World Eater – 1
As soon as I saw the big eyes that radiated red eyes, I felt my whole body stiffen. The size of one of those pupils seemed to match my height.
However, even those eyes, which were about the same size as my height, were insignificant in terms of the whole body. All I could think of was how nasty it was.
It was truly a colossal giant. The main character of Brunet 4 was so ridiculously big that I wondered how he defeated it. It was a pattern, it was naked, and I felt like I would die without being able to avoid it even if I just breathed out.
The malevolent vertical pupil turned towards me. I was fully prepared to take care of myself and pull out my bloody sword and attack the moment he showed signs of trying to read my memories.
If my memory can be read anyway, that’s where it ends.
He would have to kill me, who knew his secret, here, unconditionally, and with that huge size, I couldn’t pick and kill myself, so the whole area around here would evaporate.
If you die even if you don’t attack, and you die even if you attack, shouldn’t you have to make a final effort.
‘It’s fortunate that he doesn’t seem to have any intention of fighting right now.’
I don’t know what the situation was, but he just stared at me and didn’t seem to want to attack me. A wishful thought came to my mind for a moment, wondering if I could just go back like this.
ㅡ!!!!!
As if mocking my wishful thinking, the muzzle opened wide, and a fierce roar erupted. I reflexively covered my ears. It was really terribly noisy.
Although the act of simply passing over the dragon’s roar as a noisy impression would have been far beyond human. In fact, everyone else except me passed out.
Even that emperor couldn’t stand it, so I was really a special case.
‘Just now… … Dragon words, right?’
According to the setting, that roar was the language of dragons, a concept called dragon language for short.
It’s not that words contain power like dragons in fantasy often use, it’s just normal conversation. Of course, being normal is the standard for dragons.
Therefore, the roar heard in the corridor of the imperial palace and the roar he exhaled after landing here could be said to be traces of an attempt to have a conversation with someone other than the world eater.
It’s because the human being who actually listens can’t stand it and collapses, and even the main character who casually accepts the roar doesn’t understand what that guy is saying.
In order to understand the dragon’s words, he had to kill the dragon and absorb its power. That’s why subjugating the dragon is included as a mandatory quest in the middle of the main story.
However, just because you can understand the verb doesn’t mean you can use it. It was only natural that the main character was a human, not a dragon.
‘So, that means he just tried to talk to me… … .’
First of all, it seemed that he hadn’t come here to fight someone. That fact alone could put me at ease.
However, there was nothing I could do here apart from what I was doing. To continue the conversation, the other side had to change the delivery method first.
I waited in silence It let out a roar several times, then stopped moving as if realizing that the human in front of it couldn’t understand it.
Then, pure mana floated in front of me and they began to unite with each other. The mana itself wriggled and gathered and took on the shape of a human.
First, both legs touched the ground, and a torso was formed. An arm sprouted from the side of the shoulder, and a round head was created on top of it. Finally, ears and a mouth appeared.
Overall, it was a figure that looked like a blue human shadow. Judging by the fact that he created this shape, it seemed that he really wanted to talk to me for quite some time.
“Indeed… … strange… … .”
The shadowy form of mana opened its mouth. It sounded like human speech, but it was a voice that made me tilt my head to call it human.
“Listen to our language… … I won’t fall… … our language… … can not understand… … .”
It must have been difficult to have a conversation through a figure that was not even the size of a finger by dragon standards, so the tone of the words stuttered. Still, it wasn’t to a level that I couldn’t understand.
“Whether I’m special or not, that… … It’s nothing to do with this So, what did you come here for?”
For a moment, I thought about whether I should be courteous to him and use polite words or just use short words.
I wonder if dragons have the same concept of courtesy as humans do.
“Human… … I came to see you… … .”
“Come to meet a human? who?”
“God created… … Abandoned by God… … creature… … dealt with it… … human… … .”
‘No, is it me again?’
For a moment, it felt like my eyes were dizzy. To say you came to see me, even if the main story was twisted, it was twisted properly. It wasn’t that I wanted something like this and killed a creature forsaken by the gods.
I never dreamed that the action of treating the lord as it was in the game would spread to this extent. Practically all the Distortions started from then on.
Caicilia’s interest in me, Stella’s visit to me, my journey to the Holy Land, and the slaying of a creature abandoned by the gods were all triggered by the action of bringing the devil-infused book.
