Chapter 35 – 035 Crescent Moon Rock
The women who were keeping their lives alive with the brown monsters’ trinkets were trembling as they heard shouts, roars, and roars coming from outside.
Not knowing what was going on outside, they were slowly being consumed by the fear brought by the unknown.
Maybe when the roar ends, they will be dragged out again. Maybe one of us is being eaten alive again.
As I was suffocating in the imagination I created, I heard the sound of something being split and smashed in the dark, and even a small scream, trembling with fear.
A large, bloody brown mass strode in.
The women, of course, were furious. I didn’t scream because I remembered that the monsters were very amused whenever they screamed.
But what about a human voice?
“It’s difficult if you can’t communicate…….”
The women, who had not understood the situation and were stiff, suddenly came to their senses at Hwanin’s self-talk.
=Ah, I can understand!=
=I understand! I understand!=
When the women opened their mouths, Hwanin slightly furrowed his eyebrows as he felt his ears, no, his head ringing.
It wasn’t painful.
Wouldn’t it be like this if there was a trembling feeling as if an unused organ had been stimulated for the first time?
Among the women, a woman with ears similar to a Jindo dog stood up, covering her breast with her left arm and cupping her thighs, asking cautiously.
=Did you come to save us?=
Feeling tingling again.
The sound that reached the eardrum sounded like an Arabic language, but strangely Hwanin was able to understand what the other person was saying.
“Yes. I was asked to do so by the soul of a woman you think is an acquaintance of yours.”
Surprised women holding their breath.
“This may be hard to believe, but…….”
=I believe! I can believe it!=
= I believe! I’ll believe… !=
The other three jumped to their feet and nodded up and down as if shaking their heads crying, not caring that they were naked.
You can see that the hope of living now spreads across your face.
The woman with the ears of a Jindo dog who stole her tears asked while glancing at Hwanin’s back.
=Yeah, the other co-workers…… ?=
“I am alone. It’s not time to talk long, so we’ll talk about it later.”
After saying that, Hwanin poured out the weapon he had packed in the middle in front of the women.
They are all rusty or half-rotten weapons, but this should be enough to protect you for a while.
The women expressed concern and concern with their facial expressions when they heard that they had come alone. How could he escape with only five of them among so many monsters?
Hwanin also read it, but he didn’t care and said, putting the leather back on his head like a hood.
“Most of the monsters in this cave have been killed. I’ll kill all that’s left. Other monsters may come after I leave, but you just have to hold out until I come.”
Seeing Hwanin’s aloof attitude, the women started to believe that they could get out alive.
The woman with Jindo dog ears asked, picking up her rusty pike among the weapons dropped by her Hwanin.
= It was very noisy outside…… What’s going on?=
“It is good for you. Two of the big monsters are dead and the other three are badly injured. There are only about sixty little monsters left.”
=…… !=
=…… ?!=
Two of those five monsters are already dead? Of the hundreds of monsters, there are only sixty left?
Hwanin left the room and went inside while the women were frozen in surprise and bewilderment.
Compared to the other rooms, a much larger space appeared. And again, this was the end of the aisle.
In the innermost part of the front, five wooden chairs on the altar made in two tiers like a podium.
That would be the place for the big guys.
On the wall on the left, dirty meat that looks like food is piled up and flying swarms of flies.
“…….”
I passed the traces of fire in the middle of the room and looked behind the chair, but there was no such thing as a dog hole.
He clicked his tongue slightly in regret.
‘It would have been easier if there had been a dog hole.’
He lives like a beast, but he seems not to be a beast even in his habits.
After confirming that there were no living brown monsters in the cave, Hwanin passed the women’s room, and a woman with Jindo dog ears held her weapon close to her chest and stopped Hwanin.
= Eun-in…….=
“What happened.”
The woman continued her speech with her beastly ears laid back with a look of fear on her face.
=You have to be careful with the biggest hob.=
‘Hob?’
