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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: JayM
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I arrived at the place where the hideout of the person called the ‘Doctor’ was located, which I had extracted from the minds of the guys who had kidnapped Lee Ha-eun.
“…The seaside…”
The sea was the domain of the Black Fog.
And at the seaside, which was adjacent to the sea, one could never know when an attack by a monster created by the Black Fog might occur.
Of course, our country’s seaside was on the safe side.
‘Geographically, Japan acts as our breakwater, so….’
Even so, it didn’t mean that monsters didn’t appear on our country’s seaside at all.
Because there were often cases where monsters that had come with the ocean currents appeared on our country’s seaside.
For that reason, almost no one lived at the seaside.
And unless one was a soldier monitoring the coast, there were almost no visitors here as well.
‘…As such, it’s also a suitable place to hide something.’
The fact that almost no one lived here and that there were almost no visitors here would make it an optimal place for those who needed some secrecy.
That must have been why this person called the Doctor had built his laboratory at the seaside.
‘Anyway….’
When I spread my internal energy and checked the inside of the laboratory, I didn’t feel any security personnel.
It seemed like a security system had been established, but I didn’t feel any armed personnel.
…No, rather than that….
‘The only pure human in the laboratory is one person. The rest are all….’
Seeing as I felt the presence of both human and monster at the same time from them, there was a high possibility that they were Chimeras.
But the presence I felt from the Chimeras caught by my senses was something I had felt somewhere before.
‘…It’s definitely a presence I felt before my regression. And that was… after I had reached a certain realm.’
My body was reacting.
To be precise, it was tensing up.
It was telling me that with my current body, if I wanted to deal with all of them, I would have to use my full power.
It was telling me that this might be difficult even with the doll made of the World Tree’s branch and the ten-thousand-year-old cold iron.
“……”
Feeling that, I took out a sword from my subspace and, without letting down my guard, decided to enter the laboratory.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
And as soon as I entered, the laboratory’s security system activated.
I had tried to reduce my presence, but it seemed like it was impossible to fool this laboratory’s security.
‘Let’s see… A thermal sensor, a laser sensor… and even a pressure sensor and a mana sensor. I thought I had fooled them all, so what on earth did I get caught by?’
While inwardly thinking that, I moved quickly.
Since I had already been discovered by the security system, it would be much more efficient for me to move quickly and break through rather than move while hiding my presence.
Wheee-ing….
Clank! Clank!
Interference such as laser weapons being fired or the security doors closing tried to stop me, but they weren’t enough.
The moment a laser weapon aimed at me and was about to fire, I was already long gone from that spot, and I had either already passed through the security doors before they closed, or I had lightly cut down the security doors that were already closed.
‘…It’s not an ordinary material.’
Of course, the story of lightly cutting down the security doors was only possible because it was me. Looking at the material of the security doors, I thought that an aura user would find it difficult to even scratch them unless they used an Aura Blade.
‘The Doctor who built this laboratory… He doesn’t seem to be an ordinary person.’
Well, there was no way a human who was trying to create a Chimera with both human and monster genes could be normal.
It was when I was thinking that while heading to the deeper part of the laboratory…
KWANG…!
KWANG…!
“!”
I felt something approaching me quickly, and I looked at the still-intact security door.
Then, the security door began to open.
“Kyaaaaaa…!”
KWANG!
As the security door opened, a monstrous creature that had been pounding on it from the other side shot out and then swung its foreleg at me.
“!”
Seeing that, I hurriedly ducked my head.
Then, the monstrous creature’s foreleg lightly missed me and embedded itself in the wall.
KWANG!
“……”
Although it was no match for the security doors, the walls here were also quite sturdy.
Generally speaking, it meant that they weren’t so weak that the foreleg of a low-intelligence creature, swung haphazardly like that, would get stuck in them.
This meant that the creature’s foreleg was sturdier than it looked and that the power contained in it was quite strong.
“……”
I swung my sword at the creature whose foreleg was stuck in the wall.
Chwaak…!
My swung sword smoothly dug into the monstrous creature’s body and cut it down.
‘…As expected, its attack power is threatening, but its defense is weak.’
Its hind legs and forelegs were specialized for moving quickly and hunting down prey, but as if in return, its body wasn’t that well-developed.
It meant that it was a creature that seemed to have abandoned defense and invested only in attack.
And I knew this creature.
‘A Raptor.’
A name given to it because it resembled a dinosaur, the Velociraptor.
A predator specialized only in killing humans without fearing death.
But what was important was something else.
‘Why is this thing already…?’
With the appearance of special monsters created by the Black Fog solely to hunt humans, including the Raptor, humanity’s defense lines were all breached, and they began to enter the path of destruction.
…In other words, this Raptor was a creature that should have only appeared when the defense lines began to break down, that is, dozens of years in the future.
‘…No, that’s not it….’
I was wrong.
Rather, I had thought incorrectly.
It wasn’t the Black Fog that had created the Raptor.
Seeing as the Raptor had come out of this laboratory, it gave me a rough idea.
“…Don’t tell me that humanity wasn’t destroyed by the Black Fog… but by the monsters created by humans themselves.”
The Black Fog was the main cause of humanity’s destruction.
In the end, it was the Black Fog that had delivered the final blow to humanity.
But ironically, it was the humans who had created the opportunity for it to deliver that final blow.
In other words, the destruction of humanity was a man-made disaster.
The defense lines were breached by the monsters that were created by those same humans.
All the Black Fog had done was just send the monsters it had created to the places where the defense lines were breached.
“…Haaaah….”
What on earth was this person called the Doctor thinking, to have created creatures like this? And why had he released such creatures into the world in the future…?
“Kyaaaaaa…!”
“Kiruk… kik… ki-ik…!”
