Chapter.4 Eyelids (11)
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Ouch!
midnight. A half-ruined mansion in a city occupied by monsters. Something huge rises from a deep well located underground.
Ttuduk! Wow!
In-young walked out of the well and began to relax her body, which had been tight while sleeping in the well. Maybe it’s because I’m so big, but recently that well seemed to be getting a bit stuck on my body.
“Hmm… But I just can’t give up on that.”
Personally, I have quite a bit of animosity toward the wizards who imprisoned me here and experimented on me, but I have to admit it.
[Water Mana Friendliness] I really appreciate you teaching me.
The professor looked down at the well from which he had just come. Those deep blue waves. I can’t stand it. I just came out, but I want to go back in! Looks cool! Now, if you go in and out for a moment –
worse!
“Wow, I’m really losing my mind.”
Okay, let’s be honest. I am completely addicted to water. That thing is worse than drugs. There is a warning that if you use drugs you will die, but it is a pure temptation without any danger.
Especially for a person living a devastated life, experiencing the pain of his body exploding all day long, that well was literally a fountain of life.
The professor, determined not to weaken himself by slapping his face, began to pack his belongings meticulously. Since midnight has passed, there are 6 days left. Once you calculate the travel time to the next city, you can’t delay any longer.
Ouch!
The strong power felt in the hand. It’s not as much as I aimed for, but it’s grown enough. Finally, the light began to shine on this gloomy character’s game life.
The professor began gathering things to take with him into a wrapping cloth made from torn curtains.
[Counter’s Curtain / Durability 115]
+ Dried Fish (Salt + Spice) x 9
+ Bottle of Blood x5
+ Dirty Cloth x2
+ Dorman Baldanis’ Introduction to Basic Water Magic x1
+ Tarmaline Anesthetic Solution (1/2)
+ Small Magic circuit (very unstable)
+ lowest grade magic stone fragment
+ 354 sil
“I can’t believe the curtain is at a similar level to my body. “After all, the number called durability is too abstract.”
Of course, since these were the curtains of a count family, they would have used high-quality and sturdy fabric. It will be tough and strong enough not to tear under the slightest impact. However, no matter what, it is an item that can be easily cut by a sharp object such as a knife.
‘The glass body is the same. Although it was extremely weak to shock, it withstood enough pulling force. ‘There are probably still things I don’t know.’
This is the so-called compatibility difference. Just as the leather armor type is resistant to blows but weak to cutting attacks, the glass body I have, which is now included in extreme regeneration, will definitely have some strong aspects to it. There must be. please.
I wrapped the bottle of Mute’s blood that I had prepared in advance in case it was needed for regeneration, wrapped it well in a cloth, and put it in, then picked up the book that had a slightly wet mark.
[Introduction to Basic Water Magic]
This is a book found in Roman’s room. Judging by the fact that there were meticulous annotations and explanations here and there, it seemed like they were trying to give it to me. I was even more glad to have found this as I was already wondering what to do next when my water-based mana affinity reached 100%.
Lastly… the magic circuit that I found while searching through the numerous miscellaneous items in Roman’s room.
[Very unstable]
This is going to explode.
Looking at the small groove in the center, it looked like it would probably work if a magic stone was inserted into that part. Since there was no research funding, they could only make cheap products like this. The lowest level magic stone is also a small piece, so even if it explodes due to magic reflux, it will not show much power, but since it is an explosive that can be thrown, it will be useful in some way.
After carefully wrapping and tying the things I had packed, I put on the count’s ceremonial clothes that I brought from the count’s room, adjusting them to fit my body as much as possible.
Sigh! Squeak!
‘Should I say I’m wearing this or not…’ The
aristocratic-style top with stylish embroidery had the sleeves torn off and had a slit in the middle, worn like a vest, and the bottoms, which had puffed out the thighs, were torn below the knees and worn like extremely tight shorts. I had no choice but to do so.
For some reason, I remember wearing tattered noble clothes when I first started, and I wonder if this character has nothing to do with decent clothes…
[Is there a need to wear clothes? Anyway, I’m going to have to fight my compatriots on the way out, right?]
“There’s the bare minimum for a human being, you parasite.”
Even if this is a game character, it is being broadcast. Now I’m finally able to show how to fight properly, but there’s something heavy underneath that’s flying around. Ugh, if it were me, I would immediately turn it off and go scold the community.
After covering things roughly, the professor looked around the space he had been living in for the past few days. A bathtub moved from the room it was first locked in. The well that was in charge of his mental management. And a lot of primitive exercise equipment created thanks to infectious agents that require more exercise as the body grows.
I feel something strange.
[Oh, it’s probably because of me. Seeing this makes me feel like I’m leaving my hometown.]
‘Hmm? ‘Parasite, isn’t your hometown in the north where the Mutation Queen is?’
[It was while I was in this laboratory building that I developed an ego. I was born here.]
That’s right. My useless knowledge has increased.