Under the circumstances, it appears to be a word referring to a brown monster. A big hob is a big brown monster.
=That monster has the power to heal wounds by drinking blood. Wounds that reveal internal organs can heal to the level of a slight cut if you drink blood. It seemed to restore energy.=
“Are there any characteristics other than size?”
=Uses a club-like greatsword.=
Is it a brown monster with a great sword? Having the same ability as a bloodsucking demon, it must have been because of that that there were few wounds.
After returning the woman with the ears of a Jindo dog, Hwanin came out and witnessed a blunt brown monster right in front of the aisle with her head blown off.
With both arms broken, it looked like he was idling around near the bladed wild boar and got hit by a hind kick.
‘That’s stupid.’
Since the spirit was wandering around, I retrieved it, returned to the back of the hill, took up the weapon and spear I had put down, and stared at the death struggle in the clearing.
The only two surviving large brown monsters are a greatsword and a polearm. However, even the bladed wild boar is bleeding profusely as if its whole body had been hacked to pieces.
The three of them were almost entangled with each other, lighting up the last flame of life.
“…….”
The majesty of the blade boar is amazing. To go on a rampage against five big brown monsters of lower middle class.
Considering that he spent a lot of stamina in a chase with himself for about 20 minutes…….
‘If I had good health, half of the five big brown monsters would die in the first clash.’
Hwanin, holding a deer antlers staff and spear on his back, carries only a dagger and moves like an assassin behind the small brown monsters surrounding the clearing.
The objective is to reduce the number of little brown monsters as much as possible.
Turn off…… !
With less than 5 minutes remaining, Hwanin, who commanded the soul of the yak (body strengthening based on physical strength), blocked the muzzle of the brown monster standing at the rear with his hand, pulled it back, and cut his throat.
Blood spurted out from the cross section of the cut and keep! Off! It convulsed, but the smell of blood and intermittent agony were hidden behind the monsters’ struggle and the cheers of the little monsters.
Throwing the dead brown monster behind, Hwanin approaches the next target.
So, Hwanin mobilized all his stealth skills to take down the little brown monsters one by one.
Some monsters got a strange feeling in the middle and looked back, but I killed them by piercing their heads with spears.
“Suck!”
Kwajik.
Hwanin, who pierced another skull with a spear, felt the heavy weight of the spear and lifted it with firm strength in his arms.
His forearm swells greatly, tightening the shirt that is about to tear apart. Thanks to that, a monster body weighing more than 30 kg was lifted up with the tip of the spear caught, and after a big swing, the monster body disappeared into the forest in an instant.
It took only 3 seconds to get here.
The people right next to them disappeared, but the monsters didn’t notice.
They were engrossed in the bloody struggle between the big brown monster and the razor-sharp boar, and they did not even notice that their kin died beside and behind them.
The parties to the struggle don’t know because they’re focused on the other person.
Then, when the number decreased to 20, the monsters who realized the situation began to buzz.
But they act foolishly, as if they have no idea who did this.
Twenty was the number that Hwanin deliberately saved, and around that time, Hwanin returned to the hill.
Soon it’s your turn
It’s been over a month since I fell into this strange world.
‘No…… Is it day 40? Your sense of the date is fuzzy.’
In the meantime, after Hwanin acquired the psychic ability to deal with the soul and established the basic concept of heat and cold energy, he has been steadily conducting several experiments and tests.
I experimented with what I could do with the surplus souls generated when refilling the soul orb and the soul orb that would disappear when the maintenance time was exceeded.
Due to the nature of psychic powers, there were not many tests, but somehow I was able to achieve results, which were to load the technique and maintain it for about 22 minutes, and drag the soul for about 10 minutes.
Skills that move with up to 4 souls loaded with skills or carry some souls with them.
Both methods were not a technique that could be used on a daily basis, as the amount of energy was steadily consumed depending on the duration.
