059. Master of Calamity (2)

This mysterious high-ranking demon who arrived at Nemesis at once with tremendous ability, hurriedly looked around and found the ruler of the legion.

“… … Well.”

The high-ranking demon tilted his head. He quickly realized that he had come to an unoccupied house.

“My lord.”

“Know. I can’t feel the presence of the apostle Woo-jae and the ruler. I can’t feel the energy of the former demon king or the general. Seeing that the Pandemonium territories are quiet, it must have been for personal business.”

“… … What do you want to do?”

The high-ranking demon looked at the spiders sunbathing in the sunlight barely penetrating the turbid air of Nemesis, then looked back at his vassal and said,

“Once you go to Earth.”

“Earth… … Are you okay?”

“You don’t have to worry. I am fine.”

The door opened once more, and the vassal who watched as the high-ranking demon entered the earth muttered quietly.

“… … Lord, you are finally stepping on the land of your hometown that you secretly longed for.”

* * *

When we arrived at the source of the disaster, the scenery in front of us was really monotonous.

The surfaces of the celestial bodies that should give us the mystery and beauty of the universe were all grotesque colors created by blood and flesh, and no other colors were visible.

“As expected, they are a species of destruction.”

Disasters do not take place randomly. They are the ones who settle down like that only when there is a place where there is an existence that can be eaten and reduced to nourishment.

So, those celestial bodies are all places where life once blossomed, and they swallowed them all, regardless of land or sea.

The lumps that swallowed up civilizations that might have existed along with living things were spread endlessly around the largest piece of flesh that could be seen at a glance.

That largest lump of flesh was the destination I had identified.

“The fertility is enormous.”

“… … Gross.”

“… … .”

What looked like a river on the surface was actually bodily fluid flowing from the flesh, and what looked like a mountain range were protruding blood vessels.

All of that mass was a single living creature and a dominant entity with strong dominance. They were terrible scourges, capable of dismembering a devouring world if it ever appeared around them, enough to cover it in blood and flesh.

“Jiu, is this place so important that we have to delay the invasion of the demon realm while overworking the apostles?”

Kang Jin-hyeok frowned. This guy seemed to think that it would be better to just deal with the Demon Realm than to deal with disaster.

Perhaps not only this friend, but also the others on the Sado side, were making this kind of expression when they saw the scenery created by the disaster.

The former demon kings and generals have been fighting disasters for a long time, and the former human players recently engaged in a fierce battle with the disasters sent by demons.

Everyone has already experienced how terrible and sticky those flesh are, so if it’s a disaster, everyone will gnashing their teeth.

So the only person who thinks important about disaster will be me.

“I came because it was important.”

“… … What the hell is there?”

I said calmly.

“Origin of the Legion.”

“… … What?”

“The Legion and those fleshy plagues diverged from the same ancestor. In a word, they are like close relatives and brothers.”

Kang Jin-hyeok, who heard my words, looked at the main body of the hive mind behind me and the mass of catastrophic flesh behind me, as if he did not understand something, then tilted his head and opened his mouth.

“… … No matter how you look at it, it doesn’t look the same.”

From this friend’s point of view, it seems that the corps trapped in the spider’s frame and that primitive flesh have nothing to do with it.

“Can’t you see they’re using the Hive Mind?”

“… … ah?”

“Even if the wavelength is different, we can understand the fragmentary commands they are talking about, right? Have you ever seen this species? Besides, isn’t the process of the governing entity giving orders to build a production base and create troops similar?”

“… … But isn’t that something similar to a spider?”

Kang Jin-hyeok could not easily accept the fact that the disaster and the legion were like brothers.

This was understandable, since this friend had been with me for quite some time, the tendency to consider himself a ‘member of the corps’ had already become quite strong.

The gap between the existence of a disaster that he extremely detests and the legion he thought he was already in was so great that it seems that the simple dichotomy of thinking that it is only an enemy and the legion is an ally has hardened.

“If you simply look at it, it’s difficult. Even on Earth, there are many cases in which descendants from a common ancestor differentiate into completely different appearances. This is a way to look at their genetics to see why they are using frequencies similar to the Hive consciousness. From what I’ve confirmed, Legion and Calamity clearly inherited the genes for Hive consciousness abilities from the same ancestor.”

“… … Hmm.”

“You understand?”

“I do not know.”

“… … .”

It was Kang Jin-hyeok who still shook his head as if he did not want to admit it even if he made the explanation as easy to understand as possible.

No, I haven’t been forcibly remodeled like this bastard leader, so why the hell are you so in love with the Legion?

“You could tell by looking at your genes a little.”

“… … I?”

“From my point of view, can’t you lightly do clairvoyance now?”

In fact, Kang Jin-hyeok accidentally crossed the wall and had an ESP ability that grew to a greater extent than expected. It has now reached a level where it can build a colony of its own.