Now, because of that, even the world eater appeared, so there was no answer.
“… … How did you know he was here?”
“Its power… … all absorbed… … to a human… … .”
Power absorbed, Ra.
It was an ambiguous expression, but given the context, it was highly likely to mean experience. The experience gained from killing creatures abandoned by the gods was absorbed by me and my level rose, so in a way, it wasn’t entirely wrong.
It wasn’t unusual for the Eater of Worlds to care about a creature forsaken by the gods.
As can be seen from the conclusion that if he continues to be left unattended, not only the kingdom but also the world will perish, the creatures abandoned by the gods were the only beings other than the main character who could stand against the world eater.
Of course you have to pay attention.
If so, why not step on a guy who could be a threat to you early on? It was because even the world eater could not guarantee victory or defeat in Nome’s home ground, Abyss.
No matter how much runes prevented him from being engulfed in the abyss, the main character who single-handedly attacked and ripped off his head was truly absurd.
But that was me.
“The person who absorbed that power is me.”
“exact… … do… … .”
“So, what are you going to do now that you found out? Are you trying to kill that human?”
“Kill… … ?”
It seemed that the tail of the horse lifted slightly, and then the dragon suddenly let out a roar. I had to cover my ears again.
“If you want… … I will do that… … .”
“No, I don’t need it.”
I just cut it off and refused. I’ll come up with an ambiguous answer for nothing, then get hit with a breath and oxidize.
“The reason I came here… … With my own eyes… … to confirm… … .”
“Who killed the god-forsaken creature?”
“Yes… … that human… … If a threat… … need to be removed… … .”
With those words, the ghastly light emitted from his eyes grew stronger, but the ghastly expression soon faded and returned to the vertical pupil again.
“However… … The human in front… … weak… … Than a fallen human… … more… … .”
‘If you look at the stats, that’s not true.’
It was overwhelmingly stronger than when he first woke up in prison as an abandoned person, but from the perspective of the World Eater, it was just there.
Even Caicilia and Minerva lying helplessly over there would have had far more overwhelming stats if their stats were converted like a player.
Human type NPCs or bosses are about that much, but if they go over to a monster type boss like a creature abandoned by God, it is almost impossible to even convert it to a player standard.
The more stats you take, the lower the increase in stats, so even if you try, you’ll end up with tens of thousands of stamina stats, thousands of strength stats, and thousands of endurance stats.
Compared to those monsters, the stats of a mere 62 level were like nothing.
‘Yes, this is better.’
Rather than having his eyes stamped on him for no reason, it would be much better to be treated like a normal human being and just skip it.
The moment I prayed to myself, asking me to be mistaken and move on.
“Something else power… … There will be… … Killed him… … strength… … .”
‘It will turn.’
Hearing his words change, I clutched my head. It seemed that he had no intention of going overboard.
‘Is there anything going on?’
The other bosses, even if they had to fight from now on, would grumble and try, but not as much as the World Eater.
If you can’t physically harm them, how can you win?
Besides, now that he was much bigger than in the game, death was guaranteed even if he flew up into the sky and fired a single breath. Even more bleak is the fact that such a pattern really exists.
“The truth… … want… … .”
‘sh*t.’
His eyes were stained black. At the same time, pupils sprouted from Mana’s head. It was a vertical pupil with black eyes just like the dragon.
As soon as I checked the vertically slit pupil, I hurriedly drew out my bloody sword and swung it. The blade slashed his throat cleanly. The severed head rolled across the floor.
The severed head rolled as far as the wall, looked at the wall, and stopped, but soon new eyes and a mouth sprouted from the back of the head facing me.
The newly sprouted mouth on the back of his head twitched and made a sentence.
“not without reason… … attacked this… … ?”
‘… … In the end, is it going to be like this?’
As he tried to read my memory like he saw in the game, his arm went out reflexively. It was something I had already prepared for, but when it happened right in front of me, my appetite was bitter.
If it’s a conversation between humans, the excuse that you attacked first because you did something suspicious might work, but that guy is a dragon. A dragon with the power to destroy the world.
Without the slightest bit of awareness that he had done something suspicious first, he must have thought he was hiding something just because his memory reading was interrupted.
It’s because a similar situation came out once in the game.
“word… … do it… … !”
The severed human head’s eyes widened, and its body radiated red eyes.