chapter_0208

It had been about ten days since he returned to Earth.

On the same day he called his parents, he went back to his hometown with his sister. Their parents’ reaction to seeing him again was indescribable.

As expected, they refused to believe his excuse that he couldn’t return for seven years due to certain circumstances. It was only after his sister’s support that they reluctantly accepted it.

Even then, they didn’t fully believe him; they just grudgingly accepted it. His sister, an A-class hunter in the Eternal guild, had some pull when she said she had her own reasons for not contacting them.

The changed thought was that he was a secret agent in some movie, which wasn’t entirely wrong.

“I’ll get that debt from you later, so watch out.”

His sister, who had helped him, was slapped on the back several times by their parents for not telling them sooner, and she was determined to get that debt from him.

Well, there was a reason for that.

“Nika-ssi, about your summon……”

“I have nothing to say.”

After the S-class gate hunt, the interest in him only grew, but Nika bluntly cut off any questions. Instead, the side effects appeared elsewhere.

“It’s so noisy, I can’t stand it. Why are you asking me about Nika’s summon?”

“I don’t know either. It doesn’t matter if I don’t know.”

“I can’t even go outside. When I went out at 3 a.m., three cameras followed me. Is that even possible?”

The side effect was that the other women around him, including Nika, were bombarded with endless questions.

“Maybe it’s because we’re both guild leaders?”

“You’re right. Why don’t we just use it as a common summon? It’s not like Nika summoned you alone. The price to pay was too much for her to handle alone, so we all pitched in. It’s common property anyway.”

“Wait. Your choice of words is a bit strange.”

Nika weakly objected, but she couldn’t handle the onslaught of the other six. That day, he immediately went out with Leona, and they received overwhelming attention.

It was natural, as he was accompanied by Leona instead of Nika, his owner.

“A powerful summon requires a commensurate price.”

Leona declared that she had shared the rights and price for him because the price to pay for summoning him was too much for Nika to handle alone.

“The reaction is better than I expected.”

“Of course. There’s no way the price for a summon as powerful as yours would be cheap. Anyone with an awakening ability in the summoning category would understand.”

Everyone seemed to accept it surprisingly easily. They all agreed that the price for a summon that could easily solo an S-class gate couldn’t be ordinary.

Occasionally, articles appeared online claiming that the reason he looked like a man and the guild leaders were all women was because of the “price.”

Such articles were usually deleted within a few hours. The other members of the community called it karma. How dare they touch the Eternal guild?

“It’s the price you pay for facing the truth.”

The reason seemed a little different from what people thought.

“Why are you like this, child?”

He had realized something from being Nika’s summon and going around with the other women.

“It’s nothing.”

It was truly fortunate that the Earth had changed so much.

Just looking at the enormous mass hanging next to him made him feel that way. It was clear that even the slightest movement caused the breasts to sway dramatically.

“Your face says otherwise. You can’t hide it from my eyes.”

Erestika tilted her head slightly, as if she wanted him to look at her more openly.

“It’s just that……”

“Erestika.”

“……I think I know why you’re suspected of not being human, Erestika.”

He had faced countless monsters bigger than Erestika. Immediately, there were species with an average height of 3 meters among the demons, and Mahbat, a dragon, was a monstrous creature almost the size of a small mountain.

But he had never seen a creature as huge as Erestika in a completely different sense. Even Astaroth, the Succubus Queen, wasn’t as big. She was big, but she paled in comparison to Erestika.

“I’ve always been like this. It’s a slightly misunderstood appearance.”

Erestika explained that the reason she polymorphed into this form was due to her indifferent personality.

She had no interest in humans until she found an abandoned child and changed her appearance for the first time. She didn’t know much about human heights because she didn’t care about them.

She thought the mother holding the baby was “underdeveloped” because she was so small, so she wasn’t a consideration, and the humans she passed by on the outskirts were of little help because the encounters were too brief.

In the end, she came up with the number 230cm on her own.

“Don’t you want to reduce your height a bit?”

He had always wondered why she insisted on maintaining this height even after learning that it was far from the human average.

After all, she was a dragon, so she could change her height at will.

“……This is the form I first met my child in. I don’t want to change it for the sake of that child. Of course, if the child strongly wishes it……”

“No. It’s fine.”

He couldn’t say anything to that. Erestika smiled happily, as if she couldn’t bear the happiness, and hugged him.

Kwaaaah! The breasts, which were noticeably larger than before, pressed against him from all sides. After a while, he was finally released from her embrace and asked a question.

“……It’s a bit awkward to say it myself, but was that also intentional?”

He was referring to the breasts she was holding with her arms.

“What are you talking about, child?”

“The ones you’re holding with your arms.”

“Ah, these? They’re not intentional, child. They’ve always been like this.”

Erestika smiled at him, her face full of happiness.

Erestika tended to habitually support her breasts with her hands, whether with one hand or both, because of her body shape. This emphasized her already enormous breasts, and she was doing it now.

“……This.”

Erestika’ face rarely showed confusion.

“I know my breasts have gotten bigger than before. But for some reason, I can’t seem to reduce them.”

“What do you mean?”

