Weapon-Eating Bastard [EN]: Chapter 201

Weapon-Devouring Bastard – Episode 201

As Sung-woo gazed at the forest in the unexplored territory, the warriors’ eyes trembled.

The forest visible below the ridge pulsed ominously.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

The sounds of trees breaking, stones shattering, and something slamming into the ground echoed towards the Sungwoo Clan’s base camp.

-Monster approaching! Everyone to battle stations! Defend the outer walls!

A hurried, static-filled transmission blared through the earpiece.

Shortly after, the figures of monsters began to be identified below the ridge.

“……!”

Something like a murky wave was rushing towards the base camp like a tsunami.

Monsters filled every visible space.

5th-grade demon-type monster, Earth Devil.

5th-grade animal-type monster, Biyu.

Quasi-4th grade undead monster, Ghoul.

…….

A number of monsters too great to count.

Moreover, all of these monsters were mutated by the unexplored territory.

“Is that *all* the monsters?”

“No way.”

“I’ve only heard about it, but the unexplored territory is really like this.”

Some warriors with lower levels or less experience were even taking steps back in fear.

It was inevitable.

The 5th grade is by no means a low rank.

Even if this wasn’t an unexplored territory, at least a 4th-grade warrior would be needed to face such a threat.

Not to mention such a massive number, reminiscent of an army.

Even though only veteran warriors had been selected, only a handful of those gathered here had ever seen such a sight.

It was then.

“Cheollyeong Squad!”

There was one warrior squad that, without any fear, instead raised their fighting spirit.

“Everyone, hold your positions! Remember Jeju Island! We can do it!” (Referring to a past victory or training exercise).

The Cheollyeong Squad raised their weapons and began to unleash their mana.

And following Lee Young-sung’s instructions, who naturally gave orders despite being only a deputy squad leader, the Cheollyeong Squad members calmly raised their weapons.

‘They’re not fazed even after seeing that?’

‘I heard that squad hasn’t been around for very long?’

The warriors of the Twin Dragons Squad, the twins’ squad, and the Red Flower Squad, the sixth’s squad, all stared at the Cheollyeong Squad with surprised eyes.

‘Hoo, there are a crazy number of them.’

Lee Young-sung gripped the bow handle tightly, sweating coldly.

The Cheollyeong Squad were also human, so they couldn’t help but be nervous seeing that many monsters.

But at least they didn’t *show* fear.

‘How much have we trained!’

‘It’s much better than facing the Captain!’

Since the Cheollyeong Squad was created, the Cheollyeong Squad members had faced none other than Lee Cheol every time [in training simulations].

Of course, that monster horde was frightening, but the Cheollyeong Squad members, who had faced Lee Cheol every time, never had their fighting spirit broken.

-Kwaooooh!

Thump! Kwaaaang!

The monsters had already reached right in front of them.

The bushes and rocks blocking the way were mercilessly destroyed, and the murky mana of all colors emitted by the monsters dyed the air like fog.

The fourth, fifth, and sixth were each positioned with their warrior squads, and the Spirit Sword Unit also fluttered their black robes, preparing for battle.

And, just before the clash with the monsters.

“Sungwoo Clan-!”

A cry filled with majestic mana swept through the crowd.

The cry, imbued with mana, permeated the warriors’ minds and bodies like water, pushing back the noise created by the monsters.

“Fight like the Sungwoo Clan!”

It was Lee Cheol.

Along with that simple and clear instruction, a massive black aura rose from Lee Cheol’s body.

Immediately after.

Kwaaaaang!

The monsters crashed into the outer wall.

* * *

The clash between hundreds of 5th-grade or higher monsters and the Sungwoo Clan warriors.

The battle had begun.

“Fourth Brother! The left side is collapsing! We need support!”

“Alright! Little one!”

“Lee Young-sung! Focus on commanding the Cheollyeong Squad and providing rear support!”

“Yes!”

Kwaaang! Kwagagagang!

The light of auras burst out from all directions, and the defensive spells and magic circles installed on the outer wall spewed fire.

-Kieeeek!

-Kraaack!

-Kyaak!

Along with the monsters’ screams, pieces of flesh splattered everywhere.

It was already closer to a war than a battle.

Sungwoo Clan’s sixth, Lee Seol-ah, frantically threw daggers and stared at Lee Cheol with surprised eyes.

‘How big is that bastard’s mana pool……?’

The most prominent figure in this battlefield was, of course, Lee Cheol.

Every time Lee Cheol swung his weapon, numerous monsters fell at once.

