Hunter of the Perished World

[118] The Hive (3)

As I empowered myself, the spellbinding letters spilled the darkness and briefly covered up four, including Jean.

“This should be able to withstand some evil spirits. ”

Gin whispers a small whisper and everyone nods. With Aussie spells, even if you stand out from the evil eye, you won't be forced into a fight.

All the roads in the Hive have become large enough to pass through now, and there are just as many monsters as there are.

That wasn't all because I was able to deal with the demons of the Hive. Even tentacle monsters were numerous and varied enough to be sidelined.

Knng... Knng...

A large monster walks into a large cavity along a giant passageway. Just hearing those footsteps, many monsters, as well as ghosts, begin to flee. The runaway little monsters hide in their own gaps or run into the dungeons, and the void quickly empties out.

Bang...

The scout stares at the creature with his dying breath. The beast's flesh is sagging, as if its whole body were about to collapse, and its height is fifteen meters, and its heavy limbs are rotting away in ugly exposed skin.

The creature, which appears to be alive, crashes its head into a large rotting pool in the middle of the cavity.

Gulp! Gulp! Gulp!

The venom created by the decomposing creature that infects the hideous venom is inhaled by the creature itself as if it were all going to be consumed.

And the more you inhale, the more the beast's rotten flesh regenerates at a terrifying rate. Flesh is revived and scales are attached to it. Soon, when the monster who had found its original appearance lifted his head, Gene could only look at his head and open his eyes.

This is the first monster I've ever seen.

But not as much as that head.

‘Dinosaurs…. Among other things, amphibians.... ’

It was the most massive and terribly dangerous monster of all.

and the most ferocious carnivorous of them all.

Grrrrrrrrr...

The threatening tail of the regenerated dinosaur has sharp scales on it, and a new red ear flashes in its rotting eyes. And the creature flickers its long, thick tail, and immediately drops to the ground.

Kuang!

Dwarf!

A violent earthquake hit the joint.

Queek! Queek!

And that vibration caused tentacle monsters hanging from the ceiling to fall to the ground. The amphibian monster doesn't wait for them to fall completely.

Tub!

A falling tentacle monster swallows up the dinosaur's jaw.

Grrr!

Then, a tentacle monster hit in the tail became bloodsucking on the floor.

Bang, bang! Bang!

The dinosaurs roar like crazy and swiftly devour the tentacle monster that had fallen into an agile body fit for its massive size.

Woodpeck! Woodpeck!

The tentacle monster's enhanced tentacles shattered, unable to withstand the thousand teeth in the dinosaur's jaw. After a quick feast, the dinosaur slowly moves its giant body towards the other cavity.

I didn't know the name for a monster of that shape, but it was definitely a dinosaur-shaped monster. And it looked more dangerous than any dinosaur-type creature he knew.

‘That's what a predator would look like in this hell... ’

Even tentacle monsters with reflexes in their sound were as frightening as the sight of being eaten without hesitation.

The Hive is a jungle of monsters with completely different ecologies, and at the same time it was hell.

The other three remained calm thanks to the liquor of Myeonghyung Index.

But it was a moment when I had to kill my breath apart from him.

Even Gin and Ramfil couldn't guarantee their survival if they were attacked in a hive full of these monsters. Dinosaurs are dinosaurs, but the biggest feature of the monsters here was that.

‘Rare things are symmetrical in nature. ’

There were occasionally three arms, one leg, and the opposite. Most organisms have symmetrical body organs around the spine. The organism has such a structure because it is advantageous for survival.

So those who didn't have symmetrical structures were playing the role of victims here.

Of course, even though it was not a symmetrical structure, the delicate monsters and demons that did not affect the activity of the body itself were completely unaffected by it. In fact, a massive black slime just devoured the lower monsters by spraying poison and sucking out melted bodily fluids.

But the fact that predators usually have symmetrical bodies means that those in favor of survival survive.

But with such an ecology, only symmetrical monsters should have survived, according to the law of deficit survival. But that's not what the scouts saw.

The presence of relatively vulnerable asymmetric monsters still suggests another point.

‘Monsters are constantly forming in the Hive...' ’

It means that incomplete monsters are still being created through breeding, even through special spaces like MCP. Like some kind of solitary technique, it will be a place where monsters continue to be created and where generation replacement occurs through the survival of monsters' deficits.

In fact, it is not unlikely that Tae-marriage will create a new monster here through the breeding of other species.

‘This place is worse than I thought...' ’

The Hive was vast, and scouting didn't last a day or two. Ghosts were able to use spellbinding to drive them out, but the small monsters were quickly overwhelmed by Jean. The Hive is quiet and noisy with the monsters' grumbling sounds. If it weren't for the amount of gunfire, it wouldn't have caught your attention.

Relics and marriages, unlike in the crazy past, were also able to look around calmly and see the reality of the Hive a little more calmly than in the past.

It is impossible to demolish the Hive with four scouts, but perhaps a Dominator punitive force in exoskeleton reinforced suits will be enough. With the help of the Demon Hunter named Gene there, you can be safe from even the most unstoppable demons.

The pandemic was pleased to see the uncertain Hive subjugation plan becoming increasingly evident through reconnaissance, as was the case with Tao Marwan, who was in a state of terrorism.

But Gene thought differently at all.

K-o-o-o-o!

