[Then let’s see if this will hold up]
When Hans entered the house, he destroyed his brain this time.
dump!
Hans fell helplessly again. Recovery started right away. You might call this a recovery. I think recovery is a better word than recovery.
It’s a bit cruel before he recovers his brain and stands up again, but this time he cuts his body lengthwise. Blood and intestines spilled onto the floor.
The blood and internal organs spilled on the floor were creeping back into the body. this is not a creature As a soulless, living creature, it has transcended its category. So what is this?
After paying a few more pieces to delay recovery, he called the spirit.
[Fire spirits, help me]
Fire spirits began to gather from all sides. Unlike elven villages, where humans live, there are many fire spirits.
[Burn that up]
The fire spirits started to burn Hans only. It could be burned using magic, but that was the reason for calling the spirits.
Hans’ body did not burn easily. The blood only boiled, but did not evaporate. The firepower of the fire spirits increased more and more.
Hans lasted quite a while. Still, the body was burning little by little in the end. At that time, Hans’ body, which had been divided into several pieces and was burning, rapidly merged and began to coalesce like clay.
[stop]
Just in case, I made the spirits retreat and I also avoided myself. Hans’s body, which had been formed into a ball, wriggled and then began to dissipate in an instant. Instead of disappearing, it was divided into tens of thousands of cockroaches and scattered in all directions.
I observed unfazed. Even the dispersing cockroaches had no soul. Then there was no need to panic because they were scattered.
I chased a cockroach. These will surely come together again somewhere and turn into something. Rather, what I wondered was whether this was an ancient second cockroach or a third cockroach.
The cockroach’s journey was quite long. At first, like a normal cockroach, he would sneak into the sewer and hide from other cockroaches. There were already quite a few soulless cockroaches there.
I killed one of them. However, it became an ordinary cockroach body as if it could not be restored in the cockroach state. The cockroach’s carcass was eaten by rats living in the sewer.
There was nothing wrong with the mice. Hans’s cockroaches, which had gathered in the sewer system, sometimes rose to the surface at night to forage for food, and a few died.
And one day, feeling completely out of danger, I finally started to move. It was when Hans became a cockroach and was about three months old. It didn’t matter. I have a lot of time and a lot to do while observing cockroaches.
Among Hans’ cockroaches gathered in the sewer, 23 of them still survived. All at once they left the sewer and started running.
I was just guessing. It was because I accidentally learned about cockroaches after spending several months in a cockroach den. Cockroaches do not live very long.
If these were like normal cockroaches, it was easy to guess that they would do something before the end of their lives.
The cockroaches ran away from the ecliptic to a nearby hill. Tens of thousands of cockroaches that had already been scattered were gathering there. And at the center was what I was looking for.
A figure wearing a hood over a robe so long that his body and face could not be seen was accompanied by several escorts. But all I could see was a huge soul and a golden glow inside the hood. Except for Hood’s figure, the escorts were soulless. Those people must be the same as Hans.
[Can you hear me?]
If this is a cockroach that has lived since ancient times like Drakan, it might hear me, so I tried talking to it. But no answer came back. I felt it when I got a little closer. obviously strong Although strong, it did not seem to have reached a high level like Drakan.
The gathering cockroaches were being sucked into the long hood. And the size of the soul was growing finely. Upon closer inspection, the figure hidden under the long robe was not human. A man-sized cockroach was wearing a robe like a man.
I was thinking about how to do that. We do not know what cockroaches have been doing since ancient times. Drakan had nothing to say about what to do with the cockroaches.
Hans, who lived his life as a human, did not do anything particularly bad. And the main body in front of me was similarly too uninformative.
Then finally decided. After observing the cockroaches for three months, I figured out how to deal with something like Hans using recovery. And I decided to try one of them.
The cockroaches that were being absorbed were sprayed with a disease using the power of Nergal. There are so many diseases in the world. And some of them are lethal to insects. Of course, cockroaches usually do not suffer from this disease. That is why there are so many of them in the world. But there is no answer to authority. Ignoring the common sense of the world, because that is the power of God.
Cockroaches that had been sucked in with the disease quickly began to spread the disease. Symptoms include high fever and dehydration. You may think this is no big deal, but experiments have shown that cockroaches infected with it die within 30 minutes.
“Kieek!”
It staggered along with a scream as if it had worked. The surrounding escorts supported it as it stumbled, but it soon fell away. Judging from the fact that there is not a single word spoken in the process, they are connected to each other.
As if it had given up standing like a human, it supported the ground with its six legs and started pouring water from its mouth and tail. Then one of the escorts picked it up and started running somewhere.
[Are you going to treat it?]
The speed of the escort was very fast. It was clear that he was a master-class soldier. If those alter egos without souls were master-class fighters, it was unknown how great a force they would become when they gathered.
It didn’t seem right to let him run away. He also inflicted disease on the escorts. It would be normal for a master-level unmanned person to overcome this kind of disease, but since these are not people, but a collection of cockroaches, it seemed to be effective.
