The Apocalypse Has Been Downloaded – Chapter 74

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: JayM
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“How about one of you come with me, and the rest stay behind to guard the supermarket?”

I thought it would be best for me to patrol since I was the strongest. Merhere, the second strongest, would remain at the supermarket to guard our base.

“Joon, wouldn’t it be too dangerous with only two people?”

“That’s right, Oppa. At least three people should go together.”

“Indeed, even angels operate in teams of three.”

Since they insisted, we would patrol in a group of three.

I sensed a certain determination in the women’s gazes, as if they wouldn’t let anyone be alone with me, but it was probably my imagination.

“Then who should come with me first…”

Just as I was about to decide the patrol order…

-Screech!!!

“Ugh…!”

The Abyssal Roach just died.

At the same time, a simplified message, “Five men, very strong,” was transmitted to me.

“Why again?! What happened?”

“The Abyssal Roach just died.”

“What? That crazy bug died…? My goodness.”

“Hmm… To be able to kill that horrifying insect… means there’s something quite strong out there.”

Five very strong individuals.

Five…?

‘That Focused Raiders group or whatever. They had five people…’

Was it a coincidence? I had a feeling that the ones who hunted the Abyssal Roach were the group Moon Geun-o had mentioned.

“I need to go investigate where the Abyssal Roach died. Though I’m a bit worried about both Merhere and me leaving the supermarket at the same time…”

As soon as I suggested this, Eun-ji shouted.

“A fair game of rock-paper-scissors!”

“Ugh…”

Merhere’s expression darkened. She seemed to have a bad memory associated with rock-paper-scissors. Or perhaps she was sad that she couldn’t go with me.

“Wow… I won…! Finally!”

“Hmm. Ye-won unnie and me.”

As a result of the rock-paper-scissors game, Ye-won and Ah-reum would accompany me on this patrol.

So the three of us grabbed our weapons and headed towards the location where the Abyssal Roach had died. The Abyssal Roach had traveled quite a distance in that short amount of time.

“Urrr!!!”

“Kyaaa!!!”

Even though we had only ventured a short distance from our base, zombies were swarming everywhere. I didn’t see any named monsters, but there were a lot of ordinary zombies.

“Uaaah!!!”

Slash!!!

Ah-reum swung her twin swords relentlessly, separating the heads and bodies of the approaching zombies.

“Come forth…”

Ye-won summoned something from thin air.

I had never paid close attention to her battles before, so I simply assumed that she summoned something to fight, but now that I was seeing it up close, she was summoning a rather grotesque creature.

“Ye-won… What is that?”

“Huh…? Ah, this is the Human-Faced Bird…”

“H-human-faced bird?”

“Yes… Hehe… Isn’t it cute…?”

It was more creepy than cute.

A white bird with a androgynous human face… And the way it smiled while tearing and devouring the flesh of zombies was chilling.

Ye-won and the Human-Faced Bird were nuzzling each other, showing each other affection.

“You seem quite close.”

“Yes… These children… won’t betray me. Never…”

I had sensed it since the first time I had sex with Ye-won, but she had a deep sense of loneliness and isolation. She also seemed to have mild depression.

Her family situation seemed quite unfortunate… Since summons, unlike otherworldly beings like Kishiria, unconditionally obeyed their masters, she seemed to have opened her heart to her summons.

She cherished her summons as if they were her children.

‘Come to think of it… she had a skill called [Mother’s Denial] or something…’

I remembered it was a skill that enraged her summons.

‘Unholy Queen… A class specializing in monster summoning and inflicting strange curses…’

It would be troublesome to encounter someone like her as an enemy.

Honestly, it would be quite scary if she hid somewhere and sent her summons in waves, engaging in a war of attrition.

“Now, you come out too…”

But Ye-won didn’t stop there and summoned more creatures by using a skill called Triple Beast Summon.

This skill allowed her to maintain up to three summons simultaneously without any significant magic consumption.

Unlike me who consumed magic whenever I summoned the Abyssal Roach or Kishiria and whose magic recovery was hindered while they were summoned, she could summon beasts without any penalties.

It was a typical summoner skill.

“Whoa…”

One of her new summons was a black, dog-like creature with no fur and a mouth that split into four parts, and the other was a butterfly or moth-like insect with a sharp stinger on its tail.

They all looked far from Earthly creatures.

“Oppa… Aren’t they cute?”

