Chapter 75 – Day 75

Day 75

■■■■■-!

As Cheon Seoa slowly approached, the beast let out a silent roar.

The ripples emanating from the beast’s wide-open mouth shook the blood space created by Cheon Seoa.

■■■■-!

With another silent roar and the resulting ripples, cracks formed in the blood space.

Without hesitation, the beast threw itself through the cracks and escaped.

This was the blood space that had swallowed even a beast so enormous it couldn’t be measured by numerical concepts.
However, what caught the beast’s eye as it escaped from that bloody space was an incredibly tiny sphere.

Was that sphere the bloody space it had been in?
Was it trapped in such a small space?

But now, there was no time for such thoughts.

It had to escape.
It had to escape.
It had to escape from that monster.

Although it was unpleasant for a child of the Great Mother to have to flee, the beast didn’t stop nonetheless.

Meanwhile, in the bloody space that began to collapse starting from the crack created by the beast, Cheon Seoa, who was watching the beast running away into the empty outer space, showed a smile.

It was a smile so beautiful, yet one that couldn’t erase a somewhat sadistic feeling.
However.
“I didn’t expect it to create a crack and escape.”
Cheon Seoa muttered as if surprised.
Of course, it didn’t matter.
Even if the beast escaped from this space, nothing would change.
But.

“Please don’t go too far, though. I don’t want to step into other people’s territories either.”

It was the moment when Cheon Seoa took a step forward after muttering those words.

■■■■-!

The fleeing beast stopped in bewilderment.

Was she moving so fast that even it couldn’t perceive?
Or perhaps they used some other method.

It was impossible to know.
However, there was one thing I could be certain of.

■■■-!

The beast let out another roar.

That roar was filled with the beast’s determination to no longer run away but to stand and fight.

Belatedly, the beast had realized.
Far too late, the beast had become certain.

The fact that it could not escape from that monster.

There was only one way to escape from that monster’s grasp. It had to kill that monster wearing the tiny human shell standing before its eyes.

Thus, the beast, having made its decision, swung its massive forepaw.

Whoosh-!

The beast’s enormous forepaw, which erased everything it brushed past, eventually erased even the space where Cheon Seoa stood.

“It’s useless.”

Flinch-!

Cheon Seoa’s beautiful voice sounded right beside it.

Just before the beast’s forepaw reached her, Cheon Seoa had moved across space and space, and dimension and dimension, in a single step.

Moving forward.

Tap.
Thud-!

As Cheon Seoa lightly tapped the beast’s body, an intense impact occurred where her hand touched, causing the beast’s body to cave in deeply.

■■■■■■■■■■-!

The beast’s enormous mouth opens wide with a snap, and from within, a scream filled with agony erupts.

The beast, born as a child of the Great Mother, writhes in pain it has never experienced before in its entire existence.

Cheon Seoa looks down at the beast and murmurs as if whispering.

“That’s why I told you. Don’t run away. If you hadn’t run, I would have ended it with minimal pain.”

■■-!

“So, in the end, you’re going to drink the punishment?”

■■■■■-!
■■!
■■■-!!!

“It’s a pity. But that’s why I like it even more. If ‘fear’ and ‘pain’ are added to the ingredients, there’s a higher chance of creating something even better.”

Clunk-.

As Cheon Seoa finishes her conversation with the beast, her mouth closes, and the dharma wheel above her head rotates once.

Simultaneously, beautiful lotus flowers begin to bloom around the beast.

From one to two.
From two to four.
From four to eight.
From eight to sixteen.
From sixteen to thirty-two.
From thirty-two to sixty-four.

As time, split into instants, and split again and again, passes, the number of lotus flowers blooming around the beast begins to increase exponentially.

As a result, even though only 1 second has passed, the empty outer space is suddenly filled with beautifully blooming lotus flowers.

The blooming lotuses emit a sweet fragrance so intense it could numb one’s nose.

The moment the beast, intoxicated by the sweet scent, unknowingly touches a lotus flower.

Crunch!
Kwadeuk kwadeuk kwadeuk!
Kwadeuk kwadeuk!

The lotus flowers that had bloomed to fill the empty outer space suddenly began to bite the beast.

■■■-!

The beast roars and swings its front paws at the sudden attack.

Kwajijik-!

