109 – Floor 24: Do You Want to Play with a Pig? Or with a Wasp?

I can’t just stand by and watch. I have to move before those bastards attack the pigs.

“Everyone, get over here!”

I jump down from the altar and save the king, who’s wearing a crown, first. He was just waiting to die after tripping while running away, but I quickly approach and stab the hornet trying to slit the pig’s throat with my spear, killing it.

“Oink…! Huh? S-Savior!”

“Ooh… our savior!”

“That’s right! We had a savior!”

The scattered pigs begin to gather again.

But the hornets aren’t going to just sit back and watch.

Vroooooooom!!

They fly in from all directions, making a rough motorcycle engine sound that shakes the air.

The pigs who haven’t managed to regroup are attacked.

Some get their bodies pierced by poisonous stingers,

Some get their heads snipped off by the pincers on their jaws,

Some get grabbed, dragged into the air, and fall to their deaths.

The heavy-bodied Pucks are almost all killed off before they can even regroup.

‘These pig guys are so weak in combat?’

The difference in power is too overwhelming.

Even though the pigs have weapons, they can’t properly hit the giant hornets flying around at high speed, and even if they do, it barely damages their tough carapaces.

They’re already few in number, and they’re even weaker, so they’re being completely hunted.

‘The difficulty is a bit high.’

It’s a situation where I can’t recklessly step forward either.

Just protecting the king pig is overwhelming.

When they see me kill a hornet that approached nearby with a single stab, they start ignoring me and only relentlessly target the other pigs.

‘Damn it, an area-of-effect skill… If I’d known this would happen, I should have learned Holy Arrow.’

Was it 500 million? It was quite expensive, so I kept putting it off, saying I’d learn it next time, but it’s too late to regret it now.

I’m swinging my spear like crazy in a trial that could be easily cleared with one Fireball, so I feel a bit of self-loathing.

“Is there a place to evacuate to?”

“Oink…! Save me, I don’t want to die!”

The king pig is completely panicked and burying his head in the ground, but the relatively sane guard pig gives me information.

“There’s an emergency cave dug under the altar. Evacuate there… Gack!”

And he, protecting the king from behind me, gets his stomach pierced by a poisonous stinger and is dragged out into the hornets.

“Please, Your Majesty…”

With that as his last words, everyone here except me and the king pig died.

The surroundings are completely covered with giant hornets.

They were surrounding me and the king, who had already dug halfway into the ground.

‘Damn it, where’s the cave?’

And at that moment, the hornets all rush in at once.

[Divine Power Release]

With the king pig between my legs, I release divine power, and the hornets fall like rain from the shockwave.

But it’s not over yet.

The hornets point their poisonous stingers forward and rush in again from all directions.

One-Third Second Style: Straight Thrust

Stab stab stab stab stab stab!!!

I quickly move my enhanced body and stab the hornets.

The hornets with holes in the center of their bodies fall like rain once again in an instant.

“Oink…!!”

The king pig trembles with fear as the corpses of hornets fall on his body.

Someone might criticize him for being a coward, but that’s better. I’m more comfortable with him buried in the ground like that than him awkwardly fighting and getting in the way.

Weeeeeeeeee!!!

The hornets still haven’t given up. They keep rushing in and attacking like crazy from all directions.

But I also kill the giant hornets as soon as they come within range with my quick stabbing skills. The occasional glancing attacks are blocked by my high defense stats.

They must have realized that charging straight in was impossible, so they surround us in a circle and slowly close in.

Rumble rumble rumble rumble…!!!

It feels like being in the center of a tornado. A strong updraft sends a cloud of dust soaring upwards, and the surroundings darken as the sunlight is blocked.

They must be planning to crush us with their numbers and mass, as they’re packed together very densely. They maintain the exact same speed and formation without a single error as they surround us.

From all directions, I hear the engine sounds that speeding motorcycles would make.

The hornets’ formation becomes more and more dense, and the rotation speed increases.

And when it reaches its limit, their attack begins.

The encirclement that was surrounding us rapidly contracts, and they extend their poisonous stingers towards me. The poisonous stingers rotating at high speed are about to graze me like blades…

“Are you guys slow learners?”

They must have thought that the power of my Divine Power Release was all I had, so they packed together even more densely, but unfortunately, I have more divine power than anyone else, and I can control it.

[Divine Power Great Release]

Once again, I unleash the divine power from my entire body. The amount is half of my total divine power. A tremendous figure of about 2000.

Due to my Divine Power Control training, it’s more precise and stronger than before. A huge explosion occurs, and their tornado is swept away by the explosion in an instant.

For a moment, the whole world is dyed pink.

A moment later, the corpses of hornets that exploded from the shockwave and green blood fall like rain everywhere. The altar is blown away without a trace, and even the surrounding trees are uprooted and blown away, revealing the distant horizon.