“Uh… They’re cute… Almost as cute as the Abyssal Roach.”

“Huh?”

“Ah, nothing.”

In my opinion, the Abyssal Roach was the most repulsive creature in terms of appearance. Undeniably number one.

Even though I summoned it, I would still be startled if I encountered it at night. And the other members felt the same.

It was a useful and intelligent creature that understood instructions well, but its appearance was something I couldn’t get used to.

Thinking about it that way, Ye-won’s summons seemed a bit cuter… Or not?

Lately, I had been seeing so many unpleasant things that my sense of aesthetics seemed to be deteriorating.

Worried that I might go insane if this continued, I grabbed Ye-won’s cheeks and looked at her face.

“Wh-why are you doing this…? It’s scary…”

“No, it’s because you’re so beautiful, Ye-won.”

“Ah… Heh… This black one is called Blackie… and this butterfly is called Necromancer Bug. I haven’t named the Human-Faced Bird yet. I want to name it with you… Oppa… later.”

“Okay, let’s think about it together.”

“Yes… Hehe…”

As I hugged Ye-won and stroked her hair, Ah-reum shouted at us in an exasperated voice.

“Uaaaah!!!! Hey!!! Stop flirting and help me!!! I’ve been fighting alone this whole time!!! Uaaah!! Fuck!! Get lost, you zombie bastard!! You stink!!!”

She had slaughtered an incredible number of zombies in that short time. Covered in the rotting blood of zombies, she looked like a warrior from hell.

Ordinary zombies were sliced apart like tofu by Ah-reum’s swift swordsmanship, and even special zombies were dismembered and reduced to rotting flesh after being slashed by her a few times.

She was a one-woman army, single-handedly mowing down the zombies.

“Ah-reum! Shouting will attract more zombies! Shhh.”

“Ugh!! This crazy person!”

I shouted while casually killing the approaching zombies. Ah-reum glared at me and then tore apart the zombies as if to vent her frustration.

And this girl just called me a crazy person.

Ah-reum’s rebellious nature was incorrigible. Of course, I liked that part of her too…

She defied me during the day, but at night, she would become shy, then get impaled on my penis and moan helplessly. It was incredibly satisfying.

Anyway, after killing zombies for about thirty more minutes, the zombies that had been approaching us suddenly disappeared.

An unnatural silence. This clearly meant that the Abyssal Roach had annihilated the zombies in this area.

“It’s around here… Everyone, be on guard. We don’t know what might appear here.”

“Okay.”

“Phew… Understood.”

We walked a bit further and found a patch of blackened asphalt.

The remnants of the Abyssal Roach.

“There’s no one here…?”

“They might be hiding somewhere…”

But if the Abyssal Roach died here… then where did the choker go?

Did the ones who killed the Abyssal Roach take it?

“Huh…”

Why did I have an ominous feeling that a disaster was about to unfold somewhere I didn’t know?

“Let’s go back.”

“Don’t we need to look around more?”

“No, we’ve seen enough.”

I’d bring Ha-young here next time.

Come to think of it, the only ones in our group who could properly detect the presence of humans were Ha-rin and Ha-young, and since Ha-rin was away, I really had to bring Ha-young next time.

‘Ominous… This is very ominous…’

We returned to the supermarket while checking our surroundings for anyone following us.

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“Huh…? You crazy bastard!!! Uaaah!! Fuck!!!”

Bang!!!

Kim Ki-sung, the white-haired, red-eyed Blood Warrior, screamed and was sent flying by a punch from a shadowy figure.

Despite having the highest Strength stat in the team due to his Vampire traits, he was helpless.

He could only take the blows.

“Damn it!!!!”

“Battle stations!!”

Yoon Ji-ho, the Recorder, and Lee Sun-jae, the leader, noticing the sudden attack, shouted and drew their weapons.

Yoon Ji-ho’s grimoire floated in the air, and chains shot out from the book, wrapping around the shadowy figure.

Snap!!!

But the chains shattered after barely three seconds.

During those three seconds, Lee Sun-jae swung his magic sword, but it was blocked by a greatsword the figure had summoned.

“B-brother!”

None of their attacks were effective.

Cha Ji-tae, the Healer, trembled and backed away.

A giant monster stood before them.

This incident occurred about forty minutes after Koo Kyo-han, the Porter, put on the choker.

“Ah… Itchy…”

Scratch scratch…

Koo Kyo-han had been complaining about an itch around his neck since he put on the choker, and he had started scratching it until it bled.

