Free Web NovelChapter 374: Survivor (4)
"If it's a house with an owner, I should knock first to tell them to empty the room."
Along with those words, Kim Minwoo threw his body straight into the empty air from Gleipnir's broad back.
Thousands of meters in the air.
As his body fell riding gravity, a pitch-black energy of death began to entangle over him like a storm.
[Using skill, Descent (EX)!]
[The power of the absolute who governs death lunges toward the ground!]
It was like a single streak of a black meteor declaring destruction. The target was the massive slaughterhouse disguising itself as a peaceful human sanctuary below the canyon.
The humans who were standing guard on the watchtowers noticed the overwhelming murderous intent pouring down from the sky and raised their heads.
"What is that!"
"A-attack! Reinforce the barrier!"
A bizarre rupturing sound like scraping a piece of iron.
Their flustered face skins distorted bizarrely, and pitch-black tentacles and rotten blood-red pupils began to pop out, piercing through their skin.
As expected.
The true identity of those acting as a sanctuary was the Outer God's creations wearing human skins.
Paaaat―!
The purple barrier of deception and predation that circularly surrounded the slaughterhouse reacted to the external threat and spewed light loudly. A vicious barrier erected by sucking up numerous life forces.
However…….
"Open the door, you rat bastards."
Kim Minwoo gripped Hell Rhapsody and slammed it straight down toward the crown of the barrier.
Kwaaaaaaaang―!
Just a single collision.
The purple barrier shattered to pieces and scattered like a glass window without even being able to let out a dying scream.
In front of the physical violence carrying the divinity of the Descent state, the veil of deception bestowed by the Outer God was nothing more than thin cellophane.
"Keuaaaak!"
"The barrier, in one strike……!"
With just the shockwave from the shattered barrier, the watchtowers collapsed like dominoes.
The creations that had been disguised vomited blood and tumbled to the ground.
The true appearance of the encampment revealed before his eyes was terrible. Massive butcher hooks were hung everywhere in the encampment, and in a massive iron cage in one corner, the genuine survivors could be seen trembling while trapped like beasts.
They had locked up the natives who had come holding onto their last hope after hearing the rumor, and were butchering and eating them, treating them as fresh meat.
Among the things hung on the ends of the hooks were pieces of clothing.
A small shoe appearing to belong to a child was swaying in the wind.
"……These, you monster bastards to be chewed up."
At that time, a voice containing bone-piercing murderous intent fell from the sky above.
It was Yoo Honbi, who had confirmed the terrible reality of the slaughterhouse from atop Gleipnir.
They dared to treat her people as food, and even wore the skins of her compatriots and used them as bait?
It was the moment her patience completely snapped.
Kwaang!
Leaping from the back of the massive bone dragon, Yoo Honbi plunged right into the middle of the slaughterhouse like a blood-red meteor.
Due to the shock of the landing, the ground cracked like a spiderweb. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com
Bright red true qi seeped out between the cracks like lava.
"Step aside, Death Lord. I will tear all those bug bastards to death."
The true qi of the Heavenly Demon Divine Arts exploded like a volcano over Yoo Honbi's demonic sword. Debuffs and the like could not suppress her anger.
"We should clean the spot to pitch the tent together."
Kim Minwoo also re-gripped Hell Rhapsody.
― Chwiiiiik! Daring to smash the food storage!
― Tear them! Turn those arrogant humans into meat paste!
Hundreds of orcs wielding hideous axes poured in from all directions.
However, the ones they were facing were out-of-standard monsters. The Seven Lords at the apex who had dyed Heavenly City District 1 blood-red, and the Death Lord who crushed even that Seven Lord's Mind Sword with pure strength.
"Bug-like things dare to butcher my people?!"
The first to pop out was the angry Yoo Honbi.
The dark red astral qi extending from her demonic sword rotated like a storm.
The ultimate technique of the Heavenly Demon Divine Arts.
Dozens of sword auras cutting through the empty air entangled like a spiderweb and covered the orc horde in front.
Kwaaaaaaang―!
Tough muscles and pitch-black tentacles imbued with the Outer God's energy could not become a defensive barrier. The upper and lower bodies of dozens of orcs in the spot the sword auras brushed past were separated like cutting radishes, instantly turning into bloody water.
"Keuaaaak!"
"M-my body……!"
Kim Minwoo's Hell Rhapsody cut through the empty air.
The Mythical-rank demonic sword left a pitch-black trajectory.
[Item effect, 'Scream-Mixed Performance' is activated!]
Kkiiiiik―!
A chilling dissonance that scraped the soul resonated throughout the entire slaughterhouse.
Large mutant orcs dropped their axes, which had become murder weapons, to the ground and rolled on the floor while covering their eardrums.
Their brains burst out and blood flowed down from their eyeballs.
Kim Minwoo dug in like a ghost among those defenseless orcs.
Seogeok―! Seogeogeok―!
Soft footwork like dancing.
With just a single swing, five or six orc necks soared into the empty air.
An overwhelming difference in combat power.
Even so, the orcs' fighting spirit did not die at all.