Often, when he unleashed large-scale aura skills, huge holes would appear in the monsters’ densely packed formations on the ground.

She couldn’t understand how he had so much mana and how he controlled such a large amount of mana.

‘And even commanding in the midst of all that.’

He wasn’t giving haphazard instructions, but calmly directing only what was necessary.

Before she knew it, even the twins and her warrior squad were naturally following Lee Cheol’s instructions.

Lee Seol-ah saw the figure of the first, Lee Myung-jung, in Lee Cheol’s appearance.

‘I…… was trying to fight against someone like *that*?’

Her lip was bitten tightly.

It was at that moment.

“Lee Seol-ah! Focus! Your aura is scattered!”

“……Alright!”

He could even discern that her aura was scattered from far away?

No, more than that, he called her by her name with no honorifics?

‘No, why did I even answer!’

Lee Seol-ah frowned, but she felt an undeniable thought rising in her heart.

She had ended up acknowledging it.

That Lee Cheol was a monstrous person in a different world from her.

-Kieeeek!

-Kaaaak!

A truly enormous number of monsters continued to pour in.

In comparison, the number on their side was just over 50, including the Spirit Sword Unit.

Anyone who saw this sight would have predicted a negative outcome.

“Hold on! They’re just monsters after all!”

Those here were not just any warriors, but the Sungwoo Clan’s warriors.

They were burning with fighting spirit, blocking the monsters.

Even against hundreds of monsters, the front line never collapsed.

‘The power is enough. We can definitely win with this much.’

I continued to command, my eyes shining.

If I had to defend everything alone, my hands and feet would have been tangled, but there were four direct descendants besides me here.

“Hyun-jae!”

“Alright! Hyun-chan!”

A secret technique famous for being used only by the fourth and fifth brothers was activated, and a fierce whirlwind raged from the north of the base camp.

Combination Skill, Red-Blue Wave.

All the monsters caught in the red and blue aura were torn to shreds.

It wasn’t just the twin brothers.

The sixth sister sliced through the monsters, unleashing the family’s ultimate technique, Meteor, a wide-area killing skill that she had once used on me.

Moreover, there was another direct descendant.

“Iyaaaaaap!”

Kwagagagagang!

Aunt Lee Kyung-hwa.

Although she might not have experienced much actual combat, her firepower itself was by far the best among them.

Each powerful aura skill was like a cannonball, grinding the monsters to dust.

Even the twin brothers and the sixth sister were amazed by the aunt’s tremendous firepower.

And one more.

A hidden blade in the shadows was with them.

“…….”

Sgak!

It was the Spirit Sword Unit.

The Spirit Sword Unit’s combat was not loud, nor was it outwardly visible.

A combat style of approaching monsters silently, striking only vital points, and retreating.

It was proving that just because the Spirit Sword Unit’s mission was intelligence warfare, it didn’t mean they had low combat power.

“Hey! Little one!”

With the Spirit Sword Unit, the direct descendants, and the subordinate warrior squads fighting fiercely, the battle was nearing its end.

The fourth and fifth brothers, who were wielding their swords most fiercely on the front lines, leaped up and approached me.

“Damn it. Didn’t the old fogeys at the main family say the danger level was low? This is only a 3rd-grade danger level? Even with the Spirit Sword Unit, how were they enduring in a place like this!”

The fourth brother was covered in monster fluids all over his body.

“It’s because we joined. The monsters reacted because the number of people increased.”

-Kaaaak!

While they were talking, a flying monster attempted to infiltrate from the sky.

Sgak! Kwang!

The fifth brother swung his sword energy, intercepting the monster and slowly approaching.

“Hoo! So, little one. Why were you holding back your strength? If you had used that spear or heavenly-grade weapon or whatever, wouldn’t it have been resolved faster?”

The fifth brother frowned and said.

As the fifth brother said, I wasn’t giving it my all.

‘What? That’s not his full power?’

Lee Seol-ah, who had been subtly paying attention from afar, widened her eyes.

“I had no choice.”

“So why?”

“Is there any reason *needed*?”

I felt the black energy within my body writhing.

Since the battle began until now.

The black energy was alerting me to the approach of certain ‘beings.’

“You’ll be able to feel it soon.”

I pointed outside the outer wall with my finger.

“What…… Ah!”

The fourth and fifth brothers, who were speaking, turned their heads sharply and looked into the distance.

There, monsters were appearing once again.

“Monsters have appeared again!”

“Dragon species appearing in the west! It’s a dragon!”

