The Sub-Protagonist Is Retiring chapter 159

159 – 152. Relentless Evil-1

Even though it must be a statue, the butt looked strangely soft.

Out of involuntary curiosity, I massaged the statue’s butt.

‘As expected, my keen eye wasn’t wrong.’

As expected, it was soft and comfortable to hold.

It had the same texture as slime, so it was addictive that made me want to keep kneading it.

But what is this?

Isn’t the statue with only its tentacles wriggling, blocking its hips with its hands behind it?

It means that the statue does not simply have parasitic tentacles, but that the statue has a will.

And over the statue’s shoulder, the bodies of the academy students could be seen.

I wonder how the students entered the dungeon before me, but there was something more important to look at.

‘…… No doubt.’

Creepy tentacle movements and an aura that doesn’t belong to this world.

It was an alien feeling that could be found in Leviathan.

In other words, this statue in front of me may be related to ‘He’ who lives in the void.

Even if it wasn’t so, I was looking for clues about ‘him’.

However, the elf who knew about the stone slabs in the desert ruins fell into a long sleep, and the progress was temporarily halted.

Should I live my life completely forgotten?

While I was even harboring that thought, a clue suddenly appeared in front of my eyes.

A chance like a genius.

I whispered in the statue’s ear.

“I will send you to heaven where your Lord is.”

Conversation with the statue will be impossible.

Then it made sense to shatter it and examine it with fragments of the statue.

“Hmm….”

Shusuk-!

A tentacle rushed towards my face as if it had noticed my intentions.

As I slightly bent my head to dodge it, the other tentacles started attacking me one after another.

I read every movement of the tentacles with my eyes and avoided it by slashing my palms.

In the case of the tenacity that followed tenaciously, I cut it off with my hand blades or trampled it off with my feet.

It feels strangely fighting with my students.

I didn’t feel the overwhelming power I felt at the time of Leviathan.

To the students, it would be like a nightmare, but at least to me, it was at the level of a child’s play.

‘Looks like I’ve become quite strong too.’

[You still don’t see yourself objectively. Rather than that, use this body!]

‘Okay.’

I drew my sword even though I was a good enough opponent even without using Prach.

Until now, he had only used his fists to match the level of the students, so Prach’s dissatisfaction was piling up.

Sometimes I had to go all out to cheer her up.

‘I’ll go wild as you wish.’

[It’s been a while since I showered with enemy blood!]

‘Because it’s a statue, blood won’t come out?’

[That’s what they say! Don’t take it seriously!]

While bickering with Prach on words, the battle continues.

I lowered my upper body and took a step forward.

It spurred the ground and jumped high, cutting off the tentacles passing overhead.

Kwaang-!

The tentacles rushing in from the left and right missed me by a short distance and slammed me down on the floor.

As soon as I landed lightly on the ground, I leaped slightly backwards and touched the ground with my hands.

In the handstand position, he pushed his arms again and repeated tumbling.

Kwaang-! Quaang-! Quaang-!

Tentacles resembling thorns sprouted from under the ground where I was standing.

The number of tentacle spines protruding like that was twenty.

In addition to the tentacles protruding from the back, I knew that there were more tentacles hidden at the bottom of the statue.

“Hmm?”

Suddenly, the body did not move as if it was tied to a rope.

I wondered if it was paralysis poison, but there was no way the poison could enter the body without even a scratch.

Even the air is on the clear side, but if you are bound, there must be another reason.

I carefully looked under my feet.

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Then a black oval was drawn on the dirt floor where I was standing.

“Are you doing something interesting?”

I grinned and poked Prach into the ground.

The swordsman put down his sword. The tentacles of the statues, which I mistook for desperation, approached me all at once.

Misunderstanding oil-based resin.

“Unfortunately, I like being f*cked, I don’t really like being hammered.”

Faang-!

A large amount of blood erupted from the ground with the sound of fireworks exploding.

Blood leaked out like volcanic magma and covered the ground.

As the black circle disappeared, my body moved freely again.

“You did such a cute thing, so you have to pay it back, right?”

I picked up the prah that was stuck in the ground.

I swung it while infusing power into the hand holding the handle.

Using some of the power to cut through space, I drew a line in the air.

Dudeuk-!

A crack in space extending like a tree root.

The scale was not as large as before because the force was weakly controlled.

However, it was enough to dispose of one statue.

The statue was shattered along with its tentacles by the force that cut through space.

[Has it been harmed?]

‘Hey man… !!’

Did you want to enjoy the fight more?

