chapter 279
279 – Hunters Being Trampled
I thought to myself as I indifferently looked at the scout’s smoothly severed head floating in the air.
‘The taste is authentic. This sword… It’s the real thing.’
The newly fitted greatsword is also a greatsword.
Originally, the neck was a vital area, so when you attack it, a critical hit is guaranteed and the damage increases significantly. You can even use two skills at the same time.
What was new was that I felt no resistance at all to cutting off the head of a hunter who was at a similar level to me.
I quickly put my head floating in the air and my body falling to the floor into sub-space. We eliminated the scouts one by one who came to the space where the prison was located at different times.
-Obtained a fragment of the contaminated elixir of life. (17/100)
-Obtained a fragment of the contaminated elixir of life. (19/100)
‘I killed three people, but I can’t level up? Sheesh…’
In addition, let alone equipment, the only runes dropped were miscellaneous runes, which made farming less fun.
Clearly, the amount of magic attribute was comparable to that of a C-class, but the equipment and response level were poor.
‘It’s just an ability that was forcibly brought up.’
These guys’ experience in dungeons will probably be greatly reduced.
Feeling disappointed, I headed to the prison where my colleagues were imprisoned.
The prison door was closed with steel bars and a lock.
Slurp-
The entire iron bar was put into the subspace and the door was removed.
The iron cage was too large for an average hunter to fit into it, but for me it was a piece of cake.
As I entered, I found two people lying in a corner trembling pitifully.
‘Jin-kyung, Ji-woo…’
“Huhhh… Ugh… “
Hehe… Hehe…”
The two of them were lying on the floor, making strange groaning and laughing sounds, as if they were heavily drugged.
‘Was the magic power also controlled… ‘
Even shackles with a magical power control function were fastened to the ankles and neck. This is only used in the Awakened Prison…
My eyes were completely dilated, my pupils were greatly dilated, and I was unable to control my body properly.
‘Still, I didn’t suffer anything bad. That’s a good thing.’
Unlike the women in the other rooms, she was not naked, and she could not feel any sensations associated with goblins down there.
In the last room, about a dozen drugged female hunters like the two were standing with their backs bent in bizarre positions or lying face down.
‘Would you like to give it a try? Ran. Please.’
Ran, who was inside the cloak tied around my neck like a hooded hat, activated [Acceleration] At my request. At the same time, a sensation she felt for the first time flashed like lightning in her head.
‘Waa—’
It was a feeling that her thoughts were infinitely expanding, something she felt like she had felt before but she could not understand.
Eventually, my inventory capabilities expanded greatly.
‘…You can do it. It can contain people.’
I went to the unconscious Jin-kyung first and extended her hand, and she made eye contact with me, though the light returned slightly. That was it.
Immediately after her hand touched it, she turned into a bunch of blue light and was sucked into my subspace.
‘Good. Let’s hurry.’
As I added more Jiwoo, I started to speed up.
My subspace is an almost infinite space with no limits.
After putting all the hunters in the room, we headed to the next room.
“Hey…”
“Puh…”
The women in the next room were in much worse condition.
It wasn’t just eyes that lost their light because of the medication.
‘From here on, these are the people who have been subjected to work… ‘
Although I wasn’t full yet, I could clearly sense the birth of a small creature in my stomach.
As I moved from room to room, I hid all the women whose bellies were getting bigger in the subspace, and when the number reached a whopping 300, I felt really sick of this organization.
‘How many people are supplying female hunters to be able to maintain this number?’
There seemed to be a need to weed out the middle and lower level hunters in our country.
There were even hundreds of ordinary people in a space much larger than the prison where the hunters were.
They were in much worse shape than the hunters. The life inside the body also had a faint presence.
‘Everyone is not in good condition. It wouldn’t be surprising if I died right now…’
Perhaps they decided that the work would not be easy for ordinary people. Has he started reaching out to hunters?
Since the hunter’s body is much stronger than that of ordinary people, there must have been an advantage in being able to use it for a long time.
‘This isn’t the only factory like this. A larger factory might be managed by a real S-class… Ha-what should I do with these bastards?’
While I endured the rising heat, I ran towards there because I could sense the hunters’ reactions even though they were far away from where I was standing.
I also detected a disgusting alien presence on the way, so I stopped there first.
And there it was, a goblin shackled around her neck, trampling on the woman at will.
The woman was also shackled to the wall with shackles around her neck to prevent her from escaping. Considering that no manpower was assigned to manage it, it seemed like they were just throwing it away.
– Ugh…! Sigh…! Hmm… Stop… Please stop…! Who, who… Save me-
The woman cried out for him to stop, but the goblin instead shook her body even more violently.
