Monster Heavenly King - Chapter 152



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152. Abandoned Laboratory (4)

Hyunseong headed straight to an area not marked on the map with the two people.

The distance was quite long, but there was no major problem moving around since the ice ants were gone.

There were still some guys left…

“Keeek?!”

Crunch!

Hyunseong’s attack instantly pierced his hard exoskeleton, putting an end to his life.

As we got closer to the Queen’s domain, the passageways began to become filled with traces of monsters.

And finally, the border was reached.

The door, which looked quite sturdy, was lying on the floor, torn here and there like a rag.

“I blocked it, but it looks like it got through.”

“It would have been difficult to deal with the queen ice ant back then.”

It was a choice to confine it rather than deal with it.

Isn’t it possible that trying to confine the ice ants in this way backfired?

As he was about to go inside, Seol-ah just stared at the torn door.

‘what’s the matter?’

-No, isn’t this a bit strange?

‘what?’

-These guys’ defense design itself is pretty well done.

We analyzed the ice ants in detail and made the door strong enough to prevent them from getting through.

However, the door in front of me was torn off and in a miserable state.

That means,

‘Has something changed with the ice ants?’

-Yeah, that’s not good for us either.

‘Tsk.’

As we passed through the gate, the parts that had been touched by human hands began to disappear and the caves in their natural state began to appear.

“You’d better be a little more careful from here on out.”

Lee Su-ho swallowed hard and made a nervous expression.

Han Seong-min, who merged with a monster, was stronger than himself.

He said that it is not a place that can be easily approached, so he must also be prepared.

As we headed a little further inward,

“Coming.”

I felt a sound coming my way.

After a while, footsteps are heard from the darkness.

“Tattadattadak.”

A sound made by the spout at the corner of the mouth rapidly hitting each other.

The guy who appeared in the pitch-black darkness had a different appearance from the ice ants we’ve seen so far.

Ice ants approaching the ground on two legs, just like humans.

-It reminds me of the humanoid cockroach I met on the 4th floor.

‘… It’s similar.’

Like the guy I met back then, he had a human form rather than an insect form.

An ice ant holding a spear in both hands, and a sword and shield in the hands sprouting from its shoulders.

I thought he was trying to act like a clumsy human with a weapon.

Pfft!

A guy who immediately runs towards Lee Su-ho and throws a spear at him.

The spear that the ice ant was stabbing was aimed straight at Lee Su-ho’s head.

“?!”

Lee Su-ho turns his head to avoid the quick movement, flustered.

The spear passed right past his head, taking a few strands of hair with it.

Just as I was narrowly avoiding the attack and about to counterattack.

Boom!

“Huh?!”

The shock wave generated by the rotating window struck my head.

Lee Su-ho staggers around, unable to keep his balance due to the sudden shock.

A spindle that rotates a window on its external axis.

It was something like the basic spear technique he used when fighting Hyunseong in the past.

But who would have thought that a monster would use it?

‘It’s not just about holding a weapon…!’

He knew how to use his weapons properly.

The ice ant swung the sword in his other hand at him, whose posture had collapsed greatly.

Kaang!

Lee Su-ho swings his spear and strikes with his sword even while staggering.

If he had not struck it down, the battle would have been rendered unsustainable.

The ice ant stretched out its hand, holding its last remaining shield, as if it had anticipated the opponent’s strike.

‘You can’t avoid this!’

There was no way to avoid it since the posture had already collapsed.

Lee Su-ho gritted his teeth in response to the shock that followed.

Kuung!

“…!!”

A shock that hits the whole body.

It was to the point where I felt like at least one bone might break.

The ice ants were planning to drive him away from the wall without stopping in an instant, but

Percussion!

He kicked the ground and actually increased the distance.

I was puzzled by the unknown behavior, but the answer came from somewhere else.

“Your crisis detection ability is also quite good.”

Hyunseong mutters while his jaw clacks.

The idea was to kill the Ice Ant the moment it was chasing Lee Su-ho.

“What the heck is this? Did the ice ants evolve or something?”

There were too many strange things about it to simply be an evolution.

Even if you got stronger, handling weapons wasn’t something you could learn overnight.

‘The connection was also clean.’

Avoid the spear with a sword, and block the sword with a shield.

The attacks that followed naturally felt as if they had been dealt with before.

As if I was learning from someone.

“thank you.”

Lee Su-ho, who got up unsteadily, wiped the blood flowing from his mouth and expressed his thanks.

“I was too careless.”

“…I have nothing to say.”

If I hadn’t let my guard down like Hyunseong said, I could have blocked or avoided all of those attacks just now.

Since they weren’t monsters that originally used weapons like Brin or Rash, I thought that the weapons were just a trick and that they would only fight in a monster-like manner, but I ended up getting beat up just like that.

“It’s good to anticipate how your opponent will react, but you shouldn’t get caught up in it.”

The higher you go, the more there are people who use it in reverse.

One such minor mistake could have cost you your life.

“I think the time for leisurely conversation is over.”

Han Seong-min’s voice came between the two people.

At the same time, there was a sound of something approaching.

Hyunseong looked at Lee Suho and spoke.

