Chapter 149: Hellfire Peninsula (6)
The demon was rational.
At least more rational and intelligent than anyone else until it went mad or only the instinct to destroy remained.
Just look at this demon.
“Kihiihih!”
Look at the demon that had become a huge 5-meter-tall skeleton mass, with flesh already fallen off its body.
Look at the demon crawling around like a spider, unable to properly hold up its head due to its immense size, dragging its head on the ground.
On the outside, it looked like a monster without any reason, seemingly without even a brain, but the only organ left in the demon was the ‘brain’, protected by a solid skull.
Thud!
The Bone Powder demon, Skullion, banged the ground with its hands and feet, causing a ruckus.
It looked like a child throwing a tantrum in a supermarket, but black mana flowed from its bony hands and feet, hitting the concrete.
Kugugung!
Jindo Bridge had collapsed.
The bridge that people couldn’t cross suddenly collapsed because it was cut off in the middle.
“No, honey!”
“Run away! Hurry out of the island!!”
Families were separated as the bridge collapsed in real time.
“Survive somehow! You’re the only one who can save our children now!”
“Honey!!”
Splash.
People were swept away with the collapsing bridge, falling into the water below.
The current was so fast that there was no need to explicitly say what would happen if those who fell weren’t rescued quickly.
“Someone, please…!”
A wife who lost her husband in an instant hugged her child tightly and looked around.
Everyone, just like her, lost their families on the collapsing Jindo Bridge, and as civilians, they needed someone who could either defeat the demon or rescue people.
At least an ability user who could survive from the demon.
“Kihiihihihik!”
The demon, who cut off the bridge where people were escaping and even dropped those who were running away into the sea, began to laugh, lifting its head slightly.
As its white, sharp teeth clicked together, something indescribable started to leak out of the demon’s mouth.
They were traces of people.
Traces of what used to be people, and the demon spat out flesh from its mouth and then spat something onto the ground.
“Kruk, hurruruk.”
Bones stained with red blood, white in color.
As if it had dismantled all the flesh from a giant mammal and left only the bones, the demon buried its head in front of the bones.
“Suuuuuuuupppppp”
It inhaled deeply through the hole in the front of its head as if sucking something in.
The bones themselves seemed like some sort of drug, and the demon twisted its body in delight.
“Kihik, hihihik…!”
They were not human bones.
The traces of flesh chewed and spat out by the demon were not ordinary people.
It had belonged to a young man, a B-class ability user from the Academy, who had just turned 22.
And not just him.
The demon ate all the ability users in Jindo.
Including the academy students who came for practice, heroes living in Jindo, and even ability users from abroad. It killed them all.
For one reason.
Mana powder.
To consume mana powder made from the bones of the ability users, it killed on the spot.
Krugrugrug.
The demon’s limbs started to twist.
As if it didn’t know what to do with its joy, the spine under the skull started rotating at each joint, and its body began spinning round and round.
This bizarre appearance was hideous and terrifying, but the most terrifying thing was that there was no one here now who could stop this demon.
“Someone, please…!”
Thunk.
The demon raised its skull high.
It lifted its head as if sniffing something and turned it left and right, like it was smelling with its nose.
Then.
Gugugugu!
Water from the sea began to rise from the ground.
A wide disc-like structure rose, bringing up everything that had fallen into the sea along with the seawater.
“Cough, cough…!”
“Honey!!”
A man lay on a chunk of concrete, bleeding, and coughed up seawater.
Others, not entirely unharmed but at least not dead, clung to the collapsed bridge and cars, coughing.
Cherchek, chercherchek.
A wide net of ice emerged as the seawater drained away.
As the water quickly receded, a net slowly rose to the surface.
Fwoosh.
Water shot up high, and someone emerged from within.
“Waaahhhhhh!!”
People crowded on Jindo Bridge cheered.
Those who had given up hope of survival, fleeing the demon and unable to cross the bridge, now cheered at the sudden appearance of hope.
“Snow White! Snow White!”
“Snow White is here! We’re saved!”
The second-ranked hero of Korea had arrived.
A nearly invincible hero had appeared.
Who else could they pin their hopes on if not her?
If even Snow White fell, it would mean that no ability user could stand against this demon.
“Kihiihihihit! S-class! Girl…! Make it red! Your scent!!”
Skullion clicked its teeth and opened its maw towards Snow White.