‘Oh, really!’
I immediately ran over and cut off the goblin’s head, and then lightly tapped the neck of the woman who looked up at me with her eyes wide open, knocking her unconscious.
As if doing this would make me forget about the nightmare I had just experienced. And I really hoped so.
After putting the woman into subspace, I realized that the room next to the iron bed was swarming with about a hundred goblins.
They were all in a state of heat, and it seemed like the guys running this factory had planned something.
‘…Wall of Fire.’
I created a wall of flames in that enclosed space and burned them all to death.
– Kieeek!!
– Kauuuuu!!
Now, even though the experience message doesn’t even appear, it felt refreshing to do so.
And that was when I went outside again and ran to where the remaining women were.
A siren suddenly sounded in the underground space and an alarm was triggered.
-An intruder has occurred! An intruder has occurred! Narrow the scope to the space where the ‘stone house’ is located and expand your siege!!
The urgent voice of an older woman rang loudly in the space.
‘Well, it’s the expected range. Suddenly, all the women disappeared, and the goblins also died. Anyway, isn’t the expression ‘stone house’ too much?’
The point that irritated me was that the fetal sac was modified from being called a baby house and expressed as a stone house, which means holding an evolution stone.
At that moment, I had the urge to blow up this damn space.
Just by destroying a space the size of two underground floors, the hunters here will not be harmed. I felt like I would feel relieved if I had to endure the hardship of being crushed under rubble.
Woooooung─
‘Hmm?!’
– The possibility of the skill [Skull Bomb] Blooms.
– ‘Time bomb’ setting is now possible.
But then, as if in response to my desire for destruction, the skull bomb evolved.
‘Thank you. These bastards really need to be punched.’
I kept moving, smashing a hundred skull bombs into the ceiling at regular intervals.
Hunters with keen senses included in the first search party approached in their own way to narrow the siege, but they were unable to detect me passing by.
However, it was a burden to approach as the A-class wizards included in the second search party activated detection magic.
– Reveal Bane-!
– Detect Magic!
‘That might be a bit difficult…’
If you think about it, [Stealth] Is an ability that is ambiguous to put in the realm of magic, so I guess I can get by with Detect Magic.
Revealbane was a bit difficult to judge.
That magic has the ability to detect entities that are potentially a threat to the caster, so it was a magic that was optimized at the moment to identify me, who was working hard to plant a bomb.
However, the disadvantage is that it has a narrower range than Detect Magic.
It seemed like I wouldn’t be able to get past it as easily as passing through the detection barrier, so I had to use another tactic.
‘Let’s try to diversify our attention.’
As I moved, I detonated 20 skull bombs one after another.
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-!
Dozens of hunters who had been narrowing the siege as the roar exploded in succession at intervals and got closer changed from detection posture to combat posture.
I didn’t miss that short gap and slipped through them.
“Huh? Did something just pass by?”
“I didn’t feel it? Be more careful than that! There will definitely be multiple people. If a fight breaks out, it’ll be quite a headache!”
Fortunately, they left me alone. In many ways, they are lax compared to their grade.
‘The only time people can be placed in subspace is 30 minutes.’
There was still plenty of time, but since about 30 more victims were detected elsewhere, we quickly headed there.
‘Whoo─’
I knew roughly what was going on, so I thought it would be okay, but when I arrived, I saw a terrible scene. Even I felt like my mental strength was split.
“Oh ah ah ah ah ───!”
“Lord, please kill me… Please give me…”
The place we arrived was where a goblin-human hybrid was giving birth, and the baby was immediately wrapped in a swaddle and moved to another room.
There was no dim light left in the eyes of female hunters who had just given birth, but they appeared to follow their instincts and reach out for their babies.
But the child’s condition was not normal.
“Kieee…! Kieee!!”
A light green hybrid, born with sharp teeth, was seen trying to straighten its grotesquely twisted body.
‘You’re born in an uncomfortable state to begin with… Damn it.’
These babies were born with bodies that could not live long from the moment they came out into the world.
And in a deeper space, mixed-breed children who had been born inconveniently were lying neatly, and all of them had something in their bodies.
‘The magic stone and runs again…? You’ve probably already developed female hunters into evolved beasts, but isn’t that enough?’
The process of feeding magic stones and runes to a baby born through mating with a goblin using a woman who has taken evolution water for a certain period of time.
I don’t know how long the baby will be left in that condition, but the baby, who was already withered and dying, was instinctively fusing magic stones and runes into his body her to survive.
‘That’s how they dissolve all the babies, make products with the evolution water, use that to lure female hunters to raise the mothers, and then reproduce the babies again… That’s the routine.’
I had a rough idea, but I had no idea where to start.