As expected, it also worked for the escorts, and it was rolling on the ground with the escorts without running for 30 minutes. But he didn’t die easily. Several hours passed and as the condition worsened, dozens of people were running from the other side. They were all minions without souls. Some of them were dressed as priests.
If you use strong divine power, you may be able to cure the disease. I couldn’t leave it like that. First of all, I burst the hearts of the guys who seemed to be priests and gave them several pieces.
The rest were all unmanned, so they tried to pick it up and move it. They too, one by one, had their hearts burst and their limbs cut off. Then, he called the wind spirit and sent the leg fragments away.
A few hours later, the body finally died. Absorbed the escaping soul. When the main body died, the clones disintegrated into cockroaches and scattered.
Once cleared, the doubts did not go away. I couldn’t tell what number of cockroaches this was.
[Shouldn’t you have asked before you die?]
But it was already too late. I have another power. As expected, it was an alter ego. I was worried that cockroaches would create an alter ego, but what was created was a soul.
When the alter ego splits from the body and leaves, I felt a considerable sense of collapse despite being a very small alter ego. I had no idea how long it would take to extract hundreds of thousands of clones like cockroaches. Maybe I should eat as much as Drakan’s age.
It was my alter ego, but it was the first time I had ever seen my soul in person. Although a very small alter ego, my alter ego looked a little different from a normal human soul. Normally, human souls are more like spheres, but my alter ego was more like a square. Of course I don’t know why.
And another problem arose. Controlling an alter ego was not an ordinary task. To be exact, it was not to manipulate, but to move with each other’s ego, but to share the thoughts and actions.
It was not easy to adapt because my eyes and ears suddenly stretched and I felt like I was seeing and hearing different things. I couldn’t move from the spot and it took me over two months to get used to it.
Then I went back to the Aether Empire and my alter ego started to travel. This also required adaptation, so it seemed like it would take quite a while to move freely like before.
It took a much longer time than usual to return to the Aether Empire. The alter ego was traveling in the northern part of the Eastern Continent, which was now in ruins. It was amazing that even though we were so far apart, what we saw, heard, and thought were shared. In the meantime, the alter ego absorbed quite a bit of evil spirits and became a little stronger.
Returning to the Aether Empire, I learned the skills or acquired knowledge that had developed over the past years, with Yuri at the forefront as before.
It had to be, but Yuri was quite sincere with me. As it turned out, the green salary paid to Yuri by the imperial palace was considerable. Isn’t that what I eat raw when I leave the imperial palace? It’s not like I’m bothering or doing anything when I’m there.
The intention of bringing him along was to solidify Yuri’s position, not because of me.
[Isn’t this a really good job?]
“I will work hard. Let it be forever!”
At the words that sounded like a joke, Yuri giggled and nodded vigorously. This look and tone really resembled Isabelle’s childhood.
When things to do in the etheric ecliptic started to disappear a little, I made another clone. Again, it took me a few months to get used to. Alter Ego No. 1 complains that he didn’t even let him move even though he was excited about the trip. The alter ego 2 that was born like that was sent to the southern part of the western continent after adapting. There are the Great Forest and the Dragon Mountains.
It is said that there was an unprecedented exodus of monsters from the Dragon Mountains after the death of Drakan. No matter how much he was lying down, it seems that Drakan’s influence was affecting the beasts.
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And after I killed what was presumed to be the third cockroach, intelligence from the Imperial Intelligence Agency came in that countless people on the continent suddenly turned into cockroaches and disappeared. All of them must have been alter egos, but the faces of the people who disappeared were really splendid.
Starting with the owner of the caravan traveling between the East and West continents, there were also a significant number of master-class unmanned soldiers, great wizards, and high-ranking priests. Putting them all together would have, as I predicted, the most powerful nation on the continent.
I’m still, but the information that alter egos 1 and 2 conveyed was considerable. Clone No. 2 entered the Great Forest and met Amari El. Meanwhile, Amari El had become one of the elders. He also promised to bring the necessary items from the elven village next time.
Clone No. 3 decided to search the territories of the Aether Empire. Already, the territory of the Aether Empire is the largest in terms of the eastern and western continents. Of course, there are quite a few lands with low productivity, but being ahead in territory and population is very important for national power.
I decided to put off making No. 4 and go on a trip. It wasn’t just standing still. He was researching and improving the research materials of Inclonius and the preservation magic of the Prisoner family. Still, boring is boring. And there was another reason too.
Yuri is pregnant. Considering her age, it’s pretty late. I told you something I didn’t even know. It seemed that it would be better to do prenatal education at home than to kill time by going to the imperial palace to assist me when I had nothing to do. In any case, Yuri will be able to rest only when I leave.
When I told Yuri that I was leaving, I thought about sitting down a little longer because it felt like I liked her a little bit, so I thought about sitting down a little longer, but I, an adult, decided to forgive her.
So, I started traveling again. There is no such thing as a destination. I don’t know if it’s fate or something, but once I went on a trip, something happened, so I just thought that it would be the same this time.