Soon.
Fushushushut!!
Thick bone spikes started flying from Skullion’s spine.
Not shot from the mouth, but from the spine, momentarily hidden by the skull, the bone spikes aimed at Snow White-
“This…!”
Did not reach her but headed towards the ‘civilians’ behind Snow White.
Chyarak!
Snow White reached behind her, and a giant wall of ice shot up.
Bone spikes lodged into the thick ice wall as strong as steel, and those behind the ice wall collapsed to their knees, seeing the trajectory of the spikes.
“Ah, ahh…!”
If not for the ice wall, those bone spikes would have undoubtedly targeted them.
“Run away quickly!”
At Baek Seol-hee’s shout, people outside of Jindo hurriedly turned and ran.
Even if they turned their backs to flee, Snow White would protect them from the demon’s attacks.
But.
The demon knew exactly how to put Snow White in a difficult situation.
“Civilians… Kihiihit, heroes must protect civilians! Yes!”
The demon, dragging its jaw on the ground, started moving its limbs backward, crawling upside down.
“Aaaahhh!”
People who had fled to Jindo Bridge to escape from Jindo were now being chased by the demon again. Baek Seol-hee, who had been maintaining the ice wall and net in mid-air, clenched her teeth and ran towards the bridge.
“Where to… Kuh?!”
Baek Seol-hee staggered as she landed on the bridge.
From Incheon to Jindo, she had flown a distance of nearly 400km, suppressing demons along the way.
Perhaps because she had flown without rest and had to deal with the collapsed bridge and erecting a giant ice wall…
Baek Seol-hee momentarily lost concentration, and her posture collapsed, and the demon didn’t miss this opportunity.
“S-class!! It’s gonna spread!!!”
Skullion, crouching as low as possible, suddenly leaped high, hitting the ground with its arms as if crawling on its limbs until now had been just a joke.
“Snow White’s bone powder! I’ll crush it!”
The demon’s eyes were fixed on Baik Seol-hee.
But the ends of the arms and legs stretched out by the demon were aimed precisely behind her, at the civilians who hadn’t yet managed to escape and were dying.
“Kreuk…!”
She sent magic power forward.
Instead of pushing back the massive mass, Baek Seol-hee could save herself.
But if she did, she wouldn’t be able to stop the bone spikes flying backward, and the civilians would die.
So then.
“I have to trust…!”
Trusting in the protective shield of magic power she wrapped around her body,
Made to look like an ordinary suit, she trusted the strength of the magical protective shield,
Even if the demon tried to bite her waist.
A hero’s mission was to protect civilians.
Naturally, Baek Seol-hee extended her hand backward.
Tudududu!
Bone bullets shot from the outstretched hands and feet of Skullion, aiming for civilians fleeing around the bridge.
But the ice wings Baek Seol-hee extended behind her protected the entire bridge from left to right, and the bone spikes only lodged into the wings.
“Caught it!”
Without a moment to gather her magic power, Skullion opened its huge maw and approached Baek Seol-hee.
Now Baek Seol-hee-
[It’s a problem how naively kind you are.]
A voice from above.
At that all too familiar voice laden with emotion, Baek Seol-hee’s heart sank involuntarily.
“Ji-”
[Meteor Strike.]
[Meteor Strike????!]
Kwahhh!
Something like a meteorite struck Skullion’s body.
The meteor, like red flames, not only hit Skullion but also pushed it back, slamming it into the entrance of the bridge.
Kwahhh!
Dust rose.
Baek Seol-hee, amidst the dirt and dust mixed with asphalt, saw the man who appeared leaning on his bike and felt her heart sink again.
[Long time no see, Snow White.]
“……Goblin?”
Baek Seol-hee felt a sense of relief but also felt strange about the sensation she had experienced.
[Heroes save people. That’s their job. I… execute villains.]
Flap.
The Goblin, stepping off the bike with his cloak fluttering, drew out his long bat and Baek Seol-hee felt a familiar yet strange feeling looking at his back.
Just now.
The emotion contained in the voice with which the Goblin seemed to worry about her was clearly…
Kiaaaaaahhhhh!!
There was no time to think.
“The demon is yours to handle!”
Baek Seol-hee slapped her thigh hard and then threw herself backward.
To save civilians.
“Of course.”
The Goblin slightly turned his head and nodded lightly.
[I came here to kill demons, after all.]
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