To compare Hungi to a game, MP (magic point, mana point) can be taken as an example.
You cannot abuse the skill because the penalty gets harsher as your training decreases.
However, from the formation of the skill to the launch, except for the explosion of the Soul Explosion, it is not visible to the opponent and can be operated for a short time beyond the maximum amount held, so the usefulness is not small.
Right now, Hwanin consumed 4 soul beads with that skill and was loading the soul arrow.
It’s about Advanced Soul Arrow, a mixture of 1 low-middle, 1 low-level, and 2 low-level.
It was time to untie all the dirty hides that had been tied around the body for camouflage.
Coo wow…… !!
Cooong-
The bladed boar is hit on the side of the head by the full swing of the greatsword brown monster and falls to its forelimbs.
The whole body is torn and the bones are broken, and the look of death is terrible.
“Whoa.”
After taking the soul of the big brown monster, Hwanin jumped down the steep slope without hesitation.
It was a nearly perpendicular slope of 20m in height, but Hwanin skillfully slowed down with his heels, jumped up, and landed in the empty lot without incident.
Thud.
At the sound of Hwanin’s landing, the big sword brown monster, which was about to crush the boar’s head, stiffened its muscles and glared at Hwanin with bright red eyes in shock at the appearance of an intruder it hadn’t seen before.
The monster’s instinct was warning. He said he felt a mysterious sensation from the intruder who had just appeared.
“…….”
Was it dissatisfied with Hwanin’s calm attitude, or was the feeling felt by Hwanin uneasy?
A big brown monster holding a weapon that should be called an iron stick rather than an iron spear roars and rushes at Hwanin.
‘It’s not muscle, it’s fat.’
The big brown monster I saw up close was a body type with bloated fat all over its body. The sound of running is thumping loud, probably because of the weight.
Hwanin’s eyes read the movements of the brown monster’s limbs. Hwanin, who predicted the attack pattern based on that standard, slightly evaded the honest thrust of the brown monster with iron bars, and hit it with all his might.
Aww!!
Kwok?!
The iron-clad brown monster’s posture completely collapses, and his arms rise upwards as if to cheer up.
‘The big brown monster’s Necromantic effect is a group specializing in increasing strength.’
Hwanin also felt a strong repulsion from his grip.
If it wasn’t for the command of the big brown monster that strengthened his body with strength, he wouldn’t have been able to beat it this perfectly.
Whoops!
The iron-clad brown monster with its arms raised as if hurrahing hurriedly retreated and tried to return to its stance, but at that moment a sharp pain arose from its blackened side, its mouth wide open, and it screamed silently.
Realizing belatedly that he had been stabbed by the skinny guy in front of him, the monster lowers his gaze.
Dark, dead blood flowed from the wound, which was as wide as a knuckle.
When did I get stabbed?
“It’s amazing that you’re looking at the enemy in front of you.”
The caged monster raised its head at the low voice that came from the front, but it was too late.
For a moment, he felt a sharp pain in his left eye.
The caged monster fell down, feeling a blur of consciousness, and did not move again.
“…….”
Hwanin, who pulled out the spear that deeply pierced the monster’s left eye, brushed off the brain fluid caught on the edge of the spear and gave the brown monster his gaze.
Seeing Hwanin’s expressionless gaze, the greatsword monster snorted out his rough nose.
Who is that guy with the black spear? How did you get here? Why?
After thinking for a while, the greatsword monster nervously slams the greatsword in one hand to the ground, probably not wanting his head hurting.
It was a pretty reckless act, but Hwanin was not vigilant.
From what I’ve seen, the big brown monster fights in a way that relies solely on strength and instinct. But the same goes for Hwanin himself.
If hulking relies on strength and instinct, he himself relies on intuition and reflexes.
While muscles covered with veins the size of a finger twitched grotesquely, the greatsword monster glared at Hwanin as if to tear it to death, growling lowly.
