031. Extraterrestrial Catastrophe (2)

[Demon Castle] looks similar to the type of castle that was commonly seen in Europe. But I don’t know what kind of guy’s castle is so big. Just looking at its size, it’s about the same size as the [Will of the Legion].

The turrets that were packed into the castle looked very similar to the [Defense Master]’s turrets that I picked up every day in my previous life.

By the way, where do you get that delivery from?

But why the hell is none of it working? Is it a defective product?

Anyway, even though I’ve reached this point, the demon lord still hasn’t appeared. Obviously, this is the residence of the demon king, but there were no demons standing guard at all.

No, in the first place, while coming this far, it was really difficult to meet the high-ranking demons themselves. Do high-ranking demons live in their own territory, not in the capital?

It wasn’t until I infiltrated this place that I realized that there was a clear lack of information about the demons. So, the operation was already a great success, but I decided to go back after collecting as much information as possible here.

Anyway, right now [Demon Castle] is too peaceful to live up to its name.

“… … A perfect empty house.”

Oh, I’m anxious. I am very anxious because I have reached this far comfortably.

Could it be that it is a trap dug by the devil?

Could it be that there is a problem in motherhood now that the link is broken?

I heard all sorts of crazy thoughts.

Of course, once I’ve come this far, I plan to check inside the [Demon King’s Castle] and go back.

If I put aside my worries and think about it calmly, it is safe to say that this is the last chance for me to successfully infiltrate this far.

This place is the capital of the demon realm. Getting here is nothing short of a miracle.

This was my personal impression, and it was the moment when the spiders were digging the ground around the castle in earnest to infiltrate the inside.

Kiyiyi profit -!!!

From inside the castle came the roar of a creepy beast. The moment I heard that sound, I checked the inside of the castle by using the mental strength I had left while cherishing and cherishing the [Thunderbolt].

The inside of the [Demon King’s Castle] was not able to see through well with the incarnation’s ability, so I had to draw out the ability by hanging subordinates to the point where I felt steam rising from my head.

Now, when force is needed, only the player’s power is needed to overcome the situation. Due to the heavy workload of using clairvoyance, I couldn’t use [Rainbow] for at least half a day.

I thought that I might die here without being able to deliver valuable information to the main body, but anyway, the subject of the sound had to be confirmed unconditionally.

And I saw

“… … Fuck, what is that?”

There are fallen demons inside the castle.

However, the fallen demon’s body was torn apart, and a very gross ‘flesh’ burst out screaming.

The slime-like creatures in novels and games made of that flesh soon began to gather together and form a large mass.

They greedily devoured all the corpses of demons they saw around them, and then gradually grew in size while wriggling to the point of convulsions.

That movement is really disgustingly gross.

This caused much more disgust than the metamorphosis process of ‘that race’ in the super famous game.

“… … .”

… … Shit, but I feel like I’ve seen this a lot somewhere.

I am now watching in real time as the largest mass begins to evolve into a giant brain with eyeballs. Its damn primitive form gave me a deep, filthy kinship that I couldn’t figure out the meaning of.

I was able to quickly figure out the cause of this foul kinship.

—… … hatching… … .

“… … Psionic?”

A creepy guy resembling a brain is making noise. But even though this is really absurd, no matter how you look at it, the vocal organ itself doesn’t exist, but I can understand the meaning of that sound.

So, that must be a psionic wave.

—… … split… … do it… … .

… … fuck. What did I hear wrong?

That nasty bastard gave a ‘command’ to a nearby flesh entity. The feeling is very similar to the Hive consciousness of the Legion. It was safe to say that this even had almost the same wavelength and feel of the Hive consciousness that I was ‘transmitting myself’.

The feeling of kinship is growing stronger.

gulp-!

I swallowed dry saliva.

My throat was stuffy, so I couldn’t saliva, and I felt intense pain as if my eyeballs would fall out due to excessive concentration.

But it is difficult to stop here.

It doesn’t matter at all what the demon king is like now. I had to thoroughly analyze the scene I just witnessed by synchronizing it to the main body in motherhood unconditionally.

—… … Conquest… … .

The surrounding flesh, which received the command of the giant brain, began to divide little by little.

“… … Eggs?”

It has no shell and is irregular in shape, so it’s okay to call it an egg, but the small lumps that fell off the body like that wriggled really grossly.

These pieces of flesh began to take on more and more strange shapes, viciously flapping like tadpoles, soaking the floor with bodily fluids.

Kiyiyi profit -!!!

monster.

yeah that’s a monster

After a while, I looked at the awakened ones, and they all looked different. Surprisingly, not a single individual of these gross flesh was born in a fixed form.

Some looked like demons made of pure flesh, some looked like ants or lizards, and some looked very bizarre, oddly resembling legionary spiders.

In front of my eyes, these chunks of flesh mutated into the most suitable form for the environment, and in an instant, they grew straight.

If it’s the closest thing to that, should I say it’s similar to the ‘Flesh Golem’ that appears in various forms in novels and games?

By the way, why are these guys in [Demon King]?

Isn’t that some kind of secret weapon of the devil king?

【… … What is your true identity?]

