Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 255

I was headed for ‘Terra,’ the core device of this place that Lorel had described.

If that broke, all the facilities in this lab would be ruined.

‘I feel a great power.’

Now that I’d come down to the basement where ‘Terra’ was, I felt like I knew where it was without anyone telling me.

Strangely, it was an energy that resembled the power that erupted when the dragon went berserk.

But, how should I put it? It felt like a power that had lost its master and was running wild.

Yeah, as if it was made by killing a dragon.

‘Just how far have these bastards sold their ethics and morals?’

From long ago, dragons were revered as sacred beings. Even those who didn’t clearly know what role dragons played in this world, or what kind of beings they were.

They naturally and instinctively accepted them as sacred beings.

The Crown Prince was undoubtedly a betrayer and a cruel intruder who trampled the sacred ground like a white snowfield with muddy feet.

‘I could believe that a dragon before Ekion died at the hands of the Imperial Family.’

Feeling a queasy taste, I kicked off.

The attack with the hammer created a huge hole, and at the same time, the water flowing from the hammer had swept through here once.

Water was dripping everywhere. It’s common sense that electronic devices break down when water gets in.

The complex devices here were no different. A space already messed up by my attack. I didn’t feel any presence as I walked.

Everyone had run away.

‘Well, the end of that escape won’t be pleasant, though.’

The goal was Terra. But after finishing off Terra, the target was the researchers in the lab.

Finally, I was able to find ‘Terra.’

There was a huge cylindrical tube. Inside, a bright red mass of energy was rippling.

If you looked closely, it was red but with colors scattering in various hues.

“Hee, heeeek!”

Perhaps they couldn’t give up on this one thing; there were monkey therians around Terra who hadn’t managed to escape.

“Were you afraid to bring beast therians all the way here?”

The relationship between beast therians and monkey therians was complicated.

Monkey therians didn’t possess strong martial power, but they had seized the upper hand in power with their intelligence and research results, and they were intoxicated with superiority.

Sometimes they even ignored the beasts.

They would have been reluctant to reveal the energy source ‘Terra,’ which had given them great power, to the beasts.

So they would have buried it deep underground like this, and only they would have come and gone.

It was obvious without even looking.

And they probably hadn’t even thought that an intruder would appear like this.

‘Oh ho.’

I saw him standing quietly among the trembling monkey therians.

A person with a lot of devices attached to his body, glaring at me. His face is familiar.

‘Roland.’

The leader of the monkeys, and the general director of this lab.

“Are you Calypso Aquasidel?”

The man with glasses pushed them up with his hairy arm.

“Smelly killer whale.”

A snort of laughter escaped me.

“……You’re laughing?”

“Ah, it’s been so long since I’ve heard such nonsense. This is also welcome, you know?”

“…….”

For a moment, Roland’s expression twisted. It was full of contempt and anger.

“If you stop here, I’ll grant you a comfortable death.”

I couldn’t help but laugh.

“I know that. You guys always say things full of bluster when you’re cornered, right?”

Roland flinched at my chuckling voice. How many comrades had to be lost due to the research results created by that bastard’s hands?

It was a past grudge and an old emotion. But these guys stubbornly made me angry again in this life.

“How many of my comrades went into that bone armor you’re wearing?”

The devices Roland was wearing were made of whale bones, things they called ‘bone armor.’

Whale bones, which can enter the deep sea with high water pressure in nature, were incredibly hard.

Inheriting these characteristics, the bones of whale therians were also hard.

The monkeys took advantage of this, kidnapping aquatic animal therians, first as various experimental subjects.

And after they died, they used their bones in this way.

In fact, if it hadn’t been for Lorel, Camula, who had also been kidnapped, might have suffered another humiliation after her death.

The more I thought about it, the more my hands trembled with anger.

“……Did you know about our great research?”

“What greatness are you talking about, you bastards who do human experiments? You’re just trash that should disappear from the world. Nothing more, nothing less.”

I glanced at ‘Terra.’

As my gaze shifted, anxiety flashed across Roland’s face.