“This is what you call a clean sweep.”

In fact, it’s a garbage attack skill with terrible efficiency, but the enormous divine power of nearly 2000 is a bomb in itself.

If I had this much mana in the past, I would have dropped a nuclear-bomb-level meteor several times.

Of course, not all the hornets are dead yet.

I personally stab the ones on the outskirts that took less damage and are wriggling on the ground with my spear. Some of them fly into the sky and escape.

“Hoo… Is this area cleared for now?”

I squeeze out the completely green juice-soaked hair and pull out the king pig buried between my legs.

“Hey? Wake up.”

“Oink…!!! Honey!?”

He is forcibly stood up with his side grabbed by my hand. At first, he struggles, but soon he looks around and is horrified.

“Honey? Oh! As expected of the savior!!! Ahem, I showed you a moment of disgrace.”

‘Does he automatically revert to being a beast pig when he’s flustered?’

He was a complete pig until just now, but when he comes to his senses, he speaks human language and straightens his back.

“Ah, although it’s late, let me introduce myself. My name is Porkindick Borujain. I am the king of the Mechakucha Kingdom. Thank you for answering our summons.”

He extends his trotter as if to shake hands.

“Ah… yes. My name is Dohee Lee.”

I also extend my hand, grab the king pig’s trotter, and shake it.

“This place is cleared for now, so let’s quickly go down. The Caliphs shouldn’t appear here, so we need to figure out what happened.”

Still, he’s not completely incompetent, as he quickly assesses the situation and heads down the mountain.

And we were able to figure out the situation in less than 5 minutes.

“There, you’ll see it now. Our kingdom… Huh?”

After passing one mountain peak, a wide plain and kingdom appear.

And that place is now.

“It’s ruined…?”

A swarm of black hornets was turning the Mechakucha Kingdom into a wasteland.

Pigs are being slaughtered here and there in real-time, and even sows are being raped in the air by hornets with their clothes torn off.

‘Wait, what is that?’

Concentrating my eyesight and looking closely, I see that the poisonous stinger is peeled off, revealing a penis-shaped organ that is being thrust wildly into the sow’s… area. Some of them can’t get it in properly, so they pierce it with their poisonous stingers.

Blood and strange liquids pour out from what is presumed to be the sow’s genitals. As soon as the sow dies, they roughly throw her away anywhere and lift another sow into the air to attempt copulation again. Looking closely, it seems like they’re putting something like eggs inside the sow and throwing her away.

I turn away from the shocking scene I’m seeing for the first time in my life.

Thud…

And next to me, I hear the sound of the king pig collapsing.

“Ah… No way, my kingdom…”

There’s nothing I can say.

As I’m waiting for him to escape from his sadness for a moment,

Thump thump thump…

I turn around at the sound of someone coming and see about 30 Puck pigs armed and waddling towards us.

“Your Majesty!! You must evacuate immediately!”

“Aren’t you… the royal palace guards?”

“Let’s get out of here first. There’s a underground cave at the altar, isn’t there.”

“What about my family… Elua, Sanseru, Gamalko. Where are they all?”

“Your Majesty… they’re all…”

“I’m sorry…”

It seems that all of the king pig’s family are dead.

The king pig closes his eyes for a moment. And he opens his eyes again as if he’s made up his mind.

“I understand. Let’s all move to the emergency cave.”

“Who is this…”

“Ah, this is our savior. Savior, let’s go with us for now.”

“Yes. Let’s find a safe place first.”

And so, we leave the ruined kingdom behind and climb back up the mountain.

 

“It was here?”

The emergency cave was said to be under the altar. And the entrance disappeared due to the Divine Power Great Release I used earlier, so everyone is searching.

“Where is it?”

“T-That’s… it was definitely around here…”

I also help them clear away the rubble and find the entrance since it’s my doing.

And then,

“Oink?! H-Here it is! I see a passage to the underground.”

“Good, we’re saved!”

We slowly lower the king and then one person at a time. It’s a narrow entrance, so it takes quite a while for each person to enter.

“What about the savior…?”

“I’ll go last.”

There’s a reason why I insisted on going last.

‘They’re coming.’

As expected, it’s not a trial that will end so easily.

When I was first summoned, I was distracted by the pigs’ dance and didn’t properly recognize it, but now I can definitely feel it. I can feel the flapping of wings vibrating the air in the distance.

When almost all the pigs have entered the cave,

Vroooooooom!!!!

The hornets that reappeared fill the surroundings.

It’s not just that the number has increased from before.

“That’s… the queen?”

A queen bee about 5m in size appears. Uniquely, the queen’s upper body and face were in the form of a beautiful human woman.

I was surprised by that, but there was something even more surprising…

“Are you the savior of the Pucks?”

She was talking to me.

“Huh…?”

“The Pucks have no hope anyway. So why don’t you come with us?”