Finally, the professor, who had tied the wrapping cloth tightly on his back, silently opened the exit of the underground laboratory building.
It’s finally time to test your accomplishments.
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When I opened the door and went outside, only the bright and bright moon was shining on the city alone in a quiet atmosphere.
“Uuuu-”
“Uuuuu-”
‘Level 8. Many humanoids. I don’t see any special features. There didn’t seem to be that many infiltrated mutes… I guess most of the mutes wandering around the city are like this.’
Mute wearing a torn, shabby shirt and dirty pants. They may have been civilians who failed to escape after the city fell. The mutants that filled this city must be such innocent victims.
Tick, tick, tick.
As I cautiously approached back, I heard something like a small knocking sound in my head. His image appears in the air like black smoke.
[husks. By any chance, is this the person you originally knew was a person?]
‘What kind of bullshit is this guy trying to say again?’
A ball of black smoke flew forward and landed on the shoulder of the mute I was aiming for. He has no substance and only exists in my head, but at a moment like this when I need to be most focused, he pops out and interrupts my pulse. He is also an annoying guy.
[That’s right. It’s not someone I originally knew. He’s not the one who’s alive and can really help you, so why are you angry? Just because they are of the same race? Well, I don’t get angry when the shell rips out the necks of its compatriots and collects the blood.]
‘That’s right…’
How do I explain this? I learned from dealing with this guy over the past few days that when he comes out like this, it’s easiest to give him a polite answer. If you just ignore them, they’ll keep talking next to you until you answer, but asking the same questions endlessly is so annoying that you want to take out your brain. Why?
‘I don’t know.’
[I don’t know? I just decided to kill the culprit who made people like this, but you don’t even know why?]
‘Oh, I don’t know! Those guys had a reason to beat me to death in the first place! And is there a reason why you get angry when you get slapped? ‘I’m just angry because it’s so shit!’
[Oh, anger doesn’t need a special reason? I understand.]
“Really? “Grrrrrrrrr!”
‘shit! ‘I wasted so much time because of you!’
It must be stopped. If that guy even screams, it’s all-out war!
The thought was long, but the action was instantaneous. If you attack the guy who is turning this way from behind and hug him with one arm, putting pressure on his neck and covering his mouth with the other arm, and pulling him in the opposite direction with all your strength, you will induce suffocation –
Pugh!
[….Suffocation?]
‘Uh…um…. If you do this outside, you might suffocate…’
As he moved so quietly at night, without realizing it, I did what he did outside, but instead of strangling me, I ripped out his neck. Just pop it like a grape without much resistance.
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: Isn’t it strange to do assassination with such qualifications in the first place?
– Jokass: It’s because the attack/defense balance isn’t right. Normally, if you grow like that through training, the strength value should be displayed, but because it grew in such a bizarre way, it may have been buried as a variant trait, but it doesn’t display how much strength it has.
– Mukaba: I saw a Mana user-level knight destroy a city house with a shoulder blade during an escape mission.
– Heungan Mandu: It’s a house made of dirt and wood. What he blew up was the stone wall of the underground research building, which was strong enough to withstand the weight of the building above ground. No mana, just vitality.
– Speed Wagon: For now, we have no choice but to measure combat power based on the level of the enemy. First of all, I guess he has the fighting power of a bare-bones upper-class knight.
‘In the end, no one knows.’
The professor roughly threw Mute’s bleeding body in a corner and then examined the situation outside the alley. Fortunately, they were dealt with before they made a loud noise, so the others are still quiet.
‘It’s the earl’s mansion, so it’s probably in the center of the city. Turan is a complex city made up entirely of narrow alleys, except for the central boulevard leading to the lord’s castle. If you move carefully, you will be able to move to the outskirts of the city without being detected.’
“Right pole?!”
Fuha!
The professor frowned as he separated the head from the body of a mute that had noticed him. Even though I could move silently, I couldn’t help but notice this large body.
***
“Kkiiiiik!”
“profit! Damn it! “Die gracefully!”
“Kkiik! “Keueeek!”
I passed by the same method for about 30 minutes, assassinating the guys wandering the alley, and eventually got caught.
‘I thought it looked a bit strange, but was it a mixture of a chicken and a snake?’
As we approached the outskirts of the city, more and more high-level guys began to appear. It was probably arranged this way in case humans attacked to take back the city.
The guy I met while passing through an alley that looked like a market was one of those guys. A guy with a human body and the head of a chicken. Without thinking, I approach and twist the neck as before, but doesn’t it feel like it’s stretching?
“Kkiik! “Keueeek!!!”
“shit! “Please….die!”
Ttuduk! Teudddeuddeuk – Wow!
When he attacked the struggling creature with his entire body and ripped off its long neck, the mutes nearby had already heard his words.
“Shit! “I thought it would go smoothly!”
