73 – reason
“Kek.”
Suddenly, the place I was in was overturned, and I was unseemly thrown into stomach acid. Even when I struggled with my arms and lifted my head, my entire body melted.
Thanks to this, I had to go back and forth between solid and liquid, exhaling bubbles in stomach acid for a while.
It must have been how long it had been since she had melted and regenerated repeatedly, so she could barely grasp the slightly swollen flesh after strengthening her resilience to the fullest with her hand outstretched.
Ignoring the melting of her legs and lower body, she pulled up her upper body and restored her body in that state, then sat between the swollen flesh and stared blankly at the acidic sea that flowed through her stomach.
It’s been a long time since the horses, the coachman’s corpse, and the fragments of the crushed wagon that came with them melted away in the stomach acid by themselves, except for me.
Except for me. It’s really too much.
The same goes for the iron sword draped across the waist. As soon as it touched stomach acid, it disappeared giving off a fishy iron smell. I bought it and couldn’t even wield it properly.
“It’s no different from a normal monster.”
He groaned and kicked the fleshy wall with his foot. It was just a simple joke.
As expected of a monster that crawls on the ground and eats all sorts of minerals, including soil, the speed at which the gastric juice dissolves the body is quite fast, but that was the end.
No matter how quickly that acid solution dissolved my body, my body bounced back to normal. So there was no point in staying here.
It’s not the speed that matters, it’s what comes after that.
Anyway, the durability of this damn body is no different from that of a normal human, so if you just want to break it somewhere, a stone on the side of the road is enough.
The question is whether or not it will recover after destroying it.
Even destructive magic that evaporates before a human can even blink is meaningless because it can’t block the activation of the super regeneration ability.
There are no restrictions on the number of times or time to play.
Still, just in case, I even swam in stomach acid for a while, but I didn’t see any signs. All I had to do was worry about what to do if the body smells.
He brought his nose to the liquid that was still clinging to his body and sparingly melting his skin, sniffing it, then frowning and shaking his hands.
Again, it was terribly boring.
‘This is why I don’t like being eaten by something.’
The smell of gastric juice is disgusting, and if the smell stains your clothes, you have no choice but to throw it away and buy a new one.
Other adventurers should be thankful that they came back alive after being eaten by monsters without even having time to worry about clothes, but I am the opposite.
You should be grateful if you die as it is.
Now that I had committed suicide, all I had to do was wait for Christine to grab him, slit him in the stomach, and get me out.
It was virtually impossible to pierce the stomach with bare hands without a knife, and climbing through the neck would not work.
I’ve tried it before, but the monster just moved its neck a few times and it came back out.
Anyway, since the 5 minutes I talked about have passed, Christine must have started to act too.
With that thought in mind, at the moment I was pondering over whether or not to plug my nose at the smell I wasn’t used to at all, the monster’s body suddenly shuddered and contracted everywhere.
A fist came out through the wall of flesh.
“I will never use this method again.”
“God suffered for my sin. How should I repent of this sin…”
“It’s not your fault, Christine. It was me who said I’d give it a try, even though I knew it was pointless after trying it several times. I just don’t have the ability to learn.”
The identity of the fist that pierced the flesh was Christine. A natural result. How many people can pierce the internal organs of this huge monster with their fists?
To be cursing at one’s own stupidity without the ability to learn, the one I was cursing at was me, but Christine was crying out loud.
After stroking her hair a few times to calm her down, she waved her hand around to get rid of the smell. I wonder if this will make the stench go away.
From my body, stomach acid, the flesh of monsters, the smell of fat and internal organs mixed with being dragged out gave off a disgusting stench that was difficult to describe in words.
Rather than taking on such a thing, I’d rather get used to it as soon as I get used to it, and it’s much better to feel the bloody smell that doesn’t feel any inspiration.
And, one more thing.
“Was this guy black blooded?”
Christine turned her eyes to the monster’s flesh that had been crushed. The section was black, not red.
When I went into the stomach, it was so dark that I couldn’t even check the color.
Even though the corpse had been smashed to pieces like that, hardly any blood flowed out. Christine was next to me, and I felt a weak divine power from Christine.
“Christine. Reap the sacred power for a moment.”
“I understand.”
At my command, Christine sniffled and closed her eyes, then knelt down and bowed her head deeply. Divine power spread widely around him.
When the divine power that suppressed heresy disappeared, blood flowed from the monster’s meat. It was still black.