As the space is erased, the lotus flowers that occupied the erased space disappear without a trace.

However.

“It’s useless.”

Cheon Seoa’s voice echoes among the fully bloomed lotus flowers.
At the same time, just as she said “it’s useless,” the lotus flowers that had disappeared without a trace began to fill the space again.

Once more, the lotus flowers began to increase in number.
The countless blooming lotus flowers piled up and up, until their height reached the beast’s ankles.

Only then did the beast realize that something had gone wrong.

And for good reason, as the roots of the countless lotus flowers that had risen to its ankles were embedded in various parts of the beast’s body.

The roots of the lotus flowers that had burrowed into the beast’s body were sucking out its blood and power.

Although if we were to compare the amount in percentages, it would be a mere 0.001%, insignificant at best.
But the number of lotus flowers that greedily crave the beast’s blood and power with an insatiable appetite shows no sign of decreasing.

No, far from decreasing, they are increasing in real-time even at this very moment.

Eventually, the total amount of power being sucked out might increase from 0.001% to 0.01%, then from 0.01% to 0.1%, and further to 1% or 10%, or perhaps even more.

That’s why the beast moved.

■■■-!

The mouths embedded in each hair covering the entire body open wide and begin to spew out ‘something’.

What the mouths in the hair spewed out was deep darkness.
A darkness that devours everything around it, eventually returning it to nothingness.

That darkness flows down the beast’s body and meets the lotus flower.
Furthermore, as the darkness swallows the lotus flower, it begins to return it to nothingness.

■■■-!

Power overflows!

The beast looked at the lotus flower as if surprised.
The darkness spewed out by the mouths attached to its fur doesn’t just have the power to devour and return things around it to nothingness.

The real role of darkness is to digest what it has devoured and give power to the beast, which can be called its master.

Therefore, the beast has devoured countless things through darkness until now, using them as nourishment for its own power.

So the beast could say with certainty.

That lotus flower.
The lotus flower that is sucking its power and blood is on a different level from anything it has devoured so far.

Perhaps, if it devours the last petal of that endlessly blooming lotus flower, it might be able to ascend to an even higher place.

Perhaps it might not just be called a ‘child’ in general terms, but might gain a ‘true name’ like its mother.

As the beast, filled with such expectations, let out a low laugh, ■■■-.
Cheon Seoa, who was beside the beast, also displayed a seductive yet sadistic smile and said.

“It seems something good has happened.”

■■■■-.

Despite Cheon Seoa’s question, the beast just keeps laughing.

A lotus flower that sucks its power?
It was certainly surprising.

However, the opponent who made such a lotus bloom probably didn’t expect it either.
That the lotus bloomed to weaken the opponent’s power would instead increase their power.

“Did you already know?”

■-?

Suddenly, Cheon Seoa’s voice was heard.
As the beast tilted its head as if it didn’t understand for a moment, Cheon Seoa smiled brightly.

What does that mean?
She already knew that the lotus that was supposed to weaken her power would instead increase it?

Then why didn’t she remove that lotus?

“It’s simple.”

■-!

“Yes, it’s simple. No matter how much you are her child, there must be a ‘limit’. However, there is no limit to the lotus I’ve bloomed. So.”

‘Please eat as much as you want.’

At some point, a gentle smile spread across Cheon Seoa’s lips.

At the same time.

■■■■■■-!

A painful scream burst from the mouth of the beast that had been devouring the lotus flowers continuously.

The speed at which power increases by eating the lotus flowers is too fast.
The total amount of power was increasing, but its own existence couldn’t keep up.

It’s dangerous at this rate.
It must stop consuming the lotus flowers right now.

Otherwise, its very existence will collapse due to the total amount of power exceeding its limits.

Here’s the English translation:

But.

“Oh my, are you already done eating? Surely not. There are still many lotus flowers, so please eat more.”

As she said this, Cheon Seoa grasped at the air.

With that, the darkness that had stopped devouring the lotus flowers and was retreating at the beast’s will began to consume them again.

■■■-!
■-!
■■■■■■-!

The beast howled.
Stop. Please stop!
If this continues! If this continues-!

“If this continues, the quality of the material will improve even more.”

■■■■-!

The beast howled once again at Cheon Seoa, who was now sitting on a throne made of pure white bone, looking down at it. When she had produced the throne was unclear.