“Can I leave it to you, Han-nom?”

“yes!”

Hyunseong, who saw the burning fighting spirit in his eyes, said nothing more and took a stance.

Han Seong-min also took out the dagger in his bosom and prepared for battle.

“Keeeeeeeek!”

Humanoid ice ants running and screaming from the darkness.

In his hands were various weapons, ranging from swords, spears, bows, maces and axes.

Kaang! Chaeng! Chae Jae Jaeng!

The attacks coming from the four arms at high speed were quite threatening, but Hyunseong calmly knocked them all away.

After mixing the swords myself through a few workshops, I started to see their characteristics.

‘I feel like I was well taught by a good teacher.’

Is someone teaching the ice ants how to use their weapons?

Many questions came to mind, but for now I decided to focus on the battle before me.

‘This is the most effective thing to do when dealing with these guys!’

Clang! Clang!

Seol-ah began to increase in number, leaving afterimages in the path she swung.

The more honest a person is, the more vulnerable he is to change and corruption.

Ice ants are bewildered by the ever-increasing dazzle.

‘also.’

It was just as he had expected.

The guys couldn’t tell the difference between truth and fiction.

‘If you don’t know, you should die.’

Crunch! Crunch!

Seol-ah instantly cut off the necks of the ice ants.

The guys were showing weakness in their defensive parts, perhaps because they were relying on their tough exoskeletons.

“That’s incredible.”

And, Han Seong-min is amazed at how Hyunseong deals with human-shaped ice ants.

I expected you to be good, but I didn’t expect you to be this good.

The skill of Han Seong-min, who said so, was also considerable.

‘It doesn’t look like he’s trained in martial arts, but his movements are clean and free of unnecessary elements.’

It was worthy to be called an awakened person who conquered the 6th floor.

Moreover, by merging with a monster, he becomes even stronger, surpassing the limitations of the human body.

The humanoid ice ants were dealt with in an instant by the two people.

“If it’s to that extent, wouldn’t it be okay for you to come alone?”

“This is just the entrance, but the numbers increase as you go further in.”

Besides, the reason this place is so empty is because Han Seong-min used a diversionary operation to get rid of the regular ice ants.

Normally, it was so crowded with ice ants that I couldn’t even think of coming in without being able to breathe.

Crunch!

A sound heard while talking.

When I turned my gaze, I saw the scene where Lee Su-ho’s spear pierced the ice ant’s head.

“Phew.”

Lee Su-ho catches his breath after a difficult battle.

Although we won, there were several dangerous parts.

Maybe it was because I had four arms, but it felt more like I was dealing with a group of successful candidates than just two people.

‘If only this guy had just a little bit more skill…’

They were probably still fighting.

Hyunseong, who had defeated three in one breath, realized just how high the wall was.

“Anyway, let’s go inside before the ice ants come back.”

The group advances inward again at Hyunseong’s words.

Not long after, some guys came out to greet us, as if they had noticed the enemy’s intrusion.

but,

‘Those guys… aren’t they ice ants?’

Although it had a human appearance, parts of its skin had changed into the exoskeleton of an ice ant.

Han Seong-min, seeing the enemy’s appearance, immediately grasped their condition.

“People like me.”

Awakened ones who were experimented on and synthesized with monsters like themselves.

Seol-ah, who had been quietly watching the enemy that had appeared, blurted out a word.

-I understand what happened.

‘what?’

-Why did it end up like this?

‘What happened?’

-The lab guys here not only herded the ice ants here, but also periodically dragged them out to be used as test subjects. The ice ants that came out here were probably the main test subjects.

It would have been easy to get it since monsters kept spawning right next to it.

But what does that matter?

-But there is one problem.

‘problem?’

-Ice ants are born in a state of submission to the queen.

‘Wait a minute, then surely…’

After hearing that, Hyunseong also understood what Seol-ah was saying.

The Awakened ones who merged with the monsters inherited the characteristics of the ice ants and became subservient to the queen.

-The Ice Ant Queen is quite clever, so she probably didn’t control it from the beginning. She probably waited until she had accumulated a certain number of subordinates.

Until he can deal with all the intruders in his den.

The reason the door blocking the passage was torn like a rag was because the ice ants had become stronger through synthesis with the Awakened.

-After that, he must have felt that his subordinates who had merged with humans were strong, so he started producing humanoid ants that were as similar to them as possible.

As a result, the number decreased, but the quality increased.

Create those ice ants, give them weapons, and teach them.

‘So these guys know how to use weapons too.’

Among the synthetic ice ants, there must have been some that were quite skilled.

Just teaching that information would have increased their fighting power several times over.

‘If you had come a little later, you could have been in trouble.’

You might have been dealing with a swarm of humanoid ants, not just a few.

Even a regular army of ice ants would be annoying, so even the most sane person would have to retreat if it was that bad.

-If there weren’t any other monsters here, this place would have become an ice ant hole again.

When I told the group about the part I talked about with Seol-ah, Lee Su-ho looked shocked.

On the other hand, Han Seong-min seemed to be thinking deeply and then carefully opened his mouth.

“So… if we kill the Queen, will they come to their senses?”