I used up my mental strength for the last time and spoke to him right before my clairvoyance was cut off. I didn’t really want to convey my intentions to him, but I just instinctively said that.

I had goosebumps all over my body.

Right now, I’m experiencing a really stupid situation where I feel a “sense of déjà vu” from that monster.

There is no monster like that in my memory. Even in the vast memories that [Will of the Legion] gave me, I couldn’t find any information about that kind of monster.

Why the hell does this sound familiar to me?

—… … we are… … corps… … .

When I heard that one word, I felt very dirty.

With my common sense, I can’t understand why the noble will of the ‘corps’ suddenly emerges from these disgusting lumps of flesh.

—… … hive… … mind… … .

… … Wow, that’s crazy.

Is it the hive mind this time?

【Collect samples.】

oh i don’t know In the current situation where I can’t get help from the main body, there is no possibility that I will come up with an answer even if I worry about it.

Let’s take a sample and take it back to the mother. In order to analyze this, the main body’s powerful mental power would have to be mobilized.

【dusk. Hurry up. After taking the sample, you should head straight to the mother castle.]

Dreaming-!!!

—… … Consciousness… … Command… … hatching… … .

… … No wait, why do those fish react violently every time I say something with a hive consciousness?

I’ve been pondering why this is happening. Of course, the task of meeting the conditions for establishing a hypothesis was easier than expected.

These offspring seem to have been parasitized on the ‘body of the demon’, but as soon as I appeared here and gave an order to the corps, they suddenly began to act, creating dominant objects and mass-producing lower-level objects.

Here’s the reaction I’ve seen so far.

The process of figuring out the most foreign elements that had intervened in the previous environment was not difficult at all.

Anyway, the medium is me.

“… … I hope this.”

So, are these masses of flesh a species with very perverted conditions that have evolved to become active when exposed to the Hive consciousness wavelength?

* * *

Kang Jin-hyeok, who had gradually grown in his abilities and had become quite accustomed to the use of the group consciousness, glanced at the jellyfish and tilted his head slightly.

“… … There are no demons?”

A strange thing happened that I couldn’t understand. All of the demons in the mother castle left in an instant.

Apparently, until a few hours ago, fierce battles between demons and legion queens were taking place here and there in the mother castle, but now it has suddenly become incredibly peaceful again.

“What is going on?”

The moment Kang Jin-hyuk muttered that, a familiar man popped out through the door connected to the [Demon King].

However, the huge jellyfish that followed the man was holding a bunch of big and disgusting pieces of meat in its tentacles.

“Jiwoo. Good job. But what about that meat? Is it time for me to show off my cooking skills?”

“Fuck it, shut up and come over here. hurry.”

Suddenly, red meat began to pile up in the mother colony.

‘… … I don’t know what kind of meat it is, but it looks incredibly fresh, like it’s alive.’

Kang Jin-hyeok was sure that the fish had just been caught. I don’t know what kind of meat it was, but the post mortem convulsions were so severe that the meat itself seemed to have life and move.

“roast? flesh? fried food?”

“hey. Stop talking bullshit like cooking. Shout [Hatchling] with your Hive consciousness. Right Now.”

what is this again?

It was really out of the blue to hear that they brought a lot of blood dripping raw meat that caused nerve cramps, not even eggs, and suddenly shouted [Hatchery].

Kang Jin-hyeok pondered for a moment to see if he had heard something wrong, but it didn’t seem like that, so he cautiously opened his mouth.

“Jiwoo. As you well know, I have no control whatsoever. No matter how you say it with the hive consciousness, no action other than communication is possible.”

“Fuck, if you want me to, do it. If you don’t want to fall behind.”

Kang Jin-hyeok scratched the back of his head. Lately, I could feel that his abilities had grown significantly, but he was still in a situation where he couldn’t even give orders to passing workers.

Now, through the Hive Ritual, he could have a brief conversation with the Queen, but that was just a conversation, and since he hadn’t secured control yet, orders were still impossible.

Of course, he is Kang Jin-hyeok who tries to do it because he is told to do it.

-hatching.

Kiyiyi profit -!!!

But then a strange thing happened. As soon as they shouted through the hive ritual, the fish piled up everywhere suddenly started trembling and screaming loudly.

“… … What is this? Isn’t that edible meat?”

The ruler of the legion nodded quietly.

“Cross validation done. The race begins bioactivity with ‘wavelengths of the Hive consciousness’.”

While he organized the research information in synchronization with the main body, Kang Jin-hyeok gradually began to walk backwards when he saw the unrealistic combination of flesh.

The feast of these pieces of flesh now taking place in front of his eyes gave him a very strong shock that was incomparable to the shock he received when he first witnessed the corps.

“Ji-ji! What are these bastards?”

The meat came together to form a huge brain with eyeballs at a truly astonishing rate of growth.

As the brain uttered an incomprehensible sound, the flesh spit out by the surrounding masses strangely changed into a bizarre shape resembling a spider.

The ruler of the corps, Han Ji-woo, watched the growth of these strange creatures and called a hybrid demon.

【Maria. Sprinkle these bastards evenly all over [Demon Castle].]

―My lord, I understand.

A great disaster suddenly came to [Demon Castle], which had entered into a full-scale civil war.