As he continued scratching like a man possessed, Yoon Ji-ho, unable to watch him any longer, offered to wear the choker instead and told him to take it off.

Then…

“Let go!!! Get away from me!!! This is mine!!!”

Koo Kyo-han suddenly snapped and shouted.

He refused any attempts to remove the choker.

All the while, he scratched his neck even more frantically.

“I-itchy. Itchy itchy itchy!!!”

Finally, when his fingernails tore through his flesh and blood flowed freely, Koo Kyo-han stopped scratching and collapsed unconscious from Lee Sun-jae’s surprise attack from behind.

“Haa… Haa… That was disgusting…”

“What the hell is wrong with this bastard?”

“It’s probably… because of this choker. This… is more dangerous than we thought. We have to take it off.”

“I-I’ll heal him first. He’s bleeding too much.”

A green light emanated from Cha Ji-tae’s staff, and the small wounds on Koo Kyo-han’s neck disappeared.

Then, Kim Ki-sung reached for Koo Kyo-han’s neck to remove the choker.

Grab!

“Wh-what the… Wasn’t he unconscious?”

“His subconscious is reacting… to protect the choker…? This is bad. The flow of magic is distorted… If we remove it incorrectly… he might die.”

Yoon Ji-ho said while adjusting his glasses.

“What the hell are you talking about?”

“Exactly what I said. Simply put, the choker has fused with his body. He might die if we remove it.”

“Haa… Fuck…”

They decided to wait until Koo Kyo-han woke up.

After some time…

“Ugh… Ugh… My… My head… My head feels… unpleasant… I need to remove it… My neck is itchy… My head feels so unpleasant… I need to remove it… I need to remove my head… My head feels so unpleasant… Aah…”

Koo Kyo-han muttered as he regained consciousness.

Kim Ki-sung, with his enhanced Vampire hearing, heard his muttering and turned his head.

Lee Sun-jae, Yoon Ji-ho, and Cha Ji-tae were away, raiding a nearby convenience store.

“Hey, you awake? Are you feeling better… Huh…?”

Suddenly, Kim Ki-sung saw it.

Koo Kyo-han’s flesh, blood, and internal organs spilling out as he stood up.

Koo Kyo-han melted like ice cream.

Leaving only blackened bones.

“Uh… Uh… Uh!! Hey!!! Fuck!!! Everyone come here quickly!! I’m scared shitless!!!”

Kim Ki-sung shouted frantically, horrified by the sight.

Hearing his scream, the others, who were raiding the convenience store, rushed back to the building where Koo Kyo-han and Kim Ki-sung were.

“Th-this… Fuck… Fuck!! What is this…? What is this…!?”

Kim Ki-sung was crying in terror with snot running down his nose.

Even though he didn’t get along with Koo Kyo-han, they still considered each other comrades.

Comrades who could trust each other with their lives.

And that comrade had melted away, leaving only bones.

-Click click click

Koo Kyo-han, now nothing but bones, stood up, his teeth chattering.

“Haa… Haa… Haa… Haa. Haa haa haa.”

The black skeleton walked slowly while making a hollow, air-leaking sound.

“S-stay away!!!”

The skeleton reached out to Kim Ki-sung, despite the latter’s frantic resistance.

A black, flickering aura filled with death emanated from its hand.

“Huh…? You crazy bastard!!! Uaaah!! Fuck!!!”

Bang!!!

Kim Ki-sung was punched by the skeletal Koo Kyo-han and was sent flying into the hallway outside the room, losing consciousness.

Just then, Lee Sun-jae and Yoon Ji-ho, who were running up the stairs, noticed the commotion and rushed into the room. Cha Ji-tae, who was following close behind, also entered the room.

“B-brother…”

Lee Sun-jae and Yoon Ji-ho were helpless against the attack.

Cha Ji-tae easily deduced that the black skeleton was Koo Kyo-han.

“Th-this… None of my magic works.”

“What… the hell is that…?”

The monster absorbed their magic attacks in real time, creating a greatsword and donning on armor.

A Dullahan had appeared before them.

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T/N – So that’s where the Dullahan came from. Also, what a confusing timeline. I thought in the previous chapters that the MC talking with his harem was happening parallel to the five killing the roach. But from this chapter, it seems like the events among these five schmucks happen a bit later after the MC talks with his girls.

If you find any mistakes, feel free to point them out in the comments.