Chapter 137: Monstrous Being (1)

-What the hell is that?

-My first time seeing it too. Even after being pierced in the head, he is alive...

Short Sword and Iron Sword also seemed surprised.

What was the true identity of this monster? The part of his chest rubbed by the finger burned.

-If it is the Blood Demon Sword who lived longest among us, he might be able to tell us something.

Iron Sword had some truth in it. The guy who has been around since the foundation of Blood Sect must have seen a lot. But now that wasn’t the problem.

“Kuaaak!”

Chak!

“Kuak!”

He quickly tilted his head to the side, and the fingernails brushed passed by. There was no difference in the body movements from those who learned martial arts.

It wasn’t a standard martial arts body movement and the reflexes were almost catching up to my speed.

‘A First-rate Warrior.’

If this was the case, how could the men including his grandfather even oppose the man? It was impossible to stop this monster who had the speed and movement while approaching me like a skilled warrior.

-Wonhwi! I think you should cut its throat.

-Right. Let’s see if it moves without the head!

I was thinking the same thing. If it didn’t die from the head being hit then to cut the head.

I immediately moved and tried to crouch in order to cut his head as he continued to swing the nails. And then I swung the sword at the guy’s neck.

At that moment, the guy suddenly jumped back.

Papak!

Then, as if to protect his neck, he covered the front of the chest with both hands.

-That has to be its weakness!

Seeing that he dodged the attack for the first time, it was a weakness.

‘Then!’

I moved like a hawk toward him and used my silver thread too.

“Grrrr!”

The monster wildly swung his arms and flung the body back but in the first place this technique was meant to pierce the opponent like a hawk.

I dug into the gap and swung the sword aiming for the gap in his arms.

‘Blood Heavenly Sword.’

The sword dug right into the gap and slashed the neck.

Chak!

It cut right through the neck. However, I couldn’t cut through the bones and stopped halfway.

‘It is so hard.’

I never knew bones could be this hard. Even if the space was small enough to land a strong swing, I could feel that it had bones that were stronger than humans.

“Kuakuk!”

Did it even feel the fear of having the throat slashed?

This monster urgently grabbed onto the blade with both hands and the power was so great that I felt lost.

The blade was trembling as it moved from the throat.

“Damn it!”

I, too, grabbed the sword with both hands and continued to apply force into the throat, but someone hit the blade with a stone axe and stopped that monster

“Haaah!”

And with that the blade of the sword slashed through the bones and the head got cut off.

Chak!

The head of the monster rolled on the ground and the headless body moved its arms struggling.

‘How is it alive even without a head?’

This thing had such a strange body.

“Die already!”

Pak!

I kicked the monster’s torso with the foot.

The body of the monster who was kicked staggered as it got pushed and eventually it fell down. And despite wriggling it couldn’t get up.

-It is really so stubborn. If it wasn’t one but many....

Supporting him on one side, holding the torch I moved down the aisle as guided and after going a little in, a huge cavity like space appeared.

-It is pretty wide?

This wasn’t that wide but for a cavity to be this wide was surely big, this was three times the place where the roots were gathered. And with this it felt like many could come and stay here.

‘A lot.’

So many caves could be seen around and it could be divided again once entered. It felt like one would have to spend a lot of time to stay here to get used to the place.

“There.”

The one armed man pointed to the cave in the northwest direction. I picked him up and headed there. And while moving he glanced at the second cave and said, “We shouldn’t go there”

“The monster came from there?”

“Yes.”

The one armed man responded bitterly and I could understand it, he had lost his comrades.

“Rest in peace.”

I bowed my head in that direction. Perhaps the man felt grateful to my actions; he too bowed his head.

That was the moment I was about to enter the cave.

Tatatat!

A number of footsteps could be heard and the guy too turned his head

And from the second cave on the right side, monsters with white skin and yellow eyes emerged.

‘...!?’

There were five of them and it seemed like more were coming from the sound of it. It was then I asked him

“You said it is just one?”

“I-it was one!”

Damn it.

With these many we would lose. It was unreasonable for us two to handle so many. I glanced at my wrist. The cloth was stained in blood.

“Run away!”

The guy told me but I shook my head and pushed him into the cave

Puak!

“W-what is this!”

“Make sure to get the herbs!”

With that I screamed and jumped in.

“Here! Here!”

Short Sword said

-You idiot! Are you this excited to die!

Was there anything more to do? Even if I brought the man in, he would be fighting and lose before long. So even if I run by leaving him, it would be a situation with the missing herbs since I had no idea about their location.

Drawing their attention and letting him get the herbs was the right thing.

“Kwaaaa!

“Grrrr!”

Could it be the aftermath of my screaming? They all rushed at me.

“Right! In here! Here!”

Fortunately, the space here was large so there could be a lot of hide and seek being played and I looked back, only to notice that the number had grown to 8.

“Kwaaak!”

Even that wasn’t enough, and the other guys kept popping out.

‘This is insane! They keep on growing in number!’

It was impossible to deal with all of them. At least if I could use innate qi, it would help a lot more.

-12... 13... 14...

Iron Sword was counting the monsters and my heart was beating fast.

-15

‘Stop counting!’

I was dying of anxiety here. If this happened, I wonder if I would get caught before the herbs were even brought

-Be careful! And look up!

Papapak!

When I looked up at the cry of Short Sword, I saw two monsters were running by sticking to the ceiling.