Chapter 207 – The Trial of One. Nemean Lion (3)
He killed the Nemean lion.
Even if he bit his neck and ripped off his skin, he endured and endured.
Gigantes, like Typhon’s offspring, was really tough.
Both the leather and meat were tough, but the toughest thing was its will.
A whopping 30 days.
No kidding, from the day I first climbed on top of him and started skinning him, he lasted on me and on and on for 30 days.
Fortunately, he didn’t run out of the cave, and from the moment of the third day, he went into holding on at all.
I ate his flesh his, chewed raw lion meat, and drank the blood flowing in his veins like water.
That’s how I persevered, but his body regeneration rate his was insane.
After about three days, the peeled skin started to grow new flesh, and the peeled flesh healed after a few days, leaving a scab.
Almost resurrected.
So he killed every time he was resurrected.
After 30 days of killing, killing, tearing, chewing, tearing, tasting, and repeating, he finally gave up his will to live.
Uninterrupted pain lasting 30 days.
And he does n’t think that the human who gives that pain will come down from his body.
Despite all the hardships and filth, I wanted to catch him and kill him.
Therefore.
In the end, I succeeded in killing him.
The moment he lost his will to live, he strangled him from behind and suffocated.
One regret.
I had no intention of killing him by suffocation.
If it was a female, I would kill it if I killed him after eating his vagina once, but I just ended up wallowing in a cage with a lion for 30 days.
“Ugh.”
“Oh, are you okay…?”
“Ah, of course.”
I washed my body in the river for over an hour.
It was soaked in the blood of a lion from head to toe.
“It’s just that I didn’t wash for days because I was killing this lion. Even after being covered in blood.”
Fortunately, he didn’t spray any dirt on it.
Even though he was a lion, he didn’t do anything disgusting, probably because he had some pride.
“Oh, that’s amazing. How can you face such a huge lion by yourself…?”
“It’s just me, so it’s possible.”
“What the hell are you…?”
“Me? Hercules.”
I tried to proudly take out my nameplate from the Cadmus Festival and show it, but the wooden plaque was already damaged from the first day in the fierce battle with the lion.
“Hercules…! I remembered the name of the warrior strongest than anyone else.”
Molorkos, a resident of a nearby village, raised his hands toward me and prayed.
“You saved me. Because you hunted the Nemean Lion, I am alive to return to my wife.”
“Huh? What does that mean?”
“That is.”
According to Molorcos, after the Nemean lion had been absent for 30 days, it was said that Molorcos was put up as a scapegoat and scout.
“Her wife her held hostage…?”
“That’s right. She’s inherently crippled in her legs. She talked about running away, but she was captured by the villagers. Now, if I tell you the truth, my wife will be released. Whoa, thank you .Really.”
“People are a little too naive.”
After I finished washing my body, I came out while shaking off the water.
“Ugh…!”
“Ah, this. Well, he is also the strongest hunter of mankind, and he is the strongest man of mankind.”
I wrapped the red clothes, which were still soaked in blood, roughly around my waist, so that Melorkos, who panicked as soon as he saw me, wouldn’t feel awkward.
“Dude, you’re more kind than you think, so you’re wearing a mask. Even if the villagers tell you the truth after you go back, will they believe it?”
“Well, then…?”
“If you’re so vicious as to take other people’s wives hostage, I’m sure you’ll think your words are lies. I wonder if this man is trying to get us into trouble, and I’ll tell you to bring proof of the death of the Nemean Lion.”
“That, that’s…!”
This man.
So nice
If he were in Korea, he is such a kind person who would end up guarantying others and then eat his own family.
Just as there is only one hope left in the hatred and resentment that filled Pandora’s box, this man may also be the only ‘good man’ who survived between his dicks and hers.
“Just in time, I need clothes, and more than anything else, I have to ‘work’ this guy, so I need your help. Please guide me to the village. Also, invite me to your house.”
“Uh, at my house…?”
“If I went with the hunter who hunted the lion, everyone would believe it. I have to groom this lion at a nearby place. And I have to take it to Thebes, but it’s too heavy for that.”
I pointed to the lion’s corpse, still lying limp on the floor.
“Don’t worry, it’s completely dead. Please guide me safely to the village. And I… Will avenge you and your wife instead.”
“Bo, Revenge…?”
“That’s right. Oh, I don’t mean to kill. It’s these monsters I’m killing, not human scum.”
“…But killing them.”
“Huh.”
Even if you’re nice, you’re too nice to get rid of it.
“It’s not that someone kills them. It’s not that they’re going to die right now. It just depends on how they behave.
“Are you… Are you, by any chance, a god?”
“God? Wrong. I am human.”
