Homunculus
Could it be because I unintentionally drew aggro from the monsters?
The drone, which was specially airlifted by Seo Chang-hoon, was able to fly freely inside the mansion without encountering or being disturbed by anything.
‘Surprisingly simple?’
A structure that surrounds the central hall and the entrance leading to the outside in a large ‘U’ shape.
I didn’t know it when I couldn’t move a few steps from the first room, but the structure of the mansion is very simple, except for the size.
Yuseong, who was trying to retrieve the drone, thinking that further confirmation was meaningless, found a broken door and carefully turned the camera with a feeling of uneasiness.
-…Could this be me?
Blood and flesh splattered everywhere, and a corpse in the middle.
It was damaged to such an extent that it was difficult to recognize the original form, but it was not difficult to guess the identity of the corpse with only one gray hair.
“I just couldn’t believe that…”
“Well, one of us.”
“Are you okay with this situation? Someone who looks just like you is dead?! Isn’t it normal to have to look a bit surprised?”
“not really?”
For Aris and Alice, it may be an important issue related to their existence or identity, but for Yoosung, who is a clear stranger, the only emotion she felt was ‘a girl who looks just like Aris is dead’.
If I had to add it, it was all that I was narrowing down my guess little by little, thinking of games or novels similar to this situation.
“Something is strange about you.”
“So what? You don’t want to go with me?”
“Oops!”
Alice, who hesitated for a moment as if she was afraid of being left alone, came over and quietly grabbed the hem of her dress.
Squeak!
Coming out into an empty hallway, Yoosung opened the doors of nearby rooms with the key given to him by Alice and began to check inside.
How many rooms did you check?
Sensing the presence of the monster, Yuseong shook his head and hid in a nearby room.
“I was wrong. There’s no end to this.”
Compared to the structure, the size of the mansion is beyond imagination, and the number of monsters roaming around and rooms to be searched is too large.
Unless a miracle followed, it was impossible not to be noticed until all the rooms were checked, and it was also impossible to run away or escape against the influx of monsters.
“Then why don’t we just go outside?”
“What are you talking about? We have to change the way.”
If it were a game, you would have to go around and search every room, but this is reality.
Unless there are clues related to the past hidden in numerous rooms or warehouses, or items necessary for searching the inside of the mansion, it is enough to search only those places that look moderately suspicious and destroy and open closed or hidden doors.
Yoosung hung an extra smartphone on the drone, played music as it was, and blew it out the door.
Smack! Smack!
Chunk! Chunk!
“Kikii profit!”
The effect of the drone was beyond expectations.
Numerous monsters hiding here and there in the mansion, including living armor, chimeras made of countless living things, and monsters of flesh, started chasing the drone that made strange noises.
Meteor flew around the inside of the mansion for a while and sent the monsters to the opposite hallway from where he had come. As soon as the signal from the drone was cut off, Meteor opened the door and came out.
“let’s go.”
“Let’s go. Where?”
“Above. Usually, in this situation, the place where the secret is hidden is the top or the basement, but since this mansion doesn’t seem to have a basement, shouldn’t we go upstairs?”
Meteor and Alice went upstairs through the stairs in the center.
Among the monsters on the second floor, there were those who heard the music and came down, so the overall atmosphere was quiet compared to the first floor.
“Ahhh···.”
“Heh, heuh. Ugh heuh.”
Of course, that was relatively true, but it didn’t mean that there were no monsters at all.
Faced with a huge monster that appeared the moment she turned the corner and could be as tall as 3m, Alice let out a small scream without realizing it.
“Hick?!”
A terrifying chimera with presumably beastly reverse-jointed legs, a massive, muscular torso, four arms, and two heads.
The two heads turned their heads in different directions and looked down at Meteor and Alice.
“Hook, hook. Hook”
“···Ahhh?”
The head of a man breathing heavily with an angry expression, and the head of a woman with a bewildered expression.
The moment he checked the head of the woman who was breathing with a distorted expression, Yooseong used a flashlight and jumped toward the Chimera.
‘Take care of it before you scream!’
At best, I sent the monsters to other places, but when the turmoil grows, it’s a joke.
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Just before a scream erupted from the woman’s mouth, a plasma ax cut her throat neatly.
If it was a normal monster, it would have ended with this, but the opponent was a Chimera.
Another remaining head moved its body and swung its arms toward the meteor.
“Kuk!”
Even though Amwol Type 16’s Drain and Endurance were used at the same time, the difference in basic specifications and body was so great that Meteor had no choice but to be pushed back.
“Witch! Witch! Witch who turned us into monsters!”
The offensive with four arms was several times more cumbersome than the one with two arms.
If he wanted to, he could blow off two of his arms right away, but since he allowed counterattacks with his remaining arm, Yooseong couldn’t rush into the attack and had no choice but to aim for an opportunity.
“As many times as you like! Kill, kill, kill again! When you die, repent of the sins you have committed!
rattle!
“···woman?!”
Chimera suddenly loses balance and falls down.
Of course, Yoosung was not clumsy enough to miss this golden opportunity.
Kwajik!