“Looks like at least 4th grade! There are also undead types!”

“There are also demon types! Not just one or two! At least 10 or more!”

Following that, reports from warriors with observation skills echoed from here and there.

They said that Area B-1 had a low danger level, but is *this* what low is like?

How could such a place exist in the world?

“Crazy.”

“4th grade? And more than 10 of them?”

The fourth and fifth brothers swallowed hard and muttered.

Monsters are being added here?

And not 6th or 5th grade, but 4th grade.

4th-grade monsters were things that a single individual could devastate an entire division-level force.

But such high-ranking monsters were appearing, not just one or two, but more than ten.

If it were outside the unexplored territory, each one might have become the master of a dangerous area or the boss monster of a dungeon, but they were gathering in hordes.

At that time.

-Kuhhhhhhhhh……!

As if revealing hostility towards humans, the fear, the exclusive property of high-ranking monsters, burst out towards them.

-Kuhhhh!

-Kraraaaaa!

-Kiiiiiek!

Responding to that, the approaching monsters all opened their mouths wide and began to unleash fear.

“Keuk!”

“Keok!”

Veteran warriors groaned, and warriors with lower levels began to feel confused by the turbid energy seeping into their bodies.

The well-maintained front line wavered greatly.

-Kieeeek!

And the monsters began to pour in, squeezing through that fleeting gap.

‘They’ve finally moved.’

The reason I hadn’t been giving it my all until now was to hunt those things.

I urgently looked at the twin brothers.

“That’s what I was preparing for.”

“What?”

The twin brothers looked at me in confusion.

I took a deep breath and instructed.

“I’ll handle the 4th-grade monsters. I’ll leave this place to you.”

* * *

I flew past the outer wall and even the monsters that were crashing against it like waves, heading towards the back.

I avoided the monsters blocking my way as much as possible.

What I had to face from now on wasn’t these things.

-Kuhhhhhhhhh!

Each of the staggeringly huge large monsters discovered me and turned their eyes away.

4th-grade monsters.

As a result of examining them with the Evil Eye [a skill or ability], there were a total of 18 of them who possessed noticeably strong mana among the monsters’ group.

Among them, there were even monsters that possessed such great power that they could no longer be regarded as 4th-grade monsters.

In other words, there were things mixed in that were approaching quasi-3rd grade.

‘This is only a 3rd-grade danger level in a place like this? 18 4th-grade monsters are attacking simultaneously without even paying attention to each other?’

That’s nonsense.

The information given by the Council of Elders was wrong.

Then why is it wrong?

No, it’s important to know ‘who’ made it wrong, not why.

‘But now is not the time to worry about that.’

-Kieeeek!

-Kyaaaaak!

Kwaaaang! Kwaaaang!

From the base camp in the back, the screams of monsters and the sounds of the Sungwoo Clan warriors’ aura skills were still mixed together.

They should be able to block it without any casualties with that much.

Of course, an irreversible situation would occur if these 4th-grade monsters joined in.

‘They can’t come any further back.’

I used aura to float my body in the air and reached out to my coat.

And I grabbed the heavenly-grade sacred relic, the Holy Spear Gyeongcheon [a powerful artifact].

Crackle! Pajijijijik!

Gyeongcheon, imbued with my aura, began to emit black lightning.

“Hoo!”

And without hesitation, I threw the spear straight away.

Kwaaaaaaaaaang!

The earth shook, and tremendous soil and dust soared into the air.

A tremendous heat wave swept through due to the explosion caused by Gyeongcheon.

“Hoo.”

I breathed out lightly.

More than half of my mana was depleted by Gyeongcheon’s spear throw.

But soon, the mana filled up again.

It was the power of the heavenly-grade weapon, Beo Geil, which I had absorbed before.

Now, I will no longer run out of mana during battle.

-Kieeeek!

-Kyaaaaak!

But they were still 4th-grade monsters that lived in the unexplored territory.

Although a few were incapacitated by the previous throw, the 4th grades who survived by releasing primal magic or mana began to rush towards me.

‘I’ve come to test this here.’

Woooooong!

Dozens of weapons simultaneously slipped out of my coat and began to surround me.

I controlled those weapons with aura at the same time, and my eyes shone.

This newly created technique was my own technique that I had been continuously creating since returning to the family after finishing my warrior life.

-Kieeeek!

-Kyaaaak!

A noisy scream erupted, and a 4th-grade monster reached right in front of me.

And the next moment.

Hwaaaak!

The world was submerged in the jet-black aura I emitted.