― Chwiiiiik! Kill them! Bite them to pieces!
Kim Minwoo lightly flicked his finger.
Taaaaaaat―!
The Dragon Tooth Soldiers waiting in his shadow popped out.
The Dragon Tooth Soldiers holding massive tower shields circularly blocked the blind spots of Kim Minwoo and Yoo Honbi, perfectly deflecting the pouring rain of tentacles.
Kkang! Jjeojeojeok!
Every time the tentacles clashed against the shields, pitch-black bodily fluids splattered, but the Dragon Tooth Soldiers did not even budge. Just like a fortress wall that had been stuck in that spot from the beginning.
Through the gaps of that perfect defense, Yoo Honbi leaped up once again.
As her sword slammed into the ground, a dark red shockwave surged up like a tsunami, completely collapsing the formation of the remaining orcs. At the same time, Kim Minwoo's Hell Rhapsody unleashed a pitch-black flash, tying the slaughterhouse walls and the orcs together and slicing them away.
Screams filled the slaughterhouse.
A one-sided massacre that was embarrassing to even call a battle.
"H-how could this……!"
Just 3 minutes.
The hundreds of orcs that had been filling the inside of the encampment had all turned into minced meat and were rolling on the ground.
The last remaining orc, the captain figure who oversaw the encampment, shouted in admiration.
― Chwik! Strong humans! Lord Mutakta will like…….
Seogeok!
Kim Minwoo's death sword and Yoo Honbi's demonic sword intersected.
The orc captain's neck flew spinning into the empty air.
Teolsseok. As even the last enemy fell, a perfect silence descended inside the slaughterhouse.
Kim Minwoo deactivated the Descent state.
The pitch-black energy wrapping around his body scattered like fog, revealing his usual appearance.
On the blade of Hell Rhapsody, the dark red blood that hadn't yet cooled slowly flowed down.
Kuuuung―!
Before long, Gleipnir landed roughly in the middle of the encampment.
The survivors who had been hiding under Merhen's protective barrier cautiously came down from the bone dragon's back.
And, they faced the tragedy of the encampment where the illusion had completely cleared away.
"Ah, ah……."
"What is this…… I thought it was a sanctuary with drinking water and food……."
The roughly one hundred survivors, including the elder, plopped down and wailed upon seeing the terrible bloodstains and their compatriots locked in iron cages meant for beasts.
They knew it was a false hope, but they couldn't have imagined it would be a trap this vicious.
A woman who was locked inside the iron cage reached out a trembling hand through the bars.
Her fingernails were peeled off, and numbers looking like slaughter sequences were branded onto her forearm like stigmas.
"Did…… did you come to save us……? Is it not a dream……?"
"Do not cry."
Yoo Honbi spoke resolutely toward the survivors as she shook the blood off her demonic sword.
"The false sanctuary has disappeared. Instead, you have gained the safest fortress on this land."
It was exactly as she said.
Even though it was a terrible trap, because it was a place directly constructed by the creations, the wooden palisades, defense facilities, and the buildings where they could lay their bodies down were the most completely preserved on the planet.
Kim Minwoo put Hell Rhapsody away and opened the subspace rings worn on both his hands.
Wareureureureu―!
An immense amount of high-level monster by-products, steel, mana stones, and all sorts of highest-grade building materials poured down like a mountain, enough to fill the empty lot of the canyon.
Following that, Kim Minwoo flicked his finger in the empty air.
Cheolgeureok! Cheolgeureok!
The massive Dragon Tooth Soldiers, born from the fusion of 1,000 skeletons, revealed their imposing figures and instantly transformed into Dragon Tooth Soldier Advanced Architects.
"Guys, take out the people locked in that iron cage and treat them, and clear all the monster corpses scattered on the ground outside."
Kim Minwoo added, pointing at the mountain of materials with his chin.
"And start reinforcing the encampment. Since the basic base is laid out well, it will be easy to expand. Pull out all those shoddy wooden palisades and properly rebuild the defense towers first."
― Ttalgeurak! Ttalgeurak!
At Kim Minwoo's command, the Dragon Tooth Soldiers began to move in perfect order.
The blood-drenched slaughterhouse being instantly cleaned up neatly was merely the beginning.
At the hands of the Dragon Tooth Soldier Advanced Architects who had mastered dragon architecture, the highest-grade materials poured out by Kim Minwoo melted together, and the existing flimsy encampment literally began to be reconstructed into an impregnable fortress.
Instead of the shoddy wooden palisades, massive defensive walls mixed with monster bones and steel soared up, and vicious defense towers capable of intercepting all directions were erected in an instant.
At that overwhelming work speed and material offensive, even the survivors who had been immersed in sorrow could not help but gape blankly.
"Now."
Kim Minwoo scanned the sturdily erected defense towers and walls and nodded in satisfaction.
"Everyone, unpack your bags."
Snatching the enemy's trap and remodeling it into the strongest defense fortress.
In the middle of this hellish Outer God's territory, the Death Lord and the Heavenly Demon's full-scale one-week survival camping was raising its curtain.