There was no need to go quietly anymore since I was caught. The professor started running as fast as he could. The soles of my feet were burning, but I couldn’t afford to worry about that right now.
“Gyaaagh!”
“Shut it off! Wow! “Fuck off!”
“Damn it! “There are so many of them!”
Looking at the stalls around, it seemed like this was a market. Decay had begun, and among the fly-flecked fruit and the blood-stained trinkets, the monsters that had once made them their living began to rush towards the professor.
The professor took out a slippery-looking pouch from his waist and swung it with all his might towards the approaching Mute.
Whoa!
Mute’s head exploded after being hit squarely in the temple by the pocket, but the pocket was intact.
“It works! “With this, a strike battle would be possible to some extent!”
The identity of the pocket was Black Jack, a finely ground corroded hacksaw blade that the professor had secretly collected during his time as a test subject.
[Item: ‘meat’ my black Jack! : A weapon made by putting finely ground iron powder and stone chips into a pouch made by weaving mute leather and tendons. It is made of tough and elastic material, so it can withstand strong forces well, but for some reason, I don’t think it should be used in front of others. / One-handed blunt weapon / Attack power 38 / Durability 168 / Additional option: Stuns the target with a 40% chance] A
quality product created after numerous failures and frustrations. To prevent iron dust from leaking out, this weapon was made by removing Mute’s stomach, putting internal material inside it, tying it at the front and back, wrapping it again with Mute’s skin, and tying it tightly with tendons. It was so well made that they were even able to give it a unique name.
– takealook: So which one is the monster?
– Noru Drug: ??? : This is crazy! I’m out of here!
+ Player ‘Holly’ has left the chat room!
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: The professor’s broadcast is not for everyone.
– Jokass: Couldn’t you have made it a little prettier? Beyond being overflowing with functionality, it creates a feeling of fear just by looking at it?
-Speed Wagon: After all, they are a nation of bullies.
– Heungan Mandu: In effect, you are swinging the stomach tied to tendons. If the psycho gang met a guy like that, they would take off their pants and run away, right?
– takealook: When making that, the professor was just taking out the mute internal organs and laughing so hard. Even if he had picked something that wasn’t humanoid, he looked like a completely crazy person.
“shut up! “Are you in a situation where you have to worry about something like that?”
The professor looked at the weapon in his hand. A half-dried piece of leather with loose ends attached to a bundle of tendons held in the hand. It was quite grotesque to see blood dripping between the tendons that seemed to be twitching at any moment.
“Kaaaa!”
Whoa!
“Keuuu! The taste is killer! okay! What a big deal! It’s so good! “It would have been perfect if it had been used for its original purpose!”
The professor licked his lips in disappointment as he looked at Mute’s head exploding. Originally, I had planned to use a blackjack made from corroded hacksaws to slash the wizards’ heads and escape.
Whoa!
The professor periodically checked Blackjack’s durability while dealing with the oncoming mutes.
+[‘meat’ my black Jack! : Attack power 38 / Durability 78]
‘It’s decreasing drastically.’
The biggest advantage of weapons such as blackjacks or flails, in which the hand-held part and the striking part are connected by a fluid such as a string or chain, is that centrifugal force can be used, but most of the reaction shock when striking is dispersed into the air.
So, I still use the blackjack I made myself instead of the spears or swords lying around in the city, but since it was a makeshift weapon without any special skills or techniques, it was inevitable that it would quickly become unusable.
“Kyaaaaaak!”
Wow!
‘But we’re almost there. If you just climb over the castle wall, you can somehow escape!’
Judging by the change in the sound of the blow, it appears that the tendons that sewed the outer surface were broken and the grains began to scatter. The professor put the broken blackjack in the bag on his back and walked out of the alley. Until now, you have been hiding through the alleys, but in order to leave the city, you must eventually pass through the main street in front of the castle gate.
thud! thud! thud!
“Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!”
“Yes… there was that guy.”
A big guy running around the mansion. The professor took a deep breath as he looked at the monsters and dozens of grade 7 mutes gathered around the half-broken castle gate. Seeing that the top of the castle wall was swarming with pretty-looking guys, it could be dangerous if you try to climb up too hastily. I had no choice but to break through that gap.
[Were you scared?]
“Hehehe… Then I was scared. “I have to stick to lumps like that with this soft body.”
[Then… why are you laughing?]
The smile on the professor’s mouth grew even deeper at his words. The professor’s tense body was stretched so tightly that it seemed as if it would jump forward at any moment. You have to calculate it well. A body that can be used consumptively. If you use strength like this, it will become like a harpoon like that arm, but when you use it, you have to use it.
“I said it before….”
Crunch crunch!
Dedddddddddddd!
The seams of his clothes were torn by his thighs, which had swelled to their limit, and the professor’s body began to vibrate due to the unbearable force.
“I don’t know, dude.”
Throw in!
Blood poured out like a fountain from his legs, which hit the ground with all his might, and the professor’s body shot out like a cannonball.
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