“Just as I said. I can change any other part of my body as I wish, but strangely, I can’t seem to reduce my breasts. Since healing magic doesn’t work on them, I guess it’s not a disease, so don’t worry, child.”

Erestika casually played with her breasts. Her breasts, each of which was about two and a half times the size of her face, were molded like dough under her fingertips.

He couldn’t help but look away from the provocative scene. He thought that as long as healing magic didn’t work, it would be fine for now, but it should be fine in the future as well.

“And, don’t you like them big?”

Why are you asking that now? He turned to the side and saw Erestika looking at him with a natural yet seductive gaze.

“……I don’t dislike them.”

“I see.”

Erestika stopped playing with her breasts. It was hard to tell what she was trying to do. He wondered if she wanted him to take the next step.

“Erestika-nim, are you there?”

There was a knock on the door.

The response was quick. He immediately transformed into his summon’s form, and Erestika put on a thick coat to hide her horns. Her slit pupils returned to normal yellow.

“Come in.”

“Excuse me.”

A Hispanic woman with tanned skin and fluent Korean greeted them and opened the door.

“We’re almost at the place you mentioned.”

“I understand. Get ready.”

He nodded and drew the Dragon Tooth Sword. Erestika’ face lit up with ecstasy at the sight of him holding the sword. It was so brief that no one else noticed except him.

They went up to the deck of the 500,000-ton cargo ship they were on. Behind them were about a hundred similar-sized cargo ships.

It would probably be a once-in-a-lifetime sight. About a hundred 500,000-ton cargo ships were sailing in formation.

But the situation was a bit special, so they had no choice. All seven guild leaders of the Eternal guild had personally come out. Even if their routes were only vaguely similar, they had to follow.

“……There it is.”

What was approaching them from afar was the reason they had to follow. The Latina woman, who was assisting them, whispered anxiously.

A shark with fins that rose 5 stories above the water’s surface.

‘It’s huge.’

The shark was estimated to be 250 meters long. It would be a disaster for the hunters on Earth.

Two years ago, the boss monster that emerged from an S-class gate in the middle of the ocean was this shark. Laura and Elysier had combined their efforts to destroy the gate, but they had ultimately failed to capture the shark, which immediately fled when it encountered them.

Since then, it had been attacking ships it thought it could sink, going back and forth between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. It was fundamentally a monster, so it couldn’t be stopped by large ships alone.

Once, S-class hunters from all over the world had gathered to try to defeat the shark. They had camped out in the deep sea, which was more than 10,000 meters deep, for more than half a year, but the attempt had fizzled out.

As soon as the hunters left, the shark resumed its activities. ‘It’s a cunning bastard.’

“……It’s running away.”

“I know.”

Just like now.

The shark changed direction and fled, even though it was still several kilometers away from the ships. Its fins sank below the surface, out of sight.

“Let’s begin.”

Of course, they had no intention of letting it escape. That’s why all seven of them were here.

An enormous amount of mana flowed into him from the other cargo ships. Each of the six guild leaders was on a separate cargo ship. Erestika, who was right next to him, also channeled her mana to him.

Compared to the mana he possessed, the amount they were sending him was minuscule, but it would feel like a lot to the nearby hunters. If they absorbed too much, they might even drown in mana exhaustion.

He deliberately absorbed all the mana until he was almost drained. Erestika, who was standing next to him, wobbled as her legs weakened. The female hunters nearby hurriedly supported her.

‘Now I have an excuse.’

The other six guild leaders would have done the same. He would return the mana later.

He absorbed all the mana and created a massive spear with his right hand. The very appearance of the spear made the 500,000-ton cargo ship sway violently.

He strengthened the ship with an enhancement spell to prevent it from breaking due to the recoil and took a throwing stance. The tip of the spear, made purely of mana, aimed at the deep sea far below.

He threw the spear. A blue light pierced the sea and penetrated the shark’s head as it fled far below.

A mushroom cloud rose from the sea.

“!!!!!!”

The hunters nearby panicked and scrambled to form a defensive barrier to disperse the incoming tidal wave.

Even with the barrier, they couldn’t completely absorb the impact, and one of them vomited blood. The cargo ship rocked violently as if it would capsize.

If it really looked like it was going to capsize, he would have secretly helped, but since it wasn’t, they had to figure it out themselves. That’s why they had defensive barrier-type awakening abilities.

‘Is the scale too big?’

He looked up at the mushroom cloud towering into the sky. The effect was just something he had created.

He wanted to create a visual impact to show how insane the power of the attack was. Otherwise, how would they understand the sheer magnitude of the attack?

He deliberately used an invisibility spell to hide himself, pretending to be exhausted from using too much power. Erestika, who was being supported by the Latina woman, was surprised and pointed to where he had been standing.

“He disappeared. He must have used too much power to maintain his form.”

Erestika gave the pre-planned answer. The Latina woman immediately stopped fussing.

This would be a good enough excuse for all seven guild leaders to be out of contact for a while. They had just killed Leviathan, a boss monster considered one of the worst enemies of humanity for the past two years.

‘I wonder how Latina is doing. She said she was going to try something.’

It was an inevitable choice since an unusual flow of time had been detected in the Holy Spear.