Chapter 38 Destroying the Manticore's Territory

“Who…who are you?”

Looking at his subordinates’ corpses, Yarzer asked Leo in a fearful voice.

In less than a minute, Leo had killed more than 50 manticores who had the strength of rank 7 and rank 8.

Moreover, their dozen rank 8 enslaved mutated beasts collapsed to the ground with a single punch from the young man.

So, of course, Yarzer was fearful as he could not gauge Leo’s exact strength.

“Me? I am the one who is on the mission to kill all the Manticores in this world.”

Leo scoffed at Yarzer as he slowly walked toward him.

“Vukru, Tun. Let’s attack him together.”

Even though he was fearful of Leo, Yarzer decided to try attacking Leo with his two strongest subordinates.

“Yes, leader.”

The two manticores wearing silver-coloured armour nodded their heads before rushing towards Leo along with Yarzer.

“No matter what you do, it’s useless.”

Leo shook his head as he muttered, “Earth manipulation.”

‘Thud’-.

Before they could even reach Leo, Yarzer and his two strong subordinates fell to the ground.

‘Swoosh’

‘Swoosh’

Soon, the ground below them moved as it imprisoned the three manticores from moving.

‘Puchi…puchi’

Leo walked close to them and killed the two manticores with a simple stab.

“Looks like your King Zerre is becoming more and more dumb with time to send a single rank 9 manticore to start a territory.”

After killing the two rank 8 manticores, Leo looked at Yarzer and revealed a slight smile.

“What? How do you know the name of my king?”

Yarzer was shocked when he heard Leo’s words as he once again asked, “Who exactly are you?”

Earlier, Yarzer thought the human was related to Griffin; however, when he heard those words, he felt the young man in front of him had other motives behind attacking his territory.

“Do you really want to know?”

The cold smile on Leo’s face became wider as he replied, “Did your king grow a new stinger?”

“How do you….wait a second. Are you that ‘Talent Swallowing Hero’?”

Suddenly, Yarzer felt his entire body become numb just from looking at Leo.

‘How did I encounter this monster? Why do I have such terrible luck?’

Yarzer felt he was the unluckiest manticore to encounter the arch-enemy of his race.

“Do you want to live?”

Just when Yarzer felt that he would die today in the hands of ‘Talent swallowing hero’, he heard Leo ask him a question.

“Of course. I want to live.”

Yarzer didn’t hesitate to nod his head as he continued, “I will do everything you say. I will even become your spy and inform you of all the locations of the other manticore territories.”

“Haha…as expected of manticores, they don’t mind stabbing their own just so that they could live.”

Leo let out a cold chuckle as he replied to Yarzer, “There is no need for all that. I just need an answer.”

“Please ask anything, sir. I will answer to the best of my knowledge.”

Yarzer excitedly nodded his head.

Even though Yarzer heard the ‘Talent swallowing hero’ was merciless when it comes to Manticores, he knew that Leo would not kill him as long as he proved helpful to Leo.

“Where is your B*stard king Zerre?”

Leo calmly asked Yarzer about Zerre’s whereabouts.

“I don’t know about his exact whereabouts; however, there is a rumour that His Majesty went to the Manticore territory in the Shadow region.”

There was no hesitation in Yarzer’s words as he directly answered Leo.

“Shadow region? Isn’t it the uncleared land near to the Everlasting city?”

Leo thought about where he had heard the ‘Shadow region’ and asked Yarzer about it.

“That’s right! The manticore territory there has more than 100 peak rank 9 manticores and they will soon start their invasion on the Everlasting city. I think His Majesty was planning to lead them in that invasion.”

Yarzer gave his thoughts on why the Manticore king went to the shadow region.

“Haha…that B*stard…he is trying to form an alliance with that city leader of the Everlasting city.”

However, Leo knew that was not the real reason behind the Manticore king’s visit to the shadow region; instead, it was to ally with Kaiser, the city leader of the Everlasting City.

“What? Why would His Majesty….”

“Since I have no use for you anymore, you can go and meet your son.”

“Puchi”

Before Yarzer could finish his words, Leo pierced his sword into his chest.

“B..but, you said….”

“I never said I will not kill you. I only asked you whether you want to live. In this world, who doesn’t want to live?”

‘Puchi’

Pulling out his sword, Leo didn’t even bother to look at Yarzer before turning his head towards the dozen enslaved mutated beasts.

‘Screech’

Just as Leo killed Yarzer, the rank 5 Griffin released a screech, making Leo look in his direction.

In the front talons of Nasr, there is a manticore’s corpse that was wearing a golden armour just like Yarzer.

“Juat like that half rotten corpse. There is no need for it anymore.”

With a look, Leo could tell that the corpse was Yarzer’s son; however, since he killed Yarzer, the one who marked the slave seal on Herse, there is no need to suppress her curse anymore.

Because, with the death of Yarzer, the enslaving seals he imprinted on all the mutated beasts would disappear.

‘Screech’

After learning about it from Leo, Nasr became excited as he could not wait to fly back to his cave to check on her wife.

“Wait a moment.”

Leo asked Nasr to wait as he turned towards the mutated spirit beasts lying on the ground.

Earlier, he only killed the manticore and knocked out these enslaved mutated beasts because they were controlled by the manticores and did not want to attack him.

“From today onwards, you have no master and you can do whatever you want. Leave now.”

Leo asked all the enslaved mutated beasts to leave because, with the death of Yarzer, the slave seals on the enslaved mutated beasts had already disappeared.

‘Roar’

‘Screech’

‘Hiss’

Hearing Leo’s words, the 12 mutated beasts that became free from the slave seals were excited and hurriedly checked their slave seals, only to notice they had long disappeared.

They thanked Leo from the bottom of their hearts before quickly running away from the manticore territory.

‘I wonder when will I become free from the curse?’

Looking at the excitedly running away mutated beasts, Leo silently muttered to himself as he rode Nasr back to the cave.

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