episode_0639
by admin
When I was momentarily tired of the horror that I sensed with my senses, it was the bugs that attacked first.
Wow!
Before the dust had even settled, a bug entity with a heavy-looking carapace charged at us.
It was quite a sight to see the dust kicked up as the guy passed by, like a car with its accelerator pressed hard into a puff of smoke.
Kaaa …
A guy who closes the distance in an instant with the characteristically unpleasant scream of a bug.
But on our side, no one was scared by that sight.
It was a sight I had seen countless times while making my way to the nest.
Most of the people I met on my way here were just people who had just woken up and were staggering around, so there was no need for me to step forward.
This guy seemed a little bit more energetic, but the results weren’t that different.
“Where!”
Sarah stretched out her arms, letting out a loud noise.
Then, the bug that had been charging forward with great momentum twisted its body back and forth as if it had hit its head against an invisible wall.
Kwaaang!!
It was Sarah’s barrier.
“Dieee …
“Kiyooo!”
“Take this!”
And then his subordinates, who were making as many grotesque screams as the bugs themselves, fired their guns at the still-living, writhing bugs.
Phew! Phew, phew, phew!
The guns taken from Basnit’s pawnshop emitted beams of light along with a sound slightly different from the sound of gunpowder exploding.
It was still quite loud, but not so loud that it would cause hearing problems when heard with bare ears.
The scene that unfolded was different from the real gun.
Sarah’s barrier blocked the charging bugs, but allowed bullets fired from the party’s direction to pass right through.
Thanks to this, the light bullets pouring out from the fifteen muzzles hit the staggering bug’s carapace without losing their power.
Pubberbug!
The bug’s hard head shell, which had not broken even after colliding directly with the barrier, was riddled with holes, as if someone had pricked a rotten pumpkin with their finger.
Although it was a used item, its power was definitely useful.
You can tell just by looking at it, by the way it penetrated that hard head like pudding.
“Bugs aren’t that bad! Kill ’em all!”
“Hahahahaha!”
“I’ll make you a beehive!”
And the subordinates who saw that sight became more arrogant.
‘Rather, it seems like I turned around because I was so excited.’
Watching them scream in joy at having caught a bug, it was hard to tell if I was looking at a savage on the hunt or a man from the space age.
“Don’t worry about it and fight, brother!”
Sarah shouted, thinking that I was worried about my subordinates as I looked at them like that.
“Yeah.”
Anyway, the dust was starting to settle and other bugs were starting to move, so I decided to go out.
The group will probably be able to handle the few that fall this way.
“Just in case, put up a barrier to block the heat from coming my way.”
“Yes!”
Sarah reached out with a nervous look on her face.
It was a necessary measure because the party intended to control it so that no damage would be done, but the Queen might have hidden a number that would require a lot of force.
Hwaruk-
As I walked forward, step by step, pushing through the dust, sparks burst out wherever I stepped.
Kyaaah!
The surrounding bugs became more responsive, wondering if they had infrared vision or some other way to detect heat.
Just looking at the guys rushing towards me, there are at least dozens of them.
It was a small group of bugs that couldn’t even form a small nest, but they didn’t seem as scattered as they were when I first fought the bugs.
Everyone who was in the area Maria could inspect with her authority had flocked to this queen’s nest, and my senses weren’t really catching anything.
Perhaps they scraped together the remaining troops and gathered them here.
To protect the queen who is diligently preying on her own kind crawling on the ground behind her.
Rather, the fact that they were able to maintain this scale in a closed facility shows the fraudulent survival skills of the bug species.
If they are given the right environment and opportunity, it’s nothing for them to increase their size by tens or hundreds of times.
I smiled quietly at the sight.
If the enemies would jump in like moths to a flame, it would be comfortable and good for me.
After all, hunting by driving is the best.
“They say bugs are the food of the future. I guess we should have a barbecue party.”
“Ugh… ”
Jeong Su-jin, who was waiting behind me, groaned as if she had heard my joke. She seemed to have been offended by the awkward joke made while she was already enduring motion sickness and watching Mirae Poetry.
I was just saying this, I had no intention of roasting and eating such disgusting alien mutants, let alone locusts.
Exactly!
A blast of super-hot flame poured out from the finger that flicked into the air.
Kwaaah!!
The sound of combustion, which even swallowed up the bug’s roar, struck my eardrums.
The brightness of the facility’s lights seemed to be reduced in comparison to the sudden, massive flames. The entire field of vision was filled with a red light.
Behind the object facing the flame, a dark shadow stretched long and rippled, as if wax was dripping down from the candle.
Naturally, the bugs that were directly hit by the flames that emitted that much heat and light writhed in pain.
No, it tried to run towards me while struggling, but the carapace heated up in an instant and the flesh inside it was cooked, so it fell to the ground before it could move even a few steps.
‘There’s no need to burn them until they turn to ashes. They may be disgusting, but these corpses are all resources. Maria will have to examine them closely to see how much damage these guys have done to the facility, but we should utilize everything we can.’
There’s no telling how useful the corpses of those bug guys will be. If they’re completely useless, at least they can be used as fertilizer.
My dry gaze turned to the swarm of bugs that were roasting golden brown in the fire.
Kwaaahhhh…!
Most of the enemies they faced in this facility were probably researchers and guards.
Since the Valkyrian family participated in its establishment, the guards’ weapons would not have been poor, but even so, they were only guarding a research facility. It would have been a one-sided massacre without a proper battle.
Considering that none of the heads of the research facility escaped, it wasn’t hard to guess. Don’t high-ranking officials always take care of their own safety?
It’s a comedy that this happened while experimenting with a bug.
Anyway, thanks to the experience of those guys easily slaughtering humans, things became easier for me.
That’s why I rushed all my troops in like this, defenseless.
My hand slowly moved left and right, aiming at the swarm of bugs, to create a fan-shaped area of inferno.
As I looked at that sight, a thought other than bugs suddenly crossed my mind.
‘I guess I’ll need to practice this part to get along with Jiyu.’
Given the nature of her supernatural powers that manipulate shadows, it could be difficult to respond if a bright light suddenly appears and the position and size of the shadows change drastically.
There are many other party members who can fight alongside her now, but it seems that she will need practice later.
In that way, more than 80% of the bug group was roasted to death by my flame attack.
About 10% of them somehow rushed towards the group behind them and were either turned into beehives or had their limbs cut off.
Kiyaaahh …
A horrifying scream escaped the Bug Queen’s mouth at the sight.
By now he must have realized that it was impossible to beat us, although it was too late.
What remains is less than 10% of the troops originally waiting in the nest.
The guys seemed to be slowly backing away, looking for an opportunity to escape.
‘That pattern again. If it looks like they’re going to be wiped out, they run away and make another nest.’
It was a pattern that had already been witnessed once in the edge planet system. Considering that the distance between the two planet systems was nearly impossible to travel without warping, this trait seemed to be engraved in their genes.
But the current situation is clearly different from that time.
The planet was an open space everywhere, but in this closed facility, no one could leave until I gave them permission.
And even if it was an open space, there was no way I would miss them.
The Bug Queen seemed to be smarter than the other creatures, but no amount of intelligence could guess that fact.
‘Maria has already closed all the bulkheads that are functioning properly, but since it would be a hassle to find and kill them if they disperse, we’ll have to finish them off here.’
With that thought in mind, I once again drew up the power of my supernatural power in my hand.
Something strange has happened in the Bug Queen’s body.
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