This guy is no longer looking through a microscope to make his eyeballs explode like a wizard with a screw missing, but he can use his ability to see through genes like me and do the work of putting them together or cutting them out.

But asking a friend who was born with such simplicity to do such complex work is not what I would like.

This friend was a guy who thought he was the only one who regressed in the past, and went mad alone while talking about salvation of mankind.

However, after realizing that he was not the only regressor and forming strong allies, including me and the manager, he completely lost his will, and now he has become a cook helping the corps.

Yes, so I have to do the complicated and headache-inducing tasks.

“Anyway, the ruler of disasters is waiting for me.”

“… … Are you waiting?”

I had information read from the memories genetically imprinted on the Catastrophe Ruler that appeared on my mother’s side.

Even for those disasters, like me, the Hive Mind of the Legion, there is an entity that exerts powerful control over the entire race.

“Now, let’s go down to the ground.”

It seems he wants to see me now. Despite the fact that the powerful ship and Leviathan made by the apostles approached so close, the plagues that filled all directions showed no sign of attacking us.

【The ruler of disaster, I have come to see you.】

* * *

Putting on a human body and a suit stolen from the head of the Elders, he came down to the main base of the muddy disaster where blood and bodily fluids flowed as rivers.

From the moment I set foot here, the powerful spirit that rules this area was casting a very intense gaze at me.

I felt such a tremendous presence that I thought that every single cell that made up this huge mass of flesh was looking at me.

The emotion of interest was felt very strongly in that gaze.

“Now, stop staring and come out quickly.”

After my words were over, the Master of Calamity finally revealed itself.

The mass of flesh that formed the ground rose up, wriggling grossly, and then formed a doll.

“Five… … .”

This was a pretty interesting situation.

The existence that appeared before my eyes was not the hideous replica created by imitating the creature best adapted to the surrounding environment as the original disaster split.

Originally, the imitation of disaster showed a terrible shape made of blood and flesh as it was because the details were not saved at all, but the ruler of disaster had a very perfect human appearance that was properly implemented down to the tip of a hair.

[nice to meet. Legion brother.]

I felt a bit puzzled. The only human around me is my current incarnation, but the appearance the ruler of disaster created was completely different from mine.

I don’t know where the hell the shape came from, but the ruler of disaster had the appearance of a handsome white man with blond hair and emerald eyes.

For reference, our party only has the purple hair of the demons or the black hair unique to Asians, and there are no white people with blonde hair like that. This is a situation where there is no sample itself to make according to the report.

What’s even more surprising is that, when I looked through it with my ESP ability, the genes of the shape the author created were very similar to Earth’s humans. That was by no means a body made to imitate an alien race.

It was said that the ruler of disasters not only knew who I was, but also had very sufficient information about humanity on Earth.

It’s not just copying the appearance, it’s to the point of perfectly embodying all the genes… … It was a moment when I became more and more curious about his true identity.

“… … Who are you? How much do you know?”

Hearing my question, the white-haired blonde smiled very meaningfully.

[Brother, don’t you already know my true identity?]

There was something even more amazing than the human form created by the ruler of calamities.

The blond white man reached out and saw an object emerge as flesh from the floor rose. But the thing was very unusual.

[Brother, didn’t you come here to get the key to prevent destruction?]

In the hands of the one who was looking straight at me with an interesting gaze, there was a very familiar object that seemed to have been seen many times.

“… … what?”

[Brother, you will have to overcome me to get the key.]

It was an object reminiscent of a trophy filled with a viscous green liquid that looked like a culture medium, exuding an aura that made me feel a strong affinity with the Legion.

So, I already have two things that look like that… … .

“… … Did you enjoy this?”

The ruler of calamity had a holy relic.

The reason why I thought I had to come here even if I had to postpone all my schedules and make the apostle bald was because I decided that there was a way to dramatically strengthen the army’s strength in the hometown of disaster.

I didn’t expect there to be a holy relic, but I was right anyway.

The story that I felt a strong sense of kinship with that object was the same as saying that it could be very useful for strengthening the corps.

Even the energy felt from that relic was arousing a much stronger sense of unity than the aura from the relic of the first demon god.

It is said that it is a holy relic that is very closely related to the legion.

“Hey, when you say something nice, hand it over here.”

[Brother, that is difficult.]

Of course, the ruler of disasters had no intention of handing things over to me.

The mass of flesh suddenly rose again and swallowed the relic, and soon the energy completely disappeared from my senses.

The blond white man closed his eyes and muttered quietly.

[The pond of the beginning will return to the strongest of the rulers of the legion to prevent the destruction that the demons will bring… … To get the pond, you will have to hang the key that the brothers also have.]

Oh, I had a rough idea of what that thing was.

No, but look at this kid?

In a busy situation on the way, let’s try this with a group of brothers, right?

“Hey brother, will you regret it greatly?”

[Brother, if you want to hang the key, follow me.]

Unknowingly, I gave him a fishy smile, and the ruler of disaster followed me with a similar smile.

“call.”