard it somewhere. Yuma didn’t answer and calmly measured the guy’s power.
No, I tried to measure my power, but the next moment I heard the name he announced himself, and I couldn’t help but be dazed as if I had been hit in the back.
[Kuh. Knight… Merlot. Do you remember?]
“What…r Yuma shook his head in disbelief and looked at the monster.
“Are you Mero…?”
unidentified monster. The bastard was saying that he was the knight Mero.
Yuma looked back and forth at Marlon and Mero, and had to think over and over again why the name came up just now.
[It reminds me of the old days. kuhh Thanks to you guys… My life at that time.
It’s over.]
Knight Mero.
Before Yuma returned, he was the one who trampled on the life of an innocent boy and turned him into a eunuch.
And after Yuma returned, the position was completely reversed. After Yuma assaulted Mero in Ferrol, he was on the way to success, and Mero became a disabled person and wandered the streets to meet a miserable death.
At least Yuma knew that.
From a certain point on, he is not even recognized as a target for revenge, so he is just a messy person who is not even dust.
I remembered hearing the news that Knight Mero had died.
Like a bug, he had heard that he had attended the funeral of Hayes Rollmandy and was murdered because he didn’t care.
[At that time too. It was like this at Cage’s Fish Shop. you guys and me It’s still the same now…]
“Likewise? Are you saying that you know how you look? hey mello. Anyway… what the hell is this? Acting so hideous.”
Yuma’s tone, though very slight, was permeated with a sense of pity.
It was because he couldn’t understand the human being called Mero, and he couldn’t figure out what made him become like this.
No one would deny that he was a loathsome human being, but I never imagined that he would become such a hideous monster.
Above all, it was Mero.
An extremely ordinary human who was nicknamed immortal and scum and was lucky enough to become a knight. How terrible can such an ordinary human being have to be like this.
It was a remote area that Yuma could not fathom.
In the first place, he was beaten by Yuma when he tried to molest Maria, and because of that, he only paid for his crime by falling into hell.
That much was commonplace.
It is common in human society to commit an ugly crime that one regards as ‘trivial’ and then end one’s life in an instant.
But not all of them became these monsters. In the end, it is limited to admitting the fall and living a normal life again or repeating the same mistake over time.
Even if Rysol gave her tremendous power, making herself a loathsome being like this was not an option that normal humans would choose.
[that’s right. It’s different from back then. Hakka, that poor man. not here kuhh
You have become a great soldier.
As I can see. Became a monster. And…]
Twitch.
Mero smiled, raising the corner of his mouth that was torn long. Small laughter escaped from his distorted face.
[You… you’re a white horse…
I couldn’t save a girl named Maria like back then. The hero play…
is over.]
Mero nodded and said.
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