Chapter 104
‘Huh?’
As I lay in bed, munching on blood curd, I suddenly sat bolt upright at the unexpected scene.
Through the vision transmitted by Number 5, the Minotaur Demon’s blood and flesh came pouring down in torrents.
The Blood Golem had blown the gigantic monster apart in a single strike.
And what was even more astonishing was—
‘Golem, you’re incredibly strong!’
Its soft, jelly-like arm had suddenly transformed into a mass of muscles rivaling a bodybuilder’s!
And that wasn’t all.
“Kkyu-pit!”
The golem made a cute sound and slightly hunched its body.
Squirm, squirm!
Then dozens of tentacles extended from its entire pink-jelly body.
The tentacles clung tightly to the Minotaur’s blood and flesh scattered in every direction.
Gloop, gloop!
Something began to be sucked through the tentacles at a terrifying speed.
[The Blood Golem is absorbing blood!]
‘Oh, it can suck blood!’
The Blood Golem was said to be capable of absorbing life force.
Mine seemed to be capable of drinking blood.
It really was no ordinary Blood Necromancy summon.
After finishing its absorption, the golem’s body had turned a slightly darker pink with a deeper reddish hue.
[The Blood Golem has fully charged its blood reserves.]
[It can activate special abilities!]
Large-Scale Explosion: The Blood Golem blows itself up, causing a massive blood explosion within its range.
The more blood it has stored, the stronger the explosion.
(Don’t worry! The exploded golem will be safely reverse-summoned!)
Rapid Healing: Consumes stored blood to rapidly heal allies.
‘Ooh.’
After reading the descriptions, I found that both abilities were quite useful.
Large-Scale Explosion was essentially an area-of-effect skill.
Moreover, exploding did not mean it actually died; it was treated as a reverse-summoning, so there was no need to make a sacrifice.
The only penalty was being unable to use it briefly during the cooldown.
And then there was the healing ability.
‘This is good too. It can even act as a healer, right?’
There was a [Coffin of Rest] inside my domain, but that was a device that could only be used after bringing an injured person directly into the house.
Having a way to immediately heal allies on the battlefield was an enormous advantage.
I was examining the screen with satisfaction when I spotted a Hunter standing unsteadily.
The female Hunter who had been facing the Demon.
She was covered in blood, and she was even dry-heaving as if she had suffered severe internal injuries. Her complexion was as pale as a sheet of paper.
[Name: Oh Yuna]
[Level: 35]
‘Whoa. Her level is even lower than mine?’
She seemed like a complete beginner, yet she had fought a level 47 Demon without fleeing despite being such a low level.
She even looked to be in her early twenties, around my age.
‘She’s impressive. If it were me, I would have run away without a second thought.’
I was inwardly impressed by her courage.
The world must keep turning because people with such a spirit of self-sacrifice quietly hold the line.
After seeing only the somewhat strange sides of top rankers like the Saint and the Necromancer King lately, seeing such an exemplary Hunter warmed my heart for some reason.
‘All right. Let’s heal her!’
Such a brave citizen deserved a reward.
I gave the golem an order.
‘Golem, heal that mortal!’
“Kkyu!”
The Blood Golem answered energetically and approached Oh Yuna.
***
C-rank Hunter Oh Yuna was in shock.
What had just happened before her eyes was difficult to believe as reality.
The pink jelly golem that had looked so cute.
The monster she had thought was merely a low-level slime had instantly inflated grotesque muscles and turned the Demon into a lump of meat.
And on top of that.
Squirm, squirm!
It extended dozens of disgusting tentacles and fiercely sucked blood from the scattered corpse.
‘Ugh…!’
The grotesque sight filled her with fear and revulsion, making her retch involuntarily.
It was then.
“Kkyu!”
The pink monster, reddened after sucking in a huge amount of blood, turned its head toward her.
(ㅇㅅㅇ)
Two dots and a triangular mouth.
A face from which she could read no emotion stared straight at Oh Yuna.
‘……!’
Yuna’s body froze.
The monster approached and fired the tentacles that had been sucking blood from the corpse only moments ago toward her.
Squeeze!
The writhing tentacles tightly wrapped around Yuna’s body.
Soon, the tips of the tentacles clung to the deepest of her wounds, and she felt something sticky being pushed through her skin and into her body.
“Aaaahhhhh!”
It was the moment Yuna screamed in terrible fear.
“Get away from her, monster!”
Fwoosh-! Kaboom!
Two Hunters—a man and a woman—who appeared to be the Association’s support team hurriedly arrived at the scene and unleashed attacks at the monster.
An arrow fired by the male Hunter and a fireball hurled by the female Hunter struck the monster’s torso.
But.
Boing-!
The magic and arrow bounced harmlessly away the moment they touched its soft surface, repelled by its incredible elasticity.
“What…?”
“It bounced off the magic…?!”
The two Hunters were aghast at how completely ineffective their attacks were and backed away.
“Kkyu?”
The monster tilted its head for a moment after being attacked by the Hunters, then carefully set Yuna down on the ground.
Then it hopped away and vanished between the buildings in an instant.
“I’ll pursue it! Help the injured person!”