The man moved his lips as if he was trying to say something, but Yooseong took out the ax stuck in his head and hit it once more to finish it off.
“Well done. Thanks to you, I’m alive.”
“Yes.”
The reason Chimera lost her balance and fell was because Alice, who was in the rear, tied her ankles using her thorny vine skill.
However, despite hearing the compliment, Alice didn’t look very happy.
“Hey, what did this chimera mean?”
“what?”
“You said it was us who turned him into a monster, he committed a crime. I care what that means.”
“It’s just nonsense. Do you remember making a chimera like this? Don’t you? Just don’t take it too seriously for a chimera with a weird head talking nonsense.”
Of course, Yoosung was taking those words seriously, and he could also guess what had happened in this mansion to some extent.
However, he had no choice but to deny it as if it was no big deal since he did not know how Alice would react if he told him that fact.
“That’s the case…”
“But if you have time to worry about it, watch your back. You never know where monsters might pop out.”
“Oh, yes!”
Yuseong and Alice started exploring the second floor in earnest.
And not long after, I was able to face a very familiar figure.
“Here too.”
“·······.”
Girls with gray hair.
They all had one thing in common, except for the difference that someone had only a vital part penetrated, and someone was so miserable that it was hard to find the prototype.
“let’s go.”
Yuseong didn’t feel particularly inspired, but Aris and Alice didn’t say anything as if they were quite shocked.
Fortunately, the silence did not last long.
It was because Aris and Alice, who had been gloomy, were surprised to see a completely different second floor, such as a library with countless books and a storage room piled high with processed herbs, reagents, and magic materials.
“Oh my God. Do you even have Balaxia saplings and red butterfly cocoons? You could get rich just by taking one of these!”
“If you want to get it, get it later, not now. By the way, I don’t think there’s anything special here either?”
Compared to the first floor, it’s better, but there are no clues or information.
In the end, Yuseong decided to go up to the third floor, thinking that further searching was pointless.
“what are you doing?”
Unlike Meteor, who lightly stepped onto the stairs, Alice stood hesitantly in front of the stairs leading to the third floor.
“Uh, I don’t know why, but I don’t think we should go up here.”
“What are you talking about? Do you remember anything?”
“It’s not like that, but somehow I feel that way.”
“Really? Then I’ll go alone, so you’ll hide in a suitable place…”
“Oh, no. I can go.”
After staring at Alice for a while, Yuseong didn’t say anything and went up the stairs holding her hand.
‘different.’
The moment I went up to the 3rd floor, I could feel that it was different from the 1st and 2nd floors.
The shady air where chicken meat grows on its own, the strong smell that makes your head dizzy from everywhere, and the monsters you can’t see anywhere.
“uh?”
“Why? Did you see something?”
“Didn’t you hear something strange just now?”
“Sounds strange?”
I stopped walking for a moment and focused my mind, but I didn’t hear the strange noise Alice said.
“I can’t hear anything? Didn’t you hear the sound of the monster downstairs?”
“Is that so? They sounded like words spoken by people, not monsters.”
Alice, who was looking around, immediately said with an embarrassed expression.
“Hehe, I think I misunderstood the chimera’s cry.”
“For now, it looks like there are no monsters here, but don’t let your guard down just in case.”
“Okay, let’s finish it quickly and go somewhere else. Being here makes me feel uneasy.”
At Alice’s urging, Yoosung inserted the key into a nearby door and turned it sideways.
And the moment the door opened and checked what was inside, it froze.
Huge glass coffins and the creatures inside them.
Some had an immature appearance as if they had not grown properly, some had the appearance of a chimera made by attaching the bodies of various creatures, and some had a heterogeneous appearance that was neither human nor monster.
“It’s ridiculous. I’ve never heard of such research. Are they artificially creating and improving life forms? How is this possible?”
Unlike the stunned Alice, Yooseong calmly looked around and moved on.
The fact that this was possible in a fantasy world of swords and magic, rather than a world developed by science, felt strange, but it was so surprising to modern people on the 21st century Earth, where concepts such as genetic manipulation and cloned humans are widely spread and even experimented with. It wasn’t work.
All I had to do was stop for a moment.
“This···.”
“·······.”
-·······.
Glass coffins containing a girl who looks exactly like Aris.
It was the moment when 99% guess turned into 100% certainty.
“I… no, we were created humans. We were homunculus.”
-···Maybe it’s because of the experience of dying hundreds of times or because I heard Yuseong-nim’s strange guesses first, so I’m not very shocked. I don’t know if this is good or not.
‘It’s a good one.’
Unlike Aris, who unexpectedly accepted the reality smoothly, Alice was trembling like an aspen tree, probably shocked by the fact that she was a human being.
Yuseong, who comforted Alice by chatting for a while, continued the search for the third floor.
The third floor was filled with countless types of lifeforms and a huge number of glass tubes that could not be counted.
Even after not looking around for a while, Alice’s face turned white at the grotesque sight.
However, Yoosung did not stop searching and was finally able to find what he wanted in a room in the corner.
A large line caught my eye in the open book.
“I want to live.”
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