He is a true human being.
“But not good, not bad.”
“…Can I trust you?”
“Ah, of course. I swear to Zeus. I will never kill them.”
‘Cause I’ll find out
“Guide me.”
* * *
Following Molorchus’ guidance, I entered the village.
“Did I really kill the Nemean lion? This is the lion…?”
“Exactly.”
Many people, including the village headman, did not believe that the lion was the Nemean lion, even though I brought the body of the lion myself.
It seemed that he had not expected at all that the monster, who had not died even after killing dozens of people, would die after receiving the dangerous difficulty level of A-class in the Great Cadmos.
“This, how could such a monster…”
“Back off. We have to ‘dismantle’ soon. Do you have a tanning knife? Let’s borrow one.”
“If this is… “
The tanning knife Molorchus handed over had all its teeth missing.
I was able to roughly estimate the poor condition of the village, and unfortunately I couldn’t dismantle the lion using a tanning knife.
“Grumble…!”
Just like when I shot the arrow, the knife didn’t go in at all.
Even though it was dead, the leather was still tough, and even if I wanted to take care of it, I couldn’t do it.
“Suitable for cutting something…Oh.”
However, there was something that caught my eye.
“What, what are you doing?!”
“What do you do? To cut a diamond, you have to cut it with a diamond. Don’t you know that?”
“That, what is that…?”
“If you don’t know that, don’t judge me for what I’m doing. You may splatter blood, so please step back.”
The nearby villagers backed away, and I grabbed the lion’s paw and aimed his claws at his other paw.
Square, square, square.
“Five.”
I knew it.
It cuts well.
Grabbing the lion’s foot and scratching it toward the opposite ankle, the skin began to cut in an instant.
Squeak, squeak.
It cuts off one of its front paws and uses it to scrape the toenails off its paws.
Each one was as sharp and hard as the teeth of some saber-toothed tiger, and if they were stamped on a person’s head, it seemed as if a hole would be pierced through the head like countless skulls in a lion’s den.
“Hey, hey… Great warrior.”
“Huh? Why?”
“Well, if you don’t mind, I’d like to prepare a small banquet in our village.”
“Oh, a banquet? Good. As long as there’s wine and virgins, I don’t mind any banquet.”
As soon as she said she was a virgin, the village chief’s expression hardened.
It seemed like he was drinking moderately and trying to do something, but unfortunately, if you want to do something like that against me, you’ll get caught even if you use the power of a titan.
But how dare these bastards, who are just villagers, dare to kill me?
It is absurd.
Rather, what if I put a very terrifying curse on them?
“A banquet cannot be without meat. Where is the meat?”
“That, that’s it.”
“If you don’t mind, how about eating this guy?”
“Yes…?”
“As you see.”
Fuhuaaak!
I used my claws to cut off the lion’s neck.
Although the claws were sharp, it was very difficult to cut them because they were shorter than the torso.
“I’ll dismantle this lion, so you guys make a fire so that we can roast and eat this lion.”
“Are you really eating that?”
“Ah, of course. I know this because I’ve eaten it. It’s a bit tough when you bake it, but it’s much tastier than a normal bison. If you sprinkle some wine on it and bake it, all the smell will disappear .”
“Well, then…! Thanks, warriors! Everyone, did you hear?! Bring the firewood! Start the fire! Bring all the liquor in my storehouse!”
“””Wowaaaaa!!”””
The villagers exclaimed, and I even pulled out the toenails on all four feet and continued disassembling them one by one using them as daggers.
Leather is mine
The maned head is also mine.
The rest, useless meat or intestines are ‘thrown away’ here.
“There…”
“Oh, is that your wife?”
“Hello. That said, I saved her husband her…”
“It’s not like I was saved.”
I whispered to Molorchus and his wife in a low voice that no one could hear.
“If you’re leaving tonight, leave now, and never eat lion meat.”
“…Yes?”
“I have the right to hunt these lions because I am a legitimate hunter, but if you eat them because I’m doing them favors, a very big curse will fall on them.”
Because?
Because this lion is ‘Gigantes’.
“I can handle it, but will they be able to handle it?Hehe.”
Someday.
If the other Gigantes come to find out that the Nemean Lion is dead.
What would Gigantes do if he found out that the six scents of his people emanate from the human village, and from the bodies of many humans?
“Ah. Hey, don’t feed it to small children. It can be poisonous to small children.”
After putting on the minimum safety device, I glanced at the two couples.
“Go. Later, when I come to this village a year later…Hehe. I don’t know what will happen.”
So, the Nemean Lion died.
Well, later
If the village was ruined by one angry Gigantes, I don’t know.
As for the deaths of non-humans.
