088. Lost Temple (5)

The woman who flew barefoot in a world so ignorantly cold that even her body froze, seemed strangely happy.

“it’s okay? You’re catching a cold, aren’t you?”

“Well… … Is it cool and nice?”

“… … .”

The taste is really unique.

Wouldn’t it have been nice if he had told me earlier that he doesn’t get cold?

Anyway, thanks to her great resistance to the cold, I was able to get my hands on the native creatures without much effort.

And the head of the dragons, who revealed such a strong presence to us, was watching the native creature with his fingers, as if it were curious that he had captured it.

“Well… … He must be a little weaker than he looks… … .”

“… … .”

“I came to say I’m coming soon, but I’m already dead… … ?”

I snorted at the head of the Guardians, who said they were weak at the sight of native creatures.

No, wouldn’t that be even more terrifying if he had bitten the elephant in its mouth and flew all the way to where Leviathan was?

“I am too weak… … Will a kid like this be useful to the Corps?”

“… … Hey, Miyoung? Legion kids can’t freely come and go in that cold place like Miyoung.”

“… … Aha?”

This woman is so… … .

It’s strangely frightening to have something that seems a bit fierce, but exudes a lot of negative energy.

“Now, it’s time for me to work my magic in earnest.”

“uh… … Did you learn magic? I heard it’s hard to get that authority… … .”

“No, that’s not what I meant… … .”

I don’t know why the conversation keeps falling apart, whether it’s because this woman is weird or because my wrapping skills are poor.

“… … I will do that work now.”

“Ah yes. I’m rooting for you.”

First of all, I banished the woman with a bright expression from the vicinity who kept making strange noises, and then I went straight to the small pool enshrined inside the Leviathan.

This was the liquid drawn from the pond in the beginning, and inside this was a primitive worm that could freely evolve into a legion unit by absorbing essence.

“You’re finally writing this.”

With my telekinesis, the mysterious green liquid and the plump larvae that were fattening in it were lifted into the air and transported to safety.

“Absorb.”

* * *

The larvae of the beginning of the Legion had excellent abilities that could be called truly all-round when it comes to essence and evolution.

These larvae are a record storehouse containing the information of all units forged from the Legion, and at the same time, if they received any essence, they could easily reprocess it into a useful ability for the Legion.

Thanks to this, it did not require any labor force to see through the array, cut it out with delicate work, and connect it by using ESP ability.

“They are very comfortable.”

When the larvae of the beginning were fed the meat of native creatures, they grew on their own and caused various mutations.

“Jiu, is there anything I can study?”

“Yeah, no. go back.”

“… … .”

Thanks to that, I was very relaxed because I wasn’t as obsessed with research as before, and the bald wizard, who loved to work with genes, unfortunately became unemployed.

Of course, the bald wizard couldn’t let go of his lingering feelings, and constantly licked his lips while watching the transformation process of various living things that were actively taking place in the large culture medium pond.

“… … Ah, I have to make a real chimera this time… … .”

“It’s much faster when the caterpillar grows on its own than when you or I research it.”

“shit… … I am worse than a bug.”

Of course, Choi Kang-han also mobilized all the magic he could use for this kind of research, so human bioengineers often came up with excellent results that would scare them away.

However, since I obtained the Pond of the Beginning, there is no longer any need to entrust research to a mage who has invested a long time, repeated many failures, and then burst into success.

The reason is simple.

“I think it’s over?”

“… … what? Holy crap, the research is already over? Has it been half a day?”

This is because the time spent on research itself was different.

“Now, let’s move slowly.”

In just half a day, the primordial larvae succeeded in accepting the essence of native creatures and absorbing the mysterious power imprinted in their genes.

The new essence obtained in this way did not require me to repeat the complicated process of inserting it into the hatchery and replacing the corps objects one by one.

“Arachne. do you feel it This is the new power of the Legion.”

The culture solution drawn from the pond in the beginning created a ‘virus that mutates by injecting the essence’ when a new essence was generated, and this had the effect of replacing all cumbersome work.

– Ruler… … My whole body is hot. I don’t feel the cold anymore.

Perhaps because of accepting the new essence, Arachne’s body now had a faint red energy that the native creatures had, like an aura.

“Now let’s move slowly. Make a colony.”

The sticky slime created by the hatchery began to cover the glacier in this barren land, a land of severe cold where no life except native creatures with the unique power to radiate a red aura could live.

-Expand the hatchery.

Following the command of the highest-ranking Legion Queen, the Legion’s workers, now equipped with strong resistance to the cold, began planting hatcheries in the frozen ground.

Of course, the movements of the corps objects were drastically reduced to less than half compared to the warm environment. Since the structure of the body itself, once formed, is different from that of native organisms that have efficiently adapted to the cold and evolved, the efficiency itself cannot be matched at all costs.

Still, anyway, it was possible for the Legion to move in an environment so harsh that no microbes could survive.

“Hey, you said you were getting together?”

“Ah, old man.”

Once again, when the corps finished evolving, the man from the Three Kingdoms era who came over to Leviathan tilted his head as he examined the red aura he felt everywhere.

“Hey, this red aura… … It seems like the divine power left behind by a god in the past?”

I nodded at his comment.

“Yes, these guys are power creatures. With that divine power, they get energy through the atmosphere and dim light here, and endure the bitter cold.”

“Well… … then?”

As a result of closely examining the process of extracting and culturing the essence through the primordial caterpillar, I was able to roughly guess the identity of these native creatures.

