Monster Heavenly King - Chapter 114
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114. Blood Demon (4)
A homeless person torn to pieces by an explosion.
If I had been just a little bit late in avoiding it, I would have been caught in the explosion and turned to dust.
Seol-ah muttered as she looked at the huge crater left by the explosion.
-It looks like they did something to keep the information from being exposed.
‘I didn’t think I had that much important information…’
I don’t know the exact details, but they probably made it so that if he showed any signs of betrayal, he would be killed.
It was the sect’s way of not leaving behind even the slightest information about themselves.
Still, it wasn’t like I gained nothing at all.
The will he left behind just before he died.
-Did you say [Blood Demonization]?
‘I clearly said it was a skill, not martial arts.’
I don’t know how they did it, but it seemed like the Blood Cult guys had turned the Blood Demon God skill into a skill.
Some situations that only make sense now.
‘Somehow. I felt like I was lacking in many ways to be called a true blood demon.’
Not only was his skill lacking, but his physical abilities were also far inferior to those of a Blood Demon, let alone a Blood Demon.
Blood Demon is a legendary figure who has never been able to achieve this in the history of the Blood Cult.
If the vagabond was really a blood demon, Hyeonseong would not have been able to make a decision so quickly.
No, rather, it might have been me who suffered.
‘3rd floor, even if you hit it high, the awakened one who should be on the 4th floor will be fine even if hit by Elena’s attack.’
And that’s just by learning one skill.
It was literally a groundbreaking skill.
Then what if it’s not the vagabonds but the awakened ones above who use it?
Just thinking about it gave me a headache.
‘furthermore…’
The biggest problem was that the guy who wrote this was a lowly vagrant.
Although it is not the blood demon that appears in the legend, it means that mass production has become possible.
-The only good thing is that it can’t be used for a long time because it puts a strain on the body.
Even if it means risking one’s life, wouldn’t it be a worthwhile deal if one could gain that much power?
If you ask the Awakened, most of them will definitely say they want to learn the skill.
‘These blood sect kids have been causing trouble all over the place.’
From monster research to commercialization of blood magic.
As I looked around, I began to feel a growing sense of anxiety that something else might come up.
‘I don’t think anything will come out even if I go to the homeless base.’
There’s no way a guy who was restricted from revealing his identity would have left traces so carelessly.
In the end, there was no choice but to wait for the future.
As I thought that and looked around, I saw that almost all of the vagrants around me had been cleared out.
Although there were countless vagrants rolling around on the floor, Elena showed no sign of losing her breath.
‘After all, when the gap is this big, the number of people doesn’t matter.’
Elena, who had been dealing with the homeless, opened her eyes wide in surprise when she saw Hyeonseong return.
“What? It’s over already?”
It seemed like she hadn’t expected Hyunseong to finish first.
At Hyeonseong’s appearance, the vagrants who were still around began to make a fuss.
“What, what is that kid who was so damn confident and ended up getting screwed?”
“Fuck, what am I supposed to do if I get attacked by a skeleton kid who’s not even a witch?”
“Fucked, get out now!”
The vagabonds begin to scatter in different directions.
Elena sighed as if it was finally over and returned the scythe to her bracelet.
“I don’t have to chase you?”
“Those bastards have no nutritional value even if we catch them. If they come again, we can just kill them.”
If you come to me after going through this, it must be because you really want to die.
She spoke in a whiny tone and turned to Hyunseong.
“So, did you find out anything?”
“Roughly?”
Hyunseong is talking about the skills used by the vagabond.
And then I told her that there was someone who told her about it.
Elena seemed to think quietly, then frowned.
“This is going to be a bit of a headache.”
She seemed to have figured out exactly how dangerous a skill [Blood Magic] was.
“Have you ever met an Awakened person whose skin turns like blood?”
“None. I was busy clearing the labyrinth before I got stuck here.”
Instead of fighting each other, the Awakened Ones only compete to catch one more monster and move up.
Then it makes sense that he didn’t fight the Awakened One.
It must have become like this because we can’t go to the 7th floor right now, so it’s saturated.
“Ugh, I guess I should try moving around a bit too.”
“What are you going to do?”
“I can’t just sit still when those guys come out. I need to meet up with some old friends and hear their stories.”
If she’s Elena’s acquaintance, she’ll probably have quite a bit of influence in the labyrinth.
There was a good chance that they had some pretty good information.
“If the inspiration was there at a time like this, I would have asked him right away.”
“By the way, I heard it was temporarily closed, but where did it go?”
“That old man is also an Awakened who is attacking from the front lines anyway. He must be preparing to attack from the first floor. Or maybe he has already left?”
From the moment I first saw him, I thought he was unusual, and as expected, he seemed to be a very strong Awakened person.
-No, before you go down, show me the research results!
‘Oh, right. There was that.’
I completely forgot about it because of the bum.
Elena opens her mouth as if she forgot what Hyunseong said.
“Oh, right. That was it.”
It flowed from her mouth, which spoke to her without a single mistake.