I chuckled.

“I’m one, and you’re many. Besides… you’re even afraid of me in bone armor?”

“Who……!”

Roland gritted his teeth. As if it was shameful to be afraid of a lowly being.

“His Highness the Crown Prince was wary of your power, so we made thorough preparations.”

“Ah, the one that was completely destroyed by my hands?”

“…….”

Looking at the gathered monkey therians one by one, I gathered strength in my hand.

“You better not touch it recklessly. You’ll be the one regretting it, fish.”

“What? I can’t understand because it’s ignorant monkey talk.”

“……!”

Giving my foot a slight push, I moved in an instant. Roland seemed surprised by my appearance right in front of him but quickly reached out his hand.

Roland was one of the few monkey therians who knew how to fight.

But it was only at the level of ‘for a monkey.’

Kwaaaang!

The moment the fist of the bone armor and my fist met, cracks appeared in the armor, and it shattered from the inside.

“Kuh, kuaaaaaak!”

“I get so angry whenever I see this armor. No, it makes me sick.”

Because it was an object that clearly showed your dirty intentions to take all of our things and use them for your own benefit.

“Not yet. This is for my dead subordinates.”

I raised my fist again without expression. Kwang! Kwaang! Two punches landed properly on his abdomen.

Roland spat out blood.

“This is for my dead family.”

The leader of the monkeys, who had fallen to the floor in just three blows, coughed. He grabbed my pants leg with bloodshot eyes, as if he couldn’t breathe.

That hand was soon trampled by my foot.

“Don’t worry. Not enough, right? Your death will never be peaceful, so look forward to it.”

“……Eup! Heup, heeeup!”

After crushing Roland’s remaining hand, I strode forward.

“I’ll hammer my share into Terra instead of you. You can like it if you want.”

“……!”

The monkey therians, who were holding crude clubs, slowly backed away.

The power of water gathered again in my fist. This time, even more powerfully than when I smashed the lab with the hammer a little while ago.

With all my strength.

‘Now, how many hits will this withstand?’

Kwaaaang!

One hit.

Kwang!

Two hits.

I stared expressionlessly at the cylinder of Terra, which had begun to crack.

“If, if you break that, you won’t be safe either!”

“Stop it!”

I ignored the voices of the losers coming from behind.

Kwaaaang!

When the third fist came down, I heard a cracking sound.

A small piece of glass popped out and cut my cheek.

‘If I hit it one more time, it’ll break.’

Calmly judging, I raised my fist.

The monkeys were intimidating me, but it was no use. I had already heard from Lorel what would happen if I broke this.

“It’s a power taken from the existence of a dragon. The moment it breaks, it will scatter into nature……!”

Ekion had said something similar.

The power of a dead dragon can never be contained.

So.

Kwang!!!

The moment I brought down my last fist, the cylinder that had been holding Terra shattered with a crashing sound.

The red energy source that had been contained inside burst out violently like a storm.

My hair scattered roughly.

“Euaaaak!”

As if I hadn’t felt it wrong, it messed up the surrounding devices and people, just like when the Dragon Duke went berserk.

But strangely, it didn’t harm me at all. It was as if it was only retaliating against those who had imprisoned it.

I stared blankly at the escaping power and turned my head.

‘Soon, it’ll be time for Ekion and the kids to come.’

The time I had given Ekion and Atlan in advance was running out.

Those who had already entered in the first wave would have escaped through the escape route that Lorel had told them about.

All I had to do was leave with the second wave of entrants, the group, and those they had rescued.

Fortunately, I felt a familiar presence running from far away, not too late.

Soon their faces would be visible.

Everything was going smoothly.

No, that’s what I thought.

“Heok, heok……. Terra could never, never, be given up……!”

“…….”

“The Crown Prince’s words, that’s right. You must not, mu, must not be alive…….”

Golden light flowed from the floor.

‘Is this the last struggle?’

Without panicking, but rather finding it pathetic, the moment I tried to raise my strength, a huge shock enveloped my body.