No matter how great the adaptability and evolutionary power of living organisms are, it doesn’t really make sense to have the ability to be strong enough to chew my [Rainbow] and the perverted ability to survive even in such an environment.

I don’t know if the past of this world was a warm environment with lush grasslands like the Earth’s Antarctica, but considering the parent star shining so faintly that the stars in the sky were clearly visible, such an environment was very unlikely.

“These indigenous creatures bear traces of being forcibly endowed with divine powers for someone’s needs.”

After all, these native creatures are sure to have been through someone’s hands.

“These guys… … Were they the watchmen who guarded the temple?”

“Well… … Elderly. Are you good at analogies?”

“… … It’s because this hyung is annoying, but when I think about it properly, I’m definitely not the kind of stonehead you think.”

Thus, I came to the conclusion that the origins of these native beasts were as guardians of the ‘temple’.

“Of course, now it’s a great water source and a new tanking unit for the Legion.”

Huge nests of eggs created in the colony’s large-scale hatchery, where the first unit to awaken was none other than the legion version of the native creature.

These guys were the strongest units on active duty, boasting powerful defensive abilities to the point of chewing up [Thunderbolt], and unlike existing units, they were able to guarantee proper activity even in the cold.

“Go, Ultra Mammoth.”

The names I gave to these newly reborn corps units had enough power to induce silence in the audience.

“… … Why do you have such a naming sense?”

* * *

“These damn watchmen… … !”

The devil, who was unexpectedly attacked at the excavation site of the temple, screamed in agony and drove the beasts of destruction.

“Burn it!!!”

Monsters resembling lizards and three-headed dogs threw hellfire at the mammoths that were rushing towards them with all their might, as the devil commanded.

Thousands of beasts all at once spewed out the flames of hell, and the earth that had been frozen for a long time melted softly from the tremendous heat, and the ice vaporized and filled the world with a thick fog that made it difficult to see.

Just like the sight of the gatekeepers of Hell who invaded Nemesis melting down the troops of the Legion all at once, the mammoths that rushed at them were also engulfed in flames.

“Have you done it… … ?”

It was normal for this level of firepower to produce a spectacle that would normally be enough to reduce a civilization to ashes.

Break-!!!

However, the mammoth’s headbutting through the flames and thick fog did not stop at all.

“You filthy bastards, dare you hold out on Hellfire?”

The devil, who was ordered to excavate the temple, spat out harsh curse words and began to shoot black energy at the mammoth that was running towards him.

“Take a taste of fear.”

This was the most threatening mental attack, called ‘planting fear’, a technique that demons made famous in the past by overpowering heroes who resisted them.

Among living beings, beings capable of feeling fear could never be free from this technology.

Booo!!!

One mammoth, properly hit by this fear planting, halted its charge and hesitated, uttering a loud howl of anguish.

The demon blocked the hellfire, but looked at the mammoth, who was stopped by fear, and smiled disgustingly, revealing a clown.

“Laughing beasts. I must show my strength like this… … Well?”

But the demon’s disgusting grin and monologue naturally gave way to startled pupils and a twisted grin as the mammoth, who had thought it had been completely subdued, charged once more and trampled one Cerberus down.

“You bastards, don’t feel fear… … ?”

The devil couldn’t understand the situation.

“why? How come these guys don’t feel fear of me?”

While the demon was surprised to see the mammoth’s mighty resistance, in fact, it was not the temple’s watchman, but the troops of the army named ‘Ultra Mammoth’ continued their advance without hesitation.

As these legions of gigantic elephants began to trample the infernal beast with their gigantic feet, the roar of the battered beasts was heard on all sides.

Of course, the devil still thought it was okay.

“It is nonsense. You die, but the beasts of destruction never die.”

The corner the devil believed in now was very simple. In any case, it is clear that the number of temple watchmen on this small satellite is small.

“I’ll catch and eat them all.”

Even if these beasts died anyway, they didn’t die, so anyway, the thought that they would win if they fought each other like this didn’t change.

As he expected, the first mammoths to fight began to fall one by one, unable to resist the flames as they exhausted their energy.

However, this too was a misconception.

“… … keep growing?”

These were not sentinels, but new units of the Legion, and the mammoths awakened from the hidden hives grew rapidly under the influence of the essence of the Legion, constantly replenishing the battlefield.

“no way… … .”

It was when the demon thought of the very ‘legion’ that resisted the Lord of Ruin.

Dig-!!!

There was an unusual sound of the air ripping nearby, and at the same time, a sword with an intense flash flew and lodged itself in his chest.

“… … !!!”

When the flames of the Red Hell began to flow like a waterfall instead of bleeding from the chest where this sword was lodged, the demon felt tremendous pain and managed to pull out a frustrated voice.

“this… … this… … .”

The devil couldn’t quite understand that he felt pain.

Pain is the starting point of the power of the army of destruction, so why couldn’t he endure the pain of being hit by the sword?

“Wow, the performance of this sword is really good. The old man did one big thing.”

While struggling with the pain that the demon had pierced his chest, the man holding the handle of the sword was appreciating the weapon’s performance calmly even with the demon in front of him.

“Hey, how are you? Are you sick? Yes, I stabbed it. ”

the devil saw The man who stabbed himself had such a wicked smile on his face that even the devil felt strong fear.

“Surely, can these demon bastards come back to life after being hit by [Excalibur]?”

Upon hearing that, the devil’s expression immediately changed to astonishment.