The actions of the brown monster with bloodshot eyes and grunting can only be interpreted as ‘I will destroy you from now on.’
Hwanin also smirks and holds the spear with both hands. And he said to listen.
“Okay. If you die, this village is over.”
Kuwak!!
With a short roar, the greatsword monster jumped up. Its speed can be counted on one hand among creatures I’ve seen so far.
The expected landing point is, without a doubt, the place where you are standing. Since you commanded a large brown monster soul, you should be able to inflict great damage if you aim for an opening after landing.
But it didn’t.
‘Looking closer, he’s the only one with tight muscles.’
It was a qualitatively different physique from the other four, who are quite conceded and are at the level of muscle pigs, or scaffolding pigs if criticized harshly, and they look fine on their own without any scars.
It was Hwanin who avoided the seat after giving her a bit of leeway with the intention of analyzing her partner for a while after a warning from a woman with Jindo dog ears.
By the way…….
Kwakwang!!
Hwanin habitually narrowed his eyes as he witnessed stone fragments ricocheting out in all directions like a grenade exploding when the greatsword monster hit the ground with its weapon at the same time as it fell.
If he had aimed for an opening, he would have been initially stiffened by that shrapnel, and he would have been greatly disappointed by the greatsword monster’s attack that followed.
‘It’s several times stronger than expected.’
It’s not much stronger than the other big brown monsters. There is a big difference between before and after he unfolds the lower-middle-level program.
How? Is the difference between the individual brown monsters stark?
Wow!!
The greatsword monster left a deep cut in the ground and leaped toward Hwanin again. This time, it is a straight charge, not a parabola.
This attack was also as fast as a shotgun, but was it because he was preparing for it? Hwanin, who clearly caught his movement, aimed at the huge gap created by the straight line charge and slid out his spear.
Because it was so fast, a long cut from the side to the thigh was left just by lightly bringing the blade out of the reach of the greatsword.
Quaaaaa!! Kuwaaaaa!!
The greatsword monster, seeing blood, and its own blood, began to run amok with its bloodshot eyes glistening to the extent that the whites of its body could not be seen.
He simply wields his greatsword at random, within the limit of his strength and stamina, towards the enemy called Hwanin.
It is the force that splits the hardened ground by several tens of centimeters. The greatsword rips through the atmosphere so quickly and so powerfully that it is hard to see.
Occasionally, it jumps and attacks as fast as a shot arrow, but Hwanin keeps a reasonable distance and avoids all attacks, and only stealthily brings the blade of the spear to hurt.
‘The physical durability is no different from that of a lifesaver, but the attack is too fast.’
The gap is clearly visible, but there is too little time to properly inflict damage.
All he does is increase the cuts by bringing his weapon from time to time like this.
Decorate the kitchen!!!
After several confrontations, the greatsword monster roars as it thumps its chest. And without any sign, he kicked the ground with his foot and sprinkled it with earthy sand.
“!?”
Tdadadak, Tddydiddik-
The sound of sand and pebbles hitting and bouncing off the hastily deployed soul shield is loud. Moreover, a cloud of dust rises up and obscures the view.
At that moment, I heard a thump, a jin-gak sound.
‘Left.’
Hwanin, who caught the subtle differences in the sound, prostrated himself so that his upper body touched the ground.
Right after that, the dust on the left parted and a monster with a greatsword came out with a yaksha-like expression.
Kkeukreuk?
The greatsword monster appeared as if it were going to split the enemy with its greatsword, and looked around in bewilderment at the fact that the enemy had disappeared.
Enemies covered in dust and sand were always easy prey, but those prey disappeared.
Puzzled by the phenomenon it was experiencing for the first time and trying to look back, the greatsword monster suddenly felt a sharp pain in its chest and vomited up a bowl of blood.
What is this?
Looking back, the enemy, the intruder, was aiming at himself with a strange staff.
And there was a hole the size of a fist in his own chest.