“……”
I felt many monstrous creatures flocking my way.
The Doctor, who had confirmed that the Raptor had died in vain, must have released these monstrous creatures to stop me.
…Let’s think positively.
‘If I kill all these monstrous creatures here… it means that the same thing won’t happen in the future, right?’
Of course, with my current self, it seemed like I would have to be prepared for the doll to be damaged to some extent in order to deal with all the approaching creatures.
Moreover, since my doll, unlike my main body, had a limited amount of internal energy, I had to fight as efficiently as possible.
Thinking that, I moved as soon as the security door opened and the creatures came pouring out.
Puk!
First, I thrust my sword into the neck of the heavy-bodied monstrous creature at the very front.
‘A Behemoth?’
It wasn’t fast, but it was a troublesome creature because it was large and strong.
Although I had thrust my sword into its neck, this probably wasn’t a fatal wound for it.
It didn’t matter.
Thrusting my sword into its neck was just the beginning.
Chwaak!
I let go of the sword I had thrust into the Behemoth’s neck, then took out another sword from my subspace and cut the neck of the monster that was trying to come out from the side of the Behemoth.
‘A horse’s head with one horn… A one-horned beast, a Unicorn.’
This one was fast, and since it couldn’t be damaged by most energies, many aura users and mages had died in the future because of it.
Having said that, it was weak to pure physical force, so after that information spread, it could be dealt with without much difficulty.
Besides that, if one’s technique was good enough, one could just slice it with a sword, so it wasn’t that difficult to deal with.
Having cut off the Unicorn’s neck, I pushed its corpse away with my foot and advanced.
KWANG!
A bit of the principle of the Thousand-Pound Drop was mixed into my kick.
In other words, my kick carried a considerable amount of weight, and due to that, the Unicorn’s corpse was pushed back, and a few other monsters behind it were sent flying along with it.
In the meantime, I decided to finish off the Behemoth.
Puk!
I had thrust the other sword I was holding into the Behemoth’s neck.
And I grabbed the sword that was stuck in the Behemoth’s neck with my left hand along with the sword I had just thrust into it with my right hand.
Next, I cut off the Behemoth’s neck as if tearing it in both directions.
Chwaak…!
Before the Behemoth’s head fell to the floor, I threw the sword in my left hand at the creature I felt was the most threatening.
Pah-ak!
The sword that flew in a straight line pierced straight through the monster I was most wary of and then embedded itself into the wall.
‘A Fairy… Unlike its name, its appearance is disgusting, and what it does is also annoying.’
Although its level was low, it would often trouble Awakeners with various magic spells.
Especially since it would even cast illusions to make Awakeners fight among themselves….
It didn’t work on Awakeners above a certain level, but since there were surprisingly many Awakeners who fell for its illusions, it got to the point where a manual was created to kill the Fairy first if one was mixed in a monster pack.
‘Still, the most troublesome ones are finished with this.’
The rest were nothing special.
Of course, the others were also strong monsters in their own right, but for the most part, only their basic combat power or attack power was outstanding. They didn’t have annoying gimmicks or they weren’t hard to kill like the ones I had just killed.
In other words, it meant that I just had to kill the remaining ones while dodging their attacks.
‘…And finally… I think I also need to warm up my combat senses before I face the strongest one.’
I thought that while feeling the two presences my senses were picking up far away.
One was a pure human, so I assume it was the Doctor.
And the other one was….
‘It’ll be harder to fight that one than to fight all the ones here.’
Didn’t I say it before?
That with my current body, if I wanted to deal with all of them, I would have to use my full power.
That it might be difficult even with the doll made of the World Tree’s branch and the ten-thousand-year-old cold iron.
It was all because of the monster that was protecting the person I assume to be the Doctor deeper in.
Chwaak…!
I minimized my internal energy consumption and killed all the monsters that were charging at me.
Some monsters I killed by stabbing their vital points…
Some monsters, by cutting their limbs…
Some monsters, by trampling them with my feet…
I killed them using every method I could think of.
“…Hoo….”
It didn’t take that long.
Because I had taken care of the most troublesome ones first.
Although there were quite a few of them, it was, in fact, close to monotonous work.
Having caught my breath to a certain extent, I began to walk in the direction where I felt the presence of the person who I assume to be the Doctor and the last remaining monster.
Actually, since it was a doll, there was really no need for me to catch my breath.
Step… step….
As I was walking in that direction….
Zzziiing….
“……”
The security door in the direction I was going to began to open on its own.
No, in this case….
‘Is he inviting me?’
Is he that confident?
Does he think that the monster next to him can kill me?
‘…I should accept this kind of invitation….’
Thinking that, I headed to the direction where the security door had opened.
Naturally, at the end of it, as I had expected, there was a young man who I assume to be the Doctor and the monster protecting him.
“You were amazing. To defeat so many of them alone, it seems like the world wasn’t overestimating your skills.”
It seemed like the Doctor had recognized me as the Artist.
But I couldn’t answer his words.
“……”
“Ah, do you like my masterpiece that much?”
“……”
Seeing the monster next to the Doctor, I couldn’t answer him.
And for good reason….
“That thing too… Was it made by you…?”
“What?”
Because the monster next to the Doctor was… the monster that had killed me before my regression.
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T/N – Well that was quick. He found the reason for the appearance of that monster who had killed him before his regression so early in the story. It’s only been like 30+ chapters. 😅
Well, the implication is that this madman started researching this monstrosity decades before humanity got destroyed. I also doubt that these Chimeras will completely disappear in the future just because the MC kills this so-called ‘Doctor’ here. Since this has been going on for a while already, he or his organization probably has back ups for his research data. As for why these monsters got released in the future, it probably has something to do with the Black Fog.
If you find any mistakes, feel free to point them out in the comments.