The male Hunter urgently chased after the monster, while the female Hunter ran to Yuna’s side and knelt down.
“You were attacked by that monster’s tentacles earlier—are you all right?! Is anything wrong with your body?!”
The Hunter asked urgently, but Yuna merely stared down at her body with a blank expression.
‘My wounds… they healed…?’
The places where the tentacles had clung to her and burrowed inside only moments ago.
In particular, the deep laceration in her side—the worst of her injuries—had healed perfectly without even leaving a scar.
‘You jelly monster. Were you the one who saved me…?’
She was no longer in pain.
***
“No! Why are you attacking the golem, you ignorant mortals!”
I clenched my fist on the bed and shouted.
The Hunters who had suddenly arrived had launched attacks without so much as a word, so I had hurriedly made the golem retreat and then reverse-summoned it.
‘…Well, it’s not as if I can’t understand their perspective.’
It had been sticking its tentacles into an injured Hunter, after all, so it must have looked like a monster attacking her.
Still, the golem and I had healed her out of nothing but goodwill.
I grew a little dejected.
A little while later.
I logged into the Hunter Gallery to check the current situation.
[Title: The Itaewon Minotaur Demon Terror Attack Situation ㄷㄷㄷㄷ]
[Author: News Wrecker]
(Screenshot of a news article)
Apparently, there were almost no civilian casualties because one C-rank Hunter refused to run and held it off to the very end ㅇㅇ;;
- A true hero.
- Wow, look at how utterly wrecked the street is…. A C-rank held that off?
- But who took down the Demon?
People were praising Hunter Oh Yuna for standing against the Demon.
And, naturally, posts about the Blood Golem that had blown the Demon apart in one hit began appearing one after another.
[Title: Shivering at the Pink Jelly Monster That Appeared in Itaewon—On-Site Video]
[Author: Anonymous]
(Video of the Blood Golem crushing the Minotaur Demon in a single strike)
(Video of the golem wrapping its tentacles around Oh Yuna)
Apparently, it deflected the attacks of the Hunters who had just arrived and ran away.
It still hasn’t been caught ㄷㄷ
- Fuck, that’s insane ㄷㄷ What is that?
- That’s terrifying;; It blew a Demon apart in one hit.
- It’s genuinely creepy because it does that with such a cute face.
- How has something that big not been caught yet?
ㄴ Since its body is made of slime, it might have flattened itself and escaped through somewhere like a sewer.
ㄴ Ah, fuck, I live in Itaewon. How am I supposed to go to work tomorrow…. It’s a total emergency ㄷㄷ
The board was filled with fear of the unidentified pink slime monster.
In other words.
…my squishy golem.
‘Uh, this could be a problem.’
If things continued like this, Seoul’s citizens would be left trembling in fear.
The Demon had already been defeated and the Hunter had been saved, so there was no need to cause any unnecessary confusion.
I opened the system message window with Association President Kim Taeseong.
[True Ancestor: Mortal. The entity that appeared in Itaewon is this body’s summon. Make no further fuss.]
I simply informed him of the facts.
Then the Association would handle it somehow, perhaps by putting out an article.
***
The Republic of Korea Hunters Association.
The Association President’s office on the top floor.
Association President Kim Taeseong sat with the message sent by the True Ancestor displayed before him.
‘…That monster was the True Ancestor’s summon.’
Fortunately, they had avoided the worst-case scenario.
This terrifying shapeshifting monster that had appeared this time.
Judging from the videos and the Hunters’ testimony, it was confirmed to be at least an A-grade monster.
The True Ancestor possessed even a biological weapon of that caliber.
He could not begin to imagine how vast and powerful her organization was.
In any case.
Just knowing that such a monster was not roaming the city allowed him to breathe a little easier.
If the Association put out an article saying it had handled the matter, the citizens would be reassured.
That problem was resolved.
But Kim Taeseong’s thoughts became even more tangled.
‘This Minotaur Demon incident.’
The investigation had revealed that the Demon was originally an ordinary human who had mutated after being injected with a suspicious experimental sample distributed on the black market.
‘As expected, that mad scientist must be behind it.’
The trail of an infamous villain wanted internationally.
Kim Taeseong’s eyes gleamed sharply.
‘The True Ancestor must naturally have known the mastermind and acted accordingly.’
Starting with eliminating the Demon behind the giant dark guild Black Cow.
Then subduing the apostle of the Abyssal Order who had infiltrated the country targeting the Saint.
And now, even stopping the mad scientist’s biological experiment terror attack.
He kept finding himself wanting to believe that the True Ancestor was helping Korea, and humanity at large.
But at the same time, he could not shake the suspicion that everything was far too deliberate and carefully planned.
Why had a transcendent being who had hidden her identity and operated in the shadows for so long suddenly become so active recently?
‘True Ancestor… what are your intentions? What enormous plan are you harboring…!’
Kim Taeseong fell into deep anguish.
***
“Retainer. What are you making?”
“Ah, True Ancestor-nim. I tried making it because it’s trending on the internet these days. It’s called a blood-curd chewy cookie~!”
“Ooh, is that really so?! This True Ancestor is quite curious indeed!”