novelraw Chapter 100 : Chapter 100
Chapter 100 : Chapter 100
Chapter 100 Burial (3)
SIZZLE......!
The employee's head disappeared.
Emitting pungent and toxic smoke.
It wasn't cut, nor was it crushed.
It melted.
Not just the flesh, but even the bones.
Just by touching Jensen's hand.
THUD.
As the headless body tumbled over, the other employees realized.
That things were going terribly wrong.
They had to choose.
To resist, or to flee.
And they chose exactly half and half.
One chose to flee.
DASH!
One pulled out a pistol.
CLICK!
But unfortunately, Jensen had no intention of letting either of them go.
SWISH-
Jensen spread his hands and opened his arms.
Mana within his body gathered into his two palms, and an unknown shimmering aura lingered around his hands.
And the next moment.
CLAP!
Jensen clapped his hands with force.
BOOM!
The wave created by the clap spread around him.
It was just a clap.
An act of bursting a short sound wave through the collision of two palms.
But the moment mana intervened in that trivial act that would have just been noisy for a moment.
The result twisted in an unimaginable direction.
RUMBLE......!
The ground around Jensen is gouged out.
Surrounding trees instantly turn into sawdust piles and crumble.
Rocks collapse like sand, and the waves of erosion and corrosion soon hit the employees.
SSSS......!
The pistol aiming at Jensen decayed as if melting down in an instant.
"Uh......?!"
"What the......!"
The pistol was just the beginning.
The employees' clothes also began to unravel and melt down.
And skin, muscles, bones too.
Everything melted, flowed, and collapsed.
"Grrk......!"
"Kuh......!"
There were almost no screams that could be uttered by melting bodies.
Not long after, only puddles of dark red liquid remained where the employees stood.
Deep satisfaction lingered on Jensen's face as he looked at the puddles bubbling with rising bubbles.
"Haaa... Phew......"
Jensen inhaled deeply.
Particles of the dissolved human bodies mixed in the air tickled his nostrils.
He liked it.
Feeling the destruction he committed, and its result, with his whole body.
Like that, after devastating a radius of 40 meters at once with a single clap.
Finally, Jensen's gaze turned toward the cave entrance.
"...Leman White, was it?"
Repeating the target's name, Jensen walked into the Demonic Beast lair.
"Hmm."
Jensen looked around.
Soon his gaze turned to the metal pillars supporting the cave ceiling.
"Let's see......"
Jensen tapped the pillars with his hand and listened carefully to the sound.
And closely examined which parts of the ceiling the pillars were supporting.
And—
"This should do."
TAP.
Jensen placed his palm on a pillar.
SIZZLE......!
Pungent smoke soared from the pillar, and at the same time, the surface of the pillar began to bubble.
The metal pillar began to melt.
CREAK......!
The pillar began to crumple, emitting a grotesque sound.
Melting created cracks, and the cracks spread instantly, swallowing the pillar.
The pillar, hard enough to withstand hundreds of tons, crumbled like a cookie in an instant.
And the ceiling supported by that pillar also began to collapse together.
RUMBLE!
Boulders poured down indiscriminately from the ceiling.
The poured boulders piled up and created a large pile in an instant, and the pile of stones blocked the cave entrance.
Now there was no sunlight coming into this cave from outside.
No one could look inside this cave.
Complete blockade.
Of course, Jensen was also trapped inside the cave because of this, but he didn't care at all.
If he wanted to go out, he could just melt the boulders and leave.
Like this, what happens inside here for a while, no one can know and no one can interfere.
There could be no environment more optimized for killing a person than this.
"See you soon, Mr. Leman."
With those words, Jensen began to move his steps deeper into the cave.
Following the path Riman walked.
* * *
CRACK!
Tosakchungs breaking through the hard ground lunged at Riman.
Ones falling from the ceiling, ones springing out from the walls, ones rushing fast from that darkness, etc.
Making full use of their earth ability, the bastards were attacking from all directions.
This was the terror of Tosakchungs.
That one doesn't know where they will spring out from under the ground.
In other words, a Demonic Beast whose basic attack is a surprise attack.
From the opponent's perspective, it was an enemy perfect for causing a nervous breakdown.
Moreover, this was inside a cave.
Since this place itself was underground, the bastards could spring out from anywhere, be it the ceiling or the walls.
And of course, from the floor too.
Cases springing out from the floor were the biggest headache.
Humans are creatures that basically live with their feet on the ground.
But the enemy springs out from the ground under your feet?
Then from a Hunter's perspective, there was no time to respond.
The moment a Tosakchung springs out, you start by losing an ankle.
But so far, the number of Tosakchungs that sprang out from the ground under Riman's feet was 0.
The reason was simple.
ZZZT......-
Because Riman was continuously flowing electric current into the ground.
Tosakchungs could roughly feel what was happening on the surface even underground.
Naturally, they could detect the current or heat flowing on the ground.
And they instinctively knew that poking their heads out carelessly in such places was dangerous.
Therefore, they didn't spring out where current flowed.
Because of this characteristic, Hunters entering Tosakchung habitats usually took turns flowing current or heat on the floor.
Because of that, mana consumption was extreme, so usually quite a few moved together.
But Riman's body was virtually in a state of unlimited mana.
So he could walk around fine even while flowing current indefinitely on the floor alone entering the cave.
Blocking surprise attacks from under his feet at the source like that.
He moved forward, clearing away all the bastards rushing at him.
[Discharge]
[Frozen Earth Critical Point]
[Incision]
WHOOSH!
Shriveling, freezing, chopping.
Wherever Riman passed, pieces of Demonic Beasts bloomed and scattered.
How far did he walk into the cave like that?
Riman's steps stopped.
He had no choice.
Because there was no more ground to step on.
"Is it already here?"
A distant cliff lay before Riman.
Strictly speaking, it was a terrain closer to a crevasse than a cliff.
Because there was another cliff opposite this one.
And to enter the boss room, he had to cross over to the opposite cliff far away.
"...Seeing it in reality, it's quite far."
There was quite a distance from this cliff to that cliff.
A distance absolutely impossible to jump over with an ordinary long jump.
Nor could he go down the cliff and climb up again.
Because the depth of the cliff was truly abysmal.
But the method was simple.
Jumping over using the shock release of
Or......
JINGLE-
Using the Black Seed Bell.
HISS......-
When he rang the Black Seed Bell, something pitch-black flowed out from it.
Eoduksini.
Riman reshaped Eoduksini into the form of a whip.
Soon a black whip of enormous length was held in Riman's hand.
Soon Riman's gaze turned to the ceiling.
The cave ceiling where numerous stalactites were hanging.
Riman swung the whip toward one of them.
WHIP!
The moment the black whip wrapped around the stalactite.
Riman jumped toward the cliff.
DASH-
One end of the whip wrapped around the stalactite, and Riman holding the other end.
As he jumped down in that state, Riman's body drew a long parabola like a pendulum.
Like that, hanging on the whip, Riman reached the opposite cliff in one go.
LAND!
"Okay."
Riman retrieved Eoduksini.
'Now it's really not far.'
What Riman had to take out was a Cyan-type Magic Stone.
It was inside the body of the Queen Tosakchung.
And the Queen's room was not far from here.
Riman began to move his steps busily.
* * *
Jensen looked down at the floor and muttered.
"This bastard left traces of passing through openly?"
Carcasses of Tosakchungs were scattered everywhere on the floor.
Even in a state not yet rotted.
Meaning they died very recently.
And the only one capable of massacring Demonic Beasts like this......
"Would be only that guy Leman or whatever."
In other words, the carcasses of Tosakchungs killed by Riman revealed Riman's movement path entirely.
Thanks to that, it was extremely easy for Jensen to track Riman.
This cave, although not as much as the Spider Den, had surprisingly many forks, making it quite confusing.
But by just following the traces Riman left, he could go straight inside without getting lost.
On top of that, since Leman killed all the Tosakchungs, he didn't even fight a single battle.
From a pursuer's perspective, it was an incredibly easy pursuit.
However, there was something that kept bothering his eyes.
"...But this guy Leman, just what is his ability?"
The causes of death of the Tosakchungs were too diverse.
Some were chopped, some burned to death.
And some were shattered into pieces while frozen.
'Cutting, burning, freezing, smashing. This is a combat trace left by one person?'
The traces of combat were too inconsistent.
As if multiple people with different abilities fought together.
But clearly, only Riman entered this cave alone.
He had to judge that all these different combat traces were left by one person.
'But is that possible?'
A Mage can use only one attribute, and a Superhuman also possesses only one superpower.
Then just how......
'...Leman this guy, he's an Enhanced Human.'
A sneer appeared on Jensen's lips.
It was understandable, as Enhanced Humans were the kind located at the very bottom among mana users.
Those with talent for mana sensitivity become Mages.
Superhumans are born with superpowers, so they can build up immense proficiency.
And those born with neither the talent of a Mage nor the luck of a Superhuman choose the path of an Enhanced Human.
Therefore, Enhanced Humans are much weaker compared to Mages or Superhumans.
Since they forcibly fitted power that wasn't originally theirs into their bodies.
Nevertheless, there was one advantage an Enhanced Human possessed.
That is the loading of multiple abilities.
As long as the body allowed, they could use various types of power by equipping multiple parts.
Of course, just because the types of power one can handle increase doesn't mean the total amount of power increases.
So Enhanced Humans equipped with an absurdly large number of abilities were called by the derogatory term 'Department Store'.
Because they displayed all kinds of power in one body.
'Still, this bastard seems to handle power well for a Department Store......'
But, an Enhanced Human is just an Enhanced Human.
'He cannot be an opponent for a Superhuman like me who refined one ability to the extreme.'
A smile appeared on Jensen's lips again.
It was a smile predicting victory.
* * *
At that time.
Riman reached a huge cavern.
This was the room where the Queen Tosakchung resided.
The Boss Room.
"...Arrived."
Now he just had to catch the boss here, mine the targeted Magic Stone, and retreat.
Thinking so, Riman looked around the cavern.
However, nothing resembling a Tosakchung was visible anywhere.
Only a pile of rocks stacked like a mountain in the corner of the cavern caught his eye a little.
An ordinary person would have thought the Queen Tosakchung must be hiding underground.
But Riman knew.
That before his eyes, the Queen had already arrived.
RUMBLE......-
The huge pile of rocks before his eyes began to squirm little by little.