Something clings to the giant tentacle monster like flies. They are relatively large and small, and each fly is the size of a bear. The four-legged creature crawling around the floor like a spider, crashing its gill into the tentacle's trunk.

Puck! Puck! Puck!

The tentacles rush in, trying to get rid of the creature attached to their torso, but they quickly dodge when the tentacle hits them, repeating their head into the creature's torso almost as if it were a joke.

Gene looks closely at the monster. He was crawling around like a spider with his unusually long arms and legs, and had large eyes with overlapping eyes on his head.

And a sharp awl hangs over his mouth.

The mosquito, flies, and spider-like creature leaps into the sky like a flea and sticks its nose into the tentacle creature's body.

Even a hunter who was accustomed to strange things was terrifying enough to fall asleep when he saw that strange creature.

Big guys don't always win.

The tentacle monster gradually shrinks with mosquito fluid, and now it can't even move its tentacle until it's covered by a large number of monsters.

Dozens of mosquitoes hunted a tentacle monster in an instant, each of them stumbling around in its belly and disappearing somewhere. Some monsters work in groups, hunting monsters they can't hunt.

Gene sends a gesture to move where the fight ended.

‘Strange.... ’

They're freaks. They're monsters I've never seen before.

But it's strange. Gene moves slowly with his teeth clenched. We didn't know where the Hive was going to end, so we didn't know how many days until our reconnaissance mission set up a safe zone.

“Let's rest.”

Gene looks around and finds a closed cave with no caverns nearby. It was a dead end, so there were no monsters, so it was the perfect place to rest for a while. I took out the things that were worth eating and made a simple yogi.

“This place looks like a good place for little monsters to rest. Let's get some rest and get moving. ”

“I intend to. ”

A perfectly confined space like that would have been an enchanting space for other monsters as well. Therefore, this place should be used as a place to take a short break, rather than a complete resting place.

However, Ramfil's expression was quite severely stiff.

“… too useful for me…. That's weird.”

“What is it? ”

Ramfil looks around the cave. There's a bunch of breathing vines surrounding the Hive. It was eaten by the herbivores of the Hive.

“This space…. It's too sacred.”

In fact, the caverns that opened separately in a dead end had a narrow entrance but a wide interior. The pandemic tells us what monsters thought it was an artificially dug sanctuary.

“If we can use this small space as a resting place, we'll be able to deal with it... ”

“No, that's not what I said. It's not just here. ”

Ramfil points outward, i.e. toward the large cavity.

“This huge underground space itself is so.... It's too...... presumptuous. ”

What could possibly create such a massive underground plant? A clumsy group of monsters was not enough. Why should this space be created, and why should these monsters be created?

Jin nods, agreeing with Ramfil.

“I want to rest for a reason. ”

The group looks at Gene for a reason, not just because they're tired.

“I've got to make up my mind. Ramfil's right. I think I know what he's talking about. ”

However, Gene slowly said as if he was going to say his thoughts first.

“The monsters here aren't all up there. If most of them are new to me... You must have said everything. “

“Yes.”

“But…. I've never seen them before, but I know something like that. ”

“If it's similar... ”

Gene has been around for a long time, so he sees the monsters here and realizes something.

“Look... They may be slightly different and different, but they each have their own unique characteristics. Even though there are many mixes... ”

Gene slowly said what he had realized.

“Monsters with tentacles, ghosts, dinosaurs, people who spray black poison, people who drink bodily fluids.... ”

Through it, Gene did not say what he had realized. But among the hunters, two veterans and Ramfil, who had been with Gene for a long time, could figure out what it was.

“This is a feature of the devil. ”

“! ”

“Well…. ”

“I knew it.”

Alien with tentacles, Phantom, Dragon, Demon with black venom, and Vampire.

Each of them is in an odd shape and shape, but strangely enough, each of them has the characteristics of a demon, at least one of the lowest monsters.

“And Ramfil, as you said, this is a sacred space. This huge space is not a natural place for monsters. Completely.... It's not impersonal, it's artificial. ”

The answers are obvious when you think about the demons here and where they are.

Above all, Ramfil knew very well.

Ramfil was also using a biocomputer built into the body to thoroughly record the structure of the Hive. And as I was recording it, I realized something strange.

When Jean looks at Ramfil, Ramfil slowly says something he doesn't want to admit.

“So far, the area we scouted matches Wargrave Fortress by 38 percent. ”

“Yes!”

“That's ridiculous.... ”

Portraits around the world are usually made of the same structure.

In the end, the main structural chart is the same, although there are variations depending on the capabilities of Fortress. After the monsters occupied the area, Ramsay continued scouting the area, adding more and more confidence to his peculiar conjectures, even though the overall configuration has changed or another path has been breached.

Gene grabbed a few tentacles wrapped around the floor.

Queeeek! Queek! 44761;!

The thick, living trunk thunders and screams, but the gin does not stop. After several layers of shrouding, the gin was dirty, rusty, and the dirty floor was shown to everyone.

Apparently, there was an old, rusty floor made of steel. Ramfil bites his lips as he looks at it with his own eyes.

Gene points to the floor and says,

“Hive... Wargrave used to study demons. ”

For some reason, it was abandoned, but there was no doubt about it.

Nearby is Central Asian Army Command, a dark veil of Devil Research, and demon-like chimeras emerge from Fortress' underground facility.

Then that was the only answer.