‘What the hell is she talking about…?’

I can’t go even if I want to because of the mission…

Still, I listen to what she’s saying to buy time for the pigs who haven’t entered the cave yet.

The hornets are a race called the Caliphs.

They claim that they had a symbiotic relationship (?) with the Pucks.

Although the Pucks didn’t know it, the Caliphs protected the Pucks from the predators in the area in exchange for taking out the Pucks’ pigs and eating them whenever they were hungry.

‘So they were just… being raised.’

But the situation is starting to change a bit.

Wyverns have been invading since a while ago, and a territorial dispute has begun.

So they increased the amount of food they were collecting, and the Puck king, feeling a sense of crisis, performed the savior summoning ritual.

The fact that the Pucks stubbornly performed the savior summoning ritual, which greatly increased the risk, is the cause of this invasion. They also had the purpose of securing numbers to defeat the wyverns.

“We’ve almost won the battle against the wyverns. However, our attacks don’t work on the Wyvern King’s skin, so we can’t land the final blow. You just need to land the final blow on the Wyvern King.”

‘Wait, could it be here?’

And as I suspected, a system message pops up.

Ding~

[Will you become the savior of the Caliphs? Or will you remain the savior of the Pucks? The grade of the reward given will vary depending on your choice.]

Right away, a fork in the road.

It sometimes comes out when you go over the 50th floor. It’s a trial where the difficulty and rewards change depending on your choice. I heard it sometimes comes out on the lower floors, but this is the first time I’ve seen this proposal in this life.

And the Puck pigs who heard those words were gathered at the entrance of the cave, looking at me with sparkling eyes.

“Savior… please…”

“Savior, please… save us…”

I organize my thoughts in my head for a moment.

And the conclusion comes out in less than a second.

‘Of course it’s the Pucks. Just by looking at it, following those hornets will be a B-grade difficulty, and following the pigs will be an S-grade trial, right?’

I am Dohee Lee.

A dopamine combat sex addict and a hunter specializing in S-grade trials.

Some people might say that I’m always being screwed over, but I actually like it.

There aren’t many people who want to be screwed over as much as I do.

There was no need to give an answer.

I apply all buffs up to stage 4, strengthen my body with divine power, and quickly kick off the ground and run out.

I can see the expression on the human-like queen bee’s face change to embarrassment.

“Sorry, but I like it when the difficulty is high.”

The surrounding hornets rush in, but it’s already too late. The ground is dug deep, and the muscles in my legs are compressed to the limit,

Boom!!

My body flies into the air as if it’s bouncing.

Stab!!

In the blink of an eye, I jump up and stab the queen’s head with my spear.

“Kkyaek!”

With a death cry, the queen’s head explodes and she dies.

Unfortunately, the hornets didn’t fall just because the queen fell. It was just a command entity, so the hornets start attacking us chaotically.

I run to the narrow cave entrance and block the hornets. I fight the hornets, receiving the pigs’ respectful gazes from behind.

And that was the beginning of the battle.

Starting with the hornets killed at the cave entrance, I smash all the hornets’ nests with the guidance of the Pucks.

Their poisonous stingers didn’t work well on me either. I don’t know about when they’re properly inserted in a well-aimed state, but the poisonous stingers that are just stabbed haphazardly end with a slight scratch.

Whether it’s an individual that has evolved into physical combat, there was no serious poison.

Like that, a week.

I annihilated the Caliphs with one spear. There were no special individuals among them.

The queen bees had no combat ability, and they were a race with no strengths other than numbers.

Besides, they were weak in defense.

Because they had to desperately protect the larvae in the nest, they couldn’t take advantage of their aerial combat.

The remnants I left behind were taken care of by the wyverns, who were grateful.

But there’s a problem.

‘Why isn’t the trial ending…?’

I thought the wyvern was the problem, so I even made a promise with the Wyvern King to protect the Pucks, but the trial still doesn’t end.

And I was able to find the answer by visiting the Pucks.

“There are no females…?”

“Haa… That’s right. Our race is… over.”

The king calmly speaks of the end of the race.

All the other guys are also lying on the floor in the cave with blank faces. It’s like they’re all suffering from depression as a group.

‘So that’s why the trial didn’t end. Because I couldn’t save the Pucks…’

I sensed that something was screwed up.

‘This… I can’t get pregnant for them, can I?’

Whether or not interspecies pregnancy is possible is secondary, but the sperm is all converted into divine power because of the semen dynamics conversion thingy that Irene installed in my uterus.

‘But why doesn’t it say that the trial has failed?’

It seems that there’s still a way left.

Author’s Note (Author’s Afterword)

I modified the last part. Pig childbirth is hot, but it’s not the timing for childbirth yet… I added a little bit of the content that will come out in the next chapter because it seems like there are many people who misunderstand.