As soon as the black blood leaked out, it began contaminating the area.
My lungs tingled as I inhaled. In an instant, his nostrils rotted away, and a single stream of blood flowed out. The soil that had come in contact with the blood bubbling.
I coughed and coughed up a lump of blood mixed with flesh. It was a lump of blood mixed with black everywhere.
I could feel the taste of blood in my mouth. Just by doing this, it was confirmed. He roughly stole his mouth and raised his regenerative power.
The cloudy blood returned to his mouth, regaining its color. The rotted lungs and the black, oozing tongue regained their original form.
Seeing me like that, Christine put on a bloody expression and unleashed her divine power again. The corpse of the monster was immediately wrapped in white flames.
“It’s black blood.”
I checked it with my body just in case, and it was really black blood. There was nothing more to see.
Why did these guys show up again? Obviously, I couldn’t find any traces of where Christine was talking about.
“Damn, this gives me more and more places to check.”
As I watched everything around me burn with white flames, I organized my complicated thoughts.
Christine had clearly said that there were hundreds of monsters. However, not all of those hundreds would be over 30 meters in size like the one who swallowed me.
If that was the case, the neighborhood wouldn’t have remained as intact as this.
In other words, it is more reasonable to say that the black blood strengthened other monsters and formed a kind of command system to attack this place.
The problem was this.
‘why?’
I stayed in one place for three days and found nothing. In other words, that guy means that he came here from a place far away from here.
with some definite purpose.
Rather, if we only attacked from a certain direction, we might think that we coincided unluckily with the way the monsters moved, but since they said they came from all directions, that is of course excluded.
“eww…….”
As I was wringing my hair out so hard, a moan of pain interrupted my thoughts.
what just happened Didn’t you hear it from beyond the monster’s corpse?
At first glance, it was a woman’s voice, so he held Christine’s hand, who was unsure of what to do, to prevent it from jumping out uncontrollably.
Perhaps one of the two female adventurers in the adventurer’s party survived somehow.
After burning almost all of the monster’s corpses before I knew it, I broke through the slowly fading white flame and crossed over to the other side.
And I rubbed my eyes.
‘Why are they here?’
The first thing that caught my eye was a female adventurer lying flat on the side of the road. Judging by the feeble movement of her heart, she is still alive.
Next to him was a female knight who groaned feebly as he clutched at the arm that had fallen from the shoulder blades, and other female knights surrounding him.
I saw a silver armor with a familiar appearance. I couldn’t know Because that was the armor Serena was wearing a while ago.
As a bonus, I could see the familiar colored hair. It was burning red. I still couldn’t figure it out.
‘Alessia?’
Alessia Beneviento. It was the same female knight who had a fight with Serena in the arena.
First of all, I thought I was good at holding Christine’s hand. At least I won’t be torn apart by Christine right now.
He wondered why the Royal Knights were here, and soon remembered what Charlotte had said he would prepare for the Royal Knights and the Royal Magicians.
I told you to rest assured that we are preparing those two groups, the most elite troops in the kingdom.
‘Still, the royal knights alone won’t be able to catch it?’
It’s not a question of skill, it’s a question of compatibility.
To defeat the black blooded monster without divine power, it was impossible for the Royal Knights to have ten or so members. You have to bring at least 50 people to be able to rub it.
Especially against super-large monsters that exceed 30 meters like now. I can’t be sure if I can win even if I bring all the Royal Knights.
It was not for nothing that the Holy Church grew like crazy at the time of the black blooded monster outbreak. The presence or absence of divine power in battle was literally the difference between heaven and earth.
‘There’s no way that Charlotte doesn’t know that.’
Even if you use search magic at the end of the continent, Charlotte is a wizard who can accurately identify the appearance and clothing of a person located at the other end of the continent.
It was hard to say that he did not know the size of the black blood monster or underestimated its danger.
Then why the hell did he try to catch a black blooded monster with such a combination… By the time I was wondering, a possibility suddenly came to my mind.
Christine’s mana nullification also does not work for Charlotte’s search magic. There was no way Christine would let her search magic run through her.
However, in other words, it also means that the place where the search magic does not work is Christine’s location. It is to use the property of nullifying all magic in reverse.
The reason why the Royal Knights were composed of only women, even though they confirmed that the size of the black blooded monster was over 30 meters, and that Christine was nearby.
I thought I knew why.
“I sent you to die.”
Whether I was killed by Christine because I couldn’t stop her, or by the black blooded monster.