Prach spoke of a resurrection spell that should never be spoken of.

As expected, fragments of statues and tentacles scattered on the floor were floating and trembling.

“Absolute zero.”

There were signs of regeneration, so I hurriedly froze all the fragments.

Using the power of Freehardt, the rapid freezing magic was manifested without drawing a magic circle.

Even if I was a believer who upheld the god of ice, the mana drained from my body as much as the burden was great.

It may have been a hasty choice, but I couldn’t just watch the enemy’s resurrection.

I’ve used great techniques to deal with it, but wouldn’t it ruin my face if I resurrected casually?

[Why are you screaming just now? What did this body do wrong?]

‘Of course you are resurrected… ! Ugh, it’s nothing.’

[It’s bland.]

Even if you painfully explain that it’s a spell that resurrects enemies, Prach won’t accept it easily.

It was not an actual resurrection spell, but a phenomenon close to jinx or superstition.

There was also a case where the boss suddenly came back to life with the same line in Adog Choi.

For that reason, as this is also a world in a novel, the power of a word may apply.

Wake up or sleep, watch your mouth.

“Hey, are you okay?”

“Seo, sir, my friend… !”

“… ….”

“My friend is in front of me… ! Ugh!”

I approached the only surviving male student.

Beside him, there were two corpses that were so disfigured that it was difficult to distinguish them as human beings.

The male student covered in blood in front of him was sobbing while hugging himself.

“Don’t ask how he got here. However, this accident is the responsibility of you guys who arbitrarily entered the dungeon without any safety devices or advisors.”

“Ah…… !”

The male student sat down in place and slowly lifted his friend’s crushed head and hugged him.

“Mi… sun… ! I… ! Mi… not… !”

Without stopping the trembling, he started muttering, so he seemed to be apologizing.

It was a pitiful sight, but there was nothing I could do.

I was not a saint. Even a saint could not resurrect someone who had already died.

The only way to bring the dead back to life is to make them undead.

However, the act of turning humans into undead is taboo within the kingdom.

I had no choice but to leave the place, expressing my condolences.

[Are you just going?]

‘There’s nothing I can say.’

[That’s true, but it’s better to send them back to the entrance…….]

‘If this statue was what I was looking for, I would have done it.’

I continued, rubbing the butt fragment of the thawed statue.

“This statue is only a small part. The source is in the depths of the dungeon.”

[Are you saying it wasn’t the end of the statue…….]

“It’s natural that you don’t know. Because only Breeze and I can feel the energy of the void.”

When I closed my hearing again, I felt a thick aura on the way inside.

The source of the void must have created or summoned the statue.

For the safety of the students and to satisfy my curiosity, it was necessary to go to the end of the dungeon.

“Here it is.”

A place full of terribly alien energy.

I felt like I was in the middle of a dark room as the surroundings rapidly grew darker.

The result of walking around for a long time, trusting my intuition, in a space where I could walk and walk without seeing the end.

We finally reached the front of the mysterious cocoon.

It was round, yet just the right size for one person to fit into.

On the other hand, I wondered if there might be a student kidnapped by the Void like the one from before.

Somehow, instinctively, I felt the need to split the cocoon in half.

[Why is that?]

“Um…. For some reason, I want to cut it down.”

[Then wouldn’t it be enough to cut it down?]

“Is that so?”

Unlike before, it didn’t kill people and kept them inside cocoons.

It means that there is a high possibility that it is turning people into another monster.

It’s a scene that often appears in movies and animations.

I’d rather die here than be reborn as a monster.

I slashed my sword at the cocoon, believing that the person inside must have thought so as well.

“Ugh!”

Kaang-!

As if there was a protective film on the cocoon, Prach bounced out.

I was first surprised by the fact that Frach was pushed, and secondly surprised by the fact that he was hatching with a crack in his cocoon.

It is wiser to suffocate the monster in the cocoon before it hatches.

However, it was practically impossible to prevent the hatching of a cocoon that even Prach could not penetrate.

I had to watch the hatching scene until the end.

Damn it-!

The cocoon opened and a woman with jet-black moth wings popped out from the crack.

At the same time as she appeared, a strong feeling of pressure began to press down on both of my shoulders from her.

As long as it puts pressure on me, it’s definitely a formidable opponent.

The moment he glared at the woman without letting go of her tension.

“Puha!”

I had to watch it.

The shiny shaved head that couldn’t be covered even if the light pink hair was dyed black…….

“Curse performance, sure.”

Even if I was born again, it seems that the hair loss could not be cured.