As I followed her into the room, I saw a pile of papers on the desk.
Papers that are scattered around in a messy manner, not organized at all.
“You didn’t steal it, did you?”
“Oh, excuse me. I’ve already sorted it out like this.”
“…this?”
There is order in chaos.
Although it was a mess, it seemed like he knew where everything was.
“Well, do you have any questions?”
“I think I’ll have to take a look for now.”
I don’t even know what kind of research there is, so it would take a considerable amount of time just to look into it.
She nodded and opened her mouth.
“I’m going to go pack my bags, so take your time looking around and let me know if you need anything later.”
After leaving those words, he disappeared and Hyunseong began to look through the papers.
“Don’t they all save it on their computers these days?”
Moreover, there was a computer in the secret laboratory on the 4th floor, but it was full of paper files and there was nothing digital in sight.
It wasn’t something I should have said from the perspective of someone who had obtained research results.
“So, what do you want to see?”
-I’d like to read everything here, but I can’t stay here all day long, right? Time is limited.
“yes.”
-Then let’s look at the title first. If there’s something I want to see, I’ll tell you.
“okay.”
Hyunseong, who understood what she meant, began to look at the report titles one by one.
and.
-this.
The report that Seol-ah chose was [About Monster Gen].
Hyunseong turned the page and looked at the next one, and without realizing it, he let out a sigh of admiration.
“Ooh.”
There were more serious things written than I thought.
Lots of graphs and figures.
Since I had been working and had been away from studying before going to Murim, I had a hard time understanding what was written.
‘There may be some technical words, do you understand them all?’
Seol-ah remained silent without asking any questions.
Let it stay like that for a while.
Seol-ah, who rings the bell.
-Well, you organized it well.
“Did you find out anything?”
In fact, Hyunseong couldn’t even figure out why Seol-ah wanted to see this report.
If we know about Monster Gen, we might know something else.
-This is exactly the information I was looking for.
“What is this research?”
-This study is about the identity of monsters.
“…sameness?”
Hyunseong’s head tilted and a question mark appeared above his head.
Seol-ah rang the bell again, as if she realized that she hadn’t heard properly.
-So, when a monster becomes a gen, is it the exact same monster as before? That’s what we studied.
“ah.”
Only then could I understand what Seol-ah meant.
For example, when you catch a monster, is the next monster that appears in that spot the same species as before, but different?
That was the problem.
– Since the spawn locations of regular monsters are random and difficult to find, we targeted bosses in fixed spawn areas.
“So what’s the result?”
-Exactly the same monster, Laney
“Hmm… It’s surprising, but is this research really that important?”
I couldn’t help but tilt my head as to whether it was something worth paying special attention to.
Seol-ah continued to explain while shaking her sword to her own doubts.
-What I wanted to know was not the results of this study, but the information about the labyrinth that can be learned through the results of this study.
“You can find out information about the labyrinth with this?”
-You said that the 4th floor was part of the world I lived in, right? That was a hypothesis I had been thinking about since then. But after reading this, it seems like that hypothesis is correct.
“Don’t be hesitant, just tell me the conclusion.”
Even if I explain it to you at length, you will only be able to understand a very small part of it.
Seol-ah responded to Hyun-seong’s words by shaking her sword as if it was trivial.
-To conclude… The labyrinth is someone’s way of saving the world.
“save…?”
-Like the save and load functions in games.
“… … ”
I knew what he was saying, but I had a hard time understanding it.
“… Saving the world. Is that possible?”
-I don’t know. I’ve never even thought about it.
“Then why did you think so?”
-That’s the research. If you look at the content, it says that all monsters that become Zen are the same being.
“so?”
-There can’t be a perfectly identical being in the world. But the research results are denying that impossible case. That’s possible.
“You call up the monster you saved before it died and it becomes the same being as Zen?”
-That’s right. Then it would be understandable if the monsters were the same being.
“… … ”
I heard a story that was much more incredible than I expected.
Many thoughts crossed my mind.
The biggest question is,
“Who the hell is it?”
-I don’t know about that. But this is impossible for Seo-Ian, me, and Dragon. Then there’s only one thing left.
“If it’s higher than a dragon… is it a god?”
-that’s right.
“… But why?”
When we say God, we usually mean the master of the world.
There would be no reason for such a being to create a model garden called a labyrinth.
Seol-ah rang the sword as if she didn’t know what Hyun-seong was asking.
-I don’t know about that. Maybe it’s not God, but something similar to him.
It means that whatever it is, it is a being equal to God.
What on earth happened that made the world change like this and sent me flying all the way to the world I used to live in?
At that moment, a thought flashed through Hyunseong’s mind like lightning.
“So… if you keep going up the labyrinth, you’ll meet the owner of this place, whether it’s a god or something?”
-maybe?
At Seol-ah’s words, a dark red light began to burn brightly from inside the skull.
A system that appeared along with the labyrinth.
If that’s the case, then the person who created the system is the same being who created the labyrinth.
“… So there’s finally someone who